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wildcat pride rhes reaching high expecting success magazine v ol um e 3 issue 7 apri l/may 2012

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page 2 earth day by abigail irby do you like picking up trash to help the earth you can do this on earth day earth day is april 22 if there wasn t earth day the earth would be all yucky and dirty would you want to live in a very dirty home i definitely would not on earth day you can pick up li er glass and plas c we also pick up those things even when it s not earth day earth day comes only once a year and every day can be earth day because it s good for the earth hope you like cleaning the earth on earth day april fool s traditions on april fool s day peo ple play mean but fun ny tricks some people put a sign on the back of someone that says kick me when they are not looking in some countries like germany people call by katherine bader people s ears to wake them up some of these are silly or mean but i sure would want to do one of these tricks someday have you ev er play an april fool s day trick on someone this holiday april fish because they try to tape a paper fish on someone s back some students even try to squirt their teachers with silly spray that day some people honk a horn in other american red cross month american red cross month is in march the american red cross was created by clara barton in 1881 today over 40,000 nurses are in volved in the american red cross the american wildcat pride by jackson martin red cross is for emer gencies for example if you were in an earth quake the american red cross would help you in 1943 president franklin d roosevelt declared american red cross fundraisers for the ameri can red cross to help injured people who fought in world war 2 in 2012 a tornado hit indiana and kentucky the people that were injured were helped by the american red cross.

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volume 3 issue 7 page 3 if pets had thumbs day do you ever think about what would happen if pets had thumbs well some funny things that they could do are open his/her treat bag change the channel on tv when you ask them to get on the internet and order toys play a game of thumb war and hold your hand by rhiannon jacobson opening doors and holding things if pets had thumbs they could do your typing for you open the door and hold your books for you that is all that i know about pets having thumbs so consider those unan swered ques ons so they don t run off do you know any other things that your pet could do if your pet had thumbs i have 1 more ques on for you have you ever won dered if it would be good or bad if your pet had thumbs there is 1,000,000 ways to use your thumbs like typing first basketball game do you know how the first basketball game was invented if you don t i can tell you how in 1891 a coach named dr james nai smith invented basket by jerrad galano ball up and down a court and scored points by landing the ball in a peach basket iron hoops were made in 1893 now you know about basketball ball he invented the game at springfield col lege [which was y.m.c.a the rules were made in 1892 be fore they used hoops people dribbled a soccer severe weather awareness week what happens during the week of feb ruary 610 severe weather aware ness week some schools talk about different weather topics on monday the topic is preparedness on tues day it s thunderstorm safety on wednesday it s tornado safety fol lowed by a tornado drill at 9 a.m for all schools across georgia on thurs by madeline morow can strike at any me so get prepared now want to find out more go to www.weather.com and click on weather then click on severe weather or weather ready day it s lightning safety on friday it s flood safety with a drill for certain parts of georgia severe weather awareness week was declared in january 2012 by our governor nathan deal why in april 2011 georgia was hit with 15 tor nadoes in just 3 days if bad weather occurs on wednesday the tornado drill will be moved to friday severe weather

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page 4 33 flavors day by kellie bigbie thirtythree flavors day is on march 3rd did you know the company that made 33 flavors is called baskin rob bins since 1945 baskin rob bins has served more than 1,000 delicious ice cream fla vors along me ago two brothersinlaws burt baskin and irv robbins had a dream to open an ice cream place called baskin robbins baskin robbins set the world record for the biggest ice cream scoop ever did you know that somebody named mitch cohen scooped the most ice cream in one minute 19 scoops and now he is in the big book of world records in 1995 they got a new flavor called love po on and it s for valen ne s day cowboy day mrs hill s class had a cowboy day to celebrate the west ern theme of stories we had been reading in our reading book we dressed up like cowboys and cow girls then we prac ced our cowboy by abbi jarrard songs and dances right before recess we each got to sit on a real saddle and have our picture taken a er recess we got togeth er with some other classes and played ring the bull lasso the horse and we even barrel raced on s ck horses it was hot but fun out there when we came back inside we cooled off by si ng around the fire and having a cowboy meal that contained rolls root beer trail mix baked beans beef jerky and haystacks for dessert when we finished our meal we sang cowboy songs and danced around the room together we had a lot of fun pretending to be in the wild west for one day national teacher day na onal teacher day is may 3rd mrs ma ye whyte woodrigde created a day to compli ment teachers in wildcat pride by layla murray sent like roses a candle and chocolate you can be sweet to your teacher on this day 1944 one teacher day you should give your teacher credit on teacher day you can give your teacher a pre

