STINGRAY TIMES Volume 5, Issue 5 January, 2017 2017: How to make it Chinese New Year By: Lauren B. Through the Year. By Ellie B. 1. Dress Appropriately: When the weather is around 30 to 40 The Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in degrees you know it’s time to break out the warm clothes. I China for both social and economic reasons. The Chinese New recommend a heavy jacket and maybe a lighter one for inside Year is oftentimes referred to as the Spring Festival or the of school. Warning: DO NOT WEAR SHORTS IN JANUARY. Lunar New Year. For those of you who think coming home with frostbite is a The New Year celebration lasts for 15 days; it begins on the good idea, it’s not. first day of the new moon and ends on the full moon. The celebration on the15th day is called the Chinese Lantern 2. Write the proper date: Who else wants to write 2016 on Festival. The festival begins on a different day each year; everything? Yeah, me too. As hard as it is, for the next 2-3 Chinese Year 4715 will begin on the 28th of January. months you may have to think before you scribble a date on The New Year is celebrated with fireworks, brightly colored your paper. As long as you aren’t turning in your history lights, special meals with family, gift giving, and festivities. It project a year before it is due. is the biggest holiday in Chinese culture. Each year is represented by a different animal and color. This 3. Pay attention: all the back of the room slackers, playing year is the year of the Red Fire Chicken. This means that it will games, wondering why their teacher has given them a C. Well be a Yin, or negative year. maybe if you do this little tip and avoid playing cool math games your grades will go up. 4. Exercise: yes I know it is cold, yes I know it’s raining, but it’s also important to get moving. Gym helps, but you need to put in your own effort. Ride a bike on the warmer days, play indoor soccer, or just DANCE. Whatever you do, don’t sit in front of the TV watching some show all day. 5. Volunteer: make this the year you donate to ARF or join one of those anti-cancer fundraisers. It will make you and others INSIDE THIS ISSUE feel good, as well as making our community a better place. Just because you don’t get something in return doesn’t mean you can’t help out. Read: volunteer cred is needed for school 1 – Chinese New Year 5 – Winnie the Pooh but that should not be your main reason for doing it. 1 - 2017 Tips 5- Eating Healthy 6. READ: Reading improves your vocabulary, your classwork, 2 – MLK, Jr 6- Upcoming Movies and is plain fun. With March madness coming up, it makes for a great way to get into the vibe. Now I understand some 2- Most searched topics 6- January Facts 2- Languages people say “reading, that’s lame” but let me tell you 7- Recipes something; reading can take you to amazing places, give you 3 – Creativity Month 8- Word Search a touch of magic, make you laugh, make you cry, and just 3- China 8- Current Events make everything amazing. If you aren’t already a bookworm 4- January Facts I recommend becoming one. 4- Olweus 7. Have some fun: People think the New Year is all goals and 4- Chinese New Year school and high pressure but you can take some time to have fun. Read, draw, dance, do all of your favorite hobbies when you get home from school to unwind. Let yourself laugh a little while chatting with your friends at lunch. And if you are bored on the weekend go see one of those new movies or call your best friend. Stingray Times 1 Martin Luther King Jr. Most searched topics of By: Megan F. 2016 A very important man was born in January, actually to be By: Ella H. more specific he was born on January 15th. Do you know who I’m thinking of? If you guessed Martin Luther King Jr. then Songs you’re correct. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther 1. “Closer” by The Chainsmokers and Hasley King was a pastor like his father and decided that he would 2. “One Dance” by Drake help in the Civil Rights Movement. So, he became a member 3. “Starboy” by The Weekend of the “executive committee of the National Association for the 4. “Black Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd and Gucci Advancement of Colored People.” he started speaking out and Mane having boycotts or making speeches like the famed “I have a 5. “Heathens” by TWENTY ØNE PILØTS dream” speech or the bus boycott. However, he made sure to People never hurt anybody physically. He believed that words got a lot 1. Donald Trump more done than fists. Some people still didn’t like