Cambridge Elementary
Lil’ Indians
Volume VI, Issue 4
April, 2017
The Talent Show!
By Emma Townsend and Teagan Wright
The talent show for Music in our
Schools Month took place on
March 31. This is where kids display their talents on stage in front
of family and friends. All participants contributed to perform an
outstanding show. There were
three categories: instrumental, vocal, and variety. Backstage also
allowed the contestants to meet
new friends who share similar interests. This show lets kids come out
of their shells and express their
personalities and talents.
Inside this issue:
Results:
History of
Computers
2
3rd Grade
Science
3
Haiku,
Foil Sculpture
4
Book Talk
5
Lego Car Races
6
World of PE
7
6th Grade
Science
7
Oh, Canada!
8
Batman
9
Vocalists Scores
1st- Emma Townsend, Kateri Murphy, Angie Dill, and Maddie Wield
(Hallelujah)
2nd- Taryn Olson (Somewhere, Over The Rainbow)
3rd- Lexeigh Peterson (How Far I'll Go)
Variety Scores
1st- Ella Hunt and Chloe Bruno (ballet)
2nd- Audrey Danielson and Laurel Leary ( comedy act)
3rd- Karina Scheet and Kendra Burdick (dance)
Instrumental Scores
1st- Teagan Wright (piano)
2nd- Nicole Robinson (flute)
3rd- Laurel Leary and Kayleigh Carrino (clarinet and saxophone)
CCS Recycles! CCS’s High School Environmental Club created several initiatives as
a follow-up to Earth Day, including a Classroom Recycle Challenge which will take
place from April 25—28th. The goal is to collect the most recyclables. The winning
classes (one elementary and one secondary will receive a Stewart’s Ice Cream Party!
History of Computers (Excerpt)
By Kobe McManus, 6th Grade
Did you know that computers are made up of 0s and
1s? Computers are capable of many things, but they only
can do what they are programed to do. As we discover
more things and apply them to technology, it gets better,
because we are the ones who created it. A zero in binary
code means “off”, and a 1 means “on”. Binary is the only
language that a computer can interpret. In order for a
computer to understand programming languages like Java, and C#, the code must be compiled, or “translated” to
binary code that the computer can understand. Programs
must be used to compile the code.
Once the code is in binary form, it can be run by
the computer. But the programs used to compile the
code must have been programmed in the first place, so
in order to do this, there was a machine called a programmer. The programmer is used to send
small electrical currents into the computer chip, which blows fuses in the chip, changing them
from 1s to 0s. A person who uses the programmer to program computer chips in this way must
be able to program in binary code, which can be very confusing, because you are writing either
a 0 or a 1. If there is an error you have to find out what it is; there is no compiler to check your
work for you. Now you might think that binary code is the worst way to program, but there are
benefits. When you program in binary, the computer doesn’t have to compile the code, it just
has to run it. This can make programs written in binary run much faster.
In science, Mrs. Lathrop's
1st grade class created a
cloud from shaving cream.
Students used droppers to
add water to the cloud.
When the cloud became too
heavy with water, it rained!
Pictured: High School
classroom helper Shyanne
Sherwin and Quinn Burke
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Elementary art students of all
ages decorated boxes for the
annual indoor picnic day held
by Mrs. Braun and the cafeteria staff. This year¹s theme
was Spring! I wonder what
next year¹s theme will be?
Mr. Campbell’s
3rd Graders
Love Science!
As part of their science
Buoyancy Science Lab,
Mr. Campbell’s class
designed and built clay
boats, and tested which
designs allowed them to
carry the most cargo. It
was fun!
Pictured: Ava Henderson
and Cooper Ruggles
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Haiku
Time’s Chimes
Emily Lathrop
In Library, 5th graders wrote haiku to celebrate April Poetry Month. A Haiku is a Japanese poem with seventeen syllables, in three
lines of five, seven, and five.
The rain drops rhyme with
the chime of time ticking by.
Who knows what time brings?
Can’t Sleep
Chaylyn Harrington
It’s very painful,
My baby brother screaming!
How do I slumber?
Winter Days
Samantha Nolan
Outside with my friends,
the sun shone but it was cold.
Winter days are great!
6th Graders explore
form with foil in Mrs.
Liu-Gorman’s Art class
Pictured: Emma
Townsend’s World
Peace sculpture
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Book Talk
A Book Review of The Twits by Roald
Dahl
By Jarrod Young, 4th Grade
My reading group just finished reading The Twits, by Roald
Dahl. In the book The Twits it talks about Mr. and Mrs. Twit, and it
talks about the Muggle Wumps.
Mr. and Mrs. Twit play mean tricks on each other. One example is that Mr. Twit puts a frog in Mrs. Twit’s bed. The second
example is that Mrs. Twit puts worms in Mr. Twit’s spaghetti.
