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February has lots of other things to celebrate too! We have President’s Day in which we honor our pres-idents. We also have Black History Month in which we honor those important men, women and historical events that changed our nation and the world. Let’s not forget the 100th day of school which is celebrated

in our classrooms with fun activities and creative projects!

Did you know that February is the shortest month of the year? This February is a Leap Year which we cel-ebrate every four years! Usually February only has 28 days, but this year, February 29th is the day that is

used to make up time. Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter than a solar year by almost 6 hours!

Enjoy February - Debi

First, I am going to summarize what we did during WOW (Win our World) week.

On Monday, we cut blankets for kids at St.John’s Home and for the elderly in BoulderCreek and in our own school neighborhood.On Tuesday, we cut blankets in the morning,and we did some community builder games.On Wednesday, we tied blankets, and thenon Thursday, we learned and talked aboutelderly people and how to make friends

-ered blankets to Boulder Creek Retirementhome. Second graders delivered blan-kets to neighborhood grandmas, and we

John’s Home and got a tour of the place.Second, I will now tell you the impact

WOW week had on me and on others. WOW week taught me to be thank-

ful for my parents. The kids at St. John’sHome had parents they could not live with. The impact thisproject had on others was that we were serving them. We made blankets forthe kids and elderly to help and to serve them. WOW week had a huge impact on me, andkids, and elderly.

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In the winter, sometimes it is nice to do summery things to remember fun times had in the warmth of summer.

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First you will need to make up a batch of bubbles, and then the snake maker!

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• A rubber band This activity provided by the Grand Rapids Children's Museum.

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2. Slowly add dish soap and glycerin to jug.

3. Top the jug off with more cold water.

4. Cap it and turn the jug over a couple of times to mix, don’t shake. Your bubble solution is now ready.

5. Poke a hole in the bottom of the cup, then put the sock over the top of the cup, and secure it with a rubber band. OR, cut the bottom off of the water bottle, and put the sock over the bottom.

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• Estonia is an Eastern European country which borders the BalticSea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia. It is about thesize of New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined.• The capital city is Tallinn. It is one of the best-preserved mediaevalcities. It is also the city of the first Christmas tree in the world. In 1441,the tree was put up in the town square.• The government is a Parliamentary Democracy. Estonia re-gainedits independence on August 20, 1991 from the U.S.S.R.• Natural resources: Oil shale, phosphorite, limestone, blue clay.• Estonia enjoys a mild climate because of marine influences. Mainlya lowland, the republic has numerous lakes, frequently of glacial ori-gin. Peipus (Lake Chudskoye), the largest lake, is important for bothshipping and fishing. It is also Europe’s fourth largest freshwater lake.Along Estonia's Baltic coast are more than 800 islands, of whichSaaremaa is the most notable. • The climate is temperate with warm summers and severe winters.Temperatures range from 70 degrees F in the summer, to a winter av-erage of 18 degrees F. They have four seasons of equal length.Being on the Baltic Sea, Estonia is subjected to sea breezes and hu-midity.• The highest peak in Estonia is Suur Munamagi. It is the highestpoint in the entire Baltic region at 1043 feet above sea level.• The Republic's rivers include the Narva, Pärnu, Ema, and Kasari.• Estonia is the world's second largest producer of oil shale. The ma-jority of its workforce is involved in industry, which also includes min-ing, shipbuilding, information technology, and the manufacture ofwood products, electronic and telecommunications equipment, tex-tiles and clothing, and machinery.• Its efficient agricultural sector employs some 11% of the labor forceand produces meat (largely pork), dairy products, potatoes, flax, andsugar beets. Fishing is also important.

• Throughout history, many other nations that ruled the region –Danes, Germans, Swedes, Poles and Russians – have influencedEstonian cuisine. Among the traditional dishes are marinated eel,blood sausage and sauerkraut stew with pork.• Famous Estonians include the writer Jaan Kross whose work hasbeen translated into at least 20 languages, the author of the nationalepic (Kalevipoeg) Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and the writer, film-maker, diplomat and politician Lennart Meri. He became the firstPresident of Estonia after the restoration of independence.• In the Bronze Age a meteorite fell in Kaali on the island of Saare-maa. The Kaali catastrophe was the last known case of a large me-teorite to fall on a populated area. Estonia has the highest numberof meteorite craters per land area in the world.

