KidsView Winter, 2008 KidsView online at www.glencoewest.org/happenings.lasso KidsView Staff: Fabulous West Fair By: Bianca S. and James D. Erin A. Have you heard? On November 9, many students from West School (and other Sacha A. Glencoe schools) came to the West World Tour! This fair is sponsored each year by the Emily B. Glencoe PTO. This year to celebrate West School’s 50th anniversary, the school decided to also raise money to buy a PlayPump for a community in Sub-Saharan Africa through Sabrina B. an organization called PlayPumps International. A PlayPump is a combination of a Dylan B. merry-go round and a water pump. Kids pump clean water up from the ground and Celia B. have fun at the same time. Each PlayPump costs $15,000 and so far, West has raised Jack C. about $9,000. The topic of the fair was “Around the World.” If you went to the fair, you James D. definitely saw the flags from many different countries hanging everywhere! To play Henry E. the awesome foreign games, you first made a passport. The games were hoopball, Eric F. basketball, scooter racing, bootball, can knocking, hockey, and ring toss. You received a Eliana F. stamp if you played a game, and if you played them all you would get a prize! The prizes were either a troll or a Webkinz. Also, there was a cakewalk! Lots of cakes were Chloe F. brought in and it cost $1 to play. Everybody had so much fun winning cakes! Also, the Elizabeth G. DJ in the gym was a big hit. Many kids were showing off their moves on the dance Hannah W. floor. The company, Icon, had a blast too! “Dancing with Icon made me feel like a Dylan H. star!” says fourth grader Rose G. One of the best parts of the fair was the book fair. Many families bought lots of books. Roland Smith’s new book, Peak, was sold out in no Mia K. time! It was a great way to celebrate books. Chloe K. Another great thing about the fair was the teacher auctions. To raise money for Danny K. PlayPumps, teachers donated time to do activities with Madeline K. students outside of school, such as lunch or bowling. At the fair, students bid on these items. Another part of the Sabrina K. auction was the raffle to be “principal for an hour!” Each Sophie K. ticket cost $5.00. There were two drawings. The winners Katie K. were Erin M., from Mrs. Berkley’s class, and Bianca S., from Sam L. Mrs. Ross’ class. West School 5oth Anniversary T-shirts and water bottles were also sold to benefit PlayPumps. Harris L. Students sill enjoy wearing their shirts and drinking out of Grant M. their reusable water bottles instead of plastic bottles. Mrs. Fischer and Mrs. Ross Enya M. If you didn’t go to the fair, you missed a lot. Next year, go! sell raffle tickets! Jessica N. Annika P. Mary Amato Visits By: Emily B. Addie R. On November 29, author Mary Amato visited West John R. School. She has written many books including, Please Write in this Book, The Word Eaters and the Paul S. Riot Brothers series. Mary Amato was born on Jacob S. January 3, 1961, in Belvidere, Illinois. She grew up Hannah S. in Libertyville, Illinois. She married Ivan Amato, and David S. has two kids, Maxwell and Simon. Mrs. Amato has Bianca S. no pets, and her favorite food is chocolate. She told the students at West that she always wanted to be a Indigo S. writer and she loves to write! She started to write Ethan S. when she was seven years old and her mother Camryn W. handed her a little spiral notebook. She also told us Chayla W. how she gets some of her ideas and then we played a game in which the students acted out a story. It was Editors: great to meet an author of such fun books that many Mrs. Salzman Ms. Melamed students are now reading. Flag of the Day Wagner Farm The By: Eric F. By: Jessica N. Chicago Tour By: Chloe F. Flag of the Day happens the week of the West World Tour. During lunch period, third and fourth graders receive 3 clues and are shown a flag. Then they try to guess what country the flag All the third grade classes belongs to. The students received participated in the Chicago clues such as: “this country bus tour in October that took produces 220,000 tons of This year all fourth graders went them to many historical chocolate a year.” The flag for to the Wagner Farm, one of the sites like the Firehouse, the the third graders is different last historic working farms in Chicago History Museum, than the one for the fourth Cook County. The Glenview where we ate lunch, Clarke graders. The third graders Park District purchased the House, the Board of Trade farm in early 2000. The Wagner received clues for these flags and the Opera House. Some Farm is an 18.6 acre farm starting on Monday: Australia, preserved for educational third graders had a picnic on Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, purposes. When you go there the museum campus on and Egypt. The winners of third you can do tons of activities like: Lake Michigan’s shore. grade were Mr. Johnson's class, milking a cow, learning about Some classes also saw Ms. Hand’s class and Ms. chickens, seeing the Wagner's Millennium Park. They left Shapiro’s class. The fourth house in the 1920’s, and the school at 9:00 and came learning how to make a very graders received more challenging back at 3:00. At the yummy lunch! One thing we flags and clues. The fourth learned about was the Firehouse they saw the spot graders received clues for these difference between straw and where the Chicago Fire flags: South Africa, Dominican hay. Straw is used for animal started and looked at all the Republic, Singapore, Chile and bedding, and hay is used for old fashioned fire equipment. Bangladesh. Ms. Meyer’s class some of the farm animals to They also went inside the fire won. The Lunch/Recess Council has eat. Also we learned that your truck to see what it looked phone line and your neighbor’s decided to start a trivia question like. The firemen explained phone line used to be because everybody loved a fun connected. This was called a everything about the activity at lunch. The Flag of the party line. So if you picked up Chicago Fire. The Chicago Day activities helped kids learn the phone you might hear your tour was a great experience about geography. neighbor talking to someone for the third grade classes. else. Plus, if you had a lot of Students learned a lot more kids like the Wagners did, then about Chicago for their they would most likely share a Chicago study. bed. How would you like it if you had to share a bed with your brother or sister?! I suggest that you visit the Wagner Farm. If you want to have a great deal of fun - go. Because that is where you can learn to be a real genuine farmer! Did You Know?

