The 2013-2014 Yearbooks Are Available for Pre-order!
> Sale price - $20.00 for full color, 48 page book.
> Pre-order for this price until March 14th, 2014.
> Any orders after this date, the yearbook’s price will be raised to $25!
> Pay by having your child, or you, bring in cash or a check made out to Stony Point Academy.
 Have you ever thought about all the people who struggle with hunger? Well, there are thousands of people who would love to have a plate of food to eat. There are 842 million people who don’t have enough to eat, and 98% of those people are living in developing countries. Can you believe that there are millions and millions of people out there who are struggling with hunger? In Asia and the Pacific, there are 553 million hungry people. 227 million in Africa, 47 million in Latin America/ the Caribbean, and the rest, 16 million, are in developing countries according to http://www.wfp.org/hunger/who-are. There are many adults and children who need food. Many food-donation organizations are struggling to make a change; So join with the community and help make a difference!
 Kelli Berglund is an 17 year-old actor. She plays Bree in the show Lab
Rats which is about 3 bionic super heroes and their life in the outside world. The
show is on Disney XD. Her birthday is on February 9, 1996. Kelli Berglund is
dating Billy Unger who is 18 years-old. He is also an actor in Lab Rats. Kelli
is my favorite actress because she is funny, pretty, and amazing.
 Jay-Z is a man who has lived and experienced so much. Starting as a young boy living in a tough neighborhood, he tried to not be influenced by the bad. He didn't let go of his dream. He overcame the bad influences in the community that made it seem like his dream would never come true. But today, that all stands in the past.
The first annual SPA Christmas party will be held on Friday, December 20, which is the last day of school before Christmas Break. There will be food and drinks; plenty of fun for everyone! It’s starting at lunch and ending at 3:45. Make sure you have signed up to bring something, or plan to bring pizza money.
Also, Christmas Break will start December 21, 2013, and end January 5. The first day back will be January 6, 2014.
 According to ibtimes.com, in the year of 2015, Friday the 13th will be VERY unlucky. They also wrote that lots of celebrities had their deaths on Friday the 13th. It's Friday the 13th today, and some of the people at my school have gotten injured, and also dropped their laptops, like I did. Here are some famous deaths that occurred to the Friday 13th: March 13, 1987 Chet BakerMay 13, 1988 Stuart ChallenderDecember 13, 1991 Tupac ShakurSeptember 13 1996 Jaime GarzonAugust 13, 1999Tony RoperOctober 13, 2000Julia Child and June 13, 2008 Edwin Newman
 Dark chocolate has recently been discovered to have many healthy benefits and has many good effects on your body. But for some people it may reduce the chance of getting a stroke. Dark Chocolate is not for everybody, but I can tell you this, dark chocolate can help you lose weight and it is also said that if you eat dark chocolate two or three times a week it will help lower your blood pressure to the brain as well as to the heart. Dark chocolate is the healthiest type of chocolate in my opinion. In conclusion, it may contains several chemical compounds that have a positive effect on your mood and on your health. There are some healthy benefits in dark chocolate, but remember too much is not good for your body.
 Have you heard that years and years ago, Mars looked exactly like Earth does now. With clouds and oceans. It probably had animals and humans, or at least, something like us. Now, it can’t produce the same stuff that it did in the past to maintain life. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the second smallest planet in the whole solar system. It is often described as the "Red Planet" because it has chemicals that makes it red. This gives the planet a reddish appearance. Scientists have put rovers with cameras, specialized things such as lasers, and many other items on them to see any lively activities on Mars.
What is one thing that is very often during Christmas? Decorations! Have you ever wondered how things have come to be Christmas decorations? Well I am writing this to explain to you how decorations got started and what they symbolize.
Well, let’s start with the Christmas trees. In many countries, it was thought that evergreen trees would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illnesses away. In the Northern Hemisphere, it was believed that on the Winter solstice, the sun god got very ill and weak and that the moon god took over. For this reason, they put trees up to represent when the sun is at it’s finest(or in the summer) and all the trees would sprout.The Ancient Egyptians believed something very similar. They believed in a sun god called Ra, and during the summer solstice when he was ill, they thought that it would make him feel better if they covered their homes with trees. You might wonder how this relates to Christmas, and the truth is, it doesn’t. People think it was originally meant for Christmas, but it’s not. The reason why people thought it was for Christmas was because people didn’t take the tree away until January. That’s why they thought it was for Christmas.
Now it’s time to talk about the mistletoe! Mistletoe is a plant that grows on willow and apple trees around the globe. If you want to know exactly where it came from, you have to go back all the way to the times of the ancient Druids. People hung them because they thought a sprig had mystical powers, like bringing good luck to the house and keeping away evil spirits. It was also used as a sign of love and friendship in Norse mythology, which is where kissing under the mistletoe comes in.
We are now going to go into a little more detail. The traditional colors of Christmas are gold, red, and green. There was actually 5 colors, not 3, and the missing ones are white and blue. Green came from the decorations, that mostly green. So, when you think of green during Christmas, you think of Christmas trees and mistletoe. Okay, now comes in red. Red is important because it’s the color of the holy berries that are used to represent God’s blood. Also, it was what St. Nicholas wore, and Santa Clause’s suit. Gold is also an important color because it symbolizes the warmth of the fire and of sunlight, which is very important during the ‘dark times.’ White is a Christmas color because white is for SNOW! Okay, last but not least, blue. Blue is one of the colors because it represents the sky, and or Heaven. It is also important because in medieval times, it was considered a color of royalty, and on most drawings of Mary, she is in blue to show her significance.
Now, you know how Christmas decorations came to be!
 Chocolate comes from a tropical tree called the obroma cacao. In 2000 BC, they used this bean to make chocolate. Later, the Mayan people began making chocolate. Chocolate then made its way around the world and people started liking it. Chocolate is good for you because the cocoa in the chocolate is good for your health, but by adding a little sugar, it destroys the good components.
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