Kidsday: The Earth Rangers club
The purpose of our Earth Rangers club is to try to get kids to help save our planet so others can enjoy it. Laurie Farber is an Earth Rangers trainer, and she is the executive director of Starflower Experiences, a Long Island nonprofit that helps "people understand, appreciate, and live more in harmony with the earth's life systems." She works with our teacher, Migdalia Melendez, to help us with our club.
The Earth Rangers have been going for nine years in our district, at the elementary school and now also at our middle school. The trainees meet two days a week, and the Rangers meet on a third day after school.
When the training started, there were more than 20 kids involved, and right now our group is about 12. The Earth Rangers go on many trips around Long Island. We explore the woods and other areas that may need our help. We explore in the woods called Carlls River Watershed, which is in Wyandanch. We observe, listen, feel and touch things. We make patrol reports and share our information with one another.
The program might come to an end due to lack of funding. If there are any investors out there who want to save the program, please go to Starflowerexperiences.org. The earth is in trouble, and we need more young people to understand how it works, appreciate nature and take action.
Living with asthma
I am an asthmatic. Sometimes, I wheeze and have difficulty breathing. Asthma affects my life because I can't run fast. It doesn't stop me from running, but I have to be careful.
Sometimes, I forget, and I need to take my medication. When I am home, I use a nebulizer system. It makes a lot of noise. I put my medication inside of the container, and it blows the medicine into my mouth. This prevents me from having a serious asthma attack.
I also keep an inhaler in my pocket. It works like the nebulizer system but is smaller. Asthma is not fun to have.
--Kidsday Reporter Tiffany Kennedy
Now that's funny
What do you call a cat that bowls and gets strikes?
An alley cat
--Abriah Winfield
What kind of math does an owl study?
Owlgebra
--Abriah Winfield
Where does a bat eat his dinner?
On home plate, and he has a ball.
--Courtney Guthrie
If the red house is on the right, and the green on the left, where is the white house?
--Susie Fuller
CLASS OF THE WEEK Migdalia Melendez sixth-grade class, MILTON L. OLIVE SCHOOL, Wyandanch
