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Dear Boomer Bear, Happy Valentine’s Day! You’re a good friend to me, and I like you very, very much. I really enjoy writing…stories for Bear Essential News. I have fun reading your newspaper every month. It’s full of excitement and fun. I also enjoy doing the (front cover) Seek ’N Find! from B.E. Happy Valentine’s Day to you, B.E.! That’s such a great card you created for me. I like it so much that I put it up in my office! Enjoy all those candied hearts and the little messages written on ’em!
Dear Boomer,
After (reading your feature on drones) and deep consideration, I think drones are helpful in many ways. Police officers use helicopters to catch criminals. They waste a lot of money to ensure that they find (the criminals). A cheaper alternative is to use drones. They are small, unexpected and affordable. Thieves won’t know what hit ’em until they’re behind bars! yours truly, B.W. Dear B.W., What a great use for drone technology! It would help keep officers safe while giving them the element of surprise. That drone feature was so fun to research and write. Thanks for sending in your entry and cool ideas!
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Here’s what’s cooking in this issue of Bear Essential News!
G s ’ a Mon KITCHEN Chef Mona
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ood food connects us to each other, to our community and even our entire planet! To help bring people together, ASU and its partners are putting on the Sustainability Solutions Festival this month! In the middle of this issue of Bear Essential is a very special sustainability section—Mona’s Kitchen. Help Chef Mona get the key ingredients she needs for her famous Three Sisters Soup.
Learn about some of the far-away places where your food originates from. Cultivated corn, for example, dates back 10,000 years ago! And in these modern times, some food that you buy makes a remarkable journey from the farm to your fork and involves many people along the way. Figure out where you can get the ingredients Chef Mona needs, how you’re going to get there and even (as an extra challenge) how long your errands around town are going to take. Then check out some family friendly events of February’s Sustainability Solutions Festival that are being put on to bring our community together!
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ASU and UofA Get New Head Football Coaches Within the last couple of months, ASU and the UofA have named new head football coaches. Former NFL head coach-turned-ESPN analyst Herm Edwards takes over the Sun Devil program while college coach Kevin Sumlin will head up the Wildcats. Both are the first African American head football coaches of these two programs! Edwards, 63, was head coach for the New York Jets and then the Kansas City Chiefs from 2001 until 2009. Both of his teams had losing records. Edwards entered broadcasting as a football ANALYST for ESPN before being named ASU’s new head coach in December. ASU President Michael Crow and Athletic Director Ray Anderson have high hopes that Edwards will help the university take its next big step in athletics. They want to attract top-notch players and to have more players graduate. And they want championship-level teams. Edwards has broader goals for his players.
“It’s about winning football games—that is a fact—but it’s really using football to build men,” he said in his first press conference as head coach. “So when they leave this university…that these guys are equipped to deal with what’s out there. With all the issues that we have in this world…they’ll be good fathers; they’ll be good men; they’ll be good husbands; they’ll be good citizens.” On Jan. 14, UofA Athletic Director Dave Heeke announced that Sumlin would be the new Wildcats head football coach. Sumlin successfully headed up University of Houston for four seasons before leaving to coach Texas A&M for six winning seasons. Sumlin, 53, takes over a young, SCRAPPY Wildcats team, which had 61 freshmen on it. He says he looks forward to building on this “strong foundation.”
Come Celebrate Festival of Books’ 10th Year! Something really big is coming here in early March, and it offers something for just about everyone! On March 10 and 11, much of the University of Arizona campus will be filled by the Tucson Festival of Books, “where words and imagination come to life!” This time around, festival committee members and a small army of volunteers are making this year’s TFOB extra special to celebrate its 10th year! This is Arizona’s largest book festival and also includes Science City, which occupies the west section of the UofA Mall starting at Cherry Avenue. While Science City offers a MIND-BOGGLING array of handson STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities for young and old, the literary side of the festival offers even more! The idea started maybe a dozen or so years ago, while two of the TFOB founders, Bill and Brenda Viner, were on vacation in Southern California. With their good college friends, they attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books a few years in a row. “We thought that Tucson was ready for this kind of community event,” recalls Brenda Viner, steering committee chairperson for this year’s festival. “We quickly
got together the other founders (John Humenik, Frank Farias and Bruce Beach).” Each year, a different desert animal is illustrated with letters as the new mascot. A gila monster was the first critter made from letters, and that first festival attracted about 50,000 visitors! For its 10th, the mascot is this coyote! These days, TFOB attracts about 135,000 people of all ages. Hundreds of well-known authors and illustrators come to share their INSIGHT with guests. The festival is a free event, but you’ll have to pay for your food, and there are tons of great books for sale. To make this year really rock, the committee has been planning for the last 18 months. Viner’s favorite part is the excitement of the kick-off on Saturday at 9:30. Be in the big children’s parade starting over by the UofA BookStore! The Stocker Foundation will give away 5,000 kids books in the children’s area, you’ll find the fun and fabulous Bear Essential tent there, plus there’s a teen area also with a big book giveaway, stages with fun entertainment, and a breathtaking literary circus will perform near Cherry. Also making a return is the loud and lively American Indian Pavilion in the courtyard of the Main Library. So much fun for everyone!