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The Cello

Pablo Casals was regarded as one of the greatest cello play-ers and composers (writers of music) of the twentieth century.Pictured here is Pablo Casals performance at the White Housein 1961.

The violincello,nicknamed thecello (pro-nounced chello)is one of the big-ger instrumentsin the string fam-ily. The fourmajor instru-ments in thestring family arethe violin, theviola, the celloand the doublebass. The cellois typically madeof various woods

that are chosen to enhance the performance of the instrument.The top is made of spruce, with maple for the back and sides. Theneck is made of maple and ebony, the preferred wood for the fin-gerboard because of its hardness and beauty. These parts arecarefully carved and shaped, and then glued together with a spe-cial glue - never nailed. After the body of the cello is assembledand varnished, the four strings, bridge, tailpiece, endpin, and var-ious smaller pieces are added. Four strings (sometimes five onthe double bass) which are made of animal gut, nylon or steel andare wrapped around pegs at one end of the instrument and at-tached to a tailpiece at the other end. The strings are stretchedtightly across a bridge to produce their assigned pitches.

The cello is the tenor voice in the string family. It plays notes thatare lower than the viola but not as low as the string bass. Thestrings are more than twice as long as the strings on the viola. Asymphony orchestra will usually have 8 to 12 cellists. While it’sshaped like a violin, the cello is much larger and is held betweenthe player’s knees as they are sitting down. In today’s orchestras,

cellists also support most of the weight of the cello with an endpinthat extends out from the bottom of the cello. The left hand is re-sponsible for fingering the notes, while the right hand plucks orbows the strings.

Interesting Cello Facts• Famous violin maker Antonia Stradivari was the first to create anupright cello like the ones we use today. He also was the first toadd the tail spikes so they can rest on the floor.• The plural of cello is celli.• A person who plays a cello is a cellist.• Cello strings are tuned in the same way as viola strings, exceptthey are an octave lower.

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Volleyball has become a very popular sport. The game was in-vented in 1895 by William G. Morgan. He was a teacher at aYMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He combined parts of othersports like tennis, baseball, basketball and handball to create anew game played indoors. Morgan borrowed the net from tennisand raised it six and a half feet above the floor. It was differentthen compared to what it is today. At first, you could have as manyplayers as you wanted on a team. There were nine innings pergame with three outs per inning. There was also no limit on thenumber of hits of the ball on each side of the court.

Here are the modern rules of today:

•Volleyball is played by two teams of six players on a court dividedby a net. Three players are positioned in the front row and threeare in the back row.• The object of the game is to send the ball over the net so that theopposing team cannot return the ball or prevent it from hitting theground in their court.• Each team has three hits to attempt to return the ball over the netto the other team.• The ball is put in play by a serve that is hit by the server over the

net to the opponent.• When the receiving teamwins a volley, it gains theright to serve, and theplayers rotate one positionclockwise.• When the serving teamwins a volley, it wins apoint and the right to con-tinue serving.• The player who rotatesinto the back-right positionwill serve the ball. Thatplayer must stand behindthe serving line when serv-ing the ball. The server

can use theirhand or arm tohit the ball. Theball must goover the net andfall within theboundary lineson the opposingteam's side. Ifthe serving teamwins the point,then the sameplayer will con-tinue to servethe ball.• A game isplayed to 21points or someother agreedupon number.The team thatwins the besttwo out of threegames wins thematch.

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Ace - When the ball is served to the other team and no onetouches it.Sideout - When the team that served the ball makes a mistake,causing the ball to go to the other team.Roof - When a player jumps above the height of the net and blocksthe ball.Dig - When a player makes a save from a very difficult spike.Kill - When a team spikes the ball and it ends in either a point ora sideout.

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Harry Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884. He grew up in thecity of Independence and prospered as a Missouri farmer. He loved to read andwas taught by his mother. He was also an excellent piano player. Truman was ed-ucated at local grade and high schools and in 1923, he attended two years of lawschool.

During World War I, as a member of the National Guard, he went to France as aCommander of his Field Artillery unit. When he returned he married Elizabeth (Bess)Virginia Wallace and opened a store in Kansas City. They had one child, Margaret.

He was very active in the Democratic Party. He became a senator in 1934. Dur-ing World War II, he headed the Senate war investigating committee and saved asmuch as 15 billion dollars checking into waste and corruption.

