THE BLARNEY STONE The legend says that if you kiss the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle in Ireland, you will be given the gift of the gab!

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Andrew Brockhaus Day, especially this year! kindness until he met fellow slaves who were I’m on a team of nine… Zoey Vondrak Grade 6 kind to him. They gave him hope that he I like the ball to be mine. could be free and get back home. Heelan Mater Dei Students Share On St. Patrick’s Day I feel lucky. Baseball is so cool, He asked God for help to get back home. The pranks a leprechaun pulls could be My bat is my tool, a Little St. Paddy’s Day with Our God answered him one day and helped yucky. I hit the ball down the line! Readers…Enjoy a Little Bit O’ the him. God told Patrick how to escape You might pull them on your peers, Naeron Bisse Gold …. from his hazardous captures to get home. Or at least give them all an ear. March is coming our way, When he did escape, he spent many years There once was a pot of gold, People say potatoes are absurd, Hurrah, hurrah, hooray! becoming a bishop so he could come back If you stole it, you would turn old, Make sure not to fall backward. In March is St. Patrick’s Day, and free his friend who were slaves. He I ended up sad, You ponder how to make the perfect trap. The leprechauns like to play! then came back and asked for his friends to Because I needed it bad, Maybe we can have a slingshot or a snap. He brings us all glamorous coins, be freed, but everyone laughed at him. The I should have listened to what I was told! You’d have to be ingenious to catch him. And after that he loves to join, king of the landscape gave him an offer. If Nyla Jochum He might be a little slim. Other enthusiastic leprechauns take ight, Patrick passed certain tests, his friends would There are many games to play, There once was a boy named Harry, Gliding quietly through the night. be freed. Also, the king would change his On St. Patrick’s Day! who smelled like cake and berries. The landscape in March is beautiful, ways and become Catholic. Patrick passed He fell into some mud, And I am really being truthful. Maggie Breyfogle Grade 6 the tests with ease due to the help of God. And went into the tub, When windy March comes to an end, Look at that leprechaun! He just maneuvered The king honored the deal; so he freed the So now he smells like a fairy I’ll want it soon to come again! around the room and turned over all the slaves, changed his religion, and went up Ella Demers Elen Pruett Grade 6 desks and their chairs looking for his pot to be a better king to his people across the There once was a baby bee, Family, friends, games, fun, it’s St. Patrick’s of gold! Oh, how nice. He left us bags of lands. Who tried to make friends with a ea, Day! Every St. Patrick’s Day we make candy to apologize. I got my favorite, Twix! Noah Zeisler Grade 8 Can you guess what day it is? But then the ea bit him, a whole bunch of Irish foods such as Your imagination starts owing as you That’s right, it’s St. Patrick’s Day! It’s a day And the baby bee hit him, shepherd’s pie. I remember one year picture a leprechaun sliding down the to celebrate St. Patrick and his immaculate Now there is a rivalry! when my mom made green pancakes for arch of a rainbow with his hands raised in golden staff. The narrative I just described Lauryn Peck breakfast. Another year I woke up and right triumph, landing in a pot of gold when he was what happened to me in kindergarten away I could smell things baking. Was reaches the end. He jumps up and down, Four-Leaf-Clover when I got to school on March 17. On St. it someone’s birthday? No, it was March. up and down with his hands full of gold I found a four-leaf-clover Patrick’s Day, according to superstition, It was St. Patrick’s Day! It was time to get coins. What you’re imagining is a made-up In the white Cliffs of Dover. everyone has to wear green or they will get baking. When we got all the baking done, scenario that only pops up in your mind But then I coughed, pinched by a leprechaun. I wear as much we just waited for our guests to arrive. Some on a special day, March 17. March 17 is And one leaf fell off, green as I can! Anyways, here’s to a pot of years we have some family and friends over. also St. Patrick’s Day, the day when spring And then my luck was over! gold for you. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Liam Cleary Grade 6 comes close, people wear green, think of Jacob Oldenkamp Brooklynn Roder Grade 6 My most memorable St Patrick’s Day was leprechauns and rainbows and pots of gold, There once was a girl named Reese, when I was in preschool. I remember My family is Irish so we have fun with shepherds, and don’t forget the name of the She was a talented niece, everyone wore green. We all got tons St. Patrick’s Day. We make a trap for the holiday, St. Patrick. It’s a day full of fun and She wasn’t always right, of candy, and we had to hide from the leprechaun. We use paper, glue, boxes, enthusiasm. Could it be an absurd one, too? But she still shined bright, leprechaun. The teachers painted green string, and markers. Once the box is all put Yes, it can. In both good and bad ways, but And that’s the story of Reese! foot prints all over the school. They made the together we set it up. It is always a very we mostly hope for the best. Reese Chicoine toilet water green. Mrs. Chris, our teacher, glamorous box. By this time we get into bed. St. Patrick’s Day is a luminous day for me. It’s my birthday! Yup, I was born on March I’m on a star so it would seem, pretended to be the leprechaun. They put We hope the leprechaun comes. 17. Let me tell you a little bit more about St. Falling towards the earth so green, blotches of green in our mashed potatoes. By morning time we wake up and jump out Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick’s Day is held on But right before I hit the ground The teachers did a really efcient job with of bed. Our parents lecture us to be quiet so March 17 all the time because it’s the feast I awoke without a sound, decorations. we don’t scare him. We creep into the living day of the famous Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick Oh, what a wonderful dream! Mrs. Chris dressed up like the leprechaun room and open the box. HE ESCAPED! We are disappointed every year because we was mostly known for teaching us about the Rosie Markham and went upstairs and got tones and tons of gold. She threw all the gold down the don’t catch him. We go to the kitchen and shamrock and the Holy Trinity. The shamrock There once was a sh who could talk stairs for us to nd. We went out across nd mufns though! They are chocolate has three leaves and they all stand for the He wanted to learn how to walk the playground to nd 4 leaf clovers. The chip mufns with green food coloring. The Holy Trinity: In the Name of The Father, Son, He got out from the sea even painted the yellow brick road green. leprechaun made them for us! They taste and the Holy Spirit. St. Patrick’s Day is a Fell right onto me They painted parts of the rickety playground really good, too. After breakfast, we ponder great day for me. I age up, I eat, I celebrate, And I nearly died from the shock! green! about what next year’s trap will be like so and I have fun. What do you do during this day? Kameron Fjeldheim Anthony Courey Grade 8 we catch him for sure. That’s my family’s tradition on this holiday, what’s yours? Why do people kiss the Blarney Stone? To Kayla Jabre Grade 6 My family’s favorite holiday is St. Patrick’s Caroline Moyer Grade 6 start, the Blarney Stone is an iconic stone Day. We love it because we are all Irish and St. Patrick’s Day is almost here. People are in the walls of the Blarney Castle. Various our traditions have been in the family for Did you ever wonder how this holiday St. always frantic to wear as much green as legends surround the stone’s origin. One years. We always have a HUGE party every Patrick’s Day was formed? If you already possible so they don’t get pinched. There story states it was acquired during the year. We listen to Irish music such as Great know, great, if you don’t then continue is a lot of enthusiasm from kids when St. Crusades and brought to Ireland where it Big Sea and other bands. My dad cooks reading my story. On a nice warm day Patrick’s Day comes. There are also a lot is currently. One really weird fact about potatoes, corn beef and hash, and summer a boy named Patrick was playing and of green decorations like clovers and little it is that tons of people kiss it. Why? It sausage (which I really recommend). This St. having fun with his friends. But a horde of leprechauns that people use to decorate is said that if you kiss the Blarney Stone, Patrick’s Day is very special to me because people who believed that there was more their houses or their classrooms. If you you are given the gift of eloquence and my brother comes back to America from the than one god were nearby. The hordes of don’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day then To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 ST. PATRICK’S DAY 5 someone might harass you about it. I looked again, and he was gone. established on March 17, 461. St. Patrick’s But he couldn`t just go out and roam. St. Patrick’s Day is in the spring time on It must have had a hallucination from all of Day is the feast day of St. Patrick. It began He did their labor but all he could do was March 17 every year. Little clovers and the coffee caffeine. as a religious feast day for the patron saint plea. shamrocks start to pop up all over the The party wasn’t that fun, of Ireland and has become an international He could only grieve, ground. Sometimes you might be able to nd I couldn’t do anything but yawn! festival celebrating Irish culture with things But he soon was able to leave. a four leaf clover. They are rare and really The food was good, like parades, dancing, special foods and He prayed and prayed to our Lord, hard to nd. Little leprechauns are also very It almost tasted absurd! a whole lot of green. Some people have He had to catch a ship which he had to popular in the stores during March. The Then I tripped, because I ran ambition to wear green but some do not, board. leprechauns usually have orange hair and Yesterday, my sister wanted a clover, so if someone is not wearing green on St. And he sailed to Britain and his story came orange beards. They wear little green outts She screamed and I drove her. Patrick’s Day, you get to pinch them. You to be. with green hats. They are very tiny and cute. We went to a eld, might wonder why you would pinch people Brian Wilmes Grade 6 There is also a lot of good fresh air during I missed a sign that said yield! throughout St Patrick’s Day. Well, the reason St. Patrick’s Day is a widely celebrated March because the snow is all melted and We had a big ght, and my dad said it is people began pinching those who didn’t day. It is the feast day of St. Patrick. St. trees start to get their leaves back again and would blow over. wear green as a reminder that leprechauns Patrick was captured and taken to the owers start to grow. Sidney Koob Grade 6 would sneak up and pinch green-abstainers. foreign land of Ireland to become a slave. Abby Albenesius Grade 6 Now I’m going to tell you a little about St. Seven days in a week, seven colors in the God helped him escape, but Patrick returned Patrick and his life. Patrick’s birth name was Saint Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. rainbow, and seven is a winning roll with later as a priest to spread Christianity. Maewyn. He was born in Roman Britain. He Do you know who or what established St. two dice in a game of Chance. Why am I He converted a ton of Irish people to was kidnapped into slavery and brought to Patrick’s? It isn’t just about wearing green, writing about seven you may ask? Because Christianity. He used a shamrock, a small Ireland. and going to parades, although that is fun, it’s lucky. The lucky number seven is one green plant with 3 leaves, in his lecture Patrick became a bishop and after his death it is actually the feast day for St. Patrick. We lucky thing in the world. Another thing is about the Trinity, and it has become a was named Ireland’s patron saint. When have a shamrock that represents this day a lucky face up penny on the ground. The symbol for the holiday. the Irish migrated to the U.S., they created and the shamrock actually stands for the luck of a penny comes not from its value but On St. Patrick’s Day, be sure to wear the bigger celebrations and parades known Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity is the Father, from its shiny metal. When metal was scarce green! If you don’t, be sure to expect a today. Eighteenth century Irish soldiers who Son, and Holy Spirit. One of the fun facts people believed that nding it was a gift swarm of pinches from your friends! Would fought in the Revolutionary War held the rst about St. Patrick’s Day is that Saint Patrick from the gods which would protect the nder you like to know why? It is a reminder to St. Patrick’s Day parades. The celebration wasn’t Irish, he was Catholic. It’s good to against bad luck. Speaking about money, beware of leprechauns. Leprechauns are was a way for the Irish to connect with know a little history about different holidays some people think that wearing alligator fairies who harass anyone who doesn’t their roots after they moved to America. St. and religions! teeth brings good luck while gambling. I wear green with pinches. They show up on Patrick’s Day is not a casual day for most I love Saint Patrick’s Day, the festivities, don’t think I would wear alligator teeth for St. Patrick’s Day, so don’t forget your green Irish people. Most people, the Irish, have big and green clothes! Everyone gets fun little that reason. But I might wear a lucky rabbit’s shirt! Have a happy St. Patrick’s Day! parties and celebrate. knickknacks and green beads from parades foot. There are two stories why a lucky Ricky Arteaga Grade 7 Bailey Logan Grade 7 and other events. On Saint Patrick’s Day, the rabbit’s foot is lucky. Number one if you Did you know that St. Patrick’s Day was leprechaun makes a stop at our house and wear a rabbit’s foot, it’s said your mother/ Saint Patrick`s Day Poem established in the year 493? St. Patrick’s leaves my siblings and me coins, chocolate father will have a child soon. People believe Waking up on Saint Patty`s Day, Day is a glamorous Irish holiday. Some Irish ones. We wake up in the morning and eat a that because of the rabbit’s reproductive Isn`t a time to fray. people have heirlooms from their ancestors. few chocolate coins and then automatically rate. The number two tradition actually Unless you lose your last green shirt, Some people love to celebrate St. Patrick’s get dressed in our green clothing. Don’t comes from voodoo magic. The original You better prepare to get hurt. Day; it’s their favorite holiday. Do you have forget to wear green otherwise you will get legend says that the left hind foot of a rabbit Cause` you`ll be pinched all day. good memories of St. Patrick’s Day? I do! I pinched! that is captured in a cemetery at night Once all that pinching is over, remember in kindergarten when we tried to Makenzie Solma Grade 8 can ward off evil magic. That’s cool but I Better go nd a four leaf clover. catch the leprechaun but he always tricked wouldn’t hurt a rabbit so maybe just buy Then it will give you the guard, Potatoes ll my tummy, us, and when we couldn’t catch him he left the next rabbit’s foot you see at the store. Because people will nd that pinching you Oh, are they so yummy! candy but we had search for it. All through That way no rabbits are hurt and you can is hard. The clovers are as clean as a whistle, the years I have always had great memories. still be lucky. So nd a lucky thing! It can be And it will all be over. Go to a party, look as sharp as a thistle! I hope that you all have good memories too anything. So you can ward off evil magic or Ireland is where this holiday came to be, If you don’t, you’ll look like a dummy. and also have an amazing St. Patrick’s Day. just for luck, have a lucky day. When Saint Patrick had to pack up and The party was nice and clean, Jayden Pelster Grade 7 Josie Abramo Grade 7 leave. It was decorated with little things that were Because he was taken by the Irish to their green. Do you know what St. Patrick’s Day is home, Then, I thought I saw a leprechaun, or why we have it? St. Patrick’s Day was