The MS Explorer ALL ABOUT Honduras By: Harris L. By: David S. WEBKINZ WORLD Honduras is a country near By: Camryn W. Mexico. It borders Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. It Breaking news is in North America. It is in Webkinz World: 43,443 square miles, about Go on to today’s the size of Tennessee. The activities and language Honduran’s speak is click on Spanish. Honduras has about Webkinz quick 7,400,000 people living The MS Explorer hit an draw and this there. Honduras’ capital is Tegucigalpa, which means iceberg and sank 75 is how it works. On the bottom miles north of the “silver mountain”. The Arctic Peninsula on there is a number. You take the country is a democracy now November 23, 2007. The coin and you scratch the blue but it is one of the poorest MS Explorer sank in and if you get the same number countries in Latin America. water that was 25° and 2,000 feet deep. There you get an exclusive item. Also Honduras got its independence was a 10 by 4 inch there are new Webkinz. They from Spain in 1821 and its gash in the hull of are Collie the Penguin and the Independence Day is on the ship that people September 15. During their Charcoal Cat. At the Kinzville think was made by ice. revolution Tegucigalpa was The MS Explorer was Academy there is a new class. completely destroyed but after 246 feet long and It is fashion class. Five models 2,400 tons. All of a the war it was rebuilt. sudden there was a come out and you try to Honduras’ revolutionary war loud bang and then a memorize what they are wearing. was a lot like America’s. The passenger reported sea Then they go back in and you try President’s name is Manuel water in their cabin. to select the clothes they were Zelaya. Honduras has 595 km Everyone on board had of railroad. There are many to wait in life boats wearing. At the curio shop you mountains in Honduras and it for three to four can search for gems. If you find hours before a borders the Caribbean Sea. Norwegian ship came to a gem, it could be the gem of There are Mayan ruins in rescue them. Some the day or not. If you don’t Honduras to visit and it is a passengers were taken find the gem of the day you can good place for snorkeling and to King George Island has coral reefs. There are also and airlifted to still find a gem. You can keep it Chile. The passengers or sell it to Arte the dog who is forests in areas of Honduras . who were not taken in charge. If you get all the there were brought to the Uruguay’s Artigas gems, click on the Crown of Base. All of the 154 Wonder and you can wear it. If passengers and crew you find the Webkinz diamond, survived and no one was injured but all Arte will make you a big offer had an incredible for it. That’s what’s new in adventure. Webkinz world! Recalled Toys! By: Erin A. Nine million Chinese toys including some Mattel Pollypockets play sets, and Batman action figures that were made in China were recently recalled. That means they can no longer be sold and people who have them should stop using them. They are dangerous because they could have lead in them or tiny magnets that could be swallowed. The Consumer Product Safety Commission warned customers to check if their children are playing with any recalled toys. However government officials also say that no injuries have been reported with the newest recalled toys. In fact, less than 10% of toys are recalled each year and there are about 3 billion toys sold in America each year. Many of the toy recalls are done by the toy maker themselves voluntarily and not by the government. For example, Fisher-Price has recalled 83 types of Chinese- made toys, including Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters because their paint contained lead. Some things that parents can do to help make sure their children’s toys are safe are: check the recommended age on the package, don’t buy toys with small pieces for children under three, check to make sure that hand-me-down toys are safe, and make sure batteries cannot be swallowed by small children. Follow these directions and you will have a safer holiday season.

