Fitness Farm Update.

Just look at some of the great events we have planned for this year's Tulip Time Scholarship Games on April 29! Mark your calendars so that you can be among the hundreds of kids that come to the Games to participate for college scholarships. To preregister, or just to get more details, visit our Web site at www.fitnessfarm.org.

Talent Contest

This brand-new event is gonna be loads of fun--so don't miss out! Whenever you sing, dance, recite poetry, juggle, do magic tricks, play an instrument, or tell funny jokes, your special talent could earn you a college scholarship! Kids will audition in the morning and then the finalist will compete later that day.

ESSAY CONTEST

Do you have any good ideas on how to help someone quit smoking? If you do, we want to hear them. Your ideas could earn you a $5,000 scholarship! Plus, air fare will be provided for the winner and an adult to attend the Scholarship Games.

Rules:

1. Kids ages twelve and under may participate.

2. Essays should be no longer than three pages typed and double-spaced.

3. Include your name, address, phone number, school photo, and a teacher's signature verifying that the work is your own.

4. All entries become the property of the Children's Better Health Institute.

5. Mail your essay to: "Essay Contest," Children's Playmate, P.O. Box 567, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

6. Deadline: March 15, 2000.

POSTER CONTEST

Draw a picture of the Fitness Farm and send it to us. If your picture is chosen, it could earn you a $5,000 scholarship, and be used to decorate the Fitness Farm! Plus, air fare will be provided for the winner and an adult to attend the Scholarship Games.

Rules:

1. Kids ages twelve and under may participate.

2. Pictures must be drawn in color on 8 1/2 by-11-inch white unlined paper.

3. Include your name, address, phone number, school photo, and a teacher's signature verifying that the work is your own.

4. All entries become the property of the Children's Better Health Institute.

5. Mail your drawing to: "Poster Contest," Children's Playmate, P.O. Box 567, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

6. Deadline: March 15, 2000.

TREE IDENTIFICATION EVENT

Learn to correctly identify and spell the names of these trees, and you could win a scholarship at the Fitness Farm!

1. hemlock
2. redbud
3. red maple
4. tulip
5. sweet gum
6. honeylocust
7. ginkgo
8. paper birch
9. flowering dogwood

FLOWER IDENTIFICATION EVENT

This sweet event could earn you a college scholarship! Begin studying these flowers so that you'll be ready to identify and spell their names at the Scholarship Games.

1. hyacinth
2. hydrangea
3. chrysanthemum
4. African violet
5. lily of the valley
6. trout lily
7. bleeding heart
8. jack-in-the-pulpit
9. Asiatic lily

SCHOLARSHIP SPELLING BEE

Meet Wendy the Word Wizard! She's "cooked up "a monster list for you on page 32. Wendy says:

   "Practice these words day
   and night, after breakfast,
   lunch, and dinner.

   "Don't give up till you spell
   each one right, and you'll
   be a scholarship winner!"

To receive the Spelling Bee words and their pronunciations on cassette, send $5.00 to: "Spelling Bee Tape," Children's Playmate, P.O. Box 567, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

SPELLING BEE 2000

BIRDS

robin
cardinal
oriole
finch
crow
pelican
flamingo
hawk
pigeon
thrush
duck
toucan
goose
ostrich
dove
sparrow
rooster
turkey
owl
eagle
canary
crane
sea gull
penguin
falcon
vulture
sea hawk
mockingbird
hummingbird
heron

VEGETABLES

cucumber
onion
lettuce
potato
squash
endive
beets
scallion
mushroom
olive
tomato
chive
zucchini
carrot
artichoke
celery
cabbage
pepper
eggplant
broccoli
asparagus
pea
bean
sprouts
corn
avocado
cauliflower

METRIC SYSTEM

decimeter
hectometer
dekaliter
quintal
gram
picogram
microgram
decimilligram
centigram
dekagram
kilogram
megagram
teragram
nanometer
millimeter
meter
liter
megameter
terameter
microliter
deciliter
megaliter
nanogram
centimilligram
milligram
decigram
hectogram
hectokilogram
gigagram
picometer
micrometer
centimeter
dekameter
kilometer
gigameter
picoliter
centiliter
kiloliter
teraliter

NERVOUS
SYSTEM

facial
trochlear
optic
phrenic
axon
dendrite
occipital
hypoglossal
frontal
mandibular
nasociliary
ophthalmic
tibial
laryngeal
hillock
bouton
median
splanchnic
hypogastric
femoral
genitofemoral
plexus
pudendal
myelin
trigeminal
abducens
oculomotor
vagus
glossopharyngeal
vestibulocochlear
accessory
auricular
maxillary
lacrimal
supraorbital
ethmoidal
peroneal
endoneurium
synapse
ganglion
antebrachial
acetylcholine
ramus
iliohypogastric
subcostal
obturator
ilioinguinal
oligodendrocyte
nerve
astrocyte

GENETICS

gene
heredity
mutation
mitosis
embryo
allele
helix
clone
sequence
polymer
autosome
phenotype
recessive
metaphase
locus
polymerase
telophase
oligonucleotide
geneticist
interphase
prophase
phage
bacteriophage
chromomere
transduction
transformation
nucleus
Mendelian
genome
meiosis
chromosome
recombinant
pedigree
plasmid
vector
replicon
nucleosome
chromatography
zygote
centromere
anaphase
genotype
endonuclease
backcross
exonuclease
polyploidy
diakinesis
cytogenetics
crossover
segregate
codominance
dominance
translocation
nucleolus