Laboratory Letters
December 18, 2015
3D World
By: Mia Mystkowski and Jadyn Beppu
Have you ever wondered how to make your name 3D? In our last art
lesson, we learned very quickly that to make your name 3D, you need a central
vanishing point (CVP).
3D letters have simple ingredients: thick black sharpie, pencil, ruler, paper,
colorful markers, and creativity. We also have an interesting teacher who goes
into each classroom and teaches an art lesson once a year: Mrs. Tracy.
Doing 3D names only requires 8 easy steps. First, you write your name in
block letters with pencil. Then draw a horizontal line with the CVP dot in the
center. It’s your choice: the letters could be shooting out from the bottom or the
top or maybe even form a circle around the CVP. Be sure to erase the horizontal
line. After that, connect all the points on the letters to the CVP with the ruler.
Curved letters? No problem. Just put your ruler on the central vanishing point and
draw a line where it first hits the letter. The next step is to trace all the lines in
thick black sharpie to make it bold and stand out. After that, you can show off
your creativity by using colorful markers to color the letters any way you want.
Soon, you can put up your masterpiece of 3D letters shooting out from a point
anywhere you want, but we are putting ours in the hallway.
In conclusion, 3D letters are a fun and easy art project to let you explore
your creativity and style! How will you design your name?
Civil rights with Bauer and Zach
What could happen no other than the Civil Rights Movement in Mrs. Rickey’s class?
These students have been fighting hard to get their writing pieces done. They have been
fighting through crowds of people and the Selma march to finish their introductions and
conclusions. It’s been a tough fight and they are almost finished with the greatest events in
history. They have come down to the most important part of it all…REVISING. They deserve to
change the laws and finish what we have started.
We have been learning about transition words, conclusion and introductions and also
the civil rights movement. We are almost finished typing and are on the final stretch toward the
end of our current unit. It has been lots of fun and we are excited to wrap up the unit. The
battle is close to ending as we have been fighting for countless weeks and drafts to get to the
moment we are at. Will we be able to succeed or will we go down in flames with our paper as
one of the most historic moments in history?
The of the Conferences Day
By: Alex, Nicholas
I walk in sweating; I’m leading a student lead conference. I step in
front of the board; I open up the PowerPoint, pen ready. I click and
start to read. “Wow,” I thought. This was easier than I thought! That
was what the conferences felt like to a lot of people.
This was the second time our class had to lead our own
conferences. Thank goodness Mrs. Rickey had a template ready for us
to fill out. We all had to fill out questions to complete the PowerPoint.
We each had different goals in different topics. Lastly we got to
decorate our PowerPoint. Now it was ready for conferences. During the
conference we students had to go through each slide and read the
important parts of each slide as the parents read the whole thing. One
of our classmates, Charlotte said “It was scary at first but I felt more
comfortable near the end.”
In conclusion the conferences were scary at first for all of us but
as the time went by we felt more confident and knew this was easier
than we thought.
Fractions Everywhere!
By Kylie and Elizabeth
Fractions are everywhere. I gave ½ of a chocolate bar to Elizabeth;
a fraction, I gave 1/10 of a pie to Kylie; a fraction! Kylie gave Elizabeth
3/3 of a pumpkin; a fraction. See! Fractions are everywhere! If you
don’t believe us, here’s why: it’s used in cooking; it’s used to determine
sales at the store; and is used to split thing up. If you’re not convinced,
there are so many more reasons!
Fractions are everywhere because it’s used in cooking so that you
know the measurement you need for your recipe. For example; 3/4 of a
cup of sugar for the cupcake.
Fractions are also there to determine sales at the store. It could
be used in half off sales for the prices. Like half off for cookies. I hope
you’re convinced now because the last one is going to be very
convincing…
If you also want to use fractions with splitting things up, like
splitting 9/11 of a cake, you can! It is very important to split things up
evenly because if you don’t, each person would get different sizes of
whatever you’re splitting up and it won’t be fair! See?! Convincing, isn’t
it?
This is why fractions are everywhere. You use it in cooking; it is
used to determine prices when there’s a sale, and to split things up.
That’s why fractions are not only good in math, but it could be very
useful during life!
History Alive!
By: Leo and Sofia
Every place has its history, and story, and the U.S.A certainly has one. Yet
the Americas wouldn’t have been discovered without the explorers! Yes, in the
1500s to the 16s, many countries searched for the Northwest Passage. It was a
fabled passage of trading easy among routes, from Europe to Asia. Explorers
never found the Northwest Passage, but they found a new land to the Europeans.
