NORTHWOOD NEWS Northwood Elementary, Where We Grow Children Special Points of Interest: Christmas parties and the movie will be on December 18th www.seminole-northwood.info Christmas Break December 21—January 3 Construction on the outdoor classroom has begun.
GEOGRAPHY BEE BY ROSLYNN FRIEND Our school recently hosted a Geography Bee. Students answered Social Studies questions. Over 125 students participated in the contest. There were two winners in each grade level. 4th grade winners were Frankie Duran and Destiny Tiger, 5th grade winners were Logan Stanberry and Zachary Kelough, 6th grade winners were Jesse Wood and Ethan Pollard. Here at Northwood, we are all so proud of our participants and our winners. Let’s all cheer for BULLYING SKIT BY KARLI HAMMODN
On Mondays in the afternoon, every couple of weeks, there is a bully skit. The reason we are having the skit is because Mrs. Craig thinks that bullying is a big problem in a lot of schools. There are girls that do the skit and there is going to be boys. The boys names haven’t been released but the girls are Jacey James, Madison Withrow, Jacie Satawake, Hannah Shumaker, and
our school wide winner who was Jesse Wood and our runner up who was Ethan Pollard. Jesse Wood will take a written test which will be sent in to the state level competition. Good luck! Special thanks to Mrs. Nansel for being our Moderator.
Karli Hammond. The kids all make the skit up as a group. Mrs. Craig wants to have them for the rest of the year, so there will probably be several more. The skits are just going to be about bullying. Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Craig came up with the idea of having the skits. They are going to expand size of the group depending on the situation. The skits are fun to watch. We hope to have successfulness with them.
ISSUE #1 NOVEMBER 13, 2009
MOVIE TRIP BY CORY PARSONS
Gingerbread Houses By Chlo’e White Each of the gingerbread houses On November 6, 2009, Mrs. Mincher’s 6th hour are unique. Of the 110 houses, not one wasn’t awesome. The literature class read the gingerbread houses are built year book then went to see after year because it is a NorthChristmas Carol at Cinwood holiday tradition. The ema 8 in Shawnee. house making is held for 5th When they we’re leaving graders. Gingerbread houses Northwood, Mrs. were made on November 23rd Mincher checked to see and 24th. The Gingerbread if everybody was there. houses were made of graham crackers, icing and candy for She yelled, “Where is decorations. They’re built on a Isaiah?” So the bus foam plate for a thick layer of came back to Northfoundation icing. They are conwood. The pulled into the Cinema 8 parking lot structed by “cementing” the corners of the crackers together with all students. They until the shape of your house is went into the theater and finished. When that is done, you got their 3-D glasses, put graham in the center to suppopcorn, and drink. port your roof. Then lay enough Then the students went to crackers across the top of your find their seats. As they house. Next, shape your crackers in the shape you want the were watching the preroof to be. Then add your whole views some students graham across your two shaped reached for the screen grahams. Ice them together and because it looked like let dry. Finally, decorate your you could grab it. Then house! To decorate, ice your as they were watching candy on one side and stick it on the movie it felt like you your house. You can use marshwe’re flying with the mallows and pretzels for snowcharacters. The students men, ice cream cones and icing for Christmas trees. And with said it was an awesome that, you can have an awesome movie. The students house! loaded the bus to return
to Northwood. Mrs. Mincher counted the students again. They were missing someone. Josh Beauford yelled, “We’re missing Adam”. The bus turned around and we saw Adam Choate waving his hands in the parking lot. They got him and the bus went back to Northwood.
Inside this issue: Nutrition Class
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Canned Food Drive
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Outdoor Classroom
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Veteran’s Day Program
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After School Tutoring
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Talent Pool Field Trip
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Canned Food Drive By Kason Clark We just had our canned food drive from November 1st to November 20th. Mrs. Stuteville won out of all the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades by ending up with 568 cans in all. Her class did an OU and OSU contest. They both brought a lot of cans but OSU ended up winning by 10 cans. In 5th grade Mrs. Templeman’s class won and in 6th grade Mr. Rothrock’s class won. Many kids participated in this community service. We did a great job because we got over 1,000 cans. This is also the most we ever had here at Northwood. These cans will help many people. Everybody did a great job. I’m sure many people will be thankful for what each on of your kids did.
