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Holiday Safety Wally Watt Watcher Willy Water Drop It’s never too early for Wally Watt Watcher and Willy Water Drop to start wishing all their friends greetings for the upcoming holiday season. Everyone gets excited about holiday decorating and lights, but it’s important to follow special safety tips to ensure that the holiday season is a happy and safe one! Always: Happy Holidays from Willy, Wally, • Turn off all electrical light strings and and the rest of your friends at PWC! decorations before leaving home or going to bed • Keep decorations and ladders away from overhead electrical lights and power lines • Fasten outdoor lights securely to trees, house walls, or other firm supports with insulated staples • Replace any broken bulbs that have exposed filaments • Keep your live tree well watered to prevent bulbs from igniting dry branches • Follow directions when using artificial snow. It can irritate your lungs if inhaled • Consider replacing your old incandescent bulbs with energy efficient LED bulbs Never: • Staple or nail through light strings or electrical/extension cords • Run extension cords under rugs, around furniture legs, in doorways, or across sidewalks and driveways • Plug more than three light strings into an extension cord • Ignore switches or outlets that don’t work • Place tinsel or paper near hot lights • Use lighted candles near trees, curtains, or anything potentially flammable Share what you’ve learned with family and friends! Vector Images © vecteezy Various artwork from © Vecteezy.com www.faypwc.com or call the Communications & Community Relations O ce at 223-4009 2 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland December,2019

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Afossil is evidence of the life December, 2019 that lived on earth millions of years ago. Fossils form when an animal or plant dies, and sediment covers the remains. Over time, the sediment transforms into hardened rock, and minerals replace the matter from the animal or plant. This leaves a hard rock with the form of the buried matter. Anthropologists believe that ancient humans may have found these fossils, and they could have inspired myths and legends about mythical animals like dragons or cyclops. • Belemnites were squid-like animals whose cone-shaped fossils resembled bullets. People believed that lightning strikes created the Belemnite fossils and that placing these fossils on roofs would protect a home from lightning strikes. • Sea urchins still exist today, but they also existed millions of years ago and formed fossils. They have been used to ensure that bread rises and to protect against lightning. People believed they were snake eggs with magical powers to assist against poisoning. https://listverse.com/2016/11/29/10-pieces-of-fossil-folklore/ https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/question609.htm https://depositsmag.com/2017/04/04/folklore-of-fossil-echinoderms/ 4 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

The Badlands was established as a National lush vegetation. Fossils suggest that rivers, Days to Monument in 1939 and redesignated lakes, swamps and forests were part of the remember in as Badlands National Park in 1978. For ecosystem. December thousands of years, the American Indians used • Paleontologists unearthed fossils of the prairie lands as hunting grounds. Today three-toed horses, deer-like animals, Dec. 1, 1955 Rosa Parks the national park protects 379 square miles of rhinoceroses, birds, rodents and beavers is arrested for refusing to undisturbed wilderness and the animals that from the Oligocene period. give up her seat in the front live within it. The black-footed ferret, one of the • Around 67-75 million years ago, the area most endangered animals in the world, lives in was a sea, and the many fossils of fish, section of a bus. this area. Every year almost 1 million tourists visit ammonites, turtles, and marine reptiles the park. The Badlands National Park is famous buried in the tan-colored sediment prove it. Dec. 7, 1877 Thomas for its fossils. • The Oligocene period provides the most Edison exhibited the fossils. • Paleontologists have found impressive • The sediments in the Badlands are tan, phonograph. fossils in the Badlands since the 1800s. red and white. Millions of years ago, various • The area most known for having huge rivers left behind different colored bands of Dec. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor amounts of fossils is the White River sediments. Geologists look at the different was bombed in a surprise Badlands. sediment bands to learn how these areas Japanese attack. It marked • This area stretched from South Dakota have changed over time. the U.S. entry into WWII. to northwestern Nebraska, and from • Today, there are some 400 species of eastern Wyoming to eastern Colorado, plant life in the park. Dec. 16, 1773 Boston including the Badlands National Park. • There are more Eocene and Oligocene residents protesting • This land is known for being harsh and fossils here than anywhere else on earth. British taxation threw tea having steep gullies made of brown and • Some of the fossils are displayed on the overboard on a British tan sediment. park’s fossil exhibit trail for visitor viewing. ship . The Boston Tea • Millions of years ago, this area was full of Party was the beginning of the American fight for https://whiteriver.weebly.com • https://www.nps.gov/badl/learn/nature/fossils.htm https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131016-tyrannosaurus-rex-smithsonian-wankel-fossil-day/ independence. https://www.us-parks.com/badlands-national-park/history.html Dec. 17, 1903 The Wright Brothers made their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Dec. 28, 1969 William F. Semple patented chewing gum. GEE THANKS! to our partners for sponsoring our Kidsville News! in literacy initiative UP & COMING WEEKLY To be a corporate educational sponsor, call: 910.484.6200 5 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

