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Hi, Kids! aetllh—eNnimhdkHaaiIauAeemebrantcgwmsniavartysoo“leatasota!Cprist.huobieoypsse.enonrloe.sa,uanuepntTetkarhdebchsertrsteeesya,niieesonpsonmeafnesetorsisadtpc,rgjdoe”lheuooaessfecay,atatseoslnz,mlzsu,fdoooek“oadcoHriatsnra?ehloedsnfsaemsRuerahrnreeocoreotauoefmaasindns,dndeshede“wmoaaAttrmhteboohvreeunoeaeonrntautsueettlignaloartldnntottihlnihdabhivtsaseieeihn,nnfmemgdahh―pmeeoaoWcpannblisrralttriioeeotr,ehtrtatas.ltebtrtidsiuecsuan”.rtgtrg”eaiitesooslaoHnlnlrsso―oaoomvifaseeinenrddcist.luahdwKqeiuihndaEegstarviehrciltulhemans alaterUhnaTtyenfihwct-emlihtel eoainssritlelteoeax,dndtgdciagvtrieecniemcroaksuietneonu,s.tricrgeCoyhslhtloeelifcacktkbeMioootuanuhtsdteatogthrfahiisnsepcglna-a“aWrnttatuihsislreeaarhdlneodwlmeionemwniutdltdhreoleriaf.onWendeoftroohlufden”dgiant Animals build and inhabit many different types of homes. Here are Webs — Spiders spin webs to live in. Webs are also perfect traps some of the most common ones and the animals that use them. for catching insects for spiders to eat. Barns and Houses — Domesticated animals are ones that live with Hives — Bees, wasps, and yellow jackets make wax inside their humans. You may have a few domesticated animals living with you bodies, then use the wax to build homes called hives. Whole groups or right now! The most common animals that live in houses are dogs and colonies of these insects live in hives. cats. Animals like horses, cows, goats, sheep and pigs can be pets, but they usually live in barns, pastures or outdoor pens. Caves — Caves exist on land and underwater. Lions, tigers, bears, wolves and bats make their homes in land caves, while water animals like eels live in underwater caves. Burrows and Holes — Many animals, likes foxes, rabbits and ants, dig into the ground to make their homes. Some underground homes are very simple, but others hold many rooms, entrances and exits. Shells — Many animals with soft bodies carry their homes with them for shelter and protection. These animals, such as snails, crabs and turtles, have “built-on” shells. Hermit crabs use old shells from other animals as their homes; they find new shells as they grow. Nests — Birds build nests in the branches of a tree or on the ground as a place to lay eggs, but some city birds build their nests in the undersides and corners of buildings. Hollow Logs — Forest animals, such as bobcats, mink, foxes, otters, skunks and weasels often like to make their homes in hollow logs. Tree Hollows — A hollow is the empty hole in the trunk of a tree — a good home for squirrels, owls, porcupines, raccoons and more. Even black bears like to live in tree hollows. 2 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals September 2020

A humpback whale swims off the coast of Madagascar. What is the fourth-largest island country in • Seventy to 90% of the biodiversity is the mainland, while mangrove forests and the world, home to one of the most diverse found nowhere else on the planet. The the third-largest coral reef system in the collections of flora and fauna — plants and rare animal and plant life is attributed to world line the coastline. wildlife — found any where? Why, Madagascar, the strong ocean currents that isolate the • The baobab tree, the national tree and of course, and not the Dreamworks movie of the island from the African mainland. The a recognized symbol of Madagascar, has same name. species living in Madagascar haven’t a thick, straight trunk that swells into the • Officially the Republic of Madagascar, traveled beyond the island’s borders. shape of a bottle as it collects rainwater. the island country is located off Africa’s • Other than rare and endangered lemurs, • Many scientists call the country the “eighth continent” of the world due to its East Coast in the Indian Ocean. Natives to giant leaf-tailed geckos and nocturnal unique ecology. the land speak Malagasy and French. aye-ayes live on Madagascar, along • Important crops produced and farmed • With some 103 species of lemur, with spider tortoises, Dumeril’s boas and here are vanilla, cloves, rice, coffee and Madagascar is the only place in the world Madagascan plovers. Look to the water for shrimp, as well as precious and semi- where these primates live in the wild. humpback whales and pygmy blue whales. precious stones and sapphires. • This fact is not unusual; the island habitat • Geography also varies greatly in • The sports of rugby and soccer — known Madagascar. High mountains, lush as football — are popular. is the unique home of over 250,000 species rainforests, deserts and grassy plains cover of animals and 14,000 species of plants. https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/countries/madagascar.html https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/madagascar/ HELP! Truman Lost His Hat! Maybe you can help him find it & WIN A PLUSH MINI- TRUMAN OR PUPPET!* Somewhere in this Kidsville News! is Truman’s small red hat! This hat will not be on Truman. Find only his red hat! Send us the *Subject to form below for a chance to win! availability. TLthhaesetnnmaemxotneitsohsf’ustehheoafwt KwiniadnssevorisnllwepiaNlgleebwe2s0i!n. August Winners of a Mini-Truman Harrison Foster Claire Bowling of Killen of Muscle Shoals Pick yours up at the Courier Journal Office 219 W. Tennessee St., Florence Email to [email protected] Or Mail entry to us by Sept. 21 Hat on pg. _________ Your Name Phone mail to: Address Kidsville News! Town 219 W. Tennessee St. School Florence, AL 35630 September 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 3