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St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, is the day that people everywhere wear green. Born in Great Britain during the time of the Roman Empire, St. Patrick was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Ireland where he worked as a shepherd. Look at the words on each He fled to France but eventually returned to Ireland as a missionary. He is of the gold coins. Put them the patron saint of Ireland. in the pot in alphabetical order before the Leprechaun disappears with all the gold!

The Blarney Stone is a rock slab set in the wall of the Blarney Castle tower in the village of Blarney. According to legend, an old woman cast a spell on the stone to reward a king who had saved her from drowning. Kissing the stone gave the king the ability to speak sweetly and convincingly.

Kissing the stone is not an easy task, 1. 6. because it is difficult to reach. Anyone who wants to try has to lie on his or her back, bend backwards and 2. 7. downwards, and hold on to iron bars for support. 3. 8. It is said that those who kiss the Blarney Stone are given the gift of gab, or Blarney: the skill 4. 9. to get anyone to do what he or she wants. This is persuasive talk! 5. 10.

Follow the trail to find the gold coin. Add or subtract the numbers along the correct trail. Write the total on the gold coin.

How many shamrocks can you find on this page in three minutes? Now have a friend try. Who found the most?

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Starting at the upper left clover, leap across the shamrocks, BLARNEY Find the words by looking up, adding and subtracting numbers as you go. Find a path that down, backwards, forwards, totals 30. Avoid the toadstools! IRELAND sideways and diagonally. KISSING LEPRECHAUN N U A H C E R P E L STONE L T E A R O N K D H CASTLE O N W K C T I N E C SPEAK O I L K C S A L S O CLOVER K A E P S L T G P B COBBLER RAINBOW T S E I E S O O A B SAINT Y E N R A L B V N L GOLD K G I C D N E B E E TALK E L L W O B N I A R ROCK BEND

Mr. Boeve’s Fifth Grade Class from Perry Creek Shares a Little “Bit o’ Gold…” C olor is green S hamrocks S hamrocks L ike a leaf T ricks T reasure O utside P atrick’s day P ot of gold V ery rare for 4 A lways wear green A lways excited E asy to nd 3 T oo fun T alent R ight outside R ainbows R ich (Try to see if you can nd a four leaf clover) I found gold I t’s fun to try to nd gold Charlotte Perry Creek Grade 5 C lover C lover K eep the pot of gold K ites S o much green! ‘S pring Cadence Perry Creek Grade 5 Addi Perry Creek Grade 5

How to Catch A Leprechaun St. Patrick’s Day Have you ever heard the phrase that there is a pot of Is it really possible that there is a leprechaun lurking around St. Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture. We BUTTER at the end of the rainbow, or even a four- leaf with a pot of gold? Maybe…maybe not. You may try to all remember St. Patrick, one of Ireland’s Patron Saints, who clover? I am here to tell you more phrases and stuff about nd the leprechaun, but as master Yoda would say, “Do or ministered Christianity in Ireland during the fth century. St. this holiday. See, a four leaf clover means you’re lucky do not. There is no try”. But if you are willing to catch the Patrick’s Day is on or around March 17. because they aren’t easy to ne! Good Luck! leprechaun, build a leprechaun trap. People normally wear green and have parties and parades Jackson Perry Creek Grade 5 Build the trap I’m sharing before you. Fill a pot with gold to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. coins. If you can’t nd any, use quarters or chocolate coins May your blessings outnumber… instead. At night he will come, then in the morning, if you The shamrocks that grow, are lucky, you will nd the leprechaun and you will get his And may trouble avoid you pot of gold! If he doesn’t come, don’t worry, just say the pot Wherever you go. of gold you make, is the leprechaun’s pot of gold! –An Irish Toast Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Sophie Perry Creek Grade 5 Max Perry Creek Grade 5

To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 8 COMMUNITY Roger Anderson – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky--Local Roots Roger is a nationally acclaimed actor and musical theatre artist based in Chicago and is proud to be a part of the acclaimed Classical Kids concert series. He has been featured in lms and commercials for United Airlines, Sony, Microsoft, IBM, Volvo, Ford Motor Company, Fidelity Investments, S.C. Johnson, Colgate, and the New York Stock Exchange. He has had the privilege to work on musical theatre stages across the country with Patti LuPone, Audra MacDonald, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Cerveris, and Sean Hayes as well as under the baton of Zubin Mehta and Andre Previn. His performances have included appearances at The White House, The Kennedy Center, Walt Disney World and the Ravinia Festival. Regional musical theatre credits include: Juan Peron in Evita, Jacob/Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Harold Hill in Music Man, Barnum in Barnum, KoKo in The Mikado, Petruchio in Kiss Me Kate, Georges in La Cage Aux Folles, Sergeant of Police in Pirates of Penzance and Roger DeBris in The Producers. He currently sings with the Chicago based vocal group Table For Five and, along with his career as an actor, is a practicing Speech/Language Pathologist.