Greek myths and legends are full of incredible creatures. December, 2019 • CENTAURS ARE HALF-MAN AND HALF HORSE. They lived in the forests of Thessaly in tribes. They were known as incredible hunters. The most famous centaur was Chiron. He was the son of the Titan Kronos and invented medicine. He also taught many of the Greek heroes. • CERBERUS WAS A THREE-HEADED DOG WHO GUARDED THE GATES TO HADES. In some legends, he may have as many as 100 heads and the tail of a serpent. His nickname was “the hound of Hades.” He is the child of Typhon and Echidna. Heroes have defeated the hound and entered Hades. They accomplished this through various tricks like feeding Cerberus a honey cake full of potions that made him sleep so they could capture him in chains. • THE GORGONS WERE THREE MONSTERS THAT WERE THE DAUGHTERS OF ECHIDNA AND TYPHON. Their names are Stheno, Euryale and Medusa. Medusa is the most famous. Her hair of writhing snakes was so hideous that anyone who saw her turned to stone. Legend has it that when the hero Perseus defeated her, and she died, the winged horse Pegasus sprung from her neck. Medusas’ blood was used to poison and to raise the dead. • PEGASUS IS AN IMMORTAL WINGED HORSE. The hero Bellerophon rode him. His father was Poseidon, and his mother was Medusa. He could create a stream of water anywhere he struck a hoof on the ground. These springs were said to give poets incredible creativity when they drank from the waters. • SIRENS WERE HALF-WOMAN AND HALF-BIRD CREATURES. They were said to be the daughters of the river god Archelous and a muse, with a talent for singing. Irresistible to men, their songs lured sailors to their deaths in the sea. https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/creatures/ https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/creatures.html https://www.thoughtco.com/top-special-animals-in-greek-mythology-118586 6 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland

Amazing Acts of Character’ for October 2019 PATIENCE WEDDEL AAOC Recipient Displays “Great Responsibility for Someone Her Age” Each month through Level Leadership Workshop in Reidsville, North Cumberland County Carolina. Ghent said that for two days, Patience Schools’ Amazing Acts stood in front of 110 people and conducted of Character recognition workshops, introduced guest speakers and program, schools are asked instructed students during various leadership to nominate students who activities. At times, Patience was flexible display character above and enough to adjust to last-minute changes in beyond expected behavior. each day’s ever-changing agenda. One student, Patience Weddel, an eighth- “She was very professional and displayed great grader at Gray’s Creek Middle School, was responsibility for someone her age,” said Ghent. recently selected from individual school “She even took the responsibility of cleaning nominations for displaying ‘amazing acts of out the bus on our return to school.” character.’ The Amazing Acts of Character Committee According to GCMS student council co-adviser selects winners based on school nominations. Karin Ghent, the 13-year-old student council They recognize the winners at the regular president is “a very responsible young lady monthly meeting of the Board of Education and rises to every challenge presented to her.” and present each with a special trophy and Recently, the student council hosted a Middle- certificate. www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 7

