Kidz Buzz January 2018 New Jersey

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All About Birds, Get Ready for the New Year, How to be Persuasive, Making Good Choices, Loop the Loop, 2018 Preview, and more!

I hope everyone had a great holiday/winter break. While you probably played in the snow a bit, hopefully you got to enjoy sleeping a bit later, watching some movies and spending time with family and friends.

The New Year is all about Resolutions. That means trying something new, doing nice things, starting good new habits, and more. Read The Buzz on the Street for some easy ideas to get you motivated. As we start 2018, let’s all make a resolution to make good choices. Get some good ideas by reading Character Counts and think of some on your own. There is also an inspiring article in Write to the Point that highlights the secret to getting your wish...it’s all about powerful persuasive writing – check it out!

TThhaannkk YYoouu!!

This edition focuses on all things related to birds. Read through the paper to find interesting articles about our feathered friends and test your knowledge in Brain Buzz. You can even enter our Build a Bird Contest on Page 14. I can’t wait to see all of your colorful and creative flying friends.

Make 2018 a great year!

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A Bit From Buzzer..........................................2

Honeycomb Corner...................................... 13

Kidz Buzz reaches families everywhere........3

Bee Published............................................... 13

Buzzworthy.....................................................4

Build a Bird Contest..................................... 14

The Buzz on the Street...................................5

Gift Card Contest Winner............................. 15

Buzzing Through the Trees...........................5

It’s Your Birthday.......................................... 15

Editorial: Heather Wawrzyniak

Write to the Point............................................6

Happy Birthday............................................ 16

Jennifer Downing

Character Counts............................................6

Lindsay Wanko

The Wonders of Science................................7

Laura Edwards

Our Buzzing Artists........................................8

Illustrator: Hannah Tuohy

Calendar..........................................................9

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by Laura Edwards

Birds That Do Not Migrate M

igration is defined as the seasonal movement of animals from one region to another. Of all migrating animals, we witness bird migration the most because we can see them fly south for the winter and north for the summer. There are three main reasons why birds migrate: food sources, climate, and predators. If birds know that their food source is not secure for the winter, they migrate to ensure their survival. Birds will also migrate from a warmer region to a colder region or from a colder region to a warmer region to raise their young.

Predators can influence migration because birds will migrate to give their young a better chance of survival and to avoid their predators.

However, there are many species of birds that adapted to living in the same place year round and learned how to have enough food during the winter. This type of bird is called a permanent resident, otherwise known as non-migratory bird, because they stay in their homes year round. Birds that do not migrate usually need to adapt their food sources to survive during the fall and winter. For example, if the bird eats berries and seeds

The following are a few types of birds we may see this winter!

• Cardinal • Mockingbird • Hummingbird • Great Horned Owl • Barred Owl • Raven • Black Vulture

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• Red-Bellied Woodpecker • Pileated Woodpecker • Downy Woodpecker • Chickadees • Turkeys • Sparrows • Red Tailed Hawk

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primarily in the spring or summer, then they will eat fruit and nuts in the fall and winter. Additionally, many birds will catch food and hide it so they can store food for the winter.

Molting is another technique non-migratory birds use to stay in the same area year round. Non-migratory birds will molt between the end of summer and beginning of fall. By molting, the birds gain a protective layer of insulating down feathers which help to preserve body heat and protect them from the extreme cold. Sometimes the birds will molt again in the spring to make way for brighter plumage or to shed excess feathers.

Non-migratory birds are known to be more aggressive, curious, intelligent, and have dominant personalities. Their aggression and dominant personalities may be a result of needing to defend their territories from intruders. The birds’ curiosity and intelligence can help in their investigations for new food sources and shelter.

Non-migratory birds create mixed flocks with other birds to forage during the winter. They also are known to roost together to share body heat.

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on the

New Year’s Resolutions for a New School Year

hile parents are always helping us to think of resolutions, why not take a few minutes to come up with some easy and helpful ones on your own.

Do you want to have a better start to your school day? Are you hoping for a surprise in your lunchbox from Mom or Dad? Do you want to have more time to play after school? Did you want that special dessert after dinner? If you answered YES to any of these questions, then try some of these resolutions for a great new year.

a Help to pick our your clothes for a Help to get out your breakfast school the night before so that you don’t have the morning argument of what to wear.

and clean up before leaving for school.

a Get up nicely when your parent

when you get home after school so that you have more time to play or relax before dinner.

wakes you so that you have more time to get ready for school without rushing.

a Always say “good morning”

and “good night” to start and end the day right.

a Do your homework right away

a Help your parents prepare

dinner and get your lunch ready for the next day.

a Set the table and share in the

clean up after dinner.

a Pack your backpack for the next day.

a Remind parents of projects

or school things that need to be signed or sent in.

