Vol. 7 Issue.Meadowview 4 MomentsApril 2017 Mysteries of the Eyes and Brain Explained An Interview with Mrs. Moore By Mara Mihailoff work? I have and this is the ganglioneuralgia” is the sci- By Kyra English I don’t know why answer “The lens focuses entific term for brain freeze. I interviewed Mrs. Moore! but eyes and brains are in- light through the vitre- The brain treats rejection Favorite Color: Pink teresting to me, some people ous humor, a clear gel-like like physical pain, according Favorite Food: Mexican Food think they’re gross. Well the substance that fills the back to scientists. Favorite Hobby: Shopping or Arts truth is they are, but they are of the eye and supports the Wow, you have and Crafts also weird and cool. retina. The retina receives about 70,000 thoughts each Greatest Achievement in Life: Kids Eyes are a very im- the image that the cornea day. Half of our brain can Kids and Age: Rachel 34, Rob 30 portant part of humans, and focuses through the eye’s be removed by surgery, you How Long Have Been Working Here: they have lots of fun facts. internal lens and transforms would think you would get Since 2004 Your eyes stay the same size this image into electrical brain damage or worse but Favorite Animal: Dog forever. Also did you know impulses that are carried by actually there is no effect on the optic nerve to the brain.” memory or personality. Hu- Favorite Monstar: The doors in the that 80% of our memories fifth grade hall are determined through Also the definition man brains are 10% smaller what we see. Eyes are the “each of a pair of globular than they were years ago. That is all I have in this article second most complex organ organs in the head through Stunning, the Thanks Mrs.Moore for letting me other than our brain. Aw which people and vertebrate human brain has enough interviewed you!!!! poor Goldfish they don’t animals see, the visible part memory storage to hold have eyelids therefore they typically appearing almond- three million hours of can’t blink. shaped in animals with television. People plotting What Is Life? Wow, did you know eyelids.” revenge experience higher By Mara Mihailoff that an ostrich’s eye is big- Now moving on we activity in the brain’s reward I have picked multiple people to ask ger than its brain. Isabelle can talk about brains. center, according to a 2004 a hard question, What is life? Before Witsken loves ostriches she Did you know that study in the journal Science. we see school student’s answers lets is their Number 1 fan? Ew, your brain stops developing Your brain is about hear Google’s answer. What is life Albert Einstein’s eyes are at around the age 40. We 73% of water, even 2% of Google “The condition that distin- kept in a box in New York only use 10% of our brains. dehydration can affect your guishes animals and plants from inor- City. Also your brain takes up memory and other skills that ganic matter, including the capacity Well, this is weird, 20% of our body’s blood deal with the brain. for growth, reproduction, functional bees have five eyes. Blue and oxygen. OK, so here’s a When awake, our random question, what is a activity, and continual change pre- eyes tend to be more sensi- ceding death. ” tive to light. Also a Giant brain has enough electricity brain. Here is the definition Squid’s eye can be bigger to power a small light bulb. “An organ of soft nervous than a Volleyball. Hey, my The pathologist who made tissue contained in the skull Matt O’Donnell’s answer: “Life is a friend Keira Parrish joined a Einstein body’s autopsy of vertebrates, functioning continuous cycle of plants, animals Volleyball team. stole his brain, he kept it in as the coordinating center and humans, life also comes with a Anyway, did you a jar for 20 years. of sensation and intellectual lot of activity.” know dolphins sleep with Yuck, the human and nervous activity.” Maya McDonald’s answer: “Life is a one eye open. Also some brain has almost the exact OK, now that place of happiness because as you get cats have three