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Body Systems H ave you ever wondered how your body works? How and anus. The digestive system controls the digestion of food, does food, for example, start in your mouth yet fuel absorption of nutrients from food and elimination of solid food and nourish your whole body from start to finish? waste. Digestion happens because of the digestive system; keep reading to learn about the different systems that make up the human • The nervous system has two main parts: body. The central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal A body system is a group of organs that work together to cord. perform a specific function. The human body has 11 body The peripheral nervous system comprises nerves that branch systems. The systems studied in elementary school are usually the circulatory, respiratory, muscular, digestive and nervous off the spinal cord and extend to all body parts. systems. The other systems, the endocrine, immune, lymphatic, The nervous system transmits signals between the brain and reproductive, skeletal and urinary systems, are the ones you will study in higher grades. the rest of the body, including internal organs. In this way, the nervous system’s activity controls the ability to move, breathe, Each system is important to the human body, with unique see, think and more. parts and special functions. Here are facts about the circulatory, respiratory, muscular, digestive and nervous systems. Each of these systems also interacts with the others. The circulatory system is a good example of how body systems • The circulatory system consists of your heart and blood interact. Your heart pumps blood through a complex network of vessels. The heart’s job is to pump blood throughout your body. blood vessels. Blood circulates through your digestive system and picks up nutrients your body absorbed from your last meal. • The respiratory system includes the nose, mouth, throat, This process happens over and over. voice box, windpipe and lungs and allows you to breathe. Fun Facts • The muscular system is made of specialized cells called • Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva each day. muscle fibers and creates movement in the body. • Your brain is sometimes more active when you’re asleep than • The digestive system includes the mouth, pharynx (throat), when you’re awake. esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum • Laid end to end, an adult’s blood vessels could circle Earth’s equator four times! March 2023 https://www.generationgenius.com/human-body-systems-for-kids/ Kidsville News! 3 https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

Body Image Do you wish you could lose weight, get taller or develop faster? how you think you should look. Such It’s common to worry a little about your body’s appearance, people receive help from makeup artists, especially when changing. Worrying too much is not healthy, personal trainers and photo fixers. And though. Let’s learn about body image and ways to have the right advertisers often focus on thinness to sell perspective. products. Don’t let them mess with your mind! Images seen in the media affect body image even though many Let yourself shine. images are altered, meaning non-realistic. Why does body image Much of how we look derives from how we matter? Your body image can affect how you feel about yourself carry ourselves. Feeling proud, walking tall and overall. smiling big can boost your beauty and mood. Everyone has something they would like to change about their Find fab friends. bodies. But you’ll be happier if you focus on what you appreciate Your best bet is to hang out with people who about your body — and your whole self. Need some help? Check accept you for you! Work with your friends to support each other. out these tips: List your great traits. If you start to criticize your body, tell Seek help if needed. Talk to an adult you trust if you can’t accept how you look. You can get help feeling better about your yourself to stop. Instead, think about what you like about yourself, body. both inside and out. The “What’s unique about me?” log can get you started. Know your power. Hey, your body is not just a place to hang your clothes! It can do some truly amazing things. Focus on how strong and healthy your body can be. Treat your body well. Eat right, sleep tight, and get moving. You’ll look and feel your best — and be proud of yourself, too. Give your body a treat. Take a nice bubble bath, stretch or curl up on a comfy couch. Do something soothing. Mind your media. Try not to let models and actresses affect Answers On Page 23 4 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals March 2023

