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Pioneer Winters in the Northern Midwest

Hello everyone! Today we will be looking back to the past and life during winter here in the northern Midwest as the theme for this issue is darkness.

that the coals never cooled and the cabin was able to keep warm. It was even common for family members to sleep in front of the fire to stay warm!

Darkness is appropriate to talk about this time of year, as the days are short and the nights are long during the winter months here in Minnesota! While life continues as normal during winter these days, it was much different in the past.

During the 19th century, many of the pioneers that settled in Minnesota had to greatly change their lifestyles during these bitter months. The winter was a very difficult time for the pioneers and required them to stay indoors as much as possible.

This could result in what we call “cabin fever,” when someone would

Food was also scarcer during these cold months. Root vegetables such as carrots and potatoes could last, as could corn and salted meats.

Pioneers didn’t have much variety during these lean months, but were able to make due and find ways to prepare foods that were appetizing and filling. Some foraging and

This “bachelor’s” cabin, found in the Village of Yesteryear, features a single room that would have been occupied by one man. Smaller cabins such as this may have been a temporary home as they built a larger cabin for their family, or one used by fur trappers or others who may have simply lived alone.

A fresh snow blankets the Family Cabin in the Village of Yesteryear. This cabin would have housed a family of six in the 1800s.

begin to be claustrophobic, irritable, or restless from being inside a small cabin for so long.

The log cabin was one of the most common structures that the pioneers lived in, and they were often quite small. A typical family cabin would only have two rooms: a The interior of the Family Cabin, highlighting the downstairs communal room. The fireplace is the focus of the room and provided heat and a place to cook during communal area with the fireplace the winter. or stove, and a bedroom. trapping could be done, but most These cabins would be home to relied on what they could preserve entire families, with sometimes as during the fall. many as six people living in a few hundred square feet. The fireplace The pioneer life was difficult was the most important part of the and required a great deal of selfcabin during the winter months, as sufficiency. Living in cities and towns it provided much-needed warmth in the northern Midwest during this for the family. A fire would be fed period provided more options and continuously in order to ensure capabilities during the winters, but they remained difficult. We can now enjoy our modern amenities such as well insulated homes, gas furnaces, fully stocked grocery stores, and modern transportation methods, all of which make a difficult season much more tolerable. It’s good to look back to the past every now and then and see how far we have come and what we have to be thankful for that we may otherwise take for granted.

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Moon Observation Journal DIRECTIONS: Observe the Moon each day for one month. Write down the date and time you make each observation, and illustrate how the Moon looks each day by shading in the circles to reflect the shape of the Moon. For example, if you can see the whole Moon, you do not need to shade in any part of the circle. If you can only see half of the Moon, shade the side of the Moon that you cannot see in the circle for that day.

If you cannot see the Moon at all on a day, indicate this on your journal and also write down why you could not see the Moon.

Spend the next month getting to know the Moon. Set aside some time each day to look at the Moon. Record your observations in the log provided on the back of this page. Once you have completed your observations for the whole month, answer the questions below.

Questions: 1. Did the Moon look the same each day? If not, describe how it changed throughout the month.

2. Did you see the Moon at the same time each day throughout the month? Was there a pattern to the time when you were able – or not able – to observe it? If so, describe the pattern.

3. Did anything ever prevent you from being able to see the Moon? If so, what? Could you figure out what the Moon would have looked like if you could have seen it? If so, how?

4. What do you think will happen to the Moon’s shape in the sky during the next week?

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5. Look up information on the phases of the Moon. Indicate in your Moon Observation Journal (on the back of this page) where you think the Moon most closely matched each of the following phases: Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent, and New Moon.

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Blast off to the library!

Explore these great titles.

What’s it like in space?

By Katie Daynes ©2017 Usborne Publishing

Lift-the-flap questions and answers about space

by Katie Daynes ©2016 Usborne Publishing

Mysteries of the universe

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Our place in space

by Robin Koontz

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See inside the universe

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Space: a visual encyclopedia

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100 things to know about space

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Night sky

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How common are toy-related injuries?

Parents go to great lengths to ensure the safety of their children. Safety is a significant factor when purchasing toys for kids, but how common are toy-related injuries?

According to the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 215,000 children are treated for toy-related injuries in emergency rooms across the United States every year. Ninety-seven percent of those children do not require hospitalization, but instances in which children suffer injuries while playing with their toys can be dangerous and frightening.

Which types of toys cause the most injuries?