This Page Brought To You By: Animal Habitats You may live in a house, apartment or kangaroo and flightless birds like emu and stand in regions of the world where condominium, but animals create different ostriches. it’s not extremely hot or cold in areas shelters, ranging from nests and hives to dens • Deserts are the driest habitats on Earth, called temperate regions. The animals of and shells. All homes for animals — humans, receiving fewer than 10 inches of rain a temperate forests, such as squirrels, included — are located in each species’ year. Deserts are found on every bears and migratory birds, adapt to natural habitat. Found all over Earth, a habitat continent and cover about one-fifth of survive in all different kinds of weather. is the type of natural environment in which a Earth’s land area. Animals that live in the • Aquatic means water. About 71% of the particular species of organism lives. The five desert home include the kangaroo rat Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the major habitats are grasslands, forests, deserts, and desert fox, among many others. oceans hold approximately 96.5% of that. mountains and polar regions and aquatic • Mountain habitats are also found on Earth’s oceans are home to about habitat. every continent, featuring some extreme 1 million salt-water animal species, • Grassland habitats are places that conditions and even more extreme including some of the smallest animals, such as the red panda, grizzly creatures, like zooplankton, and the receive more rain than deserts but less bear and hoary marmot. largest, the blue whale. The rest of precipitation than forests. Every • Polar habitats, home to frigid Earth’s waterways are rivers, creeks, continent except temperatures, cover the top and bottom lakes, ponds, streams and swamps — all Antarctica has of Earth at the North and South Poles. freshwater habitats for more than grasslands. Some Here, you will find polar bears, arctic 100,000 species of plants and animals. of the animals foxes, penguins, walruses, humpback that call the whales and much more. grasslands their • Rainforests are lush, warm, wet habitats. homes are the More than half of the world’s animals zebras, gazelles, live in the rainforest. Temperate forests 4 Kidsville News! https://www.timeforkids.com/k1/animal-homes/ September 2020 https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/nature/habitats/ www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

Come Hide & Seek Out & Play Who doesn’t love hide-and-seek? Hide- next game. The player found last wins. and-seek is a popular game and example In another version, the person who is of an ora l tradition passed down among children. “it” counts at a home base, and the hiders can either stay hidden or try to race home. To play, two to three players, or more, Once they reach home, the players are safe “hide” in a setting while one or more and cannot be tagged. Different versions players “seek” them out. One player of the game are played around the world, designated as being “it” closes his or under a variety of names in Australia, her eyes and counts to a predetermined North India, Brazil, Russia and other number while the other players hide. When countries. the number is reached, the player who is “it” calls, “Ready or not, here I come!” or One variation is called “Sardines,” in “Coming, ready or not!” and tried to find which only one person hides that the other the hiders. players must find and then hide with. As the game continues, the hiding places The game can end in one of several ways. become more cramped, like sardines in a One conclusion is when the player chosen tin. as “it” locates all players; the player found first is the loser and becomes “it” in the A team-based version called “Chase” is played after dusk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide-and-seek • https://www.britannica.com/topic/hide-and-seek-game Hidden Picture Puzzles Answers on Pg. 23 September 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 5

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Have you seen the DreamWorks destruction of the forest habitat and Animation movie, “Madagascar”? If you hunting. The illegal pet trade is also a have, you may remember the character significant threat, with people accepting of King Julien, the ring-tailed lemur. Of money to steal them for sale as exotic the approximately 100 existing species pets. However, lemurs that survive these of lemurs, the ring-tailed is probably threats can live up to 15 years in the wild. the most well-known today because of • The primates live in the rainforest and the film’s popularity and the animal’s spend most of their time on the forest presence in zoos. Mammals of the order floor, more than any other lemur species. Primates, the creatures are also easy They can climb, though. recognized by their ringed tails. • Ring-tailed lemurs like to sunbathe in the mornings to warm themselves