How do you paint March? March, the third month Spring can also be cool. of the year, comes in lots of colors, mainly neutral But don’t be a fool, ones. Start off your creative endeavor by grabbing And jump in your cold pool! your greens, greys, browns, pinks, yellows, and Nights can be as cold as ice, any other colors you might need. Make sure they’re Which isn’t nice. luminous paints! The sun will start to shine brighter Spring can be fun, during this month and you will need those glowing With early hot dogs and buns! paints. Colten Wolf Mater Dei Grade 6 Next, make sure you have your brushes at hand. The seasons are changing! It’s getting warmer and Dip into the paint and landscape what March is the days are getting longer! So now you can be to you. A painter can’t paint without enthusiasm so outside longer and be warm. You can ride your put on a smile and click in some imagination! bike, scooter, or skateboard. You don’t have to To me, March is a very green and fresh month. barricade yourself inside with blankets anymore. March is the month where we switch from winter to Winter is leaving and spring is coming. Leaves are spring, so my canvas will most likely be split, once growing back and animals are coming from the side representing my closing thoughts on winter south. They will have to nd acclimation to the and the other, the fresh idea of spring. In the rst changes in weather. The sun seems brighter and half… greys, browns, whites, silvers, and greens the sky seems to be bluer. I am elated and enjoy will dominate my color palette. In the second half… this weather outside. greens, pinks, yellows, and others will dominate my color palette. In the painting part of it, the Luke O’Hern Mater Dei Grade 6 winter side of things will consist of icy ponds, small With a pencil hand, patches of greens and browns, grey streets, and Drawings take me to white snow piles. The spring side will consist of a different land. huge green patches, small dandelions scattered The colors so bright, all over the place, rainbows over the clouds, As the sun giving off a brilliant light.

shamrocks adorning everyone’s clothing. How will When I use what I know, your March painting look like? As an artist I’ll grow. Sarah Jabre Mater Dei Grade 8 my techniques are stupendous, This is a narrative about spring, And with art, And my favorite thing, The possibilities are endless. To do in spring, Briley Logan Mater Dei Grade 6 Is working on landscaping. Spring can be humdrum, To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 COMMUNITY 9

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AND THE WINNER IS? The Sioux City Art Center is celebrating their 28th Annual Juried Youth Art Exhibition:Middle School from February 18-April, 2017. Twenty-one art teachers from regional schools submitted 448 entries and 81 pieces of art were selected by the juror, local artist and instructor Mark Kochen, with three pieces chosen by Art Center Director, Al Harris-Fernandez. At Kid Scoop News we celebrate all of the arts in our region and are proud of our two feature reporters, Alexis Bell and Alex Kleinschmit who were two students representing North Middle and receiving special recognition. Alexis Bell (Zombie Totem) stands beside one of the North Middle School’s Best of Show award winners. KUDOS to the Sioux City Art Center and the young artists who represent the very best of visual arts Lauren Brooklyn Lee from our educational venues. Johnson Elem. Sgt. Bluff 1st 5th LITERACY IS A GIFT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME. CENTRAL Kitchen & Bath is a Proud Supporter 844 GORDON DR. of Siouxland Literacy! 712.255.6891 To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 10

In Ireland, potatoes have been an important source of nutrition for centuries. Today’s page is packed with fun facts about the tasty tater! Welcome to Paddy O’Brien’s Potato Patch. Can you find your way through the patch to the pot of gold?

A tuber is a swollen part of a plant that How many stores energy. The shamrocks can potatoes we eat you find on grow underground this page? and the plant above ground uses the energy stored in the potato to grow. So, potatoes are tubers.

During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush (1897-1898), potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were valued for their vitamin C. And gold, at that time, was more plentiful than nutritious foods!

Find the two identical leprechauns.

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French fries were introduced in America when they were served in the Potatoes are packed White House by this president. Use the code to reveal his name. with vitamin C and minerals your body needs for energy. A potato is one of the best sources for potassium you can find in the produce section. Potassium helps keep blood pressure at a normal level.

form? Do you act casual when you get to eat potatoes or do you silently March, Gardens and Irish Potato Myths…. celebrate? I know I celebrate. Again, potatoes are the best; you should try them. Potatoes smell so good and taste good. You can make many things out of Easton Prenger Mater Dei Grade 6 potatoes like mashed potatoes, French fries, potato chips, stuffer, fried, countried! Do you like potatoes? I do! They are so yummy. Usually, when someone brings As soon as you smell a potato, you love it.When you make French fries you can up a potato I automatically think of a really fun game. The game is hot potato. really taste the salty goodness of comfort food. Potatoes are just the best and they All you have to do is heat up a potato and with a real potato you can play for are also healthy for you. Can’t beat a vegetable that is a comfort food. real. Potatoes are awesome, but if you are going to play hot potato don’t heat it Luis Cancino Mater Dei Grade 6 up too much or you might burn your hands. And don’t throw it too hard at anyone Potatoes, where do these glamorous vegetables come from? Well, go all the way because that would really hurt. If you are going to eat some potatoes, don’t eat back to 1536. A Spanish Conquistador who conquered Peru found them. He too much or you become a glutton. Those are some reasons why potatoes are so liked them so much he took them back to Europe. They caught on fast, but soon awesome. I hope that I have persuaded you to try potatoes some day. potatoes fought. There was an outbreak of potato blight, a plant disease, that Landon Topf Mater Dei went through Europe vanquishing all potatoes. There weren’t many potatoes left, My neighbor has a garden and she grows potatoes in her garden. I love potatoes; and Europe depended on potatoes. potatoes remind me of tomatoes, tomatoes remind me of grass, grass reminds Today, in America, potatoes are plentiful and one of the best foods that have the me of water, water reminds me of earth, earth reminds me of the universe, the most potential out of any other food. You can nuke them for baked or mash them universe reminds me of the stars, the stars reminds me of re, re reminds me of for mashed potatoes. Out of all the potatoes’ history of food, I think the French eating baked potatoes, and baked potatoes reminds me of all things of potatoes. fries are the best, so I will tell you some ways to make French fries. First you will Mmmm I love potatoes; potatoes remind me of a lot of things and I’m sure that it need a potato, a pinch of salt, 2 pinches of white pepper, 1 tablespoon of corn can remind you of a lot of things, too. A simple vegetable can have you talking our, and ½ teaspoon of olive oil. Step 1, wash the potato. Next, peel the potato about the universe and what it holds. So before you eat that freshly baked potato well. Then cut it into any shape you want, sticks work best though. After, preheat or even just a raw one stop and think for a second and say in your head, “What your oven to 250 C degrees. Now put salt, white pepper, and olive oil in a do potatoes remind me of?” container then shake it. Once you’re done, put the sticks into the powder. Now put it in the oven for 25-30 minutes. Now you can share them with your peers, and Interesting facts about potatoes: People used Potatoes as Jack O Lanterns instead of don’t forget ketchup. Joseph Olson Mater Dei pumpkins as it is today. Potatoes may be vegetables Potatoes are awesome, you should try them. There are many different types of but they contain a lot of carbohydrates which you can potatoes; they are all good. It doesn’t matter what type of potato you eat like hash use to make rice, pasta, and bread. Potatoes are very browns, French fries, or baked potato, they’re all good. Would you join a horde important to the world’s diet much like rice, wheat, and to get some? I know I would. I recommend French fries; they have to be the best corn.The word “Potato” comes from the Spanish word potato form ever. “Patata” The Inca Indians in Peru were the rst to cultivate potatoes. I know you guys Jacob Lee Mater Dei probably thought potatoes were rst from Ireland. What is your favorite potato MORE CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 12

Do you like potatoes, my favorite vegetable? If You know what makes the best sides? If you you have never tried them, I recommend them. guessed potatoes, you guessed correct whether They are a vegetable so they grow in the ground. it’s French fries, mashed potatoes, or baked They grow best in the spring not in the winter potatoes. So many delicious sides to complement because during that time it’s frigid. They are a your meal can be made with potatoes. Potatoes delicious vegetable that will complement many go with about anything; they are a remedy to items. There are a lot of different ways to make your hunger. Practically everything goes with potatoes and a lot of different types of them. potatoes. Potatoes, a root plant, germinate in the Some of the most common are mashed potatoes, ground. You may be wondering, is this potato a baked potatoes, fries, hash browns, potato chips vegetable or a fruit? Well, technically a potato and tater tots. I like hash browns the most; they is a vegetable, but you could just call it a starch taste good with eggs and bacon. Potatoes are plant. For all you agriculture people, potatoes really good anyway you like them just not raw! grow before the last frost of spring. Not that there Hope you try potatoes today! is going to be a shortage of potatoes any time Joe Adams soon. Ireland is where potatoes originated so during St. Patrick’s Day they are popular choices to eat. I love all the kinds of potatoes, and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of them! Ben Raymond

Miraculous Migration of the Monarch Butterflies On a gloomy Sunday afternoon, about 50 people attended a presentation called the wild owers need the butter ies for pollination. The native prairies are the best “Butter y Gardening” at the Wilbur Aalfs Library. Rod Trondreau. from Western places to provide the needed food source for our butter ies, but wild ower gardens Iowa Tech Community College, was one of the presenters. His goal was for us to can also provide additional support for them. Trees such as oaks, willows, birch learn how to invite butter ies and other pollinators to our gardens and yards.Rod and poplar also support our butter ies. shared with us how owers are pollinated. About 20% of owers rely on the wind; The second part of the afternoon introduced us to an organization called Wild 65% are pollinated by insects such as bees, butter ies, moths and ies; and 15% Ones. Wild Ones is a national nonprot group dedicated to educating and are pollinated by birds, bats and other animals. These facts show how important it networking with others about using native plants in our gardens and also lawns. is for us to maintain and even increase our population of butter ies and bees. Currently there are 15 states that have a Wild Ones Organization, but Iowa is not Native prairies are the best places to nd butter ies, so Rod suggested that one of the 15. The goal is to get Iowa added to the list. A Wild Ones Partner at planting wild owers and other native prairie plants would be the best way to Large is being formed in our very own Loess Hills area! If you are interested in attract butter ies. Butter ies like these plants because they are able to detect odors more information, you can contact Dianne Blankenship at [email protected] and most of these plants smell sweet to them. Butter ies also are attracted to red, or go to www.wildones.org You can also access information for the New Loess orange, pink and purple owers. Hills Chapter at www.facebook.com/LoessHillsWildOnesThis Loess Hills group Rod stated that when planning a butter y garden, gardeners need host plants and has set up several other dates to promote not only the use of native plants in our also nectar plants. The host plants provide a place for the female butter ies to lay gardening, but also to encourage joining the Loess Hills Chapter. The cost is $37. their eggs and also to provide food for the caterpillars. The nectar plants provide Some of the upcoming dates for more butter y gardening topics include: February the food source for the adult. 19: Urban and Suburban Meadows (location..library), March 24-25 The Garden Rod shared that there are 27 different species of milkweed! Milkweed is the Show will host Heather Holm and The Wild Ones will have a booth. They will be host plant for monarch butter ies. They lay the egg on the plant and when the handing out milkweed seeds. April will bring caterpillar emerges from the egg, the caterpillar will eat only milkweed. Rod in University of Iowa speaker Connie Mutel. then provided an informative science lesson on how the monarch caterpillars use For further information about these events, their host plant to protect them when they become butter ies. The caterpillars either contact Dianne Blankenship at bennaid@ ingest cardiac glycosides, which are found in the plant tissues and store these hotmail.com, follow the Facebook link. As you compounds in their bodies. This process is called sequestration. The compounds begin planning your garden, remember these are transferred to the adult butter ies because of this toxicity. Some predators also words that we heard, “Plant it and they will stay away because of their aposematic coloration (their bright colors). come!” Butter ies and wild owers depend on each other. Butter ies need the nectar and Mary Siepker Retired Teacher PROUDLY SUPPORTING LITERACY IN SIOUXLAND AND NIE SIOUXLAND visit us at 2114 Pierce Street 2600 Cornhusker Drive Sioux City, IA 51104 South Sioux City, NE 68776 www.summitdentalhealth.net 712-252-3440 402-494-2692 To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 COMMUNITY 13 The Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center Special Date! The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center will conclude its “Seaman the Dog in Siouxland” art contest with a magic show and treats! Winners of the contest will be announced Saturday, March 11th at 1:00 pm. All participants, family, and friends are invited to the announcements and to stay for a magic show with Corey Fravel. During the reception following the show, students’ artwork will be displayed.

