Joining a National Debate - Klondike Sun
Joining a National Debate - Klondike Sun
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P26 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013<br />
KIDS' CORNER<br />
THE KLONDIKE SUN<br />
Stories and illustrations<br />
by Lisa Michelle<br />
CIRCLES<br />
WE have done the alphabet from A to Z; WE have done<br />
our numbers from 1 to 13! NOW, in the New Year WE are<br />
going to start on shapes! Pretty cool, eh?<br />
There are circles all through nature. A flower has a circle in<br />
the middle, our eyes are circular, our hair can grow in circles,<br />
tree trunks are circular, (most of the time), and jellyfish look<br />
like circles. Circles are everywhere!<br />
I think we’ll start with a circle. The word ‘circle’ comes<br />
from the Greek word ‘kirkos’, where the ‘ker’ part means<br />
to turn or to bend.<br />
“The world is a circle without no beginning and nobody<br />
knows where it really ends.” (The Pajama Game, 1954)<br />
Actually the World looks like a circle but it’s a little wider<br />
around the middle. The Moon is also seen as a circle, as<br />
well as the <strong>Sun</strong>.<br />
Did you know that the <strong>Sun</strong> burns at 5,530 C°!!! AND it<br />
is also 109 times bigger than Earth. AND it was formed<br />
about 4.6 Billion years ago. AND it takes 8 minutes and 16<br />
seconds for it’s light to hit the Earth!<br />
Circles helped mankind to event the WHEEL! And GEARS!<br />
Medieval scholars thought that the circle represented perfection.<br />
They also discovered that a triangle could make<br />
a perfect circle! (But that’s for the next issue!) See you<br />
then…<br />
+<br />
HEY KIDS!<br />
Can you find circles in Dawson? E-mail Lisa at klondikesun@<br />
northwestel.net with your stories and pictures and you could<br />
be in the next <strong>Klondike</strong> <strong>Sun</strong>!
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