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Stars and Stripes Forever! In the United States, we celebrate Presidents' Day in February to honor two of our greatest presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. George Washington was our first president. He was born on February 22, 1732. America was not a nation when he was born. At that time our land belonged to England, a country across the ocean. People in America wanted to become a separate country so they fought a war called the Revolutionary War. George Washington was an American general in that war. America won the war and picked a new name for itself: The United States of America. George Washington was then elected to be our first President. Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president. He was born on February 12, 1809. Things were different then when Abe was a boy. He lived in a log cabin; which is made out of logs cut from trees. Abe's family was poor. Often he went barefoot because he didn't have any shoes. When Abraham Lincoln grew up, he studied to become a lawyer. Later, he was elected to be a law-maker and in 1861, Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the 16th President of the United States. Abe Lincoln is a well loved president because he held our country together with courage and wisdom during the Civil War. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln lived a long time ago, but we still honor their contributions in helping to build and/or preserve our great country. As Americans, we see both presidents as “Patriotic”. A person who is patriotic proudly supports and defends his country. Let’s celebrate these two great presidents by making a patriotic symbol of America, a star! Contributed by Rebecca Nechuta, KidzArt Follow these simple instructions. Have fun!
Let’s Make A 3-D Patriotic Star This cool patriotic star is made from 2 identical paper stars that are interlaced. Materials Need · Card stock, thin cardboard or Styrofoam · Scissors · Decoration ideas: markers, crayons, paper cutouts of Washington or Lincoln, buttons, glitter. · Glue Directions: 1. On cardstock or thin cardboard, trace two identical (exactly the same) stars. Or you could print stars on cardstock from your computer. 2. Cut out your stars and decorate each star on both sides with your choice of markers, crayons, paper cut outs, glitter. 3. Mark the center of each star. You will need to cut one slit in each star; here is how: On the first star, cut from an inner corner to the center point of the star. On the second star, cut from an outer point to the center point of the star. See picture. 4. Slip the two stars together through the slits you have just cut. For stability, you may have to tape or glue the stars where they meet at the slits. This patriotic three-dimensional star can stand on a table or can be hung from the ceiling with a string!
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Republic of Bolivia • Bolivia was named for Simon Bolivar who was the liberator of much of South America. • Bolivia is equal in size to California and Texas combined. Brazil forms its eastern border, Peru and Chile on the west and Argentina and Paraguay on the south. Bolivia is land locked. • In the western part of Bolivia, enclosed by two chains of the Andes, is a great plateau called the Altiplano. The average altitude is 12,000 feet. Almost half the population lives on the plateau. The cities of Oruro, Potosi and LaPaz are here. LaPaz is the highest administrative capital city in the world. The second capital city is Sucre, which is named after its first president. This is where the supreme court resides. • The Oriente, which is a lowland region that ranges from rain forests to grasslands, makes up the northern and eastern two thirds of Bolivia. • Lake Titicaca at an altitude of 12,507 feet is the highest commercially navigable body of water in the world. The waters from the lake also help warm the air around it. It is also one of the deepest lakes in the world! Lake Titicaca is also the birthplace of the Inca civilization, and is also believed to hold precious Inca treasure. • Industry: Mining, smelting, petroleum, food and beverages. • Agriculture: Soybeans, coffee, coca, cotton; timber. • Exports: Soybeans, natural gas, zinc, gold, wood. • Bolivia contains 40% of all animal and plant life in the world! Their tropical rainforests and Pantanal Wetlands are some of the most biologically abundant ecosystems in the world. • The world’s largest butterfly sanctuary is in Santa Cruz. • The main language is Spanish. • Soccer is the most popular sport in Bolivia. • The Spanish conquered Bolivia in 1533. The Bolivian people started a war in 1809 as they fought for independence. Independence was proclaimed on August 6, 1825, 16 years after the fighting began. • Bolivia is located within one of the wettest zones on the planet getting an average of 314” of rainfall per year!
