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Welcome back to another great school year!

to people in your life that help you day by day at home, at school, on the sports field, and more. Good Neighbor Day is an opportunity to get to know new neighbors that may have moved in over the summer and welcome them to your neighborhood. Say hello to someone new on the bus or in your class, as they are your neighbors too. Read all about This month, we start the school year with our colorful cover that reminds you to help pack your backpack each day these fun days to celebrate in this edition.

I look forward to learning along with you this year. and to follow safety rules when riding the bus to school. It’s a great time to get into a routine by having your lunch and Your friend, backpack ready by the door so that you have enough time for a good breakfast before getting to your bus stop on time.

Other highlights include getting your bookshelf ready for school, lots of interesting stuff about bees, a sweet contest, fun puzzles, a great recipe, and more.

Welcome back to another great school year! I hope you enjoyed relaxing and hanging out with friends, playing in the sun, and reading fun things on those long summer days.

Now that we’re back in school, we want to keep you reading and having fun with each new edition of the paper.

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Getting your bookshelf ready to go

By Laura Edwards Getting ready for back to school is more than getting school supplies, a new backpack and clothes. You can also get your bookshelf ready to go back to school with you.

This summer, we challenged ourselves to expand where and what we read. We read recipes, biographies, magazines, and poems. We read in the car on the way to friends’ houses, aloud to grandparents, and even read under a tree. We also kept our minds alert with weekly challenges like creating giant bubbles, using a deck of cards to make 52 memories, and counting the number of steps it takes to walk across our backyards sideways. To keep up the momentum, continue challenging yourself this back to school season by updating your library with books that match your reading level!

To start, remove books that you have not read in a long time to make room for new books that you can read now, as well as ones you’ll be able to read by the end of the year! Once there is room on your bookshelf, try to answer this question: is there a topic that you enjoy or an author you want to read more? If you are interested in adventures, check out the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne. The series follows the main characters, Jack and Annie, as they travel around the world, and through time. If you prefer reading mysteries, Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew Mystery Stories might be right for you.

The stories feature the title character, Nancy Drew, as she solves mysteries in River Heights. There are so many great possibilities!

If you’re interested in reading coming of age books, Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Geraldine Quimby is the title character in a series of books following her from preschool to fourth grade. The stories are about Ramona, her family, and her friends. If you enjoyed The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, consider reading The Magician’s Nephew, the first book in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. In Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Meg’s father disappears while working with the government.

Together with her brother, Charles Wallace, and friend, Calvin, the characters’ search for Meg’s father forces them to travel through space and time.

Another great method to find new books is to ask your parent or guardian, teacher, or librarian for recommendations. If you have older siblings, cousins, or friends you can ask what they read when they were your age, too! They may have books to lend to you as well. The most important lesson to remember is to always have fun. Try to find a book on topics that you enjoy like animals, sports, or hobbies such as camping or gardening, the planet, the solar system, or even read the story that inspired your favorite movie.

More great suggestions of books can be found on our website by clicking on the Back-to-School Bookshelf image.

Have a great year!

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Local Bees and Honey Bees are vital for the planet and everything they make for humans is healthy and beneficial. It is interesting to learn about the importance of beekeeping, the health benefits of all hive products and how to use them in your everyday diet.

There are many local bee farms in New Jersey, and here are just a few that are unique.

Frog Ocean Honey is a small, family owned business that provides 100% pure local honey and hand made natural beeswax products.

All the bees are cared for by beekeepers Chris and Stefanie Omlor. The bees gather pollen and nectar from the flowers that grow wild in the salt marsh area that surrounds the farm.

Fruitwood Orchards Honey Farm is managed by the Wright Family; who originally began raising honeybees to help in the pollination of their fruit trees. They started selling from a small covered table by the side of the road and now have two locations in New Jersey and Florida, with millions of honeybees that produce honey across the country.

