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i. TiT i. "Ml "I VOICE LINE Wednesday, February 16, 1994 The Victoria Advocate To her Strt Calk, caff VOCT a STi-ISFOm, mi our iekmm mmtxr COS IB f3 IS To help students rrrerxire for the i reoional spelling bee, Inservice days are full of learning for teachers Ionday, Feb. 21, is Presidents' Day, a holiday for all 1 I Victoria Independent School i I. ii i j.

in .1 ii no il .11, i i.i I i. i. I sions, teachers have time to implement new ideas, practicing what they have learned. As educators, we are in, the business of learning. Our commitment is to ensure that all students learn what they need in ordet to graduate, become productive citizens, and be successful in their next nel change their roles on those days, transforming themselves from teachers to students.

V1SD was granted a waiver this year, allowing the school calendar to include five days for staff development for all school employees. "Staff development" literally means "developing of staff," and so we spend these five days as learners, in much the same way as students when they are in our classrooms. Everyone who works in a school attends training on these five days, learning such things as new ways to teach, new ways to assess student learning, and effective means of managing classrooms. In between training ses District students. For teachers, however, Monday is an "inservice day." Karleen Noake, principal of Stanly School, wrote the following article to explain about inservice.

Have you ever wondered what happens on inservice days, when the classrooms are empty and the children are at home? Classrooms, gyms, and auditoriums usually filled with the laughter and chatter of children become learning environments for the adults who work in our schools. Teachers and other school person The Victoria Advocate offers this column, featuring word spelling, meanings, and origins. Words illustrated are typical of those used in bees but use in competition is not guaranteed. Webster's Third new International Dictionary is the "ofi-cial" dictionary of the bees. This column is prepared by Lawrence Technological University.

Fisticuffs (noun) When modern boxing came into being in 16th-century England, a number of slang expressions sprang into use -including "fisticuffs" a fight with bare fists). "Fisticuffs" is based on "fist," which came into English as "fyst;" and "cuff' (to strike a blow). Rules requiring fighters to wear boxing gloves were introduced to the sport in the late 1800s. Karleen Noake meets with teachers during an Inservice day. Advocate Curtnef level of endeavor.

An additional commitmtment is that each of us continues to learn so that we are providing an education of excellence for all VISD students. As you can see, when "school's out" for students, "school's in ses sion" for teachers. The work of educators is never done, and the learning never stops. What is Ash Wednesday? Arrange these four identical shapes to form a square. Using the same four shapes, 1 make two squares.

that are hurtful to others and ourselves. When we 'fall the good things we enjoy, like our friendships, fall apart like turning into ashes. We ask for Jesus' help to change," the Rev. Bigley explains. Monday Is a Holiday! I often pause and wonder At fate's peculiar ways.

For nearly all our famous men Were born on holidays. What do you get when you cross a lighthouse and a henhouse? Beacon and eggs. It 11 remitter to fte community that wears embarking on a Journey and that we take It seriously." The Lenten season is a "Sometimes we 'fall down' like tripping over a rock, because something that happens outside of us hurts us and we react in hurtful ways. Sometimes we 'fall down' because our thoughts inside of us cause us to do hurtful things," he is a time What do you get when you cross a cocker spaniel, a The answers are somewhere on this page. Today is Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of Lent for Christians.

Some Christian denominations observe Ash Wednesday by actually placing ashes on each member's forehead. You may see someone today with a dark smudge on their forehead. That simply means that they have been to their church and participated in an Ash Wednesday service. "It is a sign and a symbol," explains the Rev. Donald Ruppert of Holy Family Catholic Church.

"There is nothing mystical or magical that has power in it" in the ashes. "It is a reminder to the community that we are embarking on a journey and that we take it seriously." The Lenten season is a "time of prayer," he says. The ashes are made from the palm leaves used last year on Palm Sunday. The leaves are dried, burned, and mixed with a little olive oil, according to the Rev. Barney Matocha of Trinith Lutheran Church.

The minister uses his thumb, dipped in the ashes, to make the sign of the cross on each forehead. "This is the season of repentance, which means 'to turn or return to says the Rev. Matocha. "Lent doesn't focus on the bad things we've done. It focuses on how God pre pares us for life." "It's like a farmer preparing his fields for planting.

He has to burn the old growth off to prepare for new life," the Rev. Matocha states. "The word means explains the Rev. Mark Bigley of Trinity Episcopal Church. "The days are getting lighter instead of darker and getting warmer instead of colder.

We wait in the dark and cold for the light and warmth which the Easter spring brings." The Rev. Bigley asks "Have you ever played the game, 'Ring Around the Remember the words?" Ring around the rosie A pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes We all fall down. "We sing the song and then all fall Ash Wednesday is about Ashes and falling down." "The forty weekdays of Lent is the time that we remember Jesus' forty.days in the wilderness where he was tempted (Matthew 4). We follow Jesus' example and look at all the ways we are tempted to turn away from Jesus and the loving things we do for others. Like the song says, we look for the places where we 'fall and do or say things "time of prayer.