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volume 3 issue 7 page 5 pets are wonderful month pets are wonderful month or paws month is in the month of april some of the rea sons some people think pets are won derful is because by myah mccottry they are good to have around if you are alone so you can have someone to play with and some of them can wake you up one of the reasons i think pets are wonderful is because they make me hap py when i m sad and when i m bored i play with my pets so i m not bored april fool s day april fool s day is cele brated on april 1 in the western part of the world this day is for good hearted pranks hoaxes gags and giggles it is a kind of day where i can say watch out the day by reilly white fooling in scotland they call it hun ng the gawk so if you get pranked you re the gawk so have a good april fool s day is spent trying to get peo ple to laugh and believe in falsehood the sco sh people love april fool s day in fact they love it so much that they celebrate it for two days can you believe that two days of juliette gordan low julie e gordon low was the founder of girl scouts she was born october 31 1860 in savan nah georgia everyone called her daisy stunts she always put on plays for her li le brothers and sisters she was a fair poet even though she could never spell her by jenn pierre-louis paris a er william died to study sculpture she wanted to start a career for herself art had always been a talent of julie e low she included it in everything from her cartoon for women s suffrage to the illustra ons in her earliest le ers to her parents to the paper natural enthusiasms kept her in trouble she also lost her hearing in her other ear by accident because someone accidentally threw rice in her ear when daisy became older she got married to william mackay low in 1886 daisy moved with her husband to england daisy went to

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page 6 juliette gordon low cont dolls she created of louisa may alco s eight cousins she drew with pencils painted in oil and sculpted in clay and stone she painted china carved furniture and even learned blacksmithing in 1912 julie e gordon low s father william gordon passed away something for the girls when julie e arrived in savan nah she went straight to the girls themselves she held teas with girls which were so successful by the end of the party they were begging for a troop daisy needed help with the organiza on so she called her cousin mrs nina anderson pape a na onally known educator who ran her own school now she is known as the girl scout founder her evil twin her evil twin by mimi mcoy is a good book i have read anna is one of those people who are normal and good in class a girl passes her a note which says to meet her in the old bathroom when she gets there it s all a a book review by abbye morgan what anna did when anna made trou ble since emma looks like anna she starts doing things that are mean to other people did anna wish her into existence check this book out at the library to see what happens joke a er that anna meets emma a girl who always does something bad anna s mother re membered that when anna was li le she had an imaginary friend named emma and anna would blame emma for national jelly bean day did you know that na onal jelly bean day starts on april 22 jelly beans are a small bean shaped type of candy with a hard shell and a gummy inside which come in different flavors wildcat pride by alden williams jelly beans date back to the 1860 s jelly beans became part of easter in the 1930 s did you know that it takes 7 to 21 days to make a jelly bean the colors they have for jelly beans are red orange pink and much more did you know that jelly beans were the first candy to be sold by weight rather by piece the company which first made jelly beans was a company called herman goelitz candy.

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volume 3 issue 7 page 7 nurses day nurses day is also known as na onal rn recogni on day it is always begins on may 6th and ends on may 12th the birth date of florence nigh ngale na onal nurses day is one of na on s largest healthcare events rec by emily holland ognizing the contribu ons and commitments nurses make it also ed ucates the public about the work they do the american heart associa on supports and en courages na onal nurs es day through state and independent health care in 1953 dorothy sutherland made na onal nurses day in 1974 president nixon changed it to na onal nurses week in 1981 it started on may 6th ended on may 12th there is also na onal student nurses day which starts on may 8th hermione granger hermione is a character in the harry po er book series her full name is hermione jean granger she was born on 19th of september 1979 to den st parents in the muggle world muggles are what wizards call people that don t have a single drop of by sienna harrold ously considered pu ng her in ravenclaw during sor ng however it finally sorted her into the gryffindor house she has had a lot of adven tures with harry po er and ron weasley magic in them at the age of eleven she found out she was a witch and was ad mi ed into the hogwarts school of witchcra and wizardry her first day of school was on september 1 1991 she was almost twelve then the sor ng hat seri eiffel tower day facts march 30th is eiffel tower day it was build in paris france the inventor of the building is named alexndra gustave eiffel he is a french engineer they started to build it in 1887 it took 2 by grace conn have to go up 1,665 steps or take an eleva tor it was known as the tallest building un l 1930 years and 2 months so it end ed in 1889 the city of paris owns the eiffel tower not alexndra the eiffel tower is made of mostly iron it weighs 10,100 tons it is 312 meters high to get to the top you