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DACA and Shutdown If you feel like you’ve only heard the adults around you talking about politics lately, you are almost certainly not alone. Our representatives in Washington, D.C., have been making some big headlines lately, including shutting down the government for three days in January. Our lawmakers disagree on a number of issues these days, and these disagreements led to the recent shutdown. One of the main sources of tension between Congressional Democrats and Republicans was a program known as DACA. This stands for DEFERRED Action for Childhood Arrivals. After Congress failed to pass the
Fact Box: • 100 people serve in the United States Senate • 435 people serve in the United States House of Representatives • Last government shutdown: 2013 • DACA recipients: Approximately 700,000
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Finding Treasure in the Heart of Tucson by Reporter Ruby Amick, Homeschool
It’s an Honor to Play in this Band by Reporter Sienna Savastano, Tucson Country Day School On the first day of practice, I was very nervous since The University of I had only played trumpet for about a year. There were Arizona Outreach Honor seven trumpet players and about 50 people all together Band is for advanced in the band. middle school and ninthWe practice once a week on Saturdays. Rehearsal grade students. In the starts at 8:30 a.m. We start by playing a choral and band, there are UofA some scales. After the warm-up, we are sent to students who are section sectionals where we practice parts of our music that leaders. These leaders need to be worked on. After sectionals, the whole band help their sections meets in the rehearsal room, and we practice all of the (trumpets, clarinets, flutes, music as a whole band. This is my favorite part—hearing etc.) learn the music so all of the music come together is amazing. they can be prepared for the concert. At the end of the semester, there is a big concert in I joined the Honor Band playing trumpet almost three months ago. I was very nervous for the audition because Crowder Hall at the UofA. I wasn’t nervous then. I was very excited. The stage was big and the lights were big. I had never auditioned for something so important. I had to play three scales chosen by the judge, one Chromatic I love performing, and I was sad when the concert was over. I wanted to do it again. I will audition for Honor scale and a song I chose. A couple of days later, the Band again on Feb. 10. I will be scoring higher in my director of the band would email to let you know if you chair position for trumpet. I am excited for the audition! got in or not. I was excited when I heard that I got in.
Visit the Children’s Museum Tucson by Reporter Rori L. Divijak, Quail Run Elementary Have you ever been to the Children’s Museum Tucson? If not, you should consider going soon. The Children’s Museum is amazing and is a very fun place for kids to play while learning something too. There are fourteen themed rooms at the museum and even though I liked them all, two were my favorites. The first is Bodyology which is a place where you get food off pretend trees food you shop for in a store and you even checkout and pay for. Bodyology also helps you learn about your five senses. Another of my favorite rooms is Investigation Station. While in Investigation Station you can put a fuzz ball or a
scarf into a tube and it will come flying out above your head. Or you can jump on a tire and see how high you can get a ball. There are three skill levels, and you can even challenge your friends to see who will get the ball to the top first. There are many more rooms of fun and learning waiting for you at the Children’s Museum Tucson.
Wulfenite: photograph by Jeff Scovil
people from all over the world. The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show has two separate events that focus on kids. About 3,000 elementary students are invited to attend the show yearly and are given a special opportunity to see the exhibits and shop with dealers. Additionally, the show has a designated Jr. Education area where University of Arizona Society of Earth Science students share earth science information, answer questions, and offer hands on activities. More than 2,000 children of all ages visit this area yearly. The Society and Show Committee invite all students to attend the Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase—be part of the yearly treasure hunt! For more information about the show visit: www.tgms.org.
