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EARTH DAY By : Alexandra

Earth Day began on April 22, 1970 and has been an important day ever since. It's a day to reflect on our

planet, our environment and what we can do to help keep them healthy. You can start with things like

reusing recycled items. You can learn about your local areas recycling program. Help your parents sort

the recycling and encourage them to recycle. This is one of those times where the kids may be teaching

the parents. You can do the same thing at school, clubs, home and anywhere else you spend time.

What is Earth Hour? Earth hour was set up to raise awareness on climate change; it encourages

households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour, at the same time on the

same day; symbolizing universal awareness, support and the need to take action on environmental issues.

The Earth Hour event was created by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). The first event took place in

2007 in Sydney, Australia. It is a global event that takes place in March each year.

How can you help save our environment?

In this issue:

Superheroes pg 2

John Cena pg 2

Turtles pg 2

Periodic Table pg 3

Inventors pg 3

Lamborghinis pg 3

LEGO pg 3

RAK Trip pg 4

Jupiter pg 4

WORDSEARCH pg 4

Riddles pg 4

Atlantis Dolphins By: Mayia

If you want to see dolphins you can go to Dolphin Bay in Atlantis.

You can play with them for 30 minutes. You can throw a ball or a

ring and dance with them! You can even kiss them!

Between each session with humans the dolphin has 30 minutes to

relax and play. There are 8 dolphins and 1 baby dolphin. One of the

dolphins name is Blade.

The people who take care of the dolphins give the dolphins’ fish,

ice and shrimp. They put the dolphin on its back and we can see

their tummy. They let them breathe for 20 seconds so the dolphins

are not stressed. We should not touch their eyes or mouths. They

seem to be happy in Atlantis.

It is so great you should go with your family!!!

Below is a picture of me with one of the dolphins.

IMG World By: Gwen

IMG Worlds of Adventure is an indoor amusement park in Dubai.

It is Dubai’s first mega themed entertainment destination. The park

is divided into four "epic zones". Two of the four epic zones

represent brands such as Cartoon Network and Marvel.

IMG Worlds of Adventure is the largest temperature controlled

indoor themed entertainment destination in the world, covering an

area of 1.5 million square feet.

IMG can host up to 20,000 guests a day. The destination features

adrenaline-pumping roller coasters, thrill rides, and spine-tingling

attractions based on popular Cartoon Network characters such as

Marvel Super Heroes and dinosaurs.

I would suggest checking out this cool spot on the weekend!

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Superheroes By: Mohamed

In modern popular fiction, a superhero is a type of heroic

character who has supernatural or superhuman powers. They are

normally found fighting crime, protecting the public, and

usually battling super villains. A female superhero is sometimes

called a superheroine although the word superhero is

commonly used for females also.

Superhero and superheroine are fiction and normally centered

on characters. It started in the 1930s in American comic books

and is also known as “superhero fiction”. Often at least one of

these super villains will be the superhero's archenemy. Some

superheroes are Iron Man, Captain America, Superman, Wonder

Woman, Batman, Spider-Man and the Hulk.

Facts about Turtles By: Thomas

Turtles are reptiles.

Turtles have a hard shell that protects them like a shield;

this upper shell is called a ‘carapace’.

Turtles also have a lower shell called a ‘plastron’.

Many turtle species (not all) can hide their heads inside

their shells when attacked by predators.

Turtles have existed for around 215 million years and

like other reptiles, turtles are cold blooded.

The largest turtle is the leatherback sea turtle; it can

weigh over 900 kg!

In some species of turtle the temperature determines if

the egg will develop into a male or female. Lower

temperatures lead to a male while higher temperatures

lead to a female.

Some turtles lay eggs in the sand and leave them to hatch

on their own. The young turtles make their way to the

top of the sand and scramble to the water while trying to

avoid predators.

Animals in Maasai Mara By: Lyse

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is a large game reserve in

Narok county in Kenya. It is named in honor of the Maasai

people who were the ancestral inhabitants of the area. Mara

stands for the area when looked at from afar which consist of

circles of trees, scrub, savanna, and cloud shadows that mark the

area.

It is famous for Maasai lions, African leopards and Tanzanian

cheetahs. Each year there is an annual migration of zebra,

Thomson's gazelle, and wildebeest to and from the Serengeti.

This migration happens from July to October and is known as the

Great Migration.

The "Big Five" is a name for a group of animals. “The Big Five”

consists of lions, leopards, African elephants, cape buffalo, and

black rhinoceros which are found in the Maasai Mara.

Hippopotami and crocodiles are found in large groups in the

Mara and Talek rivers. Leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, jackals, and

bat-eared foxes can also be found in the reserve.

John Cena By: Malik and Keyan

John Felix Anthony Cena Jr.

was born on April 23, 1977. He is

an American professional wrestler, rapper, actor, and reality

television show host. He is signed to WWE where he performs on

the SmackDown brand. Cena started his professional wrestling

career in 1999 with Ultimate Pro Wrestling and won the UPW

Heavyweight Championship the following year.

