B-8 • Dec. 24, 2014
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C H A L K TALK
DISTRICT All schools are closed for winter break through Jan. 2. The district office will be open throughout the winter break from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday, except for Dec. 2426, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
History Comes Alive
SEQUIM HIGH SCHOOL Robotics Club, under Brad Moore, teacher and club advisor, is an extension of the Career Technical Education (CTE) program and receives the benefit of several experienced volunteer mentors and community sponsorship. In early November, the club was very excited to receive $1,200 from the Sequim PC Users group. This will be applied to the amount needed to participate in the Seattle competition, which can run $10,000-$15,000. Senior Sarah Henry serves as club president and junior Ryle Lindbergh is vice president. (See story, B-7) Robotics Club students are practicing for upcoming competition after school by dismantling last year’s robot and reassembling it. Club members will find out on Jan. 2 the task set for competition and will then have about six weeks to build the robot.
HELEN HALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Kelly Miller’s first-grade class has been reading and comparing a variety of gingerbread stories. Now it’s their turn to be a gingerbread cookie. My Life as a Gingerbread Cookie by Aiden Leis This is where I live: I live in a candy house This is what I eat: I eat my house and candy The hardest part about being a gingerLEIS bread cookie is: Not getting eaten by the fox! The best part about being a gingerbread cookie is: Having a wife!
Olympic Peninsula Academy students dress as famous Americans for language arts and social studies class. Here are (from left) Eden Johnson as Harriet Tubman, Emily Nielson as Albert Einstein, Deven Biehler as Thomas Edison, Riley Scott as Harry Houdini and Liam Byrne as Orville Wright. Photos by Tim Wilkinson
My Life as a Gingerbread Cookie by Shelby Haskins This is where I live: I live in a Haskins gingerbread house This is what I eat: I Above, Olympic Peninsula Academy students Melaeat licorice spaghetti nie Byrne (kneeling) and Charlie Diesen re-enact with sprinkles the parts of animal characters, while Eleanor Byrne The hardest part narrates a Native American legend. HASKINS about being a gingerAt right, students Rainy Vialpando acts as an interbread cookie is: Not getting eaten! viewer and Hope Glasser portrays Buffalo Bill Cody. The best part about being a gingerbread cookie is: Having a candy candy canes My Life as a Gingerbread Cookie house! The hardest part about being a by Gauge Castillo This is where I live: I live in a My Life as a Gingerbread Cookie gingerbread cookie is: Not getting eaten! gingerbread house by Violet Phillips The best part about being a ginThis is what I eat: I eat myself and This is where I live: I live in a gerbread cookie is: Smelling good! then bake a new arm. house with candy The hardest part about being a This is what I eat: I eat candy and
Top Timberwolves November Students of the Month at Sequim Middle School are recognized for their helpfulness. Photo by Melody Schneider
gingerbread cookie is: Trying not to get eaten by the fox! The best part about being a gingerbread cookie is: That you can run fast! Bettina Hoesel’s first-graders answer the question: If you were a snowman, what would you do? If I were a snowman, someone would have to build me. The snowgirl would need arms to pick up things and mouths to chew things. Your REED snowgirl would need hair but some snowmen don’t have hair. Paige Reed Hello, my name is Emma. I would be a girl, a snowgirl. My nose would be made of a peach! If I were a snowgirl, I would skate, skate, SKATE!!! And I would eat frost and snow and snowflakes. And I would have a snowdog. Her name would be Snowla. In the evening I would build snow people to send to Snowtopalis, and play ‘snow’ with their snowmen. I would be 10 years old, and my job would be to build snowmen. Emma Gilliam
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Ione Marcy’s first-graders read all about reindeer and then wrote what they knew about reindeer and created reindeer buddies. I love reindeer. They can run over fifty miles per hour. You can only give Santa’s reindeer healthy food. A female reindeer is also called a doe. Reindeer are also known as caribou. Reindeer live on tundras and are herbivores. The names of the reindeer are STITES Dancer, Cupid, Blitzen, Dasher, Rudolph, Comet, Prancer, Vixen and Donner. A male reindeer is called a buck. A baby reindeer is called a fawn and some people think it is a calf, but it is not because that is a cow, but it is really a fawn. Ryan Stites I know a baby reindeer is called a fawn. A mom reindeer is called a doe. A father reindeer is called a buck. A reindeer need magic dust to fly. He gets it from the North Pole. I know reindeer only SPELKER have horns. The most important thing about reindeer is that they pull Santa’s sleigh. Lucy Spelker Reindeers can eat broccoli and grapes or carrots. And the reindeers can’t eat chocolate because they will get sick. Deer can run fast and they are strong. VILLICANA Adrian Villicana I know about reindeer. They carry Santa in his sleigh and gifts to the kids that are nice. Santa gives the reindeers a treat for all the reindeer. They have 8 reindeer and with Rudolph there is 9 reindeer. TORRES Only Santa can make reindeer fly. Kalyee Torres Reindeer can go fifty miles per hour. That’s as speedy as a car on the highway. That’s fast! Santa needs the reindeer because they are ALLENCASTERE swift and strong and they are quick. Koa Allencastere Reindeer run fifty miles. Santa has eight reindeer, add Rudolph there are nine. Reindeer are very strong. Reindeer have hooves instead of feet. A baby reindeer is called a fawn. The names of the reindeer are Dancer, Dasher, Prancer, Blitzen, Comet and Donner and Rudolph. Rudolph is the most important reindeer because he’s smart. Gurshaan Deol Reindeer eat magic food to fly. Santa give them magic food like apples and oranges. Santa has 8 reindeer. Abraham Herrera Santa’s reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh to deliver toys. Rudolph has eight more reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Santa makes toys. Blake Blanton-Bacchus
SEQUIM HIGH SCHOOL Band student Eric Anderson on clarinet was selected to be in the All Northwest Wind Symphony. The All Northwest band is made up of students from Wa shington, Oregon, Idaho, MonANDERSON tana, Wyoming and Alaska. They are scheduled to play in Spokane from Feb. 13-15. The band program is under the direction of Vern Fosket.
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