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Local History Written by Billy Warren month’s article. You will see the following: 1. An envelope postmarked 1892 Did You Know? 2. A concert program at the Synodical College 3. A vintage automobile and a lady dressed in vintage clothes Collecting History 4. An invitation from the Cooking Club in 1893 All four of these are from a much larger collection of items from Are you a collector? If so, you might be a future historian. What do you collect? Here, in alphabetical order, is a partial the Shoals area which are owned by a local historian. Each item is of list of things that various great interest by itself, raising such questions for possible research as: people collect: 1. Did it really cost just one cent to 1. Art mail a letter in 1892? 2. Autographs of musicians, authors, movie actors, sports 2. What was the Synodical College? figures, etc. Does it still exist? 3. Books 4. Cards with pictures and 3. Is this old car a Ford? In what year information about sports might it have been manufactured? figures 5. Cars and/or trucks (real 4. Where did Mrs. Leftwich live? ones) Florence? Sheffield? Tuscumbia? 6. Cars and/or trucks (small ones that sit on a shelf) So, how does the local historian 7. Greeting cards received store these documents? Does he just from family and friends place them randomly in boxes? Does 8. Houses of a favorite style he drop them in a drawer in a metal (Victorian, Bungalow, etc.) filing cabinet? No, he takes a stack of 9. Postage stamps from manila folders and labels each folder around the world with some type of category such as 10. Ticket stubs from the following: (1) Letters from 1890 concerts, movies, etc. to 1920; (2) Programs from Events in Does it surprise you that the Shoals Area from 1890 to 1940; (3) there are people who actually Photographs of Local Automobiles collect full-size cars and from 1920 to 1945. By doing this kind trucks? Or perhaps you know of organizing, he saves many hours of someone who does. How searching when he needs information about collecting houses? Yes, on a given topic so he can do such things there are adults who really as write articles for Kidsville News! like a particular style of house. They actually go in So, does collecting sound interesting search of their favorite style – to you? If so, begin now to think of sometimes in their own town; sometimes in other towns as what you might collect. Remember, it well. should reflect your most recent sincere So, what do you think a historian might collect? If you said interests. Good Luck! any of the following, you would be correct: 1. Books, especially books that cover specific periods of SOMETHING TO DO: history, including specific events and outstanding people Using a reference source, write a brief who lived during those times; 2. Letters written on a particular subject or during certain definition of these terms: periods of history; a. Accompany 3. Newspaper clippings, especially those that appeared during as specific period or that contained information on a b. Reverse subject of interest; 4. Printed programs from events that occurred in a town or c. Random region in which the historian might be especially interested; and d. Postmark 5. Postcards, both the image that appears on one side and the message, if any, on the reverse side. e. Vintage Though this list is not complete, you can easily see that a historian’s interests are wide-ranging, covering many subjects f. Wide-ranging from many sources. Now, look carefully at the images which accompany this March 2023 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 9

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A History of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Part III: By Lee Freeman, Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, Local History - Genealogy Department We continue our history of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library on August 30, 1945 at the end of World War II. The Rosenbaums this month. Last month we saw that attempts in 1934 to establish later gave an additional fifteen thousand dollars, increasing their a public library on the second floor of City Hall on Intelligence contribution to forty-thousand Row were frustrated for reasons as yet unknown. In 1937, at the request of Florence’s Exchange Club (which is still going strong today) a Public Library Board was established with club member and Florence State English professor Dr. Roy P. Basler as chairman. Local businessman Left, the Public Library Board’s first chairman, Prof. Roy P. Basler of Florence State; middle, Lauderdale Frank Perry, Jr. County Health Officer Dr. Henry W. Cheney, the board’s second chairman; Right, the Hotel Reeder on East donated a 150 foot TN Street, which housed the Public Library from 1946 to 1948. lot for the building of a library at the