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page 8 pluto by emily alexander pluto was called a planet for several ered by clyde w tom years and now it s called baugh clyde discovered a dwarf planet pluto pluto on february 18 1930 he also was born on also is bumpy and has craters craters are dents february the 4th 1906 and died on january 17 in planets made by aster 1997 he was an ameri oids asteroids are space can astronomer and dis rocks that come in differ covered pluto before he ent shapes and sizes even a ended college wow they can cause a lot of damage too pluto was once discov defenders point out that pluto appears to be a lump of ice with some dirt mixed into it now here is something to keep in mind pluto is only 1,400 miles 2 300 km wide that s about half the united states most of all clyde was known for discovering pluto magic johnson do you know who mag ic johnson is he is a basketball player who played for the la lak ers magic johnson was born in lansing michi gan in 1959 he was one of the people in the nba to dominate the by alden williams lakers a championship he was the first rookie to win a nba finals mvp award in 1980 magic johnson was the only player to play all 5 posi ons he was the first 6 9 point guard he won 1 olympic gold med al in 1992 for basketball court he won 5 nba champions and 3 finals mvp awards in 1980 1982 and in 1987 one me during the nba finals magic johnson had 42 points 15 re bounds 7 assists and 3 steals and gave the incredible kid day march 15 to march 17 is incredible kid day incredible kid day is when you write a le er to your kid incredible wildcat pride by avery zieba to seem impossible incredible is also an adjec ve these days are about celebra ng incredible kids kid day is also to thank your kids for what they do for you the word incredible means so extraordinary as

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volume 3 issue 7 page 9 national letter writing week let s all pick up are pencils and pens and start wri ng how will you celebrate na onal le er wri ng week without wri ng a le er na onal le er wri ng week is janu ary 916 a lot of peo ple like to celebrate na onal le er wri ng week by wri ng a le er to a family mem ber or friend many people now use email and text to send mes sages also le er wri ng week will help by avery zieba you learn how to write be er when you do need to write one so take all your me in na onal le er wri ng week to hand write a le er april fools day april fools sunday was april fools day april 1st many different countries celebrate this holiday in so many fun and cool ways for you example in portugal they only prank on the sunday or the monday before lent if you are italian or french you by abby graham the lions being washed under the joseon dynasty of korea the royal family cour ers were allowed to lie to each other in 1686 john au brey said fools holy day instead of april fools day would tack a paper fish on someone s back and shout april fish in england you can only do pranks in the morning in la n april fools is a day full of jokes in 1698 on april 1 a few people were tricked in to going to the tower of london to see tintin by teg kular tin n s favorite words were great snakes tin n s biggest enemy is rastapopulas he has been in most of the books and movies tin n has been translat ed into 70 languages the lan guage that is used in tin n is bri sh tin n was once a comic book story and s ll is it is a series with 23 com ics so check out the movie or the comic books the secret of the unicron is a movie that was released in march 2012 it is about a boy named tin n and his adven tures tin n is a character in vented by herge in the story the captain s favorite words were thundering typhoons

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page 10 morse code day by abigail irby do know what morse code is it is when people use special codes dots and dash es to communicate did you know that morse code day is on april 27 only one sentence could take up a whole page in 1836 samuel morse invented morse code do you know how to write hi in morse code this how you say hi that is really long just to say hi elephants by myah mccottry phant s trunk is really flexible did you know that an african ele phant s ears are bigger than an indian elephant s ears some people think elephants can hear really well because their ears are very very big but they really have very poor hearing the knuckle is the back of an elephant s ears and is one of the so est places on an elephant s body elephants eat mostly different types of grasses but they also eat other things like leaves and bark there are three different species of elephants one type of elephant is an af rican elephant they are very very large and are grey fourlegged animals african elephants have almost no hair on their skin an african ele national grilled cheese sandwich month by thomas petrino april is na onal grilled cheese sandwich month there are lots of tasty and crea ve ide wildcat pride as for grilled bu er john montagu made the first sand cheese sand wich in 1762 the first wiches the main ingredients grilled cheese sand wich was made in the are bread 1920s cheese and

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volume 3 issue 7 page 11 cougars by layla murray cougars are rarely seen they are also known as mountain lions they have powerful jaws they weigh 140 to 180 pounds they are 7 8 feet long their paws and claws help catch their prey adults eat elk moose wild sheep and more young cougars eat raccoons rabbits and other small ani mals they drag and carry their prey to their home to eat it earth day by javier layne lord nelson created earth day the first earth day is on april 22 1970 do you know over 20 million people across the u.s par ci pated in the first earth day earth day is a really great day to care for our earth earth day is april 22.the name earth day was named by john mcconnell in 1969 did you know earth day has a theme senator gay lil wayne by javier layne do you know lil wayne real name is dwayne michael carter jr lil wayne grew up in a poor neighborhood lil wayne was eight when he started rap ping did you know lil wayne has a daugh ter the music video how to love came out on august 23 2011.

