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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."
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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." |
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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 puzzles fashioned after Sudoku