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as the shortest month of the year! Here’s five reasons we celebrate! We cele-brate Black History month where we remember and honor important men,women and historical events that changed our nation and the world. Ground

Hog Day was February 2nd. The 100th Dayof School is celebrated in classrooms with funactivities and creative projects for students toenjoy. Valentine’s Day is the 14th. It’s the cel-ebration of love, where we show our affectionfor friends and family with cards, candy andclassroom parties. President’s Day is Febru-ary 16th. Wow! That’s a lot of celebrations!We would like to thank our wonderful spon-

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Deputy Chelsea Schneider of the Ionia CountySheriff's Department recently visited the fourth andfifth grade students of St. Joseph School in Pe-wamo. The discussion included information aboutThe Constitution of the United States and laws.Deputy Schneider is currently serving the studentsand staff of the school as their Liaison Officer.

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"It was one of those serendipitous things," said Mrs. Westenberg. "I was atthe Michigan.gov website looking for something else, when I came across thelink for the Culture of Reading Grant. I filled out a few items online and sent itonward. As teachers, we do that often. Anything and anytime we can do or getsomething for our classroom, we tend to fill it out for that lucky chance to addsomething worthwhile to our classrooms." And that is just what she did and how it happened. And now Mrs. Westen-

berg's students are the benefactors. Each student received a hardcover copyof Acoustic Rooster and his Barnyard Band by Kwame Alexander and Tim Bow-ers. Each page shows depicts "when a jazz-loving rooster sets his sights on winning abarnyard talent show, he realizes he can't do it as a solo act. He's up against the talentsof Mules Davis's cool duo and Ella Finchgerald's singing group. Acoustic Rooster calls onfriends like pianist Duck Ellington, singer Bee Holiday, and percussionist piggy Pepe Ernesto Cruz. Together,the foursome makes beautiful music as they rock the barnyard. And while they may not win first prize, AcousticRooster realizes he has the world's best jazz band and that's all that matters. Colorful artwork from artist TimBowers (Memoirs of a Goldfish) ensures this story doesn't miss a beat. A glossary of musical terms and in-struments rounds out this perfect introduction to jazz for young readers." "It is a delightful book," replied Mrs. Westenberg. "I read it to the students before I gave them their copies

and they loved it! And then to see their faces when they received their own copies, was priceless."This grant was awarded to support evidence-based reading instruction and family engagement activities in

the classroom - and perhaps even more importantly the books were given to families to generate a practiceand love of reading outside of school. Getting more books into the hands of children was the goal, and Mrs. Westenberg's Kindergarteners are most

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Herbison Woods Student Govern-ment held a Community Paper GoodsDrive. Paper goods and personal hy-giene items were donated by studentsand their families. Thanks to all of thedonations students were able to helpDeWitt families in need.

Fifth and sixthgrade students inMrs. Crowley’sC o m m u n i t yService Explo-ration Classmade fleeceblankets for resi-dents of Rose-

wood Assisted Living Center. In January thestudents boarded a school bus at HerbisonWoods School and personally delivered the blan-kets to the residents. Rosewood Assisted Living Center in DeWitt of-

fers a place of comfort and care for patients withdementia and early onset of Alzheimer’s. “Our tripto Rosewood was such a positive experience forboth our students and the residents”, said Mrs.Crowley. On the bus ride back to school, aboutthe experience at Rosewood, one student said“you can’t learn about talking to and comfortingelderly people in school”.

Students in Mrs.Dalman’s fifthgrade classroom atHerbison Woodsschool made bakedgoods to contributeto GunnisonvilleAssisted LivingCenter. The stu-dents did a fantas-tic job workingtogether, and allrecipes turned outwonderfully.


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Let’s Learn AboutYour Heart

Did you know that your heart is a muscle? It’s one of many youhave in your body. The heart though, is a special muscle that per-forms almost like a pump. Your heart is located in the middle ofyour chest and a little to the left. It’s about the size of a fist.The right side of your heart receives the blood from your body

and pumps it to your lungs. The left side receives the blood fromyour lungs and pumps it out to your body. How does this pumpwork? Before each heart beat, your heart fills with blood. Then ithas a muscle contraction (it squeezes) to shove the blood in theheart to its destination. The heart continually “beats” during yourlifetime. Doctors listen to the heart beat with a stethoscope.There are four different sections of your heart called chambers.

