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School is almost done and summer vacation is right around the corner. Congratulations on another great school year filled with fun, learning, friends, and creativity. Did you have a favorite subject, teacher, or project? Did you try new things this year – food, activities, helping around the house? Whatever it is, I hope it was a great year for you! I had a busy year too and it’s time for me to take a vacation. I will be traveling around and meeting new people this summer to get ready for great editions of the paper for you next school year. So while I’m on my “Buzzer Vacation”, remember to keep reading during the summer...magazines, comic books, chapter books, newspapers, or anything that interests you.
Archived Editions to find all of the past copies. They will be perfect for a really hot or rainy summer day. We will also be wishing our summer birthdays a Happy Birthday online. If you go on vacation and want to send me a postcard over the summer, or if you continue to draw original artwork, you can still use the Bee Published form if you want to have it appear in our September back-to-school edition. It will be so nice to hear about your summer break and see your colorful pictures. Have a great summer and I look forward to seeing you back at school in September.
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t’s easy to spend time with our friends through the school year when we see each other on the bus, at lunch, during recess, or in after school programs. But with the school year coming to an end, how are we planning to keep in touch with our friends over the summer? One of the most popular methods of communication in today’s world is through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Although it’s convenient to rely on social media to communicate, it does not improve our connections with our friends. Social media pulls our attention in too many directions, and it becomes a very distracting habit quickly. We end up spend-
ing too much time on social media instead of interacting with the people in the same room or at the same table as us! Although there are many drawbacks, social media can also be fun to use.
friend, and so on. When you receive the letter back, you can read about everyone’s fun and start another letter chain!
The following are suggestions to help you have a great summer with your friends without using social media.
Send a postcard
Communicate in person
If you go on vacation, spend the summer at camp, visit family over the summer, or stay close to home, send your friends a post card to tell them about it. If you create the post card yourself, you can personalize it with colors, pictures, and designs that your friend likes or that describe your summer so far!
Make plans to spend the day at each other’s houses, ride your bikes together, or even take a day trip to a park or the beach! Also, plan a few activities for you and your friend to do when they visit like baking cookies, playing outside, or watching a movie.
Catch up over the phone
Get a group of your friends together
Exchange phone numbers with your friends before you both leave on the last day of school, if you haven’t already. Then, set aside time to call your friends and talk on the phone! Don’t forget to reach out regularly too. Whether you talk once a day, once a week, or once a month, you’ll feel that your friendship is a lot stronger.
Plan a day to go to the zoo or a nature center, swim at a friend’s house, community pool, or swim club, go roller or ice skating, have a BBQ, or visit the aquarium!
Craft together
Write a letter
Make sure that you have your friends’ addresses to write letters over the summer. If you go on vacation, visit family, or go to an amusement park, write about it! Describe what you saw, smell, heard, tasted, and felt.
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For example, it is exciting to be able to share certain things like getting a new pet or finding a beautiful shell on the beach! However, it can become difficult to know when we are sharing too much on social media. By oversharing on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, we stop having true personal connections. Social media does not connect us with our friends as much as we may think it does. The best way to see for yourself how much better your friendships are without social media is to put it to the test. Challenge yourself and your friends this summer to keep in touch without social media!
You can create a letter chain too! Start a letter and mail it to a friend with instructions for how they should write their letter below yours and send it to another
Whether it’s sunny or rainy, you and your friends can spend the day crafting, coloring, drawing, or painting. When you are finished with your creations, exchange them with your friends or give them to a parent or grandparent to share the fun.
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What else makes monarch butterflies so unique?
By Laura Edwards
Monarch Butterfly
We see monarch butterflies in fields, trees, flowers, gardens, and even in our own backyards. It is easy to spot monarch butterflies because they are so colorful. Their wings are a vibrant shade of orange, their veins and the borders around their wings are black, and the spots on the borders of their wings are white. Some monarchs have orange at the tips of their wings too! However, they do not look like this when they are born. Monarch butterflies, as well as many other insects, go through a transformation process called metamorphosis. The four stages of metamorphosis for monarch butterflies are egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The first stage of their metamorphosis occurs when female monarchs lay their eggs on the leaves of a milkweed plant. Over a period of two to five weeks, female monarch butterflies lay between 300 and 500 eggs. The eggs typically take
between 3 and 12 days to hatch, but the amount of time can vary with the temperature. The hatched eggs become larva in the second stage of metamorphosis. The larva, which are called caterpillars, grow and eat milkweed leaves in this stage of metamorphosis. As the caterpillars grow, they become too big for their skin and need to shed it. During this stage, the caterpillars grow and shed their outer skin about five times! Caterpillars prepare for the third stage of metamorphosis by spinning a silk mat which they hold onto by their feet while hanging upside down from a twig or a branch. Once the caterpillars shed their skin for the final time, the covering that remains over is a green exoskeleton. This is called the pupa stage and it is the stage in which the adult butterfly forms. The fourth stage, and final step of the monarch butterflies’ metamorphosis, is emerging from the pupa as an adult butterfly!
