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This week:
10-year-old
cancer fighter on a miracle mission-
A Growing Marketing
Strategy: Get 'Em While They're Young-
Summertime Heats Up With 'Backyard'
Science Experiments for Kids-
Quick Cricket- Andhra Pradesh,
Children who set up art studio win �200,000 Lottery grant-
Summer Break-
Look Mum: No hands! �
Edutaining animations �
Pupils say goodbye to beloved school-
By the Book
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Where grades are no good-
Goal is to break down barriers-
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The 11 year-old who was saved by a photo,
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- Little Eryk votes for his mom in
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Siamese twins from
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Summer camps for kids in
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Inspiring Ideas for Young Minds
By Catherine Reese Newton, The
Would-be linguists, scriptorians, inventors, historians and mathematicians can
find inspiration in new books for young readers.
Dora the Explorer, star of the
popular Nick Jr. series, introduces basic Spanish and English vocabulary in a
pair of books from Simon & Schuster's Simon Spotlight imprint.
Reader's Digest Children's Books also has a series of
bilingual board books, priced at $12.99 and aimed at Christian children.
Brush up your Shakespeare with The Random House Book of
Shakespeare Stories, retold by Andrew Matthews and illustrated by Angela
Barrett ($20.95). The book synopsizes eight of the Bard's most popular plays.The language
does not begin to approach the poetry of the originals, but knowing the plots
can't help but be an advantage for young readers when they do encounter the
plays.
Author Greg
Tang and illustrator Harry Briggs make mathematics fun in Math Appeal:
Mind-Stretching Math Riddles (Scholastic; $16.95).
Artist and
art historian Lynn Curlee takes a look at six of the
nation's most treasured monuments in two books:
The
centennial of the Wright Brothers' historic first flight is likely to bring a
slew of books. An excellent one for young readers is First to Fly: How Wilbur
& Orville Wright Invented the Airplane by Peter Busby with paintings by
David Craig (Crown; $19.95).
What a Great
Idea! takes an even longer view, with chapters on the
major technological breakthroughs of the ancient world (before 3500 B.C.), the
Metal Age (3500 B.C. through A.D. 1), the Age of Discovery (A.D. 1-1799), the
Age of Electricity and Communication (1799-1887) and the Age of the Atom
(1887-present).
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10-year-old cancer fighter on a miracle mission
CNW
a 10-year-old boy battling cancer is determined to be the youngest to raise
the most funds in
year.
"My life in the past year hasn't been fun," says
Myles McLellan of
Kids should only have to worry about what game they're going to play next, not
what treatment is next."
Myles hopes that, by contributing to the Canadian Cancer
Society's cancer
research and community support services, he will help other families with
children who are living with cancer.
"I can't do it alone," says Myles. He asks people
across
support his mission by making pledges online to the Myles' Miracle
team at www.cancer.ca
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A Growing Marketing Strategy: Get 'Em
While They're Young
Arnold,
The two
classes from
Six-year-old
Bradley McCumber made that clear when the store's
assistant manager, Kelli Athanasas,
showed off a bright-green bird and said store employees were trying to teach
the 3-month-old dusky conure to talk.
"Can it
say 'Petco'?" Bradley said.
The Petco field trip is one of a growing number of activities
that businesses offer to bring to schools. Knowing that schools are strapped,
companies see an opportunity to offer a community service and marketing message
at the same time.
The reason
is simple. Kids' buying power is estimated by marketing experts to be at least
$10 billion a year, not including their influence on family purchases. It's
little wonder that companies that make child-oriented products such as toys and
snacks are joined by banks and carmakers.
Steve Lucas,
whose daughter, Grace, attends
Grace was
already saying she liked the little mice and wanted at least "100
hamsters."
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Summertime Heats Up With 'Backyard' Science Experiments for Kids
PRNewswire
New York,
N.Y., U.S.A. June 3-The great outdoors is the ideal
laboratory for young scientists to explore the world around them, and the
summer months offer children more free time to do so.
Read more at http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/superscience/current/index.asp
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Quick cricket
SANGEETH KURIAN, The Hindu
The game is an improvised version of indoor cricket,
popular in
For Aditya it was the experience
of playing under lights, the most memorable aspect. " It
was like playing a real cricket match," he says. The players also get an
equal opportunity to bat, bowl and field because of the very nature of the
game.
"I had a great time bowling and batting, though
fielding was a bit tough," says Vishal, a Std.
III student from Chinmaya Vidyalaya,
Chetpet.
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Children who set up art studio win �200,000 Lottery grant
By Matthew
Beard
Under the
existing scheme, the 185 pupils, aged between 8 and 11, are allowedto
visit the studio at any time - provided they are not behind with their studies
- to create visual art or discuss literature or philosophy.
With its own
artist in residence, Rob Fairley, the school has
established a reputation as a cradle of Britart. The
school won the �20,000 Barbie Prize, the children's equivalent of the Turner
Prize last year. Jodie Fraser won the �1,000 individual prize for a matchstick
collage on the theme of the 11 September attacks which was shown at the Royal
College of Art.
