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Kid Nectar for Knowledge and News • JUNE 2018

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Keeping in touch with friends during the summer, Safe ways to use technology, Decode A Morse Code message, Our NEW website, and more!

Phyllis G. Merlino, DDS

School is almost done and summer vacation is right around the corner. Congratulations on another great school year filled with fun, learning, friends, and creativity. Did you have a favorite subject, teacher, or project? Did you try new things this year – food, activities, helping around the house? Whatever it is, I hope it was a great year for you!

I had a busy year too and it’s time for me to take a vacation.

I will be traveling around and meeting new people this summer to get ready for great editions of the paper for you next school year. So while I’m on my “Buzzer Vacation”, remember to keep reading during the summer...magazines, comic books, chapter books, newspapers, or anything that interests you.

be perfect for a really hot or rainy summer day. We will also be wishing our summer birthdays a Happy Birthday online.

If you go on vacation and want to send me a postcard over the summer, or if you continue to draw original artwork, you can still use the Bee Published form if you want to have it appear in our September back-to-school edition. It will be so nice to hear about your summer break and see your colorful pictures.

Have a great summer and I look forward to seeing you back at school in September.

Your friend,

Before we all go on summer break, be sure to check out my new website at www.kidzbuzznews.com. If you missed any of the great articles featured in previous months, you’ll be able to go into the Archived Editions to find all of the past copies. They will

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A message from the Regional Superintendent Dear Parents and Students: As we come to the end of the 2017-18 school year, I reflect on the wonderful accomplishments of our students. The Staten Island Catholic Schools are stronger than ever, excelling in Math, English and Technology. The ever-forward path continues and we are looking forward to another successful school year in 2018-2019.

As June begins we remember Flag Day. Did you know that Flag Day, celebrated on June 14th, is to commemorate the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened in 1777? Amazing that this took place 241 years ago and we still salute and pledge our allegiance to this every day.

Did you also know that Flag Day falls within National Flag Week, a time when Americans reflect on the foundations of the nations freedom? Our flag is an enduring symbol of our country’s ideals, and Americans remember their loyalty to their nation, reaffirm their belief in liberty and justice, and observe the nation’s unity.

On Sunday, June 17th we honor our fathers on Fathers’ Day. The idea of a special day to honor fathers and celebrate fatherhood was introduced in the US by a woman named Sonora Smart

Graduation A celebration…

A time for looking back on lessons learned, Adventures shared, bright moments filled With special meaning.

Dodd, who was inspired by Mother’s Day and wanted to honor fathers as well. Sonora Smart Dodd held the first Father’s Day celebration at a YMCA in Spokane Washington on June 19, 1910, in honor of her father, the civil war veteran William Jackson Smart. William Smart was a single father who raised his six children.

The month of June has us reflecting on the past and future as we prepare to celebrate and wish all our 8th Grade students much success in high school, college and beyond. Remember, you are and always will be, a part of the Staten Island Catholic School community and we wish for you a bright future. I share the following poem for our 8th grade students.

A farewell…

A time for saying goodbye to old friends, To good times you’ve known A time for packing away memories Treasures for tomorrow.

A beginning…

A time for looking forward, A time to set new goals, To dream new dreams, To try your wings and See what lies beyond.

Have a wonderful summer and see you in September!

Mrs. Zoilita M. Herrera, Regional Superintendent

Catholic Identity / Values Infusion By: Paige Sanchez, Associate Superintendent for Mission Effectiveness, Archdiocese of New York

Knowing Christ through Human Friendship

Are there people at school, home, or in your family who are your favorites? One of the ways God helps us to know Him is through our friendships. It reminds us that God has made us to depend on one another, as a sign of our dependence on Him. Our friends help us to grow in the certainty that we are not alone, and that we are loved. Friendship is one of God’s gifts that make life beautiful.

Belonging to the Church is a great friendship, and one well-known story of friendship is that of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica. They were also twin siblings. They both entered religious life in separate places far from one another. (St. Benedict lived at Monte Cassino in Italy, the first Benedictine monastery, which you can still visit today.) Because of their response to God’s call for their lives, they were only able to visit

each another once a year. These annual visits were precious to them; they loved to spend time together talking and sharing the experiences of their lives. During one visit, they lost track of time, and Benedict needed to return to Monte Cassino.

