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Did you know that your heart is a muscle? It’s one of many youhave in your body. The heart though, is a special muscle that per-forms almost like a pump. Your heart is located in the middle ofyour chest and a little to the left. It’s about the size of a fist.The right side of your heart receives the blood from your body

and pumps it to your lungs. The left side receives the blood fromyour lungs and pumps it out to your body. How does this pumpwork? Before each heart beat, your heart fills with blood. Then ithas a muscle contraction (it squeezes) to shove the blood in theheart to its destination. The heart continually “beats” during yourlifetime. Doctors listen to the heart beat with a stethoscope.There are four different sections of your heart called chambers.

Two on the right side of your heart and two on the left side. Eachside has one at the top and one on the bottom. The two top cham-bers are called the atria (the singular form is atrium). The atriachambers on the right and left fill with blood returning to the heartfrom the body and lungs. Down through the middle of your heart isa thick wall of muscle called the septum which separates the leftside and the right side of the heart. Working together, the atria fillwith blood, dump it into the ventricles (the bottom chambers), theventricles contract (beats) and pumps the blood out of the heart.Then the atria fills back up with blood.Inside the heart are four valves. These valves let blood in and

then close. Two of the heart valves, called mitral and tricuspidvalves, let the blood flow from the atria to the ventricles. The othertwo are called aortic and pulmonary valves. They control the flowof blood as it leaves the heart. All these valves work to keep theblood flowing in the right direction. They open to let blood throughand then quickly close to keep it from flowing the wrong way.When the blood leaves your heart, it circulates. Circulation is the

movement of blood through the heart and around the body. Howdoes it do that? It leaves the heart through tubes called blood ves-sels. These blood vessels are called arteries which carry the bloodaway from the heart and veins that carry the blood back to theheart.

What does this blood do? Blood keeps your body working cor-rectly. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all of the body’s cells. Theleft side of your heart sends the oxygen blood to all parts of yourbody. Your body takes the oxygen out of the blood and uses it inyour cells. Then the cells make carbon dioxide and other stuff thatgets carried away by the blood.The blood returning in the veins enters the right side of the heart

through the Vena Cava. The superior vena cava brings the bloodinto the heart from the chest, arms, neck and head. The inferiorvena cava collects the blood from the parts of the body locatedbelow the heart. The right ventricle pumps that blood into the lungsfor removal of the carbon dioxide. So when we breathe, we exhalethe carbon dioxide. When we inhale, we bring fresh oxygen intoour lungs and begin the blood process all over again returning theblood to the left side of the heart. It takes less than 60 seconds topump blood to every cell in your body!

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There are some legends when it comes to Valentine’s Day. Weautomatically have given cards, candy, gifts to our loved ones andjust assume the holiday has always been. But every holiday be-gins somewhere and here are some of the legends.It was named after St. Valentine. Just who is that mysterious pa-tron saint? St. Valentine was a priest that served during the thirdcentury in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that singlemen made better soldiers than those with wives and families, heoutlawed marriage for young men since they were the potentialsoldiers. The priest named Valentine, who realized the wrong-ness of this decree, went against Claudius II and married couplesin secret. This was against the law. When his actions were dis-covered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.According to another legend, Valentine actually sent the first

“Valentine” greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed thatValentine fell in love with a young girl - who may have been the

jailor’s daughter- who came andvisited him. Be-fore his death, itis said that hewrote her a letterwhich he signed,“from yourValentine” andthat expressionis still usedtoday.

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Here’s Some Trivia!In Wales, wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts onFebruary 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite decora-tions on the spoons. The decoration meant, “You unlock myheart.”In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from abowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear thesenames on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on yoursleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how youare feeling.In some countries, a young woman may receive a gift of cloth-

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Around the district, teachers inour elementary schools are maximizing learning by using a mathworkshop model where they workin small groups completing learn-ing tasks in stations or direct in-struction from the teacher in asmall group. Sycamore is no ex-ception. Darrin Winkler, fourthgrade teacher, not only offers hisstudents small group teaching ofthe math lessons in his classroom,he also video tapes his les-sons. Students have the opportu-nity to watch these lessons onlaptops and take notes beforemeeting with him for a chance tolearn either learn the lesson asecond time or advance the les-son, depending on the students'skill level. Students are engagedwith the technology use, mulit-ple opportunities to move, and thelessons designed to meet theirneeds.

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Kids exercise all the time without even thinking about it. Justbeing active, like when you run around outside or play dodge ballat school is a kind of exercise. What else counts as exercise?Playing sports, dancing, doing push-ups and even reaching downto touch your toes. When you exercise, you’re helping build astrong body that will be able to move around and do all the stuffyou need it to do.

