The Junior Star

Job Spotlight: TV Host

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Do you have great communication skills? Are you a very open person? Do you like being in the public eye? If so, you might be a good TV host. We interviewed Greta Culliford, one of the hosts on the Shopping Channel, about her job as a TV host and here’s what she told us.
“My favourite part [of my job] is that there’s something new every day, I get to work with interesting people, I get to work with a lot of different people who come from different parts of the world, and I also get to see some very interesting products, products that I’ve never seen before and also the fact that, at the Shopping Channel, we’re able to offer unique items to our viewers across Canada that they may not have an opportunity to get so readily. That's what I love about my job. Plus I love doing things with my fellow hosts and everyone that I work with. [The Shopping Channel] is really a great place to work.”
Greta says that she doesn’t have a least favourite part of her job. She loves every aspect of it. Even when she’s on vacation, she always looks forward to coming back and going back to work!
When asked if she always believes in the products she’s selling, Greta says, “I always believe that not everybody is going to like all the same products. So just because I may not particularly have a use for one product, there’s always someone else out there who might. But still, I’d say that 99.9 percent of the time I love the products we’re selling at the Shopping Channel. On the Shopping Channel, we go through a very long process of testing products, trying to see what people across Canada want.”
Greta says that sometimes when she’s out, it’ll be funny because someone might come up to her and say “Hey! I know you! You’re one of the Shopping Channel hosts!” But she says that she likes when people do that because they’re all very nice. And she says she wants people to feel that they can talk to her.
Greta thinks that to be a good TV host, you need to, “Be a good listener; you have to be able to communicate with your guests; you have to like people and being with people; and you definitely can’t be shy in front of the camera. I think communication is probably the most important thing you need. You need to be open, and you need to be able to communicate with people very well.”
Greta would recommend her job for anyone who likes being in the public eye, has good communication skills, and likes working with different people.
So do you think you’d like to be a TV host? Would you like to appear in millions of family rooms and bedrooms across the country? Maybe we’ll see some of you on TV as hosts someday!

Anagram of the Week

Unscramble the words in italics. Remember: It will relate to at least one of the other words in the sentence.
His name is Ace, and you can spot him because Ace’s mouth has hair all over it.

Job Spotlight: TV Host / Anagram of the Week	1
The Learning Corner: Alexander Graham Bell: Ring Ring Ring! / Junior Conundrum	2
Trivia Question of the Week
The Story Corner: A Simple Calculation / Manga Review: Ceres: Celestial Legend / Book Review: The Hydrofoil Mystery	3
Movie Review: Hoot
Musical Word Search / Music Jokes / Survey: What’s your Favourite Musical	4
Survey: What’s your Favourite Musical Instrument to Play?

Thought of the Week:
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is to decide what it is you want.
Ben Stein

The Learning Corner: Alexander Graham Bell: Ring Ring Ring!

Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, an inventor, and most certainly a genius. One of his major accomplishments was inventing the telephone, and he is widely known for that especially today.
Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh (in Scotland) on March 3, 1847. He had a younger brother and an older brother, both who died of tuberculosis. His father was Professor Alexander Melville Bell and his mother was Eliza Grace Symonds Bell. When he was eleven, Alexander adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for a family friend called Alexander Graham. In 1870, at the age of 23, he and his parents immigrated to Canada, where they settled at Brantford, Ontario.
Alexander soon became known as ‘Father to the Deaf,’ because he helped so many deaf people in his lifetime. Both his mother and his wife were deaf, and he helped the deaf out of inspiration from his mother and wife.
In 1875 until 1877, Alexander worked hard at trying to create what is now the telephone. And in 1877, success! He had done it!
On July 11, 1877, a few days after he had made a company to sell the telephones called the Bell Telephone Company, Alexander married Mabel Hubbard, one of his pupils at his school for the blind and deaf.
After the creation of the telephone, Alexander turned his attention to his other ideas. He experimented with many different things to invent something else, which he did manage to do. He invented the photophone, the metal detector, experimented with the hydrofoil during World War I, and did many other things.
Alexander Graham Bell was many things: an inventor, a teacher, but most of all, a devoted parent and grandparent. Alexander loved spending time with his daughters, Elsie May Bell and Marian Hubbard Bell (Daisy).
Alexander Graham Bell played a major role in making our modern world modern, and he will never be forgotten.

Junior Conundrum

What are the next two letters in this series: A E F H I K L M?