Scholastica prayed that her brother could stay, and God answered with a violent storm. Benedict could not leave that night; he had to stay with his sister. She replied, “You wouldn’t listen to me, but God did!”

Think about your experience of friendship. Are there friends at school you will miss over the summer? How will you stay in touch, even if you can’t see each other every day? Friendship is marked by our belonging to Christ. Even if we can’t physically be together, we are united in Him. Can you write a characteristic of friendship for each letter of the word “friendship” ?

Values Infusion Program: The Value for the Month of June is Loyalty To whom or what are you loyal? Why? Does that loyalty go as far as death? Why or why not?

“Peter said to him, ‘Even though I should have to die with you, I will not deny you.’ And all the disciples spoke likewise” (Matthew 26:35).

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by Laura Edwards

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Do This Not That

t’s easy to spend time with our friends through the school year when we see each other on the bus, at lunch, during recess, or in after school programs. But with the school year coming to an end, how are we planning to keep in touch with our friends over the summer?

One of the most popular methods of communication in today’s world is through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Although it’s convenient to rely on social media to communicate, it does not improve our connections with our friends. Social media pulls our attention in too many directions, and it becomes a very distracting habit quickly. We end up spend-

ing too much time on social media instead of interacting with the people in the same room or at the same table as us! Although there are many drawbacks, social media can also be fun to use.

friend, and so on. When you receive the letter back, you can read about everyone’s fun and start another letter chain!

The following are suggestions to help you have a great summer with your friends without using social media.

Send a postcard

Communicate in person

If you go on vacation, spend the summer at camp, visit family over the summer, or stay close to home, send your friends a post card to tell them about it. If you create the post card yourself, you can personalize it with colors, pictures, and designs that your friend likes or that describe your summer so far!

Make plans to spend the day at each other’s houses, ride your bikes together, or even take a day trip to a park or the beach! Also, plan a few activities for you and your friend to do when they visit like baking cookies, playing outside, or watching a movie.

Catch up over the phone

Get a group of your friends together

Exchange phone numbers with your friends before you both leave on the last day of school, if you haven’t already. Then, set aside time to call your friends and talk on the phone! Don’t forget to reach out regularly too. Whether you talk once a day, once a week, or once a month, you’ll feel that your friendship is a lot stronger.

Plan a day to go to the zoo or a nature center, swim at a friend’s house, community pool, or swim club, go roller or ice skating, have a BBQ, or visit the aquarium!

Craft together

Write a letter

Make sure that you have your friends’ addresses to write letters over the summer. If you go on vacation, visit family, or go to an amusement park, write about it!

Describe what you saw, smell, heard, tasted, and felt.

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For example, it is exciting to be able to share certain things like getting a new pet or finding a beautiful shell on the beach! However, it can become difficult to know when we are sharing too much on social media. By oversharing on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, we stop having true personal connections.

Social media does not connect us with our friends as much as we may think it does. The best way to see for yourself how much better your friendships are without social media is to put it to the test. Challenge yourself and your friends this summer to keep in touch without social media!

You can create a letter chain too! Start a letter and mail it to a friend with instructions for how they should write their letter below yours and send it to another

Whether it’s sunny or rainy, you and your friends can spend the day crafting, coloring, drawing, or painting.

When you are finished with your creations, exchange them with your friends or give them to a parent or grandparent to share the fun.

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What else makes monarch butterflies so unique?

By Laura Edwards

Monarch Butterfly

We see monarch butterflies in fields, trees, flowers, gardens, and even in our own backyards. It is easy to spot monarch butterflies because they are so colorful. Their wings are a vibrant shade of orange, their veins and the borders around their wings are black, and the spots on the borders of their wings are white. Some monarchs have orange at the tips of their wings too! However, they do not look like this when they are born. Monarch butterflies, as well as many other insects, go through a transformation process called metamorphosis. The four stages of metamorphosis for monarch butterflies are egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

The first stage of their metamorphosis occurs when female monarchs lay their eggs on the leaves of a milkweed plant. Over a period of two to five weeks, female monarch butterflies lay between 300 and 500 eggs. The eggs typically take

between 3 and 12 days to hatch, but the amount of time can vary with the temperature. The hatched eggs become larva in the second stage of metamorphosis. The larva, which are called caterpillars, grow and eat milkweed leaves in this stage of metamorphosis. As the caterpillars grow, they become too big for their skin and need to shed it.

