KidsView Winter, 2007 By: Sydney B. and Indigo S. Book Drive WEST SCHOOL!The West School Book Drive was held the week of October "#!"$% The students collected books for the West Park Academy in Chicago which is our brother school% Each day a few kids from Mrs% Berkoff&s class were in charge of going to the library and counting all the books donated that day% On Monday' we collected $() books' Tuesday' *#+ books' Wednesday' #,, books and on Thursday' we collected ,)-% Friday' the last day' we collected #$, books for a total of ,')-# books% That is the most books that West School has ever collected in any book drive% Mr% Rongey' Mrs% Berkoff' Mrs% Mooney' and Mrs% Sacher took the books to West Park Academy and met the principal% Then Mr% Rongey and Mrs% Ross visited West Park Academy and saw many students reading the books that West School had donated' and collected thank you cards for the West School students% GOOD WORK WEST SCHOOL!!!! The Recycling Club World Comes To West By: Adam J. and Josh K. By: Olivia S. WEST SCHOOL-The Recycling Club WEST SCHOOL!On Friday is a very fun and important new club Nov% ") the World Tour at West. It meets every Wednesday came to West School% This before school at 8 - 8:35 a.m. in Mrs. is an annual event put on Berkley’s room. At Recycling Club by the PTO who then uses you talk about recycling issues in the the money to help the many clubs at West such as KidsView! A lot of school. The club is trying to find ways to make these families and students came to the World Tour% problems smaller and solve them. The Club is #+) passports were passed out to kids of any making posters for the lunchroom recycling bins so age% Guests played various games to get the students know what you can and can’t recycle. Some main prize' a troll% Some of the games were: The of the projects are related to the 4th grade study of Tarzan swing' Scooter races' Basketball shoot' ecosystems and the 3rd grade prairie unit. The club Cakewalk' Hockey shot' and Knockdown the Can game% If you got hungry when playing' the helped start a program called Waste Free cafeteria sold soda or pizza' hot dogs' or Wednesday to encourage students to bring a lunch burgers% But the game most people wanted to that does not have any garbage to be thrown away do was the cakewalk! Why wouldn&t you want or even recycled. The club is planning field trips to to take home a delicious cake? A lot of kids also places like the recycling compost center and many ran to the right side of the gym%%%%%% for Icon more. It is open to both 3rd and 4th graders. Our Entertainment! It was full of people dancing to the D%J%&s music% At .:#) p%m% everyone headed next project is to start emptying milk cartons so that out of the school after a great night of fun% more of them can be recycled. The recycling club is sponsored by the PTO. Recycle today and make the world a better place. !"#$% &'% ()*% +#, By: Indigo S. At West School during the week of November 6-10, students were guessing a mystery flag. In the lunchroom we heard 3 clues, saw a flag, and then discussed the guesses together as a class. Then, one person in each class wrote down the class’s guess and gave it to Mrs. Boggs. After every class gave her their guess, she announced them and told us the correct country. In 3rd grade, on the last day they held up a flag with 2 blue and 1 white stripe and everyone said it was Argentina. One 3rd grader, Eliana Fleischer, knew that the Argentinean flag also has a sun in the middle of the flag and it was missing. She was right! But the Flag of the Day week was over. We learned a lot about flags! Talk of the Town PORSCHES Three Incredible Structures by: David S. and Augie M. By: Adam J. and Josh K. A Porsche is a kind of 1. The first structure is The CN Tower (space needle) in sport car. There is a Toronto. The CN Tower is 1,815 feet and 5 inches counting its Porsche Carrara, 911 tall antenna. It has 181 floors and six elevators. There is a Turbo , Porsche Cayman, restaurant and a lookout level at 1,136 feet, and another Porsche Cayenne and a restaurant at 1,150 feet. The CN Tower opened in 1972. Porsche Boxter. The 2. The second incredible structure is New York’s own Statue Carrara GT is my favorite. My dad is trying to of Liberty. It was established in October, 1924. It was a gift from France, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designed this make me like minivans more than