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Misty shares her adventure with Tiffi
Puppies have been walked and Tiffi has had her snack. Time now to call Misty back. “Hey Misty, sorry that I had to cut you short before,” Tiffi says. “But when the dogs have to go outside I have to drop everything because I don’t want them piddling on the floor.” Misty tells her friend that there is no need to apologize.…
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Odus talks to Tiffi about his adventure
Tiffi is now finished sharing all her friends’ adventure. Mr. Toffee is getting a bit sleepy so he says goodnight to her and throws her a kiss. She calls Odus to apologize for not being able to talk to him earlier. “Hi Odus, I’m so sorry that I couldn’t talk to you earlier,” says Tiffi. “I was telling him how Yeti, Rachel,…
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Olivia is excited and can’t wait to tell Tiffi about her adventure
Bright and early the next morning Tiffi can’t wait for Olivia to call so she calls her. Well she thought that she called her but she did Facetime instead. “Olivia I am so sorry that we didn’t have a chance to talk last night,” says Tiffi. “You sounded so excited about your day but I couldn’t keep my eyes open.” Olivia…
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Tiffi tries to find out why her friends all had similar experiences
“That’s it! I have to find out what’s going on,” Tiffi thinks to herself. She has to do some googling to find out why this happened. Was it just a coincidence? She just types in her thoughts in the search engine. There it is! Coincidence! She looks at a couple of articles but that’s not really explaining why a few of her…
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Tiffi and Chewy bump into each other
Tiffi decides to take a walk through the children’s playground. She sees Chewy talking to a father so she heads on over there to say hello. “Hi Chewy, what’s up?” asks Tiffi. “Why do you have that weird look on your face?” “Daddy why do birds fly?” asks the little boy pointing to the sky. “Bird bodies are made to fly,”…
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Tiffi offers the father some parenting tips
Tiffi goes over to the father to offer him some information to help him survive the why stage. She tells him that it’s a funny coincidence that this week many of her friends met up with a parent and child and the child was asking the parent a lot of why questions. She hasn’t found the answer as to why it’s all happening at…
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Olivia explains the colors of the sky
Early in the afternoon Olivia is passing by Mr. Toffee’s store when she sees a mother and little boy outside. The little boy has been asking a lot of why questions and out of frustration the mother tries to distract him by promising to buy him some candy if he behaves. The little boy nods his head in agreement and they…
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Olivia starts to explain the colors of the sky
‘Why is the sky blue? ‘The sky is blue because the air scatters blue light from the Sun across the sky and down to our eyes. We think of air as being clear and transparent, and it is. But air is made up of countless tiny objects, mostly molecules of nitrogen. When sunlight goes thousands of miles through our atmosphere, a…
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Here comes the why questions!
“What’s a rainbow?” asks Andrew. ‘A rainbow is an arc of colors that appear in the sky when it is raining in one part of the sky and sunny in another. A rainbow forms when the sun shines through droplets of water while it’s raining or was recently raining. How does that happen? Sunlight comes from the sun. The sun is…
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Why is the ocean blue?
Andrew has finished eating his candy and now wants to know why the ocean is blue. Olivia has no problem giving him some facts on this but isn’t sure if it might be over his head. ‘First, we need to know some fun facts about the nature of light. The light we see, which we call white light, is made up of incredibly tiny…