The Winter Solstice By: Enya M. Winter The winter solstice By: Sacha A. and is the shortest day Chayla W. of the year. We don’t lose hours off our day but we have the shortest amount of daylight hours. In 1997 Earl and Alice Count wrote a book called the 4,000 years of Christmas. The book says that the Mesopotamians were the first people ever to celebrate the winter solstice. They had a 12 day festival of renewal. Lots of ancient cultures built great architecture for the solstices. One of them is Newgrange that not a lot of people know about. It is a huge circular stone stone structure built to receive a shaft of sunlight deep inside its central chamber on the dawn of the winter solstice. Break Hockey Newgrange is located in Ireland. Many, Channukah Holidays Snowflake Chocolate Snowman many cultures celebrate the winter Hot Valentines solstice such as the Russians, the Christmas Ice Cold January Winter Germans, the Scandinavians, and the Day Kwanza Years Spaniards. This year the Winter Solstice December New Snow Eve Sledding was on December 22 at 12:08 a.m. Pajamas Gear (midnight). February Skating Animals

Man’s best friend, Len By: Eliana F. If you are looking for a a helping dog, you’ve come to the correct place. Len is a helping dog from RIC (the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago). He helps people in wheelchairs get around, turn on and off lights, and do other simple things people in wheelchairs can’t do. A helping dog has to be trained a long time because a dog like Len cannot hurt the patient in any way, even scaring them. Len has to be trained not only to do the amazing things he does, but to be calm with the patient. If a patient strokes his fur in a place he doesn't enjoy, Len has to deal with it. He cannot bark or whine, and he has to follow all the orders people give him. Another thing Len does is help people regain strength in their body. If a patient needs to regain strength in their arm, they can throw a ball and Len will fetch it. Once Len gets the ball, they have to make hand signals with their muscles so that Len will come. If they need to improve their speech, they can say “Len fetch” then “Len come”. Since my dad works at RIC, I got to meet Len. Len wasn’t jumping and playing even though he got so much attention, he was calm like a helping dog should be. I thought it must be hard being Len because compared to my dog who barks all the time, Len is as quiet as a feather dropping from the sky. All in all, I think Len is a great helping dog and I hope you agree with me. Owen and Mzee All About Fell Ponies!! Reviewed by: Eliana F. By: Addie R. Owen and Mzee is a great book about an amazing true If you like horses you’ve relationship between a hippo and a giant tortoise. probably heard of the Owen, the baby hippo, gets washed onto shore away Fell pony. The earliest from his family. It takes people trying to help the hippo Fell pony was a wild almost a full 12 hours to get Owen off the shore. Owen European pony that can’t stay there because he would die. Then Owen gets lived in the British Isles moved to an animal shelter where he meets a giant approximately 15,000 BC. tortoise named Mzee. Mzee has always liked his own This early Fell pony made space and he never spent time with any other animals, a good working animal. only the park helpers. Owen wanted someone like his It was strong. As a mother but he found Mzee instead. Owen started general riding pony, the following Mzee everywhere he went. But Mzee just Fell’s fast walk and easy walked away. Little by little, the strange couple started paces make it a coming together. In the end Owen and Mzee became comfortable ride. friends. They ate together, they played together, and did everything else together. Today, the Fell ponies are generally awesome jumpers, and are still strong. The Fell pony I thought this was an amazing never goes above 14 hands, which is the way story because Owen went from that horses are measured. One hand is 4 being washed onto a shore to inches. The main colors of the Fell pony are being best friends with Mzee. black, brown, bay, and gray. The markings on Mzee went from being a sad the Fell pony are a star or a tiny white spot tortoise that is alone to being on the hind fetlock. The head on the Fell best friends with Owen, a pony is small. The nostrils on the Fell Pony hippo. I can still barely believe are large and expanded. The Fell pony has a relationship like that is true. too much hair and the mane and tail are left I really suggest reading this to grow long. Now you know more about book so you can feel the same the Fell pony than you did before. thrill I did. Creative Writing