Cape May Honey Farm provides pure, natural, raw, delicious and healthy honey, as well as all the other wonderful gifts that honeybees provide for us. Their goal is to follow old beekeeping traditions, to manage their hives in a holistic and natural way, and to raise awareness about the importance of honeybees, beekeeping and pollination.

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Bees

by Laura Edwards

When we hear bees buzzing around flowers, they are most likely one of these three types of bees: bumblebees, carpenter bees, or honeybees Bumblebees are large in size and are yellow and black in color. They have four wings which flap anywhere from 130 to 240 beats per second! Bumblebees communicate with one another too.

They use scent marking to indicate that the nectar from a flower is gone! Bumblebees nest close to the ground under wood or leaves, but they also can make their nests in tunnels underground.

Colony sizes can range from 50 to 500 bees. Bumblebees are covered in oil and it makes them waterproof!

Carpenter bees look very similar to bumblebees because most are black and yellow in color, but their tails are darker than bumblebees and some carpenter bees are green or purple. The sizes of carpenter bees range from ½ - 1 inch, but they can be as small as a ¼ inch! Carpenter bees make their home in the soft wood of trees, houses, and other wooden structures like fences or porches. Similar to bumblebees, carpenter bees also hibernate. They come out of hibernation between April and May. Honeybees have five eyes: two large eyes are in the front of their head while three smaller eyes are on the top of their head. It’s estimated that honey bees fly 15 miles per hour and beat their wings up to 11,400 times per minute! They have 170 odorant receptors, which gives them a great sense of smell. In color, honey bees are mustard yellow and brown. The average bee hive can hold around 50,000 bees. Honey bees are the only insects that produce food for humans! One honey bee beehive can produce up to 400 pounds of honey annually. What do these bees have in common?

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• Bees help pollinate flowers, fruits, and vegetables • There are about 20,000 species of bees, but only four species can make honey!

• Female bees are the only bees that sting and honey bees can only sting once, while bumblebees can sting multiple times • Bees are divided into three groups: queen, worker, and drones • Queen bees are the only bees to lay eggs for the hive • Worker bees are female and drones are male bees • The sound of a bees’ buzz is made by vibrating muscles not their wings!

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Write to the Point

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

When you think of a “Diary”, what comes to mind? Most kids think of a secret kind of journal that is kept private. Well, it turns out that a Secret Diary is just one kind, and there are many others that you can write! Let’s review a few examples of these so you can choose one to start this year.

Food Diary: to keep track of what you are eating.

Health Diary: to record goals, activities, events, concerns and feelings.

School Diary: to write down any thoughts, funny or sad moments, test and project dates, school events, homework, goals, and accomplishments.

Topic of Your Choice: Create a Diary based on your own personality and what you enjoy.

Some examples are: Story Ideas Diary: to record your original stories.

Recipe Diary: to record your own food concoctions.

Learning Diary: to write about new things you learn.

Subject Diary: to write about a subject of interest: Gymnastics, football, dogs, dance, music, art, games….whatever you love!

Dear Diary Since Kidz Buzz this month is featuring bee farms right here in New Jersey, I decided to write a Subject Diary entry on Honey!

Example: 8/13/17, 12:00pm I just swatted at a bee in my backyard and I thought, “it’s a good thing that these bees make honey, they are good for something!”

I started to think about how good honey is! I did some research on honey and found so many uses for it and I wanted to jot them down.

Honey can be used as a Natural Remedy for: Healing Wounds, Sore Throats, Washing Hair, Moisturizing Skin, Improving allergies, Improving Sleep, Losing Weight, Nausea.

I also found that there were many different kinds of honey, so that will be tomorrow’s entry!

Bye, Bye!

Writing in a Diary is very good for your mind. It helps to get your thoughts out, and it is even like therapy. Go start one today, have fun!

CCSS.ELA.Literacy W.5.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Honey, I’m Home By: Heather Wawrzyniak, Principal, Ashbrook Elementary School, Lumberton

Doing “good” has no boundaries. You may wonder how you can help change the world since you’re not an adult yet. However, there are many stories of brave kids that noticed someone in need and took action to help others. They made a real difference in the lives of others right in their own neighborhoods - and in the world! Here are some real kids that made a real difference in the lives of others.

