TIP OF THE WEEK:
When there's something fun..that happened today:
Who do you call? FRIENDS AND FAMILY
When there's something sad..that is troubling you:
Who do you call? FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!
REMEMBER: TALK TO YOUR FAMILY EVERYDAY ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO YOU.
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This week in News Bites for Kids [TM] Mar 17-23 2003:
Peace Messages-Washington, U.S.A
What's novel in kids' series? -The world of books
When life wheels you around: you need a friend at the wheel!- Kansas, U.S.A.
Stretch like cats, fly like birds and stand like dogs-Philadelphia,U.S.A.
This baby is huge!-NASA,U.S.A
The most talented kid in the U.S.A.-NBC T.V.,U.S.A
Spring into Action-or Fall with Fervor: take this quiz- World Environment
A "pawsitive" experience -U.K.
When Life is Free and Breezy- L.A.,U.S.A
Big and little brothers develop lasting bonds- New York,U.S.A
The School Vacation they didn't really want- Afghanistan
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030321/180/3kzq5.html
Send Peace Messages at Children's Hands of Peace/Hands of Prayer Exhibit
WASHINGTON, U.S.A., Mar 21 '03 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Families and children who go to see the new Hands of Peace, Hands of Prayer exhibit that opens March 25 at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center can send their own personal messages of peace to families and children in the Middle East. Visitors create a peace card or hand imprint with a personal peace message that is distributed abroad through Catholic Relief Services. The peace messages are part of the interactive aspects of the exhibit of hand castings done by 300 Maryland school children.
Children and adults write a peace greeting inside their hand tracings on large paper near the Children's Gallery or they can create a Hands of Peace greeting card in the Gallery of Imagination.
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http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA285119&publication=publishersweekly
What's Novel in Kids' Series?
by Sally Lodge, Publishers' Weekly
Mar 17,03A crime-fighting cheerleader, a brave bat, a luckless lad and teens catching waves are among the diverse cast of characters spotlighted in new spring series titles. Attempting to tap into one or another of kids' interests�and in some cases hoping to tickle their funny bones�publishers have taken some creative editorial and marketing steps as they introduce or add to series. Here are some of this season's highlights.
The aptly named Eddie Dickens (think woeful Victorian orphans) returns in Dreadful Acts, Philip Ardagh's sequel to A House Called Awful End, released by Holt last September. Dreadful doings definitely abound in the new caper�due in May with a 75,000-copy first printing�featuring this escapee from St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans: Eddie narrowly avoids being blown up, trampled by horses, hit by a hot-air balloon and arrested�and falls into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts.
"It's the kind of humor that both an eight-year-old and a grownup think is funny. Philip's writing is over-the-top and literate at the same time."
His name is Hank Zipzer, and he's a creative kid with charisma. Up until now, Hank has gotten by in life by charming his friends, parents and teachers. But when his fourth-grade teacher assigns a five-paragraph essay, the boy, who has difficulty writing a single sentence, panics. Hank, as it turns out, is dyslexic, as is his creator, actor Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed condition made him a classic underachiever as a child. Winkler, who attended the same New York City public school Hank does, has teamed up with Lin Oliver to write a middle-grade paperback series, Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever, which Grosset & Dunlap will launch in May with Niagara Falls, or Does It? and I Got a "D" in Salami. Hank returns in the fall in a second pair of titles: The Day of the Iguana and Holy Enchilada!
"She can do anything!" announces the tag line for a new book series from the Volo imprint of Disney Press, which is banking on the fact that Kim Possible can be as successful a book character as she is a television star. High-school cheerleader by day and global crime fighter by night, this heroine made her debut last June in the Disney Channel animated show bearing her name. On the program, after advertising on her Web site that she could do anything (meaning she was willing to mow lawns, babysit and the like), this teen receives e-mails from all over the world soliciting her help fighting crime.
In April, Volo launches the Kim Possible series of paperbacks with Bueno Nacho and The New Ron by Kiki Thorpe, 80-page chapter books aimed at kids seven to 10.
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/youth/article/0,1713,BDC_2479_1819592,00.html
A friend at the wheel
By Julie Marshall, The Daily Camera Staff Writer
Wichita, Kan., U.S.A., March 18, 2003-
Moving to Boulder from Wichita, Kan., this past year was not easy for Tori Hesse. The sixth-grader misses her best friends and extended family.
But every morning, bright and early, she can count on one person to brighten her day � her school bus driver, Gene Henderson.