Two on the right side of your heart and two on the left side. Eachside has one at the top and one on the bottom. The two top cham-bers are called the atria (the singular form is atrium). The atriachambers on the right and left fill with blood returning to the heartfrom the body and lungs. Down through the middle of your heart isa thick wall of muscle called the septum which separates the leftside and the right side of the heart. Working together, the atria fillwith blood, dump it into the ventricles (the bottom chambers), theventricles contract (beats) and pumps the blood out of the heart.Then the atria fills back up with blood.Inside the heart are four valves. These valves let blood in and

then close. Two of the heart valves, called mitral and tricuspidvalves, let the blood flow from the atria to the ventricles. The othertwo are called aortic and pulmonary valves. They control the flowof blood as it leaves the heart. All these valves work to keep theblood flowing in the right direction. They open to let blood throughand then quickly close to keep it from flowing the wrong way.When the blood leaves your heart, it circulates. Circulation is the

movement of blood through the heart and around the body. Howdoes it do that? It leaves the heart through tubes called blood ves-sels. These blood vessels are called arteries which carry the bloodaway from the heart and veins that carry the blood back to theheart.

What does this blood do? Blood keeps your body working cor-rectly. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all of the body’s cells. Theleft side of your heart sends the oxygen blood to all parts of yourbody. Your body takes the oxygen out of the blood and uses it inyour cells. Then the cells make carbon dioxide and other stuff thatgets carried away by the blood.The blood returning in the veins enters the right side of the heart

through the Vena Cava. The superior vena cava brings the bloodinto the heart from the chest, arms, neck and head. The inferiorvena cava collects the blood from the parts of the body locatedbelow the heart. The right ventricle pumps that blood into the lungsfor removal of the carbon dioxide. So when we breathe, we exhalethe carbon dioxide. When we inhale, we bring fresh oxygen intoour lungs and begin the blood process all over again returning theblood to the left side of the heart. It takes less than 60 seconds topump blood to every cell in your body!

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Melt butter and marshmallows in a sauce pan over low heatand stir until smooth. In a large bowl, mix rice cereal, candyhearts (tiny red ones) and miniature chocolate chips together. Tomarshmallow mixture, blend in 2 drops of red food coloring. Addmarshmallow mixture to cereal mixture and stir quickly to com-bine them. Spread out in a large buttered pan and smooth withbuttered hands. While warm, press on the candy hearts withmessages and space them about 2 inches apart. Refrigerate andcut into squares.

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Mrs. Ernst and her 1st and 2nd gradestudents celebrated Dr. King’s birthdayby reading books and discussing hislife and his dream. After a lesson abouthow Dr. King impacted our nation thestudents had to reflect on how they toocould make a difference in the world.They each drew a picture of Dr. Kingand used adjectives to describe him.They wrote and illustrated about adream that they have that would makeour world a better place. Secondgrader, Jonathan Koenigsknecht wrote,“My dream is that all people believe in

God. I will tell people about God. I will tell them to spread the GoodNews. I will help people live as a Christian of the Lord.” NolanSimon, also a second grade student stated, “My dream is all peopleshould be caring for other people. So people can have a happy life.To be so caring and good that God would be proud.” Pictured withtheir dreams and illustrations are 1st graders Elijah Vanneste,Quentin Smith, Josie Simon and Selena Stump.

Mrs. Elliott's 5th & 6th grade reading class participated in a meetand treat book club, BC56, reading the novel, "Bud, not Buddy" byChristopher Paul Curtis. BC56 met every other Friday with volun-teer parents leading small discussion groups. Along with the read-ing, students also completed writing assignments, a set of ACEquestions (Answer, Cite and Expand) to compete before each meet-ing. During the meetings, studentsand parents discussed the as-signed questions and enjoyed abeverage and snack provided bythe parents. The students espe-cially enjoy having their parentsand grandparents be a part of thisand are excited to start the nextnovel, "Ungifted" by Gordon Kor-man.

Waldron School in Fowler isTaking On Line Registration for Kindergarten

Waldron Elementary School is now taking on-line registration fornext year’s kindergarten class. If you have a child who will be fiveyears of age on or before September 1, 2015, now is the time to reg-ister ON-LINE for kindergarten atwww.fowlerschools.net. Pleaseregister on-line before March14. If you have trouble with thelink or do not have internet ac-cess, please contact MarcyWieber at 989-593-2160 [email protected] toregister

Waldron School1st Grade News!

Pictured above and on left:First graders in Mrs. Hamilton'sclass use math games to makelearning fun! Learning and play-ing with friends makes each dayrewarding for students.

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Students at St. Joseph School in St. Johns began their celebration ofCatholic Schools Week with "Pajama Day". Students who brought in apair of new socks or slippers to donate to those in need were allowed towear their pajamas at school all day. Several hundred pairs of socks andslippers were collected.Other special activities during the week were:

- Staff Appreciation Day- Student Appreciation Day- Blue Jean/Cupcake/Hat Day (with the donation of a gently used toyto the St. Vincent DePaul Center)- First Reconciliation for 2nd Graders- School-wide Bingo with Father Mike- Mass with Lansing Diocese Bishop Boyea

PajamaDay!