He became Vice President under President Roosevelt and on April 12, 1945, whenRoosevelt died, he became president. During his term as vice president, he re-ceived no briefing on the develpment of the atomic bomb or the problems regardingSoviet Russia. These are items he found out about when he became president.When Japan refused to surrender, Truman along with his consultants and advisors,ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities that were devoted towar work. Two of these cities were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenderedquickly after that.

He presented Congress with a 21 point program that proposed expansion of So-cial Security, a full employment program, a perma-nent Fair Employment Practices Act, public housingand slum clearance. This program became knownas the Fair Deal.

In 1947, when the Soviet Union pressured Turkeyand threatened to take over Greece, he asked Con-gress to aid these two countries. Thus came theTruman Doctrine. President Truman implementedthe Marshall Plan, which was named for his Secre-tary of State, George Marshall. This plan stimu-lated the economic recovery in western Europe.

Russia blockaded the western part of Berlin in1948 and the United States created an airlift tosupply Berliners with food and other supplies untilRussia backed down. President Truman negoti-ated a military allliance to protect Western nationsin 1949, which was called the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization. This was a group of countries thatpromised to help protect one another.

In 1950, when the Communist government ofNorth Korea attacked South Korea, a struggle

HARRY S. TRUMAN33rd President, 1945-1953

started. Truman ordered troops to South Korea to help stopa communist invasion.

He retired at the age of 88 to Independence, Missouri anddied on December 26, 1972.

Fun Facts:

• One of President Truman’s famous sayings was, "If youcan't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." He meant youneed to take responsibility for what you do.• Harry Truman and his future wife Bess Wallace were theonly President and First Lady to graduate from the same highschool.• President Truman gave many speeches over the radio tothe American people. That way everyone could hear impor-tant news from him. Most people did not have televisions yet.• He really liked to read. By the age of 14 he was said tohave read all the books in the public library. He also read thefamily bible 3 times.• A famous quote from President Truman was: "Within thefirst few months, I discovered that being a President is likeriding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed."

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• ‘Tyrannosaurus’ comes from theGreek words meaning ‘tyrantlizard’, while the word ‘rex’ means‘king’ in Latin.• Tyrannosaurus rex is often ab-breviated to T-Rex.• Tyrannosaurus rex lived in anarea of the Earth that now makesup western North America.• Tyrannosaurus rex measured upto 42 feet in length, 13 feet at thehip and could weigh up to 7 tons!• The skull of a Tyrannosaurus rexalone measured up to 5 feet long.• The largest tooth of any carnivo-rous dinosaur found to this date isthat of a T-Rex. It is estimated tohave been around 12 inches longwhen including the root.• When Tyrannosaurus rex hitaround the age of 14 its body sizewould increase rapidly, putting onaround 1300 pounds a year overthe next 4 years.• Tyrannosaurus rex had smallarms that were extremely powerfuland featured two clawed fingers.

• The name ‘Triceratops’ comesfrom the Greek language, with ‘tri’meaning three and ‘keratops’meaning horned face.• Triceratops lived in the late Cre-taceous Period (around 65 millionyears ago). • It needed its three horns to tryand protect itself from the Tyran-nosaurus Rex which lived duringthe same time period.• It is believed that fully grownTriceratops were about 26 feet inlength, 10 feet in height andweighed anywhere between 6 to12 tons.• The skull of a Triceratops alonecould grow over 7 feet in length.• The Triceratops was a plant eat-ing (herbivore) dinosaur.• The first known fossils to be thatof a Triceratops were horns at-tached to a partial skull, found nearDenver, Colorado in 1887.• Triceratops had anywhere be-tween 400 and 800 teeth, althoughonly a small percentage of thesewere in use at any one time asthey were constantly replacedthroughout its lifetime.• The State of Wyoming lists theTriceratops as its state dinosaur.

• The Stegosaurus is the most fa-mous dinosaur from a group of di-nosaurs known as Stegosauria.They were all herbivores (planteaters) and featured rows ofunique bones that developed intoplates and spines along their backand tail.• The name ‘Stegosaurus’ comesfrom the Greek words ‘stegos’meaning roof and ‘sauros’ mean-ing lizard.• Stegosaurus fossils have beenfound in western North America. • In terms of size, the Stegosauruswas large and heavily built. On av-erage, a fully grown Stegosauruswas around 30 feet in length, 14feet in height and up to nearly 5metric tons in weight.• Although the Stegosaurus bodywas large, the size of their brainwas only around the size of adog’s.• The 17 plates found along theback of the Stegosaurus arosefrom the skin rather than being at-tached to the skeleton. The largestplates were around 2 feet tall and 2feet wide.• The Stegosaurus also featuredtail spikes that reached around 2 to3 feet in length.

