Swimming Bubbles! It Is Warmer Than the Shower
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JANUARY 2016 VOLUME VI PHOTO BY OWEN KIVETT the water is cold. Students can choose to get sprayed by a hose instead and it is better to take the hose because Swimming Bubbles! it is warmer than the shower. There used to be two women who worked at the pool who helped with things like getting shower caps on, but now they only help in the shallow end during class, so students help each other put swim caps on. The boys do not need caps unless they have long hair. Then, swimmers go in the pool and start their warm-ups. The warms-ups are either freestyle, backstroke or but- terfly kick. When time is up, students come out and get their towels, which are waiting for them on a blue bench. Next, they head to the locker room and do the same routine as before. It’s important to take a shower after swim class because there are chemi- MATILDA FRIED LEVENSTEIN AND MEERA WILLIAMS cals in the water, including chlorine. So, they shower (or hose) and change Where can you swim? At the pool! think it is better to leave their stuff back into their clothes and wait to get P.S. 11 has an awesome pool. As a there, so parents don’t have to clean picked up by their teacher. top secret agent, here is your mission: it at home. Also, they don’t have to OBJECTIVE 2: Determine how stu- Discover the top secrets of the pool. carry all their stuff in their back pack. dents get free swim. No one knows you are a top secret Second graders have to go to the third To get “free swim,” students have to spy because, remember, this is top floor, which is six or eight sets of be the first ten people to finish chang- secret! steps up!) Next, Mr. David Nichols, ing after class. The first ten kids sit- OBJECTIVE 1: Detect how students the Physical Education teacher and ting and waiting for their teacher on go from math or science to soaking swim coach, calls boys and girls to the blue bench get free swim the next wet and back. get their stuff, and then they head to week! The grown-ups write down the When students come down to the the locker rooms. names of those kids so they’ll know pool, which is in the basement of the In the girls’ locker room, each lock- they have it next week. Those named, school, the first thing they do is get er has two sides, and students can get to have five to ten minutes of free their swim stuff and towel. If they had change on either side. In the mid- swim after class! In the meantime, left their stuff there for the week, they dle, there is a shower. Two or three the other kids are getting changed. would get it from a bin that holds all students can share each locker area. Mr. Nichols did a very smart strat- the laundry, which is done by a man Students have to take a shower before egy for free swim so that, of course, who works there. (Some students they go in the pool, but sometimes continued on page 2 1 PAPER JANUARY 2016 PHOTO BY LUC BASMA SWIMMING continued the same kids don’t have free swim the next week. Remember, people only get free swim if they’re the first Questions ten people to be changed and ready. with... Since the free swim kids are the last ones to get changed that week, they can’t possibly have free swim again Ms. Sharon Golub the next week because they can’t be the first ones ready again if they’re busy at the end having free swim. The most common game to play in 1. What do you like most about is a blast. This is the best Pre-K free swim is “Treasure Island.” There teaching kids music? we’ve ever had. I put them at the are eggs and mini Frisbees with num- I like to see how proud they feel keyboards and they get to play. bers on them. The kid in charge gets when they learn a song or a piano 7. What’s your favorite sports to throw them into the pool and the piece. team? players are split into teams. The team 2. What types of music do you The Yankees! My father was a that collects the most eggs or Frisbee like? Yankees fan. They are the best points wins! My background is classical. So, I baseball team, end of story. OBJECTIVE 3: Investigate the con- started playing that, but I played in 8. What’s something that no one dition of the pool. rock ‘n’ roll bands for a lot of years. knows about you? According to Mr. Nichols, “The I also like jazz, reggae and I love I’ve written two music books and pool is very, very old.” However, it blues. there’s a song written about me by “is always clean.” It has a filter to get 3. What instruments did you play a group called Mountain. It’s called the germs and hairs out of the pool. in rock bands? “Long Red.” You can find it on There is a robot vacuum cleaner that I played all the keyboards, including YouTube. goes under water and gets all big dirt the Hammond organ. I also played 9. How do you, Ms. Sarah and and icky stuff out of the pool. Chlo- flute but not that well. I used to play Ms. Wurman decide what shows rine is used to disinfect the water. “The Hustle” on flute. you are going to do? There is also a drain in case they need 4. What are some of your favorite We listen to the fourth graders. We to get all the water out. groups? get together with them and hear them FINAL OBJECTIVE: Assess the The Beatles, Procol Harum and sing and that’s how we pick a show safety of the pool. Peter Gabriel. that’s going to be right for them. Mr. Nichols and Ms. Marcou are 5. What did you like most about 10. So far, what has been your great swimmers. Nicole Marcou is the David Bowie? favorite 5th grade production? school health teacher and the swim How innovative and creative he That’s hard. There are so many teacher for the after school program. was. He changed things and did a good ones. Beauty & the Beast, Every 3 years, they have an ocean life- lot of things first. Music Man, Alice in Wonderland, guard test and they always pass. They 6. What grade do you enjoy Annie, and Peter Pan are all also have to get CPR certified every teaching the most? favorites. year. When no one is in the pool, Mr. Every grade for a different reason: 11. Why do you like to make school Nichols practices in the pool so he can Fifth grade, because I get to do plays? become a greater swimmer. He is the graduation with them. Third grade, I like watching something going swim teacher, after all! In addition, because I get to teach them from nothing to the end product. It’s throughout Mr. Nichols’ time at P.S. recorder and we do rock songs on exciting to be part of that. 11, there have never been any safety it. Kindergarten through second, Congrats, Ms. Golub, on your 20th issues or emergencies. I get to teach them piano. Pre-K year teaching at P.S. 11!! Mission accomplished! BY MAX STÖHRER 2 PAPER JANUARY 2016 PHOTO BY OWEN KIVETT Overheard at LUNCH: BY SADIE HOWARD AND JAMIE KAURI WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12 Malvin, grade 3 “It was hot and burning my mouth, but tastes good.” Meera, grade 2 “Today I had pasta, cheese stick, apple, chips, and Oreos, and it was the best lunch ever.” Ella, Pre-K “Today, I really didn’t have time to eat my lunch.” Rachel, grade 4 “I had a cheese sandwich. The cheese is funky to me. It also tastes rubbery.” Eli, grade 2 “I had a pretzel bagel with ham and turkey, a cheese stick, a[n] apple and a B a c k w a r d s D a y chocolate Z-Bar!” Raheem, grade 3 “Good.” BY JENSEN KREBS Lila, grade 3 “My home lunch is good.” Did you ever wear your pants back- but some students forgot, too. One Emily, grade 5 “Usually the wards? If not, you got a chance to on reason may be because the student pasta is good and cheesy. This Backwards Day. Almost everyone council waited until two days before particular day it was disgusting participated, and it was easy to plan to announce this spirit day. Student cheese stuffed shells with mari- for because you didn’t need to buy a council member, Ella Scandura, ex- nara sauce. Also, the breadstick costume or wear special accessories, plained that they “were supposed was overcooked.” like make-up. You could just wear to put up posters, but it was unclear Sophia, grade 5 “I feel that the regular, everyday clothes and turn when we were supposed make the problem is that school lunch just them backwards. One third grader posters. In the end, we decided to needs to be more encouraged by wore a backwards shirt, backwards go around to each classroom and the lunch ladies, cooks and lunch hoodie and backwards pants. Anoth- announce the spirit days, instead.” staff.” er student wore a backwards sweater She also explained why spirit days PHOTO BY LAUREN ESHELMAN and skirt.