Interview of Czar C.

Czar C.

Q: What band instrument do you play?

A: Baritone. It is a brass instrument that is about half the size of a sixth grader.  You put your mouth on the mouthpiece and make a buzz sound with your mouth. You have to take deep breathes every once in a while because whenever you buzz into the baritone, the air makes the noise.  I’ve been playing the baritone for two years now.  The previous band teacher Mr. Chapel suggested I learn it.

Q: Do you want to try something new or just stay with the same band instrument?

A: I want to stay with the one I already have because I’ve found that I’m very good at playing it.

Q: Do you have a favorite song to play?

A: No, I really don’t have a favorite song to play.  I like marching songs. The way the rhythm flows whenever we’re playing a marching song appeals to me.  But I like Mozart and Beethoven, too.

Q: Do you want to become a professional band player when you grow up?

A:  Possibly, but I find it more of a hobby.  I want to be a robotic engineer.

Q:  How do you feel about playing a band instrument?

A: I think its pretty fun but it takes a lot of hard work and stuff. It takes dedication.  You’ve got to focus on your instrument and you’ve got to practice. So sometimes I don’t get to hang out with my friends as much as I’d like to.                                                                                             

Chinchilla

                                                        By Emily G.

Our fur friend and marine aqua and feathery friend have given their attention to the Chinchilla.  Our fur friend has a great sense of hearing able to hear farther then many animals we’ve seen.  The lovely ball of fur has large ears for sound so if you’re planning to find one in the wild they will sense you and hear you so watch for them and watch your step.

Dream Killers

 by Isaih A.

Here is a little advice for you party rockers out there

If you have dreams don’t let some idiot tell u your not                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      beautiful, the case might be that person might be jealous of how you look. In this world there are some good role models and bad role models and I’m not going to name them. If you’re going to follow your dreams don’t let any thing stand in your way. So all you dream crushers out there watch out because when you crush someone’s dream you also crush yours. So dream away and steer clear of dream crushers.

Interview of Mr. Henry

Czar C. : Have you had any prior experience with drama that has helped you to be a better teacher?

Mr. Henry: Absolutely. Yes.

Czar : Do you feel drama comes by instinct or by learning?

Mr. Henry: I feel in most students drama comes by instinct but even the best actor needs to be able to hone in to those skills even I need to practice.

Czar :  Are there certain traits you feel come in many good drama students?

Mr. Henry: Someone who is confident someone who is self motivated and has focus and the ability to respond one major trait would be the ability to think outside the box because it comes up much of the time in acting.

Czar : Are there any theater skills that don’t come by instinct?

Mr. Henry: Yes, much of the technical process such as stag areas or analyzing a script doesn’t usually come naturally.

Czar : Do you feel teaching drama makes you better at acting?

Mr. Henry: Yes, in fact sometimes I get my students to teach other to make them better.

History and Politics of the United States

by Madelaine S.

The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The government of the United States is based on a written constitution, the shortest in the world in fact. The constitution consists of a preamble, seven articles, and twenty seven amendments. From this document, the entire federal government was created. It is a living document whose interpretation has changed overtime.

Bullying: How do you want to be remembered?

By: Madison B.

Have you been bullied before on the internet? Has one of your friends been bullied before on the internet? Chances are you or one of your friends have been called a nasty name online or been threatened over the internet.

Actually, 42 percent of students have been bullied online. One out of four of these students have been attacked over the internet more than once. Also, about 35 percent of students have been threatened online and 58 percent of students have reported having something said to them or about them in a negative manner online.

Bullying isn’t always online, though. The National Education Association has estimated that 160,000 students miss school everyday because they are afraid of being attacked or intimidated at school by other students. 1 in 7 kids between the grades of kindergarten and 12^th grade are either bullies or bully victims. Also, 30 percent of students between sixth and tenth grade are involved with moderate or frequent bullying.

Is this how you want to be remembered? If you do bully other students, think of it this way, when someone complements you you’ll remember it for the rest of the class period, but when you’re called a mean name you’ll remember it all day. It’s the same concept. When you continuously make fun of someone, that’s all they remember of you.

My mom was picked on by one girl in high school. My mom only remembers her as a brat who made her freshmen and sophomore year of high school horrible. My mom doesn’t remember any of the nice things she said to her, but my mom can recite all the mean and nasty remarks she made to my mom word-for-word.

Is this what you want to remembered as? Think how it feels when you’re picked on. It doesn’t feel so great, does it? Instead of picking on people, stand up for them when someone else calls them a mean name, because they’ll remember you as the person who stood up for them.

Resources:

Bullying Statistics

Make Beats Not Beat-Downs

How to Stop Bullying

Interview with Emily G.

MB: What is your major and why did you pick it?

EG: Art is my major.  I picked it because it’s what I’m best at.

MB: What’s your favorite class and why?

EG:  My favorite class would have to be journalism. I like it because Ms. Rainey doesn’t give us any restriction on our creativity when we write.

MB: What are your opinions on JSA?

EG: Well, I sure liked the old dress code better. I really like the Safety Patrol and all the after school activities that are offered here. I just think it’s an awesome school.

MB: Do you have any advice for fifth graders picking a major?

EG: I think they should just pick wisely, because what you pick you’re stuck with for the rest of the school year. They should make sure that they love what their picking. You shouldn’t pick something you aren’t passionate about.