Each month, we select a special section from the LaunchPAD Children’s Museum to highlight. We are extremely lucky in Siouxland to have such a wonderful place for parents and children to go…for exploration, sensory development, play and fun! Kid Scoop News Siouxland supports the on-going efforts of all Siouxland’s special spots where children continue to learn in a hands-on, minds-on way.

The Milking Cow, The Barn, The Grain Pit, The Hog Barn, and The Garden The farm exhibits help demonstrate not only the importance of farming and agri-business, but also that the food we eat does not come from cans or from the supermarket, but originates from live, growing plants and animals. The agriculture area offers an environment where children discover and learn the growing process and different local foods. The Market and The Café As children play in the Market and Café, they will encounter a variety of foods, take on diverse roles, and work on even skills such as early literacy and early math as they restock shelves, sort, count, group, handle cash and serve. Allowing kids to independently explore, investigate, experience and be in charge of these familiar places fosters feeling of empowerment and broadens their thinking.

some plans for garden additions. We have chosen to add a Peace Pole to our The Food Detectives: Lawton-Bronson Second Graders butter y garden and also one to our classroom garden. We will be purchasing Second graders in Mrs. Harmeier’s class became Food Detectives once again. these from Drilling Pharmacy. They sell Peace Poles that are made by Stephanie We tried avocados from Mexico. We mashed them and added a bit of salt, Burgess. Stephanie is an artist who was originally from eastern Iowa and now pepper and lime juice to make a salsa. We enjoyed chips with it. 14 out of 18 lives in Bellingham, Washington. Each peace pole has a simple message. The of us loved it! We know they are high in ber, nutrients and vitamins C and E. intent of the peace pole is to create peace, community and family. Each of They are a good healthy choice. Stephanie’s creations are unique. They are hand crafted onto wood and convey We also tried snapea crisps. They have low salt and lots of good nutrients. a truly meaningful, one-of-a kind piece of art that is vivid, playful and deep. As Many of us liked them. Twelve out of eighteen kids liked them. Food Detectives, our peace pole will allow time for us to re ect on peace, school Ben Sheets and Drake Frimann: Feature Reporters for Food Detectives community, family and great art as we are in the garden. Students will be shown four designs for our classroom garden Peace Pole. They Avocados are fruits that are high in healthy fats. They are often called “alligator will be asked to choose which one they think is best for our classroom garden. pears” because they are shaped like a pear and have green, bumpy skin like The one with the top votes will be the one added to our classroom garden. They an alligator. They are high in potassium. Avocados are used mostly to make will also learn that the peace poles originally began in 1955 in Japan. Masahisa guacamole, which is what the Food Detectives did. Salt, garlic, lime and other Goi was the rst to create the Peace Pole, which is also called an art pole. ingredients are usually used to make guacamole. Many Mexican recipes Students will also learn about Stephanie Burgess. On her web-site she stated, and restaurants use guacamole. It is better eaten than left on your plate since “Each piece of art is as unique as the wood it came from”. Her web-site can be avocados are loaded with nutrients. They are also weight loss found at paintedpeace.com or you can see them at Drilling Pharmacy. Sharon friendly and heart healthy! Drilling said that the Peace Poles will be arriving in the middle of March. She has The snapea crisps use real, all-natural peas. They are made with ordered four and six ft. poles ground-up peas, corn oil, ground up white rice, salt and We will also be adding two greenhouses for two classrooms. Students will be preservatives. They are formed into a pea shape and able to quickly learn where their food comes from as they see it grow right before baked. Many people prefer eating these instead of their eyes! potato chips. We have been spending our Kid Scoop News loves the idea of a Peace Pole. It would be fun to create your winter months own from a large walking stick found outside….sand down the stick and paint, making draw, use beads/colored yarn or string and leather strips to create a special Peace Pole. We’ve decided we also need to travel to Drilling Pharmacy and purchase one of our own. What a wonderful idea, Food Detectives!

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Talk to your child about some of Fritter has been saving towards a summer visit to Six Wags Amusement Park. the jobs you have had through the years. Tell them your favorite He needs a total of $100.00. By saving and working hard, he now has $86.00! Will duties and share some of the Fritter finally reach his big goal by earning money puppy-sitting? more challenging aspects, too.

Whoops! This pup thinks Fritter’s money is a chew toy. Help Fritter catch him before his money gets munched!

Fritter got a job watching his neighbor’s new puppy. It’s not always easy watching a playful pup, but Fritter earns $2.00 per hour. The clocks show Fritter’s starting The clocks show Fritter’s starting On Saturday, Fritter started work and stopping time from and stopping time from at 9:15 a.m. He worked two and a Monday afternoon. Thursday afternoon. half hours. Draw the hands on these clocks to show his starting and stopping time.

How long did he work? How long did he work? hour(s) and minutes hour(s) and minutes

How much did he earn? How much did he earn? How much did he earn? $ $ $

How much did Fritter How much longer does he need to earn this week? $ work to reach his goal of $100.00?

To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 15 Mrs. Mitchell’s Third Grade Class Discussed What Being “Rich” Means….Lawton-Bronson I am rich in the way of health and loving parents. My parents let me do sports and they also drive me to friends’ houses. I am rich in the way of health because I don’t have cancer or anything bad. But, I’m mostly rich with friends because I have a lot of good friends. Connor C. I am rich because I have my best friend Lilly with me and I have Justice with me. I love being healthy because you can be strong and healthy. I love my parents. They are very special, kind, and thoughtful. Payton L. For me rich isn’t money, even though I do have a lot. For me it’s having friends and family. That is more valuable than money. Aden R. Yes, I am rich because I have great friends, loving parents, and great health. That makes me rich. You do not need money or material things to be rich, because all you need is great friends, loving parents, and great health. Calleigh E. I think I am rich. I have lots of caring friends, loving parents, and a great house. I’m not rich in money, I don’t have all the coolest things. But, I do have many friends. I’m really happy with my life, and I’m really happy to be a Lawton-Bronson student. Taya E.

Hands On Banking for Kids! Wells Fargo Helps to Make Finance Fun!!! Do you need to learn how to take charge of your own money and learn about budgeting, powerful. The content was accurate and factual and the content met learning goals. The saving, and planning for the future? Four feature reporters for Kid Scoop News reviewed a directions were very clear and you could stop the video at any time. All you have to do is super banking program for kids that are designed for its ease and educational value. Wells go to http://handsonbanking.org , turn the volume up and start learning. Fargo sponsors the Hands on Banking Program, and encourages students and teachers to Anna Fenton Mater Dei Grade 7 check it out. The computer program is divided into six specic sets that address: When we visited with Overall, the video was great. It was easy to get on to and if I had my sister get on to it, I Mr. Jason Gehling, Market President and Business Banking Manager last year, he said that it know she would be interested. The aliens were a great idea and the colors were good. It is never too early to learn a little about the idea of managing your money. He believes it is explained the You and Your Money section perfectly. The activities help explain where you important to look at the money that you have earned and understand what you can control put your money and how to deal with it. They explained why and when you take out your and what you can’t control. Each reporter took one section of the “Program for Kids”, had money and how to use it. There were some math problems in the You and Your Money fun and was challenged! section that I wasn’t able to do on my own, which shows that the challenge area is good for students above fth grade, too. Younger children might need assistance before beginning The Wells Fargo Hands on Banking website is great! Everyone should have a chance to use the program, but will be able to work through it, especially in a class. Kids like action and it. I think it would be a great idea for teachers to put this in a math class. Math connects movement and the video was good with that. Using graphics and color helps to keep us with banking because you have to count your money and decide what percent you save and focused. The main part of the videos was to teach students about how the banks actually what percent you spend. I would love if we could use this in our math classes! The website work and how to use their money in the best way possible. I think one recommendation I really helps kids learn how to save and manage your money. One lesson we learn early on would be to be able keep the programs saved each day so you can continue the next. We is to remember a rule of thirds: one third for spending, one third for saving, and one third didn’t use this in a classroom setting, but I think that would be a good addition to math class. for giving. The website was great and one that I recommend. It’s good to take a look at money, where I think this website is a bit advanced for younger students but perfect for the assigned to put it, and how to work with a banker to understand nances. level of around fourth or fth grade. On the other hand, younger students would love the Ireland Uhl Mater Dei Grade 7 graphics and animation in the video, and some of the lessons might be fun and engaging for them. I would encourage students from fourth through eighth grade to work and play The Hands on Banking Program includes wonderful resource materials for teachers and through the lessons. I enjoyed reviewing this and learning about banking. parents. There are videos, worksheets, and templates for working with a budget. The Hannah Fitzpatrick Mater Dei Grade 7 language is kid-friendly and the layout has color, icons and pictures to keep things moving. The overall goals include creating a partnership with students, Overall, the Wells Fargo Hands on Banking Program for Kids and the budgeting section was parents, schools, and the bank. “Motivation is the key to success.” great. I thought it was a great way for kids to learn, have some fun, but know a great deal Check out their website and nd free resources and educational more about how to budget your money. There were some things that were more difcult to curriculum materials to use in the classroom. The program provides understand, as some of the math problems in the budgeting video might be too hard for the basics of nancial education, real world skills and concepts that fourth grade students who are just learning about money, but a challenge for some students each child will need to thrive in our communities. is always good. I think that the sections could be programmed so a teacher who was using Go to: www.handsonbanking.org and link to resources. the video on a Smartboard could stop it and save that spot to go back to it the next day. Other than those two things everything else was great! The animations and colors were To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 16

All of the words in the puzzle below start with the letters P-R-O. Read the definition of each word and see if you can fill in the blanks. If you get stuck, look at right for each word’s missing letters. Standards Link: Language Arts: Vocabulary. The money a business makes: A gas used in outdoor grills: To make something available:

Another name for fruits and veggies: To stop something from happening: To be financially successful:

To lengthen in time: To move forward: Something you own, especially land:

To keep safe from harm: To say a word clearly and correctly: A teacher at a university:

Nathan’s Nursery has more potted plants than Gabby’s Garden Center. Look very closely and Stem Stumper count carefully. How many more potted plants does Gabby need to match Nathan?

