JR. SEAHAWK NEWS

ARBOR HEIGHTS SCHOOL - June, 1995 VOLUME 2 - ISSUE 7

STORIES, POEMS AND ARTICLES BY ARBOR HEIGHTS STUDENTS

Sudent editors: Jacob, Sonya, Jing Wen Niu

Editors: Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Shaw, Communication Center


Out With the Old, In With the New!
by Annalisa

Our dear principal Mr. Fowler is leaving Arbor Heights! But why, after all these years?... I remember all those Halloweens where he was a clown. I’m sure we all remember Grandma Rosie. We don’t want you to go, Mr. Fowler! Good luck in the future! But a big, big welcome to Carl Leatherman, our new principal.

Matt’s Write-a-Rama

Hi, it’s me again, Matt,
the kid with a new opinion. I am sad to say that this is my last article, although I will try to convince Ms. Thompson to let me write next year. PLEASE? It has been fun to drive you (and politicians) absolutely nuts. I have been thinking about a good topic for my last article. I decided that I wanted to make some predictions on what will happen to some of the people I’ve known over the years. I’ll start with some of of my friends since first grade: Wes and Taylor. I think that we are going to eventually figure out how to communicate telepathically and and start giving each other answers on tests. Then eventually we’ll become millionaires and retire by the time we’re twenty one.

Next, my second grade teacher... Ms. Shavey! I think that one day she will find out that her student is a millionaire and ask me for a growth tonic and will become a good 5’ 11”.

My brother, Tom, will become a great thinker and will go down in history as one of the inventors of the garbage compactor which takes one cubic mile of garbage and turns it into one cubic inch.

Next, I predict my third grade teacher, Mr. Ahlness, will become a rich computer millionaire like Bill Gates.

Next, Mr. Dorr, my first and fourth grade teacher. I think he will eventually become a stand up comedian for kids who can’t see and sick kids at a hospitial.

And last but definitely not least, Mr. Wagner, my current teacher, will attach rockets to his motor home and fly to the moon, visiting all the craters.

Oh, dang, I forgot myself - well, I’m going to go into the writing industry and develop some software on the side. I'll make more money than Bill Gates and make a good salary on the intrest. Well, it’s been good writing this year. Thanks. Bye bye. Asta Lavista. Cheerio, and don’t eat too many beans! P.S. Life is like sky diving. Once you do it, you don’t want to again.
Matt


Cool Articles by Room 24

GOOD KIDS! by the Super Kids

This is a thank you letter to all the kids that worked hard and helped Arbor Heights in the past year.
We have seen you on the playground. When someone was hurt you ran for help! We have seen you helping in the lunchroom and the library. We saw you helping in the kindergarten room so they could understand more. We have seen you giving up lunch recess to serve all the kids in the school. We have seen you help each other in the classroom. Lots of times we have seen you helping the custodian! So to all of you we say, “Thank you!” Chris, Pablo, Be, Phoung

Wolf Pup Facts

When wolf pups are born they may weigh a pound or less. Pups may start to fight when they’re about 30 days old. They may fight for a number of days. At the end, one of the pups rolls over and shows it gives up. The winner raises it’s tail just like an adult wolf would.

A baby wolf can die in the cold without its parents. Baby wolves can grow-up faster than people.

One adult wolf, usually the mom, will stay with them. by Dora, Sorn, Kris & Nick, members of the Kings and Queen ddorr@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us


Weird But True FACTS!!! BY THE FOUR D’S!!!!

FACT 1... A SNAKE AFTER GETTING IT’S HEAD CUT OFF... STILL SLITHERS AND TRIES TO BITE YOU!
FACT 2... CHICKENS AFTER HAVING THEIR HEADS CUT OFF STILL RUN AROUND! SICK!!!
FACT 3....EVER HAVE THE HICCUPS ? WELL, ONE MAN HAD THE HICCUPS FOR 29 YEARS! HE HICCUPPED 20 TO 40 TIMES A MINUTE ! BUT THE HARDEST PART OF ALL WAS TO KEEP HIS DENTURES IN!
FACT 4....EVER WONDER IF AN ANIMAL HAS A STRONGER SENSE OF SMELL THAN YOU DO ? YOU’D NEVER KNOW IT BUT A SLUG HAS THE GREATEST SENSE OF SMELL... MORE THAN ANYTHING ON EARTH!
FACT 5...ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIVED THAT CATS WERE AFRAID OF DEATH SO WHEN ONE DIED THE OWNER SHAVED HIS EYEBROWS OFF!
FACT 6...EVER TRIED TO KILL A COCKROACH? IT’S PRETTY HARD. ONE CAN LIVE FOR WEEKS WITHOUT FOOD OR IT’S HEAD!
FACT 7...EVER WONDER WHY PIRATES WEAR THOSE HOOP EARRINGS? THEY THOUGHT THAT IT IMPROVED THEIR EYESITE!
Sonya, Toese, Alyssa, Pat
ddorr@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us

Classroom News and our Famous Mr. Wilkie

Rm 21— Dung, 5th gr.