During this stage, the caterpillars grow and shed their outer skin about five times! Caterpillars prepare for the third stage of metamorphosis by spinning a silk mat which they hold onto by their feet while hanging upside down from a twig or a branch. Once the caterpillars shed their skin for the final time, the covering that remains over is a green exoskeleton. This is called the pupa stage and it is the stage in which the adult butterfly forms. The fourth stage, and final step of the monarch butterflies’ metamorphosis, is emerging from the pupa as an adult butterfly!

✿ Monarchs can fly between 4 and 12

mph! ✿ Monarchs sit in the sun to warm up!

They cannot fly if their wings are less than 86° F. ✿ Their wingspan varies between 8.9 to 10.2 centimeters (or 3.5 to 4 inches). ✿ The monarch butterfly can flap its wings between 5 and 12 times a second or 300 to 720 times a minute! ✿ The highest recorded height reached by a monarch butterfly is 11,000 feet! ✿ The milkweed plant that butterflies eat has a poisonous toxin, but monarch butterflies can store that toxin in their bodies! Therefore, monarchs have a terrible taste to their predators.

Digital Citizenship Use Technology to gather information, communicate, or just have fun.

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

Cross-reference all sources. Don’t just take their word for it.

Tech Talk: Time for a Chat Check Up You may have heard the character word, citizenship. Citizenship is defined as,“how someone interacts and contributes as part of a community.” Most of us consider our school, our town or city, and even our homes to be communities that we are a part of every day. We are surely a part of those communities, but did you know we are also a part of a larger community called the World Wide Web? We can con-

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nect to people all over the world, at anytime, thanks to technology.

The average person spends close to three hours daily interacting with technology. Just like we need to spend time learning how to interact and contribute in the real world, as part of a community, there are also a set of rules that can help us interact and contribute responsibility to the digital world, called digital citizenship.

Respect other’s point of view on the internet.

Accept what they say as meaningful and then explain why you disagree.

Give the author credit for the work you use.

Research a topic using all kinds of works.

Use caution when talking to people you do not know.

Maintain your privacy. Do not share personal information, and other private information.

Use privacy

settings.

Determine if the source is credible.

Stand against cyber bullying.

Talk to someone if you meet someone online or read something that disturbs you.

Utilize proper online etiquette.

A good digital citizen will follow these simple rules:

1. Treat others online with respect. Never bully!

2. Use digital tools to advance learning.

3. Protect personal information from others.

4. Determine if a source is credible or true.

5. Do NOT “talk” to people you do not know.

6. Tell someone if you read or see something online that alarms you in any way.

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Be able to identify internet Scams and apams.

Only access the technology when you are suppposed to.

Ground rules may need to be set.

There are so many fun things you can do with technology.

The digital world is very powerful, but as Spiderman once said, “With great power comes great responsibility!” Exercise good citizenship and practice good Internet safety. Being safe and being responsible is the best way to POWER UP your technology and POWER UP your digital citizenship.

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Want to continue your art throughout the summer?

Check this out! See page 9 and the calendar Continue to draw me pictures or write me a postcard and send them in over the summer (with the Bee Published form) and I'll make sure they appear in our September back-to-school edition.

Diana V., age 3

Parallel Circuit created by Grade 4 students from St. Ritas School

Gregory B. Aidan O. Crystal N. Anthony B. Giulianna S. Andrew G. Samantha A. Anthony A. Marissia S. Gianna F. Michael P. Aiden C. Benjamin N. Olivia S.

age 13 age 6 age 7 age 13 age 4 age 5 age 2 age 2 age 5 age 8 age 8 age 7 age 7 age 14

Series Circuit created by Grade 4 students from St. Ritas School

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Fifth grade student winners from Staten Island’s Catholic Schools Art & Poetry contest on Nature & The Alaskan Wilderness, pictured along with author Hon. Judge Catherine DiDomenico Demarco, Deputy BP Ed Burke, and Regional Superintendent Zoilita M. Herrera.

