DAPHNE, Ala.—In P. E., students are doing Jump Rope for Heart. The goal is to raise money for those with heart disease. We got to sign up at http://www.americanheart.com/jump. Go to the Web site to donate to the cause,  but remember, our school is still listed under Daphne  Elementary South  School. When students raise a certain amount of money (around $5) they start to earn prizes or thank you gifts.

In the sixth-grade social studies classes, students have been learning about World War II. They found out about the causes of the war, and the world leaders at the time, such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now, students are learning about the time after the war, the Cold War era. Students are learning that the Cold War was a bitter rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Both countries thought that their form of government was better.

In Mrs. Kelly Agee’s fourth-grade class, students are doing a project on the different groups of animals such as mammals, birds, insects, arthropods, reptiles and amphibians. What we have to do for the project is draw an animal in its habitat and write a paragraph. That is what we have to do for the project. If you ask what arthropods are, they are a group for spiders.

Mammals are animals with hair or fur and born alive. Birds have feathers and are not born alive. Reptiles are animals with scaly skin and not born alive. Amphibians have slimy skin and are born live.

Now that you know about the groups of animals, I would like to tell you about the two main groups of animals. The two largest groups of animals are the invertebrate and the vertebrate—animals without, or with, backbones.