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Happy New Year to you! It’s always fun to begin another year! Now that your backfrom your holiday vacation it’s back in the routine of eating healthy, getting plenty of restand being prepared for school the next day. Do you know what a resolution is? A New Year's resolution is a promise that you make

to yourself. Resolutions many people make have to do with eating healthy, exercise,saving money, improving grades, reading more books, helping others, making newfriends and a whole lot more! You can actually make a resolution at any time of theyear. It doesn’t just have to be on New Years.The practice of resolutions at the beginning of the year started a very long time ago.

The ancient Babylonians made promises to their gods at the start of each year. The Ro-mans began each year by making promises to the god Janus - That’s the god that Jan-uary is named after! At Kids’ World News, our resolution is to write a great paper for you to read every

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ChristmasMusical

The students at St.Joseph School in St.Johns recently performedtheir annual ChristmasMusical at the church.The students' moms anddads, grandmas andgrandpas, brothers andsisters and aunts and un-cles enjoyed the telling ofthe story about Jesus'sbirthday. A popular part ofthe performance is whena baby from one of theparish's families is given by the angel actor to the actorsplaying Mary and Joseph.St. Joseph School has two mu-sicals each year - a Christmas musical and a spring musi-cal. This Christmas musical was the 50th musical directedby Mrs. Poff. Her co-director, Mrs. Page-Hunter, has di-rected more than 50 musicals. The audience gave them avery nice applause to thank them for all of the wonderfulmusicals they have directed!

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Coasting Down the Hill

Frosty is the morning;But the sun is bright,

Flooding all the landscapeWith its golden light.

Hark the sounds of laughterAnd the voices shrill!See the happy childrenCoasting down the hill.

There are Tom and Charley,And their sister Nell;

There are John and Willie,Kate and Isabel -

Eyes with pleasure beaming,Cheeks with health aglow;Bless the merry children,

Trudging through the snow!Now I hear them shouting,"Ready! Clear the track!"

Down the slope they're rushing,Now they're trotting back.

Full of fun and frolic,Thus they come and go.

Coasting down the hillside,Trudging through the snow.

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This year marked the 14th Annual Veterans Celebration hosted by MHT School on Novem-ber 21, 2014. Almost two hundred veterans, their spouses, and auxiliary members from Fowlerand surrounding areas were in attendance. The event began with Mass and was followed bya breakfast prepared by volunteer parents and staff and then served by the 8th grade stu-dents. After breakfast, a flag ceremony was conducted followed by student entertainment.This year each class either sang a patriotic song or performed a skit. As an additional tokenof appreciation for their many sacrifices, every year the students work hard on a small keep-sake for the Veterans to take home. God Bless our Veterans and thank you for your manyyears of service!

Mrs. Tarleton’s 3rd and 4th grade studentscompleted a STEM (Science, Technology, Engi-neering and Math) Challenge featuring cata-pults. They first discussed the history andmodern day uses of catapults. The class dividedinto small groups and began sketching their cat-apult. The students constructed a working cata-pult using small and large craft sticks, small cupsand rubber bands. They had to perform threetasks which included longest distance, accuracyand launching to fly at a specific height. The 3rdand 4th graders were given lab sheets wherethey could keep track of their data. They usedthis information to analyze their success or lackof success for their catapults. The studentslearned a lot and had fun with this lab!

The MHT students and staff along with Father Den-nis celebrated Las Posadas. Las Posadas is a Mexi-can Christmas celebration. The celebration observesMary and Joseph’s difficult journey from Nazareth toBethlehem in search of a warm place to stay the night.The students walked classroom to classroom singingsongs and looking for a place to “stay”. They ended inthe cafeteria where they kept singing and the festivitiesbegan. Father Dennis treated the students and gueststo tacos and other goodies. The students took turnstrying to break the three large star shaped piñataswhich were filled with candy. The students and guestshad lots of fun!! Pictured is Nolan Datema trying tobreak a piñata.

Congratulations to the November St.Joseph School of Pewamo Citizens of theMonth, (front) 3rd grader, Collin Schneider,1st grader, Maria Klein, 2nd grader, CoryReddin, (back) 4th grader, Luke Smith, 7thgrader, Ethan Smith, 8th grader, Evan The-len, 5th grader, Drew Greer.

FAMILY FUNDRAISER

Thanks to everyone at St. Joseph School inPewamo who made a family in need have avery Merry Christmas! Including thefundraiser which took place on December11th, along with donations, over $1,000 wasraised towards the purchasing of clothes,gifts, food, and SCRIP to Meijer. The teachersof St. Joseph School took on the responsibil-ity of purchasing the items and wrappingthem. They were delivered this past week toa very grateful family.

Congratulations to St. Joseph School ofPewamo's Honor Roll Students.

