HEALTH, page 2 | SCIENCE, page 5 | GAMES, page 6 the HUSKY HEADLINES Hildreth Elementary School, Harvard, MA Volume 2: No. 1: October 2019 Halloween Around the World By Lena A o-lanterns, trick-or-treating, having On October 31st, kids all over the parties, and wearing costumes. country wear costumes and roam around Halloween is not only celebrated in their neighborhoods late at night, ringing America, people all around the world doorbells and exclaiming ‘Trick or Treat’. enjoy holidays similar to Halloween! This tradition has been happening in the In Mexico and parts of Latin America United States since the 1930s. It is part people celebrate Dia de los Muertos, of a holiday called Halloween, which I’m The Day of The Dead. This Holiday sure all of you know about. But what most is celebrated from November 1st to of you don’t know is that Halloween has a November 2nd to honor those who long and interesting history. Long ago, the have died. They believe that on those Bran Castle, Romania. credit: Wikimedia Commons ancient Celts celebrated a festival called two days, the souls of their loved Samhain. They would light bonfires and ones can come back to be reunited with wear costumes to ward off ghosts. Years their families. On this day, people decorate later, in the eighth century, Pope Greg- altars and leave out tons of delicious food Tips and Tricks to ory the second announced November for the ‘ghosts.’ In Japan, a large parade is 1st as a time to honor all saints (holy or held called the Kawasaki Halloween Pa- Trick or Treat Safely! righteous people), the day became known rade. This event has been taking place for • Put reflectors on your trick or treating as All Saints Day. All Saints Day began to 21 years, and is the largest parade of its bag so you can be seen by drivers. have similar traditions to Samhain. People kind in Japan. Nearly 4,000 people from decided to make the evening before ‘Hal- all over the world come to attend this pa- low’s Eve’, which later shortened to Hal- rade. They march through the streets, just • Always stay with a friend or loween. Over time, Halloween started to outside Tokyo, in extravagant costumes. adult while trick or treating. have it’s own traditions, like carving jack- Some people choose to celebrate Hallow- een at what legend says is • Look both ways before Count Dracula’s castle! This crossing the road. eerie castle in Romania is a tourist attraction, and you • If someone you don’t know can get a guided tour of the very well invites you into castle…if you dare! These are their house, refuse politely. just a few of the ways people around the world celebrate • Don’t eat candy that is Halloween. not in its packaging. To conclude, I would like to wish everybody a happy • If your costume has a mask, make Halloween. I am finishing this sure you can clearly see through it. article with a list of ways to be safe on Halloween, hope- fully these tips help you have fun safely! Jack O'Lanterns. credit: unsplash.com Healthy Habits with Nurse Dawn A Walk In The Wood by Norah B. and Sean N. By Christine T. How many teeth do you take out a day? By the Flowing Stream, Usually one tooth a day. And the Wintergreen, How do you stay healthy? The Rocky Path goes on. You get enough sleep, walk a dog if you have one, and eat healthy.

How do you keep mosquitoes away? For the Leaves of Green, By wearing bug spray and staying inside after dusk. And the Rain so Clean, How much water should an adult and a kid drink in a day? Nothing could go wrong. Adults should drink eight glasses of water and kids should drink six glasses of water.

The long Day Passes, And The Birds Chirp On, Singing their Beautiful Song.

