SAINT RAYMOND SCHOOL WE WRITE. YOU READ. MARCH 2018 Famous Author, Andrew Clements, comes to Saint Raymond! By Maeve Wrona & Karina Ramirez Andrew Clements, author of Frindle, has had a very interesting life. On Valentine’s Day Mr. Clements visited St. Raymond School and captivated the students with stories of his life. As a young child, his parents read many stories to him and he became somewhat of a book worm. When Mr. Clement was in kindergarten, his teachers were aware that he could read, but at first, they didn’t realize how well. So Mr. Clement’s teachers continued to test him with more and more difficult books and were surprised when he continued to finish them. Mr. Clements loved going to the library. The more he went, the more he got to know the librarian. The librarian started noticing that Mr. Clements really liked adventure books. Often, the librarian would pick out a good adventure book for Mr. Clements and he almost always loved it. As Mr. Clements got older, he had a teacher who was known to never give students an A+ in her class. One day, this teacher asked the class to write their own poems. She told the students that the poem could be funny, but that writing a funny poem was very difficult. Mr. Clement decided he was going to make his poem funny like a lot of other kids. Mr. Clement’s teacher liked his poem so much, she laughed out loud. On top of his paper, next to the A+, she wrote that he should consider publishing it. IN THIS ISSUE As an adult, Mr. Clement’s got married and had children. At this time, he was working as a teacher. He Andrew Clements p1 Geography Bee p2 taught for many years, but he kept getting fired from teaching jobs. Eventually, Mr. Clement decided to McTeacher Night p2 School Band Solo-Ensemble p2 move on to a different career. His next job was working at a company that sold how-to-do books. Sadly, he Pinewood Derby p3 did not write the books himself. Instead, he made the projects that were in the books by following the Boy Scouts! p3 Ikidarod p4 steps in them. Cafe Today! p4 Meet the Teachers p4 Catholic Schools Week p5 After a couple years, Mr. Clements changed jobs again. This time, he started working for a publishing Read-a-Tthon p5 Junior HIgh Poetry p6 company. Over the years, he worked for two publishing companies, Picture Book Studio and Alphabet Oswald the Lucky Rabbit p7 Press. At first, Mr. Clement worked as a Sales Manager, where he got to work with some really terrific Movie Reviews Welcome to the Jungle p8 people, who taught him about the publishing business. He caught the writing bug and started writing his The Black Panther p8 Wonder p9 own books while at the publishing company. Video Game Reviews Nintendo Switch p9 Star Wars Battlefront II p10 In 1990 Mr. Clements started writing a story about a boy who makes up a new word for a pen and called it Rocket League p10 Frindle and that is where he made his first novel called Frindle. Frindle was published in 1996. NBA 2K18 p10 Joey Sykes p11 Girls Basketball p11 After the presentation Mr. Clements signed copies of his books during a meet and greet in the library. It Boys Basketball p12 2018 NFL Playoffs p13 was exciting to have one of our favorite authors visit the school. Crossword p14 Parish Easter Schedule p15 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS/ARTISTS Xander Adkins Colleen Karsten Jack Aliprandi Avery Maentz Graham Ellis Jason Maurer Seth Filas Joselyn Mendez Sofia Flondro Maura Phillips Giuliana Freni Karina Ramirez Tony Freni Bobby Riefke Addie Geier Teddy Riefke Max Hargadon Maggie Schram Sam Hargadon Stella Waters Seamus Heil Maeve Wrona Bella Iovino Brendan Ziegenhorn Saints Scoop SCHOOL NEWS MARCH 2018 Geography Bee By Maura Phillips Many different Bees occur at St. Raymond School. These Bees include the Spelling Bee, History Bee, and Geography Bee. The Geography Bee includes delegates in fifth through eighth grades. The last two years St. Raymond has sent a delegate to the state Geography Bee. On January 28, seventh grader Henry Kauke won the Geography Bee competition at St. Raymond. Besting seven other delegates, he got very few questions wrong. The other delegates included Sofia Flondro, Colleen Karston, Philip Deblasio, Philip Bansik, Andrew Bertellotti, Paul Sudol, and Jack Lopez. The Geography Bee has questions such as, “What is the capital of Indonesia?”