Even though the ancient Greeks lived real people about to step off their pedestal. thousands of years ago, their art and These sculptors often focused inventions still influence modern life. on portraying the perfect human • Socrates was a philosopher. form. He is considered to be the father of • Democracy first came about western philosophy. He is most well- in ancient Greece. In the fourth known for creating the Socratic Method. This is century B.C., the city of Athens a method of studying difficult issues by asking decided that every citizen and answering questions. He also taught other should have an equal say in the famous philosophers like Plato. government. More than having • The Greeks held the first Olympic games the ability to participate in in 776 B.C. They were held every two years government, all citizens were in Olympia to celebrate the gods. The most expected to participate. They famous games were held at Olympia, Greece, would meet to debate over and took place every four years. Winners were political challenges and then vote given olive-leaf crowns. Wrestling and chariot to decide what the government racing were two popular events. would do. This process is called • Thales of Miletus is considered to be direct democracy. the father of geometry. Geometry is the • Greek inventors also created oldest math in the world, but the Greeks the first water mill in the third revolutionized it. The rules discovered by the century B.C. For many years, Greek mathematicians Pythagoras, Euclid and animals were used to turn stones Archimedes are still taught in schools. to grind or mill the grain. The • The Greeks are famous for sculpture art. downside to this was that animals The previously formed stone carvings looked were expensive to take care of blocky and lifeless. Greek sculptors were able and got tired. Water was a better to bring life into their marble. Their sculptures alternative, creating a more were so detailed and skilled that they look like efficient and continuous flow. https://www.ancient.eu/article/1165/ancient-greek-inventions/ https://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient―greek_philosophers.php http://thegreekobserver.com/greece/culture/article/29888/10-ancient-greek-inventions-discoveries-still-used-today/ 8 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland December, 2019

?? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ?? What’s it Like to Be? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? Please tell our readers a little about What is the most exciting “find” you yourself, including your name and have had in your work? occupation. I have two stories. Once when working My name is David Cranford and I am on a large prehistoric earthen mound an assistant state archaeologist with site on the grounds of Biltmore Estate, the North Carolina Office of State I found a large clump of burned clay Archaeology in Raleigh, the state capital. with small grooves and ridges all-around An outdoor enthusiast, I was active it. I realized the grooves were finger in Boy Scouts as a youth and am an marks from where someone 2 or 3,000 Eagle Scout. I love to camp, hike and years ago had squeezed a wet ball of kayak. I mainly do archaeology in the clay, probably leftover from making a southeastern region of the U.S. where I pottery bowl or pot, and then thrown focus on the late prehistoric and early it into the fire where it hardened and historic period, with great interest in preserved their fingerprints. That was how particular indigenous communities the first time that I felt a true connection like the Catawba Indian Nation reacted, to a particular person thousands of coped, and ultimately survived their years ago. Another exciting discovery interactions with other groups. I help was a complete, unbroken pipe found document, manage and protect the more at an excavation site at a large Native than 50,000 archaeological sites and American village. I made that find on my ship wrecks we know of in the state and birthday! to educate the public about our state’s human history of over 14,000 years. What is your favorite thing about your job? When did you know that you wanted to The most exciting parts of my job be an archaeologist? are public outreach and education. I I have known I wanted to be an enjoy sharing the things I’ve learned archaeologist since I was about 5 years about people in the past with people old. I remember helping my mom in now. So many people find history and her flower garden with my plastic rake archaeology fascinating, and I try to when I found this dark-colored rock with encourage that interest and instill in a pointy end on it. I showed my mom folks the need to preserve this cultural what I had found, and she recognized it heritage for future generations. I also as a prehistoric spear point. We found enjoy the scuba diving I do with our out it was a 6,000year-old spearhead underwater archaeologists. called a Halifax point. I was hooked on archaeology from that point on. What do you wish everyone knew about archaeology? What kind of education and training is The first thing I tell everyone is that needed to become an archaeologist? archaeologists don’t do dinosaurs. Don’t Most every archaeologist has at least get me wrong, I love dinosaurs, but that’s an undergraduate college degree in paleontology; I study people in the past, anthropology or classical archaeology and I use the things they left behind, and has taken an archaeological artifacts, and the places they lived and field school to learn basic excavation worked, archaeological sites, to tell techniques. An archaeologist who stories about how they lived. The other directs excavations or manages research thing I try to impress upon people about projects would have a graduate-level archaeology is that we rarely, if ever, find degree, while an archaeology professor treasure; or even set out to look for it. at the university level has a Ph. D. I have Archaeologists often say, “It’s not what all three college degrees. you find, but what you find out.” December, 2019 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 9

