DECEMBER 2013
T HE LIONS’ ROAR
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LEFT, MR. WALSH DIRECTS THE BAND. ABOVE, MRS, KOSMICH AND MEMBERS OF SELECT CHORUS.
The LMS Annual Winter Concert a Success! The LMS Music Department Winter Concert
Orchestra, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Chorale, Boys’ Chorus,
Kandelikas,” a Spanish Hanukkah song featuring none other than
was held Wednesday, December 11. The daytime and evening concerts were both a huge success, with eight different performing groups taking the
Select Chorus, and LMS Chorus. Highlights of the concert were Jazz Band’s rendition of “Zoot Suit Riot,” “Esto les Digo” performed by Orchestra, and the
our Vice Principal Mr. Saco on guitar! Mrs. Kosmich, Mr. Holak, and Mr. Walsh have a great deal to be proud of—LMS students are clearly talented and
stage: Orchestra, Chamber
LMS Chorus singing “Ocho
dedicated!
The Lions’ Roar would
Snowflakes
like to wish you a very
By Ambar Henriquez & Maha Shams
Happy and Healthy
Freezing, wet, cold. Pretty and white.
Holiday Season! See you in 2014!
LIttle snowflakes melt as they fall from the sky.Each one is different like you and like I.
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Student Council Update by Alma Erickson
The LMS student council has
been very productive this year. We have accomplished many projects, including the organization of the annual Halloween Dance. Several members of the Student Council stayed after school to help decorate the gymnatorium and cafeteria for this event, and the end result was fantastic! With hundreds of paper bats hanging from the ceiling and taped onto the walls, the gym looked downright spooky. The second dance of the year, the Valentines Dance, will hopefully be just as successful as the first.
The school dance was not our
only project this year. The Student Council also made decorations for a homeless shelter, Family Promise of Bergen County, for Thanksgiving. We made colorful centerpieces by painting ceramic pots with red, orange, yellow and brown acrylic paint, as well as paper chains to be strung up on the walls. The Student Council plans on making more decorations for the homeless shelter for the winter holidays. We are also currently selling Candy Grams during all lunch periods. The proceeds from these Candy Grams will go directly to the Red Cross Foundation.
LMS National Junior Honor Society: Fall Report By Sophia Spiegel
The National Junior Honor Society has been involved in two major community service projects this year: a Thanksgiving Food Drive and a Toy Drive. The food drive was very successful. In addition to the ten large boxes of non-perishable food that we gathered, we were able to collect about $540 to donate to CUMAC’s enormous food pantry in Paterson, New Jersey. Roughly 150 toys were collected via the toy drive. NJHS members visited each homeroom, asking for toy donations from a list. These toys were requested by children living in homeless shelters in the city whose parents are unable to provide them with Christmas presents. The NJHS members thankful to everyone who donated to these causes and are excited for our involvement in more charitable activities throughout the school year. Service Club by Clare Daughtrey Recently, our school participated in a drive that collected nonperishable food items to give to a local food bank organization called CUMAC. CUMAC stands for Center of United Methodist Aid to the Community. Many people are without food, and CUMAC helps to provide food to those in need. They have been working for over 30 years! Our school collected 10 large boxes of food items. Mr. Wehrle, who has 3 sons at LMS, delivered them to CUMAC in his van. The entire school participated in this event. Boxes were given to each homeroom and Service Club and NJHS members collected the boxes from each homeroom at the end of the drive. The Service Club initiated this idea, and it has worked out beautifully. LMS teacher Ms. Sur was in charge of the drive. Students at LMS can get more involved in activities like this by joining the Service Club, or just reaching out in their own community. Sixth grader Sean Salamante was just another student who participated in the activity. “All I did was bring food in, “ said Sean. “I remember that I brought cranberry sauce, corn, sausages, and stuff like that. I brought it to give people food who don’t have any for Thanksgiving. “ Even one person can make a big difference, and YOU can be that one person!
TF-X- The Flying Car By Sophia Rodriguez and Olivia Oliveri
There is now a car that can fly. It is
called the TF-X. The manufacturing headquarters is located in Massachusetts. The name of the company is Terrafugia. This car can drive on the road or fly in the sky. The car does not need a runway. It needs a large parking lot or a helipad to fly. The TF-X is expensive. It costs $279,000. It flies in the sky at 100 miles per hour. It can fold its wings with the push of a button. It runs on automobile fuel which is cheaper than aviation fuel.