Mrs. Twit has monkeys in her garden and Mr. Twit trains
them to do everything upside down, because they dream about
making the great upside down circus. However, Muggle Wump and
his family have had enough! They don’t just want out, they want
revenge.
I recommend this book. One reason is the book is funny, and
if you like to read about pranks, this is your next book.
Madeleine L’engle Author Study
Lilla Mullen, 5th Grade
Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918. She spent her juvenile years in New York City. Instead of schoolwork, she found that she
would rather be writing journals, poems, and books. All of that led to her
writing her famous book, A Wrinkle in Time. The book follows a girl
named Meg and her brother, Charles Wallace. Meg’s father is absent,
and Meg misses him. So she sets out with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and
Mrs. Which who travel together in the Mrs.’ tesseract, which in that case
is a wrinkle in time. They travel across the universe looking for Meg’s
father.
On one planet they go to, the citizens are all doing the same
thing. Why? Their minds are imprisoned by the dark force of the planet,
IT. The people look happy, but that’s an illusion. They really don’t feel
anything at all! Those people have given up their willpower, freethinking,
and individuality. Plus, if one falls out of line, they suffer the consequences. Meg learns that she is control of who she is, and has to use
that in a fight against IT.
Besides going to that planet, Meg and her friends go on weirder,
crazier, adventures. This book is a symbol of individuality, self-reliance,
and family. The book shows you that you are who you are and you are
the only one who is in charge of that.
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Lego Car Races with Eggs
This April, Mrs. Whitman’s 2nd Grade class designed Lego cars that would carry a hard-boiled
egg. The rules were that the car had to work, the car had to fit in the tracks (vinyl gutters), the egg
had to stay in the car, and students could only use the Legos that one of their teammates brought
in.
Children worked in teams to create their cars, requiring them to share their ideas and space. After
the building phase, the children named their eggs and cars. A few egg names were Chipped and
Crash, and some car names were Carriage, Breaky, and Wide Windows. Next step was to race
the cars at three angles agreed upon by the class.
This activity taught 2nd graders some valuable lessons. They learned that another person’s idea
might work better than your own, that less weight on the car was better, that plastic wheels go
faster than rubber wheels on the track, that the car shouldn't be top-heavy, and that the number of
people and variety of Legos affected what was made.
When asked what they learned about themselves during this lesson, students said,
I am better at using Legos that I thought.
I am good at engineering!
I was excited and scared at the same time
I wanted my car to win the race and I didn’t want it to crash!
Everybody had a chance to do something fun!
Much learning and great fun was
had by all!
Latay Honyoust, Dalton
Blanchette, and Addisyn
Cossey display their Lego
car and egg model.
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From the World of PE
Mrs. Phillips and Mr. I
The students just finished their unit on scooters, competing in scooter basketball and scooter soccer. Great teamwork and strength
were needed to have the success they had. Nice job!
The students now will be focusing on their fitness as we prepare for
the Physical Fitness Challenge. The five parts are sit and reach,
shuttle run, pull-ups, sit-ups, and the mile. The students have been
working on these parts all year. Now it is time to see how we improved from the fall. Good luck!
What is Carbon 14?
Mr. Flint and his sixth graders have been studying an isotope of Carbon, called carbon 14. Carbon 14 is in all living things, humans, animals, plants. The Carbon 14 remaining in that once living object can
determine how old the object is.
During this unit, we used a made up atom called Pennium in a lab
representing radioactive decay. In this lab, we put one hundred pennies in a covered container, and pulled out however many pennies
are heads up. Continue this until all the pennies are out of the container. This represents the carbon 14 leaving a once living object.
Atoms, Atoms Everywhere!
Olivia Record
Deep down in the 6th grade hallway, creativity strikes! It is the annual element project
that gets everyone thinking about what their
project will look like. Maybe a cake or model, a poster or a quilt? Kids are creating fun
projects that will represent all different kinds
of elements. Mr. Flint can't wait to see everyone's ideas and learn about all the fascinating things about each element.
Zachary Price and Abraham Edwards
present their atom project.
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Oh, Canada!
Mrs. McKeighan’s 5th graders recently completed a Canada research
project, using databases and reliable websites to find out more about our
country neighbor and creating written and artistic pieces to present their
findings.
Lucas Mattson’s
poster project
Cooper Dupuis’
poster project
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Phone: 518-677-8527
Riddles
1.What has hands but can’t clap? A clock.
2.Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? Ton.
We’re on the web!
www.cambridgecsd.org
3.The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps.
4.What goes up and down but never moves? The temperature.
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5.What belongs to you but is used more by others? Your name.
6.What can be as big as an elephant but weigh nothing? Its shadow.
7.What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in
one thousand years? The letter ‘M’.
8.If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
A secret.
9.What has one head, one foot and four legs? A bed.
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? Darkness.
Joe’s father had three sons – Snap, Crackle and …? Joe.
5th Grade Author Study Project
By: Teagan Wright
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