Porsches but wonderful structure in 1876. With its flame it is 154 feet high. it’s not working. Ferdinand Porsche was the 3. The third extraordinary founder of Porsche. Some are race cars like the structure is the St. Louis Arch. This Porsche Tycon. You can see a Porsche at a major arched structure in St. Louis dealer, or on a road. There are other sport was made on December 21, 1935 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It cars that are not PorsChes like a Bugotie, Ferrari, Corvette, Lamborghini and Mercedes. cost 30 million dollars. The arch is closed only on New Years Day, Some Porsches can get up to 200 miles per Christmas, and Thanksgiving. hour! They are cool, spectacular cars. I rate UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Porsche’s a ten. BY AMANDA M. My Generation The University of Michigan was founded in "."$% It is the state&s oldest university% Two of By: Ariel S. Michigan&s best sports teams are football and My Generation is a great hockey% The sports teams are the Wolverines and store that is mostly for their colors are gold and blue% Their fight song is /The Victors%&& It was written by a student' Louis girls. One of their biggest Label' in ".-.% The University moved to Ann selections of stuff is Paul Arbor in ".#$% The first year in Ann Arbor' there Frank items. They have a lot of clothing and were only , professors and $ students% The Ann Arbor campus is divided into three main areas: stuffed animals. My favorite kind of stuffed North' Central and South% The school is more than animal is a Webkinz. Webkinz is a special ,- million square feet% The University has a stuffed animal with a secret code. Then you go famous building called The Wolverine Tower in southern Ann Arbor% Did you know that all three on Webkinz.com for your first adoption. On of the Apollo "+ space crew were alumni of the the website there is a talking duck and you University of Michigan? The crew flew to the listen to what the ducks say and there is moon from July ,( ! August $' "-$" with astronauts: David Scott' Alfred Worden and some information you need to fill out. Now James Irwin% They took with them three U of M back to My Generation. The lava lamps items: a miniature flag' the Department of are so cool there! The workers are very nice Aerospace Engineering seal and a charter of the U of M Alumni Club' which was left on and helpful. I can’t wait until the next time the moon% I&m writing about the mom and I go there to shop. They hope YOU University of Michigan because my stop by too. I think you will really love My parents went there% Have you ever been to a U of M football game? Generation. It is so fun! They are fun! Did you Know? Sleepwalking Blacksmithing By: Cameron S. By: Marek B. Sleepwalking is when a person You might think blacksmithing is appears to be awake and turning stuff black moving around but is actually but that is By: Jason S. and asleep. Sleepwalking can WRONG! Josh R. range from sitting up in bed to A blacksmith is a walking. The person who is person who sleepwalking has no memory makes objects out of steel or of their actions. Sleepwalking iron by forging can be dangerous because the the metal using person might stumble against hand tools. The furniture, lose their balance, go blacksmith hammers, bends, cuts through windows or fall and otherwise shapes it while the downstairs. They are also very medal is not in a liquid form. Saddam Hussein was an evil Iraqi Usually the medal is heated until it hard to wake up. Their eyes dictator from 1979 to 2003 glows red or orange first. before he was captured by the might be open. A person who Blacksmiths work with ‘black’’ is sleepwalking may do metals, especially iron. The black Americans on December 13, repetitive things like switching color comes from a layer of oxides 2003 at 8:30 p.m. Iraqi time. on and off the lights and that form on the surface of the They found him in a 7 foot deep opening and closing doors. metal during heating called the fire small underground pit on a farm, scale. Blacksmiths heat the metal Sleepwalking occurs most at near the town of Tikrit. Hussein using a forge fueled by propane, was born April 28, 1937 in Al- age 6-12 years old. Homicide natural gas, coal, charcoal, or coke. or suicide during sleepwalking Blacksmiths create things like Auja about 100 miles north of has rarely been reported when wrought iron, gates, grills, railings, Baghdad, Iraq.