southwest corner of Court and Irving however no Also in August of 1945, Post No. 17, American Legion in library was built, and again we aren’t sure why. Florence announced through its commander, Julian Bailey, that In 1938 Florence’s City Commission tasked the Public Library it was donating twelve hundred dollars towards the purchase of a Board with looking into the possibility of establishing a free public bookmobile, which would be operated by a trained librarian in rural library service at several locations throughout the city, with a areas of the county upon the opening of the public library. Columbia separate library station for the African-American community slated University graduate Miss Marion Neill was hired as county librarian to be put into a planned recreation facility near the Burrell School. with oversight of the bookmobile before the bookmobile was even We aren’t certain whether any of these stations were actually set up provided by the American Legion. or not. We do know that in August of 1943 a second Public Library By October 1, 1945, through the generosity of owner-operators Board, a joint city-county board, was created, again on the request of Clyde W. Anderson and LS Caine, a temporary location for the the Exchange Club; Exchange Club member Dr. Henry W. Cheney, public library had been secured in the spacious dining room with MD, Lauderdale County’s Heath Officer, served as chairman. AR its private entryway at the Hotel Reeder on East Tennessee Street Tomlinson served as secretary and Prof. Stanley Rosenbaum of and Mrs. Evelyn Peeler, head librarian of the Stanley County Florence State served as treasurer; Mrs. Alberta Rogers and Florence Public Library in Albemarle, North Carolina, was hired as head Herald editor Harold S. May were also appointed (by the county librarian. She was assisted by Miss Catherine Green of Fayetteville, commission, the others were appointed by the city commissioners). Tennessee, county librarian Marion Neill, Mrs. Mildred Crow, Mrs. Also, a seven-person advisory board was appointed. Gladys Robertson, Miss Martha Wallace, Betty Cole, who worked The board’s first meeting was held in nineteen forty-four and it as a page, and student intern Eugene Ledbetter. consulted with Mrs. Lois B. Green, director of the Alabama Public The Tennessee Valley Authority discontinued a certain phase of its Library Service. The State would furnish some books for a public library service and donated over seventy-eight hundred volumes to library, the old Southern Library donated all of its assets and other the public library; the state contributed over three thousand dollars’ contributions were made by locals. worth of books and loaned over four hundred volumes, and nearly The Library Board and its advisory committee continued working two thousand volumes were gifts by library patrons. into nineteen forty-five and things began to look very promising On February eleventh, nineteen forty-six the library opened for when Madding and Susan Rogers King offered their spacious business; those first few months the library was only open sixteen house, built by Mrs. King’s father BA Rogers around 1925, at 426 hours a week; even so, some three-thousand volumes a month were North Wood Avenue for sale to the library board for conversion into in circulation. But this location simply wasn’t adequate. a library. Tentative plans for remodeling were drawn up but it was In early February, 1946 100 x 176 foot lot on the east side of ultimately decided that a new building would be more feasible and North Wood Avenue between Mobile and Tombigbee across the practical. street from the Sunnybrook Creamery was purchased from Mr. and When it was decided not to purchase and remodel the King House, Mrs. Madding King for the sum of five thousand dollars. Finally, it local businessman and philanthropist Louis Rosenbaum, owner of looked as though Florence-Lauderdale would get a public library Muscle Shoals Theaters, Inc., and his wife Anna, via the Lt. Alvin worthy of the name. Rosenbaum Foundation, donated twenty-five thousand dollars Next month, our final installment. to kick-start a renewed effort to build a public library. This was 14 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals March 2023

