Blazer Chronicles Issue 2

• Wednesday, December 14, Issue 2

Blazer Chronicles

The Douglas Elementary Newspaper

The Halloween Parade has Returned

by Eleanor Nelson

At this year’s annual Halloween Parade 375 kids and 17 teachers marched around Douglas Elementary School's hallways and classrooms.

After showing off their costumes to their fellow peers, students quickly arrived in the gym where they finally got to show off their costumes to their parents and their peers' parents. Teachers also had fun at this event while wearing their pacman costumes. (teachers were ghosts, specials teachers were fruit, and Mr.Cocran was Pacman) When each class came back to their rooms, many had their class treats or parties. Soon after, parents were invited into their children's classrooms to enjoy parties and treats too! Fun was had by all in the reinstated annual Halloween Parade.

• Wednesday, December 14, Issue 2

Creativity Column

by Joey Bullinger We asked Mrs. Fields (Mrs. Pawlak) to send us a photo of a piece of artwork made from a student in each grade. She also included a note about which materials were used for each. Here they are!

Congratulations to each of these students: KMargaret Tolley Observational Drawings done with pencil, sharpie and watercolor

3-Alyssa Gorman Collage Critters- Collage paper, brass brads

1-Whitney Wheenhoff Van Gogh Sunflowers- Pencil, paint sticks, oil pastel and collage

2-Elliana Gonzalez Yayoi Kusama Pumpkinsconstruction paper, sharpie, and oil pastels

4-Jackson Hosher Lego Self-portraitColored penci and railroad board 5-Kianna RottmanJohnson About Me Mandala-Pencil, colored pencil, and sand

• Monday, September 13, Issue

Women In History by Stella Schippa and Eleanor Nelson Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan All three of these incredible women helped John Glenn reach space, while fighting for women's rights, and fighting against segregation. Katherine Johnson figured out the path for the spacecraft to orbit Earth and successfully land on the moon. Mary Jackson helped develop the space program and other minority women advance their careers in Science. Dorothy Vaughn was a computer programmer and helped with the Race to Space during the Cold War.

Jerrie Cobb was the first woman ever to pass her astronaut tests. These exams were often long and grueling Although she never got to go to space.She was also part of the mercury 13, a group of women who underwent psychological screening tests at the same time as the original mercury seven astronauts. Some of the exams tested her physical abilities while others tested her mental abilities. Jerrie Cobb died on March 18, 2018 after 88 years on Earth.

• Wednesday, December 14, Issue 2

Best Games to Play by Orson Church and Hollis Brown Best Computer Game Is Geometry dash.

It's pretty difficult but you’ll get used to it. It’s a fun game where you're a square and you have to jump and dodge spikes. There are also some jump pads and jump dots.

There are also some portals that turn you into different things.

Careful, you’ll hit a spike!

Best Board Game is checkers! This game’s board is very similar to chess. The goal of the game is to jump over the other person's pieces. You start on the same color square, and you can only move diagonally. You have to be diagonal to the other person’s piece to jump over it. If there is a piece on the other side of it, you cannot jump over it. You can only move toward the other person's side. If you reach the other side, you flip your piece over, and it is now a king! Kings can move both ways. Jump over all the other person’s pieces or make them not be able to move to win. That's checkers!

Best Card Games UNO is our second card game, it isn’t as long as monopoly (thankfully).

It’s only about 10 minutes-3 hours. To learn how to play.

The players will draw however many cards the directions call for (this depends on the amount of people playing). If a person has one card they yell uno. The first person with no cards wins.

• Wednesday, December 14, Issue 2

Thanksgiving Facts by Cruz Ruthsatz and Sai Parrish Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2022 happens on Thursday, November 24, 2022. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. Some People believe there were only five women present at the first thanksgiving.

Turkey wasn't served at the first Thanksgiving dinner. Lobster, venison, duck, goose, eel, oysters, and fish were most likely served. They also may have had cranberries and pumpkins.

For more than two centuries, days of Thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national holiday.

Big Bird’s costume on Sesame Street is Made of turkey feathers that have been dyed yellow.

There are also four towns in the U.S. named “Turkey”.