Standards Link: Math: Problem solving.

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Tick the box on each Make a reading Get a pile of old The 2017 Iditarod day when you have Make your own corner and put out magazines Sled Dog Race gets completed 20 minutes instruments and a stack of your together, some underway at 10 a.m. of reading. Children form a classroom favorite books paper, scissors today. Follow the who develop a love of band, or learn a and enjoy some and glue and race on the 1,000- reading will become new song to sing. reading time. make a collage. mile journey to better students and Nome. build a better future.

Plan a hike today It’s Family Story Read today’s The second week in Check out a library This day in 1862, Have everyone with your friends Night! Turn off the newspaper and tell March sees the start book about a the first paper in class draw and or family. Bring TV and let each your teacher about of March Madness famous woman in money was issued. color their picture water and a snack family member your favorite article. when college history. Share an Have a quiz to see of an apple. Collect and visit a place take a turn telling basketball teams accomplishment who knows the them together to you’ve never a story about a play in an elimina- with your class. portraits on each make a giant been to before. favorite memory. tion tournament to value of bill. bowl of apples. find the national Johnny champions. Appleseed Day

Spring forward! Try a variety Invent a mystery Make yourself Snakes, rainbows Astronaut Ed Move the clock of noodles this story today. Decide a chart showing and shamrocks. White was the forward by one month such as on what makes a the days you Find out why these first American to hour and enjoy macaroni, linguine, good mystery first. exercise. Mark things are relevant walk in space on Join the Girl Scouts fusilli, bow ties, etc. Write it down in off the number to this day. this day in 1965. an extra hour in encouraging of daylight. a paragraph or of hours you reading and just tell your exercise each day. exercise. mysterious story.

Go for a walk today How many Create a wall Can you stand on On this day in 1882, Help cook and see how many rhymes does hanging to one leg and stretch Find out fun and the first pancakes dinner tonight. signs of spring you your class know? celebrate spring. the other leg out to easy ways to save were made. Have Try making can spot. String them From buds to one side, extend it money by visiting breakfast for dinner a new recipe together and bunnies, how in front of you and feedthepig.org today and enjoy following put on a show! many spring then behind you, some pancakes. instructions in images can holding it each time a cook book. you include? for a count of 10?

What can you do to Make a map Vincent Van Gogh’s Review the month It’s Family Movie make sure your showing the route birthday was on this of March. What Spring has Night! Rent an meals are nutritious? from your house to day. Look at his things did you do sprung! How Start your spring Make one change your school. What work online or in a well and what many springy cleaning today. animated movie tonight and discuss this week to help other places of book. Paint or color things could you flowers can Clean out your yourself be more interest can you add a picture using improve? Make a closets and donate who is your favorite you find on character and why. healthy. to your map? bright, bold colors. list of things to this page? the clothes you’ve improve in April. outgrown. 18 Swish! It’s Geometry Swish! The lovely sound And, the ball safely knowledge of the of a basketball slipping sinks through to score. parbolic arc to throw through the net in the the ball so that it arcs hoop, so perfectly If the ball hits the rim over and up high centered that the ball of the hoop, the chance enough to enter the doesn’t touch the back of it bouncing out basket from above. stop or the rim. increases. But to sink the basketball through A parabola is a curve, When this happens, the hoop, swish or not, shaped like an arch. a swish through the a player doesn’t throw It is also called a net is the only sound the ball at the hoop. parabolic arc. you hear. Rather a player uses

Scientists can calculate the ideal free-throw angle for players of di erent heights. It’s 13.75 feet from the free-throw line to the center of the basket, and a six-foot player launches the ball from about seven feet above the hardwood. That works out to a shooting angle of 51°.

By increasing the height at Dunk Directions which the player launches the ball, it raises the entry The hoop is 18 inches in angle of the ball’s parabolic diameter. A basketball is about arc, leaving more space 9.4 inches wide. and a higher chance of scoring. If a ball is dunked straight At 90 degrees (a dunk shot) the ball will go down into the hoop from straight down into the net with above (a 90 degree angle), about 4.5 inches of there is plenty of room for the extra room. ball to sink all the way through the net and score. At 55 degrees it has about 2.5 inches to spare. But when a player shoots the ball farther away from the At 45 degrees it’s down to 1.5 inches. hoop, the ball needs to be thrown up at an angle. At 30 degrees, it’s basically impossible to get the ball straight into the basket. Which basketball shot at right is most likely to score?

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To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 20 SPORTS At practice, Todd does goalie drills, stretches, and Whoosh… some special teams’ work. Special teams are when the swoosh…zip…. players work together during a power play or penalty kill. These happen when the opposing team gets a and score…who’s penalty because of actions like hooking, tripping, or on the ice… the slashing. Your team gets a chance to score, because the other team is one player short. Musketeers for The most important things when he practices are sure! tracking the puck, controlling the rebounds, and The Sioux City Musketeers showing respect for his team. He would like to get a are a Tier 1 junior ice hockey team who play in the scholarship to the University of Minnesota, Minnesota West Division of the United States Hockey League. Duluth, North Dakota, or Penn State. (Wikipedia) After watching the team play and listening We also got to speak for a bit with Eeli Tolvanen to a few of the players talk about the practices, we who’s a top ten draft pick for the NHL. He comes to found out you’d better be pretty serious about hockey the Musketeers all the way from a little town near if you want to play on this team. Skill, determination Helsinki in Finland. He grew up watching his two older and as Todd Scott, goalie for the team stated, “We brothers play hockey and wanted to be like them. They play with a competitive edge, have integrity, and show are his inspiration and the reason he started playing respect.” Those are the values and understandings that hockey. One of his brothers now goes to the University were given to him by his parents…and he has tried to of Michigan, and the other stayed back in Finland live up to their standards throughout his life. Being a and plays hockey there. A fun fact…even though his member of this team also brings the responsibility to brothers were his inspiration, he’s now better than both keep your high school grades on target and to show of them at hockey! members of the community that you are Because of his talent, at the age of ten he moved to an asset to the community. Past players have indicated Helsinki to play hockey and go to school. Eeli may be that they love being in Sioux City and that the far away from home, but because his dad is Italian, community is very welcoming to them…Todd absolutely the great cooking of his billet dad in Sergeant Bluff is agreed. It can be difcult to be away from home and comfort food for him. Spaghetti, pizza, lasagna, pasta, the players need to be pretty grown up and able to chicken alfredo, and chicken parmesan, Mike makes it make decisions. feel like home. Imagine being in high school and away from your His routine during the season is breakfast, working out friends and family during the school year…doesn’t with his group, lifting weights for an hour, skating with sound so wonderful, does it? Well, for the high school the team, and then working out again after the practice hockey players Todd Scott and Eeli Tolvanen, this is skate. He is a speedy offensive minded winger and has their year. a strong competive edge. Hockey is like rst nature to “And it’s a save,” the commentator reaches out his them as they have been on the ice so long. Both of the voice and the crowd goes wild. Todd Scott, goalie for players took a little practice time to share their stories the Musketeers, hits his pad lightly with his goalie stick with us and we appreciate this…we are lucky to have and returns to his crease. the Musketeers in our city…and lucky to have these two players with the Musketeers this year. Thanks to Coach Todd is an eleventh grade student who works Jay Varaday for making “our day” and letting us meet online while he is away from home. He grew up in the players and be inside the locker room for just a little Albertsville, MN as an only child. At the age of six he bit! began playing hockey with his dad and hasn’t stopped Chance Riley and Elie Welch ever since. Albertsville is a small city like Sioux Cit, and Riverside Elementary School there are farms and countrysides nearby. So, moving here wasn’t too difcult for him. During his time with the (A little side note, Mrs. Erin Pinney, Chance and Elie’s Musketeers, Todd lives in Sloan with the Copple family, TAG teacher is also a parent sponsor (billet) for hockey his billets. Todd says, “The rules are pretty much the players during the year…she offered some great insight same as home where respect is expected.” Though he to the students as they were writing their piece!) lives in a city at home, farm life has been pretty decent.

