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Kingdom of Spain • Spain’s mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and north east by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of three countries (Morocco, France) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. The country comprises of mainland Spain , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic . • The capital and largest city in Spain is Madrid. • Spain was neutral and not a participant in either of the World Wars. • The currency of Spain is the Euro. • The official language in Spain is Castilian Spanish. • Major industries include textiles and apparel, food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes, beef and fish. • The government of Spain is a parliamentary monarchy • The Cantabrian Mountains clearly separate the country into two discinct halves - the rainy north and the dry south. • Three main rivers span the country, namely Ebro in north-east, Tajo in central Spain and Guadalquivir in the south. • The famous artist Pablo Picasso was from Spain. His artwork is some of the most expensive in the world. He was born in Magala, Spain in 1881 and died in 1973. Other famous artists are Salvador Dali and Joan Miro. • Spain is home to mammals such as the wolf, lynx, wildcat, fox, wild boar, deer, hare, and wild goat. It is also home to the tailless monkey called the macaque, which is the only type of wild monkey that lives in Europe. • Spain’s national parks and refuges only cover about 7% of the country. It is difficult to plant trees where goats and sheep graze, and large forests are only found in the north Pyrenees and the Asturias-Galicia area. • Spain was very good at expanding their territory. Spanish explorers gained wealth and land by founding colonies in Central and Southern America, as well as parts of North America. Columbus was from Spain. • The total area of Spain is 505,370 sq. km, which makes it the 52nd largest country in the world. It is slightly more than twice the size of Oregon. It is Europe’s third-largest nation.
• More than 500,000 people lost their lives in the Spanish Civil war in the 1930s. After the war, Francisco Franco ruled as a brutal dictator until 1975. After all of this, Spain started to develop into a modern, industrial, and democratic nation. • Spain has 17 different regions. Each region manages its own schools, hospitals, and other public services. • Spain is the second most popular tourist country, after France. The large amount of tourists might be due to Spain’s sunny beaches and historic cities. • Soccer is extremely popular spectator sport and is the national sport. • Don Quixote is an novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age. • Bullfighting is considered an art as well as a sport and popular attraction. It is also the biggest and most controversial sport in Spain and is an integral part of Spanish history, art and culture with bull rings in all major cities and beyond. • In Spain there is a tooth mouse named Ratoncito Perez. • Flamenco is a Spanish term that refers to a musical style known for its intricate rapid passages and a dance style characterized by its loud footwork. • People drive on the right side of the road in Spain. • Mount Teide is the highest mountain at 12,198 feet and an active volcano. • The Pyrenees Mountains divide Spain and France. • Spain and Portugal provide most of the world’s cork. Cork trees flourish in the dry Meseta region in On the Canary Islands lives the dragon tree, which was once thought to be the source of dragon’s blood Spain. because its orange fruit contains a thick, red liquid. On
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Good Sports Are Winners! What is good sportsmanship? Good sportsmanship is when teammates, opponents, coaches and officials treat each other with respect. It is so easy to get caught up in any game and focus on winning. But, there is a lot more to learn from the experience of playing sports or games other than a winning record. It’s called values that you learn and keep the rest of your life. Kids learn the basics of sportsmanship from the adults in their lives, especially parents and coaches. Kids who see adults behaving in a sportsmanlike way, gradually come to understand that the real winners that play sports or games are those who know how to behave with dignity - whether they win or lose. Kids who bully or taunt others on the playing field are not likely to change their behavior when in the classroom or in social situations. But a child who practices good sportsmanship is likely to carry the respect and appreciation of others into every other aspect of life. Here are some ways to show others what good sportsmanship is all about:
• Win without gloating. If you win, don’t rub it in. • Lose gracefully. If you lose, don’t make up excuses or cast blame. • Learn from your mistakes and get back into the game. If someone else makes a mistake, remain encouraging and avoid criticizing. • Always do the best you can. Don’t show off. If you are good, people will notice. • Show respect for -self, the opposing team, your team and the officials of the game. Be polite to everyone you’re playing with and playing against. • Always follow and learn the rules of the game and play fair. Rules are created so that sports or games can be played in an organized way. • Avoid arguments. Stay focused on what you’re doing instead of giving in to anger. Avoid using bad language and negative words. • Everyone should have a chance to play. Be willing to sit out so other team members can get into the game. Encourage your teammates as praise and encouragement go a long way. • Respect the decisions of referees and other officials. Good sportsmanship requires that you accept a call - even if you disagree with it. • Listen to your coaches and follow their directions when playing. • Always end sports with a handshake.