Hannah Taylor was 5 years old when she noticed a homeless man eating from a trash can. By the age of 8, she started The Ladybug Foundation, a charity that has grown to raise over $2 million dollars to help homeless people find food, shelter and safety.

Alex Scott’s battle with cancer started before her first birthday. By the time she was 4 years old, she decided she wanted to raise money to help other children with cancer. Working off the slogan, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade,” she started the foundation, Alex’s Lemonade Stand. Alex raised more than $1 million by the age of 8 to help with cancer research.

All you need to do to make a difference is identify an issue close to your heart and close to your home. You may start with a small local project that helps someone in your neighborhood or town and your good deed may spread.

You may become a hometown hero or you may wind up being the founder of a charity or organization that becomes internationally recognized. No matter how big or small your deed is…no good deed goes unnoticed, especially in the hearts of the people who needed your help. Do a good deed, help others in need!

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The Waggle Dance: Exploring how Bees Communicate

By Lindsay Wanko, Teacher of the Deaf (K-2), John F. Kennedy School, Berlin Township Imagine this…you just finished devouring the most delicious ice-cream sundae in the world! After the last lick is gone, your best friend comes running over hoping to buy some ice-cream, too. How do you share with her where to get some of her own?

Maybe you answered this question by saying things like, “I would tell her where to go to buy some using words,” or “I would point her in the direction of the ice- cream shop.” You are exactly right; humans use words, gestures, and body language to communicate.

Did you ever wonder how animals communicate? We can easily hear some animals communicating when they want a meal, like a dog whining at the dinner table or a cat meowing by her food bowl. How about bees? What do they do when they need to find food?

They DANCE! Believe it or not, bees use the “Waggle Dance” to communicate with one another about where to find food or nectar. Scout bees are sent out to explore the area to find the best flowers for nectar. Then, the scout bees return to the hive and waggle around to model the direction and distance of food sources.

The longer they dance, the further the flower is from the hive.

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The Waggle Dance uses a combination of half circle movements and wiggles to indicate where the nectar can be found. They move in a “figure 8” pattern, like the one in the image.

First, pick an area to be your “hive.” Gather with your friends in the “hive.” Pick one person to be the “scout bee.” This person will hide a flower (picture or fake flowers work) in a place where no one else can see where it is. The scout bee then returns to the “hive” and models where the food is using the dance steps below. Your waggle lines should point in the direction of the hidden flower.

Let your friends see if they can understand your dance moves to find the flower. Then, take turns being the scout bee!

Have fun showing off your BEE-utiful Dance Moves!

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Kid’s Night

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Kid’s Night

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Kid’s Night

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Good Neighbor Day

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World Gratitude Day

12:00 - 4:00pm $9.00 per child. Slice of Pizza and Drink. All Activities.

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Open Skate and Play

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Dear Diary Day

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Open Skate and Play

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Father Son Night of Magic!

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Kid’s Night

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Father Son Activity: 5:30 - 7:30 pm - Face Painting Activity: 5:30 - 7:30 pm - Face Painting Night of Magic!

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Kid’s Night

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Fun Zone Friday – Ages 10 and under September 15 • 12:00 - 2:00 pm (Cherry Hill)

Make Your Bed Day

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Skate Lesson, Rental, Snack and FunZone 9:30-11:30 am OR 12:30-2:30pm (Cherry Hill)

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

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ODD Book Out odd Each shelf contains books with a different number of pages, with one that does not belong with the others.

Find the odd one out in each row.

The Bee Hive A bee Keeper has nine hives.

Each hive has 500 Bees.

How many bees does the Bee Keeper have?

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Building a Honeycomb The most perfect use of storage space is a Hexagon and the bees use a “Comb” made of these to store their honey. If the side of each Hexagon is ½”, A. What is the perimeter of one “Cell” in the honeycomb?

