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Students at all levels worked hard to meet their reading goals as March was full ofspace-themed fun for Reading Month. Badgeswere earned, prizes awarded, and special guestsincluding Darth Vader stopped by the school to en-courage everyone to keep reading. The theme of“Dream Big” was the school’s focus during thisspecial month. In order to help everyone “DreamBig” Dansville Elementary partnered with theMake-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan to raisemoney to help a student achieve their dreams.Our students raised $512 to help the Make-A-WishFoundation! A portion of that money was raised bystudents at the annual PTO Reading Night wherefor $1.00 a yard of duct tape could be purchased tohelp tape Mr. Cox, our principal, to the gym wall.There was not enough duct tape to keep him upthere for very long but we did raise $125 just induct tape sales. As one of the reading rewards,Darth Vader came for a visit to have lunch withmany of our students. It was a great month ofreading and fun had by all! May the “Force” bewith you as you continue your reading adventures!

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ond Graders spent the month of March exploring ourSolar System. They researched each heavenly body,including the sun, planets, our moon and asteroids.Students had fun painting paper mache models. Thesemodels decorated our ceiling throughout the month.Students wrote stories imagining the adventure oftravel into space or another planet. We read from bi-ographies of famous US astronauts Buzz Aldrin andNeil Armstrong. Our studies culminated with a trip toAbram’s Planetarium in East Lansing.


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She is widely known as the writer of Little Women, a self reflec-tive book published in 1868. Louisa May Alcott was an Americanwriter who authored over 30 books and short-story collections andwrote poetry as well. Little Women, her most famous book, was a

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As she grew older, she developed as both an abolitionist and afeminist. She volunteered to be a nurse in an army hospital inWashington D.C. during the Civil War. While in Washington shecontracted typhoid fever and was treated with mercury, which af-fected her for the rest of her life, causing pain, weakness and hal-lucinations. Later she would become an advocate of women’ssuffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord,Massachusetts.

Her health worsened as she grew older, she continued to write.She died of mercury poisoning which she contracted when she re-ceived calomel treatments for the effects of typhoid. She died inBoston on March 6, 1888 at the age of 56. She was buried atSleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

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When the water seeps through the seed’s shell into the embryo, the seedbegins to swell. It often splits the seed coating and with the absorption ofoxygen by the seed, energy is made for growth. As the seed starts to ger-minate, the first thing that comes out of it is the main root. The main rootdevelops root hairs which absorb more water and attaches the embryo to

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Memorial Day is May 25th!Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that honors and remembers those who died while serving in the

military. The roots of the Memorial Day observance goes back to 1865 and the end of the CivilWar. It was known as Decoration Day until 1882 and then it was changed to Memorial Day. Theholiday was traditionally held on the 30th of May. In 1971, Congress declared it a national holi-day and changed it to the last Monday in May. It is customary to fly the U.S. flag at half staff onthis day. It also marks the unofficial start to the summer season. Write about what you can doto honor this day?


• Australia is the world’s largest island! Although this is the largestisland, Australia, is the smallest continent. • The capital is Canberra. It even has it’s own territory!• The official name of the island is the Commonwealth of Aus-tralia. The continent was once under the control of Great Britainand was given that name. The first European discovery of the is-land was in 1606, by the Dutch. British people started to inhabitthe land in 1788. Many settlers were prisoners sent to live thereas punishment. The new people lived with the native population inpeace for a short time, and then fighting over the land broke out. • The population is about 23 million people!• The currency is the Australian Dollar.• Weather in Australia includes all seasons. They may seem back-wards compared to United States seasons, because winter is fromJune to August, spring is from September to November, summeris from December to February, and autumn is from March to May.In the north, there are two seasons. The two seasons are called

the wet season and the dry season.The wet season is December toMarch and is when tropical Aus-tralia receives the most rain andstorms. The dry season, May toOctober, is mainly sunny skies. • The discovery of gold in Australiadrew more and more foreign set-tlers to the continent. By 1859, sixdifferent colonies were formed. By1901 the colonies came together toform the Commonwealth of Aus-tralia.

• The official language of Australia is English.• The government is a democracy. • A desert area known as “the outback” covers about two-thirds ofthe land. A large mass of land rising from the ground is called Uluruand located in Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia’s RedCentre, which is rich in Australian indigenous culture and spiritual-ity. It is a World Heritage site and an ancient spiritual site for the in-digenous population. • It is estimated the humans have lived in Australia for around45,000 years. The indigenous people of Australia are AustralianAborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Aborigines make up 2% ofAustralia's population today.• Australia has more than378 mammal species, 828bird species, 4000 fishspecies, 300 species oflizards, 140 snake species,two crocodile species andaround 50 types of marinemammal. • Sydney, Australia is hometo an iconic opera house, de-signed by the Danish JørnUtzon and opened in 1973.• Australia is the only coun-try in the world to take up anentire continent. • There are an estimated27,700 plant species in Aus-tralia.

Australia

The Great Barrier Reef in EasternAustralia is home to more than 3,000reefs, which contain over 350 speciesof corals and over 1,500 species offish. It is the biggest coral reef in theworld.

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