Kresson Elementary School Volume 2, February, 2015

C OUGAR B Y TES

An E-News Report by our 5th Grade Reporters

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Third Grade Celebrates Immigration Third Grade Immigra- 1 with a Special Visitor tion Project I'm sure you know a lot about immigrants, but have you ever met one? Well, Mrs. Kerns' third grade class just recently ended their study of im- Finish My Sentence 2 migration with a visit from her mother, a real immigrant. Mrs. Cassano comes to Kresson School every year to teach the third 3 Teacher Spotlight graders about immigration. It is a very informative day for the students and one loved by Mrs. Kerns. On this

4 More Creative Class- day each student is expected to act like an immigrant and bring a bundle to school containing what they would room News bring if immigrating to America.

As you can imagine, coming to America as an immigrant is very hard. Immigrants face many challenges, and it is

no piece of cake. Now, imagine if you were only nineteen years old! That is how old Mrs. Cassano was when she Reporting for this issue: left Italy for a new life in America. That would be ter- rifying! But why would she leave Italy to come to Amer- Klio Kokolis ica? The answer to that question is simple~for a better life. In summation, many people each year immigrate to Carlin Ceferatti America for a better life. Other countries don't have the same freedoms and opportunities like ours. You Carly Schulman should be grateful to live in such a spectacular country like America! Jada Randall

Alyssa Bralow Show off your SUPER-SELFIE Nicole Moore Participate in Kresson School’s Maya Little 9th Annual BOOK WALK

A Celebration of Self

One School, One Theme ~ Resiliency. February 26, 2014 6-8 PM

Page 2 Volume 2, February, 2015 Finish My Sentence Three Words that Describe Kresson School...

By Alyssa Bralow, Nicole Ela 1D- great, happy, helpful. Mrs. Daniels- fun, comfort- Moore, and Maya Little able, educational. Koranne 4B- fun, educa- tional, nice teachers. Mackenzie 3C- kind, happy, selfless. Three words that describe Johnay 4B- amazing, fun, ad- Kresson school are... venturous. Ryan 3C- Bully free, safe, truthful. Mrs. Uscinowicz- Family at- Mrs. Montgomery- Friendly, mosphere, caring staff, awe- kind, caring. Aniha 3C- joyful, independ- some students. ent,fun. Ms. Rocco- happy, caring, Alex 1R- Fun, cool, awesome. safe. Mrs.Kerns- togetherness, fun, educating. Micheal 1R- awesome, crea- Mr.Fern- tive, good. kids, clean, teachers. Anastasia 3K- fun, friends, colorful. Jaylen 1P- fun, fair, cool. Mr.Day- family, conflict reso- lution. Kyle 3K- fun, educational, Keegan 5R- Fun, educational, creative. friendly. Anika 5R- bully free, nice, safe. Miss Cundiff- pride, fun, Will 5R- Good teachers, fun, family. educational. Dhruv 5S- fun, learning, bully free. Mrs.Alonzo- Family, fun, crea- tive.

Hope to see you at the Book Walk on Thursday,

Feb. 26th!

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T EACHER S POTLIGHT ON M RS. K ERNS

By Klio Kokolis and Jada Randall mind, we were curious in knowing what her Even though everyone knows Mrs. Kerns as three wishes would be an amazing teacher, Cougar Bytes was if she met the genie still curious and wanted to know more! and had the opportu- As we headed to Mrs. Kerns’s room, we nity to wish. Most expected it to be very active and noisy. importantly, Unexpectedly, the class was dead silent Mrs. Kerns and reading a story. We introduced our- would wish for selves to a smiling Mrs. Kerns and took a her family and deep breath before asking the questions friends to be we knew everyone wanted to know. happy and Since Jada was a former student of Mrs. healthy. Kerns, she recalled that this third grade Additionally, teacher was in love with Jon . she would wish The big question lingered, “What was her to always wake favorite Bon Jovi song and why?” Mrs. up with a Kerns was shocked that she actually had smile on her to choose among his songs, but after a face. Her third and final desire was to make minute of deep thinking, she came up with other people happy. Secretly we asked her “” and then she laughed one fun fact that NO ONE knew about her. In and added, “Born to be My Baby.” Both response, she quietly said that she liked to songs are upbeat and Mrs. Kerns likes to pretend that she was on a talk show, and to listen to them when she runs. dream about being interviewed. Cougar Bytes was interested in how Mrs. Kerns found she wanted to be a teacher? In her free time, Mrs. Kerns likes to go She really wanted to be an actress, but dancing and out to dinner with her husband. her parents didn’t let her. Mrs. Kerns Since she would have loved to be an actress, knew that her second choice was to be a Mrs. Kerns, often celebrates like the movie teacher. We’re happy for her choice, stars by dressing up for Oscar parties. and now she is known as one of the best. When she’s not pretending to be an actress, Surprisingly, her favorite subject to she really enjoys hanging at home with her teach is social studies because she likes dog. After the interview we walked out very to talk about real life events and peo- surprised and felt closer to Mrs. Kerns. We ple. hope to learn more about Mrs. Kerns later in With the famous Disney movie, Aladdin, in the year! Newsletter Title Page 4

I T ’ S APP ARENT THAT WE LOVE TO K UNG H EI F AT EARN FROM OUR RIENDS L F C HOY

Have you ever wondered what's going on in other classrooms? Well, here's the latest... O N 19TH F EBRUARY Just recently students from Miss Meyers’s class 2 0 1 5 WE WELCOME IN A taught the 4th graders in Keynote and Notability. Key- NEW C HINESE N EW Mrs.Court’s class a little note Y EAR, THE Y EAR OF more about iPads. is similar to Microsoft’s THE G OAT ! They shared two applica- PowerPoint. You can add tions that they use a lot: themes and create animations as well as other cool things. Notability will allow you to type or draw things, and also includes themes. Are - U –Kidding ?

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LOOK Out for These Amazing Projects at the BOOK WALK

Ms. Rocco’s class will display a life-sized Venn Diagram com- paring and contrasting two novels the class has read this year, “Number the Stars” and “ The Captive.” and Mrs. Sykora’s class will display their Book Walk projects on their iPads. Have you planned to show off your ideas at our Book Walk? It’s not too late!