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Every week the program has either a special event or a field trip. Thursday June 18th , S.P.A.R.K.S. had a “Family and Friends Carnival and Picnic”. We had over 150 students, family and friends in attendance. The weather was great and everyone had a great time. Makayla Wiseman said, “The bounce house was amazing and I enjoyed snow cones!” Thursday June 25th S.P.A.R.K.S. went on a field trip to the Pleasant Meadows Family Recreation Center in Lake. We had 40 students attend this trip. Some had never played mini gulf before. Sarah Wiseman said, “I loved the waterfall. It was beautiful. I loved gulfing and got a hole in two.”

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Isn’t summer great? It’s the perfect time to explore the outdoors, do a little sightseeing, catch up with family and friends and read some good books. It’s hard to believe that summer is half over! Where does the time fly?

This is also one of the best times to enjoy colorful flowers, vegetable gardens growing, and orchards producing crops. Now, as in years past, families will can and freeze vegetables and fruits to eat during the cold, winter months. It’s a lot of work but it sure tastes great!

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Discovering Insects

One warm summer day when I was five years old, I climbed underneath a bush to play. To my surprise, I saw hundreds of ladybugs crawling over the moist ground under the bush. I had discovered “a ladybug garden party”. I watched these wonderful insects for a long time. What an exciting discovery I had made in my Gram’s garden that day!

As you enjoy your summer vacation, take time to slow down and discover the world of insects. Being an insect detective and searching for amazing insects can be really fun. Sit beneath a tree, beside a pond, or by a flower garden. You may find a ladybug, grasshopper, ant, or even a stick bug. Whatever you find, look at its shape, color, legs, and eyes. Sometimes we only find insects we have seen before, but other times we can discover new ones. My favorite insects are ladybugs and grasshoppers. Do you have a favorite insect?

It is wonderful to watch insects living, working, eating and playing all around us. There is always a new discovery waiting in the summer outdoors when you take the time to look.

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The Importance of Rivers

What is a river? A river is freshwater flowing across the surface of the land, usually to the sea. Rivers flow in channels. The bottom of the channel is called the bed and the sides of the channel are called banks.

Rivers begin at their source in higher ground such as mountains or hills.

Rain water or melting snow collects and forms tiny streams. When one stream meets another and they merge together, the smaller stream is known as a tributary. It takes many tributary streams to form a river. As the river flows downstream, it gains more water from other streams, rivers, springs, added rainfall and other water sources. The majority of rivers eventually flow into a larger body of water such as an ocean, sea or large lake. The end of a river is called the mouth.

There are some rivers that begin where a natural spring releases water from underground. Another source of some rivers is a lake. For example, the source of the River Nile is Lake Victoria in Burundi. Another example is if rain water can’t sink into the ground because the ground is too wet already, the water then forms a bog. The water flows out of the bog to form lakes and streams.

Here Are Some Reasons That Rivers Are Very Important To Us • Water - Rivers carry water and nutrients to areas all around the earth. They play an important part in the water cycle and act as drainage channels for surface water. Rivers drain nearly 75% of the earth’s land surface.

• Habitat - Rivers provide excellent habitat and food for many of the earth’s organisms. Ducks, voles, otters and beavers make their homes on the river banks. Many rare plants and trees grow by the rivers such as reeds and bulrushes. Birds like kingfishers as well as bears eat small fish from the river.

In Africa, animals like antelopes, lions and elephants go to the rivers for water to drink. The river deltas have many different species of insects, mammals and birds that make it their home.

• Transportation - Rivers provide travel routes for exploration, commerce and recreation.

• Farming - River valleys and plains provide fertile soils. Farmers in dry regions irrigate their cropland using water carried by irrigation ditches from nearby rivers.

• Energy - Rivers are an energy source. During the early industrial era, mills, shops and factories were built near fast flowing rivers where water could be used to power machines. Today steep rivers are used to power hydroelectric plants and their water turbines.

Quick River Facts • The term upriver (or upstream) refers to the direction of the river’s water

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source. Downriver (or downstream) refers to the direction in which the water flows, towards the end of the river.

• The Ganges (Northern India), Yangtze (China) and Indus (Pakistan) rivers are three of the most polluted on earth.

• The Colorado River travels through the south western United States and north western Mexico. It is home to the famous Hoover Dam. • The longest river in the United States is the Missouri River that stretches to around 2,340 miles in length which is slightly longer than the Mississippi River. These two combine to form the longest river system in North America reaching 3,902 miles. It is also the fourth longest in the world!

• The longest river in the world is the Nile River. The Nile River reaches around 4,132 miles in length. Located in Africa, the Nile River lies in the following countries: Kenya, Eritrea, Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. It has a huge significance in regards to Ancient Egypt.

Most of Ancient Egypt’s historical sites are located along the banks of the Nile River including cities such as Luxor and Cairo. The Nile Delta in Northern Egypt is where the Nile River drains to the Mediterranean Sea. It is around 100 miles in length and spreads out over 149 miles of coastline. It is rich in agriculture and has been farmed for thousands of years. Around 40 million people, which is approximately half of Egypt’s population, live in the Nile Delta region.