Exercise Makes Your Heart HappyYou may already know that your heart is a muscle. It works hard,

pumping blood every day of your life. You can help this importantmuscle get stronger by doing aerobic exercise!What is aerobic? Aerobic means “with air” so aerobic exercise

is a kind of activity that requires oxygen. When you breathe, youtake in oxygen and if you’re doing aerobic exercise, you may no-tice you’re breathing faster than normal. Aerobic activity can getyour heart pumping, make you sweaty, and quicken your breath-ing.When you give your heart this kind of workout on a regular basis,

your heart will get even better at its job - delivering oxygen (in theform of oxygen-carrying blood cells) to all parts of your body.Aerobic exercises include swimming, basketball, ice or roller

hockey, jogging (or walking quickly), in-line skating, soccer, cross-country skiing, biking or rowing. And don’t forget that skipping,jumping rope, and playing hopscotch are aerobic activities.

Exercise Strengthens MusclesAnother kind of exercise can help make your muscles stronger.

Did you ever to a push-up or swing across the monkey bars at theplayground? Those are exercises that can build strength. Byusing your muscles to do powerful things, you can make themstronger. Exercises and activities that build strong muscles arepush-ups, pull-ups, running, in-line skating and bike riding.

Exercise Makes You FlexibleCan you touch your toes easily without yelling ouch? Most kids

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feels really good, like when you take a big stretch in the morningafter waking up. Being flexible is having “full range or motion,”which means you can move your arms and legs freely without feel-ing tightness or pain. It’s easy to find things to do for good flexibilitysuch as tumbling, gymnastics, yoga, dancing (especially ballet)and martial arts. Simple stretches such as touching your toes orside stretches are good too!

Exercise Keeps The BalanceFood gives your body fuel in the form of calories, which are a

kind of energy. Your body needs a certain amount of calories everyday just to function, breathe, walk around and do all the basic stuff.But if you’re active, your body needs an extra measure of caloriesor energy. If you’re not very active, your body won’t need as manycalories. Whatever your calorie need is, if you eat enough to meetthe need, your body weight will stay about the same. If you eatmore calories than your body needs, it may be stored as excessfat.

Exercise Makes You Feel GoodIt feels good to have a strong, flexible body that can do all the ac-

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The Violin!One of the best known instruments in the orchestra is the violin

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the fingerboard, the pegbox, the scroll, the bridge, the tailpieceand the f-holes. The violin has four strings which are fastened tothe tailpiece, rest over the fingerboard and run to the pegbox. Atthe pegbox, the strings are attached to tuning pegs and by turningthese pegs, the violin can be tuned. By the musician changing fin-ger positions on the strings, different notes are made. The bow isdrawn across the strings which make the tone.The violin can be traced back to Italy in the early 1500’s. It

evolved from two other stringed instruments, the fiddle and the lirada braccio, which were both stringed instruments. The known de-veloper of the violin was Andrea Amati.In the 17th and 18th centuries, the craft of violin making began.

Artists such as Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and JacobStainer made them in their workshops. At this time, the violins had

a shorter neck, the bridgewas flatter, they had ashorter fingerboard andthe strings were made ofgut.At first, the violin wasn’t

very popular and consid-ered low status socially.But by the 1800’s, wellknown composers likeClaudio Monteverdi usedthe violin in operas. Theviolin began to gain somestature in the Baroque pe-riod as more known com-

posers began using the violin in their works. One of these com-posers was Johann Sebastian Bach. By the mid-18th century,the violin was a vital part in instrumental music. During this pe-riod, violins emerged as the leading section in an orchestra.However, it was not until the 19th century that violin virtuososemerged. People such as Giovanni Viotti, Isaac Stern, MischaElman and Nathan Milstein became world famous for their skill.

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On November 19, 1831, James Garfield was born in a log cabinin what is now Moreland Hills, Ohio. He was the last of the logcabin presidents. Fatherless at 17 months old, he was brought upby his mother Eliza Ballou, his sisters and his uncle. They had towork for everything starting at a young age. His education waslocal in Orange City Schools, then Eclectic Institute (later calledHiram College) and then transferring to Williams College in Mas-sachusetts. He graduated in 1856 as an outstanding student.On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Randolph. They

had a large family of seven children.He preached for a short time at Franklin Circle Christian Church.Then taught at Eclectic Institute as an instructor in classical lan-guages before he became the president of the institute from 1857to 1860. Garfield studied law privately and was admitted to theOhio bar in 1860.He was elected as an Ohio State Senator in 1859. There, he

worked at encouraging the Southern states back into the Union.With the start of the Civil War, Garfield was commissioned as alieutenant colonel in the 42nd Regiment of Ohio volunteers. In1862, he led a brigade at Middle Creek, Kentucky against the Con-

federate troopswhich was suc-cessful. The Con-federates had5,000 men and 12cannons, Garfieldhad only 1,100men. The battlewas one of themost importantminor battles ofthe war. At theage of 31, he be-came a BrigadierGeneral.In 1862, he was

James Abram GarfieldOur 20th President (1881)

elected to the Congress. At the urging of Lincoln, he resigned fromthe military and took his post. Garfield repeatedly won re-electionfor 18 years and became the leading Republican in the House. Hewas elected as a United States Senator (while still in the House ofRepresentatives) in 1880, but became president instead.He was elected President by a margin of 10,000 popular votes.