KINDNESSCharacter Bear says: “Caring is how one demonstrates kindness, consideration, and compassion” Let’s see how many acts of Kindness you can complete in the month of December. Here are some ideas: 1. Compliment the first three people you talk to. 2. Write a handwritten note to a teacher. 3. Say “good morning” to the person next to you on the bus, in a store, on the street. 4. Pick up litter. Spend 10 minutes cleaning a park or your neighborhood. 5. Place uplifting notes in library books, on restroom mirrors, in someone’s desk or on someone’s locker. Draw a picture of what “Caring” means to you: Character Education is supported by the Cumberland County Schools’ Counseling Department and the Safe and Drug Free Schools Grant. To link to the CCS Counseling Department, visit ccs.k12.nc.us. 10 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland December, 2019

What number am I? During softball practice, Lakisha hits the ball on the average of two out of every four pitches. If she I am not even gets ten pitches during practice, how many times I am greater than 200 the sum of my digits is nine would you expect her to hit the ball? I am a multiple of five I am less than 300 (5) Most students come to third grade with an intuitive understanding of ratio, I am evenly divisible by nine proportion, and probability. If they understand the relationship between two and four, they can identify the number having the same relationship with ten. (225) Students will need to know what the terms even, sum, multiple, and divisible mean. They might use a number chart the eliminate numbers as they consider each clue. Send it!* Accessible, affordable, quality care at patient centered medical home Hey, Kids! We want to remind you to send us your photos, original artwork, letters, poems and stories, We would really love hearing from you. We may even print them in a later issue or include them on our cool website. www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland Name: Age: Address: Grade: City: State: Zip: Phone: Name of your School or location where you picked up a copy of Kidsville News!: Parent, Teacher, Guardian Signature (Permission): Email: (Receive a “Free” online subscription of Kidsville News!) KidzCare Pediatrics Send to: 208 Rowan Street Fayetteville, NC 28301 • 910-484-6200 6 Cumberland County Locations www.kidzcarepediatrics.com sick child visits * walk ins • emergencies • extended hours www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 11

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Cape Fear Botanical Garden Connecting Children with Nature... Pre-school Children’s Drop Off Programs Pre-registration required Pre-registration required Nature Tales: “O Christmas Tree”- Home School: Campfire Story Telling- December 3 @ 10am or 11am December 2 @ 2pm-3pm Free Ages 6+ Fee: $5 Supply Feee Nature Tales: “O Christmas Tree”- December 7 @ 10am or 11am Winter Holiday Craft Party- Free December 7 @ 1pm-4pm Ages 5-10 Winter Wildlife- December 10 @ 10am or 11am Fee: $25 for non members, $ for Members Garden Admission or Membership After School: Fantastic Fossils- December 11 @ 3:30pm-4:30pm Ages 5-10 Garden Admission or Membership Decorate your very own More Information Christmas Tree Capefearbg.org/education for the Holidays! 910.486.0221 ext 43 Holiday Lights [email protected] 536 N. Eastern Blvd in the Fayetteville, NC 28301 GARDEN December 5: Members Only Night December 6-8, 13-15, & 19-23 5:30pm-9pm www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 15

There are a lot of different they fall through some warm type of winter weather because it types of winter weather, air that is above freezing. The can make driving very dangerous; and telling which type will snowflakes melt and become it is too slippery for a car’s wheels happen during a winter drops of liquid water again. Sleet is to grab onto. Freezing rain can storm can be really hard. special, though, because it forms also form black ice, which is ice on If the right conditions are present when those melted snowflakes fall pavement that can’t be seen. The and there is enough moisture through air that is below freezing pavement may just look wet, but is and cold air in place in the upper again and the droplets refreeze. actually covered in dangerous ice! atmosphere, snowflakes can form. The melted snowflakes can’t Forecasting whether wintry Each snowflake really is unique, go back to being snow, so they precipitation will be snow, sleet or and all snowflakes have six sides. refreeze into tiny ice pellets that freezing rain can be very difficult. If the temperature of the entire we call sleet. A meteorologist has to be able atmosphere — all the way from Freezing rain forms in a similar to predict how cold the entire where snowflakes form up high, way to sleet. Snowflakes form up atmosphere over a certain area will down to the surface of the earth high in the atmosphere and then be, and if there are any pockets of where we live — is below freezing, fall through warm air and melt. warm air that might melt falling 32 F, snow will fall to the surface. Freezing rain is different from sleet snowflakes. They also have to This can sometimes mean a day because there isn’t enough cold air predict what the temperature off school and lots of fun. Of all the below 32 F to refreeze the melted at the earth’s surface will be in types of winter weather, snow is snowflakes before they hit the order to determine how much best for making snowmen, snow ground. Freezing rain falls to the snow, sleet or freezing rain will forts and skiing. ground as a very cold liquid rain, accumulate in order to forecast The next type of winter weather but the ground is below freezing any dangers. It may be difficult, but that can happen is sleet. Sleet so the liquid droplets freeze once it’s important to get the forecast happens when snowflakes form they make contact with it. Freezing right in order to keep people safe. high up in the atmosphere, but rain can be the most dangerous 16 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland December, 2019

