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“The Our Glass Remastered”
A Fairmount School Newspaper January 2018
Fairmount’s New Year’s Resolutions By Parker Neale
2017 has come to an end as we get ready for what 2018 brings us. Here are some of the students’ and teachers’ resolutions, or something you try to accomplish in the new year.
Marc-Andre, a 5th grader, is going to try to help his team win the State Championship. Lindell, also 5th grade, is going to try to pass the Principal’s Challenge, and Alex is going to try to master the wheelie on his bicycle. Harrison, 4th grade, is going to try to get along with his sister, and Rocki is going to try to watch more sports on TV.
Mr. Enman is going to try to find more time to read. Ms. Tlili is going to try to be more organized.
Now let's hope that everyone can stick to their resolutions throughout the whole year.
Fifth Grade Winter Concert a Success By Aidan Punch
In December, Fairmount had a 5th grade concert. We sang songs like “Let it Snow,” “Jingle Bell Jukebox,” “Mr. Grinch,” and some others. It was started by our music teacher, Mrs. Ellis.
The concert had a 1950s theme, so our first song was called “Jingle Bell Jukebox” because that was when jukeboxes were popular. Every class had about 10 kids chosen by the music teacher to have a speaking part in front of the entire audience. Also, there are some groups of kids that sang solos.
The concert happened on December 22nd. At 10:00 a.m., it was performed for the 4th graders, then later in the day it was performed for the kids’ parents.
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“The Our Glass Remastered”
A Fairmount School Newspaper January 2018
Fairmount Flag Football Fairmount Historians By Brayden Sloan By Lindell Smiley and Alex Busko
In the exciting game of flag football, I Have you ever walked by the office and interviewed 3 players: Lucas Rutherford, looked at the TK drawing? If you haven’t Jordan Pettway and Trystan Goodwin. already noticed, right above it is a Fairmount Historian exhibit. One time, the exhibit was an Q: Does your coach let you learn from your old doll. We interviewed members of the club. mistakes? Here is what they told us. A: “Yes,” said Lucas Rutherford. Q: Why is there a doll in the exhibit? Q: Who is your coach? A: “The doll came from the Bangor High A: “Mr. Johnson,” said Jordan Pettway. School.” Q: What do you do in this club? Q: How many games do you play? A: “We look at old stuff.” A: “About two,” said Trystan Goodwin. Q: Why did you join this club? A: “We find the past interesting.”
Guess Who #1 Now you know a little bit about the Fairmount By Madeline Thai Historians and what they do. I interviewed someone in the school and asked them five questions. Can you guess Guess Who #2 who it is? By Kaiden Schmersal
Q: What is the best part of your job? Q: What is your favorite color? A: The new ideas. A: I love green Q: What is your favorite season? Q: When is your birthday? A: Fall. A: My birthday is November Q: Do you have a lucky number? Q: What is your favorite sport? A: Seven. A: Football Q: What was something you loved as a kid? Q: What do you like to collect for fun? A: “Collecting things.” A: I love heart shaped rocks. Q: What is your favorite board game? Q: What is your favorite food? A: Scrabble. A: Seafood.