The Hockey Basics by Elie Welch Riverside The rst thing to know in hockey Second, you need to know how to need a stick. You are good to go. is how to skate. Skating is a big shoot. It is hard, but if you practice You start with the puck on forehand part of hockey. You need to start enough, you will get good. You and then the backhand. Keep doing learning around ages four to seven, have to start on the heel of the that, and then you will get good at so you get muscle memory in your blade of the stick, and then roll the stick-handling. legs. You need to balance on puck. Then you roll your wrist and I hope you learned about the basics blades and then work on strides. point at the puck with the stick. If of hockey, and I will see you out on You have to pick your feet up, then you keep doing that, you will get the ice. plant your feet, then just keep going good like me. like that, and you will be good at Then you need stick-handling. First skating. you need a puck, and then you To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 SPORTS 21 week. are pretty good. What makes us good, though, is our Super Star Sports for March! Wrestling is a very mental sport. You have to be ready practice. We practice pretty hard every time we do This year I joined an advanced tumbling class at to counter the opponent’s move. The wrestlers are have practice. We started in January and we practice Socorra’s Performing Arts Studio. Three of my friends sorted by age and weight. You have to go to districts every Sunday for about an hour and a half. also go to the studio. This year I have learned how to and then state. You could make a district and state Our team this year will be going to a lot of games and do a back handspring, a round- off- back handspring, dual team where two teams wrestle each other. The many tournaments. We get in all these tournaments an aerial, and a round- off- back tuck. Tumbling is so season goes from November to April. by Jeff, our coach. I think my team can get top three fun to do, especially with three of my closest friends, Caden LaFleur Grade 7 in at least every tournament. I am very condent this Kenzie Solma, Isabelle Bertram and Abby Miller. year and very excited. I cannot wait to see the ball Have you played basketball? It is awesome. I play for This year has been such a blast, the studio is so elevate in the air since I play outeld; it is going to be the Blessed Sacrament 7th grade team. We played welcoming! I went to a Christmas party at the studio a brawl. I will be excited to bat because my team and throughout December and January. My team is pretty and there was so much to do such as getting your face I are all pretty efcient at batting. Summer is getting good. I am a point guard and wing. I shoot a lot of painted, going into the photo booth, and enjoying pretty close and there is no way that my team is not jump shots and 3’s. cotton candy. Tumbling is very fun to do; I always get going to stop working. My favorite basketball team is Nebraska but they are hyped up when I learn how to do a new skill! Vinney Pomerson Grade 7 Braedyn Bentson Mater Dei Grade 8 5-6 right now and lost to some bad teams. My favorite NBA team is the Warriors (no I’m not a bandwagon). Track & Field, a spring sport, is a sport that includes Snowboarding is a fun thing to do in the winter. Basketball is my third favorite sport behind football running, jumping, and throwing. Track is a sport which Snowboarding is kind of like sledding but instead and soccer. I suggest basketball for you! can get you in good shape. The weather is usually of sitting or lying down on something; you stand. Landen Dill Mater Dei Grade 6 really nice. You have practices four times a week. Snowboarding is perfect when you are bored on a After a few practices, you can go to meets where you Swish! The basketball goes through the hoop, scoring cool day with tons of snow. Snowboarding is a major compete with other schools and compete in the events two points. Basketball is a fun sport to play, and is event in the X games. There are many great places to where you exceed. really fun to practice. In basketball you dribble, shoot, snowboard in Sioux City. One of them is Sertoma Park I myself throw the discus and throw the shot put. In and pass. You have to play defense to keep the other where there is a giant hill. those two events you throw in a ring. You can long team from scoring. Scoring is the goal of the game, My friends and I love to snowboard in the winter. They jump or high jump, run long or short distance, and but it isn’t as easy as you think. When you win, you either come to my house to go on the golf course hills throw the hammer, shot put, javelin, or discus. At feel so elated. or we go to Sertoma Park. It’s a very fun thing to do practice and meets you can cheer on your peers. The game has four quarters, and going through each when you’re bored over Christmas break. Also, during Track was established in 776 B.C. I would recommend quarter is anticipation in motion. You play with your winter you and your cousins could go snowboarding. this sport to anyone. peers, and it’s very enjoyable. You have to practice a If you like to sled you should try snowboarding, and Caden LaFleur Grade 7 I’m sure you will love it. lot to get better and have to be in shape to run up and Luke Longval Mater Dei Grade 7 down the court. The basket is high you have to have Did you know that volleyball’s original name was some strength to shoot a basket. You get really sweaty, Mintonette? It was invented in 1895 by William G. Have you ever wanted to wrestle? It requires hard too. Morgan. He created the game to be a combination of work, effort, and a good attitude. My team has Logan Miller Grade 6 basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball. Volleyball practice three times a week: Monday, Wednesday, is a good game to play with friends and family. I like The game, the pressure, the fun. Baseball has all these and Thursday. Most of the youth meets are on the volleyball because it’s an inside game and it’s fun! things to make it so awesome. I play on a travel team weekend; the junior high is during the week. When Jessica Moreno Holy Cross Grade 6 junior high starts, we’ll have practice every day of the called the Townhouse Huskies and I would say that we

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Amazingly large fruits and vegetables are somehow grown every year. Their weights and sizes are reported to the Guinness Book of Records. This book, full of astonishing information, can be found at your local library.

Pierce the sweet potato Put the potato, small end Fill the jar with enough with three evenly spaced down, into the jar as water to keep the bottom toothpicks to hold it up shown. of the sweet potato wet. in a jar.

Unscramble the letters to discover which fruits and vegetables check in at these weights: At 4 pounds 1 ounce (1.849 kg), this PAPLE

Put the jar in a dark Once roots are growing, Once a vine has grown to won’t fit into place. In a few weeks the move the jar to a sunny about six inches long, your lunchbox. potato will grow roots. window. In a week or so, you can pinch it off and Change the water every the potato will sprout plant it in your yard. couple of days. leaves from the top. Sweet potatoes grow Bugs Bunny would feast in about four months. for a week on this nearly 19-pound (10.314 kg) TAROCR.

A Guinness World Record for the largest salad was set in BJJG by the people of a You would be sitting at the small agricultural community in Israel. Residents prepared a BB,FAI pound, F dinner table a long time if you ounce (AJ,BFJ kg) salad, using lettuce they had grown themselves. had to finish every bite of this Servings of the salad were sold, raising over $BE,JJJ to benefit a village for 35-pound (19 kg) young adults suffering from severe disabilities. CLIRBOCO.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Use general strategies of the reading process to comprehend expository text.

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Chief. I like the surprise at the end. I hope you enjoy this book. Taylor F. Fly Girl Meets Fly Girl! By Tedd Arnold I like this book because Fly Guy met a new friend. Fly Girl and Fly Guy liked each other. I Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: think you will like this book. Izabelle A. Scruffy by Peggy Parish Gardening Together with Children There is a boy named Todd. He wanted a pet cat for his birthday. His presents were by Sharon Lovejoy everything he would need for a cat. But he had to choose one when they went to the animal shelter. First he grabbed a baby cat but the mom cat didn’t want her baby to leave. Spring is just around the corner and what better way to Next, he found another cat. The cat’s name was Scruffy. If you read this book you will nd celebrate spring than by out which cat he chooses. Todd promises to give his cat food and water, to keep his pet safe encouraging children to and to give him love. Hannah W. plant a garden. This Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osbourne book is full of creative To me this book is cool because they sneak out of their house and travel to dinosaur time. I liked how they meet all these dinosaurs. Once Annie had to swoop down as she rode ideas for sparking a ying dinosaur to save Jack from a terrifying dinosaur. It was interesting in this book interest in innovative when the author talked about unusual owers and volcano trees. You will nd out how they garden ideas. Creating discovered an unusual compass that helps them get home. Keagan V. special places appeals The Day the Sheep Showed Up by David McPhail to children and there are I enjoyed this book because the barnyard animals were confused when a new animal came themed gardens ranging to live there. The duck thought the sheep was a duck, and the goose thought the sheep was a duck, too. They hadn’t met a sheep before. But when they all played games like tag and from the Moon garden hide and seek the animals were alike because they all got tired from playing together. to a pizza garden. Lukas C. Advice and activities Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osbourne are not too complicated Annie discovered a tree house across from their house. The tree house was full of surprises. and the book includes Annie and Jack wished to go to dinosaur times. Suddenly a pteranodon soared through the organic, container and sky and came right toward them! Later Jack discovered a lot of dinosaur eggs which Annie plant care. thought were cute. I think you should read this book to see how dinosaurs come to life. Garrett T. The Missing Necklace by Laurie Israel and Rachel Ruderman Wonderful book reviews by Mrs. Dickinson’s second grade students Soa is pretty and she has a special necklace, but something happens to it. In the book it at Missouri Valley….We love the selection! tells about her step sister and her mom and dad. She even has a bunny! The story is about a guy who is magic. He has a bird that helps him do mean things. I like this book because Biscuit by Alyssa Satin Capucilli Soa solves a big problem and nds her animals. Kamdyn Cihacek BiscuitThe didn’t want Great to go to bed.Plant Biscuit Escape pulled off the blankets, then he wants to read, then he wanted a hug. At last he was sleepy and went to bed. Ryan M.P. The Napping House by Audrey Wood extension.illinois.edu/gpe/ I enjoyed this book. The story began when Granny was sleeping on a rainy day. The MummiesHelp in theDetective Morning by Leplant Mary Pope and Osborne his partners Bud and Sprout dozing dog, the dreaming child, the cat, the mouse and the ea would not wake up. Then The characters are Jack and Annie. The two kids can go almost anywhere. They just have to the cat was frightened and clawed the dog. I think you would like this book because there is point tounlock the picture the and amazing wish to go mysteries there. If you of choose plant this life. book you will hopefully have a a surprise ending. Izzy Vogel good time reading it. If you want to learn more about Jack and Annie try reading a Magic Tree House book. They are my favorite books. In this book the kids go to Ancient Egypt. The Powder Puff Puzzle by Patricia Reilly Giff They haveFlower to nd their Power way out. The Games ghost queen For dropped Kids a scepter, but Jack and Annie I think you will like this book because rst the friends Jason and Dawn want to know where found learn4good.com/games/online/blooming_garden_flower_power.htmit and took it back to her. Brooklin Glennie their cat, Powder Puff, was going. They saw Powder Puff jump onto a lady’s car. The lady drove away taking Powder puff, too! In chapters four, ve, six, and seven there are surprises. High TideMake in Hawaii sure bythere Mary is Pope a clear Osbourne path through the garden. The game What I think you will like is when they think the cat went into the house of a stranger. You The mainis over idea iswhen about whatyour happens garden when is overgrown. Jack and Annie go into a tree house. This time should read this book to nd how they solve their problem and get Powder Puff back. they travel to Hawaii and search for special magic. They also build a kind of ship that rides Adison Roden the waves. I enjoyed this book because Jack and Annie meet two friends named Boka and Kama.For Together Teachers—Growing they went surfboarding. You would probably Gardeners like this book if you ever want Night of the Ninjas by Mary Pope Osbourne to go surng.kidsgardening.org/educator-resources/ Khloe G. You will see how Jack and Annie run into the Samurai warrior! The Ninjas are cool and the mission is to get four items to break the spell from Morgan. I like this book because of the Flat StanleyKidsGardening and the Firehouse uses by Lorigardening Haskins Houran as a vehicle for encouraging description of the Samurai warriors. Sean H. This is childrena great book. to makeIt is about good a family food who choices, goes to the augmenting re station. You classroom will learn how Stanleystudies got at, withhow he experiential helped the reghters learning, with aand problem, more. how they got to the re Horrible Harry and the Purple People by Suzy Kline station, and how Stanley helps his family and more! I rate this book ve stars! I enjoyed this I enjoyed reading this book because the purple people come to life and Harry is funny. I book because of the way Stanley helped the re station. Korbin H. picked this book because of some of the funny things like Harry’s cool new ruler. Harry’s Gardening Projects ruler is better than the ones at his school because they are plastic. When he brought his Pouncing Bobcats by Joelle Riley classmates to the window they looked out and just stared. Dylan D. Bobcatsa2zhomeschooling.com/explore/biology_kids/botany/ eat meat. They can climb trees. Bobcats are graceful. A mother bobcat needs a safe placegarden_projects_kids/ to hide her babies. My favorite part of this book is when the bobcat catches its Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan prey. They hunt small animals. You will nd out how the bobcat catches its prey. Kaiden T. This story is about a girl who wanted to go to a birthday party. Her mother doesn’t Botanical and environmental projects for children and youth understand what that is… because they are new to this country. Her mom says she can go Cave Boyin classroomsby Cathy East andor homeMark Dubowski school environments. but she has to take her little sister along. Her sister acts terrible at the party and for a while First Cave Boy puts a rock on a stick to make a boomer. 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Spot the Difference Spot the differences between each picture and then see if you can find the lucky shamrocks.