That One Thanksgiving Surprises Thanksgiving By: Indigo S. “Yes tomorrow is Thanksgiving,” said By: Sam L. Jack. “You actually like Thanksgiving,” said Ally. “Yes of course I do.” That night and John R. Ally puzzled his words. When she woke up One day on Thanksgiving Sam and she was in a place, a place where she knew she shouldn’t of been. Noah were having a feast at Noah’s “Where is this place?” Ally said. grandparent’s house. They were “You are in the new land” said a small boy having turkey and cranberries when about the age of 9. they heard something outside. It was “Why do you have weird clothes on?“ she John. He was invited too. Then, they asked. “We are wearing regular clothes, this is heard something else. Sam, John, and how everyone dresses today,” the boy Noah went outside to see what it was. answered. They saw a turkey! Then at once the “What are you doing?” noticing his bow turkey ran into the bushes. They ran and arrow. “Carrying stuff for the Indians.” after the turkey. Then the turkey ran “Indians?” somewhere else. All the kids stumbled “Yes, they helped us plant and hunt. We outside. The turkey came back after are going to have a feast for dinner.” about 5 minutes. Sam, John and Noah “A feast?” hid in the bushes and jumped out and “ You ask a lot of questions. Why don’t you come for dinner?” caught the turkey. Then the turkey “Sure” escaped their hands. Then the turkey To be continued...... shot LASER BEAMS!!!! The kids shot laser beams back. You are probably wondering how they did that... well it’s a story!! Then the turkey’s mama shot laser beams at the kids. The laser beams reflected off the boys and hit mama turkey and she went flying to the Empire State Building. Next it hit the other turkey but the turkey fell backward. The boys were confused and they went back inside and finished their Thanksgiving. Book Reviews

Double Identity: ElizaBethany This book is one of the best books I’ve Written by: Margaret Peterson Haddix ever read because Margaret Peterson Haddix made you think there was a Reviewed by: Eliana F. problem in the first few pages of the Double Identity is a book, but the problem kept getting great book about a girl worse and worse, while the story named Bethany Cole keeps getting better and better. I who is living a normal also think this is such a great book life until the age 12. because it has cliff hangers on every One month from her page and I could not put it down. birthday Bethany gets in a car with her parents and they drive off without Bethany TheThe GameGame PlanPlan knowing where she's Reviewed By: Sacha A. going! They drive for miles and miles, and hours and hours, until she gets to a gloomy and Chayla W. neighborhood. Then her dad stops right in front of a house that looks almost like a Go Rebels!!! In haunted house. He tells Bethany that she the hit new will be staying here with her aunt for some movie “The time. The strange thing is, Bethany never knew she had an aunt. When Bethany gets Game Plan” out of the car she says bye to her crying quarterback mother (who seems to be crying all the time Joe Kingman, now) and the car drives away. At her aunt’s (Dwayne ‘The house Bethany tries calling her parents but Rock’ Johnson) all the numbers she calls are down. Now she is stuck with a relative she doesn't know, and is one of the no way of getting home. That night she hears best football players of all time! He is the phone and rushes downstairs thinking it also a snob who loves himself. He is is her father. Instead of opening the door to found in a tough situation when he the kitchen, she listens to what her aunt is discovers he has a daughter! Payton saying. The word she catches is “Elizabeth”. A week later she receives a package in the (Madison Pettis) is a ballet-dancing mail with $10,000 and 4 different birth seven-year-old who turns Joe’s world certificates. It also has a note from Bethany’s upside-down! Joe just can’t get the father saying “He is after me. He is hunting parenting thing right! What is he me down. I never knew this would happen.” going to do?!?! See the movie to find Read Double Identity to find out if Bethany and her parents survive and if Bethany ever out!!! We rate this movie five out of sees her parents again. I rate this book 5 out five stars! It was so funny!!!!!! Also a of 5 stars. little sad, too! We Recommend...

