Authors:

Contents: Dante Bjornson

Silent No More Goodbye Hazel Taylor Eastman

Treaty days Isabella Echavia

Talent Show Stella Garcia

Summer Activities Kismat Gupta

Books To Read Riana Recones

The Lemonade War Alyssa Sampang

Grade 6 Badminton Hazel Wallace

Gold Eyes Games Nikko Zapata

Mortal Combat Editors:

Arts in the Park Miles MacFarlane

Sarah Wiebe

Silent No More

Hazel Wallace, Grade 8 Recently we celebrated treaty week at Leila eventually it was met. The journalists were very North, in case you don’t know what treaty days are, caring and did not force the young ladies into treaty days are when we celebrate the founders of this answering anything they did not want to answer. land. The whole school learns about indigenous They did not make them feel uncomfortable if cultures. There are also workshops you could sign up anything they made them feel safe and confident with for like: Ojibway language, Tipi making, and all sorts the article. In Danielle’s article they talk about how of things. We have also had some very special guests; they feel about suddenly being judged based on their we had dancers, singers, elders, storytellers, and culture. authors. We also had some very lovely ladies from Maples Collegiate come and talk to some of our Danielle lives at home with her two loving schools’ journalists about an article they were parents and her siblings. Her parents are married and recently interviewed for. Here is some information on are living together. Danielle is also an honors student the girls I got to meet. Bianca: Bianca is 17 and grew at school. Yet people are often surprised by this. up at God’s River; but the schools on the reserve only People think that just because of their culture she went up to grade ten. So she moved to Winnipeg to must be in the foster care system. This shows on how continue her education. She heard about Maples quick society can judge a book by its cover. How Collegiate and how she can continue her education in society looks at people in general groups instead of as Winnipeg with a school only ten minutes away from individuals. her grandmother’s home. This really helped her out. In Bianca’s article she talks about her move to Danielle: Danielle is 15, she is the eldest of five Winnipeg and how she continued with her education siblings and loves to play guitar. Her guitar was given at Maples Collegiate. She already graduated on the to her from her grandfather and she plays it often; her reserve and is preparing to graduate again except at family is the most important thing in her life. She Maples Collegiate with the support of her family and often enjoys babysitting her younger siblings, and friends. She also talks about how she wants a better does whatever she can to help out. Liberty: Liberty is future for herself. Bianca has lost a lot of friends due 15 and grew up in her grandmother’s care. Her to murder and overdoses, and she looks up to her mother was very young and her father unfortunately mother as a role model because she motivates her to had passed away. Her grandmother is an aboriginal be a better person. Bianca aspires to go to Red River elder-in-residence at Maples Collegiate and at Seven College and become a nurse. Oaks School Division, her grandmother aides with supervising the aboriginal curriculum. Her aunt also Liberty’s article talks about how safe she feels works at the school as the vice principal. This is all of being in public place. Liberty feels unsafe because their experience in making that article. she is a young aboriginal woman; she is often targeted or looked at as weaker. She often feels A teacher asked a couple of young aboriginal girls unsafe walking by herself or taking the bus by if they would like to participate in a photography herself. This is very common to all females no matter workshop. At first they thought they would be what race. Any female walking by herself does not working behind the cameras not in front. “Little did feel safe. And the fact of her culture and the recent we know, that we will be in a worldwide article” – incidents of tons of missing aboriginal women it just Danielle. When they walked in that morning they met scares everybody. some very talented journalists from Toronto who wanted to write about the aboriginal culture from a I encourage everybody to go and read this article different perspective, the perspective of young (http://news.nationalpost.com/silent-no- aboriginal ladies. The process was flowing, it may more#sthash.aurBIM1G.dpuf ) it is very inspiring and have taken some time to gain that trust, and interesting to see another perspective on this subject.