Stanford Children’s Health notes that riding toys like tricycles and nonpowered scooters are responsible for the most toyrelated injuries. Nonpowered scooters may not be seen as dangerous, especially when compared to their motorized brethren. Indeed, the American Academy of Pediatrics does not warn against such scooters for young children, while it does recommend that parents do not

allow children under 16 to operate or ride on motorized e-scooters.

However, the AAP warns parents that all scooters pose a similar risk of head injury compared with bikes, which underscores the need for children to wear helmets when riding scooters, even nonpowered ones.

That’s important to note, as a 2017 study from Safe Kids Worldwide¨ found that only 57 percent of parents would make their child or adolescent wear a helmet while riding a scooter.

Riding toys are not the only types of toy that can cause injuries.

Parents should heed warnings about hazards related to choking, drowning and suffocation when buying toys for their children. For example, avoid giving children under age three toys with small pieces, as Stanford Children’s Health notes that kids three and under like to put things in their

mouth. Small toy pieces can increase the risk of choking in children three and under because their upper airways are smaller than the upper airways of older kids.

A combination of proper supervision, some simple safety measures and choosing age-appropriate toys can greatly reduce kids’ risk for toy-related injuries.

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SOLSTICES AND EQUINOXES I hope everyone enjoyed the winter holidays and had a good time. The first month of winter is always the most fun—the delight of fresh snow, lights and decorations sparkling everywhere, treats and goodies galore. So much activity and bustle! And when the holiday season is over, it can feel a little peaceful as things settle back down, and it can feel little boring, too, with the rest of winter stretching out in front of us. All the festivities are done, and we still have plenty of cold, snowy, dark days left until spring.

December 21st was the winter solstice, which means it was the shortest day of the year and the longest night. On the solstice there was less than 9 hours of daylight, and nighttime was over 15 hours long! The shorter days can make winter seem longer than it is, and getting less sunlight can even affect some people’s moods.

After December 21st, though, the amount of daylight we get starts to increase very, very slowly. It can be hard to notice that sunrise is earlier and sunset is later every

day, but it’s true! In fact, from December 22nd to January 1st, we get 45 more minutes of daylight. On February 28th, the day is 3 whole hours longer than it was on December 21st!

In the meantime, don’t let these looooooong dark evenings and nights get you down. In fact, why not take advantage of the season and do some interesting stuff that is best done in the dark? Go stargazing—the clear winter air is great for checking out constellations!

Make some glowing ice lanterns or keep a moon journal and see how the moon changes throughout the month.

More winter also means more time for sledding, snowball fights, ice-skating, and fort-building, not to mention more cozy time snuggled in blankets with cup of hot cocoa or tea! I plan on trying out some snow painting, and I put the instructions in here for you if you want to try it out, too. Just make sure you are dressed right for the weather— remember to stay warm with mittens and hats!

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Why does it get dark so early in the winter, anyway?

The Earth isn’t straight “up” and “down”, with the North Pole facing up and the South Pole facing down. The Earth actually has a tilt to it, and it wobbles back and forth as we go through the year, which causes changes to how much sunlight we get.

There are two solstices a year: one in winter and one in summer.

The solstices are when the Earth is tilted the furthest or closest to the sun.

The winter solstice takes place on December 21st or 22nd, and it is the shortest day of the year because the Earth is tilted as far away from the sun as it can.

The summer solstices takes place on June 21st or 22nd, and it is the longest day of the year. The Earth is tipped as close to the sun as is possible.

We get almost 7 more hours of daylight on the summer solstice than we do on the winter solstice!

In between the solstices are equinoxes— the two times of the year when the number of hours of daylight and nighttime are the same. The word equinox comes from Latin and means equal night, because the amount of day and night are equal.

Spring equinox occurs between March 19th-21st. This year, it will be March 20th. The autumn or fall equinox happens between September 19th-21st. In 2022, it will happen on September 22nd.

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So, basically, half of the year the amount of daytime we experience gets longer and the night gets shorter. The other half of the year reverses this, with days getting shorter and nights getting longer.

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It’s winter in Minnesota and we are living in the cold and dark of the year. In this issue of Kids Konnect, let’s explore how light and dark interact in the world and what we can see when we look outside either during the day or at night. There’s special technology that can “see” light that we can’t see with our eyes, and NASA uses these to find things in our universe that are billions of miles away from Earth. Winter nights are beautifully dark, which allows us to see constellations, planets and stars all at once

Send us your pictures of STEAM creations, experiments, inventions and observations and we may publish the best ones in the next issue.

