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8.2.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Raidised Children's three Hour. As a reminder,
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RAII is a reading service intended for people are blind
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or other disabilities that make it difficult to read prim material.
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Today we will be reading a story about telephones. Your
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reader today is Diane. We will continue with the book
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from last time, the four to one one on Phones,
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and it was published by Simon's Spotlight, an imprint of
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Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division, has a copyright year
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of twenty fifteen and the author of the book is
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cama Einhorn. Chapter two ring Noing. Today many people go
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online if they're looking for a phone number, but as
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you can imagine, that wasn't always the case. For more
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than one hundred years before the Internet, people use telephone
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books to find numbers. The first tele phone book was
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published in eighteen seventy eight page long and had only
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fifty names. Phones were mostly found in offices or businesses,
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but that too, was about to change. It turns out
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those business people were right when they predicted that the
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telephone business was going to be booming. By nineteen eighteen,
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there were more than ten million phones in service in
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the United States, and many of these phones were in
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people's homes. As the popularity of phones grew that there
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weren't just used in homes or businesses, phones were even
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appearing outside. The first payphone was set up in public
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in eighteen eighty nine. You don't see too many payphones
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around today, but there are still some out there. Put
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a coin in the slot and then hear a doll
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tone and make your call. Have you ever used a payphone?
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As more people got phones in the invention continue to
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change the world, the look of phones changed too. In
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the eighteen nineties, there was the candlestick phone. It was
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separating into two pieces, a mouthpiece and a receiver. Later,
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the design sh changed so that you could listen and
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talk out of the same piece. By nineteen nineteen, to
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make a call, you could also use a rotary phone.
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It wasn't until nineteen sixty three that people began using
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push button phones. Today, almost all phones are push button
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or touchscreen. But one important thing hasn't changed at all.
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Since the nineteen sixties, Americans have used phones to call
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nine to one one in an emergency. Chapter three Phones
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on the move. By the nineteen forties, many people had
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phones in their homes or offices, and you could often
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find a payphone outside that people couldn't use phones while
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they were on the move. All that changed when the
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car phone with the car phone, the car phone which
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used radio signals was invented in nineteen forty six. The
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first one weighed eighty pounds and a big part of
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its machinery had to be stored in the car's trunk.
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Many people thought things couldn't get any cooler than the
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car phone. But then in nineteen seventy three, Martin Cooper,
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a Motorola Company engineer, inspired partly by Captain Kirk as
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in the Communicator on the TV show Star Trek, invented
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the first cell phone. The way people use phones was
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about to change forever. Cooper knew people want to use
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phones anywhere, anytime, not just in their cars. Cooper used
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the cell phone he invented to make the first ever
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cell phone call in public on the New York City
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sidewalk in front of a crowd of reporters. He spoken
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to a cell phone the size of a giant shoe.
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And who did he call? His main competitor, of course,
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Joel Ingle at Bill Laps. He said, Joe, this is Marty.
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I'm calling you from a cell phone a real handheld
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portable cell phone. When they finally went on sell to
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the public in the early nineteen eighties, Motorola Dina Attack
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phones cost around four thousand about now thousand to ten
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thousand in a day's money, and they took ten hours
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to charge for about thirty minutes of conversation. Chapter four,
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Phones get Smart. So a new chapter of phone history
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had begun. The cell phone had been invented in nineteen
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seventy three, but it took more than ten years for
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cell phones to be sold to the public. Why the
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phone companies had to work with the government to set
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up the network or system needed for cell phones to
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work on a large scale. It's a complicated process that
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took a long time to figure out. Wasn't until that
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was set on nineteen eighty three that people were able
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to start buying and using cell phones. But it wasn't
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just mobile phones. Other advances in telephone technology were on
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their way the nineteen sixties. Answering machines hit the shelves.
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By nineteen eighty three, the first digital answering machine had appeared.
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Answering machines are not as common today because voicemail is
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now built into our phones, But for many years answer
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machines were stable in homes and businesses, and what about
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car id. These days, nearly every phone has it, but
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it wasn't until the mid nineteen nineties that it became popular.