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It is very well written and very unique and different. Women you’ll find. It is one of the best articles about Young Aboriginal

Treaty Days

Alyssa Sampang, Grade 6 Treaty Days is a week full of fun activities that you want. The first thing we all made was an arrow you can do with your class. On the Monday of Treaty head. After that we got to make anything we wanted Days we had an assembly where we talked about and the instructor had some nice examples that he what was going on that week and other things. Mrs. made for us to look at. Most of the class didn’t finish Biggar chose for the class to make dream catchers, their second soapstone carving but the instructor said soapstone carving, and drumming and all the classes we could finish it at home using a file. Another made key chains. On my first Treaty Day I made activity I did was drumming. Drumming was a lot of dream catchers out of a metal hoop, string, and beads. fun. We listened to stories and sang a couple of It was hard at first but after a while it was really easy. songs. The last thing we did in the classroom. We I think the dream catchers are supposed to give you made key chains out of leather and beads. Treaty good dreams and take away the bad dreams. Another Days was a lot of fun to have going on all week and I activity I did was soapstone carving. In soapstone can’t wait until we do it again next year. carving you carve a piece of soapstone into anything

Talent Show

Isabella Echavia and Stella Garcia, Grade 7. Hey what’s up Lions? Today I’m going to be Now that Stella has written her point of view talking about the talent show and all my favourite on the talent show, I will now explain my experience acts. My top 5 favourite acts were Isabella who sang in performing. So, because it was my first time I’m not the only one by Sam Smith, Kennah Co who performing in the Leila talent show, I was really sang Stay With Me by Sam Smith, Lee Angela Igne nervous because I didn’t know what was going to who did Sikaran and Rafael, Minchah, Melody, and happen. The thoughts constantly running through my Keila who sang a mashup. I wish I could do more but head were “What if I mess up?” and “I cannot do I have a lot of favourites, everyone did an amazing this.” Thankfully I made it through the performance job. without running out screaming, so I did fine. Joining the talent show was an untradeable experience I would give them a 10/10 for being so because I had so much fun performing in front of the confident to perform in front of a lot of people. I’m whole school, as nerve-wracking as it was positive that the next talent show will be great as well and remember just because your name wasn’t on the And since this is the last article of the year, we list doesn’t mean I did not like it, everyone was want to say goodbye. It has been such a fun year and fantastic, good job to everyone who was involved were going to remember this school year for a long with the talent show. Good luck next year but you time. Until next year’s fall article! probably won’t need it because you all will do great.

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Summer Activities

Dante Bjornson, Grade 6. Courses, Beach Volleyball, Snow Tubing, 1: Sights Snowboarding Terrain Park, Cable Snowboarding, Ice Skating, and much more. Their clubhouse The Canadian Museum of Human Rights includes a restaurant with a massive deck, 6 TV's, This museum was architect extraordinaire showers, and equipment rentals for all your needs. Antione Predock, Canada’s newest, most eye- catching attraction dominates the Winnipeg skyline, The Zoo shining like a beacon. This would be a great place to Come on down, to Chinatown! Actually, rather visit in the summer, especially if you’re into human than eating sushi all day, why not spend a day at the rights. zoo! It is a great place for animal lovers, and will make your day much better! You can also go to a The Forks restaurant, yes, the zoo has a restaurant, so eat away! There are many things to do in the Forks, like Oh, and say hi to Hudson for me! going to the 3 museums there, well, technically 4, which I highly recommend, especially for those who THE FINALE: are into history, facts, etc. Finally, we have Fort Whyte.

Folkloramas Here you can paddle, fish, hike, all the outdoor This is where you go to a building, and watch activities you can imagine! Make your visit people perform, and you can eat food, which appeals unforgettable with a bison safari from the comfort of to a lot of people, and the best part! Spending time an air-conditioned bus. For the full experience, check with your family! out the A Prairie Legacy: The Bison and Its People tour, recognized by the Canadian Tourism 2: Activities Commission as a Signature Experience. Looking for some outdoor excitement and an adventurous way to spend your day? Adrenaline I hope you have the rest of your summer planned Adventures offers fun and unique outdoor activities out now! throughout the year, including Cable Wakeboarding, a High-Ropes Course with 3 Zip lines, 2 Paintball THE END!

Books to Read this Summer!