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On November 19, 1831, James Garfield was born in a log cabinin what is now Moreland Hills, Ohio. He was the last of the logcabin presidents. Fatherless at 17 months old, he was brought upby his mother Eliza Ballou, his sisters and his uncle. They had towork for everything starting at a young age. His education waslocal in Orange City Schools, then Eclectic Institute (later calledHiram College) and then transferring to Williams College in Mas-sachusetts. He graduated in 1856 as an outstanding student.On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Randolph. They

had a large family of seven children.He preached for a short time at Franklin Circle Christian Church.Then taught at Eclectic Institute as an instructor in classical lan-guages before he became the president of the institute from 1857to 1860. Garfield studied law privately and was admitted to theOhio bar in 1860.He was elected as an Ohio State Senator in 1859. There, he

worked at encouraging the Southern states back into the Union.With the start of the Civil War, Garfield was commissioned as alieutenant colonel in the 42nd Regiment of Ohio volunteers. In1862, he led a brigade at Middle Creek, Kentucky against the Con-

federate troopswhich was suc-cessful. The Con-federates had5,000 men and 12cannons, Garfieldhad only 1,100men. The battlewas one of themost importantminor battles ofthe war. At theage of 31, he be-came a BrigadierGeneral.In 1862, he was

James Abram GarfieldOur 20th President (1881)

elected to the Congress. At the urging of Lincoln, he resigned fromthe military and took his post. Garfield repeatedly won re-electionfor 18 years and became the leading Republican in the House. Hewas elected as a United States Senator (while still in the House ofRepresentatives) in 1880, but became president instead.He was elected President by a margin of 10,000 popular votes.

He was the first member of the House of Representatives to beelected President. As President, he took a stand against politicalcorruption. The growing strength of his administration and popu-larity continued to grow.Garfield was shot in a Washington railroad station on July 2,

1881, twice. One bullet grazed his arm and the other entered hisback and lodged itself somewhere in his body. He died Septem-ber 19, 1881, living only a few months after being shot. Garfieldbecame the second president to be assassinated - Abraham Lin-coln being the first. He also served the second shortest term asPresident of the United States.

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The Violin!One of the best known instruments in the orchestra is the violin

which is played with a bow. It is the highest pitched instrument inthe violin family.The violin consists of several parts - the front, the ribs, the neck,

the fingerboard, the pegbox, the scroll, the bridge, the tailpieceand the f-holes. The violin has four strings which are fastened tothe tailpiece, rest over the fingerboard and run to the pegbox. Atthe pegbox, the strings are attached to tuning pegs and by turningthese pegs, the violin can be tuned. By the musician changing fin-ger positions on the strings, different notes are made. The bow isdrawn across the strings which make the tone.The violin can be traced back to Italy in the early 1500’s. It

evolved from two other stringed instruments, the fiddle and the lirada braccio, which were both stringed instruments. The known de-veloper of the violin was Andrea Amati.In the 17th and 18th centuries, the craft of violin making began.

Artists such as Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and JacobStainer made them in their workshops. At this time, the violins had

a shorter neck, the bridgewas flatter, they had ashorter fingerboard andthe strings were made ofgut.At first, the violin wasn’t

very popular and consid-ered low status socially.But by the 1800’s, wellknown composers likeClaudio Monteverdi usedthe violin in operas. Theviolin began to gain somestature in the Baroque pe-riod as more known com-

posers began using the violin in their works. One of these com-posers was Johann Sebastian Bach. By the mid-18th century,the violin was a vital part in instrumental music. During this pe-riod, violins emerged as the leading section in an orchestra.However, it was not until the 19th century that violin virtuososemerged. People such as Giovanni Viotti, Isaac Stern, MischaElman and Nathan Milstein became world famous for their skill.

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The OcelotThe ocelot lives in the South America, even though sometimesthey can be found as far north as United States. They are knownalso as the dwarf leopard, because of their appearance. They looksimilar to a domestic cat, with beautiful fur that has made it vulner-able to poaching in the past. The ocelot is relatively small. They are only 57 inches in lengthand can weigh up to 40 pounds. They have sleek and smooth furlike a jaguar. It can be reddish brown or tan with black spots. Theirears are rounded and their front paws are large. They have black,banded tails.Ocelots are nocturnal and very territorial! They rest in trees dur-ing the day and are great climbers. It also is an animal that prefersto be alone in their own area. Ocelots prey on smaller animals, in-cluding rabbits and rodents. They hunt alone. Mothers often only have one kitten per litter, but two or three kit-

tens can occur. The small litter size makes the ocelot vulnerable topopulation loss. Kittens grow very slowly and leave their motherafter two years. Ocelots can live up to 20 years in captivity. Usually the ocelot is found below sea level, but sometimes canbe found residing in mountains. They are also strong swimmers,and are often seen in flooded forests and near human populations.

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Tell your friend or family member to picktheir favorite number between 1 and 9, but

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