Trivia Question of the Week

According to the nursery rhyme, after a big splat, who couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty back together again?
all the King’s forces
all the King’s horses
all the King’s knights
The King’s chef

The Story Corner:
A Simple Calculation

There was once a man who was good at chess. He was very wise in this game and was also very wise in his brain. So one day he went to the King and said, “If I win a chess game against you, I would like to have a prize or gift from you.”
The King asked, “What would you like to have from me?”
The man said, “There are 64 small squares on the chess board. I would like you to put one grain of rice in the first square, two grains of rice in the second square, four in the third, eight in the fourth; just double the number of grains of rice with every square until all 64 are filled. That is the only gift I would like to have from you.”
The King was very happy. “That is very little to ask. All right, you may have it.”
They began to play, and the man won the game. Now he asked the King to receive his gift. The King ordered his treasurer to give the man as much rice as the calculation would make. The treasurer began to calculate the number of grains of rice and their full weight. Eventually, the weight grew so large that the treasurer went back to the King and said, “I’m sorry, but there is not that much rice in the whole kingdom! What are the intentions of this man? Even if we collect all the rice in the whole world we will not be able to fulfill his demand. That is such a big quantity that even if we put it in bags and put the bags on trains and build a railway line all around the world it will not be able to bring him all this rice!”
So much rice from just doubling those 64 squares! If you calculate yourselves, you will find that it amounts to a lot of weight, tons and tons! And at the beginning, there was only one grain of rice that created two, and two created four, and four created eight, and eight created sixteen, ect.
If it happens, that one initiate creates two initiates, and then the two new ones create two more, and so on. If each and every initiate goes on creating two new ones, that will be sufficient, and in 64 months, the whole world will be initiated.

Book Review:
The Hydrofoil Mystery Rating: 10/10

William is ready for a great summer – he’s going to have extra time to spend with his friends and plans on getting into some mischief with them. But then his mother tells him that she’s sending him for the summer to work for genius Alexander Graham Bell. Now William’s whole summer is ruined! But when William gets there, he finds out it’s more than his mother thought it was. William finds an eccentric man, some gambling friends, and, strangest of all, a mystery at the hydrofoil. Someone is trying to destroy it and endanger William’s employer. William needs to get to the bottom of this before it’s too late. Will he solve the mystery? Find out in this suspenseful book!

Manga Review: Ceres: Celestial Legend

What would you do if your own family wanted you to die? On her 16th birthday, Aya Mikage and her twin brother Aki Mikage have a birthday party with their entire family. The family gives Aya a present; the hand of a dead Tennyo. Then the Tennyo inside of Aya unleashes Ceres. Aki unleashes Ceres’ ex-husband who is still madly in love with Ceres. Ceres’ quest is to retrieve her harogomo and to destroy her family. While being hunted down by the Mikage family, Aya falls in love with Toya, the man who was sent to kill Aya. Aki, who had become good friends with Toya, changes into Ceres’ husband form and tries to kill Toya. Will Aya and Toya be able to live together happily ever after? Or will they be separated and made into enemies? Find out in this great series! Recommended for ages 14+.

Movie Review: Bridge to Terabithia Rating: 10/10

Jesse Aarons loves to run. His goal is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. So Jess is very excited to be participating in the first race of the school year. But as he is running, ahead of everyone, a sneaker passes him and tags the finish line. Who could this person be? It turns out to be the new girl, Leslie Burke. Jesse is aghast. How could this girl beat him? There’s only one thing to do. Like they say, if you can’t beat them, join them. So Leslie and Jess become friends. Leslie introduces Jess to a magical world called Terabithia. They are the rulers of this magical land, and it belongs to them and them alone. But then tragedy strikes! Jess must use all of the strength Leslie has given him to cope with this tragedy. What will happen? Find out in this outstanding movie!

Musical Word Search

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

ALTO SAXOPHONE	BASS SAXOPHONE	BELLS
CLARINET	DRUM	FLUTE
FRENCH HORN	KEYBOARD	PIANO
TROMBONE	TRUMPET	TUBA

Music Jokes

Why did Mozart get rid of his chickens?
They kept on saying “Bach, Bach!”
What type of music are balloons scared of?
Pop music!
What makes music on your head?
A head band!
What part of the turkey is musical?
The drum stick!

Survey: What’s your Favourite Musical Instrument to Play?

Clarinet: 1
Drum: 9
Flute: 4
Horn: 1
Piano: 3
Saxophone: 3
Trumpet: 1
Other: 5