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As of all these vances were happening, the popularity of
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cell phones was also soaring. New types of cell phones
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come on the market during the late nineteen nineties with
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features like long battery life. By nineteen ninety seven, if
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you owned a Nokia cell phone, you could even play
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a game called Snake on your phone. As time went on,
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more and more cell phones got smarter and smarter, being
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able to send and receive emails and even browse the web.
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Then in two thousand and seven, Steve Jobs, the co
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founder of Apple, presented the iPhone. It can find a
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mobile phone, a camera, internet capabilities, a music player, and
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a touch screen so you could go online on your
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personal handheld wireless computer. Soon smartphones were everywhere, and all
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of these new devices you could play games, send text messages,
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take pictures, and of course talk Speaking of been smart,
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cell phones today have their own central computer with technology
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more powerful than what was used during the Moon Lane
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In nineteen sixty nine. Think about it, Each of these
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phones has more processing power than a rocket ship that
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flew to the moon and back. And it seems like
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people are always lining up for the next generation, the
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new batch of cell phones. Most every year, companies unveild
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their new inventions with great suspense and fan there. Cell
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phone fans hold their breath as they wait to find
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out what it will be. Camera slash and reporters ask questions.
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People can't wait to have the latest and greatest devices
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and technology available. Well, if all the new technology out
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there phones are smarter than ever, maybe they should be
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called genius phones. You may have had a giggle while
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reading this book thinking about some of the phones from
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the past, But what will kids in the future say
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when they learn about the phones we use today? What
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new kinds of communication tools do you think they might
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be using. Scientists are already developing the technologies for some
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amazing things. What are some of the things you like
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to see the phone of the future to Congratulations you've
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come to into this book. You're now official history of
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fun stuff expert on phones. Go ahead and press your
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friends and family with your off the hook knowledge about
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where these nifty little talking machines came from and next
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time the phone rings, think about all the people that
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invented the technologies that keep your friends and family close
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as near as your ear. Hey, kids, now that you're
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an expert on the history of phones, turn the page
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to learn even more about phones and some in toomny,
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social anatomy, social stuys of math. Along the way, have
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you heard the incredible science of hearing? You might not
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think about it all the time, but your ears work
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really hards that you can hear that hello on the
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other end of the phone. But how exactly do we hear?
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Your ears are divided into three main parts, the outer, middle,
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and the inner ear. Each part has an important role
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in helping sound reach your brain. The outer ear is
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closest to the outside of your body, and it's made
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up of several parts. The oracle or pinna is probably
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what you mean when you talk about the ear. It's
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the part that you can see on the outside of
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your head. The oracle is specifically designed to capture sounds
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so it can travel to the next part of your ear,
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the ear canal. The ear canal is like a tiny
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tunnel that helps funnel sound inward to the ear drum,
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just like how a real drum vibrates when you hit
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it with a drumstick. The ear drum translates sounds into vibrations.
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Next to vibrations from the ear drum travel to the
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middle ear, which has three bones in it, the tiniest
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bones in your body. The hammer, anvil, and stirrup bones
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make those vibrations even bigger, kind of like turn up
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the volume on a cell phone. These vibrations then travel
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to the inner ear, the first two parts of the ear.
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The inner ear is full of fluid. Here there is
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a special organ called the cochlea, which is shaped like
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a snail. Inside the cochlea has tiny hairs or cilia
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that move when sound vibrations hit them. The cilia generate
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nerve impulses special electrical signals that travel from the auditory
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nerve to the brain, where your brain interprets the signals
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as sound. Ahoy, telephone greens from around the world. America today,
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we normally say hello or hi when we answer the phone,
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but in other countries people have many different ways of
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answering a call. And Brazil, most people say hallo, which
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means hello to answer the phone. Is common for people
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in Brazil to say ugh while the person on the
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other end is talking. They do this to show that
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they're still on the line. In South Korea, you would
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answer the phone with yobas say yo or hello in English.
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South Korea is home to Samsung, one of the most
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mobile phone in electronics companies in the world, which was
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found in nineteen thirty eight. Japan, they say mos mosh
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when answering the phone. Is considered very rude to answer
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or talk on the phone while walking in Japan. In fact,
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the silent mode function on mobile phones is called manner
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mode in Japan. In Spain, people answer with de gama,
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which means speak to me. Unlike in Japan, people in
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Spain commonly answer the phone during meetings and while eating
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in restaurants. In Sweden, most people answer the phone by
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stating their name. Telephones can came early to Sweden eighteen
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seventy seven. In the country really embrace the new technology. Today,
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adults can even file their income tax returns via text message.
