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Paw Prints Welcome to the St. James’ School newspaper where news is written by students for students. St. James’ School Newspaper
Issue 3 - December 2, 2011
Meet our staff In order from left to right: Penelope Thornton, Julia Eschenasy, Nicole Klar, Lilah Sitkevich, Elizabeth Yoon
Ask Santa See what some people will be asking Santa for this year. Page 2
Volleyball WINS! Read the details of St. James’ historic win. Page 2
Interview: Mrs. Castanares We sat down with Mrs. Castanares on Thursday, Nov. 17th to ask her a few questions in order to get to know her better. How long have you been teaching? I was teaching 17 - 18 years.
Do you like teaching?
Trivia Be the first to answer the trivia question to get your picture in the next edition Page 3
Our Survey Do you agree with our findings? Check it out! Page 3
Our Riddle Winner! Find out who won our last editions riddle. Page 3
If you could be anything else in the world, what would you be? I would be a singer, guitarist, and an environmental activist.
What’s your favorite thing in fourth grade? Mrs. Castanares 4th Grade Teacher
Do you have pets? I have a cat named Fritz that I love!! I sometimes hold him like a baby. He scratches my head. I love him.
My favorite thing in fourth grade is story time. I wish I could read to the fourth graders all day.
What do you want for Christmas? I want to see my family for Christmas.
Of course!!!!!!!!!
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Ask Santa... We asked people what they would be asking Santa for this Holiday season. Catherine: I want an iPad Ella: a horse Jack: a new bike Mr. Papas: a new car Mr. Z: an iPad Joshua: a new bike and a newspaper for daddy Chris: a TV Georgia: iPad Alex: Lego Set Kahlil: a house or dirt bike Jinny: a dog Sergio: toy gun Caleb: skylanders Mr. Krueger: Oh, that’s awkward!
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St. James’ Volleyball WINS! St. James’ has finally won a volleyball tournament against CEE, Center of Early Education. It has been16 years since we last beat CEE in volleyball. We smashed and crushed them. The score was 8 to 2; St. James’ had 8 and CEE had 2. We have to thank the 6th grade and of course Mr. DiPasquale and Mrs. Brown. Without them we wouldn’t have won and we wouldn’t be doing volleyball tournament against CEE. To celebrate, Spencer Geller’s mom brought cupcakes from Crumbs Cupcakes. All of the 5th grade were jealous and said,” We are going to get cupcakes next year!” Everyone has worked really hard to win the volleyball tournament.
Movie Review by Holly Fouche
Puss meets another cat while trying to steal magic beans. While Puss was chasing the cat he found out the cat was working with his younger brother ( his arch enemy). Puss finally agrees to work with the cat and his brother to steal the magic beans from Jack and Jill. After they worked together to steal the beans, they climb up a beanstalk the beans have made to go on a adventure to find the golden goose and steal her eggs. They wanted the golden eggs to sell them to people and make a fortune. This is an action packed movie with adventure and VERY funny things. Come see this movie!
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Winner of our Riddle
What a Life!
Kate Hutchins correctly identified the letter E as the answer to last edition’s riddle.
We interviewed some kids who’s parents have amazing jobs.
TRIVIA The first person to tell Mrs. Brown the answer to the following trivia question will get his or her picture in the next issue of Paw Prints.
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Kallie DePriest - Kindergarten: My dad is a physical therapist. He helps people who are sick or in need. My dad is the best dad ever! I hope that my dad continues helping people to make the world a better place.
Survey: Watch TV or Read a book We surveyed St. James’ students to find out if they preferred to watch TV or read a book.
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What are the capitals of Russia and Italy?
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Ella Kahn Gardner - 4th grade: My mom designs really cool signs for LACMA and the Natural History Museum. Sometimes I she has photo shoots and sometimes I am in them. she usually puts me in some of her designs. It is really fun because i get to have a special pass that allows me to go in the museum for free. we get to look behind the scenes and look at bones and fossils.
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