6 1/2 cups Dannon plain fat-free Combine yogurt and Greek yogurt water in a mixing bowl. 4 cups water, room temperature Whisk until blended. Set 1 5 lb. box Gold Medal¨Muffin aside. Add spices to dry Mix, whole grain variety muffin mix in a large bowl. 3 tablespoons McCormick Add yogurt and water pumpkin pie spice mixture to the muffin 2 tablespoons McCormick mixture. Mix until just Chipotle cinnamon blended. Don’t overmix. Using a scoop, portion into greased or lined muffin pans. Bake at 350 F for 24 minutes, or 17 to 20 minutes in a convection oven, until the tops are golden brown. www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 17

Knows A Lot About That!” Season 3, be a friend. The episodes begin in Sally Vol. 2., available on DVD now. At the beginning of each episode, and Nick’s backyard, but the scene changes once the Cat Sally and Nick are shows up in his plane, The playing with their friend Fish when they Thingamajigger. After that, who knows the places they will always run into a problem. Whenever go? The theme song is fun and catchy and tells about all the By Beatrice N., KIDS things look their adventures they will have. The FIRST! Film Critic, age 9 bleakest, the Cat pops hilarious comedic actor Martin up and tells them Short is the voice of The Cat https://youtu.be/5WneuUQLBFQ about a place they in the Hat. The Cat in the Hat can visit that will is always up for an adventure It’s the Cat in the Hat! All help them solve their and can’t stop making silly of your favorite adventures problem. It may not jokes. Sally, played by Alexa start like that! Dr. Seuss’ most seem possible that Torrington, is a little girl who is loveable cat is back with his always ready to go as long as the Cat can help she has her best friend Nick, a these two children fun-loving and witty boy played out of every tricky by Jacob Ewaniuk, along for the situation all on his own. That is ride. Rob Tinkler plays Fish, who correct. He succeeds thanks to his is way too smart and sassy for two helpers: Thing One and Thing his own good. Two. The twin brothers, Thing One two friends, Sally and Nick. and Thing Two, are silly and crazy, The messages of this show are These two friends are only six- but they are always a big help to imagination can help with some years-old, so they have many the Cat. In each episode of “The tricky situations, and be a child questions that only the Cat Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About while you still can. can answer by taking them to That” teaches its viewers a lesson. Rating this DVD 4 out of 5 his imaginative worlds. And By watching the Cat try to help stars, I recommend it for ages that’s just what he does in Sally and Nick solve their problem, 2 to 9 years old. Parents might this new 20 exciting episode- viewers learn problem-solving and also enjoy watching this with Photos © Portfolio Entertainment filled DVD, “The Cat in the Hat creative thinking skills, and how to their children. 18 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland December, 2019