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Introduced in 1959, the Barbie doll has become 2 pie crusts (thawed) 1 large egg, beaten a global icon and even inspired a painting by famed artist Andy Warhol in the Directions: 1980s. • Combine the rhubarb, brown sugar, lemon zest, juice, ginger, salt and 1/4 cup water in a medium saucepan. Though the • Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes or until the rhubarb mixture is precise number thick. of Barbie dolls sold since 1959 is • Remove from the heat, stir in the vanilla, then pour into a heat-safe bowl to cool completely. hard to determine, • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. In a small bowl, according to combine the beaten egg with 1 tablespoon water to make an egg wash. Mattel, which • Roll out pie crust to 1/8 inch thick. Use a 6-inch biscuit cutter to manufactures the stamp out 3 circles. doll, roughly 58 • Brush the outer edges with a little egg wash before spooning 2 million Barbie tablespoons of the cooled rhubarb mixture onto one half of each dolls are sold circle. • Fold the unfilled side over the filling and crimp the edges with a fork. every year. That equates to around 100 Barbie dolls sold every minute. Brush the tops of each pie with more of the egg wash. • With a sharp knife, make slits in the center for ventilation and sprinkle each pie with 1/2 teaspoon of sugar. Refrigerate. Repeat That means Barbie has not only proven an enduring icon, but with the second pie crust and the remaining filling. also a lucrative one. And her popularity doesn’t figure to wane any • Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until the crust is golden and the filling is bubbling. 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TM Knowledge Power The View Submitted By Patricia J. Weaver Student Questionnaire Mail, bring by or email us Idioms YOUR PHOTO & your answers! • the language or dialect of a people, region, class, etc. Name • the usual way in which the words of a particular language are Grade School joined together to Fax # 256-760-9618 Email: [email protected] express thought Mail: 219 W. Tennessee Street • Florence, AL 35630 • the style of What is your favorite...... expression Author? characteristic of an individual Outdoor Activity? Below are some Cat got your tongue? common idioms. Have you nothing to say! See if you can Meal to eat - breakfast, lunch or dinner? figure out what they mean. Subject in school? CANNOT 1. Play it by ear… Movie? PRINT A. Music B. Improvise C. Listen D. Headphones Do you like to help others? WITHOUT 2. Have second thoughts… PHOTO A. Doubts B. Rethink C. Change decision D. All of the above Have you ever been hiking on a trail? 3. A piece of cake… A. Lunch B. Bakery C. Easy D. Birthday Have you ever ridden in a convertible car? 4. Be in hot water… Have you ever met your great-grandparents? A. Take a bath B. Do laundry C. Give the dog a bath Have you ever been a patient in a hospital? D. In trouble Do you speak another language? 5. Hold your horses… A. Working at the barn B. Wait a minute C. Riding in a rodeo D. Driving a car 6. Out on a limb… A. Climb a tree B. Be a carpenter C. Put yourself at risk D. A yoga position Do you know how to water ski or snow ski? 7. Pulling your leg… A. A wrestling move B. A joke C. Putting on pants D. stumble Do you like going to the pet store? 8. Rule of thumb… A. Estimate B. Garden C. Quilting D. Measurement Do you like to read aloud? 9. You can’t judge a book by its cover… A. Going to bookstore B. Decisions made on appearance MUST HAVE C. Going to library D. Writing a book PERMISSION TO PRINT Parent/Guardian Permission 10. When pigs fly… A. Something that will never happen B. Visiting a farm I give Kidsville News! permission to print my CHILD’S PHOTO & opinion on C. Going hunting D. An act at the circus any questions listed above. I do realize my child’s first name, school and grade could be printed in this publication. I have enclosed or emailed my CHILD’S PHOTO. Parent/Guardian SIGNATURE Date Answers On Pg. 23 March 2023 16 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

The Body and Exercise Flexibility Focus Come Being flexible means that you can Out & Do you love to run, jump and play? You are exercising without stretch your body easily. Exercises Play even knowing it. When you run around outside or play kickball at that build flexibility feel good, like school, you are exercising. What else counts as exercise? Playing taking a big stretch in the morning sports, dancing, running around and even helping your mom in the after waking up. Next are some yard and garden are movements that get our heart rate up. Even activities to make you stretch. reaching down to touch your toes is exercise! • gymnastics • karate Heart Healthy Exercises • yoga • bending, twisting and reaching Various exercises can get your heart pumping. For • dancing • swimming cardiovascular system health, try the following activities. • karate • tai chi and pilates ue? • swimming • basketball When you exercise, you make your body stronger. • hockey • running or walking So be active every day. It’s fun, and your body will y! • skating • soccer thank you! • riding your bike • cross-country skiing • jumping rope • playing tag Muscular Strength If muscular system strength is your goal, try the following exercises for fun and muscle building. • pull-ups • tug-of-war • running • bike riding • jumping • push-ups https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/work-it-out.html Hidden Picture Puzzles Answers on Page 23 March 2023 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 17