• The largest deposit of salt on the planet is in Bolivia. The Salar de Uyuni (Uyuni salt beds), contain over 64 million tons of salt! The largest deposit of lithium in the world is found under all that salt! Major battery manufacturers have been interested in BoSalar de Uyuni livia because they want to extract the lithium to make long lasting batteries for cars, cellular phones and more. • Bolivia is one of Earth’s top 12 countries with the greatest amount of organic agricultural surface in the world. As a result they are among the top 3 exporters of organic Brazil nuts in the world and in the top 10 exporters of organic coffee and cacao. • LaPaz is home to “Death Road.” It is considered to be the world’s most dangerous road. It begins in LaPaz and descends 11,000 feet in 40 miles through the Andes Mountains to the Amazon River Basin. • The city of Potosi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the world’s highest city at approximately 13,400 feet. It was established in 1545 and remains famous because of the Cerro Rico silver mines and being home to Bolivia’s oldest colonial church, the Church of San Fransisco built in 1547 by the Spanish. • The weather in Bolivia varies drastically from one climate zone to another. The summer months are November through March. The weather is warmer and wetter. April through October, the winter months are colder and drier. In the highlands it can be very cold with temperatures frequently going below zero at night, especially on the Altiplano. Snow is common in Potosi during the winter months. It also falls on LaPaz and Oruro. The weather in the rainforest is usually very hot and is often very wet. As the altitude declines, the temperature rises.
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James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver Curwood was born in Owosso, Michigan on June 12, 1878. He was an American novelist and conservationist. The youngest of four children, he left high school before graduation but did pass the entrance exam to the University of Michigan. In 1898, he enrolled in the English department and studied journalism. He worked for the Detroit News-Tribune and started at $8/week as a reporter covering funerals. He was fired 6 months later and joined a pharmaceutical manufacturer. In 1902 he was re-hired by the Detroit News-Tribune at $18/week. He left his job in 1907. At this time, he devoted more time to his writing. By 1909, he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest. This trip provided the inspiration for Curwood’s wilderness adventure stories. He would continue making these trips for the next 18 years, spending time in the wilderness, exploring, writing and building log cabins. By 1922, his writings had made him successful enough to build the Curwood Castle in Owosso. Overlooking the Shiawassee River, he set up his writing studio in one of the large turrets. He lived at his nearby home on Williams Street. He also owned a camp in a remote area in Baraga County, Michigan near the Huron Mountains as well as a cabin in Roscommon, Michigan. He was an avid hunter in his youth but, as he grew older, he became an advocate of environmentalism. The story goes that while on a hunting trip in the Rockies, he saw a large bear he called Thor. He tried to shoot him three times in three weeks. One day as Thor approached him, Curwood slipped and fell, breaking his gun. The bear reared up - before walking away. Curwood turned from hunting for trophies to championing the cause of wild things. Curwood led active campaigning for the preservation of Michigan’s natural resources. He was appointed to the Michigan Conservation Commission in 1926. At the time of his death at the age of 49, he was the highest paid author in the world. During the first full weekend in June of each year, the city of Owosso holds the Curwood Festival. The Curwood Castle shown on this page is now a museum. The castle contains many of his original furnishings, copies of all his adventure novels and several oil paintings which served as illustrations for his stories. Many of his novels were later made into movies. One recent film that was produced from one of his novels was "The Bear", which had its United States premier in Owosso.
