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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Kid Scoop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Denton ISD Update . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Teacher & principal profiles . . . . 8

Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Library events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Top of the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Lunchbox Bites. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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February 2011 | Vol. 4, No. 6Publisher: Bill Patterson

The contents of this free publicationare copyrighted by Denton Publish-ing Company, 2008, a subsidiary ofA.H. Belo Corp. (www.ahbelo.com,NYSE symbol: AHC) with all rightsreserved. Reproduction or use, with-out permission, of editorial or graph-ic content in any manner is prohibit-ed. Kid Life is published monthly byDenton Publishing Company, 314 E.Hickory St., Denton, TX 76201. E-mail: drc@dentonrc.com

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Borman students JohnDavid Smith and AdieGuima (center) helpCommunities in SchoolsCoordinator Aimee Cranestack food for a recent fooddrive the students inBorman's Communitues inSchools program did forfamilies in the community.

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This month, be sure to putthe “Empowering Families”conference on your “to do”list. Sponsored by DentonISD’s counseling servicesdepartment, the event fea-tures food and tips on par-enting. The event is set forFeb. 12, beginning at 8a.m. at Ryan High School.

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Your heart needs exercise, just like all of theother muscles in your body. The faster youmove, the faster your heart beats. Exercisingfor a while every day is good for the heart.

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ou have a treasure chest with you every day.Inside your chest, there is atreasure that keeps you alive.It is your heart.

Your heart is in the middleof your chest, a little to theleft. Put your hand on yourchest and be very still. Canyou feel your heart beating?

Your heart is actually amuscle, a very strong muscle.

It pumps blood to all parts ofyour body. It works all thetime, even when you�resleeping.

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Real hearts don�t look much likeValentine hearts. Inside the treasurechest is a picture of a real heart. Thetubes that stick out from the heartare the arteries and veins that carryblood to and from all parts of your body. Arteries carry blood from your heart to your body, to

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4Denton ISD Update

Community In Schools’ programs helping students to succeedAdie Guima rarely lets the smile

drift from her face as she stackscans of vegetables and soups on acounter in a classroom at BormanElementary. It’s a smile thatshows off a sense of accomplish-ment.

Adie and many of her class-mates helped collect canned andboxed food to distribute through-out the neighborhood to familiesin need before the holidays. It wasone of the largest collections ofnon-perishable goods the studentshave ever collected and furtherproof that the programs run byCommunities in Schools of NorthTexas in the Denton IndependentSchool District are helping stu-dents in multiple ways.

“Every year we do this, the kidsbring more and more food. We’rein a recession and yet we collectedfrom 1,000 to 1,200 items to helpothers,” said Aimee Crane, CIScoordinator at Borman. “Thesekids may need help, yet they helpothers too. We’re teaching them togive back to the community andthey do it all the time.”

Communities in Schools beganin the 1970s in New York Citywhen founder Bill Milliken decid-ed he wanted to use many of thelocal community’s resources intothe city’s public schools. The resultis an organization that has spreadto 25 states. It has helped supportand empower students in morethan 3,400 schools to succeed inschool and in life.

The CIS program is in place onsix Denton ISD elementary cam-puses (Borman, Evers Park,Hodge, Lee, Rivera and NewtonRayzor) and serves approximately100 students each in many ways.CIS helps students academicallyby providing mentors to studentsthat need guidance, offering tutor-ing and enrichment to studentsthat need help in the classroomand providing snacks and meals tostudents that might otherwise gohungry.

The assistance depends on thestructure of the program, but stu-dents’ needs are always met.Borman and Rivera’s CIS pro-grams are offered during theschool day, while the students at

Jose Regaldo, akindergartner atNewton RayzorElementary, handshis classmate KylePhillips (left) trashafter snack time dur-ing the campus’after-school CIS pro-gram. Kyle Phillipswas completing ahelpful task to helpearn him pointstoward an end-of-the-week prize.

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Evers Park, Hodge, Lee andNewton Rayzor all participate inCIS after school.

The day program has been aDenton ISD staple for more than adecade at schools with studentswho need the assistance. This CISprogram serves more of a socialservices role with each campusoperating in a differently to meettheir students’ needs.

At Borman, CIS has teamed upwith the North Texas Food Bank toprovide weekend snacks for stu-dents through the Food 4 Kids ini-tiative, worked with Denton ISD’sGrandparents in Public Schoolsgroup to provide weekly mentor-ing sessions for students andorganized various “think about thefuture” activities such as CollegeDay, Career Day and Red RibbonWeek.

Borman also organizes events toget students, parents and mem-bers of the community interactingwith each other on a regular basis.

“Our purpose is to provideresources to help students fill inthe gaps they need to succeed,” saidMs. Crane.

The after-school CIS programhas been a part of Denton ISDsince 2008 and is funded throughthe a 21st Century Grant.

The 21st Century Grant CIS

program focuses on academicenrichment and serves studentsafter school for three hours a dayand four hours a day during a four-week period during the summer.Students get tutoring in subjectsthat need improvement, expandtheir learning of the arts and sci-ences and learn to better theirsocial skills through teamworkexercises.