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In Turkey, you can answer the phone with boo, y
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room or I'm listening to your call, but boo, your
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room doesn't just have one needing In Turkish, this work
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and me. May I help you when you enter a shop,
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come in when answer the door, even have a seat
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when a friend is visiting. The pie chart a slice
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of facts. Pie charts can be helpful tool for organizing
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facts in an easy to understand way. Cell Phone companies
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use pied charts to make important business decisions, like what
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kind of apps to make next. But making a pie
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chart isn't hard, You must say it's as easy as pie. First,
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we start with our data, data's collection of information or
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facts the researchers gather. For example, we ask ten people
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what kind of app do you use most often on
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your smartphone? Games, email, or music. Each person chose one
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kind of app and the responses were tallied in a
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table below. Games was two, emails was three, music five,
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with a total of ten. In a pie chart, we
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split a circle into sectors or little pile slices that
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represent our data. Since there were three post pay answers
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to the question we asked, there will be three sectors
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in our pie chart. Next, we convert our data into
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fractions or parts of the hoe, and a fraction the
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denominator or bottom number, stands for the total parts our
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denominator in this one is ten. Since we ask ten
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people about their favorite kind of app, the numerator or
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top number stands for the different parts. Here, the numerators
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would be two for games, three for email, and five
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for music. Now we can make the following fractions. Two
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tens of people use games the most, three tens of
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people use to email the most, and five tens of
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people use music the most. To figure out how big
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each sector of our pie chart should be, we look
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at our denominator ten and divide a circle into that
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many equal parts. Then we use different code to shane
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our fractions will color two sizes blue for games, three
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slices green for email, and five slices read for music.
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Now that the chart is colored in, we can add
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a title most often use kind of apps in twenty fifteen.
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The title is very important. It says what our chart
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is about. Next, we add a key which explains what
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each colored sector of the pie chart represents, and there
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you have it ready for your next business meeting. Our
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next stories will be about the character Pete the Cat,
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and the first story is called Pete the Cat Scary Cat.
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It was published by Harper and Imprint of Harper Collins
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Publishers has a copyright year of twenty twenty four and
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it was written by Kimberly and James Deing. Pete the
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Cat loves stories. Pete loves funny stories, Pete loves bedtime stories,
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and Pete really loves true stories. But Pete has never
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heard a scary story. So one code dark night, Bob
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and Pete sit by a campfire. Do you want to
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hear a spooky, creepy scary story, Bob asks Pete. That
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sounds groovy, says Pete. Bob tells a story about a
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monster with seven eyes and spaghetti arms. The monster even
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has two heads and it only comes out in the dark. Boom,
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Bob teases, good googly moogly. Pete gulps. When Bob's story ends,
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Pete is a little scared, but he says, I love
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that story. Bob and Pete walk to the house. Look up.
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Bob tells Pete the monster seven eyes are in the sky.
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Pete is a little scared, but he says those are
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just fireflies. Pete catches one. When they get home, something
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smells yummy. It's dinner time. Bob looks at his plate.
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Are these the monster's arms. Bob jokes, Pete is a
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little scared, but he says, this is just spaghetti, Pete's favorite.
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After dinner, Bob and Pete watch television, look at the
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monsters two heads. Bob laughs. Pete is a little scared,
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but he says, that's just mom and dad. It is bedtime,
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but it is dark. Pete is all alone. He is
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really scared now. Suddenly, Pete hears a noise. He sees
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a dark shadow and grabs a flashlight. Pete shines the
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light at the shadow. Good googly moogly Bob. Pete asked,
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what are you doing here? I guess I was a
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little scared too. Bob says, it's okay to be scared sometimes.