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Dolphins Dolphins live in the shallow seas of the continental shelves worldwide. Five species of dolphins live in rivers! You may have seen a dolphin while swimming on an ocean beach! There are actually 40 different types of dolphins which include the common bottlenose dolphin and the orca. Dolphins usually are grey with a darker back. The different types of dolphins vary in size. The biggest dolphin is the orca, and is about 25 feet long and 19,000 pounds! The smallest dolphin is Maui’s dolphin, which is only about 4 feet long and weighs around 90 pounds. The bottlenose dolphin averages 8 feet long and weighs between 440 and 660 pounds. Dolphins usually live in groups of five to several hundred. Dolphins have just one offspring at a time. The offspring stays with its mother for 3 to 8 years. Dolphins are carnivores. They mostly eat fish and squid. To eat, the group of dolphins surround a school of fish and take turns diving in and catching some. Like bats, dolphins use echolocation to hunt for food. This means that they bounce high-pitched sounds off of objects and listen to the echos to navigate. The average life span of a dolphin is actually quite long. Commonly dolphins live for around 40 years, but some orca can live to be 70 or even 80. Unfortunately, dolphins are endangered. Global warming and some fishing boats are threats to the dolphin population. Did you know that dolphins are known to be very playful and are COLOR often seen followME! ing big ships or
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What is Static Electricity? Everything we see is made up of tiny little parts called atoms. The atoms are made of even smaller parts. These parts are called protons, electrons and neutrons. They are very different from each other in many ways. One way they are different is their “charge.” Protons have a positive (+) charge. Electrons have a negative (-) charge. Neutrons have no charge. Usually atoms have the same number of electrons and protons. Then the atom has no charge. It is “neutral.” But if you rub things together, electrons can move from one atom to another. Some atoms get extra electrons. They have a negative charge. Other atoms lose electrons. They have a positive charge. When charges are separated like this, it is called static electricity. If two things have different charges, they attract, or pull towards each other. If two things have the same charge, they repel or push away from each other. So, why does your hair stand up after you take your hat off? When you pull your hat off, it rubs against your hair. Electrons move from your hair to the hat. Now each of the hairs have the same positive charge. Things with the same charge repel each other. So, the hairs try to move away from each other. The farthest they can get is to stand up and away from all the other hairs! If you walk across a carpet, electrons move from the rug to you. Now YOU have extra electrons. Touch a door knob and ZAP! The electrons move from you to the knob and you get a shock!
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Play The Saxophone! The saxophone or commonly called the sax is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is usually made of brass and has a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards. The saxophone is most often associated with popular music, big band music, and jazz but it was originally intended as both an orchestral and military band instrument. The saxophone uses a single reed mouthpiece similar to that of a clarinet. It currently has a round and cone shaped body. With a simple fingering system like the recorder, flute and clarinet, the saxophone is commonly considered an easy instrument to learn, though a great amount of practicing is required to produce a beautiful tone. The majority of saxophones today are made from brass. However, several manufacturers offer additional coatings that can be applied over the brass such as silver, gold, nickel and COLOR lacquer. These are ME! typically designed to enhance sound quality and/or give the saxophone an interesting visual appearance. The saxophone was created in the mid 1840s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian born instrument maker and clarinetist working in Paris. It was first officially revealed to the public in 1846. Some famous sax players are Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Stan Getz. Former President Bill Clinton also plays the sax!
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James Madison Our 4th President (1809- 1817) Our fourth president, James Madison Jr. was born in Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751. He was the oldest of 12 children born to Colonel James Madison Sr. and Eleanor Rose “Nellie” Conway. They owned a tobacco plantation in Orange County, Virginia and were slave owners. He spent most of his childhood years on the plantation and was raised in the Church of England, the state religion. Madison attended the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University. While he was there, he finished his four year course in two years. His area of study was history, government and was well read in law. He studied for another year with the college’s president, John Witherspoon and then graduated. He was known as Princeton’s first graduate student. On September 14, 1794, he married Dolley Todd who was almost seventeen years younger than him. It was she that is credited with creating the role of “First Lady.” Dolley was known for her warmth, gaiety and to be very attractive. They had no children. Dolley’s first marriage had produced two children (one passed away along with her first husband). Her surviving son, John Payne Todd was raised as James Madison’s son. Madison is known for being the shortest president at 5’4” and the lightest president at around 100 pounds! Some of his achievements: • He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. • He was considered to be the “Father of the Constitution.” He wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers. • Madison was the first President to have served in the United States Congress. • He was responsible for the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, so he is also known as the “Father of the Bill of Rights.” • He believed that the new republic needed checks and balances to limit the powers of special interests. He also believed that the new nation should fight against aristocracy/corruption and was committed to creating mechanisms that would ensure republicanism in the United States.
The war of 1812 began when Madison was president. During his first year as president, the United States banned trade with Britain and France. Then in 1810, Congress said the United States could trade with both if either would accept America’s view of neutral rights to forbid trade with the other nation. Napoleon pretended to agree. Madison declared they would not trade with England as a result. The British seizure of American cargos and impressment of American seaman made Madison ask Congress to declare war on June 1, 1812. America was not ready to fight and they took a beating. The British came to Washington and set fire to the White House and the Capital! A few naval and military victories, and with Andrew Jackson’s win in New Orleans, American’s felt the war had been successful. Nationalism resulted. James Madison retired at Montpelier in Virginia.
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American Football Football, before the 19th century, referred to any number of ball games played on foot. Each game had different rules, some allowing the use of hands, running games and others - just kicking games. One legend has it that the football game, rugby, (American football’s ancestor) was invented by an Englishman named William Ebb Ellis, who grew tired of the no hands restriction, so he picked the ball up and ran. To enforce the rules, the other players tackled the fellow that ran. Whether or not this was true, football does have its beginnings with rugby. The first games that would become American football are found in the 19th century, in the games played by students at elite schools and universities of the United States. Walter Camp is widely considered the “father” of modern American football. Between 1880 and 1883, this coach at Yale came up with several major adjustments to the game. Walter camp was born April 17, 1859. He attended Yale from 1876 to 1882, where he studied business and medicine. He was the general athletic director and head advisory football coach at
Yale University from 1888 to 1914 and chairman of the Yale football committee. Camp played football while at Yale and h e l p e d evolve the rules of the game away from rugby and soccer rules into the rules of American Football as we know them today. The changes W a l t e r Camp contributed to American Football were as follows: • One side retained undisputed possession of the ball until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations. • The line of scrimmage. • 11 on a team instead of 15. • Created the quarterback and center positions. • Forward pass. • Standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring. • Created the safety, interference penalties and the neutral zone. • Tackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888. • A touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912.
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