The Hewlett Times Volume 1, Issue 2 June 2012 Hewlett Elementary School Book Review: The 39 Clues By Alex Tang The Cahill Orphans are the Vespers Rising competition who suffered the Series Two Cahills vs. The 39 Clues is a series most, buried alive, nearly Vespers: about two American Orphans, drowned, nearly smashed by a The Medusa Plot Amy Hope Cahill (Amy Cahill) train, fed to crocodiles, nearly The King’s Ransom and Daniel Arthur Cahill (Dan been shot, nearly thrown to The Dead of Night Cahill). They go around the sharks, chloroformed by the Shatterproof world in search of the 39 clues Kabras, broke their heads, and Additional: scattered around the globe. been blown up. The Black Book of Along with their adversaries Here are the books in this Buried Secrets Jonah Wizard, Alistair Oh, Irina series: Spasky, Ian and Natalie Kabra, Series One The Clue Hunt: the Holts, Sinead, Ned, and Ted The Maze of Bones Starling. They are all distant One False Note relatives. After the death of their The Sword Thief grandmother, Grace Cahill. Beyond the Grave Series Two, a sub-series The Black Circle about the battle between the In Too Deep Cahill Family and the secret The Viper’s Nest Vespers Organization. The six The Emperor’s Code books in this series are not yet all Storm Warning published. Into the Gauntlet Book One: The Maze of Bones. Hewlett Times Staff Hewlett Elementary School Gabrielle Badu By Alice Fried Ariana Baksh Ethan Baksh I and the whole school is Stephanie Billharz very happy and proud of Izabella Bostina Hewlett Elementary school!!!! Kelvin Cheng A lot of people in my Tracy Davidson class like art, a lot of Dean Elefante people love gym, a lot Alice Fried of people like library, Ian Isseks and a lot of people love Alex Noble music! Hewlett is the best Alex Tang school ever!!!!!!! Me and my Emma Tsoglin friends LOVE SCHOOL!!!!!! Ning Wei Mrs. C. Storz, Advisor The Hewlett Times June 2012 Page 2 Blue Heaven The Hewlett Elementary Poem By: Dean Elefante By: Ian Isseks and Ethan Baksh Super Bowl XLVI a.k.a. Super Bowl 46 was an exciting match against H is for helping each other the New England Patriots and The E is for excellent students New York Giants. Eli Manning was W is for working hard the star Quarterback for The Giants L is for leaping learners and Tom Brady was the star E is for effort Quarterback for the Patriots. The T is for technology final score was 21-17 Giants!!!!! T is for terrific teachers New York celebrates a 4th victory!!!! Tom Brady was E is for everything counts devastated the Giants beat them L is for a librarian with a lot of talents again!!!! In 2008 Giants beat the E is for ELA tests Patriots 17-14. Here are the M is for Mrs. Pensak and Mrs. Smyth (the Giants Super Bowl Stats: most wonderful principals we know) Eli Manning Holding The Super Bowl Trophy E is for excitement 1. Super Bowl XXI or 21: 39-20 over N is for never giving up Denver Broncos on January 25, T is for trying hard 1987 A is for assemblies 2. Super Bowl XXV or 25: 20-19 R is for recycling over Buffalo Bills on January 27, Y is for years of Hewlett elementary 1991 HEWLETT ELEMENTARY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!! 3. Super Bowl XLII or 42: 17-14 over New England Patriots on February 3, 2008 4. Super Bowl XLVI or 46: 21-17 Victor Cruz (Wide Receiver) over New England Patriots on Dancing the salsa February 5, 2012 Freaky Friday By Ning Y. Wei Are you tired of all that state testing? Do you wish to have some time to relax, have some time to have fun? The OPAC Well, Freaky Friday is your cure. By Ethan Baksh you see a call number and that Freaky Friday was created by Kayla Spinner in Mrs. is how you find it. At the The OPAC is a fun way to find bottom of the page there is a Bialt’s class. At first it was called Mad Monday. With books in Hewlett School and it details icon and it says details. the class’s help, they expanded it to a persuasive is open for grades 3 and up. It When you click on it you see speech. After presenting it to Mrs. Pensak, it was then is also a way to find books in things like a list of things in called Freaky Friday. Then, after the children got the library by searching by the story so you can see if you their parent’s permission, most of the class attended author, title, subject, or like it .The OPAC is a great anywhere. You can find the way to search