Super Smash Bros. Brawl By: Ethan S. Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the sequel to Super Smash Bros. Melee. It will come out on the Nintendo Wii. The game contains many game characters including Mario, Link, Samus, and Bowser. The game has a fighting genre (no blood!) and a game rating of T for teens. The game contains stages from other Nintendo games like the Defiso Plaza from Super Mario Sunshine, Norfair from Metroid, and Sky world from Kid Icarus. The game also contains many items to defeat your opponent like the pitfall trap. You throw it into the ground and when someone touches it, that person falls through the ground and falls off of the stage. It’s pretty humiliating to fall for a trap like that. Also there’s crates and barrels. They have other items in them and they can be thrown at other people. In stages that seem hi-tech, they take a futuristic tone. In more fantastic stages, they look like presents. They’ve also added rolling crates to the mix. The story takes place when the subspace embassy took over. The subspace embassy is a group that wants to take over the world. Your goal is to defeat the embassy. The embassy contains Roader, a motorcycle robot that tries to run you over, Poppet, a coward that runs away and throws candy from its trousers, and Brynt, who multiplies every once in a while so you better kill it before it starts to get ugly. Twolon, uses its towel like arms to launch you off, and Shaydos is a translucent fog-like creature that sneaks up on you and slashes you. Its weak spot is a glowing circle at its center. Auroras, is a bird that dives in and stabs you really hard. Try to fight it when it dives on you but misses and gets its beak stuck in the ground. Greap, another belonging to the group is HUGE! It attacks you with two enormous sharp sickles. Its weak spot is its big red head. The R.O.B. squad is a group of robots that in this game, can either shoot lasers or fire missiles, and obviously, the Ancient minister. There are also newcomers in this game including Wario, Meta Knight, and even Sonic! If you want more information about the game, google Super Smash Bros. Brawl then select Smash Bros. DOJO. Enchanted Reviewed by: Maddie K. Enchanted, the movie, is about a young princess Giselle (Amy Adams) who is living in a fairy tale world when she is transferred by an evil queen to the real live Times Square in New York City. She is not used to the real world so she is frightened by all the noise and everything going on. Later on in the movie, divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) sees her climbing on a billboard and just as she falls off, he catches her and brings her to his house. The more time Giselle spends with him the more she falls in love with him, but Giselle has already promised to marry her fairy tale prince (James Marsden). While Giselle is hanging out with the divorce lawyer, her fairy tale prince comes to New York city to look for her. Will Giselle and her fairy tale prince find each other? If they do, will they still marry or have they met someone else? The movie Enchanted is a great movie because it is full of action, drama, romance, and comedy. I liked the comedy the most and you can’t keep your eyes off the screen. So go and see Enchanted now. You might love it and you might hate it . . . but either way I’ll still like it the same way I do now! Interesting Interviews