up and • Native only to the island of Madagascar make funny noises, from wails and howls off the coast of Africa, the small animals to purrs and chirps. have a pointed snout and bodies with • Male ring-tailed lemurs put smells, gray fur, white faces, large eyes and a from glands in their bottoms, on their tail long tail. and wave it at enemies. This defense is • The tree-dwelling ring-tailed lemur called stink fighting. shares some of the social and behavioral • As mothers, ring-tailed lemurs usually characteristics of monkeys, such as eating have just one baby at a time, although fruit and vegetables, being active during they can have twins. They carry their the day and forming social groups known babies on their fronts for the first couple as troops. of weeks and then on their backs when • Currently, all lemurs are endangered the babies are a bit stronger. species, due mainly to the ongoing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur https://www.wildmadagascar.org/wildlife/lemurs.html https://www.folly-farm.co.uk/ Zoos and the Conservation Sept. 8, 1883 The of Animals Northern Pacific Railroad across the U.S. was completed. The railway was 6, 800 miles and it took six years to complete. Sept. 9, 1776 The United States came into existence as the Continental Congress changed the name of the new American nation from the Have you been to a zoo? Zoos are a favorite destination in the wild. United Colonies. for kids and adults alike. Called zoos, zoological gardens • Some zoo exhibits allow animals that can exist peacefully and zoological parks, these settings are displays of and a together to share space. Sept. 11, 2001 The worst home to animals from all around the world. While fun and • For example, in the African Plains exhibit at Riverbanks terrorist attack in U.S. entertaining, zoos also operate for the important causes of Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, giraffes, zebras, and history occurred in the education, research and the conservation and protection of ostriches live and interact as they would in their native states of New York and animals. Africa. You can also see meerkats with hornbills, sloths Pennsylvania, and in the • Many zoos are centers where rare animals are preserved with tamarins and echidnas with tree kangaroos. District of Columbia. when they are in danger of dying out. • Zoos bring to people the often strange and always • Zoo scientists called zoologists breed the threatened fascinating animals of lands both near and far. You might Sept. 26 The birthday animal species and reintroduce individuals of the species not be able to travel to Africa to see a lion, hippopotamus of American folk legend to their homes. Some nearly extinct animals in the wild or giraffe, but at a zoo, you can see these and many other Johnny Appleseed (1774- have survived in zoos such as the European bison and the creatures. 1845) in Leominster, Canadian swift fox. • Today there are more than 1,000 zoos located all over the Massachusetts. His real • In the past, but also still happening in some zoos today, world. The United States has the highest number of zoos, name was John Chapman, animals lived in small cages, becoming bored and sick. more than 200. Popular U.S. zoos include the San Diego and for 40 years, he • Modern zoos feature natural habitats for the captive Zoo, San Francisco Zoo, North Carolina Zoo, Brookfield traveled through Ohio, animals, so they are healthy and behave normally. This Zoo and the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Indiana and Illinois innovation allows people to see animals as they might live planting apple orchards. https://kids.kiddle.co/Zoo • https://kids.britannica.com/ • https:scenicstates.com/best-zoos-us/ 8 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals September 2020

Playing sports is fun, but getting hurt is not. Follow these steps to prevent injuries! Wear protective gear Helmets, pads and other gear helps keep you from getting hurt. Make sure you are wearing the right equipment for your sport and that everything fits snugly and comfortably. Talk with your parents or coach to see what gear you need for your sport! Warm up and cool down Do stretches to get loosened up and ready to play. If your muscles are warmed up and ready to go, you are much less likely to get hurt. Know the rules of the game If you know and follow the rules of the game, fewer injuries happen because you and the other players know what to expect from each other. Watch out for others Some rules are just there to protect other people and about being courteous. For instance, communicating on the field can help keep you safe. Don’t play when you are injured It’s tempting to jump right back in the game after an injury, but playing when you are hurt is a bad idea. It can lead to an even worse injury. Follow a doctor’s advice about how and when to return to practice and play! Under the guidance of the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), each school has established procedures to help keep campuses safe from COVID-19 outbreaks. Everyone is asked to follow guidelines. 342 Cox Blvd. • Sheffield • 256-383-4473 • shoalsprimarycarellc.com September 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 9