As the Tucson Gem Mineral and Fossil Showcase arrives, the streets become packed with curious minds of all ages. Originating in Tucson, in 1955, this is the oldest, largest, and most admired gem and mineral show in the world, enjoying international status since the 1970s. Shoppers and collectors come from around the globe to sell and find fascinating new collectables, jewelry items, fossils, stones and more, making it the world’s greatest treasure hunt. The Tucson Gem show includes more than 40 different shows at dozens of locations around the city. The mix is slightly different every year resulting in repeat visitors, and most excitingly much of the show is open to the public for free admission. It’s so big, it packs the downtown Tucson Convention Center and nearby areas of the city through its final week, bringing in thousands of
Meet the Voice of the Wildcats by Reporter MaryRuth Kane Acacia Elementary Imagine listening to a football game on the radio and being transported to that very game. Brian Jeffries has been transporting listeners for 30 years for the University of Arizona. As a young boy he listened to games on the radio, and he says, “It was fascinating to hear the radio announcers describe games from cities all around the country.” In 1975, he started his career as a rock and roll disc jockey and sports reporter.
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Be Your Own Valentine! A column on mental health by Cathexis, 6280 E. Pima Street, Suite 100 On Valentine's Day, we get to celebrate our friends and family that we love by giving them cards, chocolates, gifts and hugs. It’s always great to show our love and friendship for other people, but we often forget that it is just as important to love ourselves. So this Valentine’s Day, try to focus on the things about yourself that you like the most! Maybe you are kind, funny, loving to your parents, a loyal friend or really good at a sport or subject at school. It doesn't matter what those things are—what’s important is that you learn to appreciate the amazing person that you are. You’ll find that the more you like yourself, the easier it will be to respect and be good to others.
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The Things I Like About Myself! Start at the top of the Heart Maze and find things you like about yourself. For the last one at the end of the maze, write in something you really like about yourself!
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I try to be kind! I play sports!
I work hard at school!
For Parents:
Teaching Self Love to Kids Is Vital As parents, we make it a priority to teach our children the importance of showing love, kindness and respect for those they care about. From when they are toddlers to the time they leave the nest, we stress the need to treat people well. This is beneficial not only for the other people, but also for ourselves—it helps to ensure that good people will want to be part of our lives. What may get lost in this message is the need to love and respect
I like to draw or perform!
I am _________!
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ourselves. This can be a difficult journey, but very much worth pursuing. As we gain acceptance and respect for who we are—warts and all—the more naturally inclined we will be to treat others well. This starts a virtuous cycle of increased happiness for ourselves and the people in our lives.
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Teacher name: _______________________ School: _____________________________ Your name: __________________________ Grade: ______ Phone: _________________
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nes Ruan relishes the unique personalities of her students. Ruan teaches a fourth/fifth-grade combination class at Mesa Verde Elementary. “I like to tell them to be themselves,” says Ruan. “I have a quirky group. I can’t wait to see how they’ll grow up.” Ruan started with her current group of students halfway through last year when their teacher fell ill. She looped with those third/fourthgraders into this year. She says that allowed her to start this school year with a good handle on where the kids were coming from and where they are heading. “I enjoy working with students and watching them grow—academically and socially,” Ruan says. Angelina V. nominated her teacher. She and her classmates appreciate the treats that they get at the end of the week and the attention they receive throughout from their teacher. “She gets us computer programs that no one else in the school has,” writes Angelina. “She picks out novels...that are between 4th- and 5th-grade level. She knows her students very well.” Ruan says that her favorite subjects to teach are social studies and math. “I’ve always loved social studies,” says Ruan, but
admits, “as a student, I struggled with math.” Her own past difficulties with math make the subject one of her favorite ones to teach! “I enjoy helping the students succeed and master (math),” says Ruan. When they get it, they learn that “it feels great to master a new skill,” she explains. The ability to relate to her students means that she shares a lot with them, and vice versa. Ruan says she has her own fourth-grade picture hanging in her classroom. Ruan is a Tucson native who attended the UofA. She has two children—a middle school-aged son and a younger daughter. She says she spends much of her free time with her kids and enjoys watching them play sports. “My hobby is being a mom right now,” Ruan says.
Fun Facts: Substitution Play: Ruan was a substitute teacher before she took on her own classroom at Mesa Verde Elementary. Family Ties: Ruan's daughter attends Mesa Verde. She says it can be handy to be at the same school for things like forgotten lunch money.