Dear Readers,
May 25th was the Young Authors’ Conference. Each student in the school has written a book. In my class we wrote books about old time Seattle or a family story. We read our books to a parent, author, or administrator. After that we had a little party with sandwiches. Parents and visitors were welcome to visit. ecrichto@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us

Rm. 23—Reggie, Adam, gr. 5

Our class went on the Harbor Tour. It was beautiful weather and we went on this big old boat for two hours. We saw an ice-breaker and a container ship. This machine picks up those large containers and puts them ships. The ice-breaker ship was exciting. They go full speed into the ice to break it up. We are looking forward to fun in the sun this summer.

Rm. 18—Machaela, Andy, Gr.2

We went on a field trip on May 10. We have walking sticks and have made clocks and space pictures. We are looking forward to summer so we can go to the Seattle Center and ride the rides.

Rm.17—Danielle,Taylor, Gr.1

We are learning about things that happen every month. We have been having lots of fun.
Our hamster is very big and is named Ken Griffey Jr. He likes to sleep, bury himself and eat.
We made leprechauns. Mine is green, brown, red, yellow, and black. We have lots more on the calendar to do.
After we read The Line Softie Drew we started reading Jimmy Lee. We also have five new books and we are reading, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic. We are on the fifth chapter.
We just started a new thing called the Good Luck Club. I like it. It’s cool. Danielle
We are studying about rattle snakes.
Last week a man came to our class and told us about ... RECYCLING!

Mr. Wilkie’s Computer Trivia.....

Ok, HERE ARE THE LAST TWO QUESTIONS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR...
I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS FOR THE OLDER KIDS AND ONE FOR THE YOUNGER KIDS.

1. WHAT THREE KEYS DO YOU PUSH TO WARM BOOT A COMPUTER?
2. SINCE WERE TALKING ABOUT WARM BOOTING A COMPUTER, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WARM BOOT AND A COLD BOOT?
HERE’S A QUESTION FOR YOUR YOUNGER DUDES AND DUDETTES. NAME THREE PARTS OF A COMPUTER AND TELL ME WHAT THEY DO.
YOU HAVE ALL SUMMER TO FIGURE OUT THESE QUESTIONS!
e-mail address: dwilkie@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us


Rm.16—J.J., Danny Gr. 1,2,3

Third graders are going swimming with Mr. Warford. In room 16 they are writing fiction and nonfiction books for Young Authors. Some of them are making ABC books about their families. Someone else is doing a Spanish book. Mallory is done with the birds for her book. They are all looking forward to summer.

Room 14—Dustin, Katrina Gr. 2

Every boy and girl in room 14 wrote about Raven, the Trickster. We got into groups and made our stories into plays. My group had Cale, Adam, Matt, and me. We made it a play with these animals: Raven,Bear,Beaver,Eagle, and Hawk. It’s fun to make plays.
We went up to Mr. Wagner’s classroom for our stories to be typed by the fifth graders because they have laptops. They were nice to us. We got to play games after we were done. (Interview by Maria)

Room 12—Brian, Stephanie, Gr.3

Last month the whole school did the CAT tests and the test had 50 pages!

Ashes Ashes

Ashes, ashes on my face! 
What happened to you? 
What happened to me? 
What happened to us? 
We got too close to the campfire... 
That’s what happened to us. 
That’s what happened to the  
both of us! 
 
by Stephanie 

Room 9—Wesley, Gr.3

I’m sure we’re all looking forward to summer vacation. I know I am! I interviewed some of the kids in my class about where they might be going this summer. Eric is going to visit his aunt and uncle. James is going to a camp in Canada called Camp Elfenstone. Shawn is going to Ocean Shores, Lauren is going to Disneyland. (Sorry, not enough room for all of the article.) Mrs. Salter is going to the University of Washington. (No rest for the teachers! )

Room 7—Cameron, Alexandra, 4th grade

Room 7 wishes you a happy vacation and to get your mind off of school!!!

Room 8—Dana and Ratty, Gr. 4

We are doing country’s reports. We have to pick a country from our heritage. Kids are doing countries from all over Europe, Asia and North America. One kid is doing Mexico, one is doing Germany, and one is doing Thailand. I have a friend who is doing Denmark. There are a lot of kids doing England, Ireland, and Italy.
It is hard work, but Ms. Luke makes it sounds easy. In Math we are doing addition of fractions with different denominators. In Reading, we are finishing up our books for the Young Authors’ Conference.

Room — 15 Jed

We just had a fieldtrip to Lincoln Park. We found an octopus, large eels, snails, jellyfish, limpets, barnacles, rocks, and different kinds of seaweed. We saw seastars with 5, 6, and 7 legs. When we went under the docks we saw large sea anemones that were red, orange and white. The last thing we saw was a huge crab about 12” wide!