James Oliver Curwood Books 1908 The Courage of Captain Plum 1908 The Wolf Hunters 1909 The Great Lakes 1909 The Gold Hunters 1910 The Danger Trail 1911 The Honor of the Big Snows 1911 Philip Steele (Steele of the Royal Mounted) 1912 The Flower of the North 1913 Isobel 1914 Kazan 1915 God's Country and the Woman 1916 The Hunted Woman 1916 The Grizzly King 1917 Baree, Son of Kazan 1918 The Courage of Marge O'Doone 1919 Nomads of the North 1919 The River's End 1920 Back to God's Country 1921 God's Country - The Trail to Happiness 1921 The Golden Snare 1921 The Flaming Forest
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1922 The Country Beyond 1923 The Alaskan 1924 A Gentleman of Courage 1925 The Ancient Highway 1926 Swift Lightning 1926 The Black Hunter 1928 The Plains of Abraham 1929 The Crippled Lady of Peribonka 1930 Green Timber 1930 Son of the Forests (Edited version of Curwood's Autobiography) 1931 Falkner of the Inland Seas 1983 The Glory of the Living (Autobiography reprinted as written and published in England in the late 1920s)
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Coloring Corner Butterfly Wishes Yesterday a butterfly Came floating gently through the sky. He soared up through the atmosphere Then drifted close enough to hear. I said, "I'd love to fly with you And sail around the way you do. It looks like it would be such fun To fly up toward the summer sun. But I have not your graceful charm. I haven't wings, just these two arms. I've been designed to walk around. My human feet must touch the ground. Then magically he spoke to me and told me what his wish would be. He said, "What I'd love most to do Is walk upon God's Earth with you, To squish it's mud between my toes Or touch my finger to my nose. I'd love just once to walk around With human feet to touch the ground, But I have not two legs that swing, I haven't arms, just these two wings." And so we went our separate ways In wonder and surprise. For we'd both seen God's precious gifts Through someone else's eyes. Author Unknown
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What Is A Heart Murmur? A heart murmur is a whooshing sound between heart beats. The doctor hears it through a stethoscope. It’s easier to hear heart murmurs in kids because they have less fat, muscle and bone between the murmur and the doctor’s stethoscope! This whoosh is just an extra sound that the blood makes as it flows through the heart. Doctors can discover murmurs during regular checkups or an illness checkup. Murmurs have grades too! Grade 1 is the softest sounding and Grade 6 is the loudest! More than half of all kids have a heart murmur at some time in their lives and most heart murmurs don’t mean anything is wrong. Some doctors call these “normal” murmurs. These are nothing to worry about as they are caused by blood rushing through the heart valves in a normal heart. One common type of this normal murmur is called Still’s murmur. This murmur is most often heard in healthy children age 3 to 7. A normal murmur can get louder when the blood flows faster through the heart. An example of this is when kids have a fever or are running around. That is because an increase in body tempera-
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The Great Barrier Reef Did you know that astronauts can see the Great Barrier Reef from space? The Great Barrier Reef is the largest structure built by living organisms on the Earth today. This region is also the world’s largest group of coral reefs. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park covers an area of 133,360 square miles and stretches 1,430 miles along the Queensland Coast. It is found in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. There are three main types of reefs found on the Great Barrier Reef. They are Ribbon, Platform and Fringing reefs. Ribbon reefs only occur in the northern part. They form along the edge of the continental shelf and can grow so high they form narrow walls. Platform reefs are also known as patch reefs and are scattered in the calm, shallow waters between the mainland and the edge of the continental shelf. They are usually round or oval patches and tend to be broken up. Fringing reefs are coral structures that are attached to the mainland or to continental islands. In the Great Barrier Reef most of the fringing reefs are found around islands.
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The Violin! One of the best known instruments in the orchestra is the violin. It is played with a bow and is the highest pitched instrument in the violin family. The violin consists of several parts - the front, the ribs, the neck, the fingerboard, the pegbox, the scroll, the bridge, the tailpiece and the f- holes. The violin has four strings which are fastened to the tailpiece, rest over the fingerboard and run to the pegbox. At the pegbox, the strings are attached to tuning pegs and by turning these pegs, the violin can be tuned to the correct pitch. By the musician changing finger positions on the strings, different notes are made. The bow is drawn across the strings with make the tone. The violin can be traced back to Italy in the early 1500’s. Evolving from two other stringed instruments, the fiddle and the lira da braccio which were both stringed instruments. The known developer of the violin was Andres Amati. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the craft of violin making began. Artists such as Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and Jacob Stainer made them in their workshops. At this time, the violins had a shorter neck, the bridge was fatter, a shorter fingerboard and the strings were made of gut. At first, the violin wasn’t very popular and considered low status socially. But by the 1800’s, well known composers, like Claudio Monteverdi used the violin in operas. The violin began to gain some stature in the Baroque period as more known composers began using the violin in their works. One of these composers was Johann Sebastian Bach. By the mid-18th century, the violin was a vital part in instrumental music. During this time, violins emerged as the leading section in the orchestra. However, it wasn’t until the 19th century that violin virtuosos emerged. People such as Giovanni Viotti, Isaac Stern, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein became world famous for their skill.
