The Junior Star

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Job Spotlight Special: Teacher vs. French Teacher

Is it easier to teach French or grade four? Is teaching French very different from teaching grade four? What do you think? We interviewed Madame Distefano, fourth grade/French teacher at Pleasantville Public School about teaching grade four vs. teaching French, and here’s what she told us.
Madame Distefano feels that the difference between teaching French and grade four is that she has an opportunity to become more familiar with her students since she sees them more often by teaching them more than one subject. As a French teacher she only teaches them one subject and only has an opportunity to see them for about three hours a week.
Madame Distefano thinks that, whether she’s teaching French or grade four, one thing remains the same: she’s still teaching kids, which she likes to do.
Personally, Madame Distefano thinks that it’s easier to teach French because, “I’ve taught French for a longer time than I’ve taught grade four. But if I taught grade four again it would probably be easier, because I would’ve already taught it for a year. So I guess it would be easier to teach the one that I’ve taught for longer, which is French.”
So what do you think now? If you would like to be a teacher do you think you’d prefer to be a French teacher or a grade four teacher?

Anagram of the Week

Unscramble the words in italics. Remember: It will relate to at least one of the other words in the sentence.
To let off some steam, some children must rant in fits of temper.

Job Spotlight Special: Teacher vs. French Teacher / Anagram of the Week	1
The Learning Corner: Sir Fredrick Banting: Who Invented Insulin?	2
Junior Conundrum / Trivia Question of the Week
The Story Corner: A Man and his Greed	3
Book Review: Shiloh / Movie Review: Open Season / Anime Review: Bleach
Movie Genre Word Search	4
Things that you learn from Movies / Survey: What’s your Favourite Movie Genre?

Thought of the Week:
When the mind is steeped in positive thoughts, happiness will arise. But when not holding tightly onto happiness, the wisdom will arise.
Meniscus

The Learning Corner: Sir Fredrick Banting: Who Discovered Insulin?

Sir Fredrick Banting was a very successful man. During his lifetime, he was knighted by King George V, fought in World War II, and, most importantly, with partner Charles Best, discovered insulin, the long-awaited cure to diabetes.
Fredrick Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario. After studying medicine at the University of Toronto and graduating in 1916, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. He won the Military Cross during the war. After the war, he returned to Canada and completed his training as a surgeon at the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. In July 1920 he began to practice medicine in London, Ontario and gave lectures at the University of Western Ontario. There, on October 31, 1920, he wrote down an idea for a method to isolate the internal secretion of the pancreas, in other words, his idea on curing diabetes. Soon after, Fredrick Banting left London and moved to Toronto. There, on May 17, 1921 he began his research at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Professor John Macleod. He was assigned an assistant to help him, a student named Charles Best.
That summer, Fredrick and Charles worked almost nonstop testing their idea. They were determined, and would stop at nothing to cure diabetes. They performed their ideas on dogs, but at first all they managed to do was kill the dogs, not helping anyone.
But in 1922, the miracle! Fredrick Banting tested his idea on a dog named Marjorie – and it worked! Marjorie was cured! Fredrick and Charles had cured diabetes! The world was in an uproar. This was amazing!
In 1923, Charles and Fredrick were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine. In 1934, Fredrick was knighted by King George V for his cure.
So when Fredrick Banting died in February 21, 1942, he died a successful man, and life today wouldn’t be the same without Sir Fredrick Banting.

Junior Conundrum

To promote a new delivery service, Pizza Hut is including a coupon for 10% off your next purchase at Indigo with every pizza purchase. What a deal! So you decided to order a triple cheese pizza.
When the pizza arrived, you noticed that the coupon for 10% off your next purchase at Indigo was in the corner of the square box, so that its corner just barely touched the outside of the perfectly-circular pizza. The coupon measures exactly 140 mm by 70 mm.
What is the diameter of the pizza, in millimetres? Please round to the nearest millimetre.

Trivia Question of the Week

What is the same between the Girl Guides and the Boy Scouts?
a) Their founder
b) Their badge system
c) Their motto

The Story Corner: A Man and his Greed

A man while crossing a desert came across a huge rock half buried in sand. Scrawled on the boulder was this inscription: / TURN ME OVER AND YOU WILL BENEFIT FROM IT / The man felt sure there was a great treasure hidden beneath it and worked mightily to turn it over. He succeeded after several hours. But there was no treasure there, only an inscription on the underside of the rock. / The inscription was: / GREED IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. REMEMBER THIS AND YOU WILL BE A BETTER MAN. / Moral: It is not good to be greedy. It will rarely benefit you.

