School News: Current Events: School information Presidential Updates Online Book Fair February 2/8/21- As of January 20th, our new President of the 2/21/21. Buying books helps support our United States, Joe R. Biden, was sworn into school! This is the link office as our 46th president, along with VP https://athomebookfairs.com/home?bfstring Kamala Harris. With now being the president, =4kHE9ZtS Biden is facing a tremendous task with the pandemic that has taken more than 400,000 Parent workshop starting at 5pm (All American lives, a tattered economy, and the workshops will be recorded and will be nation still reeling from the breach of the made available to be viewed later) Capitol on January 6th in the hands of former Feb 17th What supports are Available to president Trump. As of the first week of being my Student in Distance learning president, Biden got right on with his “100 Day Plan”, accomplishing many things other Feb 24th Mindfulness Activities for the presidents had not done in their four to eight Home years of presidency. Alone on his first day, he had signed 15 executive orders on priorities Link for the Workshops: including Covid-19, the economy, racial https://www.smore.com/ys24t justice, climate change, the removal of Trump’s travel ban heavily affecting Muslim February 15th Monday is President's majority nations, and many, many more. As Day (No School) executive orders are being announced, a step 2nd Quarter Miners Academic Awards: forward on facing white domestic terrorism Tuesday February 16th, 2021 from and racial equality to the Asian American 2:15pm - 2:45pm (This will be a drive-thru community as attacks against a few members have been seen online and on news channels even only, for those who cannot attend around California recently, with a meeting certificates can be picked up from the titled “Condemning and Combating Racism, office Mon-Fri 9:00am to 3:00pm) Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Progress Reports will be mailed out Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United 3/4/21 States” , which should have happened a while ago but blocked by former pres. Trump being in office openly calling Covid-19 the “China Virus”. Biden is also in the currents of reversing the Muslim Ban and working on
Please refer to Black Diamond Middle immigration coming from the Mexico – US School Website for all information border and LGBTQ+ rights, repealing the provided above. divisive law that brings an end Trump’s ban on Transgender Americans joining the military. Go to the district website https://www.antiochschools.net/ausd and click on select school and scroll until you find BDMS. A Black Diamond Star On Friday 1/29/2021 the Libbey Foundation recognized 8th grader Isaiah Wimberly for his wonderful achievements in his academics, overcoming obstacles, and being a wonderful young man. He is a great representative of BDMS and AUSD and we are so proud to have him as a part COVID of our community. COVID statistics. Here in Contra Costa County, School Spirt we have about 56,252 cases and 524 deaths. In California, we have 3,272,349 cases and 49k deaths. In the U.S.A we have 26 million cases, and we have 437 thousand deaths with 11,166,500 people recovered. And finally, Global cases we have 101 million cases we also have 2.1 million deaths and finally we also have 56 million people recovered.
Sports News: Food Review: AFC championship – Kansas City chiefs According to www.thekitchn.com, there are 10 won after beating the Buffalo Bills 26-17. popular recipes in January, most of them being soups and stews because of the cold winter NFC championship – Tampa Bay month. Buccaneers won after beating the Green Also, in accordance with a survey taken in Bay Packers 31-26. 2020, those voted that pizza was the most Super Bowl February 7th Tampa Bay popular food with a 21% yes answer. Also, pumpkins are considered one of the Buccaneers won against Kansas City chiefs biggest vegetables in the world because with the score of 31-9. someone grew one and it became the biggest Tom Brady was named Super Bowl MVP one. winning his 7th ring. Lastly, the most popular brand for juices is Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the first team Dole and Welch’s. in history to make it to the Super Bowl while its being hosted in their home stadium.