what he was 2. Hillary Clinton doing so they bombed his house and abused him. However, he 3. Michael Phelps stayed strong and didn’t give up or resort to violence. He wrote Z 4. Bernie Sanders five books and even more articles over eleven years. He was 5. Steven Avery arrested over twenty times and was assaulted around four Animals times. Despite this he was awarded five honorary medals 1. Deer including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He died on April 4th, 2. Bat 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee when a man assassinated him. 3. Cat 4. Pheasant 5. White-tailed deer Movies 1. Captain America: Civil War 2. Deadpool How to say 3. Suicide Squad 4. Finding Dory “Happy New Year!” 5. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice YouTube channels in Different Languages 1. PewDiePie By, Macy D 2. Smosh 3. JennaMarbles 1. French: Bonne Anné! 4. NigaHiga 5. TheFineBros TV shows 2. Spanish: ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! 1. Game of Thrones 2. The Walking Dead 3. Icelandic: Gleðilegt nýtt ár! 3. Stranger Things 4. The Flash 4. Dutch: Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! 5. Westworld Most searched 5. Italian: Buon anno! 1. Powerball 2. Prince 6. Polish: Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku 3. Hurricane Matthew 4. Pokémon Go 5. Slither.io 7. Arabic: Kul 'am wa antum bikhair Cities 1. Cleveland 8. German: Ein glückliches neues Jahr 2. Palm Springs, California 3. Jacksonville 9. Norwegian: Godt Nytt År 4. Hong Kong 5. Daytona Beach, Florida 10. Latin: Felix sit annus novus Stingray Times 2 Travel Journal: China Fun Crafts for By: Zoe Q. International Creativity GUESS WHO IS BACK AND SUPER EXCITED TO BE DOING THE TRAVEL JOURNAL AGAIN. THAT’S Month! RIGHT ME, ZOE, YOUR TRAVEL GUIDE FOR By: Brooke H. PROBABLY THE REST OF THE YEAR!!! AHAHAHAHAH!!!! Did you know that January is International creativity Since it’s the Chinese New Year on the 28th I month? You do now! International creativity month is thought I’d pay a little respect to the old country and do a when people celebrate creativity by doing arts and crafts Travel Journal on it. So sit tight as I take you on a wondrous and learning new skills. Here’s a few fun arts and crafts journey through this ancient land. That… sounded creepy. and skills you might be interested in learning: China (as you probably already know) has the largest population in the world, 1,343,239,923 people inhabit this Cooking region. The country itself is the 4th largest in area size with 3,747,879 sq. miles. Despite this large size, all of China is Painting in one time-zone. There are 4 or 5 types of Chinese: Knitting Mandarin, the most popular and most spoken language: Crocheting Yue (which includes Cantonese): Min: Wu: and Hakka. The Chinese have also discovered things way before any of us Dancing westerners have. For example, the Chinese discovered Writing a book that blood circulated through the body in the second Making a video or movie century B.C.E, 18 centuries before the Europeans. Culture, or well more culture. According the Asia Society, Making a video game there 56 sub-groups of ethnicities in China, the Largest Reading being the Han Chinese (900 million) and the smallest being Building a house out of popsicle sticks the Hezhen Chinese (2000). As for the religion of these people, the Chinese Communist Party is officially atheist, Making a paper mache volcano though they are becoming more tolerant of religion the only Making a hand or sock puppet ones that are allowed to be practiced legally are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism. Building or painting a bird house Fun facts time: China is thought to be the longest living Gardening civilization and the longest use of a written language. And Doodling speaking of the Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year, it is the most important holiday to the Chinese; they believe Drawing that everyone turns a year older on the New Year so they Doing fun things with your friends! celebrate everyone’s birthday on that day. The Forbidden City was where the Emperor stayed, it was named such because no commoner was allowed in, and any commoner who saw the emperor was killed. Hey, is anybody else hungry? Well good luck getting through this next part then! There’s… baby bok choy, bubble tea, claypot rice, dried cuttlefish, egg rolls, fresh bamboo shoots, Goji berries, haw flakes, iron goddess tea, jellyfish, Kung Pao chicken, Longan fruit, Mooncakes, and many many MANY more.