Cub Chronicles, May, 2012

Strengthening The Mind & Deepening The Spirit

Volume II Issue V 2012 Lower School Newspaper Staff

Cub Chronicles

Alice Adams Caroline Badagliacca Cameron Calcano Alexa Choy Caroline Collins Alexandra Dally Clay Garrett Bridget Hamlet Elizabeth Hisler Eva Iannaccone Elodie Nix Jacqueline Prata Isabella Quinson Mariana Soto Grace Sperber Carolina Suaid Arielle Uygur Jimena Villegas

Felix, We’re going to miss you Bracelets for Uganda Have you heard? Felix, one of the workers in the kitchen, is going to retire this summer after school ends. So many people are going to miss him next year including one of my good friends, Ella Birchenough. She said. “Felix is very nice and very caring to all of us. He gives a lot of hugs!” There are so many people who have so many kind words to say about him. Felix has done so much to help us. We are going to miss you!

Dr. Ann Marr

By: Jacqueline Prata Pg.1

Bracelets for Uganda

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History of Google

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Wax Museum

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CONGE

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Interview w/ Sue Carrington

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Football Interview

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Olympic Penguins

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History of Chocolate

Wax Museum By: Jimena Villegas

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Google Goggles

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Giant Yellow 85ft. Rubber Duckie

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Costa Concordia

Google began in January 1996 as a college research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both students at Stanford University in California. They thought about a better system to analyze internet websites by their importance. The name “Google” originated from the number one followed by one hundred zeros. (That is a lot of data). Google Search is the company’s most popular service. In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 1 billion for the first time. Today Google has many different products like Gmail (email), Google Books (Library), Google Docs (word processor, spreadsheet, and presentations), and most recently Google Drive (stores all your files in the internet).

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“Peter Pan”

4th Grade Overnight Trip

I’m sure many of you have bought a bracelet from Ella, Erin, Carolina, and Jimena and me. Together, we’ve raised over $300 dollars, and all of the money we’ve raised is going to be given to our sister school in Uganda. We have had so much fun making the bracelets and we’re sure you have had fun buying them. The bracelets come in all different sizes, colors, and patterns. The best part about this project is that we know the money is going for such a good cause.

History of Google

Inside this issue: Felix

By: Arielle Uygur and Jimena Villegas

By: Elodie Nix

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Every year the 2nd grade has the privilege of studying the biographies of important citizens. For example: Ana Paula is a fine ballet dancer and decided to study somebody connected to her dancing, Darcy Kistler! She studied her, and soon it was time for the Wax Museum. Everybody

brought 40 dimes. We all put one dime in each character’s box, and they came alive and told us facts about themselves. Then we tried to guess their person. We all had lots of fun, and the 2nd graders did such a great job raising money for Uganda!

CONGE By: Caroline Badagliacca and Eva Iannaccone On April 18, 2012 the Lower School had an Olympic-themed Conge. Lower School teachers took us out to the courtyard for a yearbook picture. and Mrs. Hayes made the surprise announcement that it was Conge. First the 3rd and 4th grades went swimming. In the pool they did a variety of Olympic-themed relay races. Each team cheered for their swimmers as they raced across the pool. After that the 1st and 2nd grades went swimming. At lunch we had free seating. Everyone was excited to sit with their friends. After lunch we went outside on the front lawn to play Olympic games. Some of the games we played were Shot Put, Javelin, Hurdles, and a Relay Race. Then we had ice cream, and everyone cheered when each student got a medal.

After that everyone went inside to the theater and we started to watch the movie “Air Bud.” Before we knew it the day was over. We think everyone enjoyed Conge!!

Interview w/ Sue Carrington, former CSH student

By Alice Adams

Football Interview

Last week, I contacted Sue Carrington, former student of CSH. She graduated 57 years ago in 1955. During our correspondence we talked about what our school was like -then and now.

Today I’m here to tell the story of NY Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich and his battle with cancer.

By: Gerty Hisler

Back then CSH was a boarding school. Instead of sleeping with people from your grade you would sleep with students of all ages. Students would begin their days by having mass and then eating breakfast. At the end of the day, students would go to study hall to do their homework. The study hall is now the Annex.

The most different thing about CSH is probably that it is not a boarding school anymore. Even in the 1950s, students had the same subjects but not the same classes and teachers. Students had art, music, and a lot of the same subjects that we have today. The classrooms looked different, and the teachers did most of the talking. Most of the teachers were nuns. The teachers and the classrooms were different from today.

The campus was different too. CSH still had a pond, though. They also had a horse. Students had a field where they played field hockey. It’s amazing how different -- and the same -- CSH was in past years

Gerty – When you were in high school did you ever think that someday you would be playing professional football?

