Mrs. Garvin's Newsletter

Everything was

perfect. The Earth

cooled off.

Planet Earth was

done!

A Big Bang

Garvin Gazette By Mrs. Garvin’s 1st /2nd gr. Montessori Class

A Big Bang

By: Meredith

For billions of years

there was nobody

alive and the Earth

didn’t have any sun

light. Then there

were lightning storms

and lots of rain. The

volcanoes were rush-

ing. Then the rain

started falling and it

was flooding the

Earth. Next there was

a gas cloud. The

rocks were gas.

The gold was gas.

The sand was gas and

everything was gas!

Then rain cooled

down the earth.

Then when it was

just rain, the Earth

had so much rain it

was up to the moun-

tains and they were

under the rain. Soon

the sun peeked out of

the rainy cloud.

Then it was pretty.

Inside this issue:

Montessori Advertisement

Is Montessori For You?

2

Special Personalities:

A Feature on Rosa Parks

2

Local News: Beached

Dolphins on Cape Cod

2

Sports:

Boston Roots for the New

England Team!

3

Bruins vs. Senators 3

Entertainment:

Featuring Journey 2

3

Around the World

China

Bastille Day Canada

All About Animals Adopt a Dog

Animal Facts

4-5

Inside Story

Interviews with Montessori

Teachers

Comics and Sudoku

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February 17, 2012

Volume 1, Issue 1

Montessori is a great way to learn!

The teachers that work in first and

second grade Montessori are:

Mrs.Garvin and Mrs.Protas. They

have fun ways to teach! The math

activities that Montessori

(Mrs.Garvin’s class) has are: The

Stamp Games, Racks and Tubes,

The Money Games and Top It.

You can work by yourself or with

someone else. You can also do lan-

guage. Here are some of the language

activities: compound words, movable

alphabet, and synonyms. Mrs.

Garvin’s and Mrs. Protas’ classes are

mixed with first and second graders.

Montessori is really fun!

Montessori Education By Libby

Beached Dolphins on Cape Cod

cleaning the tables and feed-ing the fish and lizard.

There are little mats to work on. You can do PowerPoint presentations on animals, things or places. You can type research reports too. The kids learn about people around the world too. In the middle of the year, the kids learn about planets, rocks and minerals. There is a special lesson about planets, rocks and minerals. It is fun to go to Montessori!

Montessori Advertisement

By: Amanda

Montessori if very fun! If your kid lives to move around it will be good for them.

Children use the Stamp Game a lot. It’s a math material. You can use it to add, sub-tract, and divide. You can do big problems and it will be easy.

The teachers are very nice. The ages are three years old to ten years old. Your children can do different things than

other people in the classroom.

The kids get to learn to read and do cursive. They read a lot about research they are do-ing. Kids like to make beauti-ful maps of the world. The kids learn about Native Ameri-cans. Also, the kids go on field trips.

The Montessori Coordinator is Mrs. Garvin. She is also a first and second grade teacher in Montessori. Montessori is very different than traditional. Children take care of the class-room by watering the plants,

By Caity and Amelia

More than 100 dolphins have been stranded on the shores of Cape Cod in 2012. We need to save these dol-phins from dying. Everyone can do something. They need a lot of vol-unteers to carry the dolphins to trucks to drive them back to the open ocean.

Some scientists think that dolphins

have something in them that helps them know where they are. When the dolphins get to close to shore they can’t figure out where they are. Some scientists think this is why they are getting stranded. Others think they are looking for food. It is still a mystery.

Please volunteer to be a rescuer. The dolphins need your help!

Is Montessori for you?

Sign up for Mon-tessori! Call Mrs. Garvin at 429-

0647 x 2118

The Life of Rosa Parks

By: Ava & Lilly

Rosa Parks was born on February 4th, 1913. She helped black people get equal rights. She was ar-rested because she would not give up her seat on the bus for a white person. Her friend bailed her out of jail. Many black people were angry that Rosa had been arrested. They decided to boycott the buses and it worked! They went back to the buses and they did not have to give up their seats. Rosa Parks taught us to treat black people the way that you want to be treated.

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I am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks with Jim

Movie: Journey 2

Bruins Vs. Senators

Superbowl Follow-up

The Patriots lost against the Giants.

The score was 21 Giants 17 Pats.

This is the 2nd loss in the Super-

bowl against the Giants since 2008.

The Giants were happy to win

against the Patriots again in the

Superbowl.

By Stephen & Jamie

By : Ben

The Patriots are in the Super Bowl

for the second time against the New

York Giants. The quarterback for the

Pats is Tom Brady. He is famous num-

ber 12! The name of the stadium they

are playing in is Lucas Oil and it is in

Indianapolis.

The weather will not impact the

game because the stadium is indoors.

The last time the Pats won the Super

Bowl was in 2002 against the St. Louis

Rams. They lost to the Giants in 2008.

One of the reasons that people are

watching the game is because Madonna

and Kelly Clarkson are performing

songs at

the half

time show.

There is

always entertainment and interesting

ads.

There is a llama that predicts the

Super Bowl winner each year and he

believes the Giants will win. However

there is also an octopus that predicts the

Super Bowl winner and he believes the

Patriots will win. You’ll have to watch

to find out!

face the college teams first and then the professional teams. They call it the Grapefruit League. They have a new coach named Bobby Valentine.

We still have Big Papi and Youkilis but we traded Jona-than Papelbon to the Phillies. The regular season starts in April.

by Jamie

The Boston Bruins won against the Ottawa Senators

4 to 3. Sidenberg took a slap shot from center ice that won them the game.

I think that the Bruins are

going to play in the Stanley Cup finals again.

The Red Sox By Maeve R.

