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Welcome March!
Hooray for March! The first day of Spring is March 20th, bringing warmer weather and outdoor adventures with your family! March is a fun month with lots to do here in the North Carolina Triangle. Check out Durham Creek Week events to get out and help clean up local streams (p. 4). For more outdoor Spring activities, visit www.chillkids.com to find fun events, hiking paths, and family outing ideas. Mark your calendar now for the North Carolina Science Festival, with events taking place from April 1st through 30th in locations throughout the state. On page 12 read about the annual NC Gravity Games, a fun STEM event featuring a science expo and gravity-powered car races (in cars designed and built by teams of middle school and high school students). The NC Gravity Games is a signature event of the North Carolina Science Festival. Find many more upcoming STEM events statewide throughout the month of April at www.ncsciencefestival.org. Have fun completing the Math-a-Muse puzzles, Hidden Picture puzzles, word finds, mazes and games. Can you guess what the dot-to-dot pictures will be? (Complete the dot-to-dot puzzles on pages 5 and 14 to find out.) Read the instructions for each dot-to-dot, connect the dots/numbers, then color in the pictures. Have an amazing March!
Celebrate Arbor Day and plant a tree! In North Carolina, Arbor Day is on March 22nd this year.
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Hidden Picture Puzzle by Liz
Find the hidden pictures, then color the picture! How many hidden items can you find?
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By Jan Buckner Walker
The Original Crossword Puzzle for Kids and Their Favorite Adults
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The across clues are for kids and the down clues are for grown-ups!
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Spring 2019
March Maze
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Help the leprechaun find his pot of gold!
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Dot-to Dot Benefits
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Reading ALoud
and it’s Fun too!
Dot-to-Dot STARS Instructions: Stop at each star ( ), then skip to the next number and start your line again. End at 144.
Learn more at ReadAloud.org
March Word Find
Spring Safety Coloring Sheet
Spring Safety Tip: Never climb a tree that has power lines running through it! Always avoid playing near electrical utility equipment.
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Math-A-Muse
Look for Math-A-Muse Answers on page 2.
By Evelyn B. Christensen, Ed.D.
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March 16-23, 2019 Get your boots wet at a creek cleanup. Explore hidden paths to find animals and plants. Enjoy outdoor family activities!
Emerson Waldorf Summer Camps (Ages 4-18)
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Creek Word Search CANOE CLEANUP KAYAK LAKE NATURE RIVER SHORELINE STREAM WATERSHED WETLANDS
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THE ANIMAL HOSPITAL
R H E Q Z N E E R G S B E L H
A E R C I L C S D O L G M U B
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W U E A L G D N D S O L A Z C
D O R R F C E V P I R I L O K
P P B O I Y F R Z R M C D X E
F A T N S N I A U I A L I D N
E R I N G O B R AG H F O U R L E A F C L OV E R GA E L I C GREEN HARP
P O R T I N G C E I H U S Q W
P O O A G A I O Y L S C L X G
N N E X D A R U B P R K E D G
E D N A L E R I N R E U J A T
IRELAND IRISH JIG L E P R E C H AU N LUCK
K C I R T A P T N I A S O I B
L E P R E C H A U N G G I F G
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2019 MOREHEAD SUMMER SCIENCE CAMPS
K-8 CAMPS FOR YOUNG EXPLORERS CODING, BIOLOGY, ASTRONOMY AND MORE REGISTRATION OPENS JAN. 22 MEMBERS GET PRIORITY REGISTRATION ON JAN. 14
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Raleigh
Dr. Seuss
St. Patrick's Day
22nd Annual
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Read Across America
ReadAcrossAmerica.org
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Story Time
Ages 3 – 6 Mondays & Tuesdays 10:30 am – 11:00 am ALSO Tuesdays 3:30 pm - 4 pm Chapel Hill Public Library
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Ages 3 – 6 Mondays & Tuesdays 10:30 am – 11:00 am and 3:30 pm - 4 pm Chapel Hill Public Library
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National Save a Spider Day
Triangle Youth Ballet
Pi Day
Gaite Parisienne
begins at 2 am
East Chapel Hill High
7:00 PM triangleyouthballet.org
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Want to make a difference in your community and learn more about Durham's waterways? Visit www.DurhamCreekWeek.org to sign up for events or find a cleanup near you!
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STEM
9th Annual North Carolina Science Festival
Mark your calendars now for April 2019! The North Carolina Science Festival is back, bringing a full month of science festival fun with hundreds of communitybased events that are showcasing fun, interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities for people of all ages.