Mark – Actually I did — even before then when I was younger.

Gerty – Did you always believe when you were battling cancer that you would play football again?

Mark – Well, after my doctor told me that I had cancer, my whole family was shocked. I went to my room and I looked at all the photos of me playing football on my walls, and I thought, I am gonna do that again some day. I set goals and I followed them one after another. They all came true, and then we went back to the doctors and they said, “Mark, your cancer is gooonnne.”

Olympic Penguins By: Cameron Calcano I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Olympics, especially after CONGE, but here’s something you probably don’t know. Penguins in London are doing Olympic tricks! Their trainers throw fish into the penguins’ pool, and then the birds actually jump off a diving board to get them! They’re also learning to swim in a straight line and spin around in a circle! It’s kind of like penguin synchronized swimming! I wish we could all be in London to see it!

History of Chocolate By: Clay Garrett

Do you know how chocolate was invented? Well, if you continue reading you will discover all about it. Chocolate was discovered around 2,000 years ago when people from South and Central America found a cocoa tree in the rainforest. They opened the cocoa plant and found little seeds.

First, the Mesoamericans made a drink with the seeds. People started mixing the seeds from the cocoa plants with different spices so that they would have lots of different flavors in their

drinks. People soon discovered cocoa beans and they brought them back to their countries and started creating new recipes. The drinks people invented spread quickly around the world, especially in Europe. Next Chocolate Bars were invented, and lots of people started to buy these new amazing products. Now you have learned all about chocolate. You would not be eating this delicious treat if people didn’t discover the cocoa plant.

Giant Yellow 85ft Rubber Duckie

“Peter Pan”

By: Clay Garrett

By: Caroline Collins

On the night of the “Peter Pan” play the fourthgraders had the main parts of Peter Pan, Wendy, John, Michael, Captain Hook, Smee, and, last but not least, the lost boys and Tinker Bell. We are very proud of our performance but are happy that all the rehearsals are over. And we are also sad that it was our last year of Lower School “Celebration of the Arts.”

A giant yellow 85ft. rubber duckie is traveling all around the world. So far it has traveled to Japan, New Zealand, Osaka, and France’s Loire Valley. A Dutch artist named Florentjin Hofman created this rubber duckie to help people remember a bit about their childhood and to help them relax. He is sending the rubber duckie on a worldwide adventure for five years. So soon you might be the one to see a giant rubber duckie floating in the Atlantic Ocean along the shore of Connecticut. Keep an eye out for it.

Google Goggles By: Alexa Choy & Carolina Suaid

Have you ever heard of Google Goggles? The name may sound funny but by the end of the year Google Goggles will be viral. You are probably wondering what is a Google Goggle? Google Googles are basically glasses connected to the internet. They have the ability to send messages and call. You simply tell the goggles to do something by nodding your head or blinking your eye. The device works like an IPhone, maybe even better, In fact, around Christmas, there will probably be more goggles than phones. People will pay between $200 and $600. The goggles are so new and rare that no one has even seen them yet.

Unfortunately, Google Goggles have a disadvantage, too. It is like having a computer in front of you, and that can damage your eyes. The digital device has pixilated images, and when the pixilated image is too close to your eyes for a long period of time it can cause problems. The worst part is once someone gets the goggles someone else can track them down because Google Goggles also have a GPS!

4th Grade Overnight Trip By: Isabella Quinson

Costa Concordia

During the last week of school the 4th grade had an overnight trip.

On this trip the 4th grade went to Sprout Creek for their first activity.

Then they had a barbecue dinner on campus. After that they had a swim in the pool and saw a movie in the theater! Then the 4th grade got to sleep at school! In the morning we played field and rope games in the gym. Then we had surprise activities in art and science. The 4th grade girls had a wonderful time!!

Have you heard about the ship that sank in Italy? Most of the passengers got off, but as of January 27, 2012 16 people were dead and 16 people were missing.

The worst part was that the Captain abandoned the ship before everyone got off.

The ship crashed into a rock and started to sink on its side. The Captain was going toward the shore near Giglio, an island off the coast of Italy. He wanted to salute a retired captain at 10:00 at night! He must not have known or remembered that there is an area full of rocks under the water. Those rocks tore a hole in the hull that was 950 feet long.

A cook on the ship said it was his first and last cruise. This year is the 100th anniversary of the year the Titanic sank.

The Titanic sank on April 12, 1912. The Costa Concordia sank on January 13, 2012. It just happens that January 13th was a Friday, a Friday the 13th! The cruise ship started to sink at 10:40 pm and the Titanic started to sink at 11:40 pm. Do you agree that the Captain is responsible for the accident?

By: Caroline Badagliacca, Alexa Choy, and Isabella Quinson