B. What is the perimeter of a line of 10 cells side by side?

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Take the letters that appear in boxes and unscramble them for the final message

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solutions & MORE! Back to SchooL school secret Secret message Message

The Bee Hive Answer: 4,500 Bees.

Solution: 9 x 500 = 4500

Building a Honeycomb Answer A: 3 inches.

Solution A: A hexagon has 6 sides.

In this case, they are all the same length. 6 x ½ = 3.

Answer B: 21 inches.

Solution B: When placed in a line, the cells share a side. The first cell has 5 exposed sides, the next 8 cells have 2 shared sides, so only count 4 sides for each of those, the last cell has 5 exposed sides. Number of exposed sides = 8 × 4 + 2 × 5 = 42 sides. 42 × ½ inch = 21 inches.

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It’s Your BIRTHDAY! Send in your birthday form to receive a card on the month of your birthday and be entered for a chance to win a BIRTHDAY PRESENT:

Super Party Package 8 Child Admissions, Choice of Roller Skating, FunZone or Bounce House, arcade tokens for group, food, birthday extras and more.

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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:

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World Gratitude Day began in 1977 and is a great day to talk about gratitude and how to show thanks to someone. “Thank you” is a small but mighty phrase, which dates back to the 15th century, and saying it always goes a long way.

When you think of times that you might say “Thank you”, they could be to your mom for making your lunch, to a friend for sharing their snack, to someone for holding a door open, to your sister for helping you to clean up... the list is endless.

Here are some fun ways to show your gratitude and to think of how much you appreciate the many things that happen throughout your day: 1. Write a list of what you are grateful for. You can start with the silly little things and then get deeper, the more you give it thought and attention.

2. Post the list somewhere that you can see. The list can remind you to feel grateful for all of the little (and big) things. You can always add things too – maybe try to add something new each week.

3. Write a note expressing your appreciation. Choose someone important to you (a relative, teacher, coach, sibling) and write a short note to share why you are thankful for what they do for you.

4. Say three good things about each day. Pick time during dinner, or before bed to tell your parents three good things that happened each day. What a nice way to end the day by noticing things that you are thankful for and can really appreciate.

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Check out Buzzer’s picks this month...all about bees and honey!

What If There Were No Bees?: A Book about the Grassland Ecosystem

By Suzanne Slade This book focuses on grassland ecosystems, such as the Great Plains of North America, as well as bee conservation and tips for helping grasslands (and bees) stay healthy. It is filled with illustrations of thriving, healthy grassland and farms full of pollinating bees. Then, through the use of black silhouettes where bees and pollinated fruits once were, it shows what would happen if the title of the book came true.

UnBEElieveables

The Beeman

By Douglas Florian

By Laurie Krebs

This creative collection of poems, information, and illustrations about bees will captivate children who love bright colors and silly-sounding words.

Each page features a poem about some aspect of the life of a bee, factual details, and brightly colored illustrations. The author explores the natural history of these often-unappreciated critters, showing how they are totally cool, and a totally important part of our ecosystem.

This great picture book takes the reader through a year of beekeeping from the point of view of a little girl helping her grandpa, who’s known in the town as the Beeman. The book touches upon all aspects of beekeeping - from how they dress in bee keeper gear, to how they care for the hive, to how they harvest (and enjoy eating) the honey. Readers can also try the recipe in the back for “Grandma’s Apple and Honey Muffins.”

What Would a

By Bob Kirkpatrick

Black Belt Do?

Owner / Head Instructor of Westampton Martial Arts Different. What does different mean? Does different mean better? Worse?

Good? Bad? Different can mean many things and take many forms. When we see someone who is different from us, what do we see or think? Sometimes we think, “Wow, that kid has really cool shoes!” or “Man, that girl has such a nice bike!” So, we start to wonder if they have a lot of money.

Maybe we see a kid who is much bigger or smaller than us. Maybe their skin is a different color, or they speak with a foreign accent. Maybe they dress differently from what we normally see. Maybe they bring a strange type of food for lunch.