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Hi everyone! I’m Chef Mona. When you sit down to eat a delicious meal, do you ever think about all the people that helped to make it? I sure do. The food served from my kitchen makes an incredible journey from the farm to your fork, and it involves many important people along the way.
Most of the food we eat starts on a farm where farmers grow fruits and vegetables and raise livestock.
After a harvest, food is cleaned, prepared and packaged by people in a processing plant. Sometimes, you can buy farm-fresh food at a farmers’ market in your neighborhood, but usually it’s shipped to a grocery store or restaurants by train, truck, boat or plane.
At the grocery store, workers stock shelves with food for sale and a cashier will put the foods you purchase in a bag. When you eat at a local restaurant, your server will bring you a delicious meal made by a chef, like me!
I love how food connects all of the people in my neighborhood and community. When I cook with my friends and family, we share recipes and learn how to make new meals together. When we sit down to eat, we get to talk and laugh and have fun, too. Speaking of fun, today I’m getting ready for a festival in my neighborhood. I’m going to cook a special dish called Three Sisters Soup, my specialty that uses lots of local ingredients. This means I’m going to have a busy day traveling through the city to get everything I need for my soup. Come along with me as we visit a community garden, a farmers’ market and my restaurant, Mona’s Kitchen. We’ll learn how good food connects us to each other, to our community and even our entire planet!
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Welcome to the community garden, my favorite place to get fresh food. My friends and neighbors have worked hard to transform an empty lot into this beautiful space we all share to grow healthy and delicious foods and beautiful flowers and plants. Look around. You’ll find many innovative ways that people have discovered to grow vegetables and other plants in the middle of the city. Is there a community garden near you? My community garden is full of innovative strategies to grow good food in a small space. Maybe you can add one of these innovations to your garden to help it flourish! Can you find all the helpful garden innovations from the next page in my community garden? Circle them!
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BEE HOUSE: Bees have a very important job in any garden. As they search for nectar for food, they spread pollen from plant to plant. This helps plants like tomatoes, squash and orange trees to grow delicious fruit. Without bees and other pollinators we would not have many of the foods you like to eat every day. A bee house in your garden can attract these helpful creatures.
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COMPOST BIN: What do you do with your leftover food or parts of the plants you don’t use? If you have a compost bin in your garden, you can turn that leftover food into important nutrients for your soil. In a compost bin, food gets eaten by worms, insects, fungi and other organisms to create a rich, fertile soil that plants love.
OLLA: All plants need a good source of water. People around the world use ollas to keep their crops well-watered. An olla is a clay pot that is buried in the soil near the roots of a plant. It can be filled with water on a regular basis. Ollas slowly release water into the soil, where the roots of plants absorb it. Learn how to make your own olla in the back of this book! THE THREE SISTERS: When I have a tough job to do, I can always count on my friends to help me get it done. That’s the idea behind planting the “three sisters” – corn, beans and squash – together. The corn is tall and sturdy, helping to protect the beans as they grow. The squash keeps weeds away. And the beans keep the soil healthy. Native American farmers have grown the Three Sisters for hundreds of years, and together or separately they make delicious ingredients for meals. UPCYCLED GARDEN POTS: You can use almost anything to grow plants! You can use tea cups, old shoes, broken dresser drawers, even an old bathtub to plant things. It can add a lot of character to your garden and give you extra space to grow some of your favorite things. It’s also a great way to reuse something you’re not quite ready to let go.
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Did you know the food you eat was originally from somewhere else? If great tasting, fresh food is what you want, then a farmers’ market is the place for you! Each week, you’ll find an amazing variety of foods that have been grown by people right in your community. Although these delicious treats might come from a garden or home just around the corner or a farm a few miles outside of town, each has its own history from around the world. Explore the market and you’ll learn where many familiar foods were grown by farmers for the first time.
» Dark, leafy greens such as kale, cabbage and collards originated in southern Europe along
the Mediterranean Sea.
» In North America, strawberries, blueberries and raspberries grew in the wild before people
learned to farm them.
» The first wild apples grew in Central Asia. » People in southern Mexico began to cultivate corn 10,000 years ago. » Figs, dates and melons were grown by farmers throughout Africa for thousands of years. » Citrus such as oranges, lemons and grapefruit got its start in East Asia. » Potatoes were first grown in South America.
