Our Summer of Reading program is in full swing, and this year it includes a free, virtual event next Thursday, June 12 for families to meet top children’s authors. Find out more below! And now here are three questions to pose to your child this weekend for lively conversation.—Gail O’Connor, Senior Editor
1. Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old from Texas, was crowned champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 29. Zaki won by correctly spelling the word “éclaircissement,” which means “a clearing up of something that is difficult to understand.” Do you have any tricks to remember how to spell a word? What kinds of words do you find challenging to spell?
2. The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed. Called MoM-z14, the newly identified galaxy existed 280 million years after the universe was created about 13.8 billion years ago. Do you think it’s possible we might discover even older and more distant galaxies one day? Why or why not?
3. After receiving more than 35,000 entries in a public contest, animal park officials chose names for the first giant pandas ever born in Hong Kong: Jia Jia and De De. If you could name a pair of pandas, what would you name them?