eyelids. consistency of tofu. When you’re a brain and eye older you learn from mistakes” Eyes can get sunburned, you smell chocolate it expert go show everyone Landon Wisbey’s answer: ¨Life is a ouch. Ommatophobia is the increases the brain waves how smart you are! I hoep series of events that people experi- which triggers relaxation. you learned something new fear of eyes. Have you ever ence.” wondered how your eyes “Sphenopalatine about them! Newspaper Staff Poll Easter Celebration Catching Up with Ms. Myers By Kyra English By Mya Curran By Lily Robinson What is your favorite color? Everyone is getting excited be- Favorite Color: Pink Kyra English: Pink cause Easter is right around the corner! In Favorite Food: Chili Mara Mihailoff: Blue or Purple my household we hang up decorations for Favorite Animal: Dolphin Lily Robinson: Teal Easter but this year we have been struggling What Made You Want To Be A Alexandra LaBella: Purple to find decorations. All of the decor we have Teacher: I wanted to make kids feel Madison Kennedy: Purple bought hasn’t made us feel completely in like they can do something. Linley Gerard: Red Easter mode which made us think about Dream Job As A Child: Fashion De- Ashleigh Stout: Magenta all of the other fun Easter decorations. We Wyatt Engle: Pink decided to draw our own Easter eggs and signer Haylie Ernst: Purple Easter baskets, which gave us the idea to Favorite Sport: Football Mya Curran: Teal hang them up! Ever since then our house has Meadowview Moments Staff Grace Mangino: Aqua been full of Easter vibes Reporters: Mya Curran, Alonjana Davis , Daniel Powell: Blue or Black Wyatt Engle, Kyra English, Haylie Ernst, Nathan Robinson: Orange Would You Rather Jacob Feist, Jeremiah Feist, Mikayla Friend , By Lily Robinson Lynley Gerard, Madison Kennedy, Alexandra Mystery Teacher Would you rather spend the night in a LaBella, Grace Mangino, Maya McDonald, Mara Mihailoff, Magdalena Nies, Syndey By Abby Reupert & Peyton Rogers haunted house or in the woods? Parr, Daniel Powell, Lily Robinson, Nathan Her Favorite color is aqua blue. She likes Would you rather travel outer space or the Robinson, Peyton Rogers, Abby Reupert & Ashleigh Stout Physical Education (P.E.). Her favorite ani- ocean? mal is a panda bear. Also her favorite food is Would you rather have a pet sabertooth Logo By: Nick Thorman fried chicken with mashed potatoes. hamster or a pet T-Rex? Lead Advisor: Cody Schultz Would you rather never eat candy again or Meadowview Moments is sponsored The teacher is… Mrs. Nosille!!! never use electronics again? by the Pattison & Meadowview PTOs Meadowview Moments - April 2017 Page 2 Weird Phobias ‘Gilmore Girls’ - The Best Show Around By Lily Robinson By Sydney Parr Rory’s teacher at Chilton. When Lorelei Turophobia: Fear of cheese Gilmore Girls was and is the best breaks it off with Max she takes Rory on Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow a road trip to Harvard Rory’s dream col- Somniphobia: Fear of falling asleep show I have ever seen. No matter how old you are you can relate to some of their lege. Many months later, Rory is off at Yale Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns University the college that she chose over Hylophobia: Fear of trees problems. And even though some of the Gilmore Girls Harvard. Rory breaks up with Dean and Ombrophobia: Fear of rain story is sad, it is great and has changed my life for the better. And starts dating Jess. Paris Geller joins her at Pogonophobia: Fear of beards Yale because she did not get into Harvard Trypophobia: Fear of holes no matter, what if you’re a daughter or a mother you will wish that you had the type and, well, that is that only reason. Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the number Luke, the owner of the dinner, is 13 of relationship that Lorelei and Rory have. Gilmore Girls is a show that takes married accidentally to Nicole even though Ablutophobia: Fear of washing or bath- he is in love with Lorelei. Jess moves away ing. place in Stars Hollow and Hartford, Con- necticut. The main characters are Rory and to live with his dad in California and didn't Quadraphobia: Fear of the number four. tell Rory. Yale is going good Rory and esquipedalophobia: Fear of long words. Lorelei Gilmore. Lorelei had Rory when she was 17 and moved away from her par- Paris are in the Yale daily news club hard Spacephobia: Fear of outer space. at work. Lorelei and Sookie her best friend Spectrophobia: Fear of specters or ents so that Rory didn't have to grow up the way that she had which was high society and business partner are opening up their ghosts. own inn. Zelophobia: Fear of jealousy. events and gowns all things that Lorelei hated but Emily her mother loved. Rory starts dating Logan her col- The whole show started when lege boyfriend who is in the life in death Fun Easter Arts and Crafts Rory applied for Chilton which is a private brigade. She met him while doing a piece By Haylie Ernst very expensive school. Lorelei didn't have on the life and death brigade for the Yale Here is a fun arts and crafts to do during enough money to pay for it, so she went to daily news. Lorelei starts dating Luke after Easter time! I hope you have fun! her mother that she had only talked to on he divorced Nicole. Lane, Rory’s best Easter and Christmas for the past 16 years. friend, is in a band and moved away from Just Dying Eggs! When she goes to her mother for the money home which is very hard to do with her This is just dying eggs. If you don’t her mother says yes, but on one condition: strict loving mother. know how to do this, just take egg dye she and Rory must come over every Friday With Rory’s last days at Yale ap- (normally found at grocery stores during at 6:30 for dinner. proaching and Lane's wedding over, she Easter time) and follow the directions on Soon after this Rory starts her is feeling a little sad but yet happy. At her the box. first day at Chilton leaving Stars Hollow graduation, Logan proposes to her and she High and her best friend Lane. When says...NO. Lorelei still dating Luke and still Would You Rather? Rory is cleaning out her looker she runs working at the inn is happy. By Alexandra Labella into her soon to be first boyfriend Dean. Things left out that you need to Mr. Blankenship They started talking very awkwardly then know… Lorelei was married to Chris who Be a Ninja or Pirate? Rory ran off to go to her house. Later that is Rory’s father. Rory has a sister named Have free apple products for the rest of day Lorelei got home from working at the GG from his father and his marriage before your life or free wifi wherever you go Independence Inn and they went out to she leaves him to go to Paris. Lane got fro the rest of your life? Luke's for dinner (they eat at Luke's almost married to Zack and has two kids. Have your own private jet or island? everyday at least once). Sookie, Lorelei’s best friend is Never eat another pizza or wever drink On Rory’s first day at Chilton she married to Jackson who is a produce man, another soda? makes soon enemies with Paris Geller. Par- she also has three kids - one girl and two Mrs.Huff is Geller was one no is the most challenging boys. Dean Rory’s ex boyfriend is married Be able to see 10 minutes into your person that Rory had ever meet. She also to Lindsay but cheats on her with Rory and future or 10 minutes into the future of meet Tristen who grew madly in love with they got divorced. anyone else but you? her put was always a jerk and eventually In Conclusion, Gilmore Girls is Be famous when you’re alive or vice got expelled. great and I realize that by writing this I’m versa? Two years later… Rory and Paris telling you everything about the show Be the first person to discover a new are friends and are student body president but hopefully you still go and watch it. If planet or find a cure for a deadly dis- and vice president. Lorelei is engaged but you do you will not regret it, because it is ease? does not get married to Max who is also almost like better than life.