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Now that you’ve looked around, it’s time to shop! I have a budget of $7.00 and I need to get the ingredients below for the festival. Find all of the ingredients I need and see if I have enough money to get them all. If I have a little left over, we can treat ourselves to some churros! Mona’s Shopping List
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mona’s kitchen
Welcome to my restaurant, Mona’s Kitchen!
Chef Mona
A restaurant is a busy place with lots of busy people. Like the ingredients in a delicious meal, all of the people in the restaurant work together to create an amazing, cohesive experience. In the “front of the house,” the host greets our guests and helps them find a table, the bussers clear away dirty dishes and keeps the restaurant clean and tidy, and the servers treat every customer like a special friend. Behind the scenes, our “back of the house” crew prepares ingredients, washes dishes and cooks every meal to perfection! As a result, our customers always know they can count on us for good food and friendly service. The key to running a restaurant is teamwork and communication! While I stop by the kitchen to cook food for the festival, take a look at all the people in the restaurant, who do you see?
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Can you find these 12 words in the word search? BOWL CHEF CREW HERBS
KITCHEN MEAL OVEN POT
REFRIGERATOR SINK SPOON TEAMWORK
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As you can see, your community is made of many things that were planted, built or created at different times. The roads, sidewalks, parks, buildings, houses, trees, statues, murals, power lines – everything – play a role in our community and how we feel about where we live. In the space below, draw a picture of your neighborhood how it looks now. Then, think about what you would like to add or remove to make it better and more sustainable. How could different choices be good for people, the planet and the economy? Does it make us happier? Healthier? More fun? Safer? Add these ideas to your picture to show the innovative solutions to today’s challenges that will make tomorrow’s world a better place!
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Whew, it’s been a busy day! Everything is finally ready for our festival. Events like this bring the entire community together to share food and have fun. I love to meet up with old friends and make new ones too! Maybe you could organize a festival in your neighborhood!
Chef Mona
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Make an olla at home From a local hardware store, you will need:
» A small terra cotta flowerpot
(be sure it has a small hole in the bottom)
» A terra cotta saucer that will securely fit the top of the pot » Silicon caulk Instructions: Apply a thick bead of silicon caulk to the lip of the flowerpot. Place the saucer over the top of the flowerpot. Use additional caulk to create a good seal between the saucer and the flowerpot so that water will not leak out. Allow the silicon to dry (as directed by the instructions on the caulk container). Once the silicon has dried, turn the olla so that the hole in the bottom of the flowerpot faces up. Fill with water and test for leaks. Be prepared to apply more caulk, if needed. Once the olla holds water and the silicon has dried completely, your olla is ready to use. In your garden bed, bury the olla in a central spot leaving the top side with the hole above the soil. Fill with water regularly so the plants in your garden will have plenty of water to grow.
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Scien-Tastic! Hello! Lunch?
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It’s A Bird, It’s A Word, It’s A Noun!
actions, to discover how people learn. We are finding that one of the best ways to help people learn is to change what they see or hear. They need to hear words more often and in different ways. We work with toddlers who don’t have many words and we also work with grownups who struggle to learn words in college. It is exciting to be able to find ways to help people learn words.
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Meet the Scientist! Dr. Mary Alt works at The University of Arizona in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Some have called her “The Accidental Scientist.” When she was growing up, she didn’t know what she wanted to do. She started working as a teacher for children with Special Needs. All the children she worked with struggled to communicate. That’s when she decided to become a speech-language pathologist. She had lots of questions about the best way to help people with communication needs so she decided to get a PhD. As Dr. Alt started down the research path she realized she could use science to answer her own questions systematically, help people with communication needs, and have lots of fun.
What does an SLP do?
SLP stands for speech-language pathologist
H
ow many words do you know? Babies start out with no words. By the time they are two-years-old, they can say nearly 300 words. Grown-ups may know more than 20,000 words! Polyglots (look it up) can command three or four times that. The Oxford English dictionary defines over 600,000 words so you will never run out of new words to learn. Learning words is something we do for our whole life. I bet if you asked, your Abuela or Grandpa could tell you a new word she or he recently learned. Most of the time, people learn words without needing to try very hard. However, some people might not be able to say the words they want. They might not understand what people are saying to them. Imagine if you didn’t have the words to talk to your friends or family. It would make you feel sad or frustrated. Words are how we share our thoughts with other human beings or even with pets. Luckily, speech-language pathologists work with people who have trouble with words. Speech-language pathologists study the science behind word learning. “My lab is full of scientists who study ways to help people learn words,” says Dr. Mary Alt. You might think of scientists using microscopes or test tubes. We are scientists who use behaviors, or
Helps people communicate. Helps people learn words. Helps people learn to read and write. Helps people learn to speak clearly. Helps people with eating and swallowing. Helps people with thinking skills. Helps people with their voices.