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Jupiter Saturn in Sept. Skies you will be able to see the 4 largest of Jupiter's moons: This month the two largest planets can named Europa, Ganymede, be easily seen in the evening sky. Jupiter Callisto, and Io. They are known as the Galilean moons because Galileo first is the brightest object high in the southern sky. It can not be missed. Ten degrees to the saw them and recorded their motions. The four large Jupiter east (left) is the extraordinary moons will only look like a dot of light in your small telescope Saturn, dimmer than Jupiter (or binoculars) but this chart shows how different each is when but still easily seen (a fist width viewed by a spacecraft. They appear in different positions at arms length is about 10°). Of course, to the naked eye, they appear as bright “stars” but in binoculars, or a small telescope, their true splendor and complexity become revealed. The diameter of Jupiter is about 11 times that of the Earth and Saturn is only 9 times wider than our planet. That means over a thousand Earths would fit inside Jupiter. It is truly a giant; however over a thousand Jupiters would fit in each night as they rotate around Jupiter. For example, this is the Sun. All the planets seem what you would see on two different September nights: notice small in the sky because they Ganymede and Europa were on the left on the 4th and on the are so far away. 20th they were on the right. For tens of thousands of Saturn is just to the left (eastward) of Jupiter. You will see years, mankind has seen these 2 large planets as bright stars and their true nature was the rings; Galileo said \"Saturn has ears\" because he couldn't unknown. 420 years ago in 1610 see them very well. Both September 2020 A.D., Galileo Galilei pointed his Jupiter and Saturn are very small telescope to the heavens enormous gas balls mostly and discovered four moons rotating composed of Hydrogen and around Jupiter. He was the first to Helium. You can not land also see the rings around Saturn. on a ball of gas but the rings are made of rocks and dust; With a pair of binoculars, you too probably a moon that broke can experience the thrill of seeing apart. these wonders. The last rocket to visit these Because the magnification is titans was the unmanned limited with binoculars or a small Cassini spacecraft launched telescope, you will not see the disk in 1997, and it took six years like in the above photos; however to reach Saturn. 14 Kidsville News! Don't miss this opportunity to see Jupiter and Saturn. The Universe is beautiful! © 2020 Dr. David R. Curott, UNA Professor Emeritus www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

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Rev. William Wise Handy, WC Handy’s Other Heroic Grandfather By Lee Freeman, Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, Local History - Genealogy Department Last month we looked at WC Handy’s grandfather Christopher End of thirty minutes gave the second signal. “Kit” Brewer (1812-aft. 1880). This month we’ll examine the life William appeared unmoved; soon sent out the boys; of Handy’s other grandfather, William W. Handy. instantly sociable; Peter and Levin [Peter Still’s sons] at the In January of 1868, a freed slave who was also a pastor and cobbler, Island; one of the young masters with them . . . Rev. William Wise Handy, bought a part of lot 345, containing 9 During their “interview,” Conklin wrote, William was and 24/100 acres of land, on Fishtrap Road, now Handy Street, in “prostrated on his knees, and face to the ground; arms the western suburbs of Florence. Handy purchased the land from sprawling; head cocked back, watching for wolves, by which Mrs. Mary J. Asher. Rev. Handy was thus the first black man to position a man can see better in the dark.” own property on what became known soon after as “Handy’s Hill.” Peter Still’s attempt to rescue his family ended with his wife William Wise Handy was born a slave, around 1811, in Princess and children being captured in Indiana and returned to their master Anne, Somerset Bernard McKiernan’s County, Maryland. W.C. Handy stated that plantation, with Seth Concklin being killed in his grandpa William Indiana. Peter Still was and his two brothers escaped their plantation eventually able to raise the $5,000 demanded in Princess Anne, by Bernard McKiernan via the Underground Railroad; one brother for the freedom of his escaped to Canada, family. Thus WC Handy’s another to somewhere paternal grandfather in the Eastern United States, however William William Handy also exhibited bravery and Wise was caught, a willingness to help and subsequently The Handy cabin, on Handy Street, ca.. 1940s, before it was restored and moved to West College Street, others, at great risk to sold to a plantation from a Handy Bros Music Christmas Card, and William W. Handy’s Florence Times-Journal newspaper his own life and safety. in Northwestern obituary of Tuesday, October 15, 1873, p. 3. He exhibited bravery Alabama. The plantation he was sold to was Bernard McKiernan’s (1786-1858) trying circumstances. and courage under very Spring Hill plantation, near South Florence, in northeast Franklin Rev. Handy was married twice, his first slave wife, Milcah, WC County, Alabama (the top