HIGH HONORS:

6th Grade-Julia Esch, Nathan George, LilyHafner, Amelia Smith, Faith Spitzley, Jacob The-len, Mariah Thelen

7th Grade-Isabelle Droste, Aubrey George, Cai-ley George, Paige Hengesbach, Ryan Kramer,Nathen Martin, Anna Schafer, Zoie Schafer,Cameron Schmitz, Ethan Smith, Kyle Stump,Keegan Smith

8th Grade-Grace Huhn, Turner Pline, MadisonSimon, Evan Thelen, Kylie Thelen

HONORS:6th Grade-Zachary Simon, Claudia Smith

Congratulations tothe November St.Joseph School of Pe-wamo Student of theMonth, Fifth Grader,Brooke Kramer.Brooke's parents areNick and Kim Kramer.Brooke received a cer-tificate, $10 and apizza lunch.


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The InternationalSpace Station

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 called

Zarya. It was launched into space on a Russian Proton rocket onNovember 20th, 1998. Zarya provided propulsion, attitude control,communications and electrical power.Two weeks later, NASA launched a module called Unity aboard

the Space Shuttle Endeavour, successfully attaching it to the Zaryamodule. The Unity module was equipped with all the requirementsfor long-term human living.The ISS is now the largest artificial body in orbit. It is 357 feet in

length, making the space station's area span about the size of anAmerican football field. The space station weighs nearly 925,000pounds! It has 2 bathrooms, a gym and more room than a six bed-room house!The ISS was built to be a space environment research laboratory

and observatory, where crew members could conduct experimentsin many scientific fields including: biology, human biology, physics,astronomy, and meteorology.The station also provides valuable opportunities to test space-

craft systems and equipment and act as a staging base for possi-ble missions to the Moon or Mars.The first ISS crew mission called 'Expedition 1' launched on a

Russian Soyuz, October 31, 2000. The three Russian cosmonautsdocked and entered the ISS on November 2nd, 2000. The spacestation has been continuously occupied since, making it the longestcontinuous human presence in space.

The ISS has been visited by astronauts and cosmonauts from 15different nations. On average the ISS travels at 17,227 miles per hour. The space

station 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 area

of 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 looking

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Sixth Grade Science teachers Kari Roy and Mary Crowley are partici-pants in the DNR “Salmon in the Classroom” program. Both teachers at-tended training at the DNR Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, Michigan onNovember 5th and drove 200 salmon eggs back to school. The eggs began hatching around Thanksgiving. We currently have ap-

proximately 183 hatched salmon in the "sac fry" stage. The "sac fry" stageis where the salmon feed off of their yolk sac and are beginning to swim for-ward and backward. Recently Steve Oberg from Preuss’ Pets in Lansing came to Herbison

Woods to teach teachers, students, custodians and parents about how tocare for our aquarium. He instructed us on how to test the water quality forpH, nitrites, nitrates and ammonia. He also taught us how to change thewater and maintain healthy water for a suitable environment for our salmon.The next stage we are looking forward to is the "parr stage".

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performed their annual holiday program on Monday, December8th. The program had a snow flake theme and featured a skitalong with several catchy jingles sung by students in grades KD-4th. As an added bonus, the 5th grade beginning band studentsalso performed their first ever band concert (which featured sev-eral familiar holiday tunes) in front of a full house! Thank you toMrs. Barclay for arranging this night and thank you to all the par-ents, friends and family who came out in support our kids and ourmusic program! Happy Holidays!

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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 a

graduate 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 State

of 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. After

being 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 for

the 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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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 or

night 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 Captain

Ernest 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 song

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At Clarksville Elementary, students areearning the answer to an often-asked question,

“Why do we have to learn math?”November 25th was Career Day!

The Christmas Spirit is alive here at St.Mary’s School. It started with the St. Marystudents saying prayers for all during theSeason of Advent, an Out-of-Dress CodeFood Drive, the Christmas Giving Tree andcontinued right on through the decorating ofthe church Christmas trees. With the help of St. Mary’s students &

parish, we were able to present food, beau-tiful cards, prayers & gifts to many in need.Besides our home bound & nursing home re-cipients, we were also able to serve Toys forTots Organization, Austin's House, ClintonCounty Capital Area Community Servicesand to the Wedgwood Christian Youth &Family Services.Inspired by their teachers, the creative stu-

dents of St. Mary School used the followingChristmas themes to adorn the trees in thechurch: Kindergarten~Wreaths, 1stGrade~Shepherds & Sheep, 2ndGrade~Traditional St. Nick with filled woodenshoes, 3rd Grade~Christmas Mice, 4thGrade~The Nativity Story, 5thGrade~Frosted Ornaments, and 6thGrade~Stars of the East. Thanks to all who helped celebrate God’s

goodness and praise Him for the opportunityof sharing the love of Jesus Christ with manyyoung people and families. Your love andgenerosity is greatly appreciated!

