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Kids World
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When kids speak out, The Sentinel listens
Kids Speak Out
Tell Me A Story
My favorite food is....
The Goat’s Courage A Finnish Tale
Adapted by Amy Friedman Illustrated by Jillian Gilliland
My favorite food is peanut butter and honey crackers. You have to put peanut butter on the cracker and then put the honey on the peanut butter. It tastes sweet and peanut buttery. Ian Bear, 8 (WINNER) Mount Rock Elementary School Second grade
My favorite food is pears. I like pears because they are so juicy and not sweet or sour. I like fresh pears better than candy. That’s my favorite food. Skylar Diegel, 10 (WINNER) Fishing Creek Elementary School Fourth grade
My favorite food is beef jerky. It is beefy. KJ Keane, 10 Fishing Creek Elementary Fourth grade
My favorite food is cookie dough ice cream. It has cookie dough and mints in it. And I eat it on a weekend until it’s all gone. Elizabeth Sherrif, 7 Mount Rock Elementary School Second Grade
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To complete the Kid Quest Challenge: Visit the websites featured in this issue, find the answers to our questions, then go to www.4Kids.org/ kidquest
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a leadership team created iCivics, icivics.org, to increase civic knowledge among young Americans. Students get a unique opportunity to participate in games that simulate our government’s operation. Test your persuasive abilities in Argument Wars and compete against another lawyer to win a real Supreme Court case. Collect points as you play games and make an impact on a community service project. Spend your points on your favorite Impact Project, and every three months the project with the most points receives $1,000 from iCivics! Which branch of government makes laws?
My favorite food is pasta because it is long and skinny. I love pasta! I like pasta in a car. I like pasta from a jar. I like pasta everywhere. It is the best food in the world. I like bow tie pasta and curly pasta. You will never taste better food than pasta. If you did not try it yet, do try it. It is so good! James Ulsh, 8 St. Patrick School (WINNER) Grade 2A
Amy answers your questions about the World Wide Web at www.4Kids.org/askamy
Futuristic Fun The Science Museum of London presents Futurecade, sciencemuseum.org.uk/futurecade, challenging games that let you test developing technologies. Discover science of the future to see how these innovations might be useful to humans. Keep the harbor safe with Robo-Lobsters, designed to destroy mines in the sea. Protect satellites from floating debris with Space Junker, which rids the atmosphere of old rocket parts and broken satellites. Alter Earth’s cloud cover and climate in Cloud Control. Are geo-engineering efforts worthwhile? Read about it and decide. What can we do to cool the planet?
Healthy Living Learn about the tiny friends and enemies that live in your body from the scientists who created Microbe Magic, microbemagic.ucc.ie. Microbes are microorganisms that live all around you, even inside you. Some keep you healthy and some make you sick. The four main types of microbes are bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. In All About Microbes, find out the good, the bad and the ugly facts you need to know. Healthy Living gives you some great tips for staying well. Be sure to visit Games & Things to Do to play Go Fish, take fun quizzes and download experiments to do at home!
