Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2022 i Sparkle Buds

Having a shy style isn’t necessarily a problem. It’s perfectly OK to take time to warm up to new people and situations. But shyness blocks some people from being as comfortable or sociable as they’d like to be. Some people want to feel less shy so they can have more fun socializing and being themselves around others. Here are some tips for overcoming shy feelings: 1. Start small with people you know. Practice social behaviours like eye contact, confident body language, introductions, small talk, asking questions, and invitations with the people you feel most comfortable around. Smile. 2. Think of some conversation starters. Often, the hardest part of talking to someone new is getting started. Think of conversation openers, like introducing yourself (“Hi, I’m Chris, we’re in the same English…

Make Your Own Fake Snot As disgusting as it might sound to some people, let’s make some fake snot! Snot actually serves an important purpose in our body so this experiment is not all about grossing out our friends, although that’s certainly part of the fun. What you’ll need: ● Boiling water (be careful with this) ● A cup ● Gelatin ● Corn syrup ● A teaspoon ● A fork INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Fill half a cup with boiling water. 2.Add three teaspoons of gelatin to the boiling water. 3.Let it soften before stirring with a fork. 4.Add a quarter of a cup of corn syrup. 5. Stir the mixture again with your fork and look at the long strands of gunk that have formed. 6.As the mixture cools slowly add…

On the other side of the sea from Rome, there was once a great city named Carthage. The Roman people were never very friendly to the people of Carthage, and at last, a war began between them. For a long time, it was hard to tell which would prove the stronger. First, the Romans would win a battle, and then the men of Carthage would win a battle; and so the war went on for many years. Among the Romans, there was a brave general named Regulus, -a man of whom it was said that he never broke his word. It so happened after a while, that Regulus was taken prisoner and carried to Carthage. Ill and very lonely, he dreamed of his wife and little children so far away…

Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn’t come close in size to the blue whale. The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. Their main diet is krill (euphausiids) and copepods. A blue whale can eat up to 8,000 lbs. of krill a day during its peak consumption period. It is estimated to take 2,200 lbs. of food to fill a blue whale’s stomach. Blue whales are simply enormous. A blue whale’s aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. In the Antarctic, blue whales have reportedly reached lengths of 110 feet, but most probably grow to between 80 and 90…

Lee de Forest, is an American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. In 1920 de Forest began to work on a practical system for recording and reproducing sound motion pictures. He developed a sound-on-film optical recording system called Phonofilm and demonstrated it in theatres between 1923 and 1927. Within a few years’ time, the motion-picture industry converted to talking pictures by using a sound-on-film process similar to de Forest’s.…

Mars is the 4th planet from the sun. It is a terrestrial planet which means that it has a hard rocky surface that you could walk on. Mars’ surface is dry and much of it is covered with a reddish dust and rocks. When viewed from Earth, Mars appears to be the color red. Weather on Mars Mars often has huge dust storms with high-speed winds. These dust storms are powered by the Sun and can grow to enormous proportions sending dust miles into the atmosphere and covering much of the planet. Some storms are so big they can be seen by amateur astronomers on Earth. How does Mars compare to Earth? In many ways, Mars is very similar to Earth. Mars’ year and day are very similar to Earth’s…

Gurugu Himapriya displayed exemplary courage when she saved her mother and two younger siblings from a terrorist attack in 2018 in Jammu & Kashmir. At that time, Himapriya was just eight years old. Terrorists from Jaish-e-Mohammed struck at an Army residential quarters at Sunjuwan in Jammu. Himapriya managed to prevent a terrorist from entering the bedroom for three hours before falling unconscious after being injured in a grenade explosion. Himapriya’s timely and brave act not only helped in preventing casualty escalation but also helped the Army in nabbing the separatists. “The Sunjuwan terrorist attack was a five-hour-long nightmare. I have been listening to tales of patriotism at Kendriya Vidyalaya, where I was studying. I have learnt self-defence techniques from my father.” Said Gurugu…

DID YOU KNOW? Taste & Smell ● Scientists probably know less about these two senses than any other, even though hearing and seeing are much more complex. ● The lumps on our tongues are called papillae. ● The average length of a human tongue is 4 inches, and the average length of a giraffe’s tongue is 19 inches. ● The tongue is made up of a bunch of muscles. ● Just like some people can’t see or hear, some people can’t smell. This is called anosmia. ● As you grow older, your sense of smell tends to get worse.…

Project Supplies: ● Felt. ● Scissors. ● Hot glue gun and glue sticks. ● Pillow stuffing or scrap fabric. (I used the scraps of felt I had left over after cutting the shapes) Begin by cutting out two of each Halloween shape for each stuffie you are making. One will be the front side, and one will be the backside. To save time, you can fold the felt in half (or quarters) and cut both sides at the same time. We used one piece of felt for each stuffie and used the felt scraps to fill them. Then, place the two pieces of felt together so they match. Now, carefully glue the outer edges together. But, leave a small section open to fill with pillow stuffing or felt/fabric scraps. You…