Monday, May 20, 2013, Tracy Bergum’s 5th grade students from Sacred Heart School in East Grand Forks visited the Grand Forks Herald downtown office. Thanks for coming – we enjoyed your visit!
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Larimore, N.D. 6th Grade Students 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013, the 6th grade students from Larimore, N.D. visited the Grand Forks Herald downtown office. They are pictured here with teacher Brenda Beck (right) and para Judith Quinn (left).
This same group visited the Grand Forks Herald production plant last May as 5th graders. Here are a couple of photos of them from last year at the Herald production plant.
What is Arbor Day?
Glenda E. Fauske the Information and Education Coordinator / ND Forest Service at North Dakota State University in Bottineau, N.D. provided me with some excellent information on Arbor Day.
April 26 is the “national” Arbor Day. North Dakota’s Arbor Day is the first Friday in May. Each state has their own Arbor Day depending upon the planting season in their state. This year, however, ND is celebrating their State Arbor Day on May 17 at Annie’s House in Bottineau, N.D. Click on the following links to learn more:
- Work with a friend, a relative or a parent to clip pictures and names of trees from your newspaper over the period of a couple of weeks. Clip photos from newspaper stories or advertisements; clip the names of trees, try to draw your own picture of how each tree appears.
- Create a scrapbook of trees popular or commonly grown in your community. Paste or tape pictures of different trees on different pages of your scrapbook and identify the type of tree you have selected. If you clip names of trees, try to draw your own picture of how each tree appears.
- Finally, try to find an example of a leaf from most of the types of trees you identified in your notebook. Attach the leaf to the appropriate page. If you can’t find a particular leaf, do some research and draw a sample leaf from the tree.
- When you complete your scrapbook, add a page to the back of the scrapbook in which you describe any findings you and your partner made. Include any final statements about your research and what you learned about trees in your community.
Fisher, MN High School Juniors
Monday, April 22 we had visitors from Fisher, Minnesota. Trish Ronnigen and her marketing students toured the Grand Forks Herald! Thanks for coming – we enjoyed your visit!
Celebrating Our Cultures 2013
You are invited to Celebrating Our Cultures Tuesday, April 23 at Red River High School in Grand Forks. The event will feature presentations, cultural songs and dances from New American & International students and food sampling from various countries. The event is free and open to the public beginning at 5:30pm. Enter through Red River High School Door #1 by Cushman Field. For more information call (701)746-2205 #115.
Cool it: the good, the bad and what you can do about global warming
Is there anything better than a warm, sunny day? All winter, we wait for the weather to warm up so we can throw off our sweaters and pull on our shorts. Warm days let us play in the parks and playgrounds, ride our bikes or head for the swimming pool.
But could our weather be getting too warm? Scientists think so. Environmental scientists and geoscientists study the Earth and its history. They measure and track all kinds of information so they can help us protect the environment. Scientists tell us what may happen in the future and give advice on taking care of our wonderful planet.
This NIE tab, Cool it: The Good, the Bad and What You Can Do About Global Warming was produced by KRP and distributed by the NIE Institute.
Download the tab by clicking here
Note: if you are going to print this pdf, you will need to adjust your print setting to fit on page. The pdf is bigger than 8.5 x 11 (normal print size.)
Special guests from Angle Inlet School
Monday afternoon we had visitors at the Grand Forks Herald all the way from Angle Inlet School in Minnesota. Located on the Canadian border, in Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, the Angle Inlet School is the only surviving one room school in the state. Although sixty-five miles from Warroad, Minnesota the school is part of the Warroad School District #690.
http://www.yahooey.com/angleschool/
The Angle is accessible from the rest of Minnesota by one of two ways:
- The Angle can be reached without crossing the international border by crossing the Lake of the Woods by boat when the lake is free of ice, by ice road in the winter or by flying over it in a plane. No automobile ferries currently operate on the lake, so vehicles coming from the rest of Minnesota can reach the Angle without crossing the border only in winter. While the ice is forming in late autumn and breaking up in the spring, the lake’s surface cannot be crossed safely – at these times domestic access to the Angle is possible only by air.
- To reach the Angle by land, travelers take Minnesota State Highway 313N (Warroad, Minnesota to Sprague, Manitoba) across the border into Manitoba, Canada, connecting to Provincial Road 12 in Manitoba at the border, then to Provincial Road 308 Manitoba, to Provincial Road 525, then finally crossing back into the United States in the Northwest Angle south of rural Angle Inlet, Minnesota (Angle Inlet Township). The distance from Warroad or Roseau to the Angle proper is approximately 63 miles through Minnesota and Manitoba back to the Angle’s U.S. border. It is approximately 10 miles from the actual border (intersection of Manitoba #525 and NWA Road Dawson) to the rural developments of the Northwest Angle.