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This article is distributed by NASA Night Sky Network. The Night Sky Network program supports astronomy clubs Photo of the May 9, 2016, transit This photo from the same 2016 across the USA dedicated to astronomy outreach. Visit nightsky.jpl.nasa.org to find local clubs, events, and more! of Mercury. Mercury is the small transit event shows Mercury a bit dot on the center-right. Note how larger, as it should; it was taken at tiny it is, even compared to the higher magnification throug`h a small sunspot on the center-left. large 16-inch telescope! Credit: J. A. Credit: Dave Huntz Blackwell Did you know that there sun’s blank face. Why is that? Coast saw the transit already in are two other objects in Mercury is the smallest planet in progress at sunrise. The transit our skies that have phases our solar system. It is closer to took hours, so if your weather like the moon? They’re the the sun and further away from was cloudy, hopefully, you did inner planets, found between Earth during its transit than not despair; there was plenty of Earth and the Sun: Mercury and Venus was in its 2012 transit. time for skies to clear. Venus. You can see their phases Mercury’s disc is too small to Mercury’s orbit is small and if you observe them through a see without the extra power swift, and so its position in telescope. Like our moon, you of a telescope. You should our skies quickly changes; can’t see the planets in their have viewed the transit via a that’s why it is named for the “new” phase, unless they have telescope equipped with a safe fleet-footed messenger god of lined up perfectly between us solar filter or projection setup. Roman mythology. In fact, if you Earthlings and the sun. In the Never combine binoculars with have a clear view of the eastern case of the moon, this alignment your eclipse glasses; this will horizon, you were able to catch results in a solar eclipse; in the instantly burn a hole through Mercury twice last month. Just case of Mercury and Venus, this the glasses – and your eyes! before dawn during the last results in a transit, where the While most people don’t have week of November, Mercury small disc of the planet travels solar telescopes handy, many was on the eastern horizon across the face of the sun. Sky astronomy clubs do! and below red Mars. Early the watchers saw this treat last Viewing Mercury’s transit morning of Nov. 24, Mars, the month, as Mercury transited the was a fun opportunity to moon, and Mercury formed Sun the morning of Nov. 11. see a planet during the day. a loose triangle right before You may have seen the transit This transit lasted over five sunrise. of Venus in 2012; you may hours. Folks on the East Coast Discover more about Mercury have even watched it through watched the entire transit from and the rest of our solar system eclipse glasses! However, with approximately 7:35 a.m. EST until at nasa.gov Mercury’s transit, you needed a around approximately 1:04 p.m. solar telescope to see anything. EST. Folks located in the middle Discover the latest in space science Eclipse glasses only reveal the of North America to the West at nasa.gov to learn more about NASA’s missions. 20 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland December, 2019

Did You Children endure bullying every day. being bullied can speak with their children’s pediatricians to see if the doctors feel their KNOW? Surveys from the United States government youngsters are exhibiting any signs of and the Canadian Institutes of Health victimization. Such signs are not always Research indicate that as many as one in physical, which can make them more three children in the United States and difficult for parents to recognize. Canada report being bullied. In addition to recognizing signs of bullying parents might not see, There’s no simple solution to combat pediatricians can play an advocate’s role regarding combating bullying, advising bullying. A collective effort from parents educators and other school officials that children are exhibiting signs of bullying. and educators can help children overcome That can help parents immensely, especially if they have had difficulty conveying their bullying and show children who engage in concerns about bullying to school officials. bullying just how much their behavior hurts The www.StopBullying.gov website notes that pediatricians can familiarize other youngsters. Pediatricians also can themselves with Connected Children: Safe, Strong, Secure, which is a primary care play a unique role in combating bullying. violence prevention protocol developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics According to www.StopBullying.gov, a that aims to educate pediatricians about bullying and the role they can play in website sponsored by the U.S. Department violence prevention. of Health and Human Services that supplies Bullying affects families across the globe. Combating bullying is often difficult, information on bullying and how to prevent but parents should know that they have many resources, including their children’s it, pediatricians can be invaluable resources pediatricians, at their disposal. in the fight against bullying. Pediatricians can recognize signs of bullying during routine health examinations, and that recognition can be especially important given that many children never report being bullied to their teachers or their parents. A 2011 study published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology found that only about 20-30% of students who are bullied notify adults about the bullying. Parents who suspect their children are Hey, teachers, parents H\"TROHOWALLWT\"'SE and students— Book your private party now for Did you know best selection that every issue of Kidsville News! has In Session Party Private Party accompanying enrichment lessons called Brainworks to extend the fun and learning? Each Only $120 + TAX Only $200 + TAX issue has free downloads of activities to print as wall as an online electronic version, which is adaptable • Admission and skates for • Private skate for 1 and for use on classroom smart boards, white boards, min. of 12 guests 1/2 hours computers and tablets. • $10 each additional guest • Admission and skates for up • 1 slice of pizza and a drink to 35 guests Check these out at: per guest • $6 each additional guest https://www.kidsvillenews. • Party room reserved for • Party host to serve you com/parents/resources-for- • DJ plays music to fit 30 minutes teachers-and-parents/ • Paper products are provided your taste • Party host to serve you **You can bring a cake, paper Enjoy! • Party can bring ONLY a cake products and drinks to private parties only and decorations Round-A-Bout Skating Centers Eutaw 484.4465 • 71st Place 860.8900 • www.round-a-bout.com www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 21