The Aswan High Dam was built in 1970 to help regulate the flooding of the Nile River. Before the dam was built, years that had high levels of water would flood out crops while years of low level water would produce famine and drought. The dam helps control these levels.

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Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross was born in 1752 as Elizabeth Pheobe Griscom. She was born as the eighth child out of seventeen, but only eight of her siblings lived to be adults. Betsy grew up in Philadelphia and attended a Quaker-run school. Her great aunt taught her how to sew, and after her school she took up an apprenticeship with a carpender.

There she met a young man named John Ross, and the young couple married in 1773 when Betsy was only 21 years old.

The legend says that Betsy Ross created the first American flag in 1776, and she presented it to George Washington himself. This information was given by her grandson, and no record was kept, but the legend lived and Betsy Ross was viewed as an American role-model for many young girls in the years to come. She was credited for replacing the original six -pointed stars with easier fivepointed stars. This new design made her legend famous. Legend has it that George Ross - a respected Philadelphian, Robert Morris - was prehaps the wealthiest citizen in the Colonies and General George Washington asked her to sew the first flag. Betsy Ross was acquainted with General Washington as they both worshiped at Christ Church and her pew was next to George and Martha Washington. Her daughter recalled, “That she was previously well acquainted with Washington, and that he had often been in her house in friendly visits, as well as on business. That she had embroidered ruffles for his shirt bosoms and cuffs, and that it was partly owing to his friendship for her that she was chosen to make the flag.”

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John Ross died in the Revolutionary war, and Betsy Ross remarried twice after his death. Her second husband was Joseph Ashburn, a mariner who was later captured and died in an English prison. Betsy married agan in 1783 to John Claypoole and they had five daughters together. The family remained in Philadelphia, and kept her upholstery business running herself until the eldest daughter Clarissa took over the business. In 1836, Betsy Ross died at the age of 84. Her house today is open for visits, and is a very popular sight to see.

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Pastry for a 2 crust pie 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1/8 teaspoon thyme 1/2 cup chicken broth or cubes 1/2 cup light cream 2 cups cubed chicken or turkey 1 can of peas (or frozen) 1 can carrots drained (or fresh diced) 1 can of whole onions (frozen or cooked fresh)

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Prepare pastry for a 9 inch pie.

Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Blend in the flour, salt, pepper, and thyme. Cook over low heat. Stir in until mixture is creamy and bubbly.

Remove from heat. Stir in chicken broth and cream. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in chicken and vegetables. Pour into a pastry pan lined with a crust. Cover with pastry or do lattice strips. Trim edges, seal and flute. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown.

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Unroll dough into 2 long rectangles.

Place in ungreased 13 x 9 inch pan, press over bottom and 1/2 inch up sides to form crust. Sprinkle with cheese over crust, arrange the broccoli over the cheese. In small bowl, combine eggs, soup, mayonnaise and mustard. Then stir in the chicken and onion. Pour over the broccoli and sprinkle with paprika. Bake for 26 to 31 minutes or until filling is set. Cut into squares to serve.

Waldorf Chicken Salad

2 cups cooked boneless, skinless chicken breast, shredded or cubed 2 cups red and/or green apples, coarsely chopped 1/4 cup thinly sliced celery 1/3 cup dried tart cherries 1/3 cup coarsely chopped pecans or peanuts 1/3 cup mayonnaise dressing or salad dressing 1/3 cup dairy sour cream 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon honey

Combine chicken, apples, celery, cherries, and nuts in medium bowl. For dressing, stir together the mayonnaise or salad dressing, sour cream, rosemary, lemon juice, and honey in a small bowl. Stir dressing into chicken mixture just until evenly coated. Refrigerate, covered, for up to 24 hours.

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Honey Bees!

People farm with bees for many reasons. Bees are beneficial insects because they produce honey, beeswax, and pollinate crops.

Anyone can keep bees but there are also problems that go with it.

They have the ability to sting!

The farmer needs a suitable location, proper equipment and to find out where to get their bees from a supplier. They also need to learn as much as possible about bees from expert beekeepers and books before they get started.

Let’s talk about bees. They are four-winged, flower feeding insects. They have body hairs and enlarged hind feet. Most bees have a stinger! Honeybees and bumble bees are the most common.

Bumblebees are larger and stronger than honeybees. Honeybees are very popular and have been adopted by at least sixteen states as their state insect. There are actually 10,000 to 20,000 species of bees!

Honeybees are social bees and live in colonies. They are small insects. A small colony or hive contains about 20,000 bees. They hive is made up of one queen, hundreds of drones and thousands of worker bees. The queen bee creates all the babies for the hive. The drones are male bees without stingers and the worker bees are all females that can’t have babies.

The hive ismade up of cells made of wax.

This is where the queen bee lays her eggs. She can lay 1500 eggs in a single day.

When they hatch, they are fed by the worker bees. The worker bees also clean the hive and COLOR they build comb cells.

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they store the honey.