half of Franklin became Colbert County Handy’s grandmother dying in 1854 after having several children; in 1867). Handy was one of 92 slaves enumerated at Spring Hill in William then married a woman from the McKiernan plantation the 1850 slave census. named Thumuthis (1827-aft. 1880) by whom he had four more In his autobiography, W. C. Handy states that his grandfather, children. The couple and their children lived in a log cabin on while a slave in Alabama had “started an insurrection for escape, Handy’s Hill in West Florence. The Handys were Methodists and was shot, but not killed.” The episode Handy may have been and Rev. Handy was officially ordained a Methodist pastor at referring to is the attempt of former slave Peter Still to free his wife Murfreesboro, TN in 1865. He preached for the Church Springs and children who were also slaves of Bernard McKiernan. ME Church, which around 1878 officially affiliated with the AME William Handy was involved in the daring 1851 attempt of Church and became St. Paul AME Church, and in the early 1870s freedman Peter Still, with the aid of white Irish abolitionist Seth Rev. Handy established the Hopewell AME Church near what Conklin, to liberate Still’s wife Lavinia, or “Viney,” and their three became St. Florian two years later. children from Bernard McKiernan’s Spring Hill plantation. It was Rev. William Wise Handy passed away October 10, 1873, the also Handy who had officiated at the wedding of Peter Still’s son, year his grandson, WC Handy, was born. His obituary from the Peter, Jr., and his wife Susannah, at Spring Hill. Florence Times & Journal of October 15, 1873, reads: During the escape attempt, Handy served as a contact for the abolitionist Conklin, informing him of when conditions were right When William Handy, the colored preacher of the Methodist (colored) church, departed this life, on last Friday, a good for Conklin to attempt the rescue. According to a letter penned by man went to the unknown bourne. Since 1867 he has lived in Conklin himself, at the time of the escape attempt: I arrived at the shoe-shop on the plantation, one o’clock, Florence, and by his humble, consistent conduct, he has won and retained the good will of all persons, white and black. Tuesday, 28th. William and two boys were making shoes. I The largest funeral procession observed this year, followed his immediately gave the first signal, anxiously waiting thirty minutes for an opportunity to give the second and main remains to the grave, and that he might rest in peace is the prayer of all who knew him. signal, during which time I was very sociable. It was rainy WC Handy thus had two strong, proud and courageous and muddy—my pants were rolled up to the knees. I was in grandfathers, whose example helped him to become the man that the character of a man seeking employment in this country. he became. 16 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals September 2020

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Local History Written by Billy Warren What then, happened to the collection when the museum was dismantled? Some artifacts were returned to the Did You Know? families who donated them. Some found their way into the Pope's Tavern Museum in Florence. Still others, were A Museum Scavenger Hunt dispersed to appropriate places on the UNA campus. One very interesting item is on display today at Kennedy Most people enjoy a scavenger hunt. Do you? Of course Douglass Center for the Arts In Florence. It is a bust of you do! You are now being offered a virtual scavenger hunt Empress Charlotte, wife of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico since COVID-19 prevents large groups from gathering in a who was on the throne from 1864 to 1867. It is a real work single location. of art! Here is a list of ten (10) items you are to find. You are If the virtual scavenger hunt helps you to think about the to search the internet to find these items. As you find each importance of museums, it will have accomplished its goal, one, you are to write a one-sentence identification of it. For that's for sure. If it prompts you to visit one or more local each item you identify, you receive five (5) points. But wait! museums, that will be wonderful. Regardless, it is hoped There's more. that you will really enjoy the hunt! For each picture of an item you find, you may sketch SOMETHING TO DO: that picture. (No, it doesn't matter that you're not an artist; 1. If I were setting up a just do your best.) Each museum, I would...\" Then picture means another five add a few more sentences (5) points. Okay, let's see: 10 explaining the purpose of items x 5 points = 50 points. your museum and listing So it's possible to make a some of the items that you total of 100 points! might add to it. Visiting an Are you ready? Let's go! Art Museum First, the list of items (and pictures perhaps) : 2. Have you ever visited a museum? Write about your experience, telling what you liked and, perhaps your 1. daguerreotype thoughts on how it might be improved. 