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Saving Geckos Behind the Scenes of
fear! They are not gross or scary, so please think about adopting one. Getting their tanks ready only takes a short time. Petco is not a good place for lizards, snakes, or any pets, mostly geckPhoto Courtesy of Google Images os. A gecko with its baby toy gecko. Sunny Morehouse Here is how to take care of your Hello! Do you have a pet, a dog gecko, because you should get or cat? Well, that’s cute. I raised one. They can play with small a tiny dinosaur. You might be things like ping pong balls to enthinking what? But let me help tertain them. You can even train you, dogs and cats are cute but a gecko, they are smart! Did you there are leopard geckos that know that most leopard geckos need help! can learn to play fetch! According to the Denver Post, They eat crickets and meal“An inspection showed a gecko worms, and eat 5 mealworms a hadn’t moved for two days and day. So it is easy to feed. you can died after not being treated by a feed them one more mealworm if veterinarian.” they want a treat but only 5 or 6. Yes adorable, Petco is a place Petco does not feed their reptiles that does not care about their well, so treat them well if you get animals. Their leopard geckos are one! skinny and they put two leopard Geckos are awesome pets, just geckos at a time in one cage. If a ask me because my sister has leopard gecko is in the same tank one named Cheto and she loves with another leopard gecko, they him so much and I am getting fight and may lead to one of them one from petco. I made a promise being dead. to a gecko that I would adopt her You should adopt a leopard and treat her well because petco gecko from Petco to save them does not. from bad treatment. Here are the This article is educating people reasons Leopard Geckos are the on why they should save geckos best pets: from petco and geckos are small 1. They’re adorable in size but big in this world. 2. Do not need a lot of treatment 3. Don’t take up a lot of space 4, Can eat bugs in your house (cleaning service) 5. They don’t smell For those who hate snakes, Photo Courtesy of Google Images leopard geckos are better. No A gecko with it’s toy rubber duck.
the 4th Grade Play
Photo courtesy of Jeff White The fourth grade outside on a playground rehearsing their play.
Hailey Ward The 4th grade play is after winter break at the Aspen District Theater and will be the first play since covid 19. This play was different from all the other plays in the Aspen Elementary School because it was filmed. There are five classes in the play. There are six scenes in the play. The play is 52 minutes long. The play took about four months long to film and edit. Charlie Forster is a senior at Aspen High School. He did lots of the filming and editing for the fourth grade play. He also did the play when he was in fourth grade, but it was in person. He also does all the film editing for the high school broadcast. Forster wanted to help film the play because it was a new experience for him and he would learn from it with us. “I just wanted to get out of my comfort zone a little bit and do a bigger project that I wasn’t used Photo courtesy of Sarah Ward to doing,” Forster said. The fourth grade students lined up at the finale of Jeff White is an AES teacher
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U12 Girls Hockey
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About Shea
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What is it like to be in Elizabeth Ford’s shoes?
People With Differences and Why We Should Celebrate Them
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Giving Dogs A Happy Life
who has been teaching 4th grade for over 20 years. He has been in the play every year. “I really appreciate trying something new this year. Filming it during this time of the pandemic and trying something new was a great experience. We actually got to see how movies and TV shows are made and just it allowed us to produce the play and make it happen for the 4th graders,” White said. Sunny Morehouse is a 4th grader at AES. She was in the first scene in the play as a camper. Morehouse likes doing the play live more than filming it. “I like it more because you’re actually on the stage and not really watching yourself on the screen,” Morehouse said. Morehouse is happy to be able to do one of her elementary school plays. “I’m glad we did our 4th grade play because I feel like I missed a big part of 3rd and 2nd grade,” Morehouse said.
Spider Man Comic
AES Featured Students: Leighton Bruce, Jagger Burstyn, Cannon Green, Alden Hancock, Ember LaPenna, Brooklyn Kennedy Lewis, Sunny Morehouse, Emily Nitti, Trinidad Palasz, Elliot Riley, Lauren Rubel, Perry Sohn, Avea Spears, Hailey Ward, Ardin White, Carlie White, with help from The Skier Scribbler Staff.
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U12 Girls Hockey Brooklyn Kennedy Lewis and Avea Spears U12 Girls hockey is currently in season, and so far has been a blast! Sage fields and Chloe Diogaurdi are players on the U-12 team. The U12 team as of now, has a winning streak of 20 games, and
Photo Courtesy of Google Images U-12 girls hockey team poses at Eagle Ice-rink.
an unfortunate loss of one game. The captain of the team, Sage Fields, talks about her passion for hockey, “The thing that motivates me to play hockey is that my dad has always played and I wanted to carry it on.” Chloe Diogaurdi, another team captain said, “I joined hockey because my brothers have always played,” in response to why Diogardi began playing the sport. The U12 team went to states on 25-27 of February, due to their large number of wins. Their biggest competitor in the states is Wyoming, which they lost 0-1. This season has unfortunately come to an end, with the U-12 hockey team came 2nd place in states against Krivo.
What is it like to be in Elizabeth Ford’s shoes?
