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Montessori Radmoor School Celebrates the Bounty of the Harvest

By Michelle R. Munson

Elementary students at Montessori Radmoor School in Okemos greeted cooler temperatures and falling leaves in the most festive way possible in November - with the annual Harvest Festival.

Children helped with the preparation of all the food, from vegetable soup to chili to various breads and desserts. As is typical with Montessori education, older children assisted younger ones, from helping to measure flour to chopping vegetables for the soup, leading the way with good examples, under the watchful eye of adult volunteers. Food is always more delicious when you help to make it.

Michael, a fifth grader, proclaimed “The pumpkin spice cake Carson helps prepare food for the Harvest Festival at Montessori Radmoor. at Harvest Festival was so good.”

“Hey, I helped make that pumpkin spice cake,” added his classmate Adam. “But my favorite was the apple crisp. I wanted two desserts.” When asked to name his favorite part of the meal, Alex answered, “All the food.”

After the meal, the students adjourned to classrooms for other activities for the afternoon, including art projects and games. The Upper Elementary students had decorated their classroom, partially covering one wall with an 8-foot yarn spider web, much to the delight of the first and second graders.

Second grader Shelby said, “My favorite part was being able to do all the games, like the pine cone toss and there was that huge spider web in the Upper Elementary class. It was awesome and we got to make spiders.”

Second grader Ava enjoyed “doing art and making turkeys with paint and paper.” She had contributed to making apple crisp for the meal.

Montessori Radmoor School educates more than 130 children from 18 months of age through sixth grade. Many teachers are AMI certified at age/grade level. The school is located at 2745 E. Mt. Hope Road, in Okemos. For more information on Montessori Radmoor School or to schedule a tour, call 517-351-3655. Visit our website at www.montessoriradmoor.org.

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The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, A Michigan Built Freighter

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 on North America’s Great Lakes at that time and she remains the largest to have sunk there.

For seventeen years, the Fitzgerald carried taconite iron ore from mines near Duluth, Minnesota to iron works in Detroit, Toledo and other Great Lakes 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. Clair and Detroit Rivers (between Lakes Huron and Erie). He also entertained spectators at the Soo Locks 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 14 knots or about 16 miles per hour. She had a crew of 29.

Carrying a full cargo of ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command, the Fitzgerald embarked from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. She was going to a steel mill in Detroit. Joining a second freighter, the SS Arthur M. Anderson, the two were caught in the midst of a severe winter storm on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. The wind was hurricane-force and the waves were up to 35 feet high. Shortly after 7 p.m., the Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian waters 530 feet deep.

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The last message Captain McSorley sent to the SS Arthur M. Anderson was “We are holding our own.” All of the crew perished.

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

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The International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable human-made satellite that orbits Earth at an altitude of between 205 miles and 270 miles. It comprises pressurized modules for astronauts to live in, external trusses for propulsion, solar arrays for power and many other 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 on November 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 Zarya module. The Unity module was equipped with all the requirements for 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 an American football field. The space station weighs nearly 925,000 pounds! It has 2 bathrooms, a gym and more room than a six bedroom house!

The ISS was built to be a space environment research laboratory and observatory, where crew members could conduct experiments in many scientific fields including: biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, and meteorology.

The station also provides valuable opportunities to test spacecraft systems and equipment and act as a staging base for possible 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 cosmonauts docked and entered the ISS on November 2nd, 2000. The space station has been continuously occupied since, making it the longest continuous human presence in space.

The ISS has been visited by astronauts and cosmonauts from 15 different 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 crew members on board the station experience a sunrise or sunset every 92 minutes!

The ISS program is a joint project that involves 5 space agencies. NASA of the USA, Roskosmos of Russia, JAXA of Japan, CSA of 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 bright white dot in the night sky.

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How can you serve your community in celebration of Martin Luther King Day?

Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday held on the third Monday of January. It celebrates the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an influential American civil rights leader. He is most well-known for his campaigns to end racial segregation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States.

He became one of the greatest Social Activists the world has known. At 35, he became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. His birthday became a National Holiday by an Act of Congress in 1983.

It is a time when the nation pauses to remember Dr. King’s life and work, but also to honor his legacy by making the holiday a day of community service, “a day on, not a day off.”