“It’s really fun because we get to

talk and learn about new things –and I love to learn about newthings!” said Ray Ann Geletko, athird grade student in the CIS pro-gram at Newton Rayzor.

Parents also get assistance withcomputer and English as a SecondLanguage classes and parentingworkshops.

The program’s goal is to ensurethat every student has the skillsand support to succeed in and out

of school, Mrs. Ader said. “Our primary goal is to provide a

safe place for the kids, but we alsobring in a lot of college and workforce professionals and get theminvolved,” Mrs. Ader said. “Themain thing we want is to be therefor them because the more we havethem, the more successful we’ll bewith them and the greater theimpact they’ll have on the commu-nity.”

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Programa ‘Communities in Schools’ ayuda alumnos a tener éxitoDentro de su clase en la Primaria

Borman, Adie Guima, no para desonreír al arreglar latas de vegetalesy sopas encima de un mostrador.Antes de las navidades, Adie ymuchos de sus compañeros ayu-daron a recolectar comida en lataspara distribuir alrededor de suvecindario a familias necesitadas.Fue una de las colecciones másgrandes de alimentos los alumnoshan reunido y también prueba quelos programas de Communities inSchools (CIS) del Norte de Tejas ydel Distrito Escolar Independientede Denton ayuda a los alumnos demúltiples maneras.

“Todos los años nosotros hace-mos esto, los niños traen cada vezmás alimentos. Estamos en unarecesión y todavía reunimos de1.000 a 1.200 artículos para ayudara otros,” dijo Aimee Crane, coordi-nadora de CIS de la PrimariaBorman. “Estos niños puedennecesitar ayuda, pero eligen ayudara otros también. Les enseñamos adevolver a la comunidad y ellos lohacen todo el tiempo”.

El programa Communities inSchools (Comunidades enEscuelas) empezó en los añossetenta en la Ciudad de Nueva Yorkcuando el fundador Bill Millikendecidió que quería utilizar muchosde los recursos del vecindario en lasescuelas públicas de la ciudad.Años después, el resultado es unaorganización que ha esparcido a 25estados y la cual ha ayudado aalumnos tener éxito en sus vidasdentro de más de 3.400 escuelasalrededor del país.

El programa de CIS se desem-peña dentro de seis primarias delDenton ISD (Borman, Evers Park,Hodge, Lee, Rivera y NewtonRayzor) y ayuda aproximadamentea 100 alumnos de muchas man-eras. CIS ayuda académicamenteproporcionando mentores a losalumnos que necesitan guía, ofre-ciendo clases privadas y ayudando aellos que necesitan ayuda en susaulas. Dentro del programa losalumnos también reciben bocadosy comidas para aquellos quepueden ser necesitados. La ayuda ofrecida depende de lasreglas del programa, pero lasnecesidades de los alumnos siem-

Jose Regaldo, un alumnodel kinder de la PrimariaNewton Rayzor, le da unpoco de basura a su com-pañero Kyle Phillips(izquierda).

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alumnos puedan tener éxito,” dijola Sra. Crane.

El programa extraescolar de CIS(después de escuela) ha formadoparte del Denton ISD desde el2008 y es financiado por los fondosdel Depto. de Educación llamado21st Century Grant.

El programa CIS del 21stCentury Grant se enfoca enenriquecimiento académico y asistea alumnos tres horas diarias y lascuatro horas diarias durante unperíodo de cuatro-semana en elverano.

Los alumnos reciben clases pri-vadas en las materias que necesitan

mejorar, y enriquecen sus estudiosaprendiendo sobre las artes y lasciencias; también aprenden amejorar su aptitud para el tratosocial con ejercicios de trabajo enequipo.

“Es realmente divertido porqueconseguimos hablar y aprendercosas nuevas – y me encanta apren-der cosas nuevas”! dijo Ray AnnGeletko, un alumno del tercergrado del programa de CIS enNewton Rayzor.

Los padres también recibenayuda de computación e ingléscomo segundo idioma y talleres consugerencias para ser mejores

padres. El objetivo del programa esasegurar que cada alumno obtengadiferentes habilidades y apoyo den-tro y fuera de escuela, la Sra. Aderafirmó.

“Nuestro primer objetivo es pro-porcionar un lugar seguro para losniños, pero también nosotros trae-mos a muchos profesionales de launiversidad y profesionales endiferentes carreras y les pedimosque participen,” la Sra. Ader dijo.“Lo principal es estar allí con ellosporque entre más tiempo estamoscon ellos,, mas será el impacto queellos tendrán dentro de la comu-nidad”.

pre se cubren. Los programas deBorman y Rivera se ofrecendurante el día lectivo, mientras quelos alumnos de Evers Park, Hodge,Lee y Newton Rayzor participan enel programa después de la escuela. El programa de CIS ofrecidodurante el día ha sido un ejemplode más de una década en escuelasdel Distrito Escolar de Denton. Elprograma ofrece más serviciossociales dentro de cada plantel yopera de diferentes formas paraayudar a los alumnos necesitados. En Borman, CIS se ha asociado conEl Banco de Alimentos del Norte deTejas para proporcionar durante elfin de semana bocados en el pro-grama Food 4 Kids, el cual trabajacon la ayuda del programa deGrandparents in Public Schools(Abuelos en las Escuelas Públicas)para ofrecer sesiones para alentar alos alumnos con muchas activi-dades – El Dia Universitario, El Diade Profesiones o carreras y laSemana del Liston Rojo conocidaen ingles como Red Ribbon Week.Borman también organiza variosacontecimientos para que los alum-nos, sus padres y los miembros dela comunidad se comuniquen conregularidad.