School Nutritionist, Mrs. Grant,uses math to calculate the num-ber of calories per meal andgrams of protein, fat and sodiumper serving. When planningmeals she also must total up howmuch of each ingredient isneeded and figure out what thecost will be to serve meals forhundreds of children every schoolday.

Mrs. Gillott is a Continuous Im-provement Specialist from Car-grill. One of her jobs is to doublecheck the temperature of theeggs they cook and package forfood service programs all aroundthe state. Cooking eggs until setdestroys harmful bacteria. Theyolk of an egg will set whenheated to between 149 and 158°Fahrenheit.

Fire Chief Cronk and his team dis-cuss how math is used to put out fires.Firefighters calculate how much waterwill be needed to put out a house fireby estimating the circumference of thehouse. They know that most fire truckscan hold 400 to 500 gallons of water.These two figures determine howmany trucks might be called to put outthe fire.

Our own 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Ray-mond, used math when she drove motorcoach tours in Alaska. It is important tobe able to figure out the distance you willtravel, how many gallons of gas that dis-tance will take traveling at what rate ofspeed and how much that gas is goingto cost. Once you know that you cansolve the problem of how much tocharge tourists in addition to your ownwages to make a profit!

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Play The Cello!The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or 'cello (thec is pronounced as the ch in "cheese"), is a bowed stringed in-strument and the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. Aperson who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is popular inmany capacities: as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and alsoas a foundation of the modern orchestral sound.The cello is larger than the violin or the viola but smaller than thedouble bass. Like the other members of the violin family, the cellohas four strings. It is played in an upright position, held by theknees of a seated musician, resting on a spike called

the endpin. The player draws the bowhorizontallyacross the strings, making them vi-

brate and producing sound.The cello developed from the bass violin, first used by Monteverdi. The inven-

tion of wire-wound strings around 1660 in Bologna, allowed for a finer bass sound.Bolognese makers used this new technol-ogy to create the cello, a somewhatsmaller instrument than the bass violin andsuitable for solos due to the timbre of theinstrument and the fact that the smallersize made it easier to play virtuosic pas-sages. Around 1700, Italian players popularizedthe cello in northern Europe, although thebass violin continued to be used for an-other two decades in France and England. The cello is actually part of the viola da

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

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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

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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.

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• Lake Saimaa is the largest lake in Finland.• The Bronze Age burial site of Sammallah Denmnaki is a WorldHeritage site.• The sauna has been used in Finland for over two thousand years.• The kantele (similar to a zither) is Finland's oldest musical instru-ment. • Turku used to be the capital and is Finland's oldest city. In fact,Finland’s first university was founded in Turku in 1640.• Amethysts (purple precious stones) are mined in the Lappish vil-lage of Pelkosen-niem.• The Aurora Bore-alis are a light phe-nomena that light upthe sky in the north-ern polar regionsduring the darkesttimes of the year.The Northern Lightscan be yellowishgreen and red, butalso blue and violet,and they brighten up the night sky in the Finnish Lapland in winter-time with an amazing light show. The Northern Lights can movefrom east to west, they can appear as rays, or they can be fast-mov-ing, pulsing shapes. Their colors and shapes change rapidly, andthey can provide as much light as a full moon. Winter in this areais dark between the months of November and January where thesun does not rise above the horizon. This dark northern wintertimeis known as the Polar Night (the Finnish call it “kaamos”) and in thisdarkness, the Northern Lights look magical.

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Finland• Finland is the fifth largest country and themost sparsely populated country in Eu-rope.• Finland is three times the size of Ohioand shares its borders with Sweden, Nor-way and Russia. • Around two-thirds of Finland is covered inheavy forest and about a one-tenth bywater. • In the far north, the sun does not set foraround 10 weeks during the 'White Nights'of summer, while in winter it does not riseabove the horizon for nearly eight weeks.• Industries: metals and metal products,electronics, machinery and scientific in-struments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper,foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing.• Natural resources: timber, iron ore, cop-per, lead, zinc, chromite, nickel, gold, sil-ver, limestone.• The capital and largest city is Helsinki. It became Finland’s cap-ital in 1812. • Finland is a bilingual country, both Finnish and Swedish are theofficial languages.• The government is an Independent Democratic Republic since1917. Their president is elected for a six year term. They were thefirst country in Europe who allowed women to vote. The presi-dent of Finland is Sauli Niinistö since 2012.• The Finnish children believe that Father Christmas and MotherChristmas live on a mountain called Korvatunturi in Finnish Lap-land.

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