"Gene talks to me when I am upset," says Tori, her strawberry-red hair shining in the sun as she takes a window seat on school bus No. 213. "I tell him I miss my friends and want to go back. He just makes me feel better."
For the past 15 years, Henderson, age 62, has been driving the same route.
A school bus driver, is part road technician, part "cop." He can also be part therapist, Henderson says. Knowing each child, his or her interests and any troubles at school or at home, tells a child somebody cares, says Henderson, who has been a school-bus driver for 17 years. A friendly hello, by name, goes a long way, he says.
Olivia Barber and her friends, Tori and Brooke Kimball, take seats closest to the bus driver. The girls talk about their teachers and friends, while shooting random photographs with Henderson's new digital camera. They reminisce about the morning Henderson took them out for doughnuts. Last Halloween, the bus driver baked his passengers peanut-butter, cat-shaped cookies.
"Gene is so nice," Olivia says. "Some bus drivers won't let us talk on the bus. Gene lets us talk."
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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/5416568.htm - click for a picture
Children ease stress with a yoga stretch
By Lini S. Kadaba, Staff Writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.-Mar 18, 03-With her palms pressed together, Tav Ohayon inhales deeply - a yoga breath she practices by imagining she is slurping her favorite drink - then exhales.
Her favorite drink is strawberry milk. Tav is 3.
For the next 45 minutes, yoga instructor Seena Elbaum will lead the 10 preschoolers at the Play School in Society Hill through various asanas, or yoga poses. The children will stretch like cats, fly like birds (while chirping, "Tweet! Tweet!") and stand like dogs.
On a recent afternoon at the Yoga Garden in Narberth, several barefoot 6- to 10-year-olds settled cross-legged on purple yoga mats arrayed like the sun.
The path to harmony was littered with giggles and wiggles. Soothingly, a patient yogi Elbaum suggested, "Tell me one thing nice that happened to you this week."
One boy said, "I forget." But another shared, "I went to the museum with my dad."
Next they practiced breathing, "nice and slow," with hands together and lifted "to the sky" and heads touching the ground. "Feel everything melt," Elbaum said. "Beautiful."
"This is relaxing," Kathy Gerhart, 10, said. The yogi smiled, serenely.
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=black+hole&btnG=Search+News
Birth of a black hole witnessed
NASA, U.S.A., MAR 20, 03-Astrophysicist Derek Fox's cellphone rang at five in the morning on October 4, 2002. The call was from an orbiting satellite, notifying him that a massive star ten billion light years away had died. Mr. Fox said that the satellite gave scientists the best view yet of what was born from the ashes of the dying star.
"If gamma ray bursts are the birth cries of black holes, then the HETE satellite has just let us into the delivery room," he said.
A black hole is a pinpoint of matter so dense � because it contains the mass of a star � that nothing, not even light, can escape it.
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http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,429944,00.html
Who Is America's Most Talented Kid?
By Jill Egan, TIME for kids
The Search for the Most Talented Kid in America is a new ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A57264-2003Mar19?language=printer
Here's Your Chance: Spring Into Action
Washington Post Online
Mar 20, 2003- Today is the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. In the north, the signs of spring are everywhere: 60-degree days; the birds are chirping; the buds are sprouting. It's a perfect time to think about how we can be good to the planet.
Click here for a quiz about the environment.
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http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/sr/hc-pettherapy0321.artmar21,0,4928093.story
Dogs All Ears For Readers
By AMY ASH NIXON, Courant Staff Writer
ESSEX, U.K. March 21 2003-- There are things dogs won't do when you're reading a book to them - such as interrupting you, or asking questions, or blurting out how to pronounce a word.
So when Chloe Vincente, 7, was cuddled up with Katie-Babe, a pudgy black French bulldog, and reading to her from "Beauty and The Beast," she didn't hesitate when asked why it's better to read to a dog than to a grown-up.
For one thing, "dogs are cuddly," Chloe explained. "And they're more patient than people."
Chloe, a second-grader at Daisy Ingraham School in Westbrook, is one of a handful of children aged 6-8 that each week visits the Clipper Ship Bookshop in Essex, where an all-volunteer program was launched recently that uses therapy dogs to help children gain confidence in reading.
A thank-you card that Chloe made for Doc, the first therapy dog she worked with in the program, hangs on the wall along with colored drawings children have made for the dogs.
