HMS Presents… The only newspaper that hits the peak. The Mountain Top The Mountain Top is written by fifth, What grades have you taught? sixth, seventh and eighth graders I have taught 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, who are part of the first session of and high school. the HMS Newspaper Club 2018-19. This club is generously funded by the What subjects are you able to teach? I am able to teach social studies, math, and North Haledon PTO. The PTO’s language arts. sponsorship created this opportunity for our club members and for our When teaching social studies, what are readers. Thank you PTO! your favorite topics to teach? My favorite topics to teach are: The Happy Reading! American Revolution and The Constitution. Besides pottery, what are your hobbies? INTERVIEW- Ms. Talarico Crossword puzzles and reading. By: Tyler Carrozza, Isaiah Espinosa, Have you ever played any sports in your past and do you play any sports now? and Thomas Winkler, Gr. 7 As a child, I played softball and soccer. Currently, I do not play any sports. What made you want to start teaching? I always acted as a teacher by forcing my What is your favorite book and why? brother to let me teach him. I thought it was Sherlock Holmes, because I love mystery. I fun. tried figuring out who did it before Sherlock Holmes did. Where did you go to college? Did you always study teaching? I went to The College of New Jersey and What is your favorite movie and why? started out as a psychology major. Rear Window, by Alfred Hitchcock, because it is a mystery. Where did you first start teaching? Palisades Park If you could meet anyone famous who would it be? Thomas Jefferson, because he was How long how been teaching? fascinating, and he loved to read like me. I have taught for 14 years. This is my 15th year. If you had one wish, what would it be? No more snow and no more ice! INTERVIEW- Mr. Abdelmalak What sports have you played? Do you play any now? By: Tyler Carrozza, Isaiah Espinosa, I have played a lot of sports including football, soccer and pickleball. and Thomas Winkler, Gr. 7 #undefeated #2007 #kingofthepaddle Where did you go to college and did you always study teaching? What are your hobbies? No, I didn't go for teaching. I went to I like long walks on the beach, singing, and Montclair State University and started combining the two. medical school. When that didn't work out, I went to teaching. INTERVIEW- Ms. Santos What made you want to start teaching? I love kids. By: Tyler Carrozza, Isaiah Espinosa, and Thomas Winkler, Gr. 7 How long have you been teaching? Approximately 3 years. Where did you go to college? I worked on my undergraduate at Ramapo Have you taught in any other schools? College and I completed my Masters at I was an aide in another school, but not a Jersey City University. teacher. How long have you been teaching? Besides science, have you taught any I have been teaching for 4 years now. other subjects? No, I have not taught any other subjects. Have you worked in any other schools? Yes, I worked in Wilson Elementary School What grades have you taught? in Lodi. I have taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. What subjects are you able to teach? What is your favorite science topic to The subjects that I am able to teach are teach? ELA and Library Media. Anything related to chemistry. What made you want to start teaching? Who is your favorite scientist and why? My mom has been a teacher for a long time, Einstein, because he thought outside of the so growing up I always wanted to be a box. teacher. I also like teaching. If you could meet anyone famous, who Have you played any sports? would it be? In high school, I played volleyball. I was a I wish I could meet Abe Lincoln. cheerleader and was also in a marching band. How long have you had a motorcycle? Is it hard to ride? What are your hobbies? I've had a motorcycle for years and when In my free time, I like to read and I love to you’re skilled, like me, it is not hard to ride. I run Spartan races. have great hand-eye coordination. What is your favorite book? ART NEWS- 7th Grade Projects My favorite book is The Great Gatsby. By: Tyler Carrozza & Isaiah Espinosa, What is your favorite genre to read? I like to read mystery and adventure books. Gr. 7 In art class, we created radial design If you could be one character in a book, projects. The project consisted of our who would it be? names written in different angles, where it I would be a character from the Harry Potter came to a point at the center of the paper. series. I would probably want to be Harry, so I can experience Hogwarts and To start this project, we needed to fold a everything. piece of paper in a certain way to make a triangle. Then, we needed to write our name on each folded piece. We used either a light box or the windows in the halls to help us DOODLE FOR GOOGLE CONTEST trace. After we finished writing our names on all the sides, we colored it and hung it up By: Ryan Scudieri, Gr. 6 in the halls. The entire school has the choice to participate in the Doodle for Google contest. The theme for this year is- “When I grow up, I hope…” A person who wants to enter can create anything as long as it has the letters: G O O G L E in the design. At HMS, students can also enter our school competition. Those placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd will appear on our school district website. th This year’s Doodle competition prizes from ART NEWS- 6 Grade Projects Google are: “$50,000 technology package for school/non-profit organization, $30,000 By: Ryan Scudieri, Gr. 6 college scholarship, a trip to Google During the first marking period in Art, we headquarters in California, Google worked on an onomatopoeia project. We hardware, and Fun Googley swag”. started by thinking of a sound that you hear th Deadline is Monday, March 18 ! in everyday life, such as a click or someone turning the keys in a door. We turned the word into a picture on a piece of newspaper. Then, we mounted it on a construction paper and hung it in the halls. SPANISH NEWS- 6th Grade Projects BOOK REVIEW- A Wrinkle in Time By: Zaid Mahmoud, Gr. 6 By: Chloe Muller, Gr. 5 th The 6 graders worked on making monsters in Spanish. We had to create a monster and then label five body parts in Spanish. We worked on our monsters for about a week and then presented to the class. A Wrinkle in Time is a beautiful, exhilarating story in which a girl needs to find her father who is lost in time and space. In the process, she needs to save the world as well. The main character’s name is Meg. With help from her brother, Charles Wallace, and a boy from school, named Calvin, Meg sets out to find her father. Three figures named Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who appear to aid the children on their way and to show them what dangers lie ahead. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin travel in th 8 Grade Projects- Emotion Plates space to different planets like Uriel, the 2D Planet, Happy Medium’s Planet, Camazotz, Have a look! and Ixchel. When they travel to Camazotz, they discover a world in which everybody is exactly the same and everybody thinks the exact same way. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin find Meg’s father and they soon realize that the danger, also known as IT, tries to overwhelm them and make them become one of the poor puppets on Camazotz. They are able to escape and go home. Meg’s family is reunited and life is better. A Wrinkle in Time is a story that will always be remembered. DECK THE HALLS- 5th Grade DECK THE HALLS- 6th Grade By: Chloe Muller, Gr. 5 By: Riley Kozlowski, Gr. 6 The fifth graders decided on a theme that The sixth graders theme for Deck the Halls was a mix of Christmas cheer and a Winter was inspired by gingerbread and Wonderland. We accomplished this by Candyland. We made gumdrops that had making snowflakes, snowmen, candy kind and inspiring quotes on them and hung canes, and presents. We made Christmas them on the roof of our gingerbread house. trees to go with the presents and wrote Everyone made their own gingerbread man inspirational quotes on the snowflakes. which were hung on the lockers. On the Snowflakes were made by folding filter walls of the hallway, we placed decorated paper and using scissors to cut shapes in the paper. Hearts, circles, diamonds, and candy canes. In the corner near the squares appeared on the snowflakes after gingerbread house, we put up a tree and being cut. Pieces of paper cut into circles created presents from construction paper. were taped or glued together to make To top it off, we added lights to the top of snowmen. They were then decorated with the lockers which made it look even better. marker, crayon, or colored pencil. Candy Even though, we didn’t win the contest, all cane and present shapes were cut out, of the sixth graders worked hard to make colored and decorated.