• The Spinosaurus lived around100 million years ago in what isnow North Africa.• The name Spinosaurus means‘spine lizard’.• Fossils of the Spinosaurus werefirst found in Egypt around 1910.• The Spinosaurus was larger thanthe Tyrannosaurus Rex and mayhave been the largest carnivorous(meat eating) dinosaur ever.• Studies estimate that it wasaround 49 feet in length andweighed anywhere between 7 to20 tons.• The Spinosaurus featured dis-tinctive spines which grew over 1.5metres (5 feet) long.• The Spinosaurus had a long, thinskull.• While the Spinosaurus usuallywalked on two legs, studies sug-gest that it may have occasionallycrouched on all four.• Spinosaurus were featured in thepopular movie Jurassic Park 3.

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Animals NativeTo Estonia

The Eurasian Badger is a very uniqueanimal. The young are called a “kit,” thefemales are called a “sow” and the malesare called a “boar”. A group of badgers arecalled a “colony” or “clans”.

They live in large underground cata-combs called “setts”. Badgers inherit settsfrom their parents, who in turn inheritedthem from their parents, and so on. It isbelieved that some setts are centuries old!The setts consist of interlocking tunnelswith nest chambers, toilets and several en-trances. They live in social groups under-ground and continually expand the setts.The Eurasian badger makes it's home inforests or other areas with woody cover. While the badger may live in a for-est it does most of it’s nocturnal foraging out in the open fields.

Eruasian Badgers are grey in color with a black underside and legs. Theirface and neck are white with a black stripe on each side. Their body lengthis 22-35 inches with a tail length of 5 to 8 inches. They weigh between 22-26pounds.

The badger is an omnivore (eats both plants and animals). They mainly feedon earth worms, insects, frogs, birds, lizards, small mammals, fruit, eggs andcarrion.

The CommonCrane is the onlyspecies of cranesin Estonia. It is alarge grey bird thathas black patchesof skin withoutfeathers and somered patches on theback of the head.There is a whiteband on bothsides of it’s headand neck. The billis greenish brownand it’s legs areblack.

When the Com-mon Crane flies, itstretches it’s neck

forward. It also never lands in trees! Cranes feed on plants, berries, stalks, small animals,

frogs, snakes, insects and more. They migrate to NorthAfrica during the winter. Cranes fly in a triangle for-mation. The length of their wingspan is about eightfeet. They return to their familiar nesting places in thespring.

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The Eurasian Otter is a soli-tary creature and is territorial.They den in a riverbank, in aburrow called a ‘holt’ and aremost active at night. Theyhave a slim, mustelid (weasellike) body, with a thick tail thatis fleshy and muscular. Allfour of their feet are webbedand their nostrils and ears canbe closed when it’s in thewater. The otter’s fur is shortand dense, so it keeps theskin dry by trapping a layer of air around the body. The otter is an excellentswimmer and diver.

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Valentine Strawberry Shortcakes2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup shortening, chilled 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut in small pieces 1 cup buttermilk 1 quart strawberries cut small 1/4 cup sugar 1 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets. In a large bowl,whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Cut in the shorteningand butter using two knives or a pastry blender until the pieces are about the sizeof peas. Add the buttermilk and stir to blend.

Turn out on lightly floured board. Knead about 4 times and pat into a 3/4-inchthick rectangle. Using a 3-inch heart-shaped cutter, cut out biscuits. Cut as manybiscuits as possible by reforming scraps into a 3/4-inch thick rectangle. Bake about 20 minutes or until golden and baked through.

In a medium bowl, mix strawberries and sugar to combine. Let sit until juiceforms. In a large bowl with a beater on medium-high, beat cream with sugar andvanilla until whipped. To serve, slice through biscuit horizontally and place cutsides up on a plate. Top with 1/4 cup berries and juice and 1/3 cup of whippedcream.

Love Potion Smoothie1/2 cup frozen strawberries1/2 cup frozen raspberries1 small carton of yogurt1/2 cup ice cubes1 cup apple juice

Place strawberries, raspberries and juice in blender. Blend sev-eral seconds. If you would like a thicker smoothie add more fruit,or for a drinkable smoothie add 1/4 cup more juice.

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Kids World News, Kent/Ionia Counties, Feb., 2016