As The Stars Come Up, Water droplet. credit: Pixaby The Sun Goes Down. The Tree Nothing Could Go Wrong. By Lena A. In the spring, I stand tall with my vibrant leaves of green, The birds fly to me and build their nests among my branches. Then one day a breeze starts to blow making my branches shiver. I start to change and suddenly my leaves are no longer a brilliant green, But magnificent shades of red, orange and gold. People come from everywhere to look at me and admire my beautiful foliage. I am always happy during this time because I love all the attention I am getting. My life is perfect until the birds all fly away! It makes me so sad to watch all my friends go Where they fly to is unknown to me, I wonder why they would leave. They flap their wings and soar off into the sky, Leaving me standing there, waving sadly, even though I know they will return. It seems as if they took the sun and the warmth with them. It is now cold, I wish the sun would come back! Next, something happens that saddens me, My beautiful leaves of all different colors are blown straight off of my branches by a strong breeze. Now I am bare with no leaves at all as the winter snow falls down on me, Looking like fluffy white cotton balls but feeling like sharp pricks of cold. So I close my eyes and fall asleep, dreaming about spring. Tree lined path. credit: unsplash.com page 2 Construction Update By Lena A. and Laci O concrete pump, a machine Photos by Norah B. and Lauren G. that looks like a crane with So far, construction on the new school a tube attached to it. When has gone really well. They did have a slight the concrete dries, they will delay due to some boulders that had to be remove the metal forms. removed, but have made up for that time They also have recently re- ceived a large ship- ment of structural steel, which are large metal beams used to make the

base of the building. Right here is a picture of a digger digging a BIG hole. Jack O'Lanterns. credit: unsplash.com After this is done, they will put up big tarps around the base of the building and start working on the inside of the building. They have Some of the pavement is already out and people can walk on it. to dig trenches to and are expected to finish around the sched- put the plumbing inside and uled time. Over the next couple of months, work on other things. students can expect to see concrete being The amount of space poured. To do this, we have to use for recess they dig a big trench is expected to stay about and put metal forms the same for the next year This area is going to be the new school's gymnasium. around the sides to and a half. You may have help hold the con- complete. They are planning to keep the also been wondering what will happen to crete in. They pour structure, but take it apart and put it into the play structure when construction is the concrete with a CONSTRUCTION continued on page 8.

Slugman Says Triple E By Harrison B.

page 3 Nature’s Classroom by Satriah Sikochi the catch, whatever you put on your plate could take in the afternoon. Then we Recently the fifth graders went on a and don’t eat will go into the ORT Bucket. would go with our field group leaders week long field trip. During which, we had At the end of each meal the N.C. teachers to possibly hike, play a game or look for a fun and exciting time. At 7:45 we board- weigh your ORT for the grade. Our first specific things in nature. Many groups ed the coach buses, when we arrived the meal as a grade was 9 pounds but at the went to lookout point which you will learn N.C teachers greeted us. W​e brought​ our end of the week we got our total down more about at NC. During field group you stuff up to the dorms. After we did that to​ ZORT.​ We were the first grade in all would sign up for the class you wanted to we began our adventures. the grades that went in our school to get take. After lunch you would head out to ZORT, other grades got close but never the teacher who was teaching your class. We met with table groups and headed made it. Mr.C had challenged our grade We won't spoil any more of NC because inside the dining hall, to have lunch. Then the night before at dinner if we could get we don’t want to ruin. Your experience they shortly explained the ORT REPORT. down to below 1lb or zero ORT before we there. The ORT REPORT is a way that the N.C. leave, he would jump in the lake. Maybe teachers showed us about human waste. Nature's Classroom was an exciting when you go Mr.C will jump in the lake for At meals there was something called a experience and we had a lot of fun. The your grade (but just know now below 1 lb Waitron, the Waitron would be called to NC teachers were great and they taught isn't good enough, he raised the stakes). go through the ​one way system​ and into us a lot in an indirect way. We hope that the kitchen to pick up a tray of food. Once Every morning the fifth graders would you get to have the same experience and they bring it to your table, the Waitron wake up at 7 then breakfast would be get to enjoy life outside when your in fifth serves him or herself first, then we go at 8:00. After breakfast the fifth graders grade too. around the table taking our food. Here is would get a rundown of the classes they

Cookie Cop By Bowen C.

