John Poole Middle School, Poolesville, MD
JPMS PAWPRINT
Volume 1, Issue 1
December 2015
Mrs. Yesnick
“Reading with the Fishes”
By: Luke Lightcap and Aidan
Auel
Do you want to join Newspaper Club but can’t make it to
the meetings? No problem! Just write articles, stories poems, comics and the like and submit them to the Hand-In
folder Period 1 Lightcap or see Mrs. Lightcap for details!
The columns in the Media
Inside this
issue:
Center look amazing! The
Pawprint asked Mr. Gemmell the following:
Reading with the Fishes 1-2
How did this project hap-
Timberwolves
3
Check-Mate and
Candy DIY
4-5
Do You want To
Build a Snowman?
6-7
NFL’S Einstein
8
MVP-Bryce Harper
9
JPMS Basketball
Schedule—Riddles
10-11
Comic—Clubs
12-13
Word Search
14
pen?
Mrs.Yesnick applied for an
Environmental Grant with
The Chesapeake Bay Trust.
This trust is an organization
that is funded by Save The
Bay License Plates. Once
we received it, we considered doing something outside. Mr. Gemmell thought
it would be more permanent if we did an art project
inside the school building.
He was thinking about the
hallways but Ms. McIntyre
suggested the columns in
the Media Center.
How did the student painters come up with the design for their columns?
What was the process of
getting art work on the
columns?
The students researched animals that lived in the bay.
Each group selected one large
animal, a seascape, vegetation
and smaller species. After
students researched information, they laid out on banner paper, how they wanted
the drawings on the columns.
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For some of the large animals, they put
banner paper on columns and traced
their art work. Most of the drawings,
however, were done freehand by the students. Some animals displayed include :
sting rays, trout, sea turtles, sea horses,
jelly fish and many others.
How long did this project
take?
7 months of after school sessions
Students that participated in this project?
Colin Hemingway, Keegan Morrison,
Jessica Carey, Alison Ransom, Tess Insalaco,
Olivia Burdick, Anna Akdag, Julia Pavlick, Aidan
Auel
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Thank you Mr. Gemmell, Ms. McIntyre,
Mrs.Yesnick and JPMS artists for making
the media center beautiful!
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Fun Facts about Timberwolves
By Michelle Lu
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Timberwolves (or gray wolves) may sacrifice themselves
to save their family
They demonstrate close relationships and strong bonds
Wolves are the largest members of the dog family
When a wolf finds a mate, they usually stay together for
life
A pack consists of the female alpha wolf and the male alpha wolf, who stay together for life. Other wolves in their
pack are their offspring.
If a wolf is kicked out from the pack or just chooses to
leave, he/she is called a lone wolf who barely interacts
with others
Wolves nearly disappeared from the lower 48 states due
to beliefs discriminating against them in the 1900’s
When wolves meet humans, they run away out of fear
that the humans will attack them
Wolves are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar
They run on their toes
Wolf puppies have blue eyes, which turn into a yellowamber or green color when they grow up
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December 2015
Did you see the chess boards in the media
center? Now they’re open for play. You can
use them whenever you visit the media
center. If you aren’t the best at playing
chess or you’ve never played, there are
Coming Soon! JPMS
will have a chess club.
Listen to the morning
announcements for
more information!
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Christmas DIY Candy Cane
By Michelle Lu
What you need:
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A pipe cleaner (any color, it will be
covered with beads but preferably
green)
Red and white beads, unless you
want a different-colored candy
cane
Take a pipe cleaner, and stick the end
through the bead
Wrap the tip on the pipe cleaner
around the bead
Take another bead, and slide it through
the pipe cleaner until it touches the
first bead
Continue sliding beads through the
pipe cleaner, making the pattern you
want (i.e. red white red white)
When you reach the other end of the
pipe cleaner, wrap that end around
the last bead
Curve the pipe cleaner into a candy
cane shape
And you’re done! You can hang the
candy cane on Christmas trees,
even though they might not look
like the real ones
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Do You Want To Build a
By Jacob Chu
Do you want to build a snowman? “OMG I can’t even, I
<3 this song and movie!”