Mrs. Williams Always talk in rhymes or sing instead of Meet the Fastest Man Alive: The Flash speak? By Sydney Parr went back in time to save his mom and Wear clown makeup everyday for a year The Flash’s name is Barry Al- dad. He fixed it, but when he went back or a tutu? len. He works at the police department things were different then when he had If the response is underlined, that means as a forensic scientist. He is a speedster left. that is the answer was the one that the (he is the fastest man alive). Since he has teachers I interviewed selected! Do you The Flash also has a team called been back he has run agree with their picks? Team Flas. The people on this team are into a speed god called Cisco Romone, Harrison Wells, Cait- Savitar, who is out to ruin WouldBy MaraYou Mihailoff Rather? lin Snow, Iris West, Julian Dorn, and Barry’s life and kill Would you rather have a unicorn or a Detective Joe West. In The Flash, Barry everyone in it. flying turtle? has to defeat and save many metahu- Barry has Lily Robinson’s answer: Unicorn. mans (people with powers like him, but been doing Would you rather be invisible or be able to fly? who are evil). everything he Peyton Rogers answer: Be invisible. Barry Allen and his team can can and so far Would rather meet a talking turtle or a travel through earth's and parallel ver- has stopped him. talking banana? sions of this earth. Barry can also run Barry Allen Kyra English’s answer: Talking banana. into the future and the past and has the aka The Flash is Would you rather go skydiving or scuba diving? ability to change both of them - which amazing. If you want to watch, it is on Abbys Reupert’s answer: Skydiving. he did once it was called Flashpoint. He CW on Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. Meadowview Moments - April 2017 Page 3 Cookie Curiosity Guess the YouTuber Mystery Teacher By Mikayla Friend 1. 2. 3. By Lily Robinson Early American Tinsmiths began making Favorite Color: Purple. cookie cutters by hand back in the 1700s Favorite Food: Lasagna. The top selling commercial cookies in the Favorite Animal: Giraffe. U.S. are; What made you want to be a teacher: I had Nabisco Oreo 1. 2. 3. a teacher that believed in me. Nabisco Chips Ahoy Dream Job as a Child: Artist. Nabisco Oreo double stuff Favorite Sport: Running. Pepperidge farm Milano Send your guesses to the office! Private Label chocolate chip Pizza Drawing Contest Little Debbie nutty bar 1. 2. 3. Little Debbie oatmeal cream By Wyatt Engle Nabisco Chips Ahoy Chewy Congratulations to my pizza drawing con- Nabisco Nilla Vanilla Wafers test winners! First Place: Victoria Ross Fun Facts About Cookies Second Place Lexi Blair The U.S. is the World’s biggest cookie 1. 2. 3. Third Place: Grace Kepley baker and eater. 1. 2. 3. The U.S. spends more than $550 Million annually Oreos alone. The first fortune cookie was made in America, but it is really a Japanese tradi- By Daniel Powell & Nathan Robinson tion. Think you know the YouTubers Ruth Wakefield accidently created choco- pictured above? Be sure to send your late chip cookies. guesses to the office with your full name Question of the Day and teacher’s name for a chance to win a By Mara Mihailoff Cookie names in other countries are: prize! What is better: A talking turtle or a Biscuits: England and Australia talking emoji? Give me your answer Galletas: Spain Coloring Corner and then I’ll count up the votes and see Kets or Platzchen: Germany By Ashleigh Stout which one is truly better. Amaretti or Biscotti: Italy Koeje: Dutch Cutest Things in School Bis Coctum: Latin By Abby Reupert & Peyton Rogers Did you know that Animal Crackers were the first cookie commercial in the U.S., introduced in 1902? Alphabet Challenge By Madison Kennedy I am going to tell you a theme and you have to write something starting with Free Draw Contest each letter of the alphabet that fits my By Jeremiah Feist theme. When you finish, send it into the This issue I hosted a free draw contest office and whoever has the best alpha- Amazing Drawing Contest There were some great entries, but I could bet that fits my theme, wins! By Mara