KNIT NUTS TIE UP FUN!

A new BASE class was offered this spring – Knitting!  Beverly parent Kim Thorsen is an avid knitter and wanted to share her passion with Beverly students.  Over an eight week period, with the help of another Beverly parent Barb Bloink and some BASCC volunteers, seven Beverly students learned how to knit and completed several fun projects.  They named themselves the “Knit Nuts”, and hope to continue to get together to perfect their knitting.  If interested in joining the Knit Nuts, watch for a new BASE Knitting class in the fall!

Beverly Wins Cereal Food Fight

Imagine 45,900 bowls of cereal.  That’s how much cereal was collected in the recent Food Fight for Gleaners at the Birmingham schools.   All eight elementary schools, Covington and Wee Care participated in this fun contest this year.

In May, students and staff were encouraged to bring in boxes of cereal.  A total of 3060 boxes of cereal were collected by the ten schools combined.  And thanks to a matching program by PNC Bank, the donation to Gleaners will go even farther in feeding hungry neighbors.

Beverly School won bragging rights with 420 boxes of cereal collected (more than 1 box/student!), but the real winner of this beneficial battle is Gleaners Food Bank, whose shelves are now stocked with cereal for the summer months.

Octolifi: Amazing Creature of the Deep

By: Lilly Richards

The amazing Octolifi is an extraordinary species of animal that lives in the dark, cold waters of Mars. This elusive animal is very well adapted to living anywhere in the water. It is usually found in the bottom of the water (the reason for its lamp like projection made of mucus) where the pressure is so much that only very few and rare creatures can inhabit.           

            The Octolifi is an omnivore (even though most people get commonly mislead it is a carnivore because of its many sharp teeth) and eats seaweed and small krill and crustations. This creature strains its food through its teeth and baleen plates at the back of its mouth.

            Its big single eye makes it easy for it to see all around it. The Octolifi’s eye can turn 180 degrees on either side. Its 8 spiraling legs (octo) are not used to grasp prey, but instead to let the Octolifi maneuver across the ocean floor. The Octolifi can swim, but only straight up because of the fact that the Shartevore (a deadly predator) can only stay on the bottom of the ocean. This confuses them so that the Octolifi is safe from being eaten.                    

Fact or fiction? You decide!