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“The Our Glass Remastered”
A Fairmount School Newspaper January 2018
NHL Update Super Bowl Predictions By Marc Andre Perron and Rocki Ballato By Harrison Fitzpatrick
We will be talking about the NHL, aka the It’s almost the end of NFL Playoffs, and we National Hockey League. have some predictions for the teams in Super New York Rangers : 21-13-5 with 47 points Bowl 52. J.T. Miller, 27 points and counting The NFL thinks that the Pittsburgh Steelers Henrik Lundqvist, 18 wins and counting will face the New Orleans Saints. Mr. Enman says the New England Patriots will go against New York Islanders: 20-15-4 with 44 points the Philadelphia Eagles. Zander Pike thinks Josh Bailey 50 points and counting the Steelers and the Green Bay Packers will Jaroslav Halak 11 wins and counting compete. Chase Caron thinks it will be the Montreal Canadiens: 16-19-4 with 36 points Patriots vs. the Saints, and Tim Leadbetter Brendan Gallagher 21 points and counting thinks it will be the Patriots and the Atlanta Carey Price 11 wins and counting Falcons. I think it will be the Pittsburgh Steelers vs the Philadelphia Eagles. Boston Bruins : 21-16-4 with 48 points David Pastrnak 34 points and counting Chorus Concert Tuukka Rask 13 wins and counting By Seaira McCormack & Aiden Rickenbach
Top 5 NHL teams right now are Tampa Bay Hello students! My name is Seaira.Together Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights, Winnipeg with my writing partner, Ace, who happens to Jets, Nashville Predators, Los Angeles Kings. be in chorus, we asked students about The Number 1 Best Leading Points and Fairmount Chorus. Goalie Wins are: Point leader Nikita Kucherov
with 56 points and counting. Goalie wins Q: How is chorus? leader: Andrei Vasilevskiy with 25 wins and Zaria: Good. counting Q: Would you want to join chorus again if you
could? Fairmount’s 100th Anniversary Sebastian: Yes, every quarter! By Nicholas Gorecki Q: What songs are you doing in chorus? Fairmount will celebrate 100 years in 2019. Caden: Happy Holidays, Dona Nobis, Roar. Of course we are going to celebrate, and we Q: How do think chorus is going for everyone are going to invite old teachers to return. We else? might get some cake for lunch, too, and Brooklyn: Good birthday pins for the school.
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“The Our Glass Remastered”
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Editorial: Predictions for Star Wars The Last Jedi By Madeline Thai
Star Wars is an exciting movie series, and the novels are just the same. The movies are very popular, and as the wait becomes shorter for the newest release, the suspense increases. Many of us were excitedly waiting for the ninth Star Wars story, “The Last Jedi,” to come into theaters in December. We were also wondering what would happen, who the last Jedi is, and several other questions. I asked multiple people what their thoughts were before any of them saw the movie.
Simon Mckay (5th grade) thinks that since the title is “The Last Jedi,” there will be no more Jedi after this movie. He also thinks that Kylo Ren survived the fall in “The Force Awakens” and will build another Death Star with more stormtroopers. Simon says that he thinks Rey is the last Jedi as well.
Lindell Smiley (5th grade) wants R2D2 to appear in “The Last Jedi,” and he thinks that Luke Skywalker is the last Jedi. Lindell also believes that Kylo Ren will kill Princess Leia.
Aiden Rickenbach (4th grade) thinks that Rey is the last Jedi, and will save the world.
Mrs. Leonard says that someone will “kill off a major character; they always do.” She thinks that the ‘major character’ this time will be Luke Skywalker. “Since the title is ‘The Last Jedi’, this will be the last movie,” Mrs. Leonard tells me. “[After this movie], there will probably be more prequels [similar to ‘Rogue One’].”
As for me, I think that since Carrie Fisher, the actress portraying Leia, has passed away, Leia will be killed. However, the company could find another person to take Fisher’s place, as they did with Anakin. Based on the trailers, I have come to the conclusion that Luke will leave Rey’s training incomplete and that he also knows who her parents are; that’s probably why he’s been keeping a low profile.
Remember, if you have seen the movie or know what takes place, please no spoilers for those who have not!