"Thank you for listening to my story every Wednesday," Chloe's note to Doc reads.
Connie Connor of Essex, one of the volunteers who runs the program and spent months researching it to bring it to Connecticut, said trained therapy dogs who visit nursing homes and do other good deeds are being used. She said the purpose of the program is to connect a child with "a non-judgmental listener" that will give undivided attention to the reader for 20 minutes a week.
Connor said fostering a love of reading through this special animal-child bond is the motto of the new program, which is describes as a "pawsitive" experience for the children.
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http://www.calendarlive.com/family/cl-wk-kids20mar20,0,4858567.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels
When life is free and breezy
By Anne Valdespino, L.A.Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles, U.S.A.,March 20 2003- Any time a 5-year-old opens his tiny hand and lets fly a colorful kite that sails high above the trees, his heart soars too.
"For kids, anything that flies is amazing," said Ani Fine, owner of the Sunshine Kite Co. in Redondo Beach. "Watching it go from their hand to the sky and get smaller, it's teaching them everything. You're teaching them eye-hand coordination and they love the colors, and these days there are all kinds of kites -- airplanes, boats, butterflies -- catering to every child's imagination."
His first kite experience launched a natural high he'll never forget, said Dave Shenkman, owner of Kite Connection in Huntington Beach. He flew an inflatable Mickey Mouse kite with a childhood friend in a schoolyard near his house. "We got it up so high you could not see it. We were afraid we wouldn't have it down in time to get home by dark."
The feeling? "Very cool," he said with a smile.
The arrival of spring is a great time for parents to give young children a first kite experience or offer older children a chance to get outdoors. Click here for some tips on flying kites with children from two experienced fliers who also are parents.
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http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0303/20/news/9big_and_litt.htm
Big and little brothers develop lasting bonds
Marc Klein - Staff Writer, The Ithacan
New York, U.S.A.,March 20, 2003- When he�s not starring on the ICTV program �Thirty Minutes� or leading a busy life as a college freshman, Rand Geiger volunteers as a Big Brother in Ithaca�s One-to-One Big Brothers�Big Sisters organization.
He and his little brother, Chris, a seventh-grade student in the Ithaca City School District, play sports together and enjoy video games.
Geiger said one of his favorite parts of the job is to talk to Chris.
They talk about everything from girls to sports to how Chris is doing in school.
Geiger volunteers because he says it is a way to give back to the community. Geiger said being a Big Brother is a way to have a positive influence in a younger person�s life.
�You learn all about the kid�s life,� Geiger said. �I would recommend it if you enjoy working with children because it�s as close to a one-on-one relationship as you can come.�
Geiger said spending time with Chris is enjoyable and easy.
�He�s a very talkative kid so I don�t have to worry about impressing him,� Geiger said.
�He�ll tell me about what he did at school or what kind of video games he just got. It�s really cool.�
John Bailey, the program coordinator of One-to-One Big Brothers-Big Sisters, part of Big Brothers-Big Sisters of America Inc., said the organization looks for volunteers who will be a friend to the little brothers and sisters.
�Every child has a need for people to look up to,� Bailey said. �We�re here to serve the kids who aren�t getting that through other community resources.�
[Geiger] added that he owes it to Chris and the program to continue the relationship.
�They encourage you to continue it [the entire time] you�re in college, and if you can�t, you really have to explain it to your little brother or sister,� Geiger said. �It�s not just sort of this surface thing. It encourages a long-term commitment.�
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030322/ap_on_re_as/afghan_back_to_school_2
Afghans: 5.8M Children Expected at School
By TODD PITMAN, Associated Press Writer
KABUL, Afghanistan, Mar 22 '03-Afghan children will have a lot of new classmates when they return to school this year.
With hundreds of new schools and hundreds of thousands of refugees returning home, at least 1 million more children are expected to attend school in Afghanistan (news - web sites) this year, officials say. About two-thirds of Afghanistan's schools were damaged over the last two decades of warfare that largely came to an end with the collapse of the Taliban, which was ousted in U.S.-led airstrikes in 2001.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned those attacks in a speech at Saturday's ceremony.
"The people who destroyed and burned those schools are our enemies. They want the nation to be poor and needy," Karzai said.
We're encouraging the use of non-formal classrooms as much as possible. Any place where kids can get an education," UNICEF (news - web sites) spokesman Edward Carwardine said.
A third of the 3.3 million children who returned to school last year were girls banned from getting an education under the Taliban.
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