“Nuestro propósito es de propor-cionar recursos para ayudar a los

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Actor Clark Gableborn (1901)

The Battle ofStalingrad in WorldWar II ends (1943)

U.S. hosts its firstWinter OlympicGames (1932)

England’s Elizabeth IItakes throne (1952)

The Scream stolenfrom National Gallery(1994)

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Economist/demogra-pher Thomas Malthusborn (1766)

Fidel Castro becomespremier of Cuba(1959)

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Writer Toni Morrisonborn (1931)

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Core module of spacestation Mir launched(1986)

World Trade Centerbombed (1993)

Birth flower: Paperwhite narcissus

Visit www.dentonisd.org for more information on Denton Independent School District events and holidays.

Moon phases taken from www.sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/phase/phase2001cst.html.

Learn more about the historical events and information on this calendar by visiting the Encyclopedia Britannica at www.britannica.com.

U.S. wins Persian GulfWar (1991)

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February 2011Sunday

Fourth grade students atNelson Elementary recentlyworked on various chalk proj-ects in Denise Clyne-Ruch’s artclass. Yesenia Hernandez (topright) and Logan Simon (bottomleft) each displayed differentscenes of a Pueblo using onlychalk, while Lois Robertson(bottom right) and JalonFlanagan (top left) used a com-bination of pastel chalk andmarkers to create their “BadHair Day” art works.

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AAnnddyy KKaannee iiss 22001100 PPaalloommaa CCrreeeekk TTeeaacchheerr ooff tthhee YYeeaarrAndy Kane began his career in

education in 2000 as a secondgrade teacher at Evers ParkElementary, here in Denton ISD,and never left.

Mr. Kane moved over to RyanElementary in 2001 to teach sec-ond grade and has been at PalomaCreek since the school opened in2007. He is a member of theschool’s crisis management team,has mentored both student teach-ers and teachers with alternativecertification.

A former elementary spellingbee champion, Mr. Kane is knownaround campus for always main-taining a positive attitude andgreeting his students at the doorevery morning.

Mr. Kane graduated from theUniversity of North Texas with aBachelor of Science inInterdisciplinary Studies.

His teaching philosophy: “Ifchildren always feel valued andloved, they will do anything and tryto achieve anything.”

LLaacceeyy WWeellllss iiss 22001100 HHaawwkk TTeeaacchheerr ooff tthhee YYeeaarrLacey Wells has nine years of

teaching experience, with themajority coming here with DentonISD.

Mrs. Wells has been a thirdgrade teacher at Hawk Elementarysince 2005, returning to the profes-sion after a 10-year break, whichshe used to spend time with family.

Since her return, Mrs. Wells hasbecome extremely involved in thelocal learning community, servingas a teaching team leader at Hawk,a mentor to UNT student teachersand as an active booster club mem-ber of the Guyer High School band. Mrs. Wells is a graduate of AbileneChristian University where shereceived a Bachelor of Science inEducation.

Her teaching philosophy: “Everychild can learn, so it’s important toencourage problem solving skillsand risk taking. This lets childrencan see the value in differences ofopinion and learning from pastmistakes.”

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Have you ever thought aboutwhat you want to be when yougrow up? It’s never too early tostart, so ask yourself these ques-tions:

Do you like to help people?Would adults say you are kind andcaring? Do you like to take care ofpets when they’re hurt or injured?

If you can answer “yes” to any ofthese questions, you might want tothink about becoming a nurse. Ifyou are a boy, you may think nurs-ing is only for girls – it’s not. Moreand more men are joining thenursing field and helping take careof patients just as women have formany years.

Any place you can possibly thinkof probably has a nurse ready totake care of you should you get sickor hurt. Nurses work on cruiseships, taking care of passengerswho get sick or injured when theship is out on the ocean andnowhere near a hospital.

Nurses also work in factoriesand big companies. These nursesare called occupational healthnurses and they not only take careof sick or injured workers, but alsoteach health classes and give tips onavoiding sickness or injury at work.

There are nurses who fly on hel-icopters or airplanes and helptransport people who are sick orinjured and nurses who only seebabies or children. There are evennurses who take care of soldiers inthe military services.

Health care is one of the fastest-growing careers across the world,which means if you like to helppeople, there’s a good chance anursing job could be waiting foryou in the future. If you want tolearn more about nurses or wherethey can work, just ask – becausethere is always a nurse at yourschool, too!

- Jonita Widmer, Director ofHealth Services for Denton ISD

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