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What Santa Can’t Do by Douglas Wood Mrs. Griffin’s First Grade Class from Johnson Elementary in Spencer, Iowa wrote It was a fun book. The story tells about all the things Santa can’t do. He can’t shave because nobody would know who he was. and illustrated their very own hard -bound book. The title of the book is First He can’t drive a car or y an airplane because that would really Graders are Thankful! Photos of the illustrations and of the class are found right hurt the reindeer’s feelings. I think you will really enjoy this inside the book. book. Lynna S. “What are you thankful for? We are thankful for so many things in our lives, that we decided to write a book about them. Once you nish reading our book, think about what you are thankful for. We Book Reviews from Holy Cross Sixth Grade Students are so thankful for our families who encourage us to always try our best!” ~ Mrs. Grif ns’ Class Imagine once a year you are forced to have your name put in a drawing that can change your life forever. That is what Katniss The book was published through Studentreasures in November of 2016. Each student began the writing has to go through. When Prim, Katniss’ younger sister, name process using a web listing of four people or things they were thankful for. Each student wrote a sentence is drawn Katniss volunteers and takes her place. Katniss is put and closing statement for their section. After editing their sloppy copy, they wrote a nal copy and in an arena to ght to the death. Read the cliff hanger, action illustrated their writing. One of the students even designed the cover. The students in Mrs. Grif n’s class packed book, The Hunger Games! hope you enjoy their book and they loved publishing! Grace Nelson Holy Cross Grade 6 Upside Down In the Middle of Nowhere by Julie Lamana, is a book about a girl named Kendra who loses her dad in a ood and is separated from her mom. I would recommend this book because it shows who a true hero is and the courage one girl shows in an unfortunate situation. Payton Schermerhorn Holy Cross Grade 6

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onducting simple and fun science it sinks? Fold and form your boat into a shape experiments at home boosts your child’s with edges. Try dierent shapes. Add more success at school. While working together nickels. Which shape holds the most nickels? on an investigation you will be providing experiences that make science familiar in the classroom:

Science: Start with a Question: How many nickels will an aluminum foil boat hold? hile adults and kids can have not-so-great days, there’s almost always at least one good thing Get: to take away from each day. • a roll of aluminum foil Science Behind the Investigation • about 20 nickels Gravity is trying to pull the aluminum foil Just before bed each night, • a bucket or sink or tub full of water and pennies downward. The force of have your child jot down buoyancy is pushing the boat toward the one good thing that Investigate: Tear o a sheet of aluminum foil surface. A boat will oat as long as the force happened that day. about ve inches square and place it onto of buoyancy is greater than the force of Keep these little happy the water’s surface. Does it oat? gravity and you do not overload the boat moments in a jar. so it will tip over or leak. Try It: Put a nickel on the foil. What happens? At the end of the year, or If the nickel oats, add another nickel. How For more science fun go to when your child is having many nickels can the aluminum hold before www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments.html a rough time, have them open up the jar and read all EDITOR’S PICK by Vicki Whiting, Kid Scoop News the wonderful things they’ve Skippyjon Jones done, seen By Judy Schachner and enjoyed all year long. The team behind Kid Scoop News loves to read! This month, Operations Director, Vivien Whittington Be sure to shared with me one of her favorite books to read to her granddaughter. include the date on each happy moment, too. Skippyjon Jones is a great read-aloud Sent to his room to think about this, he book, full of witty rhymes and rich in decides he is the desperado Chihuahua imagination. It’s my Skippito Friskito. His thoughts ve-year-old grand- take him down a desert road daughter Charlotte’s far, far away in Old Mexico There isn’t room to include all the wonderful artwork favorite because it’s where he meets up with a submitted by our young readers in each issue. Be sure “funny and crazy!” band of Chihuahuas called to “Like” Kid Scoop News on Facebook to see more! Los Chimichangos. They enlist Skippyjon is a boy kitty him for his sword wielding We also share interesting who sleeps with birds, skills to face the humongous articles for parents, teaching does his laundry in a bird Bumblebeeto Bandito. ideas, puzzles, seasonal craft bath and needs to be and recipe ideas, inspirational reminded by Mama Junebug Jones that How does this match up end? Will quotes and even a joke or two. he is, in fact, a Siamese cat and not a Skippyjon win the day? You’ll have Chihuahua. to read the book to nd out! Join the fun on Facebook!

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Honey Bee Crisis Have you ever thought about the importance of a honey bee? You should think about what they provide us. First, they provide honey and pollinate owers so they can bloom. If a honey bee or any bee lands on you, don’t try to hit it just let it y off Help Buzby find the correct path through the by itself. Eventually, if we keep killing the bees, then we will end up not getting any flowers. You can move across, up, down or honey and the owers won’t stay alive. A lot of people like to smell and pick owers but if they kill the bees then they can’t smell the owers anymore. When it comes diagonally. Add up the numbers on each flower to owers, bees are like scavengers because they have to go from ower to ower along your path. The correct path adds up to 21. pollinating them. You should care for the honey bees like me. I know someone who is a bee keeper who takes some of their incredible honey. I went to his house and he had established a home for honey bees. They kept swarming over the boxes so he had to get one more box for the bees. This winter two of the ve boxes froze and some of the bees died. But they keep reproducing so he will get more. The honey bees provide even more in terms of biodiversity, and that is another story! Lucas LaFleur Mater Dei Grade 6

Find the words by looking up, down, HONEYBEES backwards, forwards, sideways and BUZZING diagonally. DRONES WORKERS S D N E I R F B U S COLONY Z Z G P O L L E N E WAGGLE S Y S N I W T B D E TWINS R U N G I E T R A B FLIGHT E Y H O L Z O Z N Y DANCE K T E G L N Z B C E PATH HONEY R U G N E O Z U E N HAIRY O A S S O R C A B O FRIENDS W Y R I A H P A T H POLLEN Dominick Sara S. Jose N. Ethan B. ACROSS Liberty Galva-Holstein Cardinal - 3rd Galva-Holstein 5th 4th To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 27

If it weren’t for honeybees, some of your favorite foods would disappear from the planet. In fact, honeybees pollinate more crops than any other insect. Circle every third letter along each bee’s flight path below to find out the names of just a few of the foods that honeybees pollinate.

BZZZzzzzZZZzzzz ... Bees stroke their wings 11,400 times per minute! That is what makes their distinctive buzzing sound.

Honeybees are actually fuzzy little insects. When When a honeybee returns to the hive, it gives out samples of one stops by a flower to sip some nectar, pollen gets the flower’s nectar to its colony. Then stuck to its hairy honeybee body. When the busy bee it performs a dance that moves on to another flower it drops some pollen from identifies the distance, the first flower onto the second flower. direction, quality and quantity of the food supply.

The round dance indicates that a food supply has been found. The waggle dance indicates the angle and distance of the food supply, telling the other bees how to get there.

Honeybees live in a group Honeybees make called a colony. The place honey so they have where the colony lives is something to eat during called a hive. As many as the long months of the 60,000 honeybees can live year when flowers in one hive! aren’t blooming.

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Draw a line from each small animal E is for Eagle to its large animal match. e is for eagle Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter E. Say the letter as you trace it. How many words or pictures can you find on this page that have the long E sound in them like the beginning of the word eagle?

How many ?

There was an Old Man who said, “Hush! How many ? I perceive a young bird in this bush!” When they said, “Is it small?” How many ? Learning Buddies: Trace and say the He replied, “Not at all! number. Read the How many ? questions. Touch and It is four times as big as the bush!” count to find the answers.

Letter Math Play Big E, Little e Happy, Happier, American Symbols Newspaper Flag Art and Small Identification Point to the number On one page of the Large and Happiest! The bald eagle is a Use a newspaper page to With your child, look 3 in the newspaper. newspaper find and Show your child two or With your child, find a symbol of the United make an American flag. through the newspaper Have your child say circle an uppercase more newspaper pictures. newspaper picture of a States. Look through the Use blue paint to paint a to find pictures of the number and, if letter E. Then find and Ask your child, “Which happy person. Then find newspaper with your square in the top left things that start with or it’s large enough, circle a lowercase letter picture is bigger? Which a happier person. Can child for other symbols corner. Let your child use include the same sound have your child e. Have your child is smaller?” Have your you find a person who is of the United States, such the columns of type as as the letter E in eagle. trace the number. draw a line to connect child circle or point to even happier than that? as the American flag, the guides for painting red and the two. How many the large picture. Cut out the pictures and Statue of Liberty, the white stripes. Your child more big E, little e Underline or point to label them Happy, White House, the Liberty can paint little white dots pairs can you find? the small picture. Happier and Happiest. Bell, stars and stripes, etc. (stars) on the blue square.