Hospitals of long ago and provide health care for the ill. • Different levels of professionals — attending doctors, fellows, Proudly wearing a white coat with a stethoscope residents, interns and a variety of nurses — certified nursing around one’s neck and providing health care to assistants, licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, nurse patients describes the dream of many children. We practitioners and more — serve inside hospitals. have all admired the magic of the white coat that • Doctors diagnose patients’ conditions and prescribe treatments mysteriously and magically takes away pain and saves lives. As ranging from medication to surgical procedures. kids, even if we feared doctors and hospitals, we knew these people and places helped people. Let’s learn more the one place home to • Nurses provide intermediate and intensive care and keep tabs on more white coats than any other — the hospital. patients’ vital signs — pulse rate, temperature, respiration rate, • Historically, hospitals originated in ancient Greece, Rome, India and blood pressure. They also check hospitalized persons’ day- and Persia, dating from 500-1500 AD. to-day progress and are the first to respond to emergencies. • Even though the institution of the hospital is over 2,000 years • The largest hospitals in the world are found in China, the old and medical science 5,000, hospitals and health care have Philippines, Taiwan, Turkey, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Egypt, developed dramatically in the past centuries. Serbia and India. • Medical centers in urban areas provide community- • Hospitals exist worldwide to provide a better based health and give residents local quality of life for the community. access to health care. https://www.worldatlas.com/society/ • Hospitals offer round-the-clock the-10-largest-hospitals-in-the-world. treatment for patients suffering from html major injuries, urgent health problems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_ sudden illness and rare diseases. of_hospitals • Doctors and nurses in hospitals easily treat life-claiming diseases ParenTown’s KidSmart Pi Day — It’s Not About Pie March 14 marks Pi Day, an it represents in relation to a circle; annual celebration of the it’s the constant ratio of a circle’s mathematical sign pi — the circumference to its diameter. Pi is Greek letter π. Founded in also essential to engineering, making modern construction possible. 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw, March Symbol 14 was selected because numerically, we The Greek letter π has represented write that date as 3.14, represeanting the pi since the mid-18th century. The first three digits of pi. The same day also word “pi” itself was actually derived happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday. from the first letter of the Greek History word perimetros, which means The first Pi Day celebration occurred at circumference. Shaw’s place of employment, the Exploratorium science museum Highlights in San Francisco. The first Pi Day observance featured a circular In 2015, Pi Day had an amazing occurrence. Celebrations parade and the eating of fruit pie. Though recognized since 1988, took place on March 14, 2015, or 3.14.15, at 9:26:53 a.m., the Pi Day did not become an official national holiday until 2009 numerical date and time together representing the first 10 digits of when the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation. pi — 3.141592653. To date, pi has been calculated to more than Importance 1 trillion decimal places, and the mathematicians don’t plan on Why do we care about pi? Do you remember reading about the stopping there. Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes in an earlier Kidsville Mathematicians, scientists and teachers hope the holiday will News edition? He is most commonly credited with being the first help increase interest in math and science nationwide through to calculate the estimated value of pi accurately. It is a number instruction, museum exhibitions, pie-eating — or throwing that continues on to infinity — known as an infinite number — contests — and more. but needed an abbreviation for problem-solving. The first three digits, 3.14, or the fraction 22/7, are commonly accepted as https://www.history.com/news/where-did-pi-day-come- accurate estimations. from#:~:text=March%2014%20marks%20Pi%20Day,to%20 In mathematics, this infinite number is crucial because of what be%20Albert%20Einstein's%20birthday 18 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals March 2023

