Kids World News, Wyoming Public Schools, March 2018

WYOMING PUBLIC SCHOOLS KIDS’ WORLD NEWS March 2018

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STEM In Sports!

BASEBALL

People have used advances in science and math to make sports safer for athletes. Science, technology, engineering and math are known as STEM – and STEM has a big impact on every sport that’s played.

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Middle Ground!

COURAGE COMMUNICATION:

The determination to say something in spite of the fear 7 Types of Cyber Bullying Bullying on a cyber level is typically from an anonymous source using technology like emails, instant messaging, mobile phones, social networking sites, blogs, or online gaming sites to deliberately hurting someone's feelings. It's important to realize there are several ways bullys use inappropriate behavior: Gossip - Someone posts or STEPS TO END sends cruel gossip to damage CYBERBULLYING your reputation or relationships.

• STOP going to the site where Exclusion - Someone deliberthe bullying is happening ately excludes you from an on• BLOCK emails or messages; line group. don't respond to them Nation - Someone breaks into your online account and sends • COLLECT EVIDENCE. Record the message and messages in your name to cause save the email. embarrassment or damage to your reputation and affect your • TALK ABOUT IT with relationships. an adult you trust.

Cyberstalking - Unwanted, intimidating, and/or threatening messages are posted or sent.

Harassment - Offensive, rude and insulting messages about you are repeatedly posted or sent.

Outing and Trickery - Secrets or embarrassing info you were tricked into revealing gets shared online.

Cyberthreats - Online remarks that threaten or imply violence.

Empower Yourself Against Dating Violence Often beginning between 6th-12th grade, Dating Violence can include sexual, physical, verbal and emotional abuse.

It can be jealousy, driving recklessly, dissing / insulting, name-calling, humiliation, ignoring, telling lies, isolating, guilt-tripping, scaring, inappropriate anger, yelling, criticizing, manipulating, threatening.

It can be shaking, spitting, hitting, RED FLAGS scratching, throwing, choking, bit• Feeling Afraid of ing, pushing, pulling hair, injury.

Your Partner Dating violence can be molesta• Changing Your Beliefs tion, stalking, rape, sexual abuse, • Being Threatened cheating, forcing.

• Feeling Controlled Teens who suffer dating abuse • Being Physically Hurt are subject to long-term consequences like alcoholism, eating disorders, promiscuity, thoughts of suicide, and violent behavior.

Your partner should treat you with trust, encouragement, respect, admiration, and love. Treat your partner the way you would like to be treated. A healthy relationship accepts your boundaries and will make you feel protected, supported, excited, and amused.

You have the right to remove yourself from unsafe people, places & situations. Unfortunately it is shown that only about ⅓ involved in an abusive relationship confide in someone about the violence. But there is help if you need it. Talk in private to counselors, principals, teachers, nurses, coaches, peers, parents, neighbors, support group hotlines.

If it makes you feel broken in any way, you need to end it before it ends you.

You are stronger than this challenge. And this challenge is making you even stronger.

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Wyoming Public Schools Making Reading Connections Award Winning Author Meets Excited Wyoming Readers Have you ever wished you could meet the author of your favorite book? Sixth grade readers from Wyoming Intermediate School did just that. Star-struck students recently met award winning children’s book author Dan Gemeinhart. After devouring all of his books, excited readers peppered Mr. Gemeinhart with thought provoking questions during a recent Skype video phone call. For 40 minutes, students were captivated by Mr. Gemeinhart’s responses to their questions about the craft of writing, how story ideas get organized, the process of publishing a book, and about his new book coming out this March.

But don’t take my word for it, check out what these 6th grade readers had to say about connecting with one of their favorite authors: “It was very exciting. It was a once in a lifetime experience!”

“This was amazing!”

“You are an real inspiration to me” “I love the books you write.”

“I’d love to be a writer of my own book.”

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Wyoming Public Schools

WHS Science Olympiad Team

Congratulations to the WHS Science Olympiad Team who represented us well at the recently held Allendale Invitational! Top placers were Becca Hansen and Sydney Vo in Mousetrap Vehicle, Thomas Oliver and Jonathan Driggs in Helicopter, and Echo Oliver and Jorge Garcia in Hovercraft.

Dr. Reeder – Mind Meets Music Award On February 20th, WPS Superintendent, Dr. Thomas Reeder, was awarded the Reading on a Higher Note Advocate Award by Mind Meets Music! Using music as its medium, Mind Meets Music’s

expertly trained and highly skilled Master Teaching Artists facilitate 30-minute sessions twice a week in classrooms throughout the district. Mind Meets Music does not replace traditional school music classes. The program uses music and purposeful movement as interventions to increase pre-school through second grade literacy and academic achievement.

Public School students, Mind Meets Music grew to become an independent nonprofit in 2013. For more information on Mind Meets Music, visit www.mindmeetsmusic.com.

Congratulations, Dr. Reeder!

Dr. Reeder has supported the Mind Meets Music program since Founder & Executive Director, Monique Salinas, PhD, first approached him with her revolutionary curriculum in 2009. After great success as an after-school program with 20 Wyoming

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High School Corner!

Coping Skills for Overcoming Test Anxiety What is Performance / Test Anxiety?