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Last month grades 5 – 8 spent the morning working on dissections. Under the helpful guidance of Dr. Stephan Carey all of the grades in the middle school had the opportunity to dissect pig lungs and hearts. After some work on body systems, specifically the respiratory and circulatory, we were able to put our knowledge to work in this hands on lab.

7th graders have been studying genetics, heredity, and DNA in science class. They experienced an exciting and educational morning at the Chemistry Building Frost Lab on the campus of MSU on Nov. 18. They had to solve the mystery of “Who Ate the Cake?” using the DNA of three suspects. While waiting for a piece of the puzzle, a trip was taken to the Scientific Glassblower downstairs.

That was also very informative. At the end of the morning the culprit was revealed!

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We had a fantastic time with this year's Christmas program at NCCS. The K4-6th grade students put on a wonderful musical called "Candy Cane Lane". The musical took us on a trip to a sweet dream land and included songs like "Recipe for Life", "You Gotta Grow", and "Happy Birthday Jesus". It taught students that God alone can satisfy and HE is the recipe for life. Our 9th and 10th graders created costumes and sets, ran lights and sound, and served as an awesome stage crew.

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The Importance Of Washing Your Hands

Have you ever heard your parent’s say, “Did you wash your hands?” This is a very common question that most kids have heard and it is an extremely important question to ask. Handwashing is a great way to prevent infection and stop the spread of germs. It’s a simple habit to learn. Sometimes you do it without thinking and sometimes, we’re in such a hurry that it’s forgotten.

Not good... Do you realize that if you wash your hand properly, it helps you to avoid being sick? Let’s explore this a little further.

Throughout the day, everyone accumulates germs on their hands from all types of surfaces like direct contact with people, contaminated surfaces, foods, animals, door knobs, telephones, toilets, and more. Everyone touches a lot of “things” everyday. If you don’t wash your hands regularly, you can infect yourself with these germs when you touch your eyes, mouth or nose.

Infectious diseases that are spread through hand-to-hand contact are colds, flus, infectious diarrhea and sevmore. eral Inadequate hand cleaning or hygene also contribute to food-related illness such as salmonella and E coli infection.

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Wash Me! handwashing techniques? Good hand washing includes washing your hands with soap and water or using an alcohol-based sanitizer if you can’t use soap and water.

Hand Washing Procedure: • Wet your hands with WARM running water and apply soap.

Lather well.

• Rub your hands together for at least 15 to 20 seconds making sure you do both the front and backs of your hands, between your fingers and under your fingernails.

• Rinse your hands well.

• Dry your hands with a clean towel or disposable towel.

• Use a towel to turn off the faucet.

When are the best times to wash your hands?

• Before eating or touching food.

• After using the bathroom.

• After blowing your nose or coughing.

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Rutherford B. Hayes Our 19th President (1877- 1881)

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822. His father died two months before his birth. He was raised by his mother and her younger brother. Hayes ended up graduating from Kenyon College as valedictorian of his class. He then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1845 and became a successful lawyer. His opposition to slavery drew him into the Republican Party.

He married Lucy Ware Webb of Chillicothe in 1852. She was a graduate of Cincinnati’s Wesleyan Women’s College. She was the first wife of a president to graduate from college. They eventually became 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 rank of Major General. He was wounded in action during the war.

While still in the Army, Hayes was elected to Congress but didn’t take 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 as its’ presidential candidate. He won the election only after a special commission had to decide on disputed electoral votes. He won by one vote. Since his election was so tension filled, he secretly took the 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 home called Spiegel Grove, in Fremont, Ohio. From there he gave his time to help veterans receive their pensions, improved conditions in 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 Federal troops from the South. This was as a result of the compromise that came about from the deadlocked presidential election of 1876.

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• President Hayes signed a bill that, for the first time, allowed women attorneys to be allowed to appear before the United States Supreme Court.

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Play The Cello!

The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or 'cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in "cheese"), is a bowed stringed instrument and the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is popular in many capacities: as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and also as a foundation of the modern orchestral sound.

The cello is larger than the violin or the viola but smaller than the double bass. Like the other members of the violin family, the cello has four strings. It is played in an upright position, held by the knees of a seated musician, resting on a spike called the endpin. The player draws the bow horizontally across the strings, making them vibrate and producing sound.

The cello developed from the bass violin, first used by Monteverdi. The invention of wire-wound strings around 1660 in Bologna, allowed for a finer bass sound.