Movie Review: Open Season Rating: 10/10

There is a tamed grizzly bear named Boog who was a small baby and showed his tricks to people on a small stage. He lived with his owner and the silly man who was a hunter and was waiting anxiously for the open season. The open season starts in the spring when animals come out after hibernating in a very long winter. So people wanted to kill the animals so that they could get food. The hunter wanted Boog. As Boog grew and became a giant bear, his owner didn’t want to keep him because he needed a lots of food to eat and lots of space to live in. He mostly lived in the garage but suddenly he met a new friend Elliot the deer and the deer wanted to become his friend and he caused many problems like disturbing the show on the stage and breaking into the store and putting Boog’s name down so they would think that he broke the glass in the store. So everybody was very angry at Boog and he was no longer allowed in the city. He had to move away into the jungle. His owner was very sad and always remembered the time she had spent with him. She was worried that Boog might be killed in the open season by the hunter. Boog thought Elliot was his best friend. And then came open season! People from far and near went to the jungle to hunt the animals. Will Boog be able to save the other animals as well as himself? Find out in this interesting movie!

Book Review: Shiloh Rating: 8/10

When Marty, who has wanted a dog his whole life, finds one, he desperately wants to keep him. He names the dog Shiloh, and soon the two are close as anything. But Marty’s parents tell him that he can’t have a dog; his family is poor and they barely have enough food for themselves, much less than a dog. So Marty decides to keep the dog a secret from his parents and hide him in the shed. And when Marty finds out that Shiloh was abused by his old owner, Judd Travers, that makes Marty even more determined to keep him. But Judd is looking for his dog, and Marty knows he can’t keep the secret forever. Will Marty get to keep Shiloh, or will Judd get him back? Find out in this heartwarming book!

Anime Review: Bleach

Tite Kubo originally wrote Bleach as a manga, and it was first published in August 2001 in Weekly Shonen Jump, and Shueisha published the manga series soon after. It was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2005 in shonen and has sold over 34 million volumes worldwide. The manga translation into English has already begun under the title of Shonen Jump. Bleach is also now an anime broadcasted by TV Tokyo (Japan) and it has been dubbed in English and broadcasted in Canada by YTV. There are many types of merchandise that have been produced under Bleach including video games.
Bleach is about a boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who has a normal life and sought a turn of fate. He also has the ability to see spirits and communicate with them. Ichigo lives with his father and his 2 younger sisters because Grand Fisher, a hollow (undead spirits) killed his mother. Over a turn of fate, a hollow attacks his family, and he meets a Soul Reaper (person who destroys all hollows) named Rukia Kuchiki, who fought to protect his family. In the midst of the battle, Rukia is injured and cannot fight, so she tries to convert some of her spirit energy to Ichigo, but ends up converting all of her spirit energy to Ichigo, who then defeats the hollow. Rukia now can’t gain her powers back, so Ichigo has now become the substitute for Rukia. And that is how Ichigo’s journey as a Soul Reaper begins.
Bleach is a very popular anime and manga, and is loved by many people, so it is recommended that you watch or read it. It is contains some scenes of violence and is recommended for an older youth audience. You can buy the manga at most bookstores and the anime airs on YTV every Friday at 10:30pm. To all who are interested in reading/watching it, I hope you enjoy Tite Kubo’s “Bleach”!

Movie Genre Word Search

O	S	W	X	P	R	T	Y	M	V	S	F	F	R	H
G	U	I	N	O	E	M	D	R	A	C	T	I	O	N
Y	U	F	R	D	E	A	E	R	E	G	D	T	R	I
Z	J	R	N	U	U	T	M	G	A	T	E	E	Z	M
D	O	P	A	B	R	K	O	O	P	M	S	M	U	G
H	H	S	O	S	S	G	C	M	J	N	A	Y	M	N
A	O	V	N	L	E	I	C	Q	E	Z	K	V	M	F
A	B	F	E	C	N	A	M	O	R	M	J	Z	P	B
V	B	I	G	A	J	X	M	X	G	A	G	I	S	F
R	U	F	D	T	B	F	G	K	L	K	A	M	K	F
Q	S	V	X	Y	V	N	U	R	Z	E	Q	X	I	J
Q	Q	A	U	H	Z	D	B	S	E	J	J	E	B	K
P	T	U	Y	R	M	Y	W	E	N	L	N	A	V	G
K	T	Q	X	D	R	V	Q	L	P	W	K	R	M	O
L	L	S	R	A	J	H	A	E	M	K	S	F	H	J

ACTION	COMEDY	DRAMA
HORROR	MYSTERY	ROMANCE

Things that you learn from Movies

Survey: What’s your Favourite Movie Genre?

1. Most dogs are immortal.
2. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.
3. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
4. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty.
5. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. Even a bad German accent will do.
6. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
7. When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
8. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

Action/Adventure: 5
Comedy: 5
Drama: 3
Horror: 5
Mystery: 2
Other: 7