This Page Brought To You By: ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ?? ?? What’s it Like to Be? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? an Entrepreneur Jay Dawkins? Please share your name, bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, What do you like best about profession and details about then spent four years working as a licensed your work? your job with our readers. engineer. That allowed me to take and pass an exam for the Professional Engineer Every day brings a fresh set of My name is Jay Dawkins. I’m an license (PE). challenges but, more importantly, new entrepreneur and a civil engineer. An opportunities to grow as a leader and even entrepreneur, by definition, is a person While the PE exam was tough, it was as an engineer. If you enjoy learning, who organizes and operates a business easier than learning to write software and entrepreneurship has no shortage of steep or businesses and takes on greater than start a company! Those skills have been learning curves for you to climb. normal financial risks to do so. Today I’m mostly built through hands-on learning, the CEO of a software company called reading and working with mentors. What are some challenges you PublicInput. We help governments collect face? input on big projects and collaborate with Describe a typical day on your the people in the communities they serve. job. When creating something new, rarely do “right answers” pop up. You can lean When and why did you decide Meetings! That may sound boring, but if on mentors and colleagues, but they can’t on this career path? you’re lucky enough to work with people decide for you. Success comes down you like on a problem that matters to you, to making many decisions with limited After graduating from college, I worked meetings are great! In larger meetings, my information — and being OK with the as a transportation engineer, helping plan job is mostly to be a facilitator to keep our consequences of being wrong. new roads and infrastructure. I noticed that team focused on solving the right problems we weren’t doing a very good job when and making good decisions. The skills I What would you like others to we wanted people’s ideas and opinions on learned as an engineer help us simplify know about career pathways? projects. Not many people showed up to complex issues, then develop and test public meetings, and they usually had very hypotheses to solve them. Pursuing an engineering path can give negative or strong thoughts. This situation you a great foundation for various careers, seemed like a problem worth solving. I What advice can you share with as it did for me in entrepreneurship. Even began working on technology app ideas our readers concerning their if you choose to go into a non-technical with friends and coworkers, then launched futures? field, the critical thinking and problem- the first version of a PublicInput web app solving skills you develop are valuable for a large U.S. city in 2014. If you’re wondering what you might do tools in your life path! when you grow up, it can be helpful to What training or education did think about the people and experiences that you obtain to enter this field? have shaped you. I watched my parents start a business and saw how their work To become a civil engineer, I got my could create jobs and opportunities for others. I also grew up around local government, watching my grandfather serve as mayor of my hometown. Building PublicInput is my way of embracing those roots while creating my path in life. March 2023 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 19

How Far Away Are Stars? When you look at the “Near Star” it seems in front of the stars that I have colored red. Then 6 months later in June For thousands of years, people have seen those (point 2) the “Near Star” seems to have lights in the sky at night and have speculated moved in front of the stars I colored blue. about them: “What are they?” “How far away That star didn’t really move, it was my are they?” Greeks and Romans thought they were change of position that made it seem to all at the same distance on a heavenly sphere. They move. If a picture were taken in June and were thought to be a part compared to a picture taken in December, of the spiritual realm, not the angular change could be measured. real things made of material In the drawing, I’ve exaggerated the substance. That all started to size of the stellar parallax angle. The change when Galileo Galilei measured angles are actually less than pointed a telescope at the 0.00007 of a degree which is very very moon and saw real mountains small and very difficult to measure. It’s a in 1609 AD. Over the years, tribute to