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There is so much to like about October! First of all, it’s one of the most colorful months inMichigan. Just look outside to see the trees turning brilliant shades of orange, red, purple, yel-low and brown. It’s a great month to visit apple orchards and pick your own apples, runthrough a corn maze or take a wagon ride through a pumpkin patch. Did you know that apumpkin with a carved face and a candle or light inside is called a Jack-O-Lantern?

That brings us to Halloween! The one night of the year kids can dress up and get free candy!Pretty cool! If you go trick or treating or to a Halloween Party, planning what you are going towear for a costume is half of the fun! Is your costume going to be funny, spooky, or surpris-ing?

Make sure you practice safety when you’re going out and that a responsible adult is with youat all times with a cell phone. Be polite and say thank you for your treat. Also have your par-ents check your candy BEFORE you eat it when you get home. Keep only the treats that areunopened with wrappers that aren’t torn or have holes in them. Most of all - never go into astranger’s home or get into a stranger’s car. Carry a flashlight, or glow stick so you are morevisible to cars. In other words, use caution and safety while your’re out having fun. Halloweencan be a fun time for all!

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"Fly, Butterfly, Fly!" Kindergarten students at St. JosephSchool in St. Johns learned about the life cycle of the butter-fly. They learned that a butterfly begins as an egg, which thenbecomes a caterpillar. The caterpillar goes to sleep surroundedby a chrysalis and emerges from the chrysalis as a butterfly.The butterfly then lays eggs on a leaf and the cycle starts overagain! The students made a video about the life cycle of thebutterfly to show their parents at home. The students then re-leased real butterflies outside the school so the butterfliescould migrate to a warm place where they can stay for the win-ter.


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Herbison Woods’ staff is Capturing Kids’ Hearts! What ex-actly does that mean? The teaching staff at Herbison Woods’attended Capturing Kids’ Hearts, a three day training that pro-vides tools for administrators and staff to build positive, pro-ductive, trusting relationships — among themselves and withtheir students. The skills learned can transform the classroomand school environment, paving the way for high perform-ance.

We want students to know that we are happy they are atschool and are an important member of our school family. En-gaging with students first thing is essential for students to havea successful day. Teachers will greet each student at the doorwith a handshake, affirm each student, and welcome the stu-dents into their class, by giving them their full attention, firstthing.

Teachers will establish an atmosphere of trust in which thestudents feel safe to learn from their mistakes. Each class willcollaboratively create a class social contract by answering thefollowing questions:· How do you want to be treated by me (teacher)?· How do you want to treat each other?· How do you think I (teacher) want to be treated by you

(students)?· How do we want to treat each other when there is a conflict?

The social contract provides consistency because everyoneknows the rules—what is acceptable and what is not, as wellas the consequences. This common understanding providesthe students the foundation for positive interactions with theteacher and with each other. The social contract also createsself-managing classrooms as each student takes responsibil-ity for his or her own behavior, and students become empow-ered because they experience encouragement and support.

This school year is underway and we are committed to help-ing each child reach his/her potential by first building a posi-tive, productive and trusting relationship with your child!

Waldron School is Off to a GREAT Start! Students are back in the classroom and eager to learn, and our

school year is off and run-ning! We are looking for-ward to a school year full ofacademic growth and fondschool memories. The Wal-dron staff is committed notonly teaching a well roundedcurriculum, but also helpingour students to S.O.A.R.—to be Safe, Orderly, Ac-countable and Respectful.The school year is off to aGREAT start! Please feelfree to contact us anytime you have concerns regarding your child’seducation. Please check out our Waldron School website atwww.waldronschool.net for upcoming events, lunch menus, forms,teacher e-mail addresses, parent connect grade books and muchmore!

1st Grade Field Trip to UncleJohn’s Cider Mill

Student in our 1st grade classrooms re-cently took a field trip to Uncle John’s CiderMill in St. Johns, MI. Students saw first-handhow apples are picked, prepped and pressedinto apple cider. When they returned toschool, they made healthy apple snacks to share with their class-mates! A great time was had by all!

