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Baptistery - 2024 │ Message from Different Students


         Did you know?





                                      Did you know? Isle Royale is long   Did you  know?  The  body
                                      narrow island in lake superior, 25   covering of a snow shoe hare
                                      km   from the shore  of Canada.In   is brown during the Summer. In
                                      the early 1900s, a few moose swam   Winter  a thick coat of white fur
                                      to island.  With in 20 years, the   cover the hare’s body.
          MUNEZERO Theophile; HIRWA  Clebu; AMINI Sandra   population had increased to more
                   From S 4 PCB.                                       Did you know? Humpback,
                                      that 2000.
         Did you know kangaroos are                                    whales make sounds that can
                                                                       be heard many kilometers away
         not the only pouched mam-    Did you know?  A chip monk       under water.
         mals. Pouched mammals also   escape the cold hungry days of
         include koalas, opossums,    winter  by  hibernating  .As  spade   Did  you  know?  Many
         wombats, bandi coots and     foot toad avoids the harshest    American bats hibernate in
         gliders.                     conditions of it’s desert home by
                                      aestivating in an underground    eaves or rocky places.
         Did you know? A male luna    burrow.                          Did you know?   That
         moth’s feathery antennae can                                  Hibernation: Is a deep sleep
         detect pheromones (chemical   Did  you  know?  That  Sahara,  a   that helps some animals to save
         messenger released by animals   desert in Africa is about as big as   energy and survive the winter
         in form of communication)    the whole United States.         without eating much.
         released by female luna moth                                  ______________________
         several kilometers away.     Did you  know?  The moa  was     www.usatoday.com
                                      a bird of 10 feet tall that become   www.nationalgeographic.com
                                      extent about 300 years ago.

         PEER PRESSURE                                               like, or do what they do, as long

                                                                     as it feels right for you, too.
                                                                     But the best thing of all is to be
                                      interests, experiences, or social   yourself even if it means being
                                      status. Members of a peer group   different from your peers.
                                      are  more  likely  to  influence  a
                                      person's beliefs, values, religion   Peers can  be positive  and
                                      and behavior. Peers play a large   supportive.  They can help
                                      role in the social and emotional   each other develop new skills,
           ISHIMWE Claude S5MCB; MUGISHA Kevin S5MCB;
                IKUZWE John Kennedy S1C  development  of children and   or stimulate  interest  in books,
                                      adolescents.  Their  influence   music or extracurricular  acti-
                 eople   who    are   begins at an early age and     vities.  However, peers can
                 your age, like your   increases  through  the  teenage   also have a negative influence.
                 classmates,    are   years. It is natural, healthy and   They can encourage each other
          Pcalled peers. When         important  for children  to  have   to skip classes, steal, cheat,
          they try to get you to act a   and rely on friends as they grow   use drugs or alcohol,  share
          certain way, or try to get   and mature.                   inappropriate  material  online,
          you to do something,  it's                                 or become involve in other
          called peer pressure.       You might want to be like      risky  behaviors.  The  majority
          Peer  pressure is a  direct   your peers, even if they’re not   of teens with substance abuse
          or  indirect  influence  on   pressuring you. It’s natural  to   problems  begin using drugs
          peers,  i.e.,  members  of   want to fit in. It’s ok to like what   or alcohol as a result of peer
          social  groups with similar   your friends  and  classmates   pressure.  This pressure can   53



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