• A head full of distracting, distorted, distructive thoughts and fears that leads to intense nervousness so strong it interferes with concentration or performance • Symptoms of panic and anxiety: Stomach cramps, tension headaches, passing out, shakiness and/or sweatiness (mild flu-like symptoms), increased heart rate, nausea, erratic breathing, changes in appetite, sleep disturbance, .

• Stress over these physical reactions to your nervousness

Take a different approach. Who says you have to answer the questions in order? Scan the whole test front to back. Remind yourself you CAN do this and begin with the section you know best.

Facing and dealing with test anxiety will help you learn stress management, a valuable skill in many situations beyond taking tests. Find your coping skill to reduce the stress and negativity that can develop around assessment, whether it’s trying out for the school play, singing a solo on stage, throwing the first pitch of the baseball game, stepping onto a diving platform, going to an important interview.

Create a Ritual - Feeling a loss of control? Regain it by creating a ritual for test-taking days. Add a certain breakfast to your regular routine or pick out a favorite shirt; even listen to a favorite song on the way to school.

Consider a brain dump. Writing out anxious thoughts helps you get the thoughts out of your head. Set a 3-minute timer and when it goes off tear up your paper and throw those anxious thoughts away.

Breathe! It’s no joke that stress tightens your muscles and makes your breaths shallow and quick, leaving you dizzy and frightened.

Thankfully those physical responses can be undone quickly & easily.

Take a time out and spend 1-2 minutes intentionally breathing deeply with slow breaths in, slow breaths out until the whole body begins to feel relaxed and calm. You know you’ve taken a good deep breath when your belly blows up like a balloon. The shoulders and chest remain relatively still. Better yet, don’t wait for your anxiety to spike practice relaxation breathing every day. A great time is before bed.

Encouraging Self-Talk - Thoughts have a unique power over our feelings and performance. Tests and other challenges that can ignite extreme nervousness may lead to destructive thoughts like “I always do terrible” or “If I don’t do well on this everything is ruined.” Don’t leave these negative messages unchecked; the more you are distract ed by your fear, the stronger your anxiety becomes.

The key to less stress and top-level performance is to flat-out reject the negativity. Turn to positive emotions that will broaden your cognitive thinking. Affirm yourself in calming statements like “I’m ready to do my best,” “I don’t like it, but I’ll get through it.” Remind yourself of your past successes. This will help decrease the heart rate and ease the symptoms of panic in the moment.

Learn to manage your emotions instead of freezing up during tests. Nobody ever feels stressed out by thoughts that they will do well. You have the power to improve your future - believe it!

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right! ~ Henry Ford

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UNDERGRADUATE ESTIMATED TUITION 2017-2018 On-Campus Off-Campus Commuter Tuition and Fees $9,906 $9,906 $9,906 Room and Board $9,672 $7,400 $1,600 Books and Supplies $1,000 $1,000 $1,000 Transportation $972 $1,684 $2,592 Personal $1,036 $1,036 $1,036 Total $22,762 $ 21,202 $16,310 For more information and contact a college rep. to discuss your specifics. The cost of attendance is based on the average expenses of an undergraduate student at EMU taking 26 credit hours. Registration fee ($100) and Loan fee ($76) not included. Rates subject to change.

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Asteroids!

An asteroid is one among millions of small solar bodies which revolve around the sun every day. They consist of rocks, metals and they can also contain organic compounds. Asteroids are concentrated mainly in the region known as the asteroid belt which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They can be as very large in diameter or can be just as small as a grain of sand. They are neither big enough to be called planets nor are they as small as comets. The asteroid belt is divided into an inner belt and an outer belt. The inner belt, which is made up of asteroids that are within 250 million miles of the sun, contains asteroids that are made of metals. The outer belt consists of rocky asteroids.

On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid which he thought at first was a comet. He named this asteroid Ceres, after the Sicilian Goddess of grain. It is now, since 2006 considered a dwarf planet, along with Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. Soon, other large asteroids like Pallas, Juno and Vista were discovered. By the end of the 19th century, several hundred asteroids had been discovered.

According to present day astronomers, asteroids are debris left behind by the formation of the Solar System that could not come together to form a planet because of the effect of Jupiter’s gravitational pull.

Asteroids have been hitting the Earth for millions of years. However, due to the friction with Earth’s atmosphere most of the asteroids get burnt up. The asteroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere are called meteors, while the ones that get burnt and appear as shooting stars are called meteorites. The largest crater caused by an asteroid hit is the Chicxulub Crater in Mexico that is approximately 111 miles in diameter.

The largest evidence of an asteroid hit is in the Vredefort Crater in South Africa that is approximately 186 miles in diameter. It is believed by many scientists and researchers that an asteroid impact was the cause behind the extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago.

Did you know that asteroids have moons? The reason as to why an asteroid is often confused with a planet is because like planets, they too have their own moons. In 1993, a spacecraft discovered that the asteroid 243 Ida has its own moon!

The asteroids which are situated close to earth are known as nearearth asteroids. There are three types of near-earth asteroids, termed as the Amors, the Apollos and the Atens.

ç 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl. Dactyl is the first satellite of an asteroid to be discovered

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Money Matters!

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