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254000-88908394700-97790Roll and Read (Yellow)12345It’s the weekend and you have finished your chores. What will you do with your free time?With binoculars you can watch birds find food, eat, or care for their young.Then they may sell them to customers at a yard sale.Watching birds and other animals is important.Telescopes are made up of a set of lenses, mirrors, or both.Maybe you will play a game or read a book. There are many ways to spend your spare time!It helps zoologists understand more about their life cycles.It is fun to find old treasures from the past. Sometimes old items are labeled.People have watched the stars in the night sky for thousands of years.What you learn about animals now may help you become a veterinarian in the future!Birds are incredible creatures. They come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors.By learning about animals’ habits, zoologists can help them survive in their environments.When items are not labeled and you do not know what they are, you can research the past to learn more about them!Science is a part of our daily lives. Turn your interests into hobbies to learn and have fun!A veterinarian is a doctor who takes care of animals.Birds can be tiny. Some hummingbirds are only two inches long! Other birds are much larger.Have you ever found old items in an attic?Archeologists heard about the statue and visited the workers.The science hobby that you start today could become your job in the future.. Astronomers use huge, powerful telescopes to study planets and stars that are trillions of miles away.Eagles have wingspans of almost eight feet! Birds can be very different from each other.People sometimes like to save old items, such as stamps or an oil painting on an old board.Archeologists researched the past to learn more about the treasured statues.Pinky the pig rolled past on her roller states. A hippo put her nose to the rock and licked.If you roll a 6, choose 1 block to read.254000-88908394700-97790Roll and Read (Green)12345Another rock is sedimentary rock. Sandstone is sedimentary rock.Limestone is often white. It can be pink, tan, or other colors too.Granite is igneous rock. Granite is usually gray. Sandstone is sedimentary rock. Rivers carry sand to lakes and seas.Every Saturday Danny and Tina helped their mother with chores around the house.Granite is igneous rock. Granite is usually gray. It can have tiny white and black crystals.Limestone is sedimentary rock too. Sometimes magma pushes to the surface through a volcano.It can have tiny white and black crystals. Some granite has pink crystals.. It will be fun. Not every box is labeled. You never know what you’ll find.”Rivers carry sand to lakes and seas. Layers of sand settle to the bottom.It is made from sea animals’ skeletons. Sometimes you can see the skeletons in the rock.Igneous rock is the most common rock. It is made by heat.It flows out as lava. Cooled lava is igneous rock.“I think this box is heavy because it has some of Grandpa’s rocks,” Mom said as they unpacked the box.“This pressing turns sand into sandstone. Sandstone is soft and sandy,” Mom said.Mom picked up another rock from the kit. The third kind of rock is metamorphic rock.The crust is the thin outer layer. It has three kinds of rocks.. Magma is hot melted rock in the center of Earth.“Later on, he made rock kits that customers bought. I bet we’ll find a spare kit in this box. It looks like a board.”The top layers of sand press down on the bottom layers.Heat and pressure change some rocks into metamorphic rocks. Marble is metamorphic.Layers of sand settle to the bottom. The top layers of sand press down on the bottom layers.Earth has three layers. The core is at Earth’s center. The middle layer is called the mantle. “Here it is,” Danny said, lifting up the kit. “Grandpa must have known a lot about rocks.”If you roll a 6, choose 1 block to read.254000-88908394700-97790Roll and Read (Blue)12345Most gems are formed from minerals.Many gemstones are found here in the United States, and others are found thousands of miles away on different continents.Amethyst is also mined in the South American countries Brazil and Uruguay and in the African countries Madagascar and Zambia.July’s birthstone is the ruby. It has a deep, glowing, red color and is very hard.September’s birthstone is the sapphire. Like aquamarine and peridot, sapphire is transparent.To become a gem, a mineral must cool and harden into a solid crystal.You will find the names of the countries where each gemstone is found as you read the following pages.March’s birthstone is the aquamarine. Aquamarine is transparent, which means that light can pass through it.When moved from sunlight to artificial lighting, Alexandrite changes from green to reddish-purple. This makes it very valuable!Opal is October’s birthstone. Opal can be blue, green, black, or white.They are often rough and unevenly shaped.But January’s birthstone comes in every color except blue.Here in the United States, aquamarine is mined in the state of Colorado. In fact, aquamarine is Colorado’s state gem!Alexandrite is June’s birthstone. This green stone was first discovered in Russia in 1830.November’s birthstone is citrine. Citrine is formed from a type of colored quartz. Quartz is a transparent mineral.Gemstones come in every color of the rainbow, and when they are cut and polished, their colors sparkle and shine.This garnet is called the “anthill garnet” because it is actually mined by ants!Because of a diamond’s hardness, almost nothing can wear it down. In fact, it can be cut only by another diamond.Peridot, like aquamarine, is transparent, and most peridots have a light green or greenish-yellow color.The last of the twelve birthstones is December’s blue topaz. The blue topaz looks similar to aquamarine.When they are first discovered and mined, most gems look like ordinary rocks. It ranges in color from a very light lavender to a dark purple.Diamond is also mined in Russia and in three African countries, Congo, Namibia, and Botswana.What makes a perfect emerald? Emeralds with a deep green color and no flaws, or defects, are rated best.When you treat a colorless topaz with heat, the topaz takes on a sky blue color.If you roll a 6, choose 1 block to read. ................
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