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Pete tells Bob, you are right. Bob says, plus monsters
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aren't real, Absolutely not, Pete replies. Bob and Pete still
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enjoy spooky, creepy, scary stories in the dark, but now
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they are a little scared to give or Our next
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book is called Pete the Cats Not So Groovy Day,
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and it was published by Harper an imprint of Harper
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Collins Publishers, has a copyright year of twenty twenty two,
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and was written by Kimberly and James Sting. Pete wakes up.
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He swings his legs over the bed, BurrH the floor's code.
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Pete looks down. Oh no, one of his slippers is missing.
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That's not groovy, Pete says. Pete is ready to get dressed.
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He puts on his pants. He puts on his socks.
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He looks for his cool ast shirt. Oh no, his
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best shirt is dirty. Pete puts on his second best shirt.
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This shirt is cool too, he says. Pete. Tummy rumbles.
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He is hungry. He helps Mom made fish. Mom gives
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Pete a plate. It is eggs. Eggs are not groovy.
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Pete says. Pete's eggs are good, but they are not
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what he wanted. His morning is not off to a
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good start. Time for school. Mom says, get your bag, Pete.
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You do not want to be late. Pete picks up
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his bag. Oh no, all of his books fall out.
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Pete looks at the floor. It is a mess. Pete
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has a lot of books. Hurry up, Pete. Mom says,
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the bus is here. Pete picks up his books. He
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runs outside, but Pete is too late. The bus is gone.
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It left without him. Pete starts to walk. Walking is
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not cool, he says. Then Pete sees a bird, but
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that bird is cool. Pete gets to school. He sits down. Pete,
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you are late. His teacher says, it is time to
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draw now. Pete is happy. He loves to draw. He
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loves to use lots of colors. Pete opens his bag.
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Oh no, his crowns are not there. They must be
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at home. Pete draws with a pen. He does not
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like his art. He has only one color. This art
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is not groovy, he says. And music class, Pete places
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get tied. His song is groovy. Pete starts to feel better.
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Oh no, Pete's pick bricks. He cannot play anymore. I
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do not feel cool, Pete says. At recess, Pete sits
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under a tree. He wants to go home. Pete does
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not like this day. Cally sees Pete. She sits next
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to him. You look sad. Callie says, what is wrong.
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Pete tells Cally about his day. Nothing has gone my way.
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Today is not groovy. Pete says, not groovy at all.
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Callie smiles. Some days are groovy, some are not. You
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will be okay, Pete. You are the coolest cat I know.
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Pete looks up. He smiles. You are right, Cally, Today
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is not groovy, but I am groovy. I am cooler
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than any bad day. Way to go, Pete, Cally says, Now,
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let's go play. Pete and Cally swing on the swings.
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They slide down the slide. They kick a ball back
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and forth. Pete smiles, he is happy. Today is groovy
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at all. Our next book is called Pete the Cat
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and the Tip Top tree House. It's published by Harper
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in print of Harper Collins Publishers. It has a copyright
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of twenty seventeen and the author is James Deeen. Pete
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the Cat has built a treehouse. He calls his friends.
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I just build a treehouse, he says, come over to play. Peace.
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Friends show up. This is great, says his friends. But
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it is a little small. You are right, says Pete.
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It is too small. I will fix that. Pete starts
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building a bigger tree house. Do you want some help?
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Ask CALLI, Sure, says Pete. CALLI carries up more wood.
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Can I help too, ask Marty? Sure, says Pete. Together
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they build a tower for Pete's tree house. Let's have
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a treehouse. Party, says Marty. A party, says Pete. But
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what will everyone do? I can help with that, says Emma.
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This is great, says Pete. Let's do it, Pete, Marty, CALLI,
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Emma and Grumpy Toe get right to work. They build
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an arcade. They fill it with fun games. They build
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a bowling alley. It has twenty lanes. They build a
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wave pool. Pete can surf indoors. They build a movie
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theater and a skate park, and a climbing mall and
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an ice rink. Pea's friends all come for the party.