✿ Monarchs can fly between 4 and 12
mph! ✿ Monarchs sit in the sun to warm up! They cannot fly if their wings are less than 86° F. ✿ Their wingspan varies between 8.9 to 10.2 centimeters (or 3.5 to 4 inches). ✿ The monarch butterfly can flap its wings between 5 and 12 times a second or 300 to 720 times a minute! ✿ The highest recorded height reached by a monarch butterfly is 11,000 feet! ✿ The milkweed plant that butterflies eat has a poisonous toxin, but monarch butterflies can store that toxin in their bodies! Therefore, monarchs have a terrible taste to their predators.
Digital Citizenship Use Technology to gather information, communicate, or just have fun.
By: Heather Wawrzyniak, Principal, Ashbrook Elementary School, Lumberton, NJ
Cross-reference all sources. Don’t just take their word for it.
Tech Talk: Time for a Chat Check Up You may have heard the character word, citizenship. Citizenship is defined as,“how someone interacts and contributes as part of a community.” Most of us consider our school, our town or city, and even our homes to be communities that we are a part of every day. We are surely a part of those communities, but did you know we are also a part of a larger community called the World Wide Web? We can con-
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nect to people all over the world, at anytime, thanks to technology. The average person spends close to three hours daily interacting with technology. Just like we need to spend time learning how to interact and contribute in the real world, as part of a community, there are also a set of rules that can help us interact and contribute responsibility to the digital world, called digital citizenship.
Respect other’s point of view on the internet. Accept what they say as meaningful and then explain why you disagree.
Give the author credit for the work you use.
Research a topic using all kinds of works.
Use caution when talking to people you do not know.
Maintain your privacy. Do not share personal information, and other private information.
Use privacy
settings.
Determine if the source is credible.
Stand against cyber bullying.
Talk to someone if you meet someone online or read something that disturbs you.
Utilize proper online etiquette.
A good digital citizen will follow these simple rules:
1. Treat others online with respect. Never bully!
2. Use digital tools to advance learning. 3. Protect personal information from others. 4. Determine if a source is credible or true. 5. Do NOT “talk” to people you do not know. 6. Tell someone if you read or see something online that alarms you in any way.
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Only access the technology when you are suppposed to. Ground rules may need to be set.
There are so many fun things you can do with technology. The digital world is very powerful, but as Spiderman once said, “With great power comes great responsibility!” Exercise good citizenship and practice good Internet safety. Being safe and being responsible is the best way to POWER UP your technology and POWER UP your digital citizenship.
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Follow these 4 guidelines so that you can have a more positive experience with messaging! It is easy to use all of the great ways to communicate with friends and have positive experiences! By: Jennifer Downing, 5th Grade Teacher, Fountain Woods Elementary School, Burlington Township, N.J.
Modern Communication: Let’s Keep It Positive!
Growing up in the past was different in many ways compared to the generation that is growing up today. One huge difference is how technology has changed the way you communicate with your friends! It is more complicated now in 2018. In earlier times, if you wanted to talk to a friend you had two choices: call them or go to their house. The 5th Graders said that they use mostly texting, Snapchat, Instagram, email and messaging on video games to talk. Most of them said that they rarely ever call someone and really talk to them. There are so many more ways to communicate with each other in 2018 then there used to be. Isn’t this a good thing? There is one problem though, most of the students said that they have had at least one bad
experience with these new methods of communicating. Here are the main ones that the students shared. Many said that conversations are not private. They said, for example, they may text a message to someone and then that person shares it with other people. This is embarrassing and usually causes hurt feelings and conflicts. Also, another big problem is the misuse of the texting or messaging just to, “prank”, someone. It becomes very frustrating for the victim. Another problem is when an argument happens when people type messages that are unkind, and it becomes an even worse conflict. Lastly, messages are often read or taken differently then what the sender meant to say, causing miscommunication.