Meet Dr. Crawford Mrs. Meyers Retires By: Mia K. By: Jacob S. Mrs. Meyers’ full name is Ann Elizabeth Meyers. Unknown to students, well known to teachers, Dr. Cathlene Ann McGee Crawford is the Superintendent Many people called her Annie but she did not like of Glencoe schools. She hires teacher and principals being called Annie. Mrs. Meyers has one sister of West, South, and Central School, along with named Myra. After Mrs. Meyers retires she is making decisions about student programs. She has a going to travel, visit friends and maybe teach very important job. Sometimes she has to be strict but she adults. She has taught at West School for is very nice. With a powerful job like this, Dr Crawford is fourteen years and taught both third and fourth a fascinating lady. grade. She taught in Highland Park before West Dr. Cathlene Crawford had other jobs before School. She loves to teach all kinds of subjects becoming the Superintendent. She worked with some and loves being with kids. Mrs. Meyers also loves special education programs and was even the principal of to travel and is going to travel more often after South School! When she was asked to become the she retires. She grew up in Chicago. Her favorite Superintendent, she first refused, but she was eventually sport to watch is basketball and she loves the talked into it. She is 56 years old and it’s her 10th year as Bulls. When she was growing up she collected the Glencoe Superintendent! Dr. Crawford makes her stuffed animals. After school Mrs. Meyers typical weekday of visiting classrooms, talking to grades homework and goes to meetings. principals, and talking on the phone into a fun game. Sometimes she tries to relax. She has two Since the easiest part of her job is talking to people, and children. Her daughter, Sarah, is a social worker her favorite part is visiting classes, she is a terrific and and her son Brad, is a food scientist. Mrs. Superintendent. Dr. Crawford is actually a Cherokee Indian, too! Meyer’s daughter Sarah, just had a son, which Her Cherokee name is Bull Stubborn (she can be like a makes Mrs. Meyers a grandmother for the first stubborn bull)! Dr. Crawford also loves the color black, to time! She thinks her favorite sport to play is bake sweets, and to eat chocolate and drink Diet Coke. tennis but she says she is not good at it. Her She has no pets and she loves to take warm weather favorite ice cream is chocolate, no question vacations. In her youth, bellbottom pants and tie dye were about it! Her favorite color is blue. Sometimes the common fads. Now, Dr. Crawford is well known to she likes to cook but only if she is prepared. students, well known to teachers, but powerful She loves cooking for the holidays! When she nonetheless. was young she had family chores and they were to clean your room and take out the trash. Mrs. Meyers is soooo nice and we will all miss her!!

Dr. Crawford in 3rd or The reporter Dr. Crawford in 3rd or The reporter 4th4th grade grade Talk with the Teachers All About Awesome SUPER Ms. Mooney Ms. Sacher MRS. SHAPIRO

Interviewed by: Sabrina K. Interviewed by: Katie K. Interviewed by: Elizabeth G. Ms. Sacher is a third grade Ms. Mooney is a very good Mrs. Shapiro’s role models teacher at West School. She are her parents. In her teacher at West school. When has been here for 3 years. Ms. spare time she likes to knit, she is not at school she likes Sacher was born in downtown read, run, and spend time to run and spend time with her Chicago. She loves the color with friends and family. Her purple. Her lucky number is family and friends. Her favorite color is purple. The 11. Her first name is Dara. She favorite color is green and animal she likes best is a has one brother and no sisters. her middle name is Ann. She dog. She really loves to eat When she is not at school she loves being a teacher. Her sushi. She has been plays with her dogs and she teaching at West School for favorite activity is going to hangs out with her friends and 11 years. Her favorite Bears games. If she could have family. Her favorite activities subject to teach is math. any pet she would have a are tennis and running. Her She was born in Chicago. middle name is Ellesse. If Ms. German Shepherd dog and if Her birthday is August 31st. Sacher couldn’t work at West she had a wild animal she would She went to college at Ohio School she would be a have a horse. Her favorite State University. Her sport designer. She has two dogs candy is Snickers and if she of choice is ice skating. She and she has a great time likes to watch football. Her could be anything for playing with them. She roots nickname is Debbie. Her Halloween she would be a for the baseball team, the Cubs. favorite song is Landslide. witch. 3rd grade is her Her favorite character is The holiday she likes best Elphaba from Wicked. If she specialty. She would rather is Thanksgiving. She has a had to play a web game she run than swim. Her favorite dog named Marlie. She would play on Funbrain. Her book is Edward Tulane and her likes to play a board game best grade when she was in called Rummikub. She best-loved movies are Rudy and school was third. Her most lives in Highland Park. Mrs. Jaws. She was born at loved subject was art. She Shapiro is the mother of a Evanston Hospital. Ms. Mooney would like to travel to Greece. beautiful son, Simon, and Her nickname was “D”. She loves to collect shoes and to this spring she will have loves to shop at Banana shop at Anthropologie. I loved another baby! I had fun Republic. Now you know Ms. learning about Ms. Mooney! interviewing Mrs. Shapiro. Sacher! More People to Meet