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Every Day Exercise Kids exercise every day without even thinking about it. Just by being active - like when you run around outside or play dodge ball at school. Playing is a type of exercise! What else counts as exercise? Sports, dancing, push-ups or just reaching down to touch your toes! When you exercise, you’re helping to build a strong body that will be able to move around and do all the stuff you need to accomplish. Aerobic Exercise Makes Your Heart Happy You may already know that your heart is a muscle. It works hard continuously pumping blood every day, every minute of your life. You can help this important muscle get stronger by doing aerobic exercise! Aerobic means “with air,” so aerobic exercise is a kind of activity that requires oxygen. When people breathe, they take in oxygen. If you’re doing aerobic exercises, you’ll notice that you’re breathing can be faster than normal. Aerobic activity can get your heart pumping and make you sweaty. When you give your heart this kind of workout on a regular basis, your heart will get even better at its job - delivering oxygen. If you want to do some aerobic exercise right now, try swimming, basketball, ice or roller skating, jogging or walking quickly, soccer, crosscountry skiing and jumping rope! Exercise Strengthens Muscles This kind of exercise can help make your muscles stronger. Do you ever do a push-up or swing across the monkey bars on the playground? These are exercises that can build strength. By using your muscles to do powerful things, you can make them stronger. Some fun exercises and activities to build strong muscles are push-ups, pull-ups and lifting weights - with adult supervision of course! Exercise Can Make You Flexible Can you touch your toes easily - without yelling “ouch!”? Most kids are pretty flexible, and they can bend and stretch their bodies without much trouble. This kind of exercise often feels really good - like when you take a big stretch in the morning after waking up! Being flexible is having “full range of motion” which means you can move your arms and legs freely without feeling tightness or pain. It’s easy to find things to do for good flexibility. Here’s some examples: Tumbling and gymnastics, yoga, dancing and martial arts.
Exercise Keeps The Calories Balanced Food gives your body fuel in the form of calories (which are a kind of energy). Your body needs a certain amount of calories every day just to function, breathe, walk around, and do all the basic stuff. But if you’re active, you body needs an extra measure of calories. If you’re not very active, your body won’t need as many. Whatever your calorie need is, if you eat enough to meet that need, your body weight will stay about the same. If you eat more calories than your body needs, it can be stored in your body as excess fat. Exercise Makes You Feel Good It feels good to have a strong, flexible body that can do all the activities you enjoy! Did you know that exercise can also help you get into a good mood? When you exercise, your brain releases a chemical called endorphins. These endorphins can make you feel better! So, exercise is always a good thing to do!
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Cookin’ Fun Gimme A Kiss Cookies 1 cup butter or margarine, softened 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup powdered cocoa 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 (10 ounce) package Hershey's Kisses In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract until light and fluffy. In another bowl, stir together flour, cocoa and salt. Gradually add to butter mixture, beating until well blended. Refrigerate dough about 1 hour or until firm enough to handle. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Shape dough into 1 1/8 inch balls, roll in extra sugar. Place balls on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set. Remove from oven. Place a Hershey Kiss on each cookie pressing down lightly. Cool completely.
Strawberry Sweetheart Salad 6 ounces cream cheese, softened 1 cup mayonnaise 15 large marshmallows, cut up 1 (16 ounce) package frozen strawberries, thawed and drained 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1 cup crushed pineapple 1/8 teaspoon red food coloring 1 cup whipped cream
Valentine Pretzel Rods White chocolate chips Whole pretzel rods Red, white and or pink sprinkles Wax Paper Melt chocolate according to package directions. Dip 1/2 to 3/4 of the pretzel rods into the chocolate and place on the wax paper. After the chocolate has hardened, dip again ad then roll in the sprinkles. Place on a new sheet of wax paper to harden.
Combine cream cheese and mayonnaise. Blend well. Add marshmallows and strawberries, reserving several strawberries. Add pecans, pineapple and food coloring, blend well. Fold in whipped cream. Pour into a heart shaped pan or other gelatin mold. Chill until firm. Garnish with reserved strawberries.
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