March 2016 Volume 4, Issue 3 Clarendon School Courier By Smriti Chopra On January 29, 2016, the sixth graders of Clarendon elementary school participated in the spelling bee. The students turned out to be pretty good spellers, so the rounds were very long. Each student was given a word to spell. If you spelled the word correctly you stayed in the bee. Once you got a word wrong, you went to the side and watched the spelling bee in action. During the spelling bee, many students misspelled the word “mischievous”. This one was tough, but someone was able to spell it correctly. The winner was Jordan Rocco from Mrs. Smith-Bonin’s class. The runner up was Jacob Ruiz from Mrs. Smeyer’s class. After the spelling bee, yearbook pictures for all of the clubs were taken. Congratulations to the winners and all the students that participated. Principal - Mr. Steve Viggiani Co-Advisors – Mrs. Dawn Doering Mrs. Felicia Maloney Senior Citizen Breakfast By Smriti Chopra The Senior Citizen Breakfast was held on February 11, this year. The breakfast is an event where the 6 th graders of Clarendon school are the servers and greeters. The 6 th graders helped the senior citizens, entertained them, and served them food. The 6 th graders decorated the gym and displayed their Greek God project on the bleachers. For entertainment, the Clarendon School Rock Band performed along with the drama club. The Rock Band played a number of songs on stage, while the drama club danced and sang to the song “We Dance” and Timoune sang a solo song called “Waiting for Life.” Reporter Gives Talk to Club Members By Aidan Spooner Carly Baldwin is a reporter for the Patch in Monmouth and Middlesex Counties. She recently came to Clarendon School to speak to the Newspaper and Media Club students who gave up their lunch period to learn what a reporter does and learned how to edit their work. Mrs. Baldwin explained that information comes from many sources, but those sources need to be checked for accuracy. Once she has the information she writes the story, then verifies what people have said with interviews. As she writes she constantly edits her work. She even had a life size article for us to edit. Mrs. Baldwin was amazed how many errors we were able to locate. It was the same editing we do in our classes every day. Mrs. Baldwin believes that it is better to interview the people she doesn't know to see what information they know about the subject. She also has to investigate to see if the people's stories are true. Mrs. Baldwin edits her work before she submits. She reminded us that if the article is published with mistakes, it will remain there forever. So that means you need to double check something before you hand it in.
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March 2016
Volume 4, Issue 3
Clarendon School Courier
By Smriti Chopra
On January 29, 2016, the
sixth graders of Clarendon
elementary school
participated in the spelling
bee. The students turned out
to be pretty good spellers, so
the rounds were very long.
Each student was given a
word to spell. If you spelled
the word correctly you stayed
in the bee. Once you got a
word wrong, you went to the
side and watched the spelling
bee in action.
During the spelling bee,
many students misspelled the
word “mischievous”. This one
was tough, but someone was
able to spell it correctly. The
winner was Jordan Rocco
from Mrs. Smith-Bonin’s class.
The runner up was Jacob Ruiz
from Mrs. Smeyer’s class.
After the spelling bee,
yearbook pictures for all of
the clubs were taken.
Congratulations to the
winners and all the students
that participated.
Principal - Mr. Steve Viggiani
Co-Advisors – Mrs. Dawn Doering
Mrs. Felicia Maloney
Senior Citizen Breakfast By Smriti Chopra
The Senior Citizen Breakfast
was held on February 11, this year.
The breakfast is an event where
the 6th graders of Clarendon school
are the servers and greeters. The
6th graders helped the senior
citizens, entertained them, and
served them food. The 6th graders
decorated the gym and displayed
their Greek God project on the
bleachers. For entertainment, the
Clarendon School Rock Band
performed along with the drama
club. The Rock Band played a
number of songs on stage, while
the drama club danced and sang to
the song “We Dance” and
Timoune sang a solo song called
“Waiting for Life.”
