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Snowy weather, jingle bells, twinkling lights, and candy canes and are all signs that December has arrived! It’s the last month of the year and there is certainly a feeling of anticipation in the air. People are busy making plans and preparing for the holidays, also known as the “hustle bustle” of the holiday season! Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are all holidays celebrated in December, where songs,

decorations, candles and giving gifts are part of their beautiful traditions.Kids and teachers are especially excited to have time off from school this month.

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This Fall the elementary students at New Covenant Christian School made applesauce! These apples were picked from apple trees located on our playground. Students, under the direction of parents, gathered the apples. We washed them and checked them over for soft spots. Next, students sliced the apples and prepared them for the cooking pot! While the apples simmered, students were treated to apple cider and homemade apple butter. Once cooked, students took turns using a sieve to separate the pulp from the skin. The applesauce was collected in a large bowl. We enjoyed tasting the fruits of our labor:) Yummy!

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If you get a clear glass of tap water and look closely at it, can you guesshow old it is? The water in your glass may have fallen from the sky as rainjust last week, but the water itself has been around almost as long as theearth has! Our earth has a limited amount of water and that water keeps cy-cling around and around. That’s what we call “the water cycle.”

This water cycle is made up of four main parts.

The Water Cycle

Evaporation: Evaporation iswhen the sun heats up water inrivers, lakes, and the ocean andturns it into vapor or steam. Thewater vapor or steam leaves theriver, lakes and ocean and goesinto the air. With evaporation,we also have transpiration.What is that? Plants transpire.Transpiration is the way bywhich plants lose water out oftheir leaves. Transpiration givesevaporation a bit of a hand ingetting the water vapor back upinto the air.

Condensation: Water vapor inthe air gets cold and changesback into liquid, forming clouds.This is called condensation.You can see the same sort ofthing at home... pour a glass ofcold water on a hot day andwatch what happens. Waterforms on the outside of theglass. That water didn’t some-how leak through the glass! Itacutally came from the air.Water vapor in the warm air,turns back into liquid when ittouches the cold glass!

Precipitation: Precipitationoccurs when so much waterhas condensed that the aircannot hold it anymore. Theclouds get heavy and waterfalls back to the earth in theform of rain, hail, sleet orsnow.

Collection: When water fallsback to earth as precipitation, itmay fall back into the oceans,lakes and rivers, or it may end upon land. When it ends up on land,it will either soak into the earthand become part of the “groundwater” that plants and animalsuse to drink or it may run over thesoil and collect in the oceans,lakes and rivers where the cyclestarts all over again.

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Reindeer!The reindeer is a medium sized member of the Cervodae (deer)

family. Reindeer came to North America in the early 1900s fromSiberia and Norway. Recently, they have been raised on farms inCanada and the United States.

Some of the benefits of raising reindeer include the following:They can be raised on the same farm as other deer and livestock.Reindeer are low maintenance, easy handling and relatively dis-ease free animals. They do well in areas that have cold wintersand marginal land. Costs for handling facilities and equipment areoften lower. But a really unique part of raising reindeer is the de-mand for them in commercials, parades and other promotionalevents. They can be trained to pull sleighs and can be ridden.Reindeer can also generate products such as meat, milk, robes,hides and the antlers they shed.

Reindeer are about 4 feet tall at the shoulder and 6 feet long.The adult females weigh about 162-187 pounds while the malesare 200-220 pounds on the average. Unlike most other types ofdeer, both bulls (males) and cows (females) have antlers. Eventhe calves (babies) produce antlers. The antlers are shed eachyear and regrow. Sometimes the antlers are called “racks.” Rein-

deer have very widehooves which helpsthem move throughsnow and tundra, abroad muzzle (nose),and thick brown fur.Their thick fur traps airwhich insulates the rein-deer from the cold andhelp the reindeer float inwater. They are strongswimmers and runners.

Calves are born be-tween May and Juneand grow quickly. Theyare around 14 poundswhen they are born.

They can stand and walk within minutes of their birth. They arealso born with teeth so they can start eating right away. Calves do,however, drink milk from their mothers.

The reindeer are herbivores (plant eaters) and they spend muchof the day eating. Reindeer travel in herds in the wild. They gen-erally roam on pasture grounds in a farm setting.

Reindeer are also associated with Santa Claus! Santa’s sleighis said to be pulled by flying reindeer! These were first named inthe 1823 poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas, where they are calledDasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder andBlixem. Dunder was later changed to Donder and in other writtenworks changed to Donner, and Blixem was later changed toBlitzen.

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Snowflakes!How does a snowflake form? Snow crystals

form in clouds when the temperature is belowthe freezing point. They are created when waterdroplets freeze on tiny ice particles. When an icecrystal drops through a cloud, it bumps and hitsother crystals which causes each snowflake toform into a unique complex design. There are notwo snowflakes that are exactly alike. Decorat-ing with snowflakes is a fun way to make the win-ter season and holiday times special.