Written By: Kismat Gupta Hello! Are you always bored in your Book 1} The Lemonade War- There are only a summer? If yes, then I feel you, and also you should few days left of summer vacations, but Evan and try reading one of these books! I am going to suggest Jessie start a war on who can sell the most lemonade. you some books to read this summer to well, avoid Who will win? When will this war end? boredom. All of these books are books I have read and let me warn you these books are amazing!( don't Author- Jacqueline Davis worry I don't have a bad taste!). Your summer is Book 2} Divergent- Will Beatrice ever survive about to get much more exciting! Dauntless? What is going to happen to her life now? You will be up ALL night with Divergent! Author- Veronica Roth Author- Gayle Forman

Book 3} Insurgent- Insurgent the continuation of Book 5} The Fault In Our Stars- This might be Divergent is yet again a thriller to read. It'll create my favorite book yet. Be sure to read Hazel and suspense in you and you won't be able to wait to find Augustus's amazing love story alongside a Kleenex out what's going to happen! box!

Author- Veronica Roth Author- John Green

Book 4} If I Stay- This story is going to have you cry in no time! Find out what's going to happen when Mia's whole family is facing death.

“The Lemonade War”

By: Riana Recones Summer Break is coming to an end. what happens in the book. I rate “The Fourth Grader Evan Treski and his younger Lemonade War” 5 out of 5 Stars. After you sister Jessie Treski make a bet. Who can sell read “The Lemonade War” make sure you the most Lemonade in the last 5 days of read the next 5 books in “The Lemonade War” summer vacation? Who will win, Evan or series, “The Lemonade Crime”, “The Bell Jessie, or will this war never come to an end? Bandit”, “The Candy Smash” and “The Magic Trap”. I didn’t read them yet, but I’m sure “The Lemonade War” By Jacqueline they’re just as good as “The Lemonade War”. Davies is a great book! I recommend “The You have to read “The Lemonade War”, you Lemonade War” to students in the range of 7 will love it! to 13 because I think kids in that range can relate to

Grade 6 Badminton

J.C. Ocampo Grade 6 Grade 6 badminton has really great players. There is doing doubles we wait for one team to finish their are two days for badminton: day 2 and day 5 that’s game then the other team goes. There are lots of when you go. What we do is rally until we are ready teams that are incredible. to practice. The way we practice is by hitting the birdie up then doing that 10 times with back hand and If you cannot come to the games or practices we fore hand. It is pretty hard, after we try serving the will tell one of your friends and tell them that you birdie really close to the net so they have a harder cannot come, or your badminton teacher why you time to hit it. cannot go. If you don’t have a ride then your friend might have a ride which they’ll probably invite you We now go to some of the games after we to if you don’t have a ride. practice a few times till the next game, and then we start playing for real. People in the day 5 badminton Badminton season is done so it now goes on to already have been going to games and so have the Soft Ball day 2 badminton players. What we do during games There are a ton of sports at Leila so get involved.

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Goldeyes Game Tradition

Nikko Zapata, Grade6 Hello, in this article I will be talking about the in rows 10-1ish. I like how we do baseball in Phys. Goldeyes game every Grade 6 student attended on Ed right before going on to watch these games. I June 4th. think it’s good to play baseball in class before going on a field trip like this so everyone knows what’s Every year, the Goldeyes try to host a game happening. in the morning-afternoon so kids at school could watch. This comes in the tradition of our school Overall, it was pretty relaxing. I didn’t spend where all Grade 6 students go to Shaw Park and much money (It was expensive.) there, but..I looked watch a game there when it happens. They have lots at the back of my ticket to get in and it read: “No of cool events, and food at the top of the arena. It’s Outdoor Food or Drinks allowed in Shaw Park.” But pretty expensive though. I saw this when we were already going back to the school. I got surprised at that though. It’s probably so Of course, you’d have to do your work to go they can gain money by vending food that is two there. Before going on field trips to fun places you times more expensive than the actual chains you get have to do homework and hand in projects that are them at. due! I don’t think anyone had to stay behind, which is good. Those who did do their work should get I mean, I bought a medium FroYo for $5.25 with rewarded in this type of way. no toppings and that’s a rip-off. Plus the line was very long. All the classes stayed near each other in the same section, and our seats were pretty good! We sat This wraps my article up. Bye!

Arts in the Park

Taylor Eastman, Grade 6 Arts in the Park was at the end of May. It was in choir was with us and they are really good singers. I Kildonan Park, there were lots of white tents in the enjoyed the days away from school and being able to open field. The big tents had a stage and the small walk around and see lots of performances. My ones didn’t. Some of the tents had dancing, some had favourite performance was Leila’s senior jazz choir bands playing and choirs singing. There was also art because they had the same outfits on and they are work on display further away in a tent. Mr. Roy had a experienced singers. Ms. Brown works really hard to drumming tent where he did a session. get all the choirs ready to perform at Arts in the Park.