Mihailoff only spotlight so many in this article. Theme - Geography and Places This issue I asked for drawings of gold Congratulations to the winners of my free A- N- fish playing volleyball draw contest and thanks to everyone who B- O- under a rainbow with entered! C- P- roller-skates. The win- First Place: Chloe P, Mrs. Dorl D- Q- ners are Madison Rog- Second Place: Yioa Bell E- R- ers & Kendall Leugers! Third Place: Landon Cook F- S- Fourth Place: Hayden Cook G- T- Fifth Place: Teagan Ahama H- U- Sixth Place: Jack Miller I- V- Seventh Place: Tahreem Rana J- W- Guess1. The 2. Franchise Eight Place: Rylnn Whitt K- X- Ninth Place: Donovan Ernst L- Y- 1. 2. 3. M- Z- Mystery Teacher By Mikayla Friend 3. 4. Can you figure out the mystery teacher using the clues below? 4. 5. 6. Any pets: No Any children: Yes How many: 2 Favorite food: Steak By Daniel Powell & Nathan Robinson Favorite color: Red Think you know the YouTubers 7. 8. 9. Teacher of which grade: Fourth pictured above? Be sure to send your Age: 40 years young guesses to the office with your full name and teacher’s name for a chance to win a Send your guesses to the newspaper prize! box in the office! Meadowview Moments - April 2017 Page 4 Guess the Mettaton AU Scavenger Hunt Coloring Corner 1. 2. 3. By Abby Reupert & Peyton Rogers By Ashleigh Stout Two of the most scariest monsters in COLOR METTATON!! Meadowview Elementary He decided that he needs a new look, Can you figure out where they are? color him to help full his needs! A scary yellow monster, and its eyes fol- By Kyra English low you. A purple monster that has lockers Think you know the Mettaton nearby. AUs pictured above? Be sure to send your guesses to the office with your full name and teacher’s name for a chance to win a prize! Coloring Corner By Abby Reupert & Peyton Rogers Pets Draw Contest By Daniel Powell & Nathan Robinson Here are the winners of our pet drawing contest! Amelia Weber (First); Sammy, Taylor, Madison Rogers & Katie Montgomery Creation Corner (second); Lily Roland. By Madison Kennedy 1. 2. 1.

Scavenger Hunt Disney Drawing Contest By Lily Robinson By Kyra English Can you figure out where the three Congratulations to items pictured below are located in the Ryan Whitt, the win- school? ner of my Disney drawing contest! Money Drawing Contest By Nathan Robinson & Daniel Powell Marvel Drawing Contest Here are the winners of our money contest! First Place: Olivia Mangino By Mikalya Friend Minecraft Drawing Contest Second Place: Tolhred Roland This issue I hosted a By Nathan Robinson & Daniel Powell Third Place: Donovan Ernst Here are the winners of our money contest! Marvel contest. Con- First Place: Chase Harrell 1. 2. 3. grats to my winner Second Place: Donovan Ernst Tana Rana! Third Place: Brandon Leugers 1. 2. 3. Pokemon Drawing Contest By Daniel Powell & Nathan Robinson Ultimate Drawing Contest Congratulations to By Mara Mihailoff Nicholas Powell for Person Drawing Contest This issue I asked students to submit draw- ings of squirrels eating tacos under rain- winning our Pokemon By Madison Kennedy bows. Here are the winners: drawing contest! Congrats to our Person Drawing Winners! First Place: Gabriel Hamons First: Madison Rogers of Sarah Lane Second Place: Katie, Maddie & Sammy Second: Kendall Leugers of Madison Rogers Third Place: Liam Hamons Third: Kassidy, Miss Clark’s of Mrs. Clark Star Wars Drawing Contest 1. 2. 3. By Daniel Powell & Nathan Robinson 1. 2. 3. Congratulations to the winner(s) of our Star Wars Kendall Leugers & Maddy Rog- Easter Drawing Contest Animal Drawing Contest By Mya Curran By Kyra English Issue fours Easter drawing contest was a Congrats to the animal contest winners: Flower Drawing Contest big hit! Each and every one of your en- First Place: Amelia Weber By Lily Robinson tries was AMAZING and would definitely Second Place: Abby Smith make my house feel “In Easter Mode.” Third Place: Grace Kepley For this contest I With a lot of pondering and hard decision asked people to draw making it boiled 1. 2. 1. 2. 3. their best flowers down to two final winners: first place Tahreem Macy Curran Rana. and Jacob Ad- ams!