Can you think of more to WOW your parents? Doing these things throughout your day will give you pride and make you feel great. People around you will feel appreciated, and you will too.

What else makes carrier pigeons so interesting?

Pigeons – How they changed communication

By Laura Edwards

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about carrier pigeons? Did you know that people used these pigeons to communicate? The history of the carrier pigeon began when they were first domesticated which was more than 5,000 years ago. Although much of their history with humans is known, it’s believed that pigeons were first used to communicate in 10th century Syria and Mesopotamia (present day areas of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria). Although carrier pigeons were used throughout Asia and Europe for hundreds of years, their use was not known around the world until 1870.

Carrier pigeons, also called homing pigeons, are similar to the domestic pigeons we see every day. But,

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carrier pigeons were derived from rock pigeons. Carrier pigeons, similar to rock pigeons, have the ability to navigate home. They’re able to navigate through magnetoreception, which is a sense that allows them to detect magnetic fields to perceive altitude, direction, or location. Homing pigeons were specifically bred to find their way home over very large distances, and they brought messages with them.

People would write a message, roll it to fit into the small tube attached to the pigeon’s leg, and release the pigeon. It would then find its way home and deliver the message. However, due to this form of communication being one-sided, people had to discover how to make pigeons return with a message. By keeping the pigeons’ food at one location and their home at the other, carrier pigeons were known to fly back and forth reliably.

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• Carrier pigeons became so reliable that they were used as a mail service!

• The Great Barrier Pigeongram Service was started in 1897.

• The service used carrier pigeons to deliver mail between Auckland and the Great Barrier Island.

• Before the telegraph, a lot of communication was through carrier pigeons.

• Pigeons traveled more accurately between north and south rather than east and west.

• Rock pigeons were used during WWI and WWII by the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

• A domestic rock pigeon named Levi who helped the U.S. Army Signal Corps lived to be 31 years old!

• Carrier pigeons were also used to transport medication.

• Police in remote areas of India used carrier pigeons to report natural disasters until 2002.

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By: Jennifer Downing, 5th Grade Teacher, Fountain Woods Elementary School, Burlington Township, N.J.

o you want a new pet? Do you want your bedtime to be later? Do you want more recess time at school? Do you want your community to build a recreation center or add more playgrounds?

Do you have an awesome idea to make a favorite game better? If you answered yes to any of these questions, or have something else in mind that you want, then use a writing technique to get your way! Write a persuasive letter. To persuade means to convince someone to do something through reasoning and argument. This is as easy as 1, 2, 3! Follow these simple steps and make your wish come true.

Here are the three steps to write a successful persuasive letter:

1.

Your opening sentence needs to state your opinion, and/or what your wish is.

2.

You need to follow that with at least 3 good reasons that will support your idea/opinion/wish. Focus on who the audience/reader is and what their counter-arguments are going to be when you write these reasons.

Research facts to support your opinion that will convince your audience. This is the most important part of your letter.

3.

Your closing sentence needs to demand an action from the reader.

You are now ready to go and get your wish!

TTohe S ecret Getting Your Wish!

Here is a good example for you to read before you start your own!

Dear Principal Johnson, We need more recess time! If we have more recess time we are going to be more focused in the classroom, behave better and have higher test scores!

In a study done by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, they found that children that had 20 minutes of walking answered the test questions more correctly then children that were sitting. Secondly, more recess means less students will be sent to you for poor behavior. In another study they proved that the students who had an extra ten-minute period of physical activity added daily, had a higher amount of on-task behaviors! Lastly, it has also been

proven that students had a 20-point gain on their standardized test scores when additional physical activity was added to their school day. With better test grades, good behavior, and higher state scores, more students will achieve honor roll and you will have happier kids and parents!

This is a, “Win-Win”, decision for you.

Go to the Superintendent and get more recess time approved for our school today!

Sincerely, Persuasive Patty

Writing Prompt: Write a persuasive letter to someone using these steps.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy W5.1: Write opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses

Would You Rather?

By: Heather Wawrzyniak, Principal, Ashbrook Elementary School, Lumberton, NJ

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ould You Rather is a popular game that forces you to make tough choices, usually between two crazy things, like would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? The game can be silly and fun. Having choices is a great freedom, but making the right choice can sometimes be tricky because EVERY choice has a consequence. When you make good choices, good consequences happen. When you make bad choices, bad consequences happen. Many times making the RIGHT choice is not what you would rather do, it means making the choice that has the best outcome.