Reporter Gives Talk
to Club Members By Aidan Spooner
Carly Baldwin is a reporter for the
Patch in Monmouth and Middlesex
Counties. She recently came to
Clarendon School to speak to the
Newspaper and Media Club students
who gave up their lunch period to
learn what a reporter does and
learned how to edit their work.
Mrs. Baldwin explained that
information comes from many
sources, but those sources need to be
checked for accuracy. Once she has
the information she writes the story,
then verifies what people have said
with interviews. As she writes she
constantly edits her work. She even
had a life size article for us to edit.
Mrs. Baldwin was amazed how many
errors we were able to locate. It was
the same editing we do in our classes
every day.
Mrs. Baldwin believes that it is
better to interview the people she
doesn't know to see what information
they know about the subject. She also
has to investigate to see if the
people's stories are true. Mrs.
Baldwin edits her work before she
submits. She reminded us that if the
article is published with mistakes, it
will remain there forever. So that
means you need to double check
something before you hand it in.
Page 2 of 6 News from the classrooms
Dolley con’t
A few months after John’s death,
James Madison asked her out on a date.
They fell in love. He asked her to marry
him. She agreed. She was now Dolley
Madison. Since she married outside of
the Quakers, she was disowned.
Eight years later James became
president of the United States. Two
months after moving into the White
House, she began the tradition of “Mrs.
Madison’s Wednesday Nights” for
anyone who would want to talk to her or
her husband. The events came to be
known as squeezes because three to four
hundred people attended.
She would serve delicious food. But
the squeezes would also served a
purpose. It was a place where people
would join together to share news and
gossip. Her goal was unity. A few years
later the British declared war. They
attacked the White House while James
was not home. Dolley escaped with the
portrait of George Washington. She was
forever praised for saving the painting
before the British burned down the White
House. She was now a hero. James
died in 1836 and Dolley in 1849. She
lived a very happy life.
St. Jude By Vincent Salerno
St Jude is a research hospital in Memphis
Tennessee that helps treat children with
cancer and other diseases. St. Jude Hospital
relies on donations from people all over the
world to help children and their parents
receive the care they need without the worry
of paying money. Clarendon School works
to raise money every year to help the kids of
St. Jude. Last year, our school raised
$28,329.00. This collection made us the #1
school in New Jersey and the #6 school in the
country.
Throughout the year, Clarendon School
has fundraisers to collect money such as
jersey day, dress up day, ice skating and jeans
day to name a few. Our biggest fundraiser is
the Math-A-Thon which is currently in effect
until April 8, 2016. The Math-A-Thon is a
fun way to raise money and sharpen our math
skills at the same time.
Thanks to the fundraising ideas of Mrs.
Bartletta, Mrs. Falco and Mrs. Ortiz, we are
able to continue to raise more and more
money for St. Jude. You can become a part
of kids helping kids by donating today and
helping to save children’s lives!
By – Aarti A Advani
On the 100th day of school, the
Clarendon School kindergarters
decorated shirts. The first grade
dressed up as though they were a
hundred years old. The hundredth day
of school was also the day we kicked
off the math-a-thon. The rock band
played their songs such as, Stitches
during the math-a-thon assemblies for
both the primary and the intermediate
pods.
March Math Madness By Alexandra Castillo
There is a lot that goes on in March,
like Dr. Seuss Week, March Math
Multiplication, and fundraisers for St.
Jude. March Multiplication is when
we do math in March. We go into this
competition to see which class knows
their times’ tables the best. At the end
who ever scores the highest, wins!
For Dr. Seuss week we do crazy
things for a week. On Monday we
have our parents or family members
come in to read a book, on Tuesday
we wear wacky socks, Wednesday is
the one and only, WACKY
WEDNESDAY, on Thursday we wear
a crazy hat, and on Friday we read to
kindergarteners.
For some St. Jude fundraisers we do
something called a MATH-A-THON,
where we have to do math problems.
