Tiger Talk
December 2012
The Band Makes a Move By: Zander Gibney In mid-October, the NBE fifth and sixth grade Band started moving to the Masonic Lodge every day for Band class. Even though the band has to walk to the Lodge and back every day, it is worth it! As Ray Kirkpatrick, the band teacher said, “There’s a lot more space for everyone than in the library. We finally have our own personal space for band purposes only.” I asked two band students what they like about the band’s new home. Kyle Jedlicka (drum) said, “There’s a lot more open space for drums now. I really like it!” Zander Ziettlow (trumpet) said, “Yeah, I really like it at the Lodge. There’s much more space for all the instruments.” I’m sure all the other band members agree with them. I also wish them good luck at their upcoming concert at the high school guym on Sunday, December 16. I’m positive they’ll do great!
Band director, Mr. Kirkpatrick directs the fifth grade band in their new classroom located at the Masonic Lodge.
Third Grade Shares Holiday Cards By: Bethany Wiebold Do you send holiday cards to your relatives? The third graders send cards to people too. But here’s the catch. They don’t know any of these kids. These are part of a holiday card project. Each third grade class received a list of 29 classrooms in the United States and other countries. They sent each classroom a Christmas card and letter about our school. They received cards from the schools they wrote to and found their location on the map.
Mrs. Wiebold said, “My class sent cards to schools in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Slovakia. They are from all grades from Pre-school to 5th grade. The NBE students look forward to getting the mail and hearing about these other schools.” Isabelle said, “We are sending cards all the way around the world!” Kaden said, “They were sending some to Canada.” Damaris said, “We’re asking about the names of the schools.” The holiday cards sure are fun. What a way to meet friends!
What I Want For Christmas.... By: Delaney Richardson
What do you leave for Santa? By: Emily Bordd
I visited the Kindergarten Basketball Camp to ask ten boys and girls what they leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve. Alexa Brodd said she leaves Santa sugar cookies, milk, a letter and colored picture for him, plus carrots for the reindeer. Akryn Bourek said he leaves out whatever cookies mom has on hand. Preston Scott said he leaves out cookies and milk for Santa and would like Santa to bring him a basketball for Christmas. The rest of the NBE basketball kindergarten participants agreed that cookies were the best thing to leave out on Christmas Eve. It won’t be long until these basketball players will be busy helping mom or dad in the kitchen making cookies for Santa!
Favorite Christmas Shows
By: Charles Madsen
There are lots of Christmas shows to watch, but people like some more than others. The movie that people liked the most was Elf! The people that chose Elf were Domonic Tank, Evan Marr, Jacob Sousek, Mackenzie Madsen, and Dillon Shaw. Here are some other favorites: Kelsi Korth and Grace Hunke like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Braydn Manning likes Home Alone. Emily Hall watches a Disney Christmas Video. Drew Hall enjoys watching Veggie Tales Christmas. I like to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas every year.
Class Notes The preschoolers have been learning about our community. They have had fun painting with corn syrup, watercolor painting dinosaurs, and turning their handprints into octopus. They had a visitor from the North Pole who tended to cause some mischief in the classroom but they always were excited to see what Melvin the Elf had done the night before. Preschool also worked very hard on our Christmas songs and had fun performing in the winter concert.
Kindergarten has their stockings hung by the tree with care with the hopes that Santa will ride in on his sleigh. We are breaking aprt numbers to find the addition equations. WE are working hard to count to one hundred.
The first grade class delivered eleven Thanksgiving baskets to the North Bend/ Morse Bluff community. They were delivered the tuesday. before Thanksgiving. As far as December we have been working on gifts for the students’ parents.
In Second Grade the students worked in a factory to make “factory hats”. They applied for jobs by showing the teachers how they could cut and trace. Everyone had a specific job to do. After a lot of hard work we produced 36 mostly identical looking hats. We have also been learning about landforms and making a landform learning log.
The Third grade made gingerbread houses with help from many family volunteers. We are participating int he Holiday Card exchange with students from all over the United States and several foreign countries. We are also learning cursive.