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The piano is a very important part of music. Many musicalnotes do not seem possible without it and many notes soundbetter on the piano. The piano can play all types of musicfrom classical to rock and roll. It can also be played solo orwith other instruments, so it is very versatile.

There is some disagreement on when the first modern stylepiano was built. Most say the modern style piano (or pianoet forte, meaning soft and loud) was probably built by theItalian, Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1709. It was described as aharpsichord with both soft and loud!

The difference between the harpsichords that came beforeand the piano, was the way the strings were sounded. In-

side the piano the strings are tightened into tune. A grandpiano, for instance, looks like a harp when on it’s side. Mod-ern style pianos use hammers to pluck the string. So whenyou touch the keyboard, the hammer hits the string whichaffects the sound of the note. If you stroke the key gently, thesound will be soft. If you use a heavy touch on the key, thesound will be much louder!

PIANO FACTS:• The average medium sized piano has about 230 strings.Each string has about 165 pounds of tension. With the com-bined pull of all the strings, that equals approximately eight-een tons!• There are over 10 million pianos in American homes, busi-nesses and institutions.• Yamaha, established in 1887, was the first piano manu-facturer in Japan.• The world’s largest piano is a Challen Concert GrandPiano. This piano is eleven feet long and has a total stringtension of over 30 tons. This piano weighs more than a ton!• The working section of the piano is called the acion. Thereare about 7500 parts in there. They all play a role in send-ing the hammers against the strings when the keys arestruck.

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Kids of today get a series of shots to protect them from get-ting whooping cough, but some kids will still get it. Babieswho have not had all their series of shots are at risk forwhooping cough. This is a very serious illness for a baby,and also affects adults ages 60 and older.

Whooping cough, which is also called pertussis (pur-tus-is)is a bacterial infection of the respiratory system. This in-cludes your lungs and breathing tubes. Whooping cough gotits name from kids coughing a lot and in between coughs,they make a “whoop” sound when they try to take a breath.

In 1906, two French scientists discovered the pertussisbacteria and this became the first step to creating a vaccineto prevent this disease. Thousands of children used to get itbecause it spreads very quickly. Pertussis bacteria can livein the saliva in mouths and in the mucus in noses. It isspread by people coughing or sneezing and releasing tinydroplets in the air that other people breathe in. Colds arecaught this way also.

The symptoms of whooping cough are similar to a cold but,unlike the cold, whooping cough sticks around and the coughgets stronger and more severe. If the doctor thinks that achild might have whooping cough, they may take a sample ofthe mucus in the back of their nose. This can be tested in alab to see if there’s any bacteria in it. They may also order achest X-ray and blood tests.

A child who has whooping cough will need to rest, drinkplenty of fluids and eat healthy food. Also, the doctor will pre-scribe antibiotics to help fight the infection from the bacteria.This will guard from spreading the illness to others. Regularcheck-ups with the doctor will make sure that the breathingand coughing are improving.

Whooping cough can be avoided by getting the pertussis vac-cine called the DTaP. The shot prevents two other illnesses —diphtheria and tetanus in addition to pertussis.

Today, kids are usually given five doses of it. The first three shotsare given while a child is a baby. Another is given when a child is

a toddler and the fifth one is given between ages 4 to 6. And now,doctors want to give another shot when children are around 11 or12 to make sure he or she is still protected.

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Our school did it’s annual Treats for Troops project last week. Students are encouraged to bring in their Halloween candy so that it can be donated to our military troops overseas. This year our school donated over 318 lbs of candy.

Laurie Mooney, who is the head of the Fuel up to Play 60 team at our school, organized the event so that all of the candy will be donated to the Blue Star Moms. They will be sending the candy, in care packages, to our troops.

St. Michael School is so thankful for all of the hard work that our military men and women put in protecting our country. May God Bless You!

Several band members from St. Gerard School successfully participated in the MSBOA sponsored District 8 Middle School Solo & Ensemble Festival held November 14th at Char-lotte Middle School. All of St. Gerard’s events earned a Division I rating, representing the highest level of achievement. Participating students included soloists Emily Cook (alto sax-

Students and teachers at Our Savior Lutheran School cele-brated Book Character Dress Up Day on October 28th by dressing as their favorite book characters. The all-school event started with a parade in the gym, followed by students gathering with their teachers and reading buddies to share a favorite story during an all-school read-in.

After chapel recently, PTL President, Meghan Morris, presented a $5000 check to the school from October Read-a-thon Sponsorships. Our Savior is grateful for the generosity and reading encouragement. The funds will be used to purchase an additional 12 iPads for the school community.

Sunday, November 7th, teens and parents from our church, school, and other communities in Michigan gathered for music by the Michael Maher Band and spiritual resource information on dating and marriage. A heartfelt thanks to all the event volunteers and contributors who were present. Our Savior thanks Mr. Wright, Family Life Director, who coordinated the event.

Book Character Dress Up Day

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The second graders at St. Gerard School were hard at work making awards to honor veterans from the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The students also wrote letters to thank the veterans for serving our country.


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