To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 KINDER KIDS 29 Ms. Jungers’ Kindergarten class in Iowa learned about newspapers! In February, Miss Jeanette from Kid Scoop News Siouxland visited our classroom. She brought in three bags that were lled with some interesting looking hats! When she opened that bags and took the hats out, they looked a little like boxes. Miss Jeanette told us that they were like pressmen hats and that a long time ago some of the pressmen at the newspaper would wear them to keep the ink off their heads and to avoid a re! She shared a little bit about where our little stories were found in the newspaper and gave each one of us a copy of the page where our stories were found. She took some pictures of us and helped us with the Wednesday Kid Scoop page. We love nding our page on Wednesday and we really love our Kinder Kid page in the magazine.

Ms. D’s Texas Kinders Our Texas friends had a really scary day last month. On February 20th, there were at least four tornadoes conrmed in North Texas. The storms began in the afternoon and they continued through the evening. There were ashes of lightening in the sky and ash ooding covering the ground! Ms. D knew that her kinders might be a little worried about the storms, so they spent some time in class talking about weather and what they should do if a storm is nearby. Howdy! We really want to talk about tornadoes! This weekend shook us up! Ms. D. Tornadoes have lots of wind, they suck things up and throw them some place else. Ivan You should go in a shelter before the power goes off! David My mom was scared and so we ate McDonalds and I was crying so my mom hugged me. Gioanna You can hide in a safe place because a tornado might suck your house up and toss it. Jace They are like big dangerous things to snakes. So snakes hide in the forest underground. Tucker You could lock your door to keep you safe. Joey Tornadoes are shaped like big swirls, like an upside down cone! Piper Tornadoes can pour water inside our houses and sometimes people cry. Anneliese We might not get attacked by a tornado if we have no glass and are in a closet. I can use Hulk Smash to get out of the closet if the tornado gets us. Jon In case they come right to your house get under a table or a bed. Micayla

Mrs. Clancy’s New Jersey Kinders Our New Jersey friends “blew” a March riddle our way. Are you able to solve it? What am I? I’m measured on a special type of scale but I don’t weigh anything. I can’t be seen, but I’m not the Invisible Man. I can whistle, but I have no mouth. I can knock down trees, but I’m not a lumberjack. I help you y a kite, but I’m not a piece of string. I blow..but I’m not playing a trumpet. What am I?

March Wind March wind is a jolly fellow, He likes to joke and play. He turns umbrellas inside out, And blows men’s hats away. He calls the pussywillows And whispers in each ear, “Wake up you lazy little seeds; Don’t you know that spring is here?”

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Encourage reading at home with Kid Scoop News and this family involvement activity!

Nellie Fly is looking for news about kids helping the Who: Jacob, Sam and Emily environment. She saw some What: Picked up trash and planted plants at their kids cleaning up neighborhood playground. They also put up a sign that a playground in their says, “Please Keep Our Park Clean.” neighborhood. “What a great idea!” thought Nellie. “I am Where: The neighborhood playground going to interview these kids When: Last weekend so I can write an article about their project.” And so she did! Why: Emily—“I was tired of seeing all the trash, so I asked my friends to help me clean it up.” Read the notes in Nellie Fly’s Jacob—“And, there were things that could hurt little kids.” reporter notebook. Then write a news article about the Sam—“Now the playground looks cleaner and safer!” playground clean-up project.

Mrs. Mitchell’s third grade class at Lawton-Bronson recently were thinking about being inventors…and what better to invent than a new flavor of bubblegum! Here are a few of their possibilities and we hope you read this with a mouth- watering response! If I invented a new type of bubble gum it would be called Super Bubble. When you chew my bubblegum it will give you the ability to y! It will also give you any super power you could imagine! If you chew my bubble gum long enough, it will change to any taste you think of. Syenna F. If I invented a new type of bubble gum it would be called Poppy Gum. My gum has Pop Rocks in it, so when you eat it the Pop Rocks pop in your mouth. Reed B. If I invented a new type of bubble gum it would be called Tie Dye Twist. My avor of gum would be blueberry-lime. It will make you turn multiple colors. Be careful because you would not stop unless you drink Powerade. If you don’t, you will be rainbow forever. Payton L. If I invented a new type of bubble gum it would be called Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert. If you don’t have time to eat and you like gum, eat the Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert avored gum. If you don’t like gum, try this gum. You’ll love gum forever. Addy R.

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012000-00557 1/17 To adopt a classroom, please call 712-293-4328 www.NIESiouxland.com © Vicki Whiting March 2017 BIG BROTHERS ~ BIG SISTERS 31 WE ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN AT BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SIOUXLAND AND YOU CAN BE A PART OF IT, TOO! Join us for our signature fundraising event Bowl For Kids’ Sake Bonanza Bowl 2017. The Western theme invites all cowboys, cowgirls, outlaws, and even in-laws to get in the spirit by dressing in their best western wear while they help our The event will take place at Rush Lanes Bowling Alley (3828 Stadium Dr., Sioux City) on Friday, March 24th, from 3-5pm and on Saturday, March 25th, from 1-11pm.

2016 WE ARE ALSO SUPER EXCITED TO SHARE OUR “BIG OF THE MONTH” FOR FEBRUARY 2017! Kim Miller, a Le Mars Big Sister, has been selected by BBBS Mentoring Specialist, Kristen Langel. Kim has been with her Little Sister, Madison, since the fall of 2011. Their match began as Lunch Buddies and transitioned to the Plymouth County Community–Based Program in October 2016. Their relationship is amazing with trust and valued friendship from each of them. BBBS staff met up with Kim and Madison in Le Mars to present Kim with her award and visited with them about their match throughout the past ve years. Little Sister Madison said the best thing about her Big Sister Kim was, “She always has a smile on her face.”

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Play the game and follow the adventures of the famous reporter, Nellie Bly. In 1889, Bly left New Jersey on a steamship, determined to circle the globe in less than 80 days. This was a daring challenge in the 1880s. Nellie Bly had to travel by boat, train and buggy. But the fact that she was a woman made it even more shocking. It was not thought fitting for a woman to go on adventures alone. In fact, Bly was the first woman to circle the globe alone. And she did in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds! Her record time was not broken You need: until 1929, when the first “air • A marker for each player. ship” made it in 20 days. • One die

1. Decide who will go first.

2. Each player moves by rolling the die and moving the marker the number of spaces shown on the die.

3. Follow the directions written on the spaces. Beware! Nellie Bly had many delays and setbacks on her trip. While the delays on the board game don’t reflect Nellie Bly’s actual delays, they will let you share in her frustrations. The opportunities to roll again let you share her celebrations!

4. The first person to make it back to New Jersey wins!

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I would hide in the couch and see a T.V. FLY ON THE WALL Raul P. Mrs. Mitchell’s third grade I would hide in the table and see a students would like to see the microwave. Nam N. world from a different view! I would hide in a cake and see a mouse. If I were a y I’d be at the playground. Byckey F. I would be able to see in every I would hide in the closet and see an direction. I would always see giants elephant. Romina S. on the playground. I would always y I would hide in the table and see my up so I can watch them play. When cars. Aimar O. they’re gone, I would go to play on the I would hide in the closet and see a toy playground! car. Arvon B. Taya E. I would hide in the bushes and see a house. Soraya A. One day, as a y, I was in a classroom. I would hide under the desk and see a I was being swatted around by a giant person. Bentley T. called “teacher” and by these small giants called “students.” So, the teacher Mrs. Irwin’s Future Stars….4th kept swatting at me and almost got me. I Grade Leeds ew out the window right before she shut it. So, I’m glad I’m still here. If I were a y on the wall, I would be Aden R. eating in the cafeteria with the students because then I would get to eat more If I was a y, everything would be twice and wouldn’t have to go nding food. as big. Since ies see hundreds of Skyler pictures instead of one, people would be ginormous giants. A school would be If I were a y I’d be watching my favorite Find the suitcase above that a huuuuge mansion. It would be super sport of soccer and distract the other matches the one Nellie Bly is hard to be a y! team members by buzzing around them. Syenna F. I also would like to hang out in the holding. teachers’ lounge. Yum Yum. If I was a y I would think that humans Milton are big and huge creatures. If I was outside, I would have to watch out for If I were a y I would stand on the top of huge soccer balls, footballs, basketballs, the ag pole and wait until they put on a and kids. movie. If I got bored I would y around Jimmy G. and nd some food. I would have to be careful though because I might get NELLIE Find the words by looking up, down, Ms. Jungers Kindergarten class swatted . I would also get use to my backwards, forwards, sideways and from Hunt would love to be a vision to help me get around. Justin BLY diagonally. “fly on the wall…” If I were a y on the wall I would be in the bathroom because ies like personal REPORTER If I could be a y… business. BOAT D L R O W T A R O P I would hide in a lamp and see the Kyra couch. Levi C. CIRCLE U N E D N T L E H I GLOBE D E T I T A E N W R TRAIN R O R A D I R O L T WOMAN O P O Y L D W L R T ALONE C B P L W O M A N S TRIP LADY E N E L C R I C E Y PRINT R N R L L N I E L A WORLD Y L D O G L O B E D DAYS RECORD

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We are Mrs. Mitchell’s third grade class from Lawton-Bronson. Our class is I like doing science experiments. Aden special because we are creative and we make people laugh. We work together We read a lot and have a lot of good books to read. Jimmy on projects and cleaning up the classroom. The students in our class are honest, We get to play math games on the computer. Hayden helpful, polite, and friendly. Our favorite subjects are math and science. (Though, We all behave in class. Reed they do write quite a bit for Kid Scoop News…they share writings and art about I like doing brain breaks using the Smartboard. Payton many subjects!) We have the best teacher! Temperance

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