Math in Football- Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Algebra?

  By: Madison B.

Math is boring to most kids, right? But, what if you knew that one of America's favorite sports, Football, actually involved math? Crazy, huh?

Football deals with things like Yardage, Statistics, and it's also a business so that's Economics. These are all parts of math.

Yardage uses positive and negative numbers, which is used a lot in math. Every play in football needs a recording of a positive or negative number, on whether it was a loss or a gain.

All players are evaluated on their statistics (stats) on how well they play. For a quarterback, the stats include completed passes, interceptions, touch downs and total yardage. To calculate all of this you have to use math, therefore football has a lot of math in it.

Because football is a business, they deal with money and as we all know, essentially every aspect of money is math. The owners and managers of the football team deal with the players’ salaries and bonuses. They also pay for the venue to hold the games and the staff.

While studying math, try to think of some ways that math is used in some of you favorite activities like football, baseball, dance, soccer, softball, etc. you might be surprised.

Procrastination- Get your work done when it needs to be done

By: Madison B.

     You come home, sit down at your desk and start on your homework. You do a few problems and then you get this idea that you’ll just put away. For the rest of the night you’re on your computer on Facebook, Youtube, etc.

     This is call procrastination (Pro-cross-tin-a-tion). The definition of procrastination is putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention. For example, homework, or other things of that nature.

      Here are some ways to beat that ever so appealing form of procrastination: 1.) Go onto the parental controls area on your computer and block websites like Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr, Youtube, etc. for however long you think it’ll take you to do the homework assignment or whatever else you have to do. When you’re done with your assignment you can go back into the Parental Controls and unblock the websites. 2.) On your phones calendar, put in your assignment and have it set off an alarm when you have to do. Have it go off repeatedly so that eventually you won’t be able to say “Oh, I forgot”. These alarms will annoy you into doing your work.

      Try to find ways that’ll keep your from procrastinating that’ll work for you. Look for articles and maybe even some videos online.

Joke of the Week

Q: What did the mustard say when it got left behind?

A: Don’t wait for me I’ll Ketchup!!!! LOL J

Kung Fu Panda II

The title of the movie I’m writing is Kung Fu Panda 2. It’s a PG movie directed by Jennifer Yuh.  It was written by Jonathan Aibeil and Glenn Berger. It’s about Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but the Dragon Warrior must come to terms with his past. It got a 7.4 rating. Jack Black (Po), Angelina Jolie (Tigress), Jackie Chan (Monkey), Seth Rogen (Mantis), David Cross (Crane) are the furious five. This movie is filled with action I hope you’ll like. It’s really funny and has lots of kung fu scenes. I really didn’t like how the peacock went into Po’s village when he was a baby and ruined the village. Overall this movie was awesome and still available on DVD. Enjoy the movie.

Mathematics: A Revolution of Math

 by Hope L.

Math, we live it every day, through classes at schools and colleges, money or how much we owe, counting, you name it! But, did you know that the Greeks started mathematics? That’s right, they did. In the B.C. times, before Televisions, iPods, Computers, Video Games, Cars or anything in the modern world or the worldwide spread of knowledge, there were ancient civilizations called the 4-civilizations.

One of the economic activities was to manage their farmlands, this was a form of ancient mathematics. They were also using early forms of algebra and arithmetic too. It just so happens, that it was organized in the Orient which was the world east of Greece.  A group under the name the Pythagoreans got together and coined the word mathematics or math which is Greek for the three words: knowledge, learning and study.  Math is also the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. However, not only the Greeks started mathematics; many other people like the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mayans, Romans, Hindu-Arabics and others also helped the math revolution begin.

Famous people like Albert Einstein, Benjamin Pierce, Galileo Galilei, and Carl Friedrich Gauss have studied mathematics and have become successful mathematicians, which are people who study math. Today, math is everywhere, on computers, in schools, at work, even all over the world. Without it we wouldn’t know what time it was, or know how many pieces of the pie there are. We should thank the ancient civilizations that started this wonderful revolution of mathematics we know today.

Get organized-Get your life under wraps

 

 By: Madison B.

You've got so much to do and not enough time to do it! Lets try to get all those tasks under wraps and done by the end of the night, with still some time to relax.

Make to do lists. Use a regular pieces or paper, or get a pack of long, skinny, papers and make to do lists. On the to do list make a sections. Have a Need to do section, a Want to do section and a Would be nice to do section. In the Need to do section, write down everything you have to get done that night. In the Want to do section write everything you want to do but doesn't need to be done. In the Would be nice to do section write down things that have been assigned to do in advanced (as in 3 days to a week early) that you would like to do. This way you know what is top, medium and low priority.

Do the to do's in an order. When you're starting to tackle your to do's, do a “Need to do” to do and then a “Want to do” to do. This way, you get a sense of pride from doing a high priority to do, which will motivate you to do even more, and then you do a low priority to do to keep you from stressing out over your high priority stressful to do's.

Keep your priorities in mind. Keep your “Would be nice to do” to do's for the last. This ways you do all of your high priorities first, and do your low priorities to keep you from stressing. Do your “Would be nice to do's” last. This way you do everything you need to do, some things you want to do, and maybe a few things in advanced.

Getting organized can be hard, and you need some practice, but it's definitely worth it. It brings down your stress level and makes it easier to do everything you need to do.