The Central Legacy Volume 1, Issue 1
Central Primary School, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Fall/Winter 2013/14
Central students welcome the new year Resolutions include trips to DisneyWorld, The White House and spending time with family and friends
what you felt on new years? For new years were you sleepy, hapy, sad, bad, good, in heaven, playing, shopping, watching TV or doing nothing? What did you do on new years? Some of our classmates shared what their New Year’s resolutions are.
By Jar-Daina Ryans and Summer Abrams Welcome to 2014! We hope you had a happy new year. I wonder
Brooklyn Barnes
“ Charissa Peoples
“If you bully someone else you are only bully yourself so don’t call other people names are you will hurt their feelings and you feel bad how you treat them and when you get picked on you will see how it is when you pick on someone else they might cry and they might stand up for there self.” –Charone Starks
Go to Chuck E. Cheese. Go to a fun place a play. Go to tree top. Go to the mall. Eat caramel cake. Go to Disneyworld. Meet Cinderella and her prince. – Charissa Peoples
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Charonne Starks
“I want to go to the water park and go on the slide. I also want to go to the Statue of Liberty and be on TV. What do you want to do? P.S. I also want money!” – Brooklyn Barnes
“My New Year’s resoltuion is to go to the White House and then I want to go to Six Flags and go to New York with my mom and my sister. I dont’ want to give up fast food because it is good. Then I want to go visit mygrandma and grandpa.” – Jadin Watkins
Jadin Watkins RESOLUTIONS continued, page 3
Chinese culture class gives Central students peek into another way of life By Brooklyn Barnes and Charone Starks
purple with hearts. We also learned about Chinese food and how A University of it is different from ours. Alabama college student They use beef in liquid from China came to for beef stew. And we use Central to help people in beef for sandwiches and after school learn about hamburgers. Chinese Culture. For us We use potatoes for making a Chinese culture French fries and they use name we did a meaning of it in stew. ourselves and she In America we eat by made that into a Chinese ourselves and they eat name. together. We made a Chinese They also fight over kite out of paper. It was a who pays the bill and in square and then we outAmerica we don’t want to. lined it with string. For fish they use it differWe got to choose our ently by boiling their fish own colors and mine was and we fry it.
Math class makes an impression on students By Travyon Starks
By Hikira Caine
What we are larning in math is vaulting expressions. Like if you have A the teacher will tell you what the a stands for. The A stands for 3. But if the 2 and the A are together you multiply it, like 2A. That would be 2 times 3 because the A stands for 3, so you multiply that and get the answer. So I did 2A-5A=9. But you have to follow the order of operation in order to getthe answer. Always follow PEMDAS. It stands for parentheses, then exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract. Those are the
This week we were doing math for a week and when we went back to our homeroom. It was a lot of work. We had to catch up with reading and math. It turned out to not really a lot of work and we leaned new things. In math we do a lot of activities to help us get a good understanding of it and learn how to do it and get it right. I like this school because we learn.
steps to the order of operation to help you get the right answer to themath subject vaulting expressions. It is not hard to do the vaulting expressions if you follow the order of operation. so that is what we are learning in 5th grade math in Mrs. Tinker’s class.
TV’s Glenda Hatchett speaks to TCS students By Jazeyon Stewart Judge Glenda Hatchett is very serious with her work. She doesn’t play. When kids act disobedient in school she either sends them off or
she gives them one more chance. She seems like a very nice lady and when people see her they try to do better. When she says “You’re gone,” you’re gone. When people see her they get scared, and she was very scary but nice. She was a very beautiful young woman. She has short hair and a black robe. When we saw her on the Internet my mom said to me, “Do you want to go there or do you not?” I said, “I will do good in school.” I went to impact, a program to promote positive behavior, I learned a very valuable lesson and from now on I still do good in school matter what.
Windows to the world: Bruce talks about his career By Jazeyon Stewart Mr. Mitchell Bruce came to our school and he said that he invented the window on the airplane. When he told us he said it wasn’t very hard. You have to think of it first. When he built it, he had to use team work. Instead of getting the money he gave it to a company that
helps children. They gave him a free salad. He said it wasn’t about the money. It was about salad. He works at B.F. Goodrich and he used something called cyberglass to build something to hold heavy objects. When he showed us the video about everything that has cyberglass in it, he made us try to build something out of cyberglass.
RESOLUTIONS continued from page 1
“My new years resolution is to go to Ohio and to sing and to get good grades and to get a dog and to get a job for little kids by helping homeless people. Love to all in 2014.” – Shanija Brown
“This year I want to be a better person and study things about life and get my education so I could be a teacher and teach kids and be a good friend to people when “I want to meet my favorite rapper they need help with something so I would be there.” 2Chainz. He made a lot of songs.” – Hikira Cane – Dane Davis
“I want to see the president. To eat chicken every month and get new video games and see my dad across the street and go see my Aunts and go to Disneyworld with my brother and see my sister and see the statue of Liberty.” – Kris Tooson “My new years resolution is to start to be great in 2014. I will make better decisions. I want to start to be a better person.” – Terrill Starks
Fact vs. opinion? Central knows how to tell! We are learning about fact and opinion in school at Central Elementary School in 5th grade. It’s actually very simple. A fact is when you can prove it. An opinion is when you can’t prove it.
Like for example: Georgia O’Keeffe is an artist and that is a fact. Some people said that her art is beautiful, but that is an opinion. An exmaple of a fact is: Shapes have all different sides. An exmaple of a an opinion is: Shapes are my favorite thing to learn.
What if people don’t like shapes? Then that is an opinion. When and if you want to learn about fact and opinion, just read more about it in school. This is a lesson from Central Elementary School in Mrs. Peoples 5th grade class in room 29.
Artwork by Charissia Peoples
By Summer Abrams
Photo by Jadin Watkins Students at Central sign our name on the HALT poster to promise to not bully. It is important to learn not to bully people.
The Central Legacy Staff Brooklyn Barnes Shanija Brown Hikira Caine Dane Davis TreShawn Jones Charissia Peoples
Jamaya Peoples Jar-Daina Ryans Charone Starks Jadin Watkins Summer Abrams
Nadia Smith Terrill Starks Travyon Starks Jazeyon Stewart Ashley Thompson Kris Tooson