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Have you noticed the leaves changing colors? It’s a beautiful time in Michigan when this happens. Theweather is getting colder and soon winter will be upon us. Fall brings about some great moments. Eventslike football, Trick or Treating, bonfires and marshmallows are favorites.

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Kids’ World News 9th Annual Coloring Contest RulesThe coloring contest rules are as follows: Enter the contest by coloring the picture provided on page 3.

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Snowy weather, jingle bells, twinkling lights, and candy canes and are all signs that December has arrived! It’s the last month of the year and there is certainly a feeling of anticipation in the air. People are busy making plans and preparing for the holidays, also known as the “hustle bustle” of the holiday season! Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are all holidays celebrat-

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Veterans Day Wall of Honor: Students at Herbison Woods created a “Wall of Honor” for Veterans Day. Students were given the opportunity to decorate a star to honor a Veteran. If students have a close connection to a Veteran, like a family member or friend, they wrote that Veterans name on the star. Over one hundred stars were displayed in the cafeteria on the Wall of Honor.

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Mrs. Vicky Milner, principal of Herbison Woods School, has been presented the Administrator of the Year Award by the Michigan School Counselor Association (MSCA). The award is given annually to an administrator who demonstrates, understands and supports the work of school counselors and their work with young people. Mrs. Milner was honored at the MSCA Fall 2015 Conference in Ann Arbor on November 16th. Mrs. Milner was joined in the celebration by DPS Superintendent Dr. John Deiter, Curriculum Director Lori Webb, HW Counselor Terri Severy and her husband Scott Milner. This was a big surprise for Mrs. Milner and a well deserved honor.

Mrs. Sherry Dreasky, from the Dart Foundation, presented sixth grade teacher Mrs. Maxwell with a check for $4,400! Mrs. Maxwell will use this grant money to start a Robotics club for sixth graders at Herbison Woods. The Robotics Club will be using the latest technology from Lego Mindstorms. The funds will purchase eight kits and allow for sixteen students to participate; eight teams of two. The club is scheduled to start in January 2016. Participants will present to the school and or classrooms at the end of the school year to display the skills and learning that they gained through their experience.

Pictured left to right: Dr. John Deiter, Superintendent DeWitt Public Schools, Vicky Milner, Principal Herbison Woods School, Lori Webb, Curriculum Director DeWitt Public Schools, Terri Severy, Counselor Herbison Woods School


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School picked up their rakes, and with bags in hand, headed out into the surrounding areas to rake up leaves for people in the community of Fowl-er. The 8th grade class is reading the book Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde. In this story, 12 year old Trevor is given an extra credit proj-ect to “Think about an idea for world change and put it into action.” He devises a plan to help 3 people in a big way with the agreement that they in turn will help 3 other people…thus creating a chain of people helping oth-ers in order to make the world a better place.

We decided that this story would lead in nicely with doing a service project. Students wrote various pro-posals for ideas that they felt would help to make the world a nicer place. These were then discussed and vot-ed on by the students. Raking leaves was the winning proposal for this year. Students braved the rain, took to the streets, and helped to clear away de-bris from various lawns in the neigh-borhood. When asked if they would like to postpone this activity for a nicer day, the overwhelming response was NO! “We want to build memories, af-ter all, who rakes leaves in the rain?” Apparently the 8th graders at Waldron do. They had an awesome time help-ing others in their community.

This year marked the 15th Annual Veterans Day Celebra-tion hosted by MHT School. Ap-proximately 150 veterans, their spouses, and auxiliary mem-bers from Fowler and surround-ing areas were in attendance. The event began with Mass and was followed by a break-fast prepared by volunteer parents and staff and then served by the 7th and 8th grade stu-

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by student entertainment. This year each class sang a patriotic song. As an additional token of appreciation for their many sac-

work hard on a small keepsake for the Veterans to take home. God Bless our Veterans and thank you for your many years of service!

Pictured are a few of the 1st and 2nd grade students perform-ing their song.

Our 5th Grade students com-pleted a Social Studies Unit on Early Native American Cultures. They each submitted AWE-SOME recreations of habitats for the time period and location.

The kids also presented them in front of their classmates and dis-played them in the front hallway of the school for everyone to ap-preciate.

Kristin Phillips, from the DNR ,came in to talk to the 1st-4th graders about all things deer. She played a game with the kids called “Oh Deer” where the kids actively learned about deer hab-itat and their essentials (food, water and shel-ter). The kids discussed with her why animals have fur and the different parts of the deer. She came equipped with a deer hide, antlers and a skull for the kids to pass around to touch and in-spect. Thank you Mrs. Phillips for coming in and sharing your passion for the natural resources in Michigan.


If you get a clear glass of tap water and look closely at it, can you guesshow old it is? The water in your glass may have fallen from the sky as rainjust last week, but the water itself has been around almost as long as theearth has! Our earth has a limited amount of water and that water keeps cy-cling around and around. That’s what we call “the water cycle.”

This water cycle is made up of four main parts.

The Water Cycle

Evaporation: Evaporation iswhen the sun heats up water inrivers, lakes, and the ocean andturns it into vapor or steam. Thewater vapor or steam leaves theriver, lakes and ocean and goesinto the air. With evaporation,we also have transpiration.What is that? Plants transpire.Transpiration is the way bywhich plants lose water out oftheir leaves. Transpiration givesevaporation a bit of a hand ingetting the water vapor back upinto the air.