Outside of wrestling, John Cena has released the rap album

You Can't See Me, which reached number 15 on the US Billboard

200 chart.

He has also starred in the feature films The Marine, 12 Rounds,

Legendary, The Reunion, Trainwreck, and Sisters.

1)A Candle 2) A clock 3) There weren’t any stairs it was a one story house 4) They were a grandmother, mother and daughter.5) The man was

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An inventor By: Ewan Periodic Table By: Ken The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published the first table

in 1869. He developed his table to illustrate periodic trends in

the properties of elements.

The Periodic Table is a way of listing the elements. Elements are

listed in the table by the structure of their atoms. This includes

how many protons they have as well as how many electrons they

have in their outer shell.

From left to right and top to bottom, the elements are listed in

the order of their atomic number, which is the number of protons

in each atom. It is called "periodic" because elements are lined

up in cycles or periods.

Lamborghinis By: Ange

Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini was

born on April 28, 1916 and died on

February 20, 1993. He was an Italian

industrialist. His parents were both

grape farmers from Emilia-Romagna.

He was very interested in mechanics which led him to enter the

business of tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded

Lamborghini Trattori. This became an important manufacturer of

agricultural equipment in Italy.

In 1959, he opened an oil heater factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori.

Later he entered the business of producing air conditioning

equipment. In 1963, he most famously created Automobili

Lamborghini, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata

Bolognese. Lamborghini founded a fourth company, Lamborghini

Oleodinamica in 1969. He finally sold all of his businesses in the

late 1970s and retired to an estate in Umbria, where he pursued

winemaking.

The history of LEGO By: Victor

The story of Legoland Billund begins with the toy

bricks invented by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter

from Billund. Christiansen first began producing toys under the name

Lego in 1934. Legos weren’t the interlocking plastic bricks that we

know today, but wooden toys and blocks built to a high

standard of quality that Christiansen believed was

missing in most toys. The name Lego comes from the Danish “leg godt,”or

“play well.” In 1947 Christiansen began experimenting with plastic

bricks. The interlocking system was introduced two years later

in 1949.

If you love Lego you could join the Lego APS Club or

visit LEGO LAND in Dubai!

Original 1934 Ole Kirk Christiansen

1948

2017

Charles Drew was a surgeon was the

inventor of the blood bank. Though

he was of African American

descent, he received good education.

During his residency at Colombia

University’s Presbyterian Hospital,

Drew developed a technique for the

long-term preservation of blood

plasma (the liquid part of blood)

from the whole blood (containing

the red blood cells) and then

refrigerated the two for transfusion

by combining them even after a

week.

He also determined that each person

has certain type of blood (A,B,AB

or O) and therefore a person cannot

receive a full blood transfusion from

someone with a different blood type

though everyone had the same type

of plasma. Drew’s discoveries have

saved countless lives.

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SPORTS Word Search By: Sasha

Trip By: Dana

My CM1 class went on a class trip to RAK on the 16

th of April to

the 18th

of April. We went with a company called Ecoventure.

The first day we went to the mangroves. We went for a nature

walk and saw mangrove trees, crabs and we crossed a river that

changes from low tide to high tide very quickly. We had a

scavenger hunt. Finally, we looked for crabs. On the second day,

we got to see many different animals and we could hold them.

There were snakes, gerbils, turtles, lizards and hedgehogs. We

went kayaking and snorkeling as well. We dissected a squid and

put the ink from the squid on our faces for fun. The third day we

went kayaking, raft building and identified animals from their

bones. We also discussed what plankton was. We arrived back to

Dubai with big smiles on our faces but we were happy to see our

family and have some rest!

Jupiter By: Myriam

Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar

system. Only the Sun, Moon and Venus are brighter. It

is one of five planets visible to the naked eye from

Earth.

Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets.

It turns on its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes.

The rapid rotation flattens the planet slightly, giving it a

strange shape.

Jupiter orbits the Sun once every 11.8 Earth years.

From our point of view on Earth, it appears to move

slowly in the sky, taking months to move from one

constellation to another.

Jupiter has unique cloud features.

The upper atmosphere of Jupiter is divided into cloud

belts and zones.

The Great Red Spot is a huge storm on Jupiter.

It has raged for at least 350 years. It is so large that

three Earths could fit inside it.

RIDDLES By: Rasha

1) I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old.

What am I?

2) What has hands but cannot clap?

3) In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a

pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a

pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything

was pink! What color were the stairs ?

4) Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat,

everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were

eaten in all. How is this possible ?

5) A man was outside taking a walk, when it started to

rain. The man didn’t have an umbrella and he wasn’t

wearing a hat. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single

hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

OUR NEW JOURNALISTS

We hope you enjoy our April issue!!

–Mohamed, Sasha, Malik, Keyan, Thomas, Mayia, Gwen, Lyse, Alex, Ewan,

Ange, Ken, Rasha, Dana A, Myriam, Victor