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Let’s try a new game. Instead of would you rather, let’s play what is better?

3. What is better? Being mean to someone or being kind to someone?

1. What is better? Eating 10 pieces of candy or eating 10 carrots?

Hopefully, being kind to someone would be the would you rather AND it is the what is better choice, too. Science has found that being kind is good for the other person and also good for YOUR health. Kindness can prevent illness, ease anxiety, is good for your heart and could help you live longer.

If we were playing would you rather, many of us might choose the candy. But the what is better answer would be carrots. Carrots are good for your overall health especially your skin, eyes, digestive system and teeth. Sugar is not.

2. What is better? Playing video games for 30 minutes or reading for 30 minutes?

If we were playing would you rather, some might choose video games. But the what is better answer would be reading. Reading reduces stress, increases knowledge, builds vocabulary and helps improve memory. Video games do not.

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You make dozens of choices everyday. Making good choices takes lots of practice and lots of thought. Making the right choices can be the difference between having a great day or having a bad day. Project Wisdom puts it this way, “Make it a great day or not, the choice is yours!”

Start your new year off right by choosing what’s right.

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By Lindsay Wanko, Teacher of the Deaf, K-3, JFK Elementary School, Berlin Township, NJ

B

ring the amusement park to your classroom or house with this fun science experiment. Make your own roller coaster and predict how much height is necessary for a marble to “loop the loop.”

Using foam pipe insulation, marbles and some tape, students construct a simple roller coaster. As a group or in design teams, make plausible predictions about how much height is needed for a marble to successfully make it around the loop in the track. Students can then put their engineering brains to work by executing the design of the roller coaster and reevaluating the layout of their track. To increase the complexity of the experiment, you can require students to make additional loops, turns, drops or hills.

Scientific Question: How high does the roller coaster track have to be so that a marble can make it around a loop?

Plausible Predictions:

Can you make a Marble “Loop the Loop”

Background knowledge: Before starting, feel free to introduce your students to the following major experimental concepts: • Potential energy (stored energy) • Kinetic energy (energy of motion) • Conservation of energy (basic law of physics) • Gravity • Velocity • Friction • Slope

Materials: 1. Pipe insulation 2. Marbles 4. Masking tape 5. Walls, bookshelves, tables and/or other spaces to act as a drop point for the roller coaster.

Procedure for the Track:

1. Cut the pipe insulation in half (long ways) to make a channel for the marble to roll in to create two matching “u-shaped” pieces of foam insulation for the track.

2. Attach pieces end-to-end using masking tape that is flat and smooth with no space between the two pieces.

3. Decide on the diameter of the loop, between 12-20 inches, and make about halfway through the track, with the foam insulation, to ensure that

the ramp is long enough for the marble to gain momentum.

4. Tape the bottom of the loop to the remaining side of the foam insulation to maintain the shape of the loop.

5. Decide the height of the ramp you think you will need in order for your marble to clear the loop.

Remember - the higher the track, the more energy the marble will have when it starts moving.

6. Find a bookshelf or a wall and tape the track to

this spot.

7 .Tape the loop and remaining track to the floor.

8. Release the marble at the top of the track and let the fun begin!

Questions for Discussion: Did it make it around the loop? If not, how can you improve your design to get the marble to make it around the

loop? What happens if your raise or lower your ramp? In what other ways can you modify your roller coaster to change the movement of your marble?

How high does your ramp have to be in order to clear multiple loops? Was one design more efficient than another? If so, how?

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ROLLER COASTER MADNESS

You are at your favorite amusement park. The time is 2:45 PM, you need to leave at 4:45 PM and you want to ride the roller coaster as many times as possible. The ride is three minutes long. However, the rules state you must get off after each ride and get back in line. The line is rather long and the wait time in line is 12 minutes. How many times can you ride the roller coaster?

Bird Match

See if you can name these birds

Quail Turkey Crane Dove

Kite Condor Peacock Swan Crow

FOR THE BIRDS

You are looking at a flock of pigeons in the park. The ratio of Plain Pigeons to Fancy Pigeons is 5:1.

You count 36 pigeons.

How many are Fancy pigeons?

Can You Spot the Differences?

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Solutions and More!

Bird Match

Can You Spot the Differences?

Dove Swan

ROLLER COASTER MADNESS

Answer: 8 Rides Solution: 2:45 to 4:45 is 2 hours.

Wait time plus ride time = 3 minutes + 12 minutes = 15 minutes (1/4 hour).

There are 4 quarters (1/4) for each hour.

So 4 rides per hour × 2 hours = 8 Rides.

