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Sounds of Spring: the Red-bellied Woodpecker
April 22, 2024 - As the silence of winter gives way to the beautiful sounds of spring, gently falling rain or thunderous storms; birds chirping; lawn mowers gearing up for the first time, and... what is that drilling sound on the house? It could be a beautiful Red-bellied Woodpecker!  Word of the Daycacophony: noun;noise, different sounds that together can be loud and objectionable Find it in blue in today's top story!Writing Practice
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Complete this Writing Practice. Then print or email your document, or if available, save it to Google Drive. Writing ProgressTrack your progress all year. For your Student Summary Report Form: Weekly VOCABWeek of April 30 carefully: Select Part of speech...; with care, slowly with careFall color courtesy of Mother Nature desperately: adverb; urgently, with desperation (noun form) - state of being desperate (verb form) or in urgent need of help; Honor veterans on 11-11 figuratively: adverb; not in a literal or real way but one that is related; NASA rover ready to rock on Mars respectfully: adverb; with respect, politely Dec. 1, 1955: Rosa Parks sits to stand for civil rights Today In HistoryMay 3 1948: CBS Evening News premiered. Walter Cronkite took over as anchor in 1962 and became the nation's most trusted news anchor for many years. His coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 will always be remembered as trying to control his emotions, he took off his glasses to announce that the president had died.1915: Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrae, a doctor serving on the front lines in Belgium during World War I, composed a poem - In Flanders Fields. McCrae's inspiration was the combat death of a close friend and former student and poppies growing between rows of graves. 1913: Library of Congress: Playwright William M. Inge was born in Independence, Kansas. Inge wrote several hit plays including Come Back, Little Sheba, Bus Stop, and Picnic, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. His first play, Farther Off From Heaven (1947), was revised ten years later for Broadway as The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Many of his plays were made into films and, in 1961, Inge won an Academy Award for his original screenplay Splendor in the Grass. More from Student News Net
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Studio glass art is a recent development but creating functional glass from silica sand is thousands of years old. Through this Student News Net video, tour the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, Washington to marvel at the beauty of glass and the chemical elements! Student News Net was there in 2017. Read More: Seattle sights are simply stupendous Pink diamonds are rareOver 90 percent of the world's pink diamonds come from The Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia. Pink Diamonds are very rare and very expensive, but all diamonds are tetrahedrons of carbon atoms.  A rush for gold ended quicklyThe story of the short-lived Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) is told at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in downtown Seattle.  Glass: a hot and cool combo of art and scienceGlassblowing is a red hot, totally cool combination of art and science. In The News March: Women's History MonthMarch 3, 2022 - March is Women's History Month. Read and learn about Cornelia Fort (1919-1943).  February: Learn more about Presidents Lincoln and WashingtonJan. 31, 2022 - Take time to learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who were both born in February.  Nation honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Jan. 12, 2022 - On Monday, Jan. 17, the nation will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the father of the civil rights movement.  Cornelia Fort (1919-1943): Pilot and PatriotDec. 7, 2021 - Early on Dec. 7, 1941 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Cornelia Fort, 22, was doing what she loved to do.   |