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The kindergarten studentshave started the year off withColor Days! They empha-sized one color each daywith different sorting, count-ing and other various learn-ing activities as a way ofreinforcing the students colorrecognition. We are also offand running with differentcenter activities--sorting,shape naming, foam formingto strengthen our pencil grip

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Why Do EvergreensStay Green All Year

Round?Evergreen trees - also known as conifers (because of the cones

that hold their seeds) include spruce, fir and pine trees. Unlike de-ciduous trees which loose all of their leaves at the same time, ever-greens do not. They are able to make new leaves before the oldones fall off. Some evergreens can keep their leaves a few yearsbefore they fall off!

Evergreens have adapted to live in climates where there maybe limited annual sunshine and/or available water. They thrive incold climates. Their leaves have adapted to make the most of this.The evergreen leaves look like needles. Botanists discovered that

the needles are actually reg-ular leaves that are rolled upvery tightly. This shape al-lows the evergreen to con-serve water. They also havea very waxy coating thathelps save water during thesummer and winter months.

The leaves on evergreentrees have the same functionas leaves of other trees.They make food for the treeby using photosynthesis. Theleaves are often dark greenindicating that a lot of sun-ab-sorbing chlorophyll is pres-ent. By having a lot of smallleaves that are packed withchlorophyll, the tree gathersas much energy as it can toprepare for the lack of sun-light during the winter months

as evergreens do photosynthesis all year around. The dark coloralso keeps the tree warm in its cold environment because thedarker leaves absorb more sunlight.

In cold climates where the evergreen lives, even with a largeamount of precipitation, the water is often frozen and unavailable tothe tree. When that happens, the evergreen will go dormant andrest until conditions are right for photosynthesis to start again. Thesmall surface area and the thick coating of wax on the needle likeleaves allows the tree to retain more water. There is less surfacearea available for evaporation.

The small leaves also have small holes called stomata that areused for gas exchange. These can be closed very tightly to stopwater loss. The small pointy leaves and the cone-like shape of thetree itself, sheds snow more easily than other trees so the ever-greens are not as likely to break under the weight of snow and ice.

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Dogs!The dog is a domestic subspecies of the wolf and they are a

mammal. The domestic dog has been (and continues to be) oneof the most widely-kept working and companion animals inhuman history.

The dog has developed into hundreds of varied breeds. Mixed-breed dogs or mongrels are dogs that do not belong to a specificbreed. Height measured to the base of the neck or withersranges from a few inches in the Chihuahua to a few feet in theIrish Wolfhound. Their color varies from white through grays(usually called blue) to black, and browns from light (tan) to dark"red" or "chocolate" in a wide variation of patterns. The dog’scoat can be very short to several inches long, from coarse hair tosomething like wool, straight, curly, or smooth. Mixed breed dogsand purebred dogs are both suitable as companions, pets,working dogs, or competitors in dog sports.

Based on DNA evidence, the wolf ancestors of moderndogs came from other wolves about 100,000 years ago,and dogs were domesticated from those wolf ancestorsabout 15,000 years ago. This date would make dogs thefirst species to be domesticated by humans. As humansmigrated around the planet, so did dogs.

Dogs are valued for their intelligence. This intelligenceis expressed differently with different breeds and individu-als however. For example, Border Collies are noted fortheir ability to learn commands, while other breeds maynot be so motivated towards obedience, but instead showtheir cleverness in devising ways to steal food or escapefrom a yard! Being highly adaptable animals themselves,dogs have learned to do many jobs as required by hu-mans over the generations. Dogs are employed in variousroles across the globe, proving invaluable assets in areassuch as search-and-rescue, law enforcement (includingattack dogs, sniffer dogs and tracking dogs), guards forlivestock - people or property, herding, Arctic explorationsled-pullers, guiding the blind and acting as a pair of earsfor the deaf, assisting with hunting, and a great many otherroles which they may be trained to assume.

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Abraham Lincoln16th President of the United States 1861-1865

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"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parentswere both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second fami-lies, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, wasof a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... moved from Kentuckyto ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bearsand other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of coursewhen I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read,write, and cipher ... but that was all."

Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while workingon a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illi-nois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in theIllinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His lawpartner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."

