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St. Joseph Catholic School students donate to ‘Toys for Tots’ St. Joseph Catholic School’s Student Council sponsored a ‘Toys for Tots’ campaign this year. Students were very generous this year, giving donations that filled three of the boxes that the ‘Toys for Tots’ Association gave the school to fill. On top of that, the kids added two more large garbage bags full of toys. We are very proud of our students and the generosity that fills their hearts!

St. Joseph Catholic students donated lots of toys last month.

Showing off their computer coding skills are, from left, Freddie Pringle, Abby DeCare, Chloe Herrell, and Lennox Reason.

Smith students learn about computer programming during ‘Hour of Code’ During the week of Dec. 8, Smith Elementary students were able to participate, along with

millions of other kids throughout the world, in an ‘Hour of Code.’ This event was part of ‘Computers in Education, ‘ and students helped to celebrate it by learning how to code. “By using problem-solving skills, logic, and creativity, we were able to guide the Angry Bird to the Grouchy Pig and a Monster to pick up candy,” said Smith teacher, Gail Tupey. “We even saw a video of President Obama learning how to write Code!” The lessons were so popular that Coding will be offered at an after-school club.

Here is the school’s student council and classroom reps who spearheaded the campaign.

Kids’ World News: “One Year Old” One day of the year that most kids look forward to, and enjoy celebrating, is their birthday. Well, the Livingston County edition of Kids World is observing its first birthday. It was a year ago, early last January, that we showed up at the various schools with copies of the monthly newspaper. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading the many interesting and informative articles, solving the puzzles, and coloring the pictures. We hope you’ve also enjoyed learning about the various activities and accomplishments of young students in our county. Two major events highlighting our first year were the Day hosted this past June at Waldenwoods Family Recreational Resort in Hartland, and the Day held at the Fowlerville Family Fair in July.

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The CheetahThe cheetah is one of the world’s well-known cats! They are

known for their speed, which can be up to 75 mph! This large catis great at running and catching it’s prey. It’s slim body helps it gainspeed quickly, and the cheetah easily makes it on the list of awe-some land animals!

The cheetah is a big cat. They can be up to four feet tall andweigh anywhere from 70 to 140 pounds. They are great at hiding

too! Cheetahs havesandy fur that helpsthem blend into theirgrassland environ-ment. On their fur,they have black spotsto help conceal theirbodies while theyhunt.

Cheetahs stay ingenerally the samearea. Females tend torange over a largearea, while malesmark their own terri-tory in between thefemale ranges. Cubsstay with their moth-ers when they learnto hunt at four to sixweeks.

Cheetahs hunt ei-ther alone or ingroups. Cheetahs

use exceptionally keen eyesight to scan their grassland environ-ment for signs of prey. This big cat is a daylight hunter. Their usualprey varies by region, but a few examples are the Thompson’sgazelle, the impala, antelope, hares, and even wild sheep! Re-gions include parts of Iran and most of Africa.

The cheetah is currently labeled as vulnerable. Due to their frag-ile reproduction, cheetahs don’t produce many cubs in captivity.This makes it hard to raise the population when it becomes low. In1900, there were over 100,000 cheetahs across their historicrange. Today, an estimated 9,000 to 12,000 cheetahs remain in thewild in Africa. In Iran, there are around 200 cheetahs living in smallisolated populations.

Did You Know?-In Ancient Egypt, cheetahs were a symbol for royalty!-The cheetah is the only big cat that cannot roar.-Cheetahs hunt for food during the day, unlike lions.-Cheetahs cannot climb trees!-Cheetahs only need to drink once every two or three days.-

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The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter.She was built by Great Lakes Engineering in River Rouge, Michigan.When she was launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest ship onNorth America’s Great Lakes at that time and she remains the largest tohave sunk there.

For seventeen years, the Fitzgerald carried taconite iron ore from minesnear Duluth, Minnesota to iron works in Detroit, Toledo and other GreatLakes ports. She set seasonal haul records six times.

One of her captains, Peter Pulcer was known for playing music day ornight over the ship’s intercom system while passing through the St. Clairand Detroit Rivers (between Lakes Huron andErie). He also entertained spectators at the SooLocks with a commentary about the ship!

The Fitzgerald was 729 feet in overall length.She could carry 25,400 tons of cargo and go at 14knots or about 16 miles per hour. She had a crewof 29.