Then we have people sponsor us for
every math problem we do. When we
are all done we bring our money to our
teacher and win some cool prizes.
Another thing we do for St .Jude is
we bring in money and get to buy
really big muffins, now that’s cool,
and that is what we do in March.
Dolley Madison By Gabriela Romanelli
March is Women’s History Month
and I think that an inspirational
woman would be Dolley Madison, the
wife of 4th President James Madison.
She was born as Dolley Payne on
May 20, 1768. She was the third of
eight children. Her mother was a
Quaker, or a member of the Society of
Friends. Her father, after marrying her
mother, became a Quaker too. The
Quakers were very strict about their
rules. They had rules like you
couldn’t play cards, dance, own
slaves, fight in wars, or wear flashy
clothes or jewelry. You could get
thrown right out of the Quakers if you
married someone outside of faith, or
break any of their rules.
When Dolley was one year old her
father moved the family to eastern
Virginia. They moved from farm to
farm. Later, Dolley complained that
the Quaker rules were controlling her
completely. She was aching to rebel.
Her grandmother may have helped her
by allowing her to wear nicer clothes. Her father tried to work as one of
the Quakers. He was selling starch for
laundry. He failed. The Quakers
disowned him. Humiliated at being
disowned, he went to his bed. Even
from his bed, her father controlled her
life by picking out her husband.
Fortunately, she liked him. His name
was John Todd. They had two
children, one of which died of a
disease called yellow fever that was
carried by mosquitos. Later her
husband died of yellow fever too. She
was now alone with a one-year-old
child.
What is a Black Hole?
By Jay Raval
Do you know what a black hole is? If you
don’t, here is the answer. Scientists that study
black holes have to study these holes billions
of miles away from the Earth. They are
invisible. A black hole is one of the most
mysterious objects in outer space. A black
hole is made up of very dense objects
surrounded by an area in space. Anything
that goes into a black hole is trapped – even
light.
There are three things that help scientists
understand black holes – gravity, escape
gravity, and the speed of light. Gravity is a
force that pulls objects toward a center point.
Gravity makes the planet orbit. It is very hard
to escape the pull of gravity. If something is
fast enough like a rocket it can escape this
force. How fast the rocket goes is called
escape velocity. Nothing in the entire
universe can travel faster than light. Light
rays travel at 186,282 miles per second. A
black hole has incredibly strong gravity. The
gravity is so strong that it pulls anything it
gets close too. Do you think that you would
ever want to get pulled into a black hole?
Gravational Waves By Ayush Argawal
Gravitational waves are waves that cause
ripples in space and time as the waves travel
through the universe at the speed of light.
These waves can be produced by events such
as the colliding of black holes, the collapse of
a supernova, and the gravitational radiation
from the creation of the Universe. For
example, when two black holes collide, they
release a great amount of energy in the form
of gravitational waves. The energy released
can be 50 times more than the energy
produced by all of the stars in the universe.
Scientists have been trying to detect
gravitational waves for years, but they
couldn’t because these waves become very
weak by the time they reach Earth.
Movie Releases By Uma Advani
Do you like the series Kung Fu
Panda? Continuing his adventure of
awesomeness in KUNGFU PANDA 1
and 2, here it is, KUNGFU PANDA 3.
It is a 3D American-Chinese computer
animated action comedy. If you have
watched the first and second movie,
don't wait to see the third one.
If you aren't a fan, let me tell you
what the series is about. It is about a
panda named Po who always wanted
to be the dragon warrior and turns out
that he and his dad have a noodle
store. Po the panda, works at the store.
But, his actual dad, who is a panda,
shows up in search of his son. Po goes
to his actual dad's panda town or
village to discover what it truly means to be a panda.
These movies were produced by the company, DreamWorks Animation. Melisa Cobb produces these movies. I hope I have encouraged you to see the newest movie Kung Fu Panda 3. Hurry up before it gets too late!
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a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theater or on television; a motion picture. synonyms: film, motion