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Pea puffers are the tiny little fish...with the long list of names! They are sometimes called pea, dwarf, bumblebee, blue-eyed, pygmy or malabar puffers. They are from inland waters of India to China. You might find a small school of them in a river, lake, floodplain and even sometimes in a brackish water estuary.
Pea puffers are intelligent little fish and very inquisitive. In the wild they will live in areas with lots of plants and many hiding places. They will set up their own territory and defend it very well. They each will swim in their own unique pattern and are quite fun to watch. Pea puffers are carnivores, and grow very strong and sharp teeth. To keep their teeth ground down, they will munch on snails. Eating snails makes them a molluscivore. They will also eat brine shrimp, bloodworms and other small animals and insects. The main criteria of a pea puffers diet is size, since they are so small!
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Froggin’ for Facts and Fun! Why are frogs so happy? They eat whatever bugs them! A few facts about our frog friends: 1.Frogs don’t drink water with their mouths; they drink it through their skin. 2.Frogs are cold blooded. This means that a frog’s body temperature is the same on the inside as it is on the outside. That is why frogs live near water so that they can jump in to cool off on hot summer days. 3.What do you call a group of frogs? An army of frogs! 4.Frog fossils have been found that are as old as dinosaurs! 5.Frogs burrow down in the mud to hibernate in the cold winter. 6.There are 3400 species of frogs and toads worldwide. In Michigan there are only13 species. 7.No matter how many times you kiss him, a frog won’t turn into a prince! 8.Frogs are super cute and fun to draw. What do you call a frog's favorite soda? Croaka-Cola!
A little FUN with our frog friends: Hop to it and draw this cute Frog! 1. Materials: Paper, pencil, crayons, markers, or colored pencils. 2. Follow the step by step directions to create your frog. 3. Color your frog in a fun, creative way. Have fun!
When you draw, think of yourself as a builder. Begin by building the eyes, face and then the neck. 1. Draw two paths near the top of 2. 3. your paper. Connect the ovals 1. with a curved line. Finish the eyes by adding two half circles to create the iris (colored part of your eye) and the black pupil.. 2. Find the center of the bottom of each eye and draw a small curved line to build the sides of the face. The cheeks are made by drawing a large “c� and then a backward “c�. 3. Add a smile in the center of the cheeks by drawing a curved line. The complete the head, add two small curved lines for the neck.
Time to construct the middle part of your frog. Concentrate on how much room is left on your page because we still need to add feet! If part of the leg has to “go-off� the page, or your feet won’t quite fit, that is okay. Artists often fill their paper and can’t quite fit everything on. Do the best you can! 1. Create the shoulder and the outside of the arm by drawing a 1. 2. 3. curved line from the neck to the waist of the frog, stopping at the wrists. The inner side of the arms are straight lines coming from the under arm to the wrist. 2. Draw the fingers. Note that the fingers look like the letter “W� with circles on the tips. Draw a waist for your frog. Start at the top of the inner arm and stop at the wrist. (Frogs may be slightly different at the point, make necessary adjustments.) 3. The long hind legs can be as long as you wish. Make two upside down “U�s. Don’t connect at the bottom.
The construction of your frog is finished when the feet and toes are added. Time to add color to your frog and to add background details. Practice drawing the frog several times and coloring it differently each time. Be creative and have fun froggin’! 1. Add long feet to your frog with toes drawn like the fingers. Connect the feet at the heels. 2. Begin filling your drawing with bright colors. 3. Remember to sign your work when it is competed. All artists do!
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What Is Hibernation and Migration? Winter is very cold. There is snow and ice on the ground. We live in warm houses. What do animals do? The biggest problem for most animals is finding enough food. So, some animals sleep all winter! It is a very deep sleep called hibernation. They need little or no food and hibernation allows them to conserve energy. Bears and chipmunks hibernate! So do frogs, snakes and even some bugs. Most hibernators prepare in some way for the winter. Some store food in their burrows or dens, to eat when they awake for short periods. Many eat extra food in the fall while it is plentiful. It is stored as body fat to be used later for energy. Hibernators have two kinds of fat: regular white fat and a special brown fat. The brown fat forms patches near the animal's brain, heart and lungs. It sends a quick burst of energy to warm these organs first when it is time to wake up. True hibernators go into such a deep sleep that they are difficult to wake and may appear dead. Their body temperature drops and their breathing and heart beat slow down significantly. If an animal lives in an area where the winter is mild, it may hibernate only briefly, or not at all. However, even when the weather is severe, hibernators may wake up for short periods every few weeks to use their "toilet rooms" and eat if food is available. The largest hibernators are the bears. Although a grizzly or black bear's heart rate may drop from a normal of 40-50 beats per minute down to 8-12, its temperature drops only slightly, allowing it to wake up quickly. These bears are also unique because, unlike other hibernators, they do not eat, drink, or excrete at all while hibernating, which can be as long as six months. Other hibernating animals do not experience major changes in temperature, heart rate and breathing. Animals such as skunks, raccoons and some chipmunks are the light sleepers, easily awakened. They may sleep during the most severe weather and wake to roam and eat during milder weather. Some birds fly south for the winter. We call this migration. You can often see them gathering because most birds fly together. They go to a warmer place to find food when the weather starts
