Kids World New, Clinton / Ionia Counties, Nov. 2015

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Have you noticed the leaves changing colors? It’s a beautiful time in Michigan when this happens. Theweather is getting colder and soon winter will be upon us. Fall brings about some great moments. Eventslike football, Trick or Treating, bonfires and marshmallows are favorites.

October kicks off Kids’ World News 9th Annual Coloring Contest! The official coloring page entry is on page3 of this paper. All YOU have to do is color the picture and send it directly to us or our delivery drivers will pickthem up at your school office when they deliver the November edition! See the official rules below. Be sureto enter your picture!

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Kids’ World News 9th Annual Coloring Contest RulesThe coloring contest rules are as follows: Enter the contest by coloring the picture provided on page 3.

There will be a first place winner from each grade - kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade,5th grade and 6th grade. The winner will receive prizes including a Kids’ World News T-shirt and certificate.The entries must be received by Kids’ World News by November 13, 2015. They can be mailed in to Kids’World News, 5747 North Otto Road, Charlotte, Michigan 48813 or taken to your school office by November9th for our delivery drivers to pick up. The winners will be announced in the December edition of Kids’ WorldNews.

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Count your Blessings. Maybe you’ve heard that saying before? It means to remember and be thankful for the all the good things in your life. Luckily, we will get a chance to do that soon,

because every year in November, on the fourth Thursday of the month, we celebrate Thanksgiving.

It’s the holiday which is all about “giving thanks”.

Kids’World News is thankful for you! Thank you for reading and enjoying the paper that is created with you in mind every month. We are thankful for all of our generous sponsors, who help bring this paper to you and your families. We are thankful for the

teachers and educators who work hard to help you learn and who make school a great place to be. When we count our blessings, we count all of you!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

On October 15h, the 5th-8th graders at MHT went on

watched the play Turtle Island. Along with art, the play

technology and theology. After watching Turtle Island, the students participated in a puppet workshop where they could build and create their own puppets to take home. Pictured are a few of the students assembling their pup-pets and Christi Spitzley, Judith Pohl and Hudson Phillips posing with one of the theater’s puppets.

October is both the month of the Holy Rosary and the

staff at MHT gather in the grotto to pray the Holy Rosa-ry. They pray for all women who are considering abortion that they may not feel it is their only option. The students also led the rosary outside of the Monday 7:00 mass at Most Holy Trinity Church. Pictured are the students who led the school wide rosary and the students who led the evening rosary after mass.

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Pretty Pea Puffers

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Try This!Create a pea puffer!

Blow up your balloon. Cover it in paper mache, let dry and layer again. Let dry. Paint your puffer. Hang them all around your classroom to create a school of pea puffers.

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Pea puffers are the tiny little fish...with the long list of names! They are sometimes called pea,dwarf, bumblebee, blue-eyed, pygmy or malabar puffers. They are from inland watersof India to China. You might find a small school of themin a river, lake, floodplain and even sometimesin a brackish water estuary.

Pea puffers are intelligent little fish and very inquisitive. In the wild they will live in areas with lots of plants and many hiding places. They will set up their own territory and defend it very well. They each will swim in their own unique pattern and are quite fun to watch.

Pea puffers are carnivores, and growvery strong and sharp teeth. To keeptheir teeth ground down, they will munch on snails. Eating snails makesthem a molluscivore. They will also eatbrine shrimp, bloodworms and othersmall animals and insects. The maincriteria of a pea puffers diet is size, since they are so small!

Pea puffers are unique for puffers,because when they are adults you cantell males from females. Males have a dark line down their bellies, and willalso have little lines around their eyes.Both males and females will have the“blue eyes” of their other name.

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Rules For The Kitchen!1. Always ask an adult if you can use the kitchen.

2. Have all the ingredients before you start.

3. Wash your hands before you touch food.

4. Wear an apron or towel to keep your clothes clean.

5. Always clean up when you are finished.

Cookin’ FunBrown SugarCarrots3/4 pound medium carrots, peeled1 tablespoon butter or margarine1 tablespoon brown sugar, packedDash of salt

Cut carrots in half, both crosswise andlengthwise. Cook carrots in a mediumsaucepan, covered, in a small amountof boiling water 8-10 minutes, or untilcrisp-tender. Drain well; remove frompan. In the same saucepan combinebutter or margarine, brown sugar, andsalt. Stir over medium heat until com-bined. Add carrots. Cook, uncov-ered, about 2 minutes or until glazed,stirring frequently. Season to tastewith pepper.

