Wilkerson’s Weekly
By Kaitlyn Roegner, Mary Bridget Perez, Sophie Niklas, and Emma Kelley
Animal of the Week - Giraffe ​
by Emma Kelley
Giraffes are the tallest mammals on earth, their legs alone can be as
tall as 6 feet high! When running a short distance, giraffes can run up
to 35 mph, and when traveling long distances they can run 10 mph.
Their necks are song long, they cannot reach the ground when they
need a drink of water. So, to solve this whenever a giraffe is thirsty,
they must awkwardly bend their knees. Giraffes also sleep and spend
most of their lives standing up.
Student of the week ​
by Kaitlyn Roegner
The Student of the week is ​
Kaleigh­Ann Kaleigh-Ann is 13 years old and is in seventh grade. She was born in
California on August 6th 2002, then moved to Ohio around the age of
five. As a hobby Kaleigh- Ann does gymnastics and has obtained a
level seven and is so close to a level ten- the highest level in
gymnastics! In school she is a straight A student and is in Honors math
and Enriched Language Arts! Kaleigh-Ann enjoys Reading and her
favorite book is Paper Towns. Kayleigh-Ann’s favorite movie is the Hunger Games trilogy. All
in all Kaleigh-Ann is an exemplary student, smart, kind and athletic!
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Brain Teasers ​
By Mary Bridget Perez
This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is
so unusual about it. It looks ordinary and plain, that you would think there’s nothing
wrong with it. In fact, nothing wrong with it! It is highly unusual, though. Study it and
think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you
might find out. Try to do so without any coaching. What is so unusual about this
paragraph?
Upcoming Assignments ​
By Emma Kelley
On Tuesday we received Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and we
are annotating it for homework, then turning it in next Monday. We are highlighting
the figurative language, and reacting to his words. Our Greek and Latin stem root
flashcards are due on block day. The roots of set five are bene-, loqu-, sect-, tom-, and
the group cloud/clus/clos. We also have a Weekly Reading Log due Monday, where we
record all of our reading daily. Everyone is also working on a narrative that has no
specific due date, but that we should be adding to. Make sure your IRB completion
forms (Independent Reading Book) are being completed, because the 3rd Quarter ends
before Spring Break in the end of March.
What We Did this Week ​
By Mary Bridget Perez & Emma Kelley
We Scampered. If you're wonder what scampering is, it is when you take an everyday
object and make it new and unique or change it. Before we started we were given some
examples like how the spoon and fork make spork. We also were told about how if you
took the giant from jack and the beanstalk and put in little red riding hood, how would
he react? Or if the wolf took red riding hood to his grandmother's house, how would the
story change? We thought about this and then we faced a challenge of our own. Taking
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the ordinary everyday object called a paperclip and making it into something
wonderful, unique, exquisite and more. Our class came up with so many cool unique
objects, we created some, but others we couldn’t. Some of the ideas included, cotton
candy paper clips, baby proof scissors, finger cuffs and a catapult. Here our some of the
students’ thoughts on this project:
Spencer says “It was a way to see how creative or a way to see how flexible our minds
work to problem solve”
John David thinks, “The paper clip project was a fun class activity that made us use our
minds to invent or create something with a paper clip”
Also, we playing Kahoot on Monday (an online interactive game where we are given
questions and answer them as quickly and correctly as we can). The Kahoot was about
plural s, plural possessive s, and possessive s. An example for the plural s, is the word
dogs, this just shows there are many dogs. An example for the possessive s, is the
sentence “Mike’s house is made out of cotton candy” this shows that one person, Mike,
owns a house (showing possession) and it is made of cotton candy. An example for
plural possessive, is the sentence, “The students’ homework was graded by the teacher
immediately,” shows that there are plural students, but it is also possessive because the
students own the homework. On Tuesday, some of us went on to work on an
infomercial, explaining all of this information.
Jokes of the Week ​
By kaitlyn roeger​
(a funny one)
Ten Fun Facts:
1) You can’t wash your eyes with tooth paste
2) You can’t count your hair
3) You can't breath through your nose with your tongue out
4) You just did number 3
6) When you did number three you realized it was possible, only you looked like a dog
7) you’re smiling right now because you were fooled
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8) you skipped number 5
9) you checked to see if there is a number 5 and realized there isn’t
10) You realized there is an eleven
11)You had fun
Read these numbers aloud:
18678475793947579383727590918374658390382748374928395730129
You didn’t read the whole thing did you?
Follow the instructions below
1) Look at number 8
2) go to number 7
3) please go to number 6
4) I just wanted to say hi
5) Now, go to number 10
6) how about you go to number 9
7) Now that I think about it, go to number 4
8) Nevermind, look at number 5
9) Actually, go to number 2
10) You know what? Go to number 3