. The competition was tough and all of these students did very well. They deserve our applause for getting that far. McTeacher Night 2018!!!!! By Graham Ellis and Bella Iovino On February 7, 2018, St. Raymond descended upon the Randhurst McDonald’s for the 3rd annual McTeacher Night! There were lots of amazing jobs for the volunteers such as drive thru worker, pie costume wearer, pie seller, front counter, & more! McTeacher Night was from 5 to 8 PM. Whenever someone received a tip, they would say, “Hey teachers, we just got a tip! 1, 2 , 3! Ba! Da! Bum! Bum! Ba! I’m lovin’ it!” It was truly a fun-filled night. “My favorite job was talking to all the families, helping people, and stealing fries,” said kindergarten teacher Miss Kramer. “I think I did great on my shift because I had a great lady who was a cashier who made it easy,” said fifth grade teacher Mrs. Skowera. “It’s so much fun seeing everyone!” said preschool teacher Mrs. Cunningham. “I ran the ice cream station, I felt like I did a lot in 1 hour!” said Assistant Principal Mrs. Hart! It was a fun-filled night for the students, teachers, parents, and parishioners, and raised over $900 for St. Raymond School! School Band Solo-Ensemble Contest By Jack Aliprandi The solo-ensemble contest has been an important and fun part of SRS band for over 10 years. The judges for his year’s contest were band directors from other schools in our area, Mr. Dall, Mrs. Lukaszewskyj and Mr. Genauldi. All band members must participate and there are just over 80 kids in band. The judges judge seven categories: intonation, interpretation, style, rhythmic accuracy, stage presentation, appearance and tone quality. The rewards for the contest are: gold medals, silver medals, bronze medals and a 4th place certificate. The range of points is very high, meaning it is difficult to get bronze or 4th place, so everyone usually gets a satisfying reward of gold or silver. All in all, the Solo-Ensemble Contest is a fun contest for the band and everyone looks forward to it each year! [ 2 ] Saints Scoop MARCH 2018 The Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby! By Avery Maentz, Max Hargadon, Seamus Heil and Xander Adkins The four cars are lined up at the top of the track. A den leader pulls a lever, the cars go flying down the track and cross the finish line in less than two seconds! The Pinewood Derby is a scouting event that takes place every year. The first pinewood derby was on May 15, 1953 in Manhattan Beach, California, and was hosted by pack 280C. Each scout makes a car out of pinewood that they get at a pack meeting (a meeting in which all the scouts attend). Most scouts get their car cut at a wood carving shop, others get their cars cut at other places and some carve their own cars with a parent. People at the wood carving place carve the car in the design that you want. You can research car designs online, get them at the wood carving place, or just think it up yourself! They have two sheets of paper at the carving shop with many different ideas of designs on them that you can request. There are multiple ways to get a trophy. One way is if your car is one of the three fastest cars overall. Another is to be one of the three fastest cars in your den. A den is a group of all of the scouts that are a certain age. The last way is to get the most votes, second most votes, or third most votes overall based on what your car looks like. Some examples of the cars that have won for design in the past years are a car with Yoshi from the “Super Mario” series in it, a hockey rink, a telephone booth, a pool table, the Hogwarts Express, Jaws, a pencil, R2D2, and a Hershey’s bar. The computer records how many seconds each car took and who was first, second, third, and fourth.Then, at the end, they add up the times and see who has the best time. The den leaders see who has the best overall time, second best overall time, and third best overall time. Then they pass out the trophies. When you’re getting your car weighed and checked, you put a raffle ticket in a jar. (Everyone gets a prize eventually.) The person who wins the raffle gets to go to the prize table to pick out a “Hot Wheels” car. In the end, everyone gets a medal. !!Boy Scouts!! By Brendan Ziegenhorn History | Scouting began with a British Army officer, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell. While stationed in India, he discovered that his men did not know basic first aid or basic survival skills in the outdoors. Baden-Powell realized he needed to teach his men many frontier skills, so he wrote a small handbook called Aids to Scouting. He was very surprised to see many young boys using it to play a game they called scouting.