Bit-O Honey PumpkinBars With CreamCheese FrostingPumpkin Bars:5 (1.7 ounce) Bit-O-Honey Bars 1 cup canola oil 4 eggs 1 (15 ounce) can pure pumpkin 1 cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon ground allspice 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda2 cups all-purpose flour

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For the pumpkin bars : Heat the oven to350 degrees. Spray a 13 x 9-inch pan withnonstick spray. Freeze the Bit-O-HoneyBars 10 minutes. In a food processor, chopcandy bars coarsely. Set aside. In a largemixing bowl, using electric mixer, combinethe oil and eggs, and mix 30 seconds onhigh. Add the pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger, nutmeg andsalt. Mix on medium 1 minute, scraping down sides of the bowl. Add the bakingpowder, baking soda and flour, and mix on low 30 seconds. Fold in the choppedcandy bars. Pour the batter into your prepared pan and bake 25 minutes, or untila wooden pick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool com-pletely before frosting.

For the cream cheese frosting: In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer,beat together the cream cheese and butter until smooth and fluffy (about 3 min-utes). Mix in the vanilla extract. Add the confectioners' sugar and beat until thor-oughly mixed together. Spread the frosting evenly over the top of the cooledpumpkin bars. Cut into 2 x 3-inch squares.

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The students in the club, led by Mrs. Wineland, are encouraged to come to the club dressed in

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• Ireland is a island nation on the western edge of Europe. Aside fromGreat Britain, is the second largest island on the continent.• The capital is Dublin. It is also the largest city and is home to over aquarter of Ireland’s population!• Ireland only takes up 80% of island, the other 20% is Northern Irelandwhich is a part of The United Kingdom.• The population is about 5 million people!• The currency is the Euro.• There are four seasons in Ireland. Throughout Spring and Summerthe climate stays around 40 degrees to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. In theWinter and Fall the climate stays around 46 degrees Fahrenheit.• The traditional and most popular sports in Ireland are Gaelic footballand hurling. But, at the Olympics, boxing was Ireland’s most success-ful sport.• The languages spoken in Ireland are English and Irish Gaelic. IrishGaelic is the country’s first official language. However the second offi-cial language, English, is more commonly spoken in present day. • The government is a Constitutional Democracy. It consists of anelected parliament that makes laws and a president, who is head ofstate.• Ireland is known for not having any snakes. The only reptiles withinIreland are lizards. • The Ireland-United Kingdom border is also referred to as the Irish bor-der. The border runs a total of 499km from Lough Foyle on the north ofthe island to Carlingford Lough on the northeast of the Irish sea. • A type of clover called the Shamrock is the national symbol for Ireland.Along with the harp, it is a registered trademark of the Country.• On March 17th every year, St. Patricks day is celebrated. The holidaybegan as a religious feast for the patron saint of Ireland. Now it has be-come an international festival celebrating the Irish culture. It is com-

monly celebrated with dancing, parades, foods, and of course a whole lotof green.• The Celtic harp has been usedon the Coat of Arms of Irelandsince Medieval Times. Today it isstill used as the symbol of theIrish State. Ireland is the world’sonly country with a musical in-strument as it’s national symbol.• “Gulliver’s Travels” writerJonathan Swift, is buried in St.Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. • Kilkenny-born architect JamesHoban designed the originalWhite House in Washington afterwinning a competition sponsoredby President George Washingtonand Secretary of State ThomasJefferson in 1792. • The tune of the "Star SpangledBanner" was composed by thegreat, blind harpist TurloughO’Carolan, who died about 35years before the American Revo-lution. • One of the longest names of aplace in Ireland is a townlandcalled Muckanaghederdauhaulia,in County Galway.

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Ireland's flag uses color to symbolize reli-gions; green is representative of Catholics; or-ange is representative of Protestants, and thewhite is symbolic of the union of both.

The Blarney Castle is one of Ire-land’s most popular landmarks.There, you can visit the legendaryBlarney Stone. It is believed that ifyou kiss the Blarney Stone, you willgain the gift of eloquence and neverbe at a loss for words.


Why Are YouRight-Handed orLeft-Handed?

Do you know that more than 90% of the world is right-handed?But, there are more left-handed peoples than ever before. One ofthe main reasons for this is that years ago, teachers forced left-handed kids to write with their right hand! They were told that wasthe correct way. Actually, being left-handed is perfectly alright andtotally natural.