Carrying a full cargo of ore pellets with CaptainErnest M. McSorley in command, the Fitzgeraldembarked from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluthon the afternoon of November 9, 1975. She wasgoing to a steel mill in Detroit. Joining a secondfreighter, the SS Arthur M. Anderson, the two werecaught in the midst of a severe winter storm onLake Superior on November 10, 1975. The windwas hurricane-force and the waves were up to 35feet high. Shortly after 7 p.m., the Fitzgerald sud-denly sank in Canadian waters 530 feet deep.They were approximately 17 miles from the en-trance to Whitefish Bay near Sault Ste. Marie,Michigan. Even though the Fitzgerald had reported

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being in trouble earlier, no distress signals were sent before she sank.The last message Captain McSorley sent to the SS Arthur M. Andersonwas “We are holding our own.” All of the crew perished.

The Fitzgerald is among the best-known vessels lost on the Great Lakesbut she is not alone on the Lake Superior seabed in that area. In the yearsbetween 1816, when the Invincible was lost, to the sinking of the Fitzger-ald in 1975, the Whitefish Point area has claimed at least 240 ships.

Gordon Lightfoot (a song writer) made it the subject of his 1976 songcalled “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

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St. Mary students participate in the Knights Of Columbus Spelling Bee Students at St. Mary Catholic School participated in a Regional level Knights’ of Columbus Spelling bee which was held at the school on Friday, November 14, 2014. There were two categories for eligible students. The first category was for students in grades fourth through sixth, and a second category for students in grades seventh through eighth. Individual class rooms held a practice spelling bee to get the students familiar with how a spelling bee works. Each class then had a “spell off” to determine the top three spellers for each grade. The spelling bee took place during the school day with two teachers, Mrs. Linda Mable, Ms. Jamie Meldrum, and a representative from the Knights, Mrs. Lisa Dallas, acting as judges for the event. The students in grades fourth to sixth grade competed first. “You could tell the kids were a little nervous’, said principal Veronica Kinsey. “For some of them, it was their first time participating in an event like this with their peers watching them.” Once the winner was determined for the first group, the seventh and eighth graders had their turn. The winner for the fourth to sixth grade was Brendan Schultz and the winner for the seventh to eighth grade was Ben Wittrup. Both boys will advance to the State level in March.

St. Mary students help make Christmas come true with donations Students at St. Mary Catholic School helped to fill Christmas Gift Baskets this Christmas by bringing in food and paper items. Each year the parish Men’s Club puts together 47 food baskets for those in need in the parish and community. St. Mary School helps to fill these baskets by donating canned goods, juice, cereal, and items like paper towels and toilet paper. Each grade is asked for a specific item, however we will take as many items as they would like to donate.

Mrs. Smyczynski, our preschool teacher, used the food drive to help her students learn to count to 100 by making a hundreds’ chart. This year the students brought in well over 2,000 pounds of food to help fill these baskets. “Each month the school has a First Friday Food Drive to help keep the shelves of the parish’s food pantry filled, but we collect full time for the months of November and December”, said principal Mrs. Veronica Kinsey. “We also adopt a family in need for Christmas by buying presents to be placed under the family’s Christmas tree. It is a way for each of us to give back.” Students are asked to do an extra chore around the house to earn extra money for this project.

St. Mary students learn about Gingerbread Boy & make gingerbread houses The preschool students at St. Mary Catholic School have been learning about compare and contrast in literature. Students listened to several versions of the Gingerbread Boy. As they talked about how each story was different and yet the same, students voted on which version was their favorite. The final story their teacher, Mrs. Jenny Smyczynski read was Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. In the story the gingerbread boy is caught in a gingerbread house.Students made gingerbread houses to go along with all of the stories they

listened to. “They had such a good time making these houses,” said Mrs. Smyczynski. “They were so proud to show their parents and take them home.”

Preschoolers learn about Advent & performing kind acts St. Mary Catholic School’s Preschool stayed busy last month, preparing for Christmas during this season of Avent. Students learned that Advent is a time to prepare for the birth of Jesus by learning the story of Christmas and performing kind acts as gifts for Jesus. “I wanted the students to know that the kind acts we do for our family and friends are gifts of love that we give to Jesus,” said preschool teacher, Mrs. Jenny Smyczynski. “We also learned about the Angel coming to tell about the birth of Jesus.” Students made angels out of tissue paper to help reinforce the lesson.