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Review: The Star Wars Movies (SPOILER ALERT!) By Simon McKay
PHANTOM MENACE: Qui Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi Wan Kenobi get stranded on Tatooine, where they find Anakin Skywalker. He is a slave and Qui Gon strikes a deal with the master to free Anakin and fix their ship. Anakin has many midichlorians in him. That's what makes a Jedi. Anakin wins the bet by winning a pod race. Later the gungans fight the separatists, while all the fighter ships go into outer space to take down the command ship. Qui Gon and Obi Wan fight Darth Maul. Qui Gon gets killed but Obi Wan succeeds. Obi Wan trains Anakin to later be a great Jedi. ATTACK OF THE CLONES: A bounty hunter named Jango Fett hired someone to kill a senator. Obi-Wan and Anakin protect her. Obi-Wan tracks the Bounty Hunter to a planet where they are making clone troopers. Obi-Wan gets captured in there by the Jedi and they get rescued by the clone troopers. Before that, Anakin and the senator go to the planet where he was born. but it ends up that she was sold and got married and then the Tusken Raiders took her and they killed her. During the war, a Jedi kills Jango Fett. After that, Anakin and the senator secretly get married. REVENGE OF THE SITH: Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan go to war against Count Dooku and evil Sith Warrior General Grievous. Anakin and Obi Wan get on the ship where the chancellor is being held captive and they rescue him, and Anakin ends up killing Count Dooku. After that, the Jedi Council orders for Anakin to spy on Chancellor Palpatine to see if he's up to evil. Chancellor Palpatine brings him to the dark side. Obi-Wan and Anakin get in a fight on a lava planet. Anakin starts to burn, but then Chancellor Palpatine gets him and puts his armor on and turns him into Darth Vader. ROGUE ONE: A girl's father is making the Death Star, but he is a traitor. He plants a trap to blow up the Death Star. The girl, Jyn, and some other rebels are going to get the plans for the Death Star so they have a way to beat it. They are successful in getting the plans to the rebels. But they aren't as successful as the plans. A NEW HOPE: Luke Skywalker is a Jedi and is trained against the sith. He meets his sister and a smuggler to beat the Death Star. Luke does not know Leia is his sister or that Darth Vader is his father. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: The empire attacked the rebel base on the planet Hoth. The rebels barely escaped but Luke goes to the planet were Yoda lives. Yoda trains Luke, but he does not finish. He goes to help his friends. He finds out that Darth Vader is his father and Leia is his sister. Luke loses his hand and gets a new robotic one. RETURN OF THE JEDI: The empire builds another Death Star, and the rebels go to Endor to disable the shields. The rebels win the battle. Then they blow up the Death Star. Darth Vader dies sacrificing himself to kill Emperor Palpatine and save his son Luke. THE FORCE AWAKENS: A pilot called Poe found a piece of the map to Luke Skywalker. The First Order builds another, bigger Death Star. Supreme Leader Snoke commands it. Snoke commands Kylo Ren to destroy the jedi. The rebels destroy the Death Star. A Jedi named Rey and Finn play a big part in destroying the Death Star. THE LAST JEDI: Rey tries to bring Kylo Ren back to the Jedi. She kind of succeeds when he kills Snoke. He got knocked unconscious, and when he came to, he blamed Rey for the death, so he takes command. Later Kylo Ren attacks the rebels, but they escape. During the movie, Rey finds Luke and she makes him train her. He trains her until she finds out that he turned Kylo Ren. She leaves. Then at the end of the movie, he distracts the First Order so the rebels can escape.
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“The Our Glass Remastered”
A Fairmount School Newspaper January 2018
Horoscopes By Gabe Locke and Adrian Baker Aquarius , January 21-February 19 LEO July 22-August 23 You will get a free ice cream every Tuesday. You will not get a decent horoscope this time.
VIRGO, Pisces,Feb.26-March 20 August 24- September 23 A dog will eat a random object that you have touched. Be your greatest.
ARIES March 21-April 20 Libra,Sep.24-Oct.23 You will receive a great dream. Your face will explode with smiles.
Taurus,April 21-May 21 SCORPIO October 24-November 22 Helping people will be your true self. You will be attacked by bunnies from another planet.
GEMINI, May 22-June 21 SAGITTARIUS November 23-December 21 You love hugging. Your most prized possession will go into a magical universe where all your dreams take place. CANCER, June 22-July 22 You will find great friendship. Capricorn, Dec.22-Jan.20 You love making people laugh and cheering them up.
Poll: Your Birthday Month By The Newspaper Staff We polled several classes to see in which month people were born. Most were born in January!
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“The Our Glass Remastered”
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Riddles and Puzzles Page Contributors: Lindell Smiley, Alex Busko, Parker Neale, Seaira McCormack, Aiden Rickenbach
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“The Our Glass Remastered”
A Fairmount School Newspaper January 2018
RIDDLES
Q. What gets wetter the more it dries? A. A towel.
Q. A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three days and rode out on Friday. How was this possible? A. Friday was the name of his horse.
Guess Who #1 Answer: Mrs. Leonard Guess Who #2 Answer: Mrs. McDade