Step 1: If you have something private or only meant for one per-
son to hear, then call them or go see them! It is not worth the risk of putting it in print. Anything you message can be copied and shared with others.
Step 2: Messaging is not a toy used to play jokes on people;
chances are they will find out who you are anyway. If you want to be mature enough to have devices, then you need to show responsibility!
Step 3: Don’t message anything that you would not say to someone directly. If you wouldn’t say it, don’t type it! Step 4: If your message might be hard to understand or too long, then call someone instead!
Lastly, why don’t we all make an extra effort to send a positive message every day to a friend or family member. Let’s take advantage of this awesome technology and make people smile. You can brighten someone’s day, one text at a time!
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Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry are co-founders of The Book Doctors, a company dedicated to helping authors get their books published. They are also co-authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How To Write It, Sell It, and Market It… Successfully (Workman, 2010). Arielle Eckstut has been a literary agent for over 20 years at The Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. She is now the agent of Newberry award winner, Kwame Alexander. She is also the author of nine books and the co-founder of the iconic brand, LittleMissMatched. David Henry Sterry is the best-selling author of 16 books, on a wide variety of subject including memoir, sports, YA fiction and reference. His first book has been translated into 10 languages and optioned by HBO, his latest book was featured on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review. They’ve taught their workshop on how to get published everywhere from Stanford University to Smith College. They have appeared everywhere from The New York Times to NPR’s Morning Edition to USA Today.
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Text/Talk
You are looking at plans for your phone. Plan A is $45/month for unlimited texting. Plan B is $15/month plus 2¢ per text or 15 + .02 (number of texts). Which is a better plan if you are going to text an average of 30 texts per day? 45 texts per day? 60 texts per day?
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You count 8,912 Monarch Butterflies on a branch. There are 25 trees in this area. It is estimated that the total number of butterflies in the area is 1,000 times as large as your sample.
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What is the estimated number of Monarch butterflies in this area?
Morse Code Message May 24th was Morse Code Day. On May 24, 1844, the first Morse code message was sent. Decode this secret message sent by Buzzer and your teachers.
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Text/Talk Answer: 30 texts/day: Plan B 45 texts/day: Plan B 60 texts/day: Plan A Solution: Convert texts/day to texts/month by
multiplying by 30. These numbers then become 900/1350/1800. Plug each of the number of texts into 15 + .02 (number of texts) and see if it is less than $45. Start with 1350 because it is the middle number and it will match one of the other plans. 15 + .02 (1350) = $42. So both of the first two quantity of texts will be lower than $45/month and Plan B is the best deal. 15 + .02 (1800) = $51. Plan A is cheaper.
Flying in Formation Answer: 8,912,000 Monarch Butterflies. Solution: 1,000 × 8,912 = 8,912,000. The number of trees is extra information you will not use here.
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Recycling a Soda Bottle into a Greenhouse Procedure: P lants need the light and warmth from the sun to help them grow. Because of this, plants especially thrive in greenhouses. A greenhouse is a building that has glass or plastic walls and a roof. The clear walls and roof help capture the energy from the sun, which in turn encourages plants to flourish. With the help from an adult and a plastic bottle, you can build the perfect mini greenhouse for your plants!
Materials: *(Adult help required)
1. 1 liter plastic bottle, washed, dried and labels removed. 2. Sharp scissors 3. Power drill with approximately a 1/16 drill bit (optional) 4. Seeds 5. Soil 6. Disposable plate (to catch any water and soil drainage)
1. Clean your plastic bottle and remove the label. Make sure you put the bottle cap back on if you took it off. 2. Have an adult to help cut your soda bottle. Cut your bottle in half. 3. Now you should have two separate pieces, a top half and a bottom half. The bottom half will be for the soil and the seeds. The top of bottle will be used as the lid for your mini greenhouse. 4. Ask an adult to drill or poke 2-3 small holes in the base of the bottle for water drainage. 5. Place your soda bottle greenhouse on the disposable plate to catch any excess water or soil. 6. Fill the base of the bottle with potting soil and seeds of your choice - be sure to water your seeds. 7. Place the top of the bottle on to the base of the bottle. By replacing the top to the base of the bottle, you are creating a greenhouse. Your greenhouse can now absorb and capture the sun’s warmth and energy for your plant. 8. Find a sunny spot outside for your greenhouse. Hopefully your plants will start sprouting within 2-5 days!
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