Going Pumpkin Picking by Ambar Henriquez and Maha Shams This October Ms. Mazza始s Life Skills class went on a pumpkin picking field trip. They traveled by bus to Depiero始s Farm in Montvale,
New Jersey. After arriving on the farm, students got to taste some of the famous apple cider and The TF-X fits inside a single-car garage. You need a pilot始s license to fly it. donuts from Depiero始s Farm. Everything was There are computers inside it to help you delicious! After the snacks, everyone had alot of energy for the hayride. Students climbed aboard fly it. Terrafugia is trying to find a battery that lasts longer than ten minutes. It may the hayride. The trip to the pumpkin patch was take years for the TF-X to be approved for very bumpy and fun! It was a little scary too. As flying. Before it can be approved, it needs we arrived at the pumpkin patch, everyone looked out to see tons of pumpkins! There were a more powerful battery and to follow big pumpkins, little pumpkins, tiny pumpkins, some other regulations. The FAA must also approve of these cars flying in the sky.
smooth pumpkins and rough pumpkins. Students got to pick one pumpkin to take home. The class took pictures with the decorations in the pumpkin patch! it felt like the paparazzi was there! After our hayride back, we ate lunch. The market at the farm had a lot of options: salad, soups, pasta and sandwiches! Students practiced skills that they have learned in class in a community based setting. The class had an awesome day!
Book Reviews: Check one out over Winter Break! Book Reviews by Raquel Acevedo page turner. Normally, reading classic novels is not something that I enjoy doing. However, this novel is the best classic I have ever read. It Dracula easily tops Little Women, Tom by Bram Stoker Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn. I would give this book a five out of five stars. Itʼs a great For a middle school pre-teen, it isnʼt easy to find an book and definitely something that I think you would enjoy. interesting classic. However, Dracula by Bram Stalker fits the bill. Taking place in Divergent mid-20th century England, by Veronica Roth Dracula is about a vampire named, well, Dracula. Its a Being different is never record of his journey from a easy. Its downright impossible dreary mansion in when revealing your secret Transylvania to the highly means that you may die. This populated city of London. Dracula is considered a is what Beatrice Prior faces in classic, so many teachers will Divergent by Veronica Roth. Some of the main conflicts you be impressed once they hear that you have read it. I speak come across in this book include a broken family, from personal experience when I say that it has plenty of discrimination against abnormality, and revolution. horror, mystery and thrills. Beatrice lives in future This makes it interesting for Chicago, where the city is the average middle school divided into five factions student. One of the reasons Abnegation, Erudite, Candor, the book is so popular is because of its format. It is one Amity and Dauntless. For of the first books of its time to Beatrice, living in Abnegation isnʼt easy. You must always be written in the point of view be selfless. When Beatrice of many people. finds out that she is Divergent, One of the reasons I enjoyed Dracula so much was or able to happily live in more because I could connect to so than one faction, she is faced with a choice: should she many more vampire stories. leave her family, or will she Dracula is the original live within the limits she has vampire. The book is almost known all her life? In other like an encyclopedia when it words, should she do the right comes to random vampire facts. I felt that Dracula was a thing or the thing that she wants?
Anybody who enjoyed The Hunger Games will enjoy Divergent. The themes are very similar. Both Beatrice and Katniss have family issues, as well as government issues. They both have something to do with proving yourself when nobody believes in you. The story plots are also very similar. Everybody has secrets, and will do whatever needs to be done to protect them. Watching Beatrice grow and change in a world where everybody needs to be static is both funny and scary. Beatrice faces many dangers in her new life. It is hard for her to make new friends and fit in with new people. However, her journey through the world outside the safe bubble sheʼs been living in most of her life is definitely worth a read. It gives this book a four out of five stars. Itʼs amazing and very interesting, Many students will be able to connect with the protagonist. We are also all growing and trying to figure out where we belong in our ever-changing world. Read Divergent!!
HOL I DAY C R A F T C O R N E R How To: Make a Paper Candy Cane By Ryan Chong, Johnny Dewoski, Katie Picirillo, Daniel Portillo, and Lance Materials: ° Thick markers ° Scissors ° Tape ° Pencil ° Square paper
1.
Pick 3 different colors for your
2.
Draw thick lines along the bottom
3.
4.
5. 6.
candy cane.
of the paper to make the letter “L”.
Leave some white space and then make another “L” with another
color, and follow the previous lines.
Continue to make this pattern using all 3 different colors with white lines in between them.
Flip the paper over so the white side is facing up.
Roll all of the paper tightly around a pencil then tape the end (all 3
different colors should appear as 7. 8. 9.
10.
you roll).
Take the pencil out carefully by
pushing it out with another one.
Next, cut the tips off each end so it is even.
Roll the candy cane tube around
the fat marker from one end until
it is too hard to roll, about 1/3 of it. Take the marker out and you have a candy cane.
5 Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies By: Johnny Dewoski & Daniel Portillo Ingredients: *1 stick of unsalted Butter *1 cup of sugar *1 large egg * 1 cup plus 2-3 tablespoon of flour * 1 cup of chocolate chips Directions: 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 2. Nelt the butter in the microwave until soft. 3. Nix the sugar and the butter in a bowl. 4. Crack the egg into the bowl. 5. Put flour and chocolate chips into the bowl then mix. 6. Scoop a spoonful of dough onto a baking tray 2 inches apart. 7. Put the tray in and bake it for 7-9