10 Nursery School Cookbook, Supplement of The Canadian Statesman, Wednesday, May 29,1991 of tt£sKi^™ nt t0 WOrk ° n ° ne .. B-manvine Nursery School staff each year enjoy the benefits of having co-operative education students here showing a nursery school student how to pet a working with them. One of the students is pictured rat)t) it. Ali Shipley Danny Gackstetter spends some time reading during during quiet time. SHEAR MAGIC Kids Special HAIRSTYLING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY • Perms • Cutting • Styling • Colouring • Blow Drying • Conditioning Treatments • Waving • Spiral Perming • Goldwell and Joico • Loreal 28 Division St. COO HOVH Bowmanville DZu" I O^r I V» Why the human body needs its layer of skin X'a-IvvIvX-IvNvI-X'Xn'MvXvS ALL THESE THINGS CAN BE SEEN IN THE SKY. CAN YOU FIT THEM INTO THE CROSSWORD) 1 m Have you ever wondered why we have skin? You probably just take it for granted, in the same way that you accept that you need ears, eyes, nose and mouth. And if you have ever thought about skin at all, you probably thought it was there just to hold the rest of you together Well, in fact your skin has other uses. For a start, it enables us to sense touch, pain, cold and heat, which means we are able to take action to protect ourselves before any further damage is done. Eyelids Skin also helps us to regulate regulate our body temperatures by allowing us to sweat. The skin on a normal human body varies in thickness thickness in various places. The skin of our eyelids, for example, is less than one millimeter thick, whereas on the soles of our feet it can be up to three times as thick. Skin is practically waterproof, waterproof, which is why the insides of our body --- which are mostly , liquid -- are able to live and survive and function in dry air. In addition, skin is able to support hair growth, although the hair on a human being has little practical practical purpose. Most of the human body is covered by hair, although it is often so fine that you can see it only by using a magnifying glass. Even with a magnifying glass, however, you won't find hair on the palms of your hands Or the soles of your feet. Cells Skin consists of not one but many layers. The top layer -- the stratum comeum -- itself has about 20 layers of cells, the top one of which is continually flaking and being replaced by another below. One of the skin's main . functions is to warn us about changes in temperature. temperature. Your skin will begin to feel cold, for example, long before a fall in temperature will do the rest of your body any real harm. Skin remains taut and supple for most of our lives, but begins to sag in old age when our muscles start to slacken. K6910008 K6910010 IN THE SWIM Even a rabbit swims like a duck in water -- if his life depends on it. Naturalists have found that the most unlikely animals, ranging from giraffes to hens, can swim in an emergency.. Sloths of Central and South America, which drag themselves themselves along the ground with hooked claws, can swim the back stroke. Lizards, mice, rats, emus and ostriches, which don't normally swim, have survived when trapped in floods. K6910009 I ll'JI Know? by AL 0 MILK BOTTLES WERE FIRST USED IN NEW YORK LN/879 BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ALUMINIUM FOIL TOPS UNTIL IS/H- WHEN THEY WERE USED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SWEDEN. DUMBBELLS ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN MADE ORIGINALLY USING CHURCH BELLS AS WEIGHTS BUT WITHOUT THEIR CLAPPERS SO THAT THEY WERE "DUMB "/ EVERY YEAR IN THE U.S.A. HALF A MILLION TONS OF MUD IS WASHED DOWN BY THE MISSOURI RIVER AND BUILDS UP ON THE SOUTH COAST. BECAUSE OF THIS THE COASTLINE-IS NOW ABOUT IOOO MILES FURTHER SOUTH THAN IT WAS IN PREHISTORIC TIMES/ Kid's Korner Has Been Brought to You by... S&* Canadian statesman 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, L1C 3K9 623-3303 Since 1854, Our First Concern Has Been Our Community it n i| j i