Interview With Meet Taylor! Ms. Zabarsky By: Sophie K. By: Danny K. I interviewed Taylor P. who is I interviewed Ms. new to the Glencoe schools. Zabarsky and here is Her birthday is Feb. 10, 1999. Right now she is in 3rd grade some information about and is eight years old. Her her: Her first name is favorite room at West is the Jacquelyn. Her favorite lunchroom. Her favorite color is blue. She speaks subject is silent reading and she two languages, Russian loves the color purple. The food she likes best is and English. I enjoy definitely mango! Her middle name is Maryl. Taylor has a collection of dolls from around the speaking with Mrs. world. Her hobby is basketball and of course, Zabarsky in Russian. She that is her favorite sport! She has four people in grew up in Highland Park. her family and her favorite brand for anything is She was born in Highland Park and her probably Hershey's. Her favorite famous people mom and dad still live there. She graduated are Zack Efron and Ashley Tisdale. Taylor loves from Lake Forest College in 2006. She is the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and the television show Wizards of Waverly twenty-three years old. Her favorite food is Place. She would like to design a chocolate dress sushi. Her preferred vacation spot is and if she could change the world she would Florida. She really likes dogs. If she was a make it mango and chocolate. She thinks specialist teacher at West she would teach pollution is terrible and.... Terrible! When she ESL (English as a second language). She has children she would name her baby Kyle. started teaching at West School this year. Taylor also really enjoys the computer and likes to visit disneychannel.com. She loves winter Ms. Zabarsky will be the permanent because her birthday is in winter but she also substitute for Mrs. Shapiro when she has likes summer at least a little bit because she her baby later this year. loves to swim. Taylor is a nice friend and loves school. I am glad I interviewed her. By: Celia B. YouWhat’re sitting Makes in the classroom Teachers bored out of Laugh? your mind, when suddenly someone yells out, “two times four is Pluto!” Every one in your class cracks up. But does your teacher? You’ll find out in this article. First of all, if you asked different teachers the same question: What is the funniest thing that ever happened in your teaching career? The answers would be different. For example, Mrs. Feldman said that The Dental Health play that she wrote with Mrs. Ross was the funniest. It was based on Little Red Riding Hood, but instead of having Little Red Riding Hood, they had Pearl E. White. Instead of the Big Bad Wolf, they had Mr. Tooth Decay. The grandma was the same except instead of being sick, she just had horrible teeth. Mrs. Abrams, (a Hebrew school teacher) told that me that her funny situation was when there were two identical twins. The only way she could tell them apart was that one of them wore their hair in a head band and the other in bangs. But one day they decided to play a trick on her and both of them wore their hair in bangs. Mrs. Abrams went up to them to see on which one would their hair fray. That would be the one that usually wore her hair in a headband. But when she tried, they ran around. Mrs. Melamed states that at Central School, (when she was teaching technology) the smart board suddenly started showing a tv program and she could not get it to turn off!The students were hysterical! Mrs. Roth says that she thinks it’s pretty funny that some kids that have known her since kindergarten still call her the wrong name! I think a lot of funny things happen when you are teaching. Sports of All Sorts

The Celtics By: Dylan B.