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Science of light and optics:

What’s the difference between what light is doing and what we see happening?

When scientists study light there are two essential questions they ask: What is light?

How does light work?

During winter it seems like there’s not much light during the day and when the sun is shining it’s so bright that it’s blinding to our eyes.

These two observations help us answer these two big questions.

So let’s tackle the first one: What is light?

When we look at the world around us everything can be divided into two things: Matter or Energy.

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electricity or create new kinds of matter!

Therefore, light can be used by living things to make food, create electricity, communicate with each other, or help us find our way around. In order to use light we need to understand how it works.

it’s “stuff” like solids, liquids or gasses.

Energy is anything that can “do something” like heat, electricity, chemical movement (bonds) or LIGHT. This means that if light is a form of energy, it can do something useful like change into heat,

The way light works is that it travels by electromagnetic waves in straight lines. This means that light is similar to both electricity and magnetism, it flows like electricity and is affected by magnetism. It is a form of energy that we can see, because our eyes are sensitive to very specific wavelengths of light, the waves that form colors in the rainbow.

Light waves that we can’t see can do some amazing things, for example infrared light is the light from heat and some species of animals can see this like snakes, mosquitoes and even vampire bats!

Which one can you see the hiding mouse easier: the left picture or the right?

High energy light like ultraviolet (UV) can cause sunburns to us, but many insects like honey bees and some birds can see UV light.

We can’t see UV light but when we make UV flashlights it causes some things to glow and then we can see the objects glowing. This is how a honey bee sees a flower or a bird sees more colors than we do!

How a bee sees a dandelion with UV light (left), how we see it with white light, (right).

Native people who lived in the arctic designed special glasses to help them see better.

Let’s check out how we can build technology to use all different kinds of light and increase our sources of energy!

When sunlight shines during winter we see the combination of all the wavelengths of light, which means we see white light. The intensity of sunlight increases when it reflects off snow and the low angle of the sun during winter can make light so bright it can damage our eyes.

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What technologies use light?

We can divide light technologies into two categories, things that create light and things that sense light.

fashioned lightbulbs would often “burn out” because the metal wires would get too hot when electricity would run through it.

One of the most important technologies that have changed our lives are LEDs: light emitting diodes”. Technologies that produced light were often expensive and had short light spans due to the amount of heat that the light making technology produced. Old

LEDs were discovered over 100 years ago, but only recently have they been manufactured cost effectively. Now they are used in many different things, from lamps and flashlights to car lights and almost every kind of electrical device that needs a light.

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The awesome thing is that LED actually produce different kinds of light such as infrared, visible red, green, blue or ultraviolet. With previous light bulbs different color light were simply white light shining through colored glass. Now LEDs produce the exact color light you need for a much cheaper cost!

Making technology that senses light is like creating a “robotic eye”-- this is like giving machines eyes. One of the most important light sensing applications is called LIDAR, or “light detecting and ranging”. These sensors use lasers to determine where light is coming from and how far away objects are from the sensor.

LIDAR technology can be used at almost any scale, from measuring the exact contours of the Earth such as the height mountains are or depth of ocean valleys. On a small scale LIDAR can be used by cars to help navigate traffic and terrain or even the exact shape and size of small objects to be recreated with laser printers. The more sensitive the LIDAR, the more accurate the measurements!

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How can we use light to find objects in space?

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has many careers in astronomy and engineering. These groups of people use their knowledge of solving problems to answer some of the most difficult questions, like “What’s really in outer space?”

Historically, astronomers (people who study stars and objects in space) used telescopes that would focus visible light from the night sky. We can use telescopes today, or even binoculars to look at the moon and stars.

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In order to see more details of objects in space, engineers and astronomers designed telescopes that could take in more and more light, which means they got bigger, and bigger and bigger in size! Like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile Or the Keck telescope located in Hawaii But, there is also non-visible light like infrared, UV light and radio waves special telescopes can receive like the Arecibo Observatory in puerto Rico Or the Square Kilometer Array located in Australia Space becomes an amazing place filled with far more objects than simply the stars and planets we

The most famous space telescope is the Hubble Telescope can see during the long winter nights. Telescopes that are located in our solar system can see even more detail since the light waves don’t have to travel through Earth’s atmosphere.

The images that it sends back to NASA have given us the most wonderful and beautiful images of space human beings have ever seen. One of my personal favorites is the images of the Orion Nebula!

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How are starry skies inspiration for artists?