page 4 Science Spotlight: Ocean Sunfish By Gabriella T. made of bone), Have you ever heard of an ocean sun- and the biggest fish, or common mola (Mola mola)? An sunfish in the Ocean sunfish is a threatened, massive world. One of the saltwater fish (not related to any freshwa- most astounding ter fish) that can weigh over five thousand things about them pounds! They can live over one hundred is their growth years. They live in worldwide oceans, rate. The weight sticking to waters above fifty degrees of a full grown Fahrenheit, staying relatively close to the Ocean sunfish coast, and not going in waters below two is around sixty thousand, six hundred feet deep. million times the weight they were Their only known relatives in the sun- when they were fish family are the Sharptail Mola (Mola born. Despite lanceolata), the Southern sunfish (Mola al- their size, they are exandrini), the Hoodwinker sunfish (Mola quite docile and tecta), and the slender sunfish (Ranzania are rarely aggres- laevis, and the smallest sunfish), you may sive or harmful to wonder why they are called sunfish. Their humans. common name’s origin comes from their habit of sunbathing at the surface (after a Ocean sunfish Ocean sunfish. dive to the depths in search for food), in cannot maneuver small fish, squid, brittle stars, mollusks, order to warm up. themselves quickly. Some of the reasons plankton, eelgrass (occasionally), and fish this is true are their bulky body, the fact The ocean sunfish’s scientific name is larvae, although they have a small mouth that their tail doesn’t help with the real easy to remember: Mola mola. “Mola” is compared to their body. swimming (since the tail is no use for Latin for “millstone”. This is a very suitable When Ocean sunfish are babies, they actually moving, they use it like a rudder name for them because their odd, bulky are very vulnerable. For one thing, after which is a steering device on the back of shape causes them to look like a boulder, the females lay three hundred million a boat), the way that they have only two another white-gray, large, often weirdly eggs or so, she does not fend for them. fins, and the fact that their clavus (lower shaped object. Although they have spines, they are weak fin) never grows. They swim by flopping and do not stop predators such as Bluefin Ocean sunfish look very odd, and are their top and bottom fins alternately. tuna, Mahi mahi, and Whale sharks from unlike many fish. Their tails are blunt and Despite these hardships, they can journey eating them. They are also only one tenth round. Their fin arrangement is abnormal. sixteen miles a day with a steady pace, of an inch long at birth. They look like nine Adults have rubbery, protective, rough and travel thousands of miles in a lifetime. skin. They have no scales, unlike a lot of pointed stars. They grow extremely fast. Ocean sunfish have several survival other fish. They have joined, beak-like By age one, they are as large as a plate. adaptations. Adults have protective, rub- teeth, and are therefore unable to close When they are young, they stick together bery skin. They allow smaller, “cleaner” their mouth. for protection, but adults are often found fish to eat unwanted parasites and other singly and are sometimes seen in pairs. In addition to their irregular body, they pests off of their body and mouth, with- Female Ocean sunfish lay the most eggs are truly enormous fish. Their skin can be out eating the smaller fish in the process. of any known animal in the world. up to three inches thick. Their dorsal fins To rid themselves of embedded parasites, My inspiration for this article came alone can be over three feet tall, and with they may breach, and clear the water by from my trip to the Plum Island (a close- the rest of their height, they total an aver- more than 5 feet! It is good that they have to-shore, eleven mile island by the open- age of fourteen feet, including the lower these strategies, because they are known ing by the Merrimack River. We went to fin. They grow to about ten feet long, to have over twenty types of parasites. the Parker Wildlife Refuge beach.) on Au- and they can weigh up to five thousand They have very few natural predators gust 31st, 2019. My parents and multiple pounds, which is over the weight of two when they are adults: killer whales, sea other beach goers spotted an enormous Great White Sharks. This makes them the lions, and sharks. They also have a variety fin and the shadow of an ocean sunfish heaviest bony fish (fish with a skeleton of things they eat: jellyfish, crustaceans, about 100 feet away from shore. page 5 Halloween Boo By Ryan P. By Ryan P.