very careful measurement and telescopes got bigger but persistence that stellar parallax was first stars were still (even today) observed in the 19th century. just dots of light. There is no In a high school mathematics class odometer on a telescope. We one would learn that if you have no way of traveling to the stars so know the angle and one side how do we know their distances? of a right triangle, one can The first successful measurement of a star’s distance was in 1832 by the calculate the other sides. From the parallax angle and astronomer Thomas Henderson in distance from Earth to Sun, Henderson was able to calculate Alpha South Africa. Henderson measured the Centauri’s distance (labeled D in the drawing) of 25 trillion miles or 4.4 “parallax” of one of the closest stars Light Years. In other words it takes – Alpha Centauri (brightest star in the 4.4 years for light to travel from constellation Centauri) which is in the that star to our eyes. Measuring Southern Sky. So what is this thing parallax, the Gaia Satellite, called “parallax”? launched in 2013, determined Suppose you hold your thumb out in distances to over two billion stars. front covering a distant car and view it Since the 19th century, astronomers with your left eye closed. have invented many other ways Then move your head to the left still of measuring stellar distances but looking at the car. parallax remains the most accurate. The thumb will seem to have moved The closest star is Proxima over uncovering the distant car. That Centauri which is 4.2 Light-Years is parallax: the apparent movement of from Earth. How long would it take to a close object due to the motion of the get there with today’s technology? The observer (your eye). Parker Solar Probe was NASA’s fastest Another example: spacecraft attaining a speed of 330,000 mph. At that speed you could reach the Imagine you see a red pole in front of moon in 43 minutes but you would reach a distant tree. the closest star in 8000 years. Stars are If you move your head to the left, the incredibly far away and travel to the stars is only an interesting dream. TEN CLOSEST STARS # Name Distance (LY) 1 Sun 0.000016 The Sun is so close compared to the other 2 Proxima Centauri 4.2 stars that it takes only 8 minutes for light to 3 Alpha Centauri 4.4 travel to Earth. 4 Barnard’s Star 5.9 (0.000016 Light Year = 8 Light Minutes) 5 Lalande 21185 8.3 The sunlight you 6 Sirius 8.6 see left the Sun eight minutes ago. 7 Ross 154 9.7 red pole will “seem” to have moved to the right of the distant tree (as in 8 18 Var. Eridani 10.5 the 2nd tree drawing) 9 Lacaille 9352 10.7 What does this have to do with stars? In the early 19th century, the astronomer Thomas Henderson realized that close stars should seem to 10 Ross 128 10.9 move back and forth since the Earth is moving “back and forth” as it orbits the Sun during the year. The Universe is HUGE! © 2023 Dr. David R. Curott, UNA Professor Emeritus Imagine you are on the Earth in December (point 1 in drawing). 20 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals March 2023

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FAIRlaPSbrTaem-CKaL’sPArVSooSglruPanRmtaEr-yK PRE-REGISTRATION First Class Pre-K Programs are accepting online pre-registration applications for the 2023-2024 School Year Enrollment is open to all children four years of age on or before 9/1/23 who are residents of Alabama. (Children who are eligible for kindergarten are not eligible for pre-k.) Pre-Registration Dates: January 15-March 17, 2023 Pre-Registration Aplication: to pre-register, go online to https://prek.alaceed.alabama.gov Acceptance into a First Class Pre-K program is strictly through a random drawing. Parent/Guardian does not have to be present at drawing. Email notices of acceptance will be sent in mid-April. Random Drawing Details for Ekklesia Preschool March 17, 2023 - 10:30 AM Ekklesia Preschool Muscle Shoals Location ANSWERS Knowledge A Stethoscope MATHTIME Power Whales 1) two hours — This problem deals with elapsed time. Answers: A clock face with moveable hands will help students 1. B What’s the Difference? determine the time required. If digital clocks are used 2. D subtraction is another possibility. 3. C Di erences: 1) No shadow on 2) 28 — Encourage students to make a chart to 4. D ground 2) Tongue gone 3) Inside determine the combinations of handshakes. They should 5. B note that when coach X shakes hands with coach Y it 6. C mouth color di erent counts as a handshake for coach Y. Another strategy is 7. B 4) Hat color 5) Taco smaller modeling using the vertices of an octagon. 8. A 6) Cactus color 7) Tooth color 9. B 10. A 8) No spikes on cactus March 2023 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 23

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