He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whomlived to maturity. Back in Springfield, he gradually began to prosper asa lawyer, often representing business interests, but his eloquently statedanti-slavery views gained him increasing attention. In 1858 Lincoln ranagainst Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in de-bating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him theRepublican nomination for President in 1860. Although he receivedonly 40% of the popular vote, due to a split in the Democratic Party, Lincoln won a majority of the Electoral College votes. Al-though he had stated his willingness to tolerate slavery where it currently existed, his election precipitated the secession ofSouthern states and the formation of the Confederacy.

In the years of civil war that followed, the inexperienced Lincoln proved to be one of the most extraordinary leaders, both po-litical and moral, the USA has ever seen. First defining the war as being fought over secession rather than slavery, he oversawthe creation of the Union army. When the political time was right he announced the Emancipation Proclamation (Sept. 1862),thereby interpreting the war as a crusade against slavery, and later oversaw the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment (1865)which legally ended slavery. With his immortal Gettysburg Address (Nov 1863), he stated most movingly: "that we here highlyresolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, underGod, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people,by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an endto the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and gener-ous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily inreunion.

The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Ad-dress, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right,as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in;to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's The-atre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor. The nation was truelysaddened as one of it’s greatest leaders had fallen.

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A HungryDinosaur

The dinosaur known as the Brontosaurus is now calledthe Apatosaurus. It was one of the largest land animalsthat has ever existed. This dinosaur lived in what is knownas the Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago.

The Apatosaurus, hatched from enormous foot longeggs and may have lived long enough to celebrate100birthdays! This huge dinosaur was an herbivore whichmeans it ate only plants. The hungry Apatosaurus musthave spent his entire day munching and crunching onplants to maintain his massive body.

This gigantic plant-eater measured about 80 feet long orclose to the length of two school buses. It stood about 30feet tall or the height of a 4 story building. It weighedroughly 30 tons; the weight of 10 cars! Apatosaurus hada very tiny brain in a small head which was less than 2feet long. The Apatosaurus had a long neck and a longtail. It had four massive column-like legs with the backlegs being longer than the front legs. We know all this be-cause people have found fossilized remains of the Ap-atosaurus in the Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, andWyoming and Canada.

If you would like to look for dinosaurs bones when yougrow up, you can become a scientist called a “Paleontol-ogist”. In the meantime, one way to enjoy and learn aboutdinosaurs is to create them. Use the following sample tocreate your own Apatosaurus!

Celebrate all things “saurus”! October is International Dinosaur Month!

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Procedure: Draw a line to divide a paper plate in half.On half of the circle, draw a tail, front leg, back leg,

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The hurdy-gurdy is the first stringed instrument to which the keyboardprinciple was applied. The French name, Viella a Roue (wheel fiddle),describes the method by which sound is produced. The bowing actionof the fiddle is replaced by a wheel cranked by a handle. The outer rimof the wooden wheel is coated with resin. When the crank is spun, thewheel turns and the gut strings vibrate.

Just as the bag of the bagpipe acts as a reservoir of air for continuoussound, so too the wheel makes possible continuous sound by avoidingchanges of bowing. Both bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy use drones, providedin the former by reed pipes, and in the latter by strings which sound fixedpitches. Other strings tuned in unison provide notes of the scale. Tan-gents activated by keys press these strings at the appropriate points toproduce different pitches.

There is evidence of the hurdy-gurdy in Europe in the twelfth century.By the end of this century, the instruments were highly regarded. Beforethe year 1300 the instrument (known then as the organistrum), was oftenlong enough to require two performers, one to crank, and one to pull thekeys upward. Because of the great force involved in moving the keys,only slow tunes were playable. The hurdy gurdy was then reduced insize and became single player instruments. The key mechanism thenrequired pushing rather than pulling so they could play more complextechniques.

It was widely usedin the Middle Ages,and survived in theworks of Vivaldi,Haydn, and Mozart.The hurdy-gurdy alsobecame the ideal in-strument for dancemusic. It has longbeen associated withstreet musicians, andit is still played as afolk instrument in Eu-rope.

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Giraffes Are One OfThe World’s Tallest Mammals!