When witches go riding Here you are, dressed up for the night, And black cats are seen You knock and knock hoping to fright. The moon laughs and whispers Instead, I am dressed up too. ‘Tis here Halloween I give you a fright when I yell BOO! Spooky moon. credit: unsplash.com

Amusement Bats Cat Costume Dracula Eerie Excited Frankenstein Games Halloween Hayride Monster October Prank Pumpkin Scare Shadows Skeleton Spooky Witch

page 6 Ask The Editor Lena A. Another reason Hello everyone! I’d like to wish you they do this is a happy fall! For the first Ask The Editor to absorb body article, I visited Mrs. Steadman’s second heat. If a chame- grade class. I got so many interesting leon is cold it will questions from them, but the one that I change to a dark have decided to answer in this edition is: color because darker colors “Why do some lizards attract sunlight. This can help change their colors?” them survive —asked by Rahda in intense tem- peratures. To start off, the group of lizards that How do cha- The largest chameleon in the world, Parson’s chameleon. credit: Wikimedia Commons have the ability to change colors are called meleons pull off these colorful changes? causing a change in the color of the cell. chameleons. Chameleons have many To find this answer, scientists had to look When different chromatophores expand odd features in addition to their ability very closely at a chameleon’s skin. The and contract, the chameleon changes to change colors. They have feet shaped outer layer of a chameleon’s skin is trans- colors. like a bird’s, eyes that swivel in different parent, followed by several more layers I would like to thank Rahda for asking directions and incredibly long tails and that contain specialized cells called chro- this edition’s question. Thank you for tongues. Many people think that the main matophores. The last layer of a chame- reading! reason chameleons change colors is to leon’s skin contains melanophores, which camouflage so they can escape predators, are filled with melanin (The same sub- Here are a few examples but this is only a secondary reason. Cha- stance that makes people have different of chameleon colors: meleons are very fast, many can run up skin colors). The other layers of skin have Black, Grey: Upset to twenty five miles per hour, so they can cells that contain reflective pigments. Dull Green: Calm and relaxed easily avoid most predators. Scientists When a chameleon starts feeling a strong Bright Colors: Mating think that the main reason chameleons emotion or a change in body temperature, change color is to reflect their moods and his nervous system will signal specific Bright Green: Excited communicate with other chameleons. chromatophores to expand or contract,

Slap By Harrison B.

page 7 A Note about the Husky Headlines By Conor Burke Hello Hildreth Elementary School! As you know, the Husky Headlines is our school newspaper, created by Lena Aloise, who is now in 5th grade. The newspaper committee is open to third to fifth graders. Even if you’re not in third grade, you can still do a drawing, take a picture, or write a poem/short story and have it put in the paper! To do this, just give your work to Lena or Mrs. Pulizzi ([email protected]), or share it with them over google docs. Not only kids can do this, but teachers as well! If you are a teacher who would like to publish something in the Husky Headlines, you now can!

Tips for Contributors • Use a black pen or marker over pencil marks so drawings, Maxwell & Camden standing in front of the beautiful mums they planted comics, and games can be seen well. outside the K wing at the end of the summer (Photo by Sean N.) • Bold colors will show up best. Bold colored pencils or markers will work well. Art crafted on a computer or tablet will work well, too. Construction Update • Work with a buddy to write a story or article for your illustra- students who tion! Work with a buddy to make an illustration for your story or article! CONSTRUCTION continued from page 3 get to use the storage while they knock down the old new space are • When taking a photo make sure to stand still so your photo school. Then, the people who originally going to love is in focus. built the structure will come and put it it! We have • When taking a photo, or a scan of art, leave extra background back together in a different spot. They included the when possible. The publisher can always zoom in/crop. might also put up additional small play QR code with structures for students to enjoy. this article so view him about construction. Thanks for We were lucky enough to get to take a you can take a reading! virtual tour of the new school. It was amaz- tour over your iPad, phone, computer or ing to get to see it. From what we saw, the VR set and see it for yourself. We would like to thank Mr. Myler for letting us inter-

Lauren and Norah have a picture taken with site manager John Seymour.

Workers discuss next steps for building the school. Steel being lifted to the second floor of the new school in town. page 8