Peacock

FOR THE BIRDS

Turkey

Crow Condor

Answer: 6 Fancy Pigeons Solution: If the ratio is 5:1, 5 plain + 1 Fancy = 6 pigeons.

36 ÷ 6 = 6 groups of pigeons.

Crane

6 × (5) plain + 6 × (1) Fancy

Kite

Quail

Preview 2018

Get ready for a great New Year with a preview of our upcoming topics.

Transportation Winter Olympics Poetry Red panda

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Rhino Monarch butterflies

Weather on other planets

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Check out Buzzer’s picks this month... they are all about all about birds, and other animal friends.

United Tweets of America: 50 State Birds: Their Stories, Their Glories

By Hudson Talbott The narrator, a bald eagle, is hosting the United Tweets of America Pageant for the bird who represents each of the fifty states. The book takes readers on an alphabetical parade featuring one state (and bird) per page with great bird facts, each state’s motto, and information about the state and its capital.

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

By Mo Willems

Living Color

By Steve Jenkins

As the story goes...a light blue pigeon tries to persuade readers to let him drive the bus, even though the bus driver has warned us not to. The pigeon will ask, “Hey, can I drive the bus?” and kids will yell “NO!” The persistent pigeon, tries every angle possible, as he asks, “What’s the big deal? It’s just a bus” but kids won’t cut him some slack.

Learn about the animal kingdom sorted by color with pages of blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink and red animals, with two or three featured on each page. The book includes an explanation of how each color helps that animal stay alive. Readers can view a mini-sized picture of each creature, its length, habitat, diet, and a few extra facts.

Bee Published!

Popcorn Snowman Balls

Ingredients

(to celebrate National Popcorn Day on Jan. 19th)

2 ½ quarts popped corn ¼ Cup butter 1 pkg. 10 oz. Marshmallows 1 teaspoon Vanilla 1/2 Cup or less White chocolate Candy pieces for eyes, nose, buttons Licorice for mouth, Oreo cookie for hat

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Directions

Pop popcorn and set aside. In a saucepan over low heat, melt butter and marshmallows. Stirring constantly until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Pour over popped popcorn and mix until well coated. Butter your hands and form into snowball shapes.

Make two balls. Melt white chocolate in a microwave safe dish - stirring every 30 seconds until completely melted. Add about ½ tsp. melted chocolate on the top of a ball and place another ball on top of the chocolate.

Lay down and hold if needed until hardens. Use drops of melted chocolate to attach candy for eyes, nose, mouth and buttons. * Add a spoonful of melted chocolate to a plate and sit the snowman on top to harden in place.

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Hey kids! Send in your original artwork, letters, and poems to be printed in an upcoming edition. Just have your parents complete this form and send it with your submission to:

Address __________________________________________________________________ City____________________________ State_______ Zip __________________________ Home Phone______________________ Cell Phone ______________________________ Your Signature (This is my own artwork) ____________________________________ Parent’s Signature_________________________________________________________ Parent’s Email ____________________________________________________________

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Build a Bird and enter to win a Gift Certificate to a favorite local place

As many birds fly south for the winter, there are many that you’ll still see flying in the cold weather. If you were to create your own bird, what would it look like?

Use your imagination and creativity and build the most unusual looking bird.

Send in your colorful illustration (on unlined paper) and include the following:

• Body / Wings • Feathers • Head • Feet

• Nozzle / Beak • Eyes • Habitat

(background scene)

* Use the Bee Published form in the paper to submit your entry.

Submissions should be received by the 15th of each month in order to be eligible to win.

Color these birds and their friends in the forest

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Such a great

WINTER SCENE! Congratulations to Anthony for his colorful, creative, unique and imaginative Winter Wonderland.

Anthony N., age 8, Gloucester Math Help

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At Mathnasium, we believe that every child has the ability to be successful in math – it’s a matter of teaching the way that makes sense to them.

When math makes sense, kids excel – whether they’re far behind or eager to get ahead.

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Exp. 5/31/18

Mathnasium of Haddonfield

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Westmont Plaza 676 West Cuthbert Blvd Collingswood, NJ 08108

Greentree Place 1892 Marlton Pike East Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

(856) 858-6284

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(856) 874-0050

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We treat children with a variety of needs & abilities, including Autism, ADHD, social & behavioral difficulties, & language impairments.

MJ Kidz accepts most commercial insurance plans!

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Marlton: 751 Route 73 North, Suite Number 1 Mullica Hill: 3 Myers Drive, Suite Number 7 P: 856∙375∙2914 W: mjkidz.com E: info @ mjkidz.com

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