During the winter is the best time to see so many different objects in the night sky. Like stars, constellations, planets and even galaxies far, far, away!

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As I mentioned earlier you don’t need a fancy telescope to view the night sky; a pair of binoculars and even your own eyes are good enough to observe the amazing and beautiful things of the winter night sky.

One of the most famous artists that loved to paint stars is Vincent Van Gogh. I bet you’ve seen his work titled “The Starry Night”— this is one of the most famous paintings in the world. The amazing thing about this painting is not only the colors and image, but the accurate locations of the planets Venus and Mars along with stars and the moon.

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The patterns we see in star constellations are very clear in the winter night sky. Here in Minnesota there are some great constellations and planets that we can see on any clear night.

Three constellations to look for are: the two Dippers and Orion. When looking north there’s the Big Dipper (Ursa major), & Little Dipper (Ursa minor), To find Polaris, the “North Star”, follow a straight line from the point of the Big Dipper’s point to the tail of the Little Dipper. The star is located directly over the north pole and is the only star in the sky that does move while the Earth rotates and therefore can show you the four cardinal directions. Polaris is the tip of the Little Dipper’s (Ursa minor) tail and it travels around Polaris like a hand on a clock.

When looking southeast, look for Orion. Orion is the hunter and you can easily see the three stars that form his belt.

While looking south west after sunset you can see Venus near the horizon (very large), Saturn is smaller and higher above to the left and even higher and further to the left (south) is Jupiter! For this winter you can see three planets all in the southern night sky just after sunset until before going to bed.

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How can we figure the size of the Moon and how far away it is, using only a quarter?

A long time ago early Astronomers in Greece and China were trying to answer these two questions.

They didn’t have the powerful technology that we have today, but they did have a deep knowledge of geometry and understood mathematical ratios.

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If we look at some of the basic shades of all things, we’ll notice there are circles, triangles and squares. We know from observations that planets and stars are circular in shape and we can use triangulation to figure out

how far away something is from us. Triangulation means we can use triangles to measure angles and ratios of the three sides to calculate distances.

Let’s first figure out the ratio of how much larger the Earth is than

the moon. Since it takes about 29 days for the moon to orbit the Earth, that means there’s 29 moons in a ring around the Earth. The distance across the center of a circle is the Diameter, which means there must be 29 moon diameters to orbit the Earth.

Whew, so how much bigger is the Earth than the moon? A Greek astronomer Aristarchus figured this out during a lunar eclipse, he measured the amount of time it took for the moon to pass through the Earth’s shadow and calculated that it must be 3 and half moon diameters of time. Since the Earth casts a shadow that is 3 and half times bigger than the moon, the diameter of the Earth must be 3 and half times larger than the moon!

Once we know that a solar eclipse is a triangle, we can use the ratio of the diameter of a quarter and distance of holding it at arm’s length to to the same ratio as the moon’s diameter and the distance it is from the Earth.

Try holding a quarter in front of your face and using it to block out the full moon when looking through one eye. Have someone measure the distance between your eye and the quarter.

smaller, which means it’s 2,286 miles.

This ratio is very close to 108, so multiply 108 times 2,286 and that gives you the distance to the moon!

Next divide the distance between your eye and the quarter by the length of the diameter of the quarter. This number is what we will multiply by to determine the distance from the Earth to the moon.

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Ice lanterns

Outdoor ice lanterns are simple to make and look magical glowing along a path at night.

Start with two different size containers, like a plastic cup and a larger Tupperware bin, or two different size cans or buckets. Any containers will work as long as the smaller one can sit inside the bigger one. Place the cup in the center of the larger container and then fill the cup with rocks to make sure it doesn’t float. Fill the space between the small contain and bigger one with water. Place the containers in the freezer or outdoors overnight so they freeze completely. When they are, you can pop the ice “donut” out of the larger mold by running a little warm water over the outside of the container. Pull out the center cup, and place a candle in that hole— a flameless electronic candle is safe and won’t melt the ice. Place your icy light outside and watch it glow!

These lanterns look really cool in sets of two or more, and can be made to whatever size you’d like (and have containers for). If you have a really wide container, like maybe a cake pan or something like that, you can even put more than one cup into it to make a multi-candle lamp. Or, if you want to spruce it up, you could add food coloring to the water, or place something interesting in the water, like snips of pine tree greens, berries, or feathers.

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Snow painting Wanna add a little something special to your snowman or snow fort? Why not add a little color with some small spray bottles and food coloring? Ask an adult to help you fill the bottles with cold water and add a few drops of food coloring to each one.