• Giraffes are one of the world's tallest mammals. They are wellknown for their long necks, long legs, and spotted patterns. Giraffeshave small "horns" or knobs on top of their heads that grow to beabout five inches long. These knobs are used to protect the head infights.• Male giraffes are larger than females. Males weigh between 2,400and 3,000 pounds and stand up to 19 feet tall! Female giraffes weighbetween 1,600 and 2,600 pounds and grow to be 16 feet tall.• Healthy giraffes live about 25 years in the wild.• Giraffes can be found in central, eastern and southern Africa.• Giraffes live in the savannas of Africa, where they roam freelyamong the tall trees, arid land, dense forests and open plains.

• Their long necks helpthem eat leaves from talltrees, typically acaciatrees. If they need to, gi-raffes can go for severaldays without water. In-stead of drinking, giraffesstay hydrated by themoisture from leaves.• Giraffes are non-territo-rial, social animals. Theytravel in large herds thatare not organized in anyway. Herds may consistof any combination ofsexes or ages.• Female giraffes typi-cally give birth to onecalf. During the first weekof its life, the mothercarefully guards her calf.Young giraffes are veryvulnerable and cannot

defend themselves. Nursery groups of young animals are left alone to-gether during the day while their mothers feed. The 6-foot-tall calfgrows rapidly asmuch as an inch aday. By 2 monthsthe young giraffe iseating leaves and at6 months is fairly in-dependent of itsmother.• Giraffes have adistinctive way theywalk, moving bothright legs forward,then both left. At agallop, however, thegiraffe simultane-ously swings thehind legs ahead ofand outside thefront legs, reachingspeeds of 35 milesan hour!

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China• China is located in Eastern Asia. It’s third largest country in theworld, with a total of 3,747,879 square miles.• The capital of China is Beijing. Beijing hosted the Olympics in2008.• 8 is a lucky number in Chinese culture, and instead of the un-lucky number 13, the number 4 is unlucky.• The population of China is the largest in the world with over 1.3billion people! The most populated city is Shanghai.• The currency of China is the Yuan.• The government is a Communist State. China’s economy is thesecond largest in the world.• China’s weather varies from region to region, but usually has drywinters and wet summers. • China is rich in culture! For centuries, ancient China led theworld in the development of science and technologies. Gunpow-der and silk products originated from China.• There are many different languages and dialects in China, in-cluding Mandarin, Yue, Wu, Minbei, Minnan, Xiang, Gan andHakka.• The Great Wall of China is the largest man made structure in theworld, stretching an amazing 5,500 miles.• The Chinese flag is red with five gold stars in the upper left cor-ner. The red background symbolizes those who died for the coun-try in wars, while the big gold star symbolizes communism. Theother four smaller stars represent the different classes in China.• The Chinese name is "Zhong Guo", which means the "MiddleKingdom". Since ancient times, it was believed that China was atthe center of the universe. • About one-third of the population lives in cities, the rest live inthe country.

• It is common to find 3 generations of a Chinese family living to-gether in the same house. Often the grandparents look after chil-dren when their parents work, and in exchange the grandparentsare taken care of as well. This was helpful when there wasn’t anynursing homes existing in China. Festivals are often a busy time aswell, and families that moved into the city for better careers returnback home to celebrate with their loved ones. Festivals are oftencolorful and many members of the community become involved. • Although there is no official religion in China, Buddhism and Tao-ism are two of the most popular. • Local markets are very popular in China. Much like farmer’s mar-kets, these stands sell a variety of goods and aren’t limited to justfood!• There are over 30,000 typesof plants and 4,400 types ofvertebrates in China! One ofthe most popular animals inChina is the Giant Panda, andthis animal is considered a na-tional treasure. The GiantPanda is found near theYangtze River. Unfortunately,human expansion and poaching has caused many species native toChina to become endangered, and the government has issued pro-tection laws to help keep them safe. • Another popular tradition in China is the Zodiac. Made up of twelveanimals, the zodiac supposedly can tell something about a persondepending on what year they were born in. If you were born in theyear of a certain animal, you reflect traits of that animal in your per-sonality.

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