Condensation: Water vapor inthe air gets cold and changesback into liquid, forming clouds.This is called condensation.You can see the same sort ofthing at home... pour a glass ofcold water on a hot day andwatch what happens. Waterforms on the outside of theglass. That water didn’t some-how leak through the glass! Itacutally came from the air.Water vapor in the warm air,turns back into liquid when ittouches the cold glass!

Precipitation: Precipitationoccurs when so much waterhas condensed that the aircannot hold it anymore. Theclouds get heavy and waterfalls back to the earth in theform of rain, hail, sleet orsnow.

Collection: When water fallsback to earth as precipitation, itmay fall back into the oceans,lakes and rivers, or it may end upon land. When it ends up on land,it will either soak into the earthand become part of the “groundwater” that plants and animalsuse to drink or it may run over thesoil and collect in the oceans,lakes and rivers where the cyclestarts all over again.

1. Evaporation

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3. Precipitation

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“Our project was to have a place to make a buddy.” After seeing a snippet regarding the Buddy Bench on TV, then seeing an advertisement for it in a teaching magazine, and then seeing a student who needed the buddy bench one winter day last year at recess, kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Marcy Westenberg knew there had to be a way to get a Buddy Bench at Leonard Elementary.

“A bench is the perfect place to make or meet a buddy! If we had a buddy bench, then we can go there if we are lonely and need a buddy to talk to. Or we can make a new buddy there. Or we can meet our buddies there. This would make a positive learning environment because no one would be lonely. Everyone could have a buddy. Hav-ing a special place to meet a buddy would be really cool. This buddy bench could last forever!” These were all com-

and her students talked about the Buddy Bench. Everyone was indeed excited about the prospects.

Mrs. Westenberg, and the custodial staff at Leonard helped by assembling the bench. Finding a place to put

the bench was another endeavor.) However, the bench was to look really cool (inviting) and would match our school colors. As part of the grant, we wanted a bench very durable and made from recycled things so it would be Earth friendly. The Foundation funded a bench, the “Buddy Bench,” from recycled plastics.

At the end of last school year, the buddy bench had still not been placed outdoors, but rather sat very happily in our

looming in the air and classrooms being moved, the buddy bench still did its job. Many students, parents, and grand-parents, even without knowing its intent, began using the Buddy Bench to cheer one another up, or have a serious conversations, or just to take a load off in our school lobby.

When the dust had settled, classrooms had moved, and -

nally did make it outdoors. It was installed recently near the blacktop, under a tree, overlooking the playground. So year-round, with or without snow pants or boots, the Leon-ard Buddy Bench will await all who come over to make a buddy.

There were some unexpected outcomes of this project. The Leonard Buddy Bench was originally housed indoors. Since the Buddy Bench temporarily was placed inside, many miss it in as a sentinel in our lobby. It had gotten a lot of use and because it says “Leonard Buddy Bench” on it, it had become a great place for everyone to sit and chat; building relationships all day long. It is my hope, that per-haps we will receive an additional grant this year to include one indoors. What a blessing that would be! Article submitted by Mrs. Marcy Westenberg

The First Grade class at St. Joseph School in Pewamo enjoyed learning

carefully watched them change from the tiny egg stage, to the larva stage,

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science journals before we set them free on a nice, sunny day in October.

St. Joseph School of Pewamo’s First through Fifth Grade classes enjoyed their trip to Klackle Orchard in Greenville in October. They learned about apple and pumpkin seeds and enjoyed the wagon ride to pick their apples and pumpkins and had great fun on the play-ground.

The St. Joseph School of Pewamo Spiritual Student Council participated in Hal-loween-themed Minute to Win It games in front of the student body Friday, October 30th. Even staff members

completed one of the games to the amusement of the stu-dents.

During the month of No-vember, students and staff of St. Joseph School in Pe-wamo have been collect-ing nonperishable items for the Zion Food Pantry. Fr. Charlon Mason blessed the food at a school mass on November 25.


The piano is a very important part of music. Many musicalnotes do not seem possible without it and many notes soundbetter on the piano. The piano can play all types of musicfrom classical to rock and roll. It can also be played solo orwith other instruments, so it is very versatile.

There is some disagreement on when the first modern stylepiano was built. Most say the modern style piano (or pianoet forte, meaning soft and loud) was probably built by theItalian, Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1709. It was described as aharpsichord with both soft and loud!

The difference between the harpsichords that came beforeand the piano, was the way the strings were sounded. In-

side the piano the strings are tightened into tune. A grandpiano, for instance, looks like a harp when on it’s side. Mod-ern style pianos use hammers to pluck the string. So whenyou touch the keyboard, the hammer hits the string whichaffects the sound of the note. If you stroke the key gently, thesound will be soft. If you use a heavy touch on the key, thesound will be much louder!

PIANO FACTS:• The average medium sized piano has about 230 strings.Each string has about 165 pounds of tension. With the com-bined pull of all the strings, that equals approximately eight-een tons!• There are over 10 million pianos in American homes, busi-nesses and institutions.• Yamaha, established in 1887, was the first piano manu-facturer in Japan.• The world’s largest piano is a Challen Concert GrandPiano. This piano is eleven feet long and has a total stringtension of over 30 tons. This piano weighs more than a ton!• The working section of the piano is called the acion. Thereare about 7500 parts in there. They all play a role in send-ing the hammers against the strings when the keys arestruck.

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