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page 12 mrs mathews by miranda sanders do you know who mrs mathews is mrs mathews is our school s art teacher mrs ma hews s full name is patricia har per mathews did you that mrs mathews is in an art group called the five the five paint to gether every monday the five also go to art shows and sell their pain ngs mrs ma hews s fa vorite color is green i think mrs mathews is a great art teach er save your hearing day save your hearing day is on may 31st the defini on of hearing is to listen if you turn the radio or the tv on too loud you can bust by taylor boram hearing aids hearing aids will your ear drums vitamins a c and e help you hear be er can help your hear ing if you have a hard me hearing that s probably be cause you need tv turn-off week tv turnoff week is april 18th25th tv is bad for your eyes instead of watching tv you can put to gether a puzzle go to the library go ice ska ng listen to the ra wildcat pride by taylor boram weight because you don t get exercise if you are older than 2 you should not watch more than 1 or 2 hours of tv each day some people say does the tv control us or do we control the tv dio go to the zoo paint a picture read a book play with your pet write a le er go to a museum and go to a party if you spend 4 hours or more watching tv you could be over

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volume 3 issue 7 page 13 pickle week did you know that pickle week is may 1728 for more than 4,000 years pickles have been the dilllight of fa mous pickleloving people such as by jeremy smith thomas jefferson mrs howell all aristotle cleopatra like dill pickles and elvis presley a couple of teachers in our school like mrs cantele mrs bill mrs zofall mrs tucker and catahoula leopard dogs the catahoula leop ard dog is known to hunt hogs it is from louisiana it can grow up to 26 feet and weigh 80 pounds catahoula leopards by jackson martin a en on or another dog to play with can have brown white black and gray fur your catahoula will need a toy because they have lots of ener gy it will need lots of the undertaker the undertaker is awe some undertaker is a wwe superstar his real name is mark william cala way he was born on march 24 1965 some of his nick by ben clark names are the deadman and the man from the dark side undertaker is in the smackdown division his wwe debut was in 1990 he is also kane s glen jacob half brother he now has a wrestlemania 200 winning streak if you want to see him tune in on fridays at 8pm or on monday at 9pm on syfy channel or usa.

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page 14 dolphin awareness month by bria williams dolphin awareness month is in march it is about loving and caring for dolphins dolphins are extreme ly intelligent they are related to whales and porpoises some people misname them as whales for ex ample they call them killer whales or orcas pilot whales and melon headed whales dolphins are mam mals they are warmblooded do you know what the bo lenose dol phin is bo lenose dolphins can stay under water for 15 minutes or more their brain weighs 15001600 grams the bo lenose dolphin can grow up to 2.8 meters they are social beings do you know what the chinese river dolphin is chinese river dolphins are called baiji in chinese their nose is long thin and curves upward at the end the underside of them is white the males weigh 500 pounds and the females weigh a bit less than that also the males can grow up to 8 feet and the fe males can grow up to 6 feet i hope you ve learned a lot about dolphin aware ness month mothers day traditions it s almost mothers day do you know what you going to do for mom for mothers day you be er start thinking because it is on may 13th this year here are tradi ons that i know one tradi on is to take your mom to the zoo an other tradi on is to go to your mom s favorite restaurant also you can take your mom to see a movie that she by hailey machrione has been wan ng to see another thing you can do for your mom is make her breakfast in bed the best thing to do for your mom is give her a big surprise fun facts about names day fun facts about name day is on march 5 if your name is timothy s nson then you have 1,003,912 of your first name and 29,835 of your last name but if your name is katherine wildcat pride by bayla osden bader then you have 490,210 of your first name and 10,474 of your last name cath erine nelson has 584,180 of the first name and 478,666 of the last name gavin whaley has 15,662 of the first name and 25,545 of the last name aaron taylor has 9,401 of the first name and 836,801 of your last name how many people share your same name?

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volume 3 issue 7 page 15 banana cream pie day march 2nd is banana cream pie day ba nana cream pie is made out of bana nas milk sugar eggs and other in gredients alexan der the great dis by blake huennekens covered bananas bananas are really good sources of vit amin c bananas don t grow on trees they grow on a plant a cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas banana cream pie is topped with whip cream you can top ba nana cream pie with any of your favorite toppings re member to celebrate banana cream pie day national twilight zone day do you know what the twilight zone is sure it s in the ocean but it s really a tv show and it has its own holi day on may 11 the tv show was started in 1959 and was narrated by rod serling the ep isodes were wacky sci fi and always had a surprise ending the series ended in 1964 fun fact the tower of by madeline morow terror at disney world was actu ally based on the twilight zone willow trees by felicity gentry female flowers willows are typi cally fast growing and new plants are made by seeds carried by in sects pollina on or by tree cu ngs new trees have been known to take root and grow from willow branches that fall to the ground willows are fre quently pioneer species meaning that are the first to inhabit a new area or to re populate an area a er a scour ing event such as fire have you ever seen a willow tree before willow trees are flower producers called angio sperms their flowers don t have petals they are simple small and growing in narrow clusters called catkins specific trees produce either male or

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