Fourth graders have been busy using protractors with Mrs. Grueber. Wow, it is actually fun to measure an angle. Now mathematicians are busy learning not one, but three ways to do long multiplication. In science everyone adopted a mealworm. Everyone is designing an experiment to test a question we have. Do mealworms like light or darkness? We will find out! A great way to end the first semester is with reading clubs reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever! Everyone is working
4th Grade (continued)
on practice tests for our April NESA tests. In Mrs. Stormberg’s classroom, we are all getting excited for Christmas and have written a narrative about our most memorable Christmas. We’ve also written a persuasive letter to Santa, hopefully persuading him to grant all our Christmas wishes. Students have also been working hard on multiple-digit multiplication in math (for example, 35 x 46). There are so many great mathematicians in this group! The 4th graders have adjusted well to school this year, and have had a great 1st semester. Recess games have included everything from tag, choreographed dance team performances, to song writing and video game inventing. Lots of learning and exciting times in 4S. Fifth graders are learning about verbs and fictional writing. We started with fractured fairytales first and then moved to fictional story writing. In Math, they have been working on fractions. We are working on adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. Sixth graders are learning about verbs and fictional writing. We started with creating a fictional story using pictures and photo booth, then moving to a fictional story, and finally ending with writing a fictional story in the form of a scene/play/skit. In Math Sixth graders are just finishing up our unit on Algebra.
Book Review:
How To Train Your Dragon By: Zander Gibney
The Twelves.... Haley Johnson, Ethan Emanuel, Gavin Kirschenmann, Catherine Vyhlidal, and Arissa Obershaw, join the rest of the school to sing “The Twelve Days of Christmas” at 12:12 on 12-12-12.
What would you give your parents for Christmas? ...if you had the money.
By: Adrianna Halladay Have you ever wondered what you or your friends would buy your parents for Christmas if you had more money? I personally would love to give my mom a bigger house for her daycare and give my dad a new sports car. I talked to fourth graders, Grace Hunke and Hunter Johnston. Grace states she would give her mom an iPhone 5 and her dad tickets to a Martina McBride concert. Hunter would like to get his mom some new earrings. Sounds like these two are more practical than me, but
very generous at the same time. Kindergartener Peyton Timm would give her mom a necklace and her dad a John Wayne clock. In addition to talking to students, I spoke with some teachers also. With money as no object, Mrs. Stormberg would give her mom, Mary Ring, good health and lots of good years to live. Sit back and enjoy the holiday season and think of what you would like to do for your loved ones.
The How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell is fantastic, filled with adventure, humor, and suspense. The series is about the adventures of the young viking hero Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and his dragon, Toothless. Hiccup isn’t like the other vikings. He’s smaller than every other viking except his best friend Fishlegs and he’s the only one in the Hairy Hooligan tribe who knows the dragon language, Dragonese. Despite all these things, Hiccup has had many great adventure from fighting gigantic sea dragons to dueling with the evil Alvin the Treacherous. In conclusion, How to Train Your Dragon is a great series. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a mixture of humor and adventure.
Books, Books and More Books! On November 12 and 13, the NBE library was filled with students and parents standing in line to buy their favorite books. This is the second year that the Book Fair lasted two days. Over $3,000 worth of books were sold. Most of the profit from those books were used to purchase a new set of World Book encyclopedias and prize books for the Accelerated Reader program.
By: Abby Post
Christmas Traditions
Wow, Christmas season is here and you sure can tell with all the lights up, and many kids have Christmas lists made. There are many holiday traditions we all enjoy so let’s look at a few. Do you have a favorite Christmas song? Maybe The Twelve Days of Christmas or Merry Christmas, which is a favorite for Nate Leners and Leia Westwood. I’m sure all the kids will have a favorite the Christmas singalong this year. Grace Halladay says her favorite song is, I Want a Hippopotamous for Christmas. I bet you already have Christmas songs stuck in your head. Now do you ever make Christmas cookies over break for Santa and your family? Well, many people do. Jessa Hellbusch
says that they get together with family and decorate the tree, then they bake Christmas cookies. There are many different kinds: sugar cookies, chocolate chip, and gingerbread. Don’t you sometimes want something to watch while eating those yummy Christmas cookies like a Christmas movie? Nate McDonald says he likes the movie Santa Pups. Ethan Widick enjoys the movie Rudolph. Now many people have certain traditions that they do on Christmas. Rebekah Voss is in second grade and she says they go to their grandma’s on Christmas and open gifts. Kindergartener Anna Dunker said, “We go to our aunt and uncle’s and we open presents.” So many people go
places on Christmas including Megan Ortmeier. She said, “I go to my grandparents house and we sing until Santa comes to visit the children.” Christmas is here. Are you ready for the fun?