The Boston Celtics are an NBA team with a great history. Their first game was on November 2, 1942. Their color is celtic green and their logo is a winking leprechaun. The Boston Celtics have won more title championships in their history than any other team in the NBA. They have won the World Championship 16 times, first in 1957 and last in 1986. That is even more than the Lakers or Bulls. Some of their most famous players are Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish. The retired Boston Celtic numbers are 33, 6, 00 , 35, 3, 1, 2, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31, and 32. I think the Celtics are nice because they have a Boston Celtics Shamrock foundation that raises money to help the community, especially children. The Celtics have an incredible history. Brian Griese By: Henry E. and Dylan H. Brian Griese plays in the NFL. One of the teams he played on was the Denver Broncos. He lead the Broncos to a Super Bowl, and won! In March of 2006, Griese signed a 5 year contract with DA BEARS! Griese went to Michigan for college. He joined the Wolverine football team and he lead the them to an undefeated season in 1997. Griese helped lead the Michigan Wolverines to their first national championship in 49 years as a senior. In 1997 Griese was voted MVP of the Rose Bowl. He went to Christopher Columbus High school, and he played football there too. Brian has one child named Annalia Rose. Brian Griese was a prep football reporter. Watch for Brian Griese even if he plays for another team. NHL All star Game By: Grant M. And Jack C. This year’s NHL All Star game will be held in Atlanta at the Phillips Arena on Tuesday January 15. Last year’s All Star game was a big win for the Western conference, winning 12- 9. Crosby, Ovechkin, Thornton and Hossa are some players expected to be in this year’s game. Some Blackhawks that are probably going to make it are: Pat Kane (right wing), Martin Havlat (right wing), Jonathan Towes (center) and maybe Nikoai Khabibulin (goaltender). I hope you see the game on Versus. Go Western Conference!!! MORE Sports of All Sorts

NTSC Charles Woodson By: Chloe K. and Sabrina B. By: Paul S. If you love swimming you might want to read this. Hi, I am Chloe and this is my friend Sabrina. We are on the New Trier Swim Club. The New Trier Swim Club was founded in the 1980s. Members of the swim club go from the age of 6 Charles Woodson was born October years old to college. The levels start at Yellow then 7, 1976 in Fremont, Ohio. Woodson is Green, Blue, Bronze, Silver, Gold, White, and Red. If an NFL cornerback for the Green Bay Packers and he has also played for you want to be on the team you have to try out the Oakland Raiders. He went to and the results (what level you are in) come out on Fremont Ross High School. In high their website. It feels like a very long wait! If you school Woodson won the Mr. Football need to improve a stroke you should try out. From award. But in high school he was a our experiences it is also SUPER fun. You will be running back and in just one season able to learn flip turns, front crawl, back crawl, he scored 466 points and gained breast stroke, and butterfly. Wow! that is A LOT 3,861 yards. He went to college at the of strokes! The Green and Yellow coaches are Coach University of Michigan and played Caroline, Coach Bob, and Coach Ally. They are football there. He was an All American really nice and are very good at helping with and won the Heisman trophy. He was instruction. If you do really well at the end of the only defensive player to win the practice you get to use your flippers. What have Heisman trophy. He led the we not talked about? Oh meets! Swim meets are Wolverines to a national title. when you race against other swim teams. If you Woodson was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of are 8 years old and under you are only going to the 1998 NFL draft. Woodson was swim to the end of the pool (1 length, which is 25 NFL defensive rookie of the year. He yards). If you are 9 and 10 you are going to swim was sent to the Pro Bowl, and after there and back (50 yards). If you are 11 and over that he went to three more Pro Bowls. you swim 4 lengths (100 yards). You are going to On April 26, 2006 Woodson signed a have to be prepared. You need a team suit, a contract with the Green Bay Packers. practice suit, a mesh bag, flippers, a swim cap (they Woodson still plays today. His are a pain in the neck), and goggles. number is 21. He is married to WE HOPE YOU TRY OUT! BYE Elizabeth Ferris and has no children. NHL Stars By: Jack C. and Grant M.

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Horses and Ponies

By: Addie R.

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