Learn more at http://www.asha.org/publi “I have two birds!”. “My birds are blue.” “Do you see a bird in the tree?”
Contact Info: Mary Alt malt@email.arizona .edu Cecilia Figueroa (lab manager) cecilm@email.arizona.edu • Phone: 520-626-6885 Web: https://sites.google.com/email.arizona.edu/ l4lab/contact-us
Language In Action! These activities are all evidence-based ways to learn more words. Have lots of conversations and LISTEN. Children who start school with more words have often heard over 30,000,000 more words than children with fewer words. http://thirtymillionwords.org/tmw-initiative/ Every day, ask a friend, parent or grandparent to talk with you. Ask them to:
• Tell you about their favorite memory • Teach you how to do something new • Talk about their favorite book or movie • Tell you what they know about speech-language pathologists, and if they know anyone who has trouble communicating
Read. A lot! Take a break from your phone or TV, and spend 10 minutes or more reading, twice every day. Pick a new word to learn. Use the word in different ways: Look at the word, say the word, write the word, act out the word. See if you can do this for 5 different words. Links: https://sites.google.com/email.arizona.edu/l4lab
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For three years now the little Scien-Tastic bobcat has wandered the halls of U of A’s College of Science— nameless. He has built a moon garden, discovered that tree cookies are not delicious, solved the Gordian Knot, and chased big-horned sheep across Tiburón Island. He has worked hard to explain science to our readers and we thought it was time he had a name, so we asked Bear Essential News supporters to offer up suggestions, which they have done. Beginning January 15, please go to our web site—BearEssentialNews.com— and vote for the name that you think most fits the Scien-Tastic kitty so folks will stop calling him “Hey You.” The contest will appear on our home page and you may vote as many times as you want. The company offering the winning name will receive a special prize and you will have participated in a piece of University of Arizona history.
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STREET SMARTs! Pedestrian Safety for Big Kids Read the following safety tips, then use the code to decipher an increasingly important pedestrian message!
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Children under 10 should cross the street with an adult. It’s hard for kids to judge speed and distance of cars until age 10. Look left, right and left again when crossing the street. Never run or dart out into the street or cross between parked cars. Make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them and watch out for cars that are turning or backing up. It’s always best to walk on sidewalks or paths. If there are no sidewalks, walk facing traffic as far to the left as possible. Cross streets at corners, using traffic signals and crosswalks. Most injuries happen mid-block or someplace other than intersections.
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More Voice of the Wildcats Cont’d from page 7 Eventually, he became a play-by-play reporter for local high schools and small colleges. Growing up, three of his favorite broadcasters were Bill King, Bob Robertson and Jack Buck. However, he was most inspired by Ray Scott, who announced for the Green Bay Packers. Scott also announced for UofA football, which is where Jeffries learned and became the broadcaster he is today. Jeffries mentioned that it is very difficult to get into broadcasting. You must stay persistent and work hard. He says, “There are very few positions—130 college football teams.” He says that a broadcaster must be knowledgeable, willing to read a lot, stay upto-date on sports, listen to other broadcasters, and most importantly, get a good education. He says it’s challenging to be a play-byplay radio announcer. You must be confident, patient, persistent, and be able to take criticism. It’s important that you “realize that you can’t be perfect…but if you keep working hard at it you will be successful,” says Jeffries. A lot has happened in thirty years. In the Jeffries with MaryRuth past thirty years, Jeffries has noticed he uses less equipment, because technology has changed over the years. Also in 30 years, Jeffries has become the Voice of the Wildcats! Not only can he transport you to the football games with his vivid play-by-play descriptions, but he can transport you to the men’s basketball and baseball games. Even though he played basketball, because he was the tallest at his school, he admits that he wasn’t very good. However, he took his love of sports and made it so no matter where you are, the game could be heard.
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