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Christmas
Cards Kids'
artwork helps other kids heal
Eleven-year-old Lauren Kammerer
said she thought "for a long time" about
what subject to use for a Christmas
card art project. Finally, she settled
on drawing the "Holy Family, Joseph,
Mary and Baby Jesus."
Young
Scientist Glendale
girl in finals of national competition Fourteen-year-old
Kate Strube has been selected among 40 national
finalists in the Discovery Channel's Young Scientists
Challenge. She's come a long ways from the days
in elementary school when one of her experiments
was with "fruit batteries."
Books
This
month's book reviews
November books reviewed include ones about
(1) a girl in a lighthouse rescues a baby
from a shipwreck, (2) an undersized boy wants
to become a knight in England during the 12th
century, (3) trouble stirred up in middle
school by gossip, and (4) girls crazy about
horses and horseback riding
Stream
Team Kids
monitor Deer Creek's water quality On their first field trip
to the Deer Creek watershed this fall, 7th graders
Austin DaGue and Hoahang Xu did water quality
tests. They used the same sophisticated testing
kits used by environmental scientists.
Math
Center Metamo4ic
Math Center in Ferguson Kids attending the new math
center in Ferguson learn how to figure mean
and median numbers in a very unusual way. They
use a bowling ball and pins.
Red
Ribbon Young
kids learn about positive lifestyles Charise Lowe and Mark
King were among a group of Jennings High School
students who told kids at nearby Northview
Elementary about positive lifestyle choices.
Horseshoes
Local
kids have new sports opportunity
St. Louis-area youngsters have a brand new sporting
venue. Although playing horseshoes might be
new to local kids, the sport got its start in
ancient Greece.
Young
Achiever Madeline
Johnson continues busy pace in high school
Madeline Johnson of Wildwood, Mo., set a fast
and productive pace during her middle school
years. That schedule of accomplishment won her
a 2007 Gateway Young Achiever award.
Math
Mania Math
Mania puzzles fashioned after Sudoku The November Math Mania
puzzles are fashioned after the numbers game
Sudoku that has been sweeping the country.
Ulysses
S. Grant won his first Civil War battle. The
DeWitt family's St. Louis sports history began.
Holiday
lighting and decorating tours all over the metro
St. Louis area, skating and more
Kids'
artwork helps other kids heal
Glendale
girl in finals of national competition 
This
month's book reviews
Kids
monitor Deer Creek's water quality
Metamo4ic
Math Center in Ferguson 
Young
kids learn about positive lifestyles
Local
kids have new sports opportunity
Madeline
Johnson continues busy pace in high school 
Math
Mania puzzles fashioned after Sudoku