The Red Sox are in Spring Training in Fort Meyers, Florida. The games start on March 3rd. The Red Sox

Journey 2

By: Jackson Partridge

Journey 2 is a new movie that

comes out on February 10,

2012 in 3D. In Journey 2

everything that is big in the

real world is small on the

island and everything that is

small in the real world is big.

It got three stars in ratings.

This movie takes place on an

island and under water. It is

rated PG.

Boston Roots for the New England Team!

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News from Around the World

Bastille Day in FranceBastille Day in FranceBastille Day in FranceBastille Day in France By Caity and AmeliaBy Caity and AmeliaBy Caity and AmeliaBy Caity and Amelia

France has a very famous festival. The festival is called the Bastille Day. The festival is on July 14. At the festi-val they dance in the middle of the streets. Some parts of France have cos-tumes from long ago.

They wear the costumes at festivals, pa-rades, and fairs. Each part of France has their own kind of dancing. Lots of France does folk-dancing.

China By Maeve V.

We just celebrated the Chinese New Year.

This year is the year of the dragon. China is a

country in Asia and that’s very far from Hol-

liston. Did you know that the Great Wall of

China is 2,000 years old and you can actually

see it from space? Last year two of our class-

mates went to China and walked on the Great

Wall. The Chinese flag has four small yellow

stars and one big yellow star. Red is a lucky

color for Chinese people. They also give red

envelopes with money in the for Chinese New

Year. These envelopes are called “Hong

Bao.” There is also a three or four day cele-

bration with dances

and parades. I

recommend that

you go to China

someday.

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Oh Canada !

Canada Canada Canada Canada by Dakshataby Dakshataby Dakshataby Dakshata

Canada is a part of

North America. It is the

country North of the

United States. Canada

is very cold. In Canada

you can ski

down tall mountains. Can-

ada is near the United

States so you can drive

there. In Canada they

make little dolls. If you go

to Canada you can speak

the languages English and

French.

Animal Facts

*Some bat hair

was used as money

*One of the Egyptian leaders had a hippo as a pet

*Some leather back turtles have shells that can be

6 feet long and 4 feet wide

*Leather back turtles can swim as fast as a bottle

nose dolphin

*You can buy Octopus flavored ice cream in Japan

*A cow in Canada was sold for 1.2 million dollars

*Turtles can never stick out their tongues

*Ants have lived on Earth for 140 million years

*A Tyrannosaurus’ teeth were the size of a slice of

pizza

Are you looking to

adopt a dog?

By Cole and Alex

We’ve done lots of research

on different breeds of dogs.

Maybe one sounds like a

good match for your family.

Boxers: Boxers are very good with kids. They are very playful. They

are medium sized dogs. Boxers are very cute.

Yorkshire Terriers: Yorkies are very small but active. Yorkies are very

protective.

Dachshunds: Dachshunds need to have chew toys. They are good hunt-

ing dogs.

Golden Retrievers: Goldens are a big type of dog. They can get a little

too playful. Goldens are very sweet with kids.

Schnauzers: Schnauzers are very small. They have hair, not fur, so they

are good pets if you have allergies.

Muts: Muts are scruffy dogs. Muts come in all sizes. The are lovable

dogs and very good with kids. Muts are very fast dogs. You can adopt a

mut at a dog shelter. Many of them don’t have homes and you can give

them a home.

FACTS : Weird but True by Isabela

Soon They Will Be Gone

By: Jack

1. There are fewer than 25 Grand

Cayman Blue Iguanas left.

2. There are fewer than 20 Yangtze River

Dolphins left.

3. There are fewer than 10 Giant Stick in-

sects left.

4. There is 1 Abington Island Tortoise left.

5. There are fewer than 60 Javan

Rhinoceros left.

Information from: Almost Gone by Steve Jen-

kins

Weird but True

*The first computer ever made was as long as a tennis

court.

*Almonds are in the Rose family

*The Universe has no center

*There are only 2 ATM’s in Antarctica

*Early Chinese coins were shaped like knives.

*In the olden days, some people word bee hives,

caged birds and mice on their head as a hat.

*A long time ago, parents made baby diapers out of

potatoes.

*Studies have shown that 100 million pounds of

chicken wings are eaten on Superbowl Sunday. That’s

enough to circle the Earth more than twice!

Facts from National Geography magazine, I Can’t

Believe it’s History, and the Boston Globe

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Interviews with Montessori Teachers

Ms. Gumz

Mrs Gumz is a 3rd and

4th Grade Montessori

teacher at Miller. Ms.

Gumz has been teaching

since 1998. She has been

teaching in Holliston,

Springfield and Haver-

hill.

She loves to teach

Monetssori and she likes

it because she likes the

materials. Her favorite

place to travel is Alaska.

Ms. Gumz likes bird-

watching. She has two

greyhound dogs and

cats. Her favorite food is

Barbeque.

She raises bees and

sells her own honey.

By Ben and Luke

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By Katie (& Luke)

Mrs. Bailey is a Montes-sori teacher in Miller. She teaches third and fourth grade Montessori. Mrs. Bailey has been teaching since 1991. She has taught third to sixth grade, 6-9 Montessori, Study Skills and Engineering (gr. 3-5).

Mrs. Bailey likes Montes-sori because she likes hav-ing the kids for more than one year. She also likes how the kids learn. Mrs. Bailey loves teaching.

Her favorite place to travel is Jackson, Wyo-ming and her favorite book to read is Love in the Time Cholera. She enjoys skiing with her husband and son and her favorite food to eat is popcorn. Mrs. Bailey has a dog named

Targhee and two hermit crabs named Bob and Marley.

Mrs. Bailey lives in Medway but grew up in Holliston.

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