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Stock
Market Game
 Good
stock-market picks by Desoto kids
Eleven-year-old
Karyna Levall decided to buy Phasar Corp.
stock because she liked the low price. That
decision helped her Stock Market Game team
to finish second in the Fall 2004 statewide
Missouri kids investment game contest.
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World's
Fair
 Kids
create mini-version of 1904 World's Fair
Older kids at St. Richard Catholic School
helped stage a mini-version of the 1904
World's Fair. They worked all semester to
create both the all-school fair and a fair
newspaper.
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Read,
Right & Run
 Teacher's
shaved head gives kids incentive
Kids at Keysor Elementary School in Kirkwood
have an added incentive to participate in
the 2004-2005 Read, Right, Run program.
If 75 kids take part, teacher Dryden Wells
has agreed to shave his head.
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Books
 This
month's book reviews
"Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" is
a true story about a Japanese girl looking
to an old-time legend to cure a serious
illness. Also, YSL.com reviews books
about a boy in Harlem, the "world's best
underachiever" and a girl searching for
her father during World War II.
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Recycling
 Illinois
4th graders run school recycling program
Fourth graders at Marine (Ill.)
Elementary School handle the school's all-student
recycling program. They collect aluminum
cans and tabs, used paper and milk jugs,
old keys, eyeglasses, cell phones and even
used athletic shoes.
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Robot
Competition
 St.
Charles team wins judges' award
The Spider Dudes robot team faced serious
last-minute obstacles just before the start
of last month's First Lego League regional
competition. But, the St. Charles County
kids persevered to win the Judges Award
#1.
 Illinois
robot team finds simpler is better
Kids on the Robotic Maniacs team decided
simple would be better for their robot entry
in the First Lego League regional competition.
By keeping the robot's "brain" programming
short and sweet, they hoped to win.
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Kids
help pick best-reading book list