Tennis Tournaments: Australian Open- Happening Now! Go Serena Willams!! Mar 10-21: BNP Paribas Open [Postponed] Indian Wells, USA Soccer: Major league soccer will actually end up starting on April 3rd. The pre- season training will begin on February 22nd. NBA: Upcoming Games: Pistons at Celtics on Feb 12, Jazz vs Heat Feb 13, Celtics vs Wizards Feb 14, Rockets vs Wizards on Feb 15
Viral Moments: Music Review:
Billboard Top 10 -Tik Toks has many viral trends this 1. Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo January! Happy New Year! Viral Hashtags- #GamingSetUp #ItWasntMe 2. Mood by 24kGoldn Featuring Jann Dior #SuperbowlW #PuppyBowl #ValentinesDay 3. Blinding Lights by The Weeknd #Picnic Trending Songs- Driver’s License by Oliva 4. 34+35 by Ariana Grande Rodrigo 5. Levitating by Dua Lipa Featuring DaBaby
NINJA Imposter Role in Among Us with 6. Go Crazy by Chris Brown & Young Thug SSundee 7. Positions by Ariana Grande Ian Marcus Stapleton also known as SSundee is a Gamer, Youtuber, and 8. Save Your Tears by The Weeknd livestreams on platforms like Twitch. He 9. Holy by Justin Bieber Featuring Chance The uploaded a video on January 31st of 2021, Rapper about playing Among Us but the Imposter(s) are ninjas. As of right now, it 10. Whoopty by CJ has only been a few days from being Nobody Is Listening uploaded there are 3.8 million views and 256K likes on the video. Among us is an Zayn Malik's new album 'Nobody Is online game where there are 10 or less Listening" follows his previous album, Icarus, people playing and there are “Crewmates'' which was released in 2018. His new album and “Imposters'' and you must find all the was released January 15th through RCA imposters among all the players before they Records. The album consists of 11 songs and eliminate you and win the game. During two of which are singles "Vibez" and "Better". this new version of Among Us that Vibez, When Love's Around, Tightrope, Better, SSundee is playing, the Imposters are Windowsill, Calamity, Sweat, River Road, Ninjas, and they can throw ninja stars and Outside, Connexion, Unf**kwitable are all throw smoke bombs to darken the light of the Crewmates. The disadvantage is that songs from his album. they have a specific target they must take out before they can eliminate someone else. He played with his friends (who are also youtubers and gamers) Henwy, LoafX, GoldActual, Karangutan, Ambrew, Sigils, Biffle, and Nicovald. *their YouTube Channel Names*
Twitterverse (Album Cover Trend) On twitter lots of people are posting their tiktok videos of them making their own album cover out of videos or pictures from their camera roll. It's nice to see how much creativity these people have. This trend started not so long ago and has over 518M videos. If you want to see some examples just type album cover in twitter or tiktok. There are some cool ones that could actually be an album. Maybe you should try it. This cover is by @Audxc on tiktok. One of many good ones
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Random Event January 16th was National Nothing Day. A day in which you do, well, nothing. We've been celebrating this "un-event" since 1973. Viral Tweet @Philosimper said "many people are saying this" with this image
TV Review: Movie Review: Trending Nickelodeon Teen Outside the Wire is a movie about a drone pilot Shows who was sent on a mission with an android officer to stop a nuclear attack.
The movie got a rating of 37% rotten tomatoes and 5.4/10 on IMDb. Some reviews say that the movie had a bad story plot while others say it was sort of confusing at some parts and not well written. Many people said that the acting was great but the movie in general was not that good. Overall, the movie seems like a mess, but some might enjoy it. Outside the Wire is 1 hour and 55 minutes and you can watch it on Netflix. ICARLY Icarly is a show that just recently got added Also, as of February 12th, 2021 To All The onto Netflix. Almost every teen is very Boys Always and Forever (part 3) came out in interested in watching it. Icarly is for a Netflix, a funny and romantic movie based on mature audience but it is not bad for kids to the book novels. Based on all the articles watch either. I rate the show a 10/10. online, we can tell that this is a very popular and well rated movie. I think we can all give it a 10/10. Good job Lana Condor and Noah Centineo!!
VICTORIOUS Victorious is another trending nickelodeon show also on Netflix! This show is also for a mature audience. Victorious is a very
good show, I recommend watching it. I give this show a 10/10 as well.
SAM AND CAT Fashion Review:
Sam and Cat is also trending on Netflix. It For my Jan fashion review, BAPE Check was made after Victorious. They took two Busy Works shirts in black and white main characters out of Victorious and with many different designs. Nike and Icarly and put them together in a show. I Stussy Realeased t shirts pants , rate it 10/10 as well. hoodies , and beanies. OVO dropped puffer vest in colors of cream, black, red and more, and hats. Kith released some shirts with the simpsons design also with crew necks, socks, beanies Wanda Vision is a Marvel TV show. The and more. Raf Simmons dropped show is about Wanda And Vision living a Arhive Redux shirts , pants , bathing suits and more. normal life in a town, but Wanda is hiding the truth of what's really happening. So far Wanda Vision has an 8/10 on IMDb and it got a 93% rating on rotten tomatoes. Only 5 episodes have been released and a new episode gets released every Friday. Lots of reviews said that the show does a good job of showing what a sitcom would be like and how it has a superhero twist to it. There is going to be 9 episodes and it is on Disney Plus.
NBC: Reality tv
1) Ellen's Game of Games (Mondays at 8
P.M.)
2) The Wall (Mondays at 10 P.M.)
Teacher Interviews: interview with Ms. Fea.
1. This is my first-year teaching (!) 2. I became very interested in learning about middle school students - I think this is the toughest age; you are dealing with so much change developmentally. 3. I saw a job advertised on the Teacher's job search website and applied. I had an interview with Mrs. James, and she offered me the job. I knew I wanted to work in a smaller middle school and although I do not live in Antioch it is not too far from my home. I was interested to find out more about people living in other parts of the Bay Area rather than staying near where I live which I know pretty well now. 4. I'm English! (it's the ONLY interesting thing about me!) 5. I love to do cross-stitch - I make pictures with cross-stitch to give as gifts. I love gardening; our garden is small, and I kill a lot of plants, but I really like growing vegetables; I love doing DIY projects around the house; watching TV and films.
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