4TH GRADE NUTRITION CLASS BY KARLIE SNEED Every month once a month, the whole 4th grade has nutrition class. The teacher, Pam Megehee shows us information about nutrition facts. For example, she once showed the fourth grade how to look for the white box on items to see how much sugar, how much calories and to show all the things and how much are in them. The time we usually have the class is between just a little of homeroom and all of activity. Another example is to show you how your digestive system works. We are really thankful for her to come and tell us to stay healthy.
CHRISTMAS BREAK AND PARTIES BY JOSHUA BEAUFORD Northwood students’ Christmas Break is from December 21st to January 4th. It is two weeks long. This Christmas Break means students are half-way through the school year. There are only eighteen weeks of school after Christmas Break. The Christmas parties and movie “Princess and the Frog” will be on December 18th, the last day of school. The parties will be in the grade hallways. The moms, dads and teachers will do the parties. So, have a good Christmas Break! Have fun! Be good! And hope you get presents.
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM BY JACEY JAMES In memory of Mrs. Sherry Chambless, Northwood has decided to build an outdoor classroom. To raise money, we had a penny drive, sold beef sticks, popcorn and accepted donations. The construction started at the end of November and should be completed sometime in 2010. The purpose of the outdoor classroom is to have a place to learn outside. It will be available to all grades. Keith Shaw and Mike Downey are helping with the construction. Hopefully, we will all be able to use the classroom in the spring of 2010.
School Fundraisers By Ethan Pollard Three fundraisers have happened here at Northwood. Chocolate bars, popcorn and beef sticks are the three fundraisers. First the chocolate bar fundraiser: Mrs. Willis is in charge of this one. It started on November 3. It is for educational purposes. We have collected a lot of money from all the kids who have sold them. Next, there is the popcorn fundraiser. This on is still going on for the whole year. This one also has Mrs. Willis in charge of it. All this money is going to go to the outdoor classroom for Mrs. Chambless. And finally, we have the beef stick fundraiser. This time Mrs. Winrow is in charge of it. And this is also happening now, too, it’s going on for the whole first semester. And, as it has gone before, the money is going to special Olympics. Again we would like to thank everyone who has participated, in charge, and who has bought these fundraiser items.
The Christmas Program By Julianne Zehren Northwood is preparing for the Christmas Program. Ms. Niles has been getting students ready. One person will be singing a solo. Eight people have speaking parts. Everyone will be singing together. There are eight songs plus a bonus song. Students are really trying to learn songs and speaking parts. Ms. Niles has picked people that she thinks are good to sit in chairs. Being in a chair is a privilege. Northwood hopes for this program to be really good. Parents , teachers and students are looking forward to it! It will be December 17th at 1:30 p.m.
Below: Talent Pool Field Trip to the Zoo.
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THE VETERAN’S DAY PROGRAM BY ZOE HOWE, 4TH GRADE The veteran’s Day Program took place on November 11, 2009. It was a huge success. Ms. Niles was the instructor for the program. The program took place in honor of our Veterans who served for our Nation. Ms. Niles told us to try to wear red, white and blue colors and it worked! 4th, 5th, and 6th grade participated. There were a little over
100 parents and visitors that attended the program! WOW! Most 4th grade students liked the song “American Tears”. Roslynn Friend and Mrs. Lloyd said their favorite part of the program was when Karlie Sneed sang her solo. Good Job and Congratulations to Mrs. Niles and Northwood students for doing such a good job.
TALENT POOL ZOO TRIP BY HANNAH SHUMAKER On Wednesday October 28th Talent Pool went to the Oklahoma City Zoo. There they saw animals of all kinds. After looking and then eating a sack-lunch they went into a building to see a class. The class was about advantages and disadvantages of animals. The class included three live animals. The first was a very small armadillo that could curl up into a ball. The second was a long green boa python. The last was an owl that the zoo rescued from a car wreck. At the end of the class the students were able to touch a cheetah skin and the python. After
the class the students loaded up and went home after a good day. They were able to go because of an OKC Zoofriends Grant.
6th Grade Basketball is in full swing. The Next game is here on Monday, December 7th. They will also play on Thursday of this week at the High School Gym. Good Luck! Go Chielftains!!!!!!!!