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Farming potatoes is a huge business in the United States. Idaho isthe largest producer contributing one third of the country’s total har-vest. The most popular consumed potato variety in the U.S. is theRusset Burbank or ‘Idaho’ potato which was developed by Luther Bur-bank in 1871. Potatoes however, are grown in all 50 states and in125 countries around the world. The potato is the fourth most im-portant crop in the world after wheat, rice and corn. The averageAmerican eats approximately 124 pounds of potatoes each year!

There are more than 400 varieties of potatoes. The two main typesof potatoes are waxy and floury. Waxy potatoes are great for saladsor any dish where you want the potato to keep their shape after cook-ing. Floury potatoes work better if you want fluffy potato dishes likemashed potatoes.

Potatoes are grown from small potato tubers called seed potatoes.Farmers usually set aside around five to fifteen percent of their potatoharvest for replanting. Seed potatoes can also be purchased fromcommercial suppliers.

Potatoes are grown on welldrained land and prefer a moistacidic soil. The plants also like tobe fertilized. Many potato growersapply pesticides after planting toprevent pests like late blight andpotato beetles. Blight is a fungusthat appears in high humidity andspreads over potato leaves caus-ing it to die. Careful steps need tobe taken to not contaminategroundwater.

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Cross country skiing is a fun winter sport that is easy to get involvedin, especially when you live in a place that gets lots of snow! Thesnow can be in a school field, your back yard or some trails. Crosscountry skiing also has many health benefits. It is an aerobic exerciseand works the muscles in your legs, back, chest and stomach. Plus,its a fun social activity with your family and friends.

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The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable human-madesatellite that orbits Earth at an altitude of between 205 miles and270 miles. It comprises pressurized modules for astronauts to livein, external trusses for propulsion, solar arrays for power and manyother amazing features.

The first part of the ISS sent to space was the module calledZarya. It was launched into space on a Russian Proton rocket onNovember 20th, 1998. Zarya provided propulsion, attitude control,communications and electrical power.

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The ISS has been visited by astronauts and cosmonauts from 15different nations.

On average the ISS travels at 17,227 miles per hour. The spacestation completes 15.5 orbits per day which means that the crewmembers on board the station experience a sunrise or sunset every92 minutes!

The ISS program is a joint project that involves 5 space agen-cies. NASA of the USA, Roskosmos of Russia, JAXA of Japan, CSAof Canada and ESA made up of agencies from France, Brazil,Malaysia, South Korea and Italy.

With the naked eye, the ISS can be seen from nearly every areaof Earth at some point in time, it appears as a slow moving brightwhite dot in the night sky.

You can look for the space station in the sky at night by lookingup and giving your location to:

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings

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Ella and Kera by Kaya Srock Fluffie and cheeseball by Grant Kargel

Joe’s Big Shoes by Sara Leach Allison and Friends by Olivia Ellens

Kreeger Elementary third graders learn about & draw comic strips Mrs. Phillips’ and Mrs. Feig’s third-grade students at Kreeger Elementary recently explored the genre of comics. Some of them in the RIT Class created their own comic strips. This effort involves drawing characters, creating dialogue, and making up a story. The RIT Class is composed of a mixture of students from the two classrooms. Here is a sampling of the comic strips.

The students in Mrs. Phillips’ and Mrs. Feig’s classrooms enjoy reading each edition of Kids’ World News, and look forward to the next one. “Thank you for creating a fantastic, fun newspaper for children,” they stated in a letter.


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Faith McDevitt, Southeast Elementary School Faith McDevitt, age 10, is a fifth grader at Southeast Elementary in Howell. Like many kids, she was looking forward to Christmas and the various holiday activities. One of her plans was to serve a shift as a bell ringer for The Salvation Army of Livingston County. This was something she’d done the year before, and enjoyed. In addition, she had been saving her change all year to make her own donation to the Army’s annual Red Kettle Campaign. However, just days before her scheduled shift, Faith had to be admitted to Mott’s Children’s Hospital for an emergency surgical procedure. The timing was devastating for Faith. Not only would she miss her bell-ringing shift, but several other Christmas events as well. These included a craft-making night, her last Winterfest at school, an ugly sweater party, and the family’s cookie-making day. While she was disappointed about missing those school and family activities, she still wanted to salvage her plans to ‘ring the bell.’ With that in mind, Faith convinced her mother to call and reschedule her shift. Upon speaking with her mother and realizing that Faith would not be discharged from the hospital and fully healed in time to safely ring the bell, The Salvation Army decided to take the kettle to her! On Dec. 11 Envoy Prezza Morrison, the Corps Administrator for the county unit, presented the young lady with the tools of the trade: a bright red bell and a mini-red kettle. Faith, in turn, emptied a jar filled with over $100 into the kettle. Faith is the daughter of Kevin & Theresa McDevitt of Howell. Her favorite school subject is math, and she enjoys baking and making crafts. When she