Reporting booth at Jim’s Corner. Upon entering the Northwest Angle by road, the traveler must enter the booth and report to U.S. Customs via videophone. Before leaving the Northwest Angle by road, one must report to Canadian customs from the same booth.
The border crossing is unstaffed. Travelers using the single gravel road in and out of the Angle are expected to use a telephone at Jim’s Corner, Youngs Bay Marina or Carlsons Landing to contact Canadian or U.S. Customs and make their declarations. -Wikipedia.org
Angle Inlet School Photo by Linda Kastl
Teacher Linda Kastl, her students and grandmother of some of the students traveled to Grand Forks on Sunday. Monday the group toured WDAZ TV in the morning and the Grand Forks Herald in the afternoon. They are pictured below in the lobby of the Grand Forks Herald. Thanks for making the trip to see us. We enjoyed your visit!
Photo by Sue Lindlauf
Grand Forks high school students teach respect & caring at elementary schools
Red River High School drama students (L-R) Jacoba Woodard, Nic Rolph, Morgan Yound, Seth Cline and Erin Lesch present their annual Character Education performance for children at Century Elementary School Wednesday. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
Be sure to check out this story by Jennifer Johnson, Herald staff writer, in the Thursday, March 21 Grand Forks Herald.
With skits, Grand Forks high schoolers teach respect, caring at elementary schools
Here is an activity page on Respect to use with younger students. Download by clicking on the following link: RESPECT
Art Activities Using the Newspaper
In celebration of the Art Wise Elementary Art Show March 19-21 in Grand Forks, here are some art activities to use with the newspaper from the NIE Institute.
Download and print the activities by clicking here
Art activities using the Newspaper:
1. Study the figures from the sport’s section. Note the position of a body when playing ball, running or jumping. Draw some of the figures in different positions.
2. Illustrate a news story noting place, persons, events, spectators, etc.
3. Using the expressions of the comic characters draw faces showing emotion; surprise, sad, happy, etc. Find photographs illustrating a variety of expressions.
4. Using cut-outs from ads, create a new ad considering: arousing attention, pleasing balance, pleasing colors and overall effect.
5. Use the comics to:
• Illustrate some of the comic characters.
• Discuss how artists communicate the idea of motion i.e. raised feet, body position, curved motion lines, etc.
• Color black and white comics.
• Analyze emotions; happy, sad, frightened, angry, etc. Discuss how the artists communicate emotion.
• For a study in shapes color all squares in red, rectangles in blue, circles in green, etc.
6. Use a photograph as a still life model.
7. Re-design a house in the classified ads. Enlarge or modify, re-design the outside by adding a patio, porch, second story, etc. Color a picture of a house in different colors to study how color affects appearance. Design the interior as described in the ad.
8. For a discussion of textures have students cut out pictures of things in the paper that have different textures. Paste on poster board or sheet of paper. Next to the picture write one word that describes the texture such as soft, furry, scratchy, smooth, etc.
9. Draw a caricature (a drawing of a person that makes a certain feature stand out) of someone in the news.
10. Create a person’s face by drawing features from a variety of faces; eyes, shape, hair, etc.
11. Find examples of different font styles in the paper. Select one style you like and try writing your name in this style.
12. Using animal photos in the newspaper, create an animal scene such as a zoo, circus, farmyard, jungle, etc.
13. Illustrate a newspaper ad that has no picture with it.
14. Younger students can make an alphabet book using headline and advertising letters. Use newspaper pictures to illustrate each letter.
15. Cut out a picture of a person in a sport’s scene. Have students draw a crowd watching the event and of other players in different positions surrounding the player.
16. Draw a comic strip based on a news story.
17. Create newspaper scrapbooks for a variety of themes; transportation, holidays, landscapes, buildings, plants, etc.
18. Collect and study photographs with regard to perspective, proportion, balance, shading, use of color, etc.
19. Watch the newspaper for stories of art related articles; art sales, shows and exhibits, art form, etc.
20. For a study of architecture have students design house plans based on descriptions of houses listed in the real estate ads.
21. Make a silhouette using the classified section as the paper for the head. Have students cut out words from the paper that describe them. Cut out the silhouette and paste it on a piece of construction paper with the describing words pasted around the head.
22. Illustrate a letter to the editor as a political cartoon.
23. Draw a map of the places mentioned in the front page news.
Don’t miss the Art Wise Elementary Art Show!
You are invited to the Art Wise Elementary Art Show at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks March 19-21. There will be artwork on display from every K-5 student in our area. There will also be art activities, live stage performances, face painting, make and take art stations, demonstrating artists and concessions. Free admission – bring the whole family! For more information visit www.artwise4kids.com
