ABGS MS Celebrates Spring! SPRING 2020 Tiger’s Paw Volume 2, Issue 2 A newsletter published by A.B.G.S. Middle School Newsletter Club 70 Greenwich St., Hempstead, NY 11550 www.hempsteadschools.org Phone: (516) 434-4300 Check School Website! SPRING AHEAD MS Students & Families: Please students are going on virtual field trips, check the school website daily for ABGS Middle school is excited that Spring learning new platforms like Acellus, seeing guidance on the overall academic is here! With spring comes dandelions, their classmates in “Meeting Rooms,” and structural program for each grade afternoon showers, sun drenched windows figuring out how to learn more and, of course, the good old ELA exam level. The website also has independently with support at home. important information for parents …which was to begin March 25. But this is Perhaps, most surprising, many tell us they a Spring like none we have ever seen and students, along with library are missing school, friends and teachers and academic resources. before. Due to a pandemic called COVID- but the beauty is that they can see them all 19 or coronavirus, our school buildings in the “Meeting Room” or the Chat Room. have been closed, but learning is still going As we forge ahead, take a moment to enjoy ATTENTION STUDENTS! WIN $5 on – in the homes of our students as they the latest issue of Tiger’s Paw! Subway GIFTCARD! become attuned to something called online -The advisors instruction. Teachers, students, and Read the newsletter, answer the families are showing perseverance like questions below correctly and you Salva in A Long Walk to Water, as we may be one of 3 students to have navigate a new path for learning and your entry drawn in a Raffle. making connections. This new path affects 1. Where did Ms. T. Washington’s all of us – teachers and students are field trip traveler’s go in December? learning together as we move around in this new digital world and are 2. What is the main idea of the Skit? communicating with each other in exciting 3. When is Ground Hog’s Day? new ways against a backdrop of a war waged against an invisible enemy. Our 4. Name one of the historical figures newsletter pieces were written before the Emerson Ramirez illustrated. current health crises. It includes creative Email your responses to mfox@ work on the part of our students. In this hempsteadschools.org or new education normal, every aspect of [email protected] by schooling goes on – it just goes on in new April 20th -make sure you put your name ways. Instead of traditional “field trips,” on your entry and answer in complete sentences. Good luck! Note: Members of Newsletter Club may not enter contest. [Type here] By Tabitha Marcel Valentine's Day is a romantic holiday celebrated each year on February 14. Usually on that day, we celebrate love and affection. Valentine’s Day is all about greeting cards and gifts, dating, and church services. But, really, where did the whole idea of “Valentine's Day” come from? Valentine was a man. Valentine was an imprisoned man who fell in love with his jailor's daughter. Before he was put to death, he sent the first 'valentine' to the jailer's daughter when he wrote her a letter and signed it, “Your Valentine.” Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love on that special day…and every day. Fun Facts about Valentine’s Day Origins to a Bloody Pagan Festival. Letters Addressed to 'Juliet' Box of Chocolates. First Valentine Was Written from a Prison. 'Vinegar Valentines' Discouraged Suitors. 'Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve' 'Sweethearts' Candies Started Out as Lozenges. Cupid Began as a Greek God [Type here] 5) Groundhogs eat plants and grass and are herbivores. -Giovanni Michel AROUND THE CLUBS! You’ve heard about Groundhog Day, right? The holiday where it’s an early spring if the Groundhog On MLK Day with Mr. Segure’s law club, and does not see his shadow and if he does see his Boy Scouts it consisted of many activities you shadow, there will be 6 more weeks of winter. You could choose from. The two activities I chose probably already knew this but did you know where were putting utensil bundles together and a it actually came from? The first official Groundhog vaping workshop. Putting the utensils Day celebration took place on February 2, 1887 in together was benefiting the Mary Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The tradition actually Brennan Soup Kitchen in Hempstead. I then comes from Germany. On an old Cristian holiday attended a vaping workshop. The called Candlemas Day the Germans paid attention vaping workshop gave an interesting insight to a badger. Candlemas Day was the midpoint into e-cigarettes and cigarettes. I really between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. If the badger saw its shadow, it meant a “second enjoyed these activities and hope that I can do winter” was coming in other words 6 more weeks of them again. I also like knowing that the winter. Candlemas Day is a Cristian holiday utensils I put together helped people in need, celebrated annually on February 2. How does after all, isn’t that what it’s all about?- Candlemas Day relate to Groundhog Day? Christina Hines Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas, when Clergy The Lady Tigers Club members led by advisor would bless & distribute candles needed for winter. Mrs. Barnes, posted Black history highlights The candles represented how long and cold the near the heavy trafficked main office as a winter would be. Germans expanded on the reminder of the importance of the month. concept by selecting an animal to predict weather. According to research, the response you get from the Groundhog is only 25% accurate. There have been a few times where it has been right but it’s most likely to be wrong. Still, Groundhog Day is a chance for some light-hearted fun in the middle of winter.-Danna Mendoza 5 Fun Facts On Groundhog Day 1) Groundhog Day is February 2nd each year. 2) The groundhog is also known as a woodchuck. 3) Groundhogs are members of the squirrel family and are largest of all marmots. 4) Groundhogs can climb trees and can swim very well. # Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on friend Maya Angelou's birthday, on April 4, 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to King's widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta's death in 2006. # First lady Eleanor Roosevelt challenged the segregation rules at the Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama, so she could sit next to African American educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Roosevelt would come to refer to Bethune as "her closest friend in her age group." # Female science fiction author Octavia Butler was dyslexic. Despite her disorder, she went on to win Hugo and Nebula awards for her writing, as well as a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation. #When African American neurosurgeon Ben Carson was a child, his mother required him to read two library books a week and give her written reports, even though she was barely literate. She would then take the papers and pretend to carefully review them, placing a checkmark at the top of the page to show her approval. The assignments inspired Carson's eventual love of reading and learning. # Politician, educator and Brooklyn native Shirley Chisholm survived three assassination attempts during her campaign for the 1972 Democratic nomination to the U.S. presidency. # Rap artist Chuck D graduated from Adelphi University, where he studied graphic design. Emerson Ramirez’s artistic rendition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the most when we honor him on his special day. celebrated names in the Civil Rights Movement. He believed in non-violent protests and made incredible speeches such as the “I Have a Dream” speech. He led the Montgomery bus boycott in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks, who was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus. His is a name that we will always remember every January The dream lives on...and on…and on INSPIRED STUDENT ART… ` Emerson Ramirez was inspired while reading The Diary of Anne Frank in Damari Diaz makes her artistic class to create this image of Anne dreaming of one day being free from debut in Tiger’s Paw newsletter the Secret Annex. ___________________________________________________________ Art is any creative work of a human being a form of expressing oneself resides in the quality of doing; the process is not magic an act of making something visually entertaining an activity that manifests the beauty the mastery, an ideal way of doing things not a thing — it is a way the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. https://www.theartist.me/art/what-is-art/ ABGS MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS OUT & ABOUT!!!! . Micaal making gingerbread cookies ABGS Students in Gaming Class during a Friday night Boy Scout event. at Adelphi University (B.R.) Credit: M. Tuitt Christopher Powell & Mr. Segure at Hofstra’s February 3rd Black History Month event. WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW…IS TO FOCUS ON LOVE & COMPASSION! Valentine’s Day is Every Day! By Génesis Chacón Valentine’s Day is celebrated as the day of love. However, it is my opinion that people spend a lot of money on pointless items for loved one’s .