Ardin White, Emily Nitti, and Trinidad Palasz Elizabeth Ford is the AES school’s main cook. Do you know what it’s like to be in Elizabeth’s shoes? She works at the school almost every day. She makes more than 400 lunches for the school, so that everyone who needs a lunch gets it. Being the main cook at AES is not an easy job. It takes lots of time to plan lunches for kids each week. Not only does her time go into preparation, but she also spends most of her time cooking. She is at the school from around 6:00 am to 3:45 pm every day. She needs all of this time to prepare and cook for the kids in
Portrait of Elizabeth Ford
AES who don’t bring lunches to school. “I need to think of what I need for food to cook,” Ford said. Elizabeth works so hard at making lunches for the school. Jeff White, a 4th grade teacher, agrees. “Elizabeth and the entire kitchen staff work so hard on the food, it’s unbelievable. I can’t imagine an elementary school having better food,” White said. Elizabeth is also in charge of ordering the food to make a meal for the school. She gets the food for the school from Shamrock. Shamrock delivers her food to school every week. The food from some of her business helps to make her favorite lunches. Elizabeth’s favorite meal is a veggie soup. She loves making nachos for the school. This is what it is like to be in the main cook’s Drawing by Emily Nitti shoes.
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“Whether it’s making kids feel Lauren Rubel better with a talk or putting in Many people know that Shea support to school, making them Robinson is the school counselor feel they are successful is a clear for AES, but some people might not know how he got into this job. part of my job,” Shea said. When he’s not being a counselShea really likes his job and or, Shea has a lot of other things enjoys spending time in the outhe likes to do. doors. He was a camp counselor and saw a lot of people having trouble, so he just came in and helped them to overcome their differences. Shea became Photo Courtesy of Shea Robinson a school This is Shea Robinson, the AES school counselor. counselor because he wanted to help other kids because “My family, I have a little 2 and a half year old daughter who will he thought he could help everybody out, so he became a teacher, be coming here in a couple years but he wanted to help kids. He got and so she and I like to play Uno. his second degree and now he has I also like hanging out with you, and I like being outdoors little 2 degrees and he is a counselor bit.” Shea said. for AES.
Giving Dogs A Happy Life my dog is my best friend. The first thing that you can do is adopt them. If you see a dog in a bad situation and you save them, that is almost like saving a human life. For example, if you see a dog that got lost when there is a flood in a neighborhood, you Photo Courtesy of Google Images should save them. This is a dog like mine. Another way to Leighton Bruce save dogs is to get them from anHi my name is Leighton and I am going to be talking about dogs imal shelters, like Aspen Animal Shelter or CARE. You can look at and how you can help them out. the animals available for adoption Dogs are cool because they are at aspenanimalshelter.com, or call cute and cozy. You should get a them at 970-544-0206. You can dog because dogs can be your also adopt from CARE at colorabest friend. For example when I doanimalrescue.org or 970-947got my dog I thought that there 9173. was just going to be a cute furOnce you adopt your dog, you ry animal in my house but then should make them feel at home. she started getting used to being Then you can go online and buy in a new house and having new things for the dogs like a bed and people around her, and got more dog bowls. comfortable around me. Now
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The Beatles Love
Jagger Burstyn and Cannon Green This Story starts, in las vegas in the mirage hotel. As people went into a theater then the lights darkened.Then a recording of an electric guitar played the beatles song Get Back. It was only the beginning it was a work of art. Photo Courtesy of Google Images At the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada rainbow The music just kept coming, you lights lead a path to the Beatles. could never stop it. time together and it was right beEverything was perfect. The fore they broke up,” Frisch said. songs and acts. It was how a big A Lot People Love The BeatBeatles fan imagined the end les Still Today of the concert. The person we The Beatles were a evolution in interviewed about the Beatles music because they were experidocumentary “Get Back” was menting with all kinds of music. Quintessa Frisch. We asked how Facts About The Beatles hard it would be to make one The Beatles started in 1961. album. They Were a band that played in “I think it would be pretty hard the new york city knicks stadium. considering they didn’t have that Last concert was the rooftop much time to make it,” Frisch concert. said. They broke up in 1970 after The Beatles faced a lot of big John Lennon came into the studio problems in their career. When and said “Maybe we should break they made the album “Get Back,” up, it will be very emotional.” it was right around the time that The Beatles Love is Performed they were breaking up. by Circus Circle. “They were spending a lot of
People With Differences and Why We Should Celebrate Them
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Comic created by Ember LaPenna
Carlie White People should celebrate differences, like hearing aids, glasses, wheelchairs,and disabilities, to create kindness and friendship. In fact, I think that the schools should add some things to help people with differences like trays
that can be more easily carried and more ways to get to different places, like elevators or ramps. Some more things that the school can change are more paras for kids, and more kindness towards teachers, parents, and kids with differences, and places in classrooms. Additionally, a cafeteria for people in wheelchairs ,and with disabilities. AES students can help by acknowledging people with differences, and being more inclusive. I interviewed a girl named Ardin White who wanted to tell me about her microphone, which, if you put it on, helps her hear you more than without it. Ardin said ”It’s like a real microphone on your neck, and if you go outside I can hear everything you say.” People should celebrate people with differences, bePhoto by Carlie White cause they create kindness, Elliot Riley, a person with the difference of a hearing aid. and friendship.
Comic created by Alden Hancock
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Drawing created by Perry Sohn
Drawing created by Perry Sohn Comic created by Elliot Riley
United to Help Ukraine Fundraiser
All photos courtesy of the AHS PTO Volunteers
Drawing created by Perry Sohn
AES PTO volunteers at fundraiser bake sale
AES bake sale set up
AES students looking at baked goods
AES students and staff gathered around United Help Ukraine bake sale