grows up, she’d like to be a baker. If you know of a student (K thru 6th grade) worthy of being recognized for Caughtcha Doing Something Great, who attends a public or private school in Livingston County or is a county resident being home schooled, submit their name and the reasons for your recommendation to: [email protected] or mail them to: Steve Horton, PO Box 937, Fowlerville MI 48836. Phone number is 517-223-8760.

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Shepherd of the Lakes students enjoy variety of indoor activities When the weather turns colder, students at Shepherd of the Lakes Lutheran in Brighton turn to indoor activities. Our students enjoy art class, sports, and science. Everyone is invited to

“Evening at Our Place” on Friday, February 13. The classrooms will be open for games and activities from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Wild Swan Theater will present Once Upon a Time, an engaging collection of skits of favorite children’s classics at 7:00pm. See sotlschool.com for more information.

In art class Erica Geisler shakes a dice to tell her what to draw as she creates a Picasso face.

First graders learn about hand washing as part of science.

Eighth graders Konrad and Eric work with force in science class.

Mia gets ready to serve.

Jackson shoots a free throw.

The cheerleaders encourage the

basketball team.

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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio on Oc-tober 4, 1822. His father died two months before his birth. He wasraised by his mother and her younger brother. Hayes ended upgraduating from Kenyon College as valedictorian of his class. Hethen graduated from Harvard Law School in 1845 and became asuccessful lawyer. His opposition to slavery drew him into the Re-publican Party.

He married Lucy Ware Webb of Chillicothe in 1852. She was agraduate of Cincinnati’s Wesleyan Women’s College. She was thefirst wife of a president to graduate from college. They eventuallybecame the parents of eight children.

Hayes offered his services when the Civil War began to the Stateof Ohio. He saw a lot of action during the war and rose to the rankof Major General. He was wounded in action during the war.While still in the Army, Hayes was elected to Congress but didn’ttake his seat until the Union had won the war.

Hayes was voted governor after his work in Congress. Afterbeing elected to a third term, the Republican Party chose him asits’ presidential candidate. He won the election only after a specialcommission had to decide on disputed electoral votes. He won byone vote. Since his election was so tension filled, he secretly tookthe oath of office on a Saturday, March 3, 1877 at the White House.

Known for his honesty and fairness, he renewed the respect forthe presidency. After one term as president, he retired to his homecalled Spiegel Grove, in Fremont, Ohio. From there he gave histime to help veterans receive their pensions, improved conditionsin prisons and promoted education for all children.

He died at the age of 70 in 1893.

Some of his key events while in office:• Reconstruction of the South ended in 1877. He withdrew Federaltroops from the South. This was as a result of the compromisethat came about from the deadlocked presidential election of 1876.• Resumption of the Specie Act. This act enforced the redemptionof U.S. dollars tendered after January 1, 1879 with gold.• Civil Service Reform. In 1877, President Hayes issued an exec-

Rutherford B. HayesOur 19th President (1877- 1881)

utive order that barred all federal employees from taking part inpolitical activities.• President Hayes signed a bill that, for the first time, allowedwomen attorneys to be allowed to appear before the United StatesSupreme Court.

Interesting Facts:• Of the five presidents who served in the Civil War, Hayes wasthe only one to be wounded.• Arriving in San Francisco on September 8, 1880, Hayes becamethe first president to visit the West Coast while in office.• Hayes was the first president to graduate from law school.• Mrs. Hayes was known as “Lemonade Lucy” because she re-fused to serve alcohol in the White House.• The first White House telephone was installed by Alexander Gra-ham Bell himself during the Hayes administration!• The first Easter egg roll on the White House lawn was conductedby Hayes and his wife.

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