BEGINNER READS Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes Types By Margie Palatini By Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss For ages 4-8 For ages 2 and Up Unable to reach the bunch of purple You've never seen an alphabet book grapes high in a tree, Fox, who considers like this before. A is for alligator, but himself sly, clever, and smart, makes a the accompanying picture is composed plan to get them. \"Hop. Skip. Jump. of hundreds of uppercase and lower- Flying leap. And . . . No grapes.\" Which is case black A's. Each page contains an when he turns to Bear for help. Fox animal — bat, camel, dog, elephant — climbs atop Bear's head, but he's still not rendered entirely in its initial letters. high enough, which is why he enlists the help of Beaver, Porcupine and Possum. PAGETURNERS Drama Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s By Raina Telgemeier Library For ages 9 and Up By Chris Grabenstein For ages 8 and Up Callie is the set designer for her middle school play. She wants it to go off with Kyle Keeley isn’t much of a reader. He’s a bang — literally — and is building a more into games. Especially the brilliant cannon that really “fires” for the show. world of Luigi Lemoncello’s Imagination If only she could add some spark to her Factory. So when the town of Alexan- love life. Callie’s first experiences with driaville announces it will be opening its romance are fizzling — and confusing. first public library in twelve years, Kyle But nothing keeps infectiously-enthusi- isn’t very excited. But then Mr. Lemon- astic Callie down for long, especially cello arrives at the school to judge the when she’s got set design and her stage essays; if he is behind the new library, crew to keep her distracted. then who knows what might be inside! Anya’s Ghost ADVANCED READS By Vera Brosgol For ages 12-18 Scat By Carl Hiaasen One day, her mind filled with all her prob- For ages 10 and Up lems, Anya walks right into a hole in the ground and falls into an abandoned well, Today is the class field trip to the Black where she finds a skeleton. This skeleton Vine Swamp. Nick's hoping to sight a has a ghost, a teenage girl who helps get panther, which is unlikely since there Anya rescued and then follows Anya home. are fewer than a hundred of the big cats She says her name is Emily Reilly, and she left in Florida. Nick has a lot on his was murdered ninety years before. Before mind; his dad, a captain in the Army long, Emily starts helping Anya pass her Reserve in Iraq, hasn't e-mailed home exams, dress more fashionably and stalk for three days. In the swamp, they hear her secret crush, school basketball a piercing cry, and Nick records on his star Sean. video camera a large, tannish blur, running through the cypress trees. 22 www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland December, 2019

Dreaming of a greener holiday Let’s keep a few recycling tips in mind this season: SHOPPING DECORATING RECYCLING Gift wrapping. Do recycle Decorations. DO pack up Gift Boxes. DO recycle paper-based wrapping and holiday decorations for cardboard packaging. reuse gift bags. reuse next year. Do NOT place wires, foam Do NOT put bows, ribbons Do NOT place glass and/or loose plastics in your and cellophane wrapping ornaments or strings of recycling container. in your curbside recycling lights into the recycling bin. container. Christmas trees. Check with your city to see if a tree recycling WATCH VIDEOS TO LEARN MORE: program is active. If one is not, https://youtu.be/EGUwBv4WurQ consider mulching Christmas https://youtu.be/mKADKNDc50A trees and then donating the mulch to a local school’s garden. Wschoaotp’s othne www.kidsvillenews.com/cumberland 23 Mpaorotpia?n What color is it? What does it taste like? Stop by Rocket Fizz and find out…. It’s out of this world !

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