Kaylee F. Miranda, B. Faith L. Jack I. Nicholas A. Joseph A. Matthew Y. Ryann E. Peter R. Layla K. Amberly R. Michael C. Isabella R.

age 9 age 13 age 8 age 8 age 4 age 13 age 8 age 11 age 11 age 6 age 4 age 7 age 8

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12-3pm (Rain or Shine) Games, crafts, live entertainment, food, and more for the whole family at the first annual BIG PICNIC at Snug Harbor! Bring your picnic basket and a blanket. Tickets are $5 for access to the main event, plus entry to all your favorite museums, galleries, and gardens. The Big Picnic presented in partnership with Art Lab, the Noble Maritime Collection, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, the Staten Island Children’s Museum, and the Staten Island Museum.

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Solutions on page 10

Don’t forget!

Visit Buzzer’s new website at

Beach Fun Dot-to-Dot

Text/Talk

You are looking at plans for your phone.

Plan A is $45/month for unlimited texting.

Plan B is $15/month plus 2¢ per text or 15 + .02 (number of texts).

Which is a better plan if you are going to text an average of

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30 texts per day? 45 texts per day?

60 texts per day?

Flying in Formation You count 8,912 Monarch Butterflies on a branch. There are 25 trees in this area.

It is estimated that the total number of butterflies in the area is 1,000 times as large as your sample.

What is the estimated number of Monarch butterflies in this area?

Morse Code Message May 24th was Morse Code Day. On May 24, 1844, the first Morse code message was sent.

Decode this secret message sent

by Buzzer and your teachers.

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It’s Your BIRTHDAY!

Specialized Care for YOUR Child

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Send in your birthday form to be entered for a chance to win a BIRTHDAY PRESENT and get a Happy Birthday wish in the paper.

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Solutions and More!

Beach Fun Dot-to-Dot

Morse Message De-Coded K E E P

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Text/Talk Answer: 30 texts/day: Plan B 45 texts/day: Plan B 60 texts/day: Plan A Solution: Convert texts/day to texts/month by

multiplying by 30. These numbers then become 900/1350/1800.

Plug each of the number of texts into 15 + .02 (number of texts) and see if it is less than $45. Start with 1350 because it is the middle number and it will match one of the other plans.

15 + .02 (1350) = $42. So both of the first two quantity of texts will be lower than $45/month and Plan B is the best deal.

15 + .02 (1800) = $51. Plan A is cheaper.

Flying in Formation Answer: 8,912,000 Monarch Butterflies.

Solution: 1,000 × 8,912 = 8,912,000.

The number of trees is extra information you will not use here.

Bee Published!

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:

Buzzer has a new home! and you’re all invited to visit!

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Voorhees, NJ 08043 Name__________________________________________ Age ______________________ 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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By Dr. Susan B. Miller, Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Staff Development, Archdiocese of New York

Solving the secrets of

MAGIC TRIANGLES

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oday, we’ll do a bit of recycling while we solve a new puzzle called Magic Triangles. To solve a Magic Triangle, you’ll use the digits from 1-6. Using caps from water bottles (see left), write the digits from 1 through 6. (If you don’t have any caps, you can write the numbers on small pieces of paper).

Then, the goal is to put the caps with the numbers in the shape of a triangle. You’ll solve the puzzle if each side adds to the magic number! Let’s take a look at this example, where the magic number is 9. Can you see that each side adds up to 9? Let’s check our work…

3+5+1=9 1+6+2=9 And 3 + 4 + 2 = 9. All of the sides equal 9!

Now it’s your turn to try. Can you rearrange the same six digits so all the sides equal 10? Once you solve that, can you get all the sides to equal 11? What about 12?

We can make this even trickier. What if we have a bigger triangle. Now we need the digits from 1-9! Let’s see if we can get all the sides to equal 17? What about 19?

How about 20? 21? Can you create your own magic puzzle? You can search for Magic puzzles online and find lots more to try!

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