Hewlett the next faculty meeting. They persuaded everyone OPAC in the school website in Elementary School’s library. that we should have a Freaky Friday. “I couldn’t wait” library. When you search a quoted Kelvin Cheng. Freaky Friday has been a huge book and the results come up success. there the will be a green icon that says in and there might be Freaky Friday is a day when you can come to school a red icon that says out. Then wearing a crazy, silly, or scary costume. If you have anything that is a distracting you during your teacher’s lesson, your teacher may ask you to put it away. No toy guns, masks or bathing suits. Have fun! Volume 1, Issue 2 Page 3 Book Review Welcome 1st Graders The Hunger Games By Emma Tsoglin By Dean Elefante Every year kids from book. I will tell you We are all very excited 12 to 18 have to put that Katniss’s feelings about the 1st graders The Hunger Games is their name in a jar and change every hour. visiting Hewlett a science fiction novel if they are picked they She has a LOOONG Elementary. One day they about a girl named have to battle in an adventure to succeed. will go to our school. I Katniss Everdeen. It is arena to the death. wish all of the 1st told in the future. The last volunteer graders would go to Katniss lives in a poor to be alive wins. I Hewlett. BECAUSE town called District 12. am not going to HEWLETT IS THE BEST There are only 12 ruin the story but I SCHOOL EVER!!! I districts. These give this book a 5 know they will love districts are poor and star rating so I Hewlett like we do. are under the control would definitely of the Capitol. This recommend this State is called Panem. Chess Interview By Dean Elefante and Alex Noble We asked the chess teacher Mr.Sklhar these questions. Q: How does playing chess feel???? A: I love playing chess. It is very exciting. Q: How do like HES???? A: I like teaching chess at HES Types of Common Light Bulbs Q: How long have you been teaching chess?? Is it fun?? By Alex Tang use most of its electricity saves much more energy. A A: I have been teaching for 23 charge to create heat, not 60w incandescent may years. I enjoy it. The two most common light. So it wastes most of only equal to a 15w types of light bulbs are the electricity. That is fluorescent light. Q: How Many Tournaments have Incandescent light bulbs where florescent light you been in???? and Fluorescent light bulbs come in. A: About 75. bulbs. Florescent light bulbs Incandescent light work on an entirely bulbs have very thin different theory. The fillings made of coiled electric charge excites the tungsten. When electricity mercury vapor inside and is charged through it, the the vapor produce invisible thin filling does not ultraviolet light. The conduct electricity well. ultraviolet light hits the The heat from the white chemical on the electricity creates heat, glass. And the chemical which makes the filling converts it into light. white hot. The heat produces light. Because florescent lights use nearly all of its But incandescent bulbs electricity to make light. It The Hewlett Times June 2012 Page 4 Over three-hundred students catch up to the tempo, and learn every the last song had come upon us and from all over Long Island in the choir. single word to every single song in a sooner or later the concert was over. One conductor and ten other people week. From a Railway Carriage, Shine The practicing and the performance helping out. Five songs to complete in on Me, Eamonn on Chnoic, When I went by so fast! The friends we met, only three rehearsals. Every song we Close My Eyes and Sahayta were all the fun we had and the sound of great sang was corrected. Every word we different songs that we sang with voices will be missed and kept in pronounced, every note we skipped different instruments, different tempos memories forever! and the way we stood. and different languages. This was an amazing Our conductor Mr. Knapp has Finally when we were ready we experience for everyone! We helped us warm up and clean up our performed in front of more than five- completed our task and some even mistakes but Mr. Sugar helped the six hundred people. C.W Post was the completed a dream. Once we started students of our school make it there. place of the performance. Once we got practicing, our smiles were seen to Abby Chen, Daniel Cohen, Alyssa up on stage, our hearts raced.