Did you know that more United States presidents were born in Virginia than in any other state? Eight presidents were born in Harding. Four presidents were born in Massachusssetts and four in New York. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy and George Bush were all born in Rev. Donald Ruppert poodle and a rooster? Acockapoodledoo.

What do you get when you cross a kangaroo with a calendar? Leap year. What do you get when you cross an owl with a skunk? An animal that smells bad but doesn't give a hoot. What do you get when you cross a Northerner and an artist? A Yankee doodler. What do you get when you cross a sports car with an elephant? A little car when we ask Jesus to help us to remove the inside and outside rocks over which we stumble." The Rev. Bigley adds, "Ashes help us to remember that we are people.

Just as we 'fall down' in our actions, when we get older our bodies will 'fall when we die. We look forward to Easter when Jesus will raise us from the ashes to a new life with him." Virginia. They were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachery Taylor and Woodrow Wilson. Ohio was the birth place of seven presidents. They were Ulysses S.

Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Massachussetts. Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D.

Roosevelt were born in New York. Three states can brag about being the birth place of two presidents. James Knox Polk and Andrew Johnson were born in North Carolina. Vermont was home to Chester A. Arthur and Calvin Coolidge.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson were born in Texas. li i id iy I .4 ki .4 Oh withabig trunk. What do you get when you cross a four-leaf clover with poison ivy? A rash of good luck.

jlQJUUzW'jOU ilJLvb likitl I Of v. Sixth grader preaches what's gospel to many What is the most important lice fnr cowhide? To hear our sf February answer, dial Corey T. Boyd, a sophomore at Victoria High School, wrote the following article in celebration of Black History Month, Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania in 1858. He was the oldest of five. He Corey T.

Boyd Advocate Photo by Frank Tilley was not your average Negro child. When he was born he had a fair complexion, blue eyes, and hair that tended toward the reddish. When Daniel was eleven, his father became veiy ill and could no longer support his family. Soon after his father died he decided he wanted to find out what causes diseases, so he started studying medicine. Years after Dan received his med ical degree he was faced with a serious problem, a young black male was stabbed in a local bar and needed chest surgeiy.

Dr. Dan was the only doctor capable of doing the surgery. After he finished the surgery, the patient was listed in fair condition and from that day on Daniel Hale Williams was called the first man ever to successfully complete an open-heart surgeiy. 578-INFO, then push KIDS. 15, 1894, he was pronounced the surgeon-in-chief of Freedmen's Hospital.

Years after, Dr. D. H. Williams had a major stroke and died, and was remembered as the "Open-Heart Doctor." iddf Ufe KidsLife Editor Jamie Broughton Page Bill Pliske Dear Ryan, Today is a terrific day for heart questions! The human heart is a big set of muscles about the size of your fist. It's a pump that moves blood through t- f'vif chwfchX- Vor, miles of veins and arteries.

That blood feeds all of the body's cells, removes cell waste and defends us aaainst I invaders like germs. So the heart has an important job. 1 A pump is usually a machine with a set of pistons or I 1 a propeller-like set of blades. But the heart has none or inose. Dasicany a noiiow, Dan-like muscle WHAT IS GOING ON: Your squeeze bottle behaved a lot like the heart.

It got bigger and and sucked in and ts squeezed out bath water. The heart does the same i thing with blood. Our hearts are divided into four chambers. Chambers A and are called atriums (A-tree-umz). and are called ventricles i (VEN-tree-cuIz).

They squeeze f- and unsqueeze to pump blood. 1 Your experiment and your heart wouldn't work without valves. In your tub, the valves were your finger on the hole and the cap. In our the valves are little flaps of muscle that open and close. In this simplified drawing, the valves have circ'es around them.

The vc'vcs make sure that blood (or bath water) goes in only one direction. 3C You Can copy the pumping action of the heart in today's 4 Kansas Cltyjl Mftf experiment. If I CapS 2 4 i Cap Open Beakman Place I How Can A Ball Of Muscle Be A Pump? WHAT YOU NEED: An empty squeeze bottle with a I-Keep squeezing the bottle' and lift your finger off the 1 First, hold the bottle under water and fill it with water. Put closing top, like a dish soap on and pull the top With the bottle still Jt's open. Hold one finrj shut the top of WHAT TO DO: The next time you take a bath, take a few minutes to turn your dish soap bottle into a pump Before get in the tub, ask someone who's allowed to use a knife to cut a small hole in the bottom of the bottle.

0p. Now let the bottle expand. When it's full, cover the little hole with your finger again and open the cap. the little hole and lift trtt out of the water. The bottom of the bottle is still under water.

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