He was the first member of the House of Representatives to beelected President. As President, he took a stand against politicalcorruption. The growing strength of his administration and popu-larity continued to grow.Garfield was shot in a Washington railroad station on July 2,

1881, twice. One bullet grazed his arm and the other entered hisback and lodged itself somewhere in his body. He died Septem-ber 19, 1881, living only a few months after being shot. Garfieldbecame the second president to be assassinated - Abraham Lin-coln being the first. He also served the second shortest term asPresident of the United States.

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When I was in 4th gradeI enrolled in a Saturdaymorning art class. I wasvery worried that I wouldnot be able to learn todraw. My teacher beganmy art lessons by teachingme to draw cartoon char-acters such as MickeyMouse and Goofy. I soondiscovered that learning todrawing cartoon figureswas fun and creative. Asmy confidence in drawinggrew, I soon was drawingrealistic things well too.

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rooms plan recipes and cook everything from cookies to bread to candy - and then Radmoorfamilies can make purchases and donate money for gift buying.Community service, and extending the boundaries of the classroom into the world, is a large

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tions, and homes. This means a lot of their wildlife is being threat-ened. High at the top of the Monte Cristo mountain, there is a cloudforest in a national preserve. The governments of El Salvador, Hon-duras, and Guatemala are all working to protect this piece of na-ture.• Although there is no official religion, Catholicism is the most com-monly practiced religion. • Major agricultural exports include coffee, sugar, corn, rice, shrimp,and beef. • There is a lot of biodiversity in El Salvador! The ocelot is native tothe country, as well as the torogoz, which is the national bird. Manyorganizations are working to protect the forests and wildlife. • Their forests are growing! It is one of the only countries where re-forestation is taking place.

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• El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. It is onlyabout 8,100 square miles. It is the only Central American countrythat doesn’t have a coastline on the Caribbean Sea. El Salvadorborders the Pacific Ocean on the south, and the countries ofGuatemala to the west and Honduras to the north and east.• The capital of El Salvador is San Salvador. • The population is over 6 million people!• The currency of El Salvador is the U.S. dollar. El Salvador hasthe third-largest economy in South America and has been themost industrialized country in the region. • The government is a republic.• El Salvador has a tropical climate, with a dry and a wet season.Hurricanes can occur, but not very often. More common naturaldisasters in El Salvador are droughts and heavy rainfall. • El Salvador is known for it’s volcanoes! The country suffers fromfrequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. • The most commonly spoken and official language in El Salvadoris Spanish. • El Salvador gained independence from Spain in 1821 and againfrom the Central American Federation in 1939. September 15 istheir national holiday. • El Salvador is known for it’s beaches as well! Some of the beau-tiful beaches are home to international surfing competitions. • The El Salvador flag has two colors and a crest in the middle.The two colors are blue and white.• The most popular sport in El Salvador is soccer.• Many forests in El Salvador have been used for wood, planta-

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Tell your friend or family member to picktheir favorite number between 1 and 9, but

don't tell you what it is!

Tell them that through the magic of theircalculator, you will show them your

number.

Using the calculator, have them multiplytheir number by 9.

Now have them multiply that number by12,345,679. (1 thru 9, skipping the 8)

TAH DAH... The calculator shows themtheir number -- 9 times!

Try It!

Example 1:Favorite number = 5

5 x 9 = 4545 x 12345679 = 555,555,555

Here’sSomethingFun ToShare

With YourFriendsAnd

Family!

Can You Solve TheseProblems?

= ______

= ______

= ______

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= ______

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24 ÷ 4

42 ÷ 7

18 ÷ 3

63 ÷ 9

90 ÷ 10

36 ÷ 2

Here’s Some Challenges!Thomas is going Valentine's Day shop-ping for his sweetheart. He wants to pur-chase a sweater for $54.44, a box ofchocolates for $22.95 and a dozen rosesfor $36.99. Show how much moneyThomas needs:

Sweetness Candy Shop is preparing forthe Valentine rush. Mr. Sweet estimatesthat he will have to prepare 25 boxes ofchocolate and each box has 9 chocolatesin it. How many chocolates will his staffhave to make to fill the 25 boxes?

Subtract down and across.Then subtract the totals

you calculated. The answeracross should equalthe answer down.

7498 4511

2590 1975

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