2. coffee roaster 3. boot jack 4. grease lamp 5. McGuffey's Readers 6. limoges soup tureen 7. canteen 8. Native American corn grinder 9. candle mould 10. spinning wheel So you might ask, where does this list come from? Was 3. Using a reference source, write a brief definition of it just assembled randomly? No, it was taken from a much these terms: longer list of items that were on display in a small museum in one room of Bibb Graves Hall on the campus of the a. scavenger University of North Alabama. It was established in 1928 by b. virtual Professor J. P. Dyer, a history instructor at the time, and it d. artifact was dismantled some year later. e. disperse f. dismantle How do people determine which items should be placed in a museum? Well, it depends on the reason for the museum's establishment. It might be organized to celebrate the life of a given person. The Helen Keller home in Tuscumbia and the Frank Lloyd Wright and W.C. Handy homes in Florence are examples. It might be established to honor may people in a given field such as the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in Tuscumbia. Its purpose might be to portray the history of an institution, such as the Memorabilia Room for the Florence City Schools. The museum from which the items for this month's scavenger hunt was taken appears to have been organized to display items that were old, whether they represented the military or lives of local families or documents of local interest. 18 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals September 2020

?? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ?? What’s it Like to Be? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? A Construction Project Manager Cathy Carter Cathy Carter consults on a set of house plans. Please tell our readers a little about materials and ordering and designing A new house under construction. yourself, including your name and plans and product specifications that go occupation. from the general contractor and owners A house and barn project. My name is Cathy Carter, and I to the crews in the field. I also do all of am a project manager and business our bookkeeping, invoicing and project Kidsville News! 19 administrator for a full-service general reporting. construction firm specializing in custom What kind of education or training horse barns, homes and remodeling. did you obtain for this line of work? When did you know that you wanted I took some college-level classes related to work in construction? to my career in 1992 — drafting, My interest in construction began with accounting, business management and something personal — the building of interior design. However, working in my house. I drew my first set of house the field with subcontractors, helping to plans for my own house, and using these, layout a property, pouring over plans and my husband and I built our first home working out a lot of math — day-to-day with the help of a local builder. I enjoyed tasks in construction project management the design process and the challenges — are the sources of most of my skills. of building and selecting finishes. Field experience serves as a valuable Eventually, I had an opportunity to work education. for a small custom-design construction What is your favorite thing about firm, and it was there I qualified and your job? became a licensed contractor. My career My favorite thing about my job is the in construction took off from that point. I people I get to meet and the chance to moved over into masonry construction, help bring their dream homes and barns specializing in outdoor living spaces, to creation. but after 10 years in that What do you wish everyone knew field, I decided to return to my about construction? first love — construction. I wish more people understood what goes What does a typical day or job look on behind the scenes in construction. like for you? Aside from the physical building, In construction, every day is different. tasks that must be performed include Each morning new and different estimating, product sourcing, meeting challenges manifest involving projects, with vendors, obtaining permits, crews and supply houses. My company scheduling, rescheduling and clocking performs multiple trades and employs many hours outside of the typical several crews who work on four to business day. This time is spent preparing seven projects every day. Planning and for tomorrow’s needs, necessary hours oversight skills are essential for me, as for success in the construction craft. I am responsible for estimating project costs and materials, sourcing special September 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

MATHTIME At 9 a.m., I went to the Ol’ Fishin’ Hole If you drop a coin on the to fish. There is a three-fish-per-hour limit. If I floor and it need 20 fish for a cook-out tomorrow, at what time spins around on its edge, will I probably have my 20 fish? what solid shape does it look like? Answer Circle one: CYLINDER SPHERE CONE Answers On Page 23 Why Are There So Many Hurricanes in September? Have you ever watched the news or the and they are usually the warmest months. So hurricanes are forming, the weather report and noticed that, right around why is the ocean warmest in September? Water air around them needs to the time you go back to school, there seem to be doesn’t warm up as fast as air. So, while the air be mostly still. Think of a lots of tropical systems and hurricanes spinning gets hot very fast during the summer months, hurricane that is