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What Is Asthma? When you breathe in through your nose or mouth, the air goes into your windpipe, through the airways (or bronchial tubes) and into the lungs. For most kids, this is easy and automatic. When a person has asthma, it can be more difficult. When you have an asthma episode or “attack”, the airways become swollen and narrower and it is a lot harder to get air to go into the lungs and get out of the lungs. The swollen airways can also produce extra mucus which makes things even more difficult! If you have asthma, this could make you wheeze (a whistling sound) as you breathe and/or your chest feels tight like someone is squeezing you. It can also make you cough and take shorter breaths. No one knows why some kids get asthma and others do not. But, it often runs in families - like having a parent, sibling or other relative that has it. Asthma is not contagious. It can start at an early age and stop when a person becomes an adult - but some children get it back when they are older. What causes asthma to flare up? Sometimes there are different triggers that cause an attack. Some kids are sensitive to substances that cause allergic reactions in the airways called allergens. Some common allergens for kids with asthma are dust mites, mold, pollen from trees, weeds and grass, furry animals with dander (dandruff) in their fur. Sometimes its perfume, chalk dust and cigarette smoke, smog or air pollution. There is also a reaction at times to an infection like a cold or flu that makes the airways more sensitive. Cold air and even exercise can cause a flare-up. There are many more triggers and sometimes kids need to have an allergy test to find out what their triggers are! It is important to manage your asthma with your doctor and the help of your parents with a treatment program. There are different medicines for treating asthma because not all children’s asthma is the same. Some kids
need to take medicine only once in a while when they have a flare-up. This is called a rescue medicine because it works fast to open airways so they can breathe easier. Other children need to take controller medicine every day to keep flare-ups from happening. If kids with asthma know they will be around allergens they may need to take medicine ahead of time to keep airways open. With exercise induced asthma, kids can take medicine before exercising also, so they can continue to exercise or do sports. One of the tools used to manage asthma is a peak flow meter. This tool, when used properly, will give kids who have asthma an idea of how well they are breathing that day. Asthma medicine is often taken through an inhaler. An inhaler is a plastic tube that holds a medicine container. It is held up to the mouth and then the medicine is breathed in. The medicine comes out in a mist that goes into the lungs. The mists’ job is to relax the airways to make it easier to breathe. Sometimes the inhaler is used with a spacer. The spacer is a piece that goes between the inhaler and the kids’ mouth. It allows the kid to breathe in when the kid is ready, so inhaling the medicine is easier. There are also medicines that are taken in by swallowing them. Some need a nebulizer - thats a machine containing medicine that has a face mask that the kids put on and breathe the medicine in. Whatever the medications are being taken, the goal is to get the asthma flare-ups under total control so there are no problems created by triggers. There are many athletes, including Olympic athletes and sports stars who have asthma that they are managing.
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6W -RVHSK 3HZDPR (OHPHQWDU\ 1HZV St. Joseph Catholic School in Pewamo held their annual Halloween Costume Contest on Friday, October 26, 2018. There were many fun costumes. Congratulations to the winners of the contest. K-3rd Grade: 1st place-Baby in Crib-Anna Wittenbach, 2nd place-Snow Globe-Reagan Kowatch, 3rd place-Abraham Lincoln-Abram Smith 4th-7th Grade: 1st place-Fr. Darrel Kempf (St. Joseph’s pastor)-Ty Thelen, 2nd placeWacky Waver-William Huhn, 3rd place-Harold & Lloyd-Bradley Huhn and Logan Drysdale.
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Can You Solve These Story Problems? 1. If one turkey can feed eight people, how many turkeys are needed to feed one hundred sixty people? 2. A non-profit organization for the homeless is asking people to donate $4.00 to feed and care for one person. If the non-profit wants to raise enough money to feed and care for seventy-five people on Thanksgiving, how much money will they need to raise? 3. The Indians and Pilgrims brought a total of nine turkeys to cook. If the Indians brought four turkeys, how many did the Pilgrims bring?
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s I g n i l Bow ! n u F Bowling is one of the most popular sports in the world! One of the reasons for it’s popularity is that children and adults of nearly every ability level can participate. It can be enjoyed as a relaxing fun exercise and social activity or as a competitive sport. Other major benefits of bowling is that its easy to find a place to play. Equipment is at the bowling alley and instructions, as well as practice, leagues and competitive play are all there too. Children too young to execute a full approach can stand near the
foul line and using two hands, shove the ball down the lane. Most bowling alleys have rails or bumpers up on the sides of the alleys for children on some of their lanes. This helps give kids the chance to knock down the pins! Also the bowling alleys have special bowling shoes to fit children and special balls that are not to heavy! Many bowling alleys have classes kids can take to learn how to play the game. Bowling is a lifetime fitness sport which contributes to balance, coordination and motor skills. Bowling is able to fill the needs of so many people because it is, above all, a simple game. The rules are not complex and the basics of how to roll the ball are quickly learned. The modern game of bowling is played on an indoor wooden or urethane lane. Ten pins are arranged in a triangular formation 30 centimeters apart. The game is played by rolling a ball down the lane in an effort to knock down all the pins stationed at the end of the lane. Each individual is allowed two attempts per frame to knock down the pins. One game consists of 10 frames. The person who has the highest score (meaning the one who has knocked down the most pins) is the winner. Bowling is an excellent recreational activity for all ages so the entire family can play and enjoy themselves. Check it out today!
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