What makes a person left or right handed? Scientists are notsure and not all agree on the answer. They have noted however,that being left-handed runs in families. So the hypothesis or guessis that your genes or DNA influences whether or not you turn out tobe left-handed or right-handed. Many scientists also believe thatmost people’s brains develop more on one side than on the other.And since the left side of your brain controls the muscles on theright side of your body, and the right side of your brain controls theleft side of your body, this could influence the muscles in your handsas well. If the left side of your brain is more developed, than you areright-handed. If the right side of your brain is more developed, thenyou are left-handed. If your brain is equally developed on bothsides, you are ambidextrous which means you can use one handas well as the other.

Sometimes getting hurt can also make a person left-handed orright-handed. If you injure your hand and can’t use it anymore, youbecome the opposite of the injured hand.

The rumor is not true that left handed people are always artsy.Two famous artists, Rembrandt and Van Gogh are two good ex-amples of that as they were right handed. Here's how that theorybegan. For both righties and lefties, the brain is divided right downthe middle into two sides called hemispheres. One hemisphere ison the right side of your head, and the other is on the left. Buthere's the strange part: For complicated reasons, the right hemi-sphere controls movements on the left half of the body, which in-cludes the left hand. The left hemisphere controls movements on

the right side.Creative thought (writing a song, drawing a picture) happens

mostly on the right side of the brain. So if you're left-handed, thetheory goes that you're more likely to have a lot of creative thoughtgoing on. But thought processes in your brain are way too com-plex to be limited to just one hemisphere. The two sides of yourbrain work together when you think. So, just because you likeusing your left hand doesn't mean you only think with only oneside of your brain.

In the past, most products on the market such as scissors, sportsequipment and musical instruments were made for only right-handed people. Now most items are made both ways to accom-modate everyone.

Left-handed people have the upper hand in sports? While lefthanded people have to face some obstacles, there is great ad-vantage also on the playing field. In baseball or softball, a left-handed hitter starts out a few steps closer to first base than onewho is right handed. The hitter has a better chance at making itto first base before getting tagged out. Batting left-handed alsoforces the pitcher to throw the ball differently than usual since mosthitters are right-handed. Did you know that Babe Ruth, a famousbaseball player was left-handed?

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The bassoon is the low-est sounding and thelargest of the woodwindinstruments. They aremade of maple woodand also of ebonite. Stu-dent sized bassoons aremade of plastic resin tomake the instrumentmore affordable. Mostbassoon players needto have big hands somany students learnanother instrumentfirst. It has a doublereed that is attachedto the bocal which is acurved tube.

Early bassoonswere called Dulcians or Curtals.The main difference from thoseto modern day bassoons, is thatthe old instruments were carvedfrom a single piece of wood anddidn’t have any keys! In Franceduring the 17th century, instru-ment builders made the firstbassoon with separate jointsand by the mid 19th century, the17 key bassoon was developed.

The bassoon is held diagonally in front of the player andcannot be supported by the player’s hands alone. Additionalsupport is required as it is heavy. The extra support is ei-ther a neck strap or a seat strap which is attached to thebassoon and laid across the chair seat before sitting down tohold it in place. To make a sound, the bassoonist blows airthrough a double reed causing it to vibrate. To play notesand vary the sound, the bassoonist must cover differentcombinations of tone holes with fingers or keys.

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Complete TheProblem!

Choose + or x

1. If one turkey can feed eight people, how many turkeysare needed to feed one hundred sixty people?

2. A non-profit organization for the homeless is askingpeople to donate $3.57 to feed and care for one person.If the non-profit wants to raise enough money to feed andcare for seventy people on Thanksgiving, how muchmoney will they need to raise?

3. The Indians and Pilgrims brought a total of nineturkeys to cook. If the Indians brought four turkeys, howmany did the Pilgrims bring?

4. Fourteen Indians and seven Pilgrims were going tohave dinner together. Each person brought one piece offruit or vegetable to the feast. How many food items didthey have in all?

5. A restaurant spent $345 on food to feed sixty-ninepeople. How much was the food cost for each person?

Circle TheGreatest Number ForEach Set Of Turkeys!

10 1 = 100 5 = 57 7 = 498 3 = 119 2 = 187 7 = 1413 2 = 2611 2 = 229 11 = 997 8 = 1515 3 = 45

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14 41

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