No matter what the difference is that we notice, is our first impression a good one or a negative one?

These days, unfortunately, many people use the differences they see between people to separate us into groups, and to stir up bad feelings between different groups. Here’s a little clue – that is a BAD thing. So, what would be the GOOD way to handle differences?

I’m glad you asked. First, we should remember that if they look different from us, we look different to them. There are thousands of different colored breeds of birds and fish and dogs, but they’re all beautiful. There are thousands of different lunch

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and dinner foods from all over the world, but guess what? They are all delicious.

Thousands of different flowers and, yup, all beautiful. Millions of different books and movies, and almost every one is someone’s favorite. So different is GOOD! The most important thing about differences is our attitude. If we all have a positive attitude about differences, we see only good things when we notice someone is different from us. We embrace the differences. We get a chance to find out what things we have in common. There are short people and tall people, old people and young people, who ALL like pizza, or chocolate ice cream, or horror movies.

Karate students train with people of many different sizes, shapes and colors. Yet they all share the experience of learning, training, and getting better at Karate.

They learn together how to defend themselves and use their Karate to help others.

They find out very quickly that the differences are just as positive as the things they have in common.

So the good or right thing to do when you see someone who is different is to accept the difference, find what you have in common, and maybe even become friends. As the new school year begins, remember, different is not bad; different is just different. And different can be very, very good.

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Good Neighbor Day September 28th

Neighbors are an important part of our daily lives and Good Neighbor Day is a great way to promote being “neighborly” and nice towards people who surround us everyday.

This fun holiday was created by Becky Mattson of Arizona in the 1970’s as a way to encourage neighbors to be good to each other. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter issued a proclamation that designated September 24, 1978 as National Good Neighbor Day. Prior to 2003, the holiday was celebrated on the fourth Sunday in September. Now it is unofficially celebrated in the U.S. and around the world as Good Neighbor Day.

There are many ways to celebrate: • Be nice to your neighbors whenever you can.

• If you don’t know your neighbors well, maybe today is your chance to go up to them and strike up a conversation.

• Help a neighbor with a school project or homework.

• Bake something for a new neighbor to say hello.

• Invite your neighbors to your home for a meal.

• Offer to take in mail for a neighbor who may be away on vacation.

• Walk a dog for an older neighbor who may have trouble getting around.

• Help by shoveling snow in the winter for a neighbor who needs help.

Bus Safety: We All Play a Role NJEA wants parents to know that traveling on a school bus is six times safer than the family car. Most student injuries occur outside and around the bus. Here’s how parents can help keep kids safe!

• Provide children with backpacks or book bags so they do not endanger themselves recovering dropped items; • Make sure clothing and book bags are free of dangling items that could get caught on the handrail or door of the bus as children are boarding or exiting; • Remind children of their responsibility to behave

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properly while waiting for and riding on the bus; • Ensure that students are at the bus stop a few minutes before the bus arrives; • Keep bus stop areas free of trash cans, snow drifts in winter, or other obstructions that could make it difficult for the driver or other motorists to see children.

Honey Banana Pops Ingredients • • • •

4 just-ripe bananas, peeled 8 popsicle sticks 1/2 cup pure honey 1 1/3 cup total of assorted toppings (approx. 1/3 cup of each) graham cracker crumbs, coconut, sprinkles, mini chocolate chips or nuts (finely chopped)

Directions Cut bananas in half cross-wise. Insert a popsicle stick into each cut end. Freeze for at least 30 minutes on a wax paper-lined tray. Meanwhile, spread desired toppings onto separate plates. Spoon about 1 Tablespoon honey over each banana, rotating and smoothing honey with back of spoon to coat all sides. Roll banana in desired topping until coated on all sides, pressing with fingertips to help stick. Return coated banana pops to wax paper-lined tray and repeat with remaining bananas. Freeze pops 15 minutes or more to set toppings. Enjoy.

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