Free activities for all ages! Events Statewide April 1 - 30, 2019
based events each April (hosted by schools, colleges, libraries, museums, parks, businesses and other local organizations), the Festival celebrates the economic, educational, and cultural impact of science in North Carolina.
The theme for 2019 is 'Made in NC,’ with free activities and events for students, their families, Founded in 2010, the North the public, STEM professionals, Carolina Science Festival is a teachers and volunteers across the statewide effort to further science state. There will be over 350 public education and spark interests in events statewide, and more than STEM fields. It is the first statewide 200 events at science festival in the United States. schools. Through a series of community-
"Science is fun, science is everywhere, science is for everyone — that’s what the North Carolina Science Festival is all about.” - Jonathan Frederick, Festival Director
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All About the NC Science Festival (cont.)
The North Carolina Science Festival is a multi-day celebration showcasing science and technology. 2019 Festival events will take place all over North Carolina for the full month of April (April 1-30, 2019). The Festival highlights the educational, cultural and financial impact of science in our state. Through hands-on activities, science talks, lab tours, nature experiences, exhibits and performances, the Festival engages a wide range of public audiences while inspiring future generations.
The North Carolina Science Festival offers an opportunity to celebrate science in fun and welcoming settings.
This Festival provides the opportunity to cultivate a positive environment that encourages children to pursue science and technology-related careers and encourages businesses to invest in North Carolina. Most importantly, scientists want everyone to know what they know – that science is fun!
The North Carolina Science Festival is an initiative of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.
For more information, visit www.ncsciencefestival.org.
Science is
Find an event near you
April 7–23, 2017 Join us for a two-week-long, 500-mile-wide, statewide celebration of science! See ya’ll there!
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Exploring Nature!
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2019 NC Gravity Games: STEM, Racing & Fun for the Whole Family! In previous years, the games have attracted more than 200 teams from every corner of the state, and 2019 promises to be among the biggest yet.
The 9th Annual NC Gravity Games will be held on Saturday, April 13th in downtown Lenoir, NC. If you love racing, science, tech demos, cheering crowds and plenty more action, make plans to join the fun!
The NC Gravity Games are brought to you by Google, Appalachian State University and the City of Lenoir.
A signature event of the North Carolina Science Festival, the games feature gravitypowered cars competing in a series of downhill races, complete with cheering crowds. In addition to gravity-powered car racing, the NC Gracity Games celebrate all things STEM, featuing a science expo with hands-on exhibits that will amaze and entertain you! 'Science Street' at the NC Gravity Games is a STEM extravaganza of mind-expanding, hands-on science exhibits designed to get students revved up about science and engineering. Each year, middle and high school teams from across North Carolina make the trip to the NC Gravity Games to compete in brightly colored and gravity-powered cars that the students have designed and built themselves.
The entire event is free and open to the public. For more information, including rules, entry deadline and links to register, visit ncgravitygames.com.
The 2019 engineering challenge is "Transformation": to design and construct a vehicle that starts the race with 3 or 4 wheels in contact with the ground, and then “transforms� during the race, to only 2 wheels in contact with the ground by the end.
Photo: Youtube, The Eighth Annual NC Gravity Games.
Photo: NC Gravity Games, ncgravitygames.com
Photo: Youtube, (2018) Eighth Annual NC Gravity Games. 'Science Street'. Photo: Youtube, Members of the Raleigh Boys Club practicing in Raleigh for the (2018) Eighth Annual NC Gravity Games.
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on March 20th this year!
Earth Day 2013 Celebrate the first day of Spring
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MARCH 2019 Flick Picks Wonder Park
Dumbo
(In Theaters: March 19, 2019)
(In Theaters: March 29, 2019)
Wonder Park tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive. One magical day, as June is running home through the woods, she discovers an old rollercoaster car and climbs inside. She suddenly finds herself in Wonderland, an amusement park she had created in her mind in the past. Her amusement park rides and characters are brought to life in Wonderland, but they are falling into disarray without her. Now, with the help of her fun and lovable park characters, June will have to put the wonder back in Wonderland before it is lost forever. Rated PG (for some mild thematic elements and action). 1 hr. 26 min. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation.
Based on the original, iconic 1941 film, Disney's much-anticipated CGI and liveaction Dumbo arrives in theaters on March 29th, bringing the beloved baby elephant to a new generation of movie viewers and to Dumbo fans of all ages. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights alongside a charming and spectacular aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Eva Green), until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer, Dreamland is full of dark secrets. Rated PG (for peril/action, some thematic elements, and brief mild language). 1 hr. 40 min. Walt Disney Studios.
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