By: Miracle Joy Faller, Grade 7
Middle South
Have you ever fallen in love with a story so much you wanted to see the story play out in real life? Well, that's called watching the movie version of the story. Have you ever had a celebrity crush from a movie you really liked watching?
Well, something similar is happening to Amy Hathorne when she read the Otherworld Books. She fell in love with one of the main characters of the story. The boy she fell in love with is named Alexander Banks. Alexander is a vampire slayer from the Chicago of the Otherworld books. He is referred to as the vampire stalker as well.
Pranav G. Grade 6th
Middle North
The iPhone was top notch and awesome, but how do we improve this? Well, Apple has recently released the iPhone 4S; IT WAS AN IMMEDIATE HIT. This phone has a unique feature called Siri. Siri is highly intelligent digital system that can manage almost any command. It is the first digital communication that understands, then responds to your voice. For an example, if you are looking for directions to Six Flags Great America, You just ask Siri, “ What are the routes to Six Flags Great America?” Siri would then find as many maps as possible to Six Flags, and possibly tell which one she would recommend. The iPhone contains more than meets the eye. Go to http://www.apple.com/iphone/ and then click on, “Watch the iPhone 4S video” to find out more.
By: Rikki Laser, Grade Eight
Middle South
Even week I’m writing a word for you all to define. This week’s word was CHARISTAINE! Here are some of the answers you all gave me...
A word for Final Fantasy X and X-2 that determines the attack power of select characters.
A stained chair of ice.
A stain on a chair.
I don’t know I’m not Einstein!
A chair that has a stain.
A coffee stain on an upholstery chair.
Ellie Mayes, 6th grade
What a lot of variety there is when it comes to thanksgiving vacation destinations! Even though everyone does something different, everyone has fun. I interveiwed some of the teachers and asked them what they did for the long weekend. if you click 'read more', you will see what they did.
Mrs. Gibori:stayed at home
Mrs. Hawkinson: went to her parents
Mrs. Ford: Stayed at home
By: Rikki Laser, Grade 8
Middle South
All the teachers have pet peeves. Coming in contact with them can cause big problems. So read the list below and stay on teachers’ good sides!
Mrs. Masini: When teachers have arms loads of stuff and students walk right past and don’t hold the door for them.
Mrs. Munkvold responds: When kids say that their homework’s at home but I know it’s not done! “You can see it in their faces!!!”
Abby Heinz, 6th grade
Middle North
This year the sixth graders will be going on three outdoor education field trips. They went to camp Henry Horner, Reyerson Woods, and one in the spring. They were both fun and we did different activities at each. At Henry Horner, we cooked bush doughnuts over the open fire that we built ourselves. We also played games that helped us work together while having fun! At the end of the day, we built shelters out of sticks and went canoeing. When we went to Reyerson Woods, we looked at animal skins and we also had a scavenger hunt for those animal skins when they were in their natural camouflage. It was very fun. After, we did that, we cut down the invasive plant Buck Thorn. We used wood cutters and hand saws. We had to wear googles and gloves. During lunch we saw a falcon. It was very large! After we saw small animals like salamanders, turtles, snakes and frogs. Soon it was time to get back on the bus, but the outdoor ed. field trips were really fun!
Pranav G. Grade 6
Middle North
The Red Scarf Girl
A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Sixth grade is studying Asia in social studies and this book is great to comprehend Chinese history, their struggles, and the reason for Chinese cultural revolution. I would rate this book 4 &1/2 stars. This book is for those who like books like, “The Series of Unfortunate Events”, “Among the Hidden”, and “The Hunger Games”. They are not all the same genre, but they have one thing in common, alienation. The main character in all these books have been alienated from the rest of the region. The story is too depressing which I understand that it was reality during that time.
By: Eli Wolfson, Grade 6
Middle South
Ingredients
FOR 8 SERVINGS:
1/2 cup small tapioca pearls (found in the baking aisle of most grocery stores)
Food coloring
4 tablespoons sugar
8 gummy fish
Seltzer water
Lemonade
8 gummy worms
Instructions
1.MAKE THE EGGS: Bring 6 cups of water to a boil and add the tapioca pearls. Reduce the heat slightly and boil the pearls, stirring occasionally, for 20 to 25 minutes.
Submitted by wolfsone on November 4, 2011 - 1:34pm.
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Luke.H grade6
It was red ribbon week last week. Kids showed their school spirit by dressing up. To kick off red ribbon week we had were pink day. Then we had where red day there were funny stuff that people wore like Cool red mirror shades. The next day was sock day it was not crazy sock day but people wore some crazy socks. Wednsday we had hat day. But not alot of people wore hats but there were alot of fun hats. The next day was sunglasses day and i did not know that some of these exotic sunglasses exsisted. Friday was twin day. There were not just twins there were triplets and quadeplets. This red ribbon week was so fun!
Submitted by herrl on November 1, 2011 - 6:27am.
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Pranav G, grade 6
Middle North
Trick or Treat! Every October 31st we have Halloween. We go to peoples’ houses and get free candy. On this very day more than 21,000 children die from preventable causes like unsafe drinking water, lack of an affordable vaccine, and not enough nutrition food. You might be saying, so, why does it matter? Well, think about this. What if you were the one that suffered. UNICEF is an organization that is doing whatever it takes to reduce child mortality and trying to reach a day when the number of children dying from preventable causes goes from 21,000 to zero. They came up with a brilliant idea of getting donations to help this goal. They made a box to be used to collect money. After that, they sent it to schools all over America hoping that children/adults will help. 25¢ give 10 children clean water to drink for a day. $1 pays for protein biscuits for a starving child. $17 keeps a kid safe from 6 killer diseases. $24 supplies an emergency first aid kit. $257 buys a School-in-a-Box so kids can learn anywhere. Lastly, $500 provides a water pump for a village or school. So, the next time you want to buy a small 25¢ candy, think twice and donate it so that 10 children can have clean water to drink for a day. Thank you for your treat!