forming around in the Atlantic Ocean? If you have, you the water takes a little bit longer to really heat like a stack of dinner plates are correct. up. This means the water is usually the warmest — if you push too hard on one in September. part of the stack, the whole thing will come Hurricanes need lots of different ingredients crashing down. in order to form. One of the most important Another reason explains all the tropical ingredients is warm ocean water, and the ocean systems that form in September. The air Certain air currents can cause wind shear water is especially warm in September. currents over the Atlantic Ocean also change as over the Atlantic Ocean, which means winds we head into late summer and early fall. When get much stronger or weaker or can even But June, July and August are summertime, change directions in different layers of the atmosphere. So, if the wind shear pushes too hard on certain layers of the hurricane that is forming, the hurricane is destroyed. Wind shear that destroys hurricanes is more common in the early summer and late fall, but from late August through early October, the air currents over the Atlantic Ocean change. The alteration in air currents usually means much less wind shear, and again, ease in hurricane formation. Finally, remember that hurricanes can happen anytime during hurricane season even though more of the storms occur in September. Hurricane season starts June 1 and ends November 30, and hurricanes can happen anytime between those dates — and even outside them. If you live in a state that touches the ocean, talk to your parents, teachers and local meteorologists about how to stay safe if a hurricane comes toward your home. To learn more about the weather and hurricane season, visit www.weather.gov/ jetstream. 20 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals September 2020

This Page Brought To You By A Section Especially for Parents BEGINNER READS Alphabeasties: And Other Amazing My Kindergarten Types By Rosemary Wells By Sharon Werner For ages 3-6 For ages 2 and Up Take a glorious month-by-month tour You've never seen an alphabet book through the kindergarten year with like this before. A is for alligator, but teacher Miss Cribbage, a guinea pig, as the accompanying picture is composed seen through the eyes of Emily the of hundreds of black A's. Each page rabbit, one of eight animal students. contains an animal — bat, camel, dog, You'll get to know all of them: Diane, elephant — rendered entirely in its Emily, Louise, Martha, Odysseus, Otis, initial letters.The giraffe's neck is so Roger and Terrance, snug in their little tall, the head is gate-folded on the top sthcheoiroslchhoouoslehoounsCeroannbCerrarnybIeslraryndIsilnand and the legs accordioned on the Min aMinaein.e. bottom! Unblieveably Boring Bart PAGETURNERS By James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein Judy Moody Goes to College For ages 8-12 By Megan McDonald For ages 6-9 Invisible creatures are attacking the school, and 12-year-old Bartholomew Substitute teacher Mrs. Grossman Bean is the only one who can stop hands out candy to all of her students them! Okay, so maybe Bart is only a for good behavior, except to Judy, who hero in the video game app he created. is in one of her famous moods. Instead, But if he reveals his identity as the she hands Judy a note to take home to genius behind the game, he'll become her parents because of her inattentive- the most popular kid in school! Or he ness in math. The result? Mom and Dad could secretly use the game to get back get her a tutor. Judy is in a snit at the at his bullies. notion of being a \"tutor tot,\" as she calls it, until she realizes where she'll be going for her math sessions: to college. ADVANCED READS Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity Eleanor & Park By Dave Roman By Rainbow Rowell For ages 9-14 For ages 13 and Up Hakata Soy leaves his past as the In this convincing chronicle of first love set leader of a superhero team to attend in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1986, Rainbow Astronaut Academy, a school on a space Rowell introduces two high school station orbiting Earth. He hopes to students, Eleanor and Park. Eleanor is an make a fresh start in life, but his heroic outsider. She’s the new girl in town: past keeps catching up with him. All he redhead, tall, complex and abundantly sar- wants to do is study for his classes in castic; Park is the unwitting, low-key, Fire Throwing and Anti-Gravity average guy at school. When the two first Gymnastics, but when a lookalike robot meet on the bus, they hardly speak; arrives at Astronaut Academy on a though slowly but surely they begin to fall mission to destroy him, Hakata Soy just for one another. can’t do as he pleases. Kidsville News IncK.,idTsrvuilmleaNnewans,dTrJuammaensanPdatJtaemrseosnP’asttRerEsoAnD'sKRIEDADDOKRIDEDAODR.ECAODM.COaMreaprelepalesaesdedtotopartner on thispparatgneertoonhtheilsppyaogue tdoishceolpvyeorubdoiosckosvethr abtokoikdssthyaotuthleokviedsayroeusluorvee atorelsouvree.to love. September 2020 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 21