These explorers had motives of the riches and routes. Christopher
Columbus of Spain, John Cabot of England, Robert de La Salle of France, was just a
few of the explorers that scoured for new land to claim.
Some explorers did significantly more than others. Some spread diseases,
some claimed land, and some failed to achieve their goals altogether. But, at the
end of the Age of Exploration, every explorer did his own part to new maps, land
claims, and gold finds in the Americas.
Essentially, without any explorers, and their motives to look for land and
riches, America wouldn’t be discovered, the Revolutionary War would’ve never
happened, and the Europeans would might still be oblivious of North America.
The Hour of Code
By Kyle and Tyler
When we do the hour of code we can choose 3 settings like Minecraft, Star Wars and
Disney frozen. This game is amazing because it lets you learn how to code. I hope you enjoy the
game!
Minecraft
When you play Minecraft you place the codes on the side of the screen and press run
and the Minecraft character will move and you place the command blocks. Emma in our class
says ‘’it was a lot like the Minecraft game’’. At the end you make you level after you finish all
the levels. Don’t get the creepers because that’s how you get out.
Frozen
In Frozen you can pick a character either Elsa or Anna. Elsa and Anna get around by
skating on the ice in the winter wonderland. There are 8 different levels. Frozen is basically the
same exact thing as Star Wars and Minecraft except Frozen.
Star Wars
Star Wars is the same thing as Minecraft. There are 8 different levels from easy to hard.
The first level is to show how to play then the 2nd is watch out for the bandits. When you finish
that level you start going to the R2 D2 mode. At the end of the 8 levels you can create your own
level and reset everything. You can get different power ups and you can get points. Every single
level has something you can collect. When you are in the R2 D2 mode you can control R2 D2 to
collect thing.
Conclusion
These 3 games are a wonderful way to get interested in coding. They also are super fun
to play. We hope you love these games as much as we do.
Ms. Byrne
By Emma and Charlotte
We have gotten some new things in our classroom, but one of the biggest is
a new teacher, aka Ms. Byrne. Don’t worry; she’s not replacing Mrs. Rickey, she’s
only been a teacher for about a year, but merely learning how to teach, by one of
the best teachers around. We have learned a lot of interesting things about Ms.
Byrne, but these are by far the most interesting.
The first fact we learned about her is that her favorite color is pink. Ms.
Byrne said “My favorite color was pink since I was very young.” Another cool fact
we learned about Ms. Byrne is she worked at Disney Land, much to our classes
delight: she worked at most of the kid rides at Fantasy Land. Much like Charlotte,
her favorite food is baked potatoes, and her favorite animal is one of the coolest
animals yet: a white tiger. You can tell she really is a animal person, by the fact
she has THREE cats, and TWO dogs!
“She is going to be a real addition to the classroom.” Leo Fan says. I think
we all agree! We can’t wait to learn about Ms. Byrne as the year goes by!
Rock & Rollercoasters
By Morgan and Arkin
“Morgan, I think it’s breaking!” said rollercoaster engineer Arkin Rao.
“What is breaking?” said helper Morgan Ringwood
“My rollercoaster is breaking. It’s made of foam installation and tape.
We need to fix this because the expo is due today,” Arkin said.
“Fix it!” said Bauer. Bauer leaves.
“Morgan! You have to help me!”
“OK,”
“Let’s go. We start off with $14 to spend on our materials. There is
tape, foam, and tunnels (cup which is the endpoint), felt and meter sticks.
Let’s build the slope high so it can get around the loop. We have to have
the loop in order to get a grade. All the parents are coming to see this,”
Arkin tells Morgan. “Let’s try the simulator on JASON 1 more time.”
“I think it is all fixed now,” Morgan said.
“We are heading to the expo in 1 minute,” Mrs. Rickey said.
Specialist
By: Ethan and Colby
At Newcastle Elementary all kids go to specialists. Specialists include P.E
(Physical education), Music and Library. In P.E we do many sports and games and
physical tests. For example we do curl ups push-ups and other activities. But in P.E
the teacher doesn’t say to do at least 40 push-ups he makes us do as many as we
can and if we can only do 1 he just likes that you tried your best. In music we sing
songs, play games and learn how to play musical instruments. Right now we are
learning about the ukulele and how to play it. In library Mrs. Berry reads us books
in the story area and she teaches us how to be safe on the internet and how we
handle cyber bullies. We can also check out books and read them.
And those are our specialists at Newcastle Elementary!