Most food coloring comes in red, blue, green and yellow base colors, but you can also mix them up to create purple or orange if you have enough bottles. Test the color on clean snow to see if it is dark enough or if it needs another drop of color. When the color’s right, it’s time to head outdoors and make some art!

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at it! e n e h t d n a , wn moon o r u o y e t a e Cr Rice Cakes Bananas Cheerios or Honey Nut Cheerios Cream Cheese or Peanut Butter Have an adult help you slice the banana.

Spread the cream cheese or peanut butter on the rice cakes. Decorate your moon with banana slices and cheerios. Enjoy!

Source: https://www.thingstoshareandremember.com/eat-the-moon-space-snack/

Fruit Rockets Blast off with this fun snack!

Cantaloupe or Musk Melon

Cut melon into eight 3/4 inch x 3 inch pieces. Trim 2 long sides of each piece to form a rocket tail shape.

8 large strawberries

Thickly slice strawberries horizontally into three pieces.

16 vanilla marshmallows

Using the picture as a guide, thread melon, strawberry pieces and marshmallows onto skewers to form a rocket ship.

Enjoy!

Source: https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/rockmelon-strawberry-rockets/7072b5f3-c6be-4467-afbf-847fc8364fd6

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St. Mary’s School 2021-2022 Calendar

AUGUST 24-26 Before school workshop 4 27 Catechetical Day 5 30 Preschool - 5th Grade Interview Day 9 1st Day 6-8th Grade 1/2 students 11 31 K-5 Interview Day 12 1st Day Preschool select students 24 1st Day KR 1/2 students 25-26 1st Day 6-8th Grade 1/2 students SEPTEMBER 1 1st Day K-8 all students 1st Day Preschool select students 1st Day KR 1/2 students 2 All Preschool - 8th grade in school 3 No School 6 No School / Labor Day 15-17 7th Grade to Eagle Bluff OCTOBER 8 Marathon/2-hr early release 20 Grandparent’s Day 21-22 No School / MEA

NOVEMBER End of first quarter No School / Teacher Workday Conferences Conferences No School / Professional Development No School / Conference Comp Day Thanksgiving Break

DECEMBER 9 Pre K-4th Grade Christmas Concert 23-31 No School / Christmas Break 13 17 20 21 30 31

JANUARY 5th-8th Gr. Band/Choir Concert No School / Professional Development End of second quarter No School / Teacher Workday SMS Open House Catholic School’s Week

1-4 15 17 18

FEBRUARY Catholic School’s Week Conferences Conferences No School / Conference Comp Day

MARCH 24 End of third quarter 25 No School / Teacher Workday 28-31 No School / Spring Break APRIL 1 No School / Spring Break 15 No School / Good Friday School Event 22 No School / Staff Retreat 23 Night of Knight’s Auction 5 11 26 27 30 31

MAY Pre K-4th Grade Spring Concert 5th-8th Grade Band/Choir Concert 8th Grade Graduation Spirit Day No School / Memorial Day 8th Grade Retreat

JUNE 1-2 8th Grade Retreat 2 Last Student Day 3 Teacher Work Day

End of Quarter School Not in Session (Teachers report) School Closed School Event

Updated 5-20-21

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Online Kindergarten Registration All registrations for school enrollments to Owatonna Public Schools must be completed online.

The registration form is translated into English, Spanish and Somali.

Register Online January 1- February 5, 2022 Go to

www.isd761.org (Cell phone is not recommended)

Yes

No Computer or Internet?

Visit the Owatonna Public Library or Roosevelt Community School 122 East McKinley Street

Do you have a child already enrolled in Owatonna Public Schools?

• Click on Infinite Campus and Sign Into Your Account If you do not have a portal account, please contact Meghan Jewison at mjewison@isd761.org

• Click on Online Registration (bottom left of screen)

No

• Enrollment • Click on link to start the enrollment process • Please make sure to provide a valid email address, as a link will be sent to the email provided to complete the application

The student’s birth certificate and immunization record must be uploaded in online registration or dropped off at Roosevelt Community School by February 15, 2022.

All students entering Kindergarten need to complete an Early Childhood Screening.

For questions on enrollment or to set up the Early Childhood Screening call Roosevelt Community School at 507.444.7900 30 • January/February 2022 • Kids Konnect

NO SCHOOL Jan. 17 & 21 (Gr. K-12) Feb. 18 (Gr. K-5)

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