One day I was there for grade 6 choir. We sang Arts in the Park is fun but next time remember to three songs to a big crowd. I preferred the day I was dress for the weather because it can be cold and rainy. there with the pop choir because some of the jazz Mortal Kombat X

By: Bea Catalla, Grade 6 Mortal Kombat X is a videogame that is kind of popular these days. It is a fighting videogame made NetherRealm Studios. It is the tenth Mortal Kombat videogame in the series. Most people play it like kids, teenagers, etc. even if it is Rated M. This is a table of the versions, release date, developer(s), and its publisher(s).

Version Name Release Date Developer(s) Publisher(s) Mortal Kombat October 8, 1992 Midway Games Acclaim Entertainment, Midway Mortal Kombat II June 25, 1993 Midway Games Acclaim Entertainment, Midway Mortal Kombat 3 April 25, 1995 Eurocom, Midway Games Midway Mortal Kombat 4 October 15, 1997 Midway Games Midway Games Mortal Kombat : November 16, 2002 Midway Games Midway Deadly Alliance Mortal Kombat: October 4, 2004 Midway Games, Kung Fu Midway Deception Factory, Digital Eclipse Software Mortal Kombat: October 11, 2006 Kung Fu Factory, Midway Midway Armageddon Games Mortal Kombat November 16, 2006 Midway Games, Warner Bros. Midway Games vs. DC Universe Interactive Entertainment, Midway Amusement Games LLC Mortal Kombat April 19, 2011 NetherRealm Studios Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc., WB Games Chicago Mortal Kombat X April 14, 2015 NetherRealm Studios, High Warner Bros. Voltage (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) Interactive Entertainment, Inc., WB Games Chicago In this game, it features new and old gameplay MKX uses four buttons to attack. They are Front elements. Players are able to choose different kinds Punch, Front Kick, Back Kick, and Back Punch. of characters, which changes how that character plays. He/ She can choose 3 characters by default. The returning characters are Johnny Cage, This game also features the “Stamina Meter”. The Reptile, Kitana, Ermac, Kung Lao, Jax, Mileena, Liu stamina meter has two bars that can be used when the Kang, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Quan Chi, Kenshi, player dashes and other things. Not all the actions Raiden, Shinniok, Kano, and Sonya Blade. The new you do take a whole bar of the meter. The stamina characters are D’Vorah, Jacqui Briggs, Kung Jin, meter is below the characters’ health bars. There is Takeda Takahashi, Cassie Cage, Kotal Kahn, Ferra & also a meter called the “Super Meter”. The player can Torr, and Erron Black. The DLC characters are get up to three blocks of super meter, by doing Predator, Tremor, Jason Voorhees, Goro, and Tanya. special moves or taking damage. You can “Enhance” Youtubers also play this game. Like special moves by using one block of the super meter. PewDiePie, Maximillian Dood, jacksepticeye, If you enhance special moves, it can do more damage Dynasty, etc. That’s how videogames get popular. of, add special effects, maybe do additional hits and Youtubers play them, hundreds of people watch, then so on. You can do a “Breaker” if you use two bars of BOOM, sold out. Now people wait for the next the super meter. If you use all three bars of the super versions and so on and so on. This game has many meter, you can use the “X-Ray” attack. By using that gore parts, so play at your own risk. But, it’s actually attack, you can do multiple hits and big damage. very fun when you try it. Goodbye Hazel

Sarah Wiebe The end of another school year has rolled around and it’s time to say goodbye to an outstanding grade 8 student who has written for our newsletter for over 3 years. Hazel Wallace will leave our team to make her way over to Garden City and all that is offered there. Hazel really embraced middle school life and become involved in numerous extra-curricular activities. Often journalism meetings would clash with something else she was doing: choir, play rehearsals etc but she would always make sure that an article was written about school events or something that she knew would grab the interest of her peers. Hazel was even able to summarize her articles in French! Thanks for all your work, Hazel, we will miss you!