The children
involved in Room 13 elect their own leaders, keep the accounts and appoint the
artist in residence. The project's managing director, Danielle Souness, aged 11, said that pupils believed that the
expression of their individuality was "essential to the wealth and health
of the wider community."
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Summer break
KRISTI L. GUSTAFSON, Staff writer, Times Union
"It was the best summer ever," says Danielle (or
Danny, as she likes to be called) Rivera, 9, bubbling with excitement and
chatting without a breath about all the new things she tried and saw in Latham.
It was a summer unlike any other for a kid from
Danny returns home from her summer visits with tons of
stories: Trips with her fresh air family, the Finnertys
of Latham, and game time (Sorry! is her favorite), berry picking, fishing,
dressing up and trying out makeup, putting on a cooking show, hitting the Great
Escape and playing with Lucky, the family's highly excitable 2-year-old yellow
Lab.
Then there's swimming. She just can't stop talking about
swimming.
Getting out: This was the sort of
experience the Rev. Willard Parsons, minister of a church in
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Look mum, no
hands!
Sue Summers, The
Observer
London, U.K. June 1- Georgia, a
10-year-old pupil at a London primary, has just abseiled expertly down the side
of a 40ft tower and is about to climb a pole from which she will attempt to
jump on to a 35ft-high trapeze. What would her mother say if she could see her
now? 'She'd say, "Careful! Careful!"
Welcome to
the world of the school trip, in which children slip the net of parental
anxiety and there's nothing the parents can do about it, except stay home and
gnaw their nails.
In
For some, it
will be the first time their children have ever been away from home on their
own. They will spend a week engaged in hazardous activities such as kayaking,
climbing, rafting or skiing, under the charge of instructors whom parents will,
in most cases, never have met and about whose competence they know nothing.
'I'm a scaredy-cat, but they encourage me to go on lots of things
I'd never dared to go on before,' says 10-year-old Mandni.
'All the kids love it. Since I've come to PGL, I've become much braver.'
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Edutaining animations
UZMA HYDER , The Hindu
Tamilnadu,
Aashima has learned from the show "Noddy," never to be rude, never to lie and to help
every one. "Bob the Builder" has taught Mandira
the importance of hard work for she has learned that where there is a will
there is a way.
Aditya is inspired by the aeroplanes that Tintin flies and
would not only love to fly one such plane but also create it. Joeyta loves the ingenious detective skills that Scooby Doo possesses. She likes to find out in a methodical manner
the reason behind unexplainable events. As some say, a curious mind is the
first step to success.
To delve
into the world of imagination and emerge with creativity enhanced, small
lessons learnt and off course loads of fun � all this in the world of cartoons.
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Pupils say goodbye to beloved school
By Jim Carney, Akron Beacon Journal staff writer
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The
red-headed first-grader sat on the steps in front of
A tear ran
down her cheek and she gently rubbed a feather that she found as she sat alone.
But when she
was asked to talk about her school's closing, Kaylee
could only weep.
"She is
sad," said her father, Mike Buzek, 31, who had
gone to school at
Destinee Ragins, a
7-year-old first-grader from
``We got to
talk about God here,'' she said.
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By the
book
By SYDNEY B. LEAVENS, Concord Online Monitor staff
Epsom,
The
Leah Holzmacher, a tall and athletic eighth-grader from Epsom,
speaks earnestly of her role as a student and a Christian. In her last year at
Cornerstone, she hopes to set an example and prepare herself to spread the
Gospel in high school.
"I do
all of my homework, particularly in Bible class," she said. "(Before
this year) I didn't really do my best for the Lord, but now I am."
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When
grades are no good
By Courtney Powell ,
Staff Writer, The
Prague, Czech
Republic June 5- When a classroom of third-graders at Letohradska
elementary school in Prague 7 was asked to brainstorm ideas for a new grading
system, eager hands shot up. "We could have pictures instead of numbers,
and pigs would be the worst!" one 9-year-old boy offered. A classmate in
the next row proposed Chinese characters.
When an adult in the room suggested written evaluations, however, there was a
momentary silence. Radim, 9, broke it. "I don't
know -- I just think that's strange. I think my parents would learn more from
grades," he said.
Radim had unwittingly hit on a problem that proponents of written reports face: They believe grades
cause primary-school children unwarranted stress, but many parents and teachers
prefer the traditional 1-to-5 grading scale. The Education Ministry is drafting
new legislation to allow schools more autonomy in determining the best method
of evaluating their students, but parents may cling to the status quo.
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Goal is to break down barriers
By Courtney Powell , Staff Writer, The Prague Post
Typing classes are a relatively recent offering at the Jaroslav
Jezek school, which has been
teaching visually impaired students since 1807.
Kamila Vlasakova, 15 and partially sighted, is on her way to
home-economics class but stops to demonstrate how she can read standard books
with the assistance of a special projection machine.
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