The Fenn School Concord, MA
F E N N T A S T I C Check Mate
by William and Connor
The chess craze continues with an all new exciting version: Crazy House! Crazy House works like this: there are two teams and each play opposite color pieces and try to win the game. If you capture a piece of your opponents’ you give it to your partner. I don’t know how Crazy House came to be called Crazy House, but Kevin Gao brought it to Fenn. It is the newest fashion to play it at recess. It is incredibly fun. Now back to how you play it. Once you get pieces from your partner you can put them on the board, although not in the place of other pieces or to put your opponent in check. If the other person on your team wins, your team wins and the game is over. I can’t think of how boring our classroom would be without Crazy House. Here is a secret code: If you figure out what this means you win and you know the secret to chess. Hint: the language is Wingdings. William and Connor, signing off.
December 3, 2010 Volume 1, Issue 5
Hi, in this issue of Fenntastic we will now say the Mystery Person by James mystery person from last week. Drum roll please... Liam Tasker! Now for this week: the mystery person’s favorite food is Rodizio (Brazilian). His favorite movie is Indiana Jones 1. Now for an interesting fact about him, he plays for the tenth best soccer team in the country for his age. He has sat in a Lamborghini Murcilago. It could be: a. David Andrysiak b. Max Steinert c. Paul Emello d. Witt Cadwalader Stay tuned to hear the answer next week.
Slip, Slide, CRASH! by David and Kevin
Who wants to skate here? In sports this January, the first half of the 4th grade will go ice skating at the rink at Middlesex School in Concord. First the two halves of the 5th grade will go skating, then 4th grade. While half of the 4th grade is skating, the other half will be in the gym playing basketball and other games of that sort. That is why we brought in another pair of sneakers. For winter Memories by Ethan and Liam sports, Ms. Pizzo and Mrs. Smith will run it with either Do you have a memory worth writing about? We are Mrs. Byron or Mrs. Wei. Make sure to ask your son what they are doing in sports. writing about our memories in class. One of Liam’s memories is having the first snowfall of the year and __________ Christmas Eve was the next day. Ethan’s memory was l \ when he couldn’t stop skiing at Bretton Woods. We started l _______\ this project with a brainstorm of memories in our writing l \________ journal. Then we chouse our favorite memory and wrote about it in class and homework. Our goal is to get as many l \ details down on paper as we can. We should also have a l____________________l clear beginning, middle, and end. We should be finished l________________l with the stories in two weeks. We will bring them home to share.
Warriors , Continued by Kiefer Remember me? I recommended the series WARRIORS. The newest book came out over the Thanksgiving break. And I read it! Same cats, but Russetfur dies and Flametail drowns. But I’m not giving away any more! The name is Night Whispers and it’s part of WARRIORS, Omen of the Stars. Look for it in your local library, but don’t read it until you’ve