ParenTown’s KidShape Family Friendly Outdoor Activities Children who spend a lot of time excursions and provide an excellent opportunity limited to daylight hours. A outdoors benefit from exposure to for parents to teach children about the post-dinner backyard bonfire nature in myriad ways, some of assortment of plants, birds and wildlife that live can entice everyone outside, which may surprise even the most in the parks and along the trails near their home. where families can tell scary devoted outdoor enthusiasts. • Outdoor art class. Families don’t even need stories and make s’mores. to leave their properties to spend quality time • Stargaze Stargazing. This According to a 2006 study together outside. Pick a pleasant afternoon and is another way for families to published in the journal Human set up an outdoor painting station, encouraging spend time outdoors and learn Dimensions of Wildlife, fifth- everyone to paint what they see. Fall is a great a few things at the same time. graders who attended school at a time to host an outdoor art session, thanks to the Some blankets, a thermos local prairie wetland where lessons assortment of vibrant colors that have become of hot cocoa and a chart of in science, math and writing were synonymous with autumn landscapes. constellations can provide integrated in an experimental way • Bonfire Outdoor. Activities do need not be the perfect complement to had significantly stronger reading a sky full of bright stars. If and writing skills than their peers visibility is compromised in who attended more traditional the backyard, find a clear local schools. spot. • Fruit picking. Apple picking is a popular Another study published in the International autumn activity, but families need not wait for Journal of Environmental Research and Public the autumn harvest to enjoy a day picking fruit Health found that holding a class outdoors one or vegetables at a nearby farm. Visit a local day a week significantly improved the daily farm during its harvest season, teaching children cortisol patterns of students, reducing their risk about how the foods they love are grown and of stress and improving their ability to adapt to eventually make it to the family dinner table. stress. Families looking to spend time together in the great outdoors can look to a number of activities Parents who want their children to reap such people of all ages can enjoy. rewards can advocate for nature-infused school curriculum and also embrace these family- friendly outdoor activities. • Nature treasure hunt. A treasure hunt in nature can keep kids engaged on family hiking ParenTown’s KidSmart How To Show Support for Local Police Police officers put their lives gesture, but it’s one they will times. Encourage children to on the line every day they show appreciate, and it will let them come to you if they read or hear up for work. But in spite of know they’re supported in the stories that depict police officers the sacrifices officers routinely community they’re working hard negatively so you can help them make, their contributions often go to protect. process the story and encourage unnoticed and unappreciated. them to maintain the respect they • Support police fundraisers. have for police officers. Police officers’ jobs might Police department fundraisers be thankless, but that does not support various causes. Some • Thank a police officer mean people cannot express their might aim to raise funds for sports when given the opportunity. gratitude to the men and women in programs designed to help local Though it seems simple, saying blue who keep their communities youth, while others might hope thank you to police officers safe. The following are a handful to raise money for the families can reassure them that the of ways to show support for the of fallen officers. Whatever the communities they work so hard police officers who work hard to motivation for the fundraiser, to protect support and appreciate protect and serve your community. by supporting the event, you are their efforts. Thanking police donating to a good cause and officers may only take a few • Pick up a police officer’s showing the police they and their seconds, but such a gesture can tab. Police officers work in efforts are being supported. help police officers better cope your community and, therefore, with the stress of their jobs. they likely break bread in your • Teach kids to respect police community as well. When you officers. Police officers have Police officers have difficult see police officers ordering meals come under considerable scrutiny jobs that require them to make at a local restaurant or sitting in recent years, and youngsters considerable sacrifices to protect down to lunch at a neighborhood may not know how to respond the communities where they diner, offer to pay for their meals to news stories that do not paint work. But it doesn’t take much or arrange payment with their police officers in a positive light. to show your support for local waiter or waitress without letting Parents can show their support police officers and express your the police officers know. Picking for police officers by teaching gratitude for the sacrifices they up police officers’ tabs is a simple their kids to respect police at all make every day. 22 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals September 2020

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