The workers collect pollen and nectar from flowers. They use a form of dancing to communicate information to each other regarding where the food they find is at. The pollen is used as the protein source and the nector as the energy source. When the pollen lands on the pistils of the flower, it results in cross-pollination. This is important for the farmer’s crops and flowers.

Watermelon, cantaloupe and cucumbers are just a few of the crops that require honeybees to pollinate. Bees then turn the nectar into honey.

It takes over four thousand flowers to make just a tablespoon of honey!

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Do You Have A Favorite Pet?

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It’s Fun To Play The Trumpet!

The trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family. Of all brass instruments, the trumpet is highest in register, above the French horn, trombone, baritone, euphonium, and tuba. A musician who plays the trumpet is called a trumpet player or trumpeter. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece.

The oldest trumpets date back to 1500 B.C.E. and earlier. The bronze and silver trumpets from Tutankhamun's grave in Egypt, bronze lurs from Scandinavia, and metal trumpets from China date back to this period. The earliest trumpets were signaling instruments used for military or religious purposes, rather than music in the modern sense.

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• Taking care of a trumpet is easy! It is stored in just two pieces in the carrying case. The only regular maintenance is to oil the valves and grease the slides as it’s needed.

• The trumpet is played with the right hand on the top of the instrument with the first three fingers resting on the valves. The left hand holds the trumpet with the fingers wrapped around the middle of the valves.

• The trumpet is a very versatile and widely used instrument. Trumpets are always needed in bands, symphony orchestras, jazz groups and small instrumental groups. It is very common for the trumpet to perform a large number of solos and melodic lines in all of these groups. The trumpet also works well as a solo instrument.

• There are many different kinds of trumpets. The most common type is the B-flat trumpet, but C, D, E-flat, E, F, G and A trumpets are also available.

• The trumpet is used in nearly all forms of music, including classical, jazz, rock, blues, pop, ska, polka and funk.

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We have been involved with school branch banking for 12 years now and we continue to be amazed at the children and their excitement for learning great saving habits.

The goal of the School Branch program at PFCU is to encourage the young people of our community to become financially productive adults. Ways in which we hope to accomplish this include: • Offering hands-on financial experiences through the School Branch program; • Offering age appropriate financial products, services, and savings programs; • Conducting educational classroom presentations on various money management topics; Accepting the Kids’ World • Participating in school functions such as open houses, career days, job fairs, etc.; News Thank You Certificate is • Providing employability skills to the student volunteers while operating the School Branch (high school level).

Michelle Williams Our Youth Education Coordinator is committed to creating a lasting partnership with students and creating vital life skills relating to financial matters. If we are not at your child’s school yet contact us or your principal. We would be happy to come and teach your kids all about youth saving and the difference a credit union can make.

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I Want To Be A Marine Biologist!

What is a marine biologist? What do they do as part of their job?

Read our job description facts and information to find out the answers to these questions and more while learning all about marine biology careers.

• Marine biologists study things that live in oceans.

• Marine biology includes everything from small organisms such as plankton right through the very large such as whales.

• Subjects important to marine biology include biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics.

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• As part of their job, a marine biologist may collect and analyze biological data, study plant life, identify animal species , research environmental effects, communicate findings to the public and much more.

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Republic ofCôte d'Ivoire

Known As The Ivory Coast • Côte d'Ivoire is the official name, but the country is also known as the Ivory Coast. It is in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, is a little larger than New Mexico. The country consists of a coastal strip in the south, dense forests in the interior, and savannas in the north.

• The capital is Yamoussoukro.

• Côte d'Ivoire was originally divided into several states and kingdoms before becoming a colony of France in 1893. It gained independence on August 7, 1960.

• The population is about 22 million people!

• The currency is the West African CFA Franc.

• Weather in Côte d'Ivoire is very warm, and there are two rainy seasons and a dry season. The majority of rain falls between May and July.

• The most popular sport is football (soccer). The national team has played and qualified for several World Cups. Rugby and basketball are also popular.

• Most people in Côte d'Ivoire practice Islam, but Christianity and other religions are also practiced.

• The official language is French. There are many native languages spoken including Baoulé, Dioula, Dan, Anyin and Cebaara Senufo.

• The government is a republic, and the president has a lot of executive power.

• The largest city is the port city of Abidjan. It has the largest population of almost 5 million people!

• Deforestation is becoming a problem in Côte d'Ivoire. A lot of the forest is threatened by the construction of farms.

• The Ivory Coast is among the world’s largest producers of cocoa, coffee beans and palm oil. Agriculture is a major industry there.

• Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (at right) in Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro is the largest church building in the world.

• Popular foods in Côte d'Ivoire include aloko (a banana fried in palm oil) and Mafé which is meat in a peanut sauce. Chicken is commonly used, and various stews are a staple.

• Ivorian music mixes European and African styles, and is a major part of their culture.

Storytellers are often accompanied by music and dancing is also popular.

• The country exports rice, wheat, plastic materials, resins, agricultural chemicals and oil and gas equipment.

The major imports include cocoa and cocoa products, coffee, rubber and petroleum.

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