This is what some of you
guys would probably sound
like right now. The other half
of you guys are most like
this,
“AHHHHHHHHHH! NOT
AGAIN, PLEASE SPARE MY
POOR MIND FROM THIS
TORTUROUS SONG AND
THAT AWFUL MOVIE!!”
Now to stop your panicking,
this article is fortunately (my
opinion) not about Disney’s
2013 animation of talking
snowmen and magical ice
powers, Frozen.
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IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME!! As
everyone knows, the only
important
thing
about
Christmas is wait for itPRESENTS (usually, well for
me)!! This statement may be
true for some people, but a
lot of people forget an important factor to Christmas,
making a snowman. Today, I’ll
be telling you how to make
a proper snowman, but be
warned this will not be an
Olaf… I REPEAT THIS WILL
NOT TURN YOUR MASTERPIECE INTO A DANCING SNOWMAN THAT
TALKS! GOT IT?!? Ok now
for the instructions for the
best snowman you have ever seen.
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1. Find suitable snow to use. The snow
can’t be dry or it won’t stick together. Try to find snow that is
slightly moist and not completely
watery. If you can’t find any snow
like that, just get some water and
sprinkle a patch of snow.
2. Take a clump of that snow and try to
shape it into a ball or sphere (the
ball should be a bit smaller than a
basketball).
3. Take that ball and place it in an area
where there is a large layer of snow
(like your backyard/front lawn).
Start rolling the snowball in the
snow and you should notice the
ball getting larger and larger. Stop
when it is about 2.5 feet tall.
5. Stack the snowballs from largest to smallest
DECORATION
Popular things used as decorations
on snowmen are coals for eyes, a
scarf, a hat, a carrot nose, and stick
arms.While these are original and
easy items to use, there are a world
of other objects you can easily use
to make your snowman cooler than
the other snowman. For example,
one idea I have seen was putting
printed faces of celebrities on your
snowman’s face!
4. Repeat the first 4 steps 2 more
times. Each time you repeat a process, you should make a snowball
be smaller than the first one.
EX: Bottom Piece-2.5 feet, Middle Section-1.5 feet, Head-1 foot
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL
By William Ennis
I had the privilege to have an interview with Graham Richter. For
those of you who don’t know, Graham is the great great grandson of
Hugh L. Ray. Hugh Ray was the main person that made the NFL football more safe and fun to watch—basically the Einstein of the NFL
for 14 years. During the interview I learned that there was a book
written for Hugh L. Ray. It turns out that the book was written by a
family member because they wanted The Hall of Fame to give him
credit for making football better around 1938 to 1952. And to be
honest with you all it did get a lot better because of how it saved
people by making it safer. It also made football more playable because he changed the design of the football, which allowed more
passing in the game.
Thanks Graham, for your family contribution to American football!
Graham Richter, (left), Will Ennis (right)
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Please come out and support
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John Poole athletics!
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By: Antoinette Hovor
The first 5 people to come to the media center with
an answer to a riddle will receive a small treat!
Mary’s father has 5 daughters—Nana, Nene, Nini,
Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
What has a foot but no legs?
What comes down but never goes up?
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound
of bricks?
What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
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By: Michelle Lu
Famous Quotes:
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.—Wayne Gretzky
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.—Ambrose Redmoon
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HIGHLIGHTED CLUB OF THE MONTH
Get Involved!!!!!!
Clubs to join:
Spa Day
*Maker Taker Club
Lego Club
*Game Day
Music Club
*Voice and Vocals
Leo Club
Rocketry Club
Cards and Crafts
*Ukulele Club
*Tennis Club
Book Club
Jeopardy Bowl
Dance Club
*Chess Club
Newspaper Club
*Sewing Club
Homework Club
HERO Club
Drama Club
*Kickball
* Coming Soon
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