Bolognese makers used this new technolCOLOR ogy to create the cello, a somewhat ME! smaller instrument than the bass violin and suitable for solos due to the timbre of the instrument and the fact that the smaller size made it easier to play virtuosic passages.

Around 1700, Italian players popularized the cello in northern Europe, although the bass violin continued to be used for another two decades in France and England.

The cello is actually part of the viola da braccio family, meaning viol of the arm, which includes, among others, the violin and viola. There are actually paintings of people playing the cello on the shoulder, like a giant violin!

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The Dragon Dance: Happy Chinese New Year!

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Dragons are one of the most admired of legendary creatures. In some cultures dragons are evil, fire breathing creatures that destroy. However, a Chinese dragon is a kind, caring creature that represents life and good fortune.

The Chinese use dragons in their art, literature, poetry, architecture and in many of their songs.

There are other countries such as Korea and Japan who admire this kindly dragon, too. Can you guess what the difference is between the Chinese, Korean and Japanese dragons? Just count the dragon's toes. Of course, you have to get really close to see. The Japanese dragon only has three toes on each foot. A Korean dragon has four toes and the Chinese dragon has a total of five toes on each foot.

The Chinese people use the image of the dragon in many Chinese festivals, including their Chinese New Year celebration. The Chinese people will observe the Chinese New Year on February 19, 2015.

Did you know that the Chinese use a dragon in their New Year’s activities? An event called the Dragon Dance is a spectacular tradition for the Chinese people. The Dragon Dance uses nine or more dancers to carry, over their heads, a large colorful, festive dragon. The dance signifies the end of the year and welcomes a new start. The Dragon Dance is believed to drive away evil spirits and bring good luck and fortune to the people.

The Chinese dragon is a fascinating creature in the Chinese culture.

Creating art using themes and ideas from other countries is a fun opportunity to learn about our culturally diverse world. Have fun creating a beautiful Chinese dragon!

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1. Draw a straight line in the center of a vertical paper. Leave some space on each side.

2. On the top of the line, draw two half circles leaving a small space between. Draw a smaller half circle inside for dragon pupils.

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Coasting Down the Hill

Frosty is the morning; But the sun is bright, Flooding all the landscape With its golden light.

Hark the sounds of laughter And the voices shrill!

See the happy children Coasting 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.

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Republic Of Finland

• Finland is the fifth largest country and the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

• Finland is three times the size of Ohio and shares its borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia.

• Around two-thirds of Finland is covered in heavy forest and about a one-tenth by water.

• In the far north, the sun does not set for around 10 weeks during the 'White Nights' Finland of summer, while in winter it does not rise above the horizon for nearly eight weeks.

• Industries: metals and metal products, electronics, machinery and scientific instruments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing.

• Natural resources: timber, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, chromite, nickel, gold, silver, limestone.

• The capital and largest city is Helsinki. It became Finland’s capital in 1812.

• Finland is a bilingual country, both Finnish and Swedish are the official languages.

• The government is an Independent Democratic Republic since 1917. Their president is elected for a six year term. They were the first country in Europe who allowed women to vote. The president of Finland is Sauli Niinistö since 2012.

• The Finnish children believe that Father Christmas and Mother Christmas live on a mountain called Korvatunturi in Finnish Lapland.

Kerimaki Church, built in 1849 is one of the world’s largest wooden churches.

• Lake Saimaa is the largest lake in Finland.

• The Bronze Age burial site of Sammallah Denmnaki is a World Heritage site.

• The sauna has been used in Finland for over two thousand years.

• The kantele (similar to a zither) is Finland's oldest musical instrument.

• 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 village of Pelkosenniem.

• The Aurora Borealis are a light phenomena that light up the sky in the northern polar regions during the darkest times of the year.

The Northern Lights can be yellowish green and red, but also blue and violet, and they brighten up the night sky in the Finnish Lapland in wintertime with an amazing light show. The Northern Lights can move from east to west, they can appear as rays, or they can be fast-moving, pulsing shapes. Their colors and shapes change rapidly, and they can provide as much light as a full moon. Winter in this area is dark between the months of November and January where the sun does not rise above the horizon. This dark northern wintertime is known as the Polar Night (the Finnish call it “kaamos”) and in this darkness, the Northern Lights look magical.

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