Under Construction
Several NBE classes were in the building business during December. The second grade classes were learning about factories by creating hats using the assembly line. The third grade classes had parents and grandparents help them build houses...gingerbread houses that is.
Left: Second graders Dylan Doty, Makaela Wolfenden, Shawna Ziemba and Burkett Peters each have a job to do while making hats. Right: Damaris Hernandez and Amy Murray are putting on the finishing touches of their gingerbread houses.
Preparing for Christmas Program By: Bethany Wiebold If you are in the first through sixth grade, you have been in at least one Christmas program. There are many things to do. You could be on the bleachers, have a main part, or be a town’s person. No matter what, you will have a good time. Pre-school and kindergarten sing songs, while first through third graders are in the play. This year’s play is called “Flakes.” The music program is directed by Mrs. Krivolavek. In addition to the program, the fifth and sixth grade bands along with Mr. Kirkpatrick perform some of their songs. Mrs. Krivelovek says, “It is a wintertime show that tells you that everyone is unique. There is a cast of snowflakes and snirts. A snirt is snow mixed with dirt. I asked some of the actors and actresses about their parts. Paige Bunn can’t wait to be a snow angel while Lauren Kohl is excited to be a snowflake. Lexi says she is Snirt 16 and Drew Hall is the little snowflake. “It’s about Christmas!” said Alexa. Are you excited for the Christmas play? I am!
Second grade snowflakes sing one of their songs.
Flakes
Kindergarten reindeers are enjoying their first program.
Mr. Kirkpatrick and the sixth grade band get ready for a performance.
Winter Break
Problem Solving Comes With Reading Sixth graders in Mrs. Cody’s reading class are working on the Future Problem Solving topic “Robotic Age.” They are researching how robots are used in the military, for civilian uses, and for industrial jobs. Some of the questions students are considering include: How realistic is it that we will one day refer to robots as our colleagues, our neighbors, or our friends? Already robotic innovations have transformed the way cars are built and how a wide array of products are made. Will such innovations in the future produce a net increase or a net decrease
By: Kaila Lorence
in jobs? What will happen to workers who are laid-off as jobs are downsized in favor of machines that do not require a pension or vacation days? To what extent can robots truly be endowed with artificial intelligence? Are there ethical limits to the types of decisions that should be left to intelligent pieces of technology? The sixth graders are working to identify challenges and come up with creative solutions to a futuristic situation concerning robots. Their next topic of study will be “Megacities.”
Some people like to kick back and relax over break while some of us like to get out of the house. Some go shopping or go out and play in the snow. They make snowmen, snow angels and snow forts. On Christmas Eve, many are frantically waiting for Santa to deliver the gifts of their dreams. On New Year’s Eve, we may stay up late and watch the New York City Times Square ball drop with an exciting countdown. When Christmas break is over, it is time for kids to return to school with something exciting to tell all of their friends about what they got for Christmas and the adventures they experienced over break.
Toilet Paper Galore!
By: Lauren Emanuel
How many rolls of toilet paper does it take to fill a principal’s office? At NBE, 2,226 rolls crowded the floors of Mrs. Ziettlow’s office! That’s 600 more rolls than last year! Classes at NBE competed against each other for one week to see which class could collect the most toliet paper. At the end of the week, each class tallyed up their collections. Winners of the contest were Mrs. Peterson’s 1st grade class and Mrs. Sterup’s 5th and 6th grade homeroom. All of the toilet paper was donated to the Care Corps, a homeless shelter. When asked whether the toilet paper surrounded her desk Mrs. Ziettlow replied, “Oh, yeah!” Thanks to everyone’s help Care Corps shouldn’t have to buy any more toilet paper for a while! Way to go NBE you’ve out done yourselves again this year!
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