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Pete takes one friend to the bowling alley. He takes
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one friend to the movie theater. Pete takes one friend
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to the state park. Pete, let's one friend's surf in
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the wave pool. Is everyone here, as Pete? Yeah, but
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we're all alone, as friends say, we came to play
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with each other. Oh, says Pete. Everyone meet down at
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the jungle gym. Everyone climbs down. This treehouse is amazing,
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says his friends. Thanks, says Pete. I'm so glad it
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brought us all together. Our next set of books are
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to be about sunflowers, and the first one is titled
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Sea it grows Sunflower. It was published by their Port
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Publishing Company, has a copyright year of twenty sixteen and
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the author of our book is Joyce Markovic's Sunflower In summer,
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tall sunflowers grow in fields. Each plant has a huge
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yellow flower. How did it get that way? Sunflowers can
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grow taller than people. Every sunflower starts out as the seed.
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After the seed is planted and watered, it grows. First
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roots stretch into the most soil, then a green, then
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a green shoes pokes out of the ground. Plants need
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water to live and grow. They take in water from
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the soil with their roots. As the days pass, the
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tiny plant grows leaves. Its stem gets taller and thicker.
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Leaves use the sun's life like to make food for
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the plant. The top of the stem of small bud forms.
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During the day, the bud and leaves bend towards the sun.
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Sunflowers try to get as much light as possible. Sunlight
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helps them grow. The bud gets bigger and bigger. Soon
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the bud opens, Large yellow petals surround the center of
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the flower. In the center of the big flower are
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many tiny flowers. They are shaped like tubes. The flowering
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part of the sunflower is called the head. Bees fly
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to the tiny flower tubes. There they collect pollen to
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use for food. As the bees fly from plants to plant,
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they spread the pollen. Pollen helps make new plants. For
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a while, the flower tubes get darker, a black seed
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forms in each one. Then the seeds dry out. They
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fall to the ground. Birds and chipmunks love to eat
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sunflower seeds. Next year, some of the new seeds will grow.
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They will become big, tall sunflowers. People grow sunflowers and gardens.
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They also grow them on large farms. Sunflower facts. There
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are many kinds of sunflowers. Some are short and small,
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while others are big and tall. Sunflower seeds are eaten
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as snacks. They are also made into cooking oil. North
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Dakota and South Dakota grow more sunflowers than any other states.
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The tallest sunflower in the world grew to be more
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than twenty six feet tall. Our next book is called
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From Seed to Sunflower and it was published by Learner Publications.
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It has a copyright Europe twenty seventeen and the author
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is Mery Shoe. First gardeners plant sunflower seeds sunflowers grow
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from small seeds. Gardeners plant the seeds in. The sunflowers
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need plenty of space, water, and sunlight to grow. They
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grow best in moist, fertile soil. Soon as seed starts
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to sprout, the moist soil softens the seed's hard shell,
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and soon a root in a stem grow. The stem
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pushes the seed up through the soil. Two small leaves
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break out of the shell and open. The seedling grows.
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About ten days after planting, a seedling grows, Its stem
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grows taller, and more leaves appear. The seedling's roots grow
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deep into the soil. The roots take in water and nutrients.
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The seedling becomes a young plant. The young sunflowers stem
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grows thick and tall. There's big, wide leaves that make
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the sun's energy to make food for the sunflower. Many
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sunflowers grow to be ten feet tall or more next
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to bud forms. Soon a green bud grows at the
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top of the sunflower stem. During the day, the bud
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turns to follow The sun flower petals are hidden inside
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the bud. Special green leaves protect the petals. The sunflower blooms,
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the bud opens, and the sunflower blooms, Its petals and
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creolns spread out. The sunflower's head can be about one
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foot wide. Tiny flowers called disk flowers grow in the
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center of the sunflower's head. Then insects pollinate the flower.
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These and other insects visit. The sunflower pollen from the
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sunflower sticks to their legs. The insects spread the pollen
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from sunflower to sunflower. The pollen allows the sunflower to
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grow seeds. Finally, seeds grow. The disk flowers turn into
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hundreds of sunflower seeds. The seeds grow bigger and the
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sunflower petals dry up. The sunflower's head becomes heavy and
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droops towards the ground. The next year, more sunflowers can grow.
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People pick the sunflower seeds. They can be used for
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bird seed, pressed into oil, or eaten by people. You
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can save some seeds for next year too, then watch
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them and grow into new sunflowers. This concludes the Children's
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Story Hour for today. Please join us next time as
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we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales. Thank
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you for listening, and please take tune for the Legs
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