Stay Sharp Depending on where you live, summer break is just around the corner, or it might already be here. Lazy days at the pool and playing with friends are fun ways to pass the time, but they also make it easy to forget some of what you’ve learned during the school year. Spending time reading books and reviewing old homework assignments periodically during the summer can help you prepare for the next year. Games are also a great way to practice your skills. Check out these sites for games to keep you entertained and educated. Have a great summer! Wacky Web Tales eduplace.com/tales Funbrain funbrain.com
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My favorite food is pizza because it is really good. I like when it is really cheesy because the cheese falls and the sauce gets all over my face and then everybody laughs. My favorite pizza places are Missinos, Vinny’s and Papa John’s. Allison Kerr (WINNER) Bellaire Elementary School Second grade
Once upon a time on a big farm in Finland, there lived an old Goat and an even older Ram. They lived among many horses and cows, sheep and goats, and they were happy enough. One spring morning, the farmer strode into the barn; as he opened the gates, he said to the old Ram and the old Goat, “You’re too old now, so you’ll be on your way.” He shooed them out of their pens and hurried them out of the barn until they were out beyond the pasture. The Goat and the Ram had no idea what to do; they had never been outside the fence line. With tears in their eyes, they began to walk away as slowly and hesitantly as they could. “I’ll look after you,” the Goat said comfortingly to the Ram, “and you’ll look after me.” “Agreed,” said the Ram, and they walked side by side, out of the farmyard. “I confess, I’m afraid,” said the Ram. “There are wolves in the forest, and they’ll probably want to eat us.” The Ram was a nervous fellow, and he knew there were wolves everywhere. Just the other night, he’d seen the farmer shoo one away with a broom. “I have a plan,” said the Goat. She had a no-nonsense attitude, and she’d been thinking ever since the farmer walked into her stall. She led the Ram to a corner of the field out behind the barn, and there she found an old burlap sack. “Help me fill this sack with sticks and stones.” The Goat and the Ram went to work, collecting sticks and stones and stuffing them into the bag. “Now we’ll be safe,” the Goat said. The Ram did not understand, but he trusted the Goat. After all, he’d known her all his life. So the Goat tossed the bag over her shoulder, and it rattled and clacked as they went on their way. They walked into the forest. Before long, the Wolf appeared that had been near their barn the other evening. His back was aching from getting hit with the farmer’s broom. His face and neck and feet were bruised as well. Everything hurt. When he saw the Goat and the Ram walking in the forest, he couldn’t believe his luck. “What easy prey!” he whispered to himself, and he quickly approached. “Good day!” he said. “G-g-g-day,” the Ram stammered, but the Goat rattled the bag and said, “What do you want, Mr. Wolf?” “What’s that you have in your sack?” asked the Wolf. “Tell me the truth, or I’ll have to eat you both!” The Ram shivered with fear, but the Goat rattled the bag once more and said, “Ah, well, in this sack we have the skulls and bones of all the wolves we’ve eaten since yesterday. But we’re hungry again, so I’m glad to see you’ve come along.” She turned to the Ram and said, “Come on, let’s eat this Wolf!” Taking his cues, the Ram lowered his head, preparing to attack with his horns, even though he was certain he was about to be attacked. He scraped his hooves against the earth, and as he did, the Wolf cried out, “Wait! Don’t eat me! If you spare me, I can help you. I promise!” “Stop!” cried the Goat to the Ram. “What will you do for us, Wolf?” she asked. The Ram raised his head and looked the Wolf right in the eye, beginning to feel a little brave. “I’ll bring you 12 wolves,” said the Wolf. “You’ll have plenty of meat for a long time!” “Sounds good!” said the Goat. “Off with you, but be quick about it or we’ll come after you!” The Wolf sped away, and ran through the forest calling to all his brothers: “Gather at the campfire!” Soon 12 wolves had gathered. “I’ve called you here to warn you of the Goat and the Ram. They’re here in the forest eating up wolves. They have a bag of our relatives’ skulls and bones. We have to run!” Now the eldest wolf said, “What’s this? Thirteen wolves afraid of one goat and one ram? Ridiculous. We’ll attack them together, and they won’t have a chance!” But the aching Wolf said, “Noooo, not me. I never want to see them again!” The 12 wolves laughed. “Coward!” they said as they marched off together to attack the Ram and the Goat. When the Goat saw those 12 wolves coming, she scrambled up a tree. The Ram tried to follow, but everyone knows rams aren’t very good at climbing, and he didn’t make it up too high. The 12 wolves surrounded the tree and howled up to the Ram and the Goat. “We’re ready for you!” The Goat called down to her friend, “Ram, attack! Now!” And she began to shake her burlap bag, and she gave a swift kick to the Ram. Down the Ram fell, landing right upon the backs of those wolves. “That’s right! Get them!” the Goat cried, and she rattled the sack harder still. “Just listen to those bones!” she bleated to the wolves. “Soon you’ll join them!” With the Ram on their backs and the noise of those rattling bones, the wolves became confused, and they began to run this way and that, in every direction, away from the terrible Ram. Soon they were out of sight. That was how the Goat and the Ram survived a wolf stampede. Word spread of their strength, and after that they lived happily together in the forest, always looking out for each other.