More Classroom News and Eagles by the Phantoms


Rm.24— Jacob and Chris, gr. 3/4

In Room 24 we have been editing and writing articles for the Jr. Seahawk News. We set the salmon free at Longfellow Creek near Delridge. We got to name our salmon what ever we wanted to. After that we went to Alki Beach and helped pick up garbage. We found a lot of paper, glass, and not very many pop cans.

Rm 4—Allison, Kellen, K

They made trains. They said they should recycle more. They want to go to first grade next year. They made the trains out of recycled stuff. The next letter is “X”. (interview by Kris)

Rm 3—Heather, Colin, K.

They are on the letter “W” and here are some of the words: water, watermelon, weeds... They picked the weeds out of their garden. They are growing flowers and they had a garden last year, too. Their garden has a sign that says Kindergarten’s Garden Do not touch. They have animals, too: walking sticks, a lizard, and tad poles. (Interview by Maria)

Rm 1—Hilary, Steven, gr. 1

We went to the Children’s Festival at the Seattle Center. We had fun. We spun a wheel and we got prizes. There was lots of cotton candy, licorice and other good stuff. Some of us got our faces painted. We ate tacos with sugar, kind of an experiment instead of hot sauce. All of us had hot chocolate. We learned how to fix some tortillas. and learned about the people in Mexico.

Crazy Sentences- Rm. 23

Jing jumps jolly jumprope.
Don’t dump dirty dirt.
Niu nipped nonpoisonous noodles nonstop.
Taylor tailors twenty tuxedoes in Texas.
Terrific trolls try to truck tangerines to Taiwan.
Sixty silly Samoans swim to Spain..
Smart Smith shook his snake.
Touth Tim took his turkey and turtle to the truck.
Angry Adolfo ate an apple with an alligator.
Barney bounced to the booth and bought a big bubble gum.
Paoze put plenty of purple plants on Pluto.

Eagles by Samantha, Derek, Eric, Erika,Tony

There are four groups of eagles with 59 kinds recognized by scientists..

1. Harpy Eagles are giant birds. They live in forests and eat very big prey like monkeys and deer. There are six species of Harpy eagles. They have five inch claws.
2. Fish and Sea Eagles are giant birds. They are 11 species and they all live near water.
3. Snake Eagles are small to medium size. There are 12 species. They usually hunt snakes but sometimes will eat lizards and frogs.
4. Booted Eagles have feathers that go down to their feet like boots. There are 30 species. The Golden Eagle is a booted eagle. They live in the Artic and in tropical forests, in low areas and high mountains.
The Phantoms Rm.24



Letters to the Editor.............. Annalisa

The Big Idea

This month some kids wrote to the newsletter about different topics. Some of them were about recess, the teachers, the Oklahoma City bombing, and some other things. These all start with “Dear Editor,” so I won’t put that in at the beginning. Keep on reading, yours might be here!
I just wanted to let you know, or inform you, that I want every kid in our school to have any kind of sweets and as much as they want everyday.
Nicole, Room 9
What I want is a pet in each room. We can have guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, birds, fish, frogs, turtles, lizards, walking sticks, snakes, rats, gerbils, ant farms, spiders, butterflies, worms, or insects. You could choose any kind of animal or insect for your class.
David, Room 9
I would like to have puzzles, a math quiz or something like that.
James, Room 9
I feel really bad that a bomb went off in Oklahoma City. I just hope that the people are OK. I wish the bomb did not blow up. All the people I’m sure feel really sad or bad in Oklahoma City. I know I feel very sad. I wish it did not hurt boys, girls, moms, dads, and all kinds of people. I wish there was not even a bomb that blew up in Oklahoma City. I hope the people are getting lots and lots of help.
Kristopher, Room 24
It is sad about what happened in Oklahoma City. The saddest part of it is all the babies that are hurt. I’m glad they caught the bad guys.
Jacob, Room 24
I think every class room from first grade and up should have laptops. I think Mr. Wilkie and Mrs. Keegan should stop yelling at people when they run the track. There should be games in the paper.
Lauren, Room 9
I am sad because the Sonics lost, but next year I think they will win. Thank you for printing the Arbor Heights Jr. Seahawks Newsletter. It has been really good this year.
Ricky, Room 24
I am sorry about the bomb in Oklahoma City. I hope a bomb isn’t in Seattle or anywhere because I hate bombs!
Chris, Room 24
I like all the news. Everything is great and nice, too. Arbor Heights is a good school. Kids are learning a lot. We use computers a lot . All the kids in my room have pen friends from the Bon Marche.
Dora, Room 24
I’m writing this note because I want to say that I’m really sad about the Oklahoma bombing. The bad guys who do this make me vomit. They’re scum between my toes. I hope that they splat those guys and turn them into slime!
Makala, Room 24
Thank you for the news. I would like to see a Riddles Page.!!!!!
Ryan and Tom, Room 24
I have been very unhappy with the lunch at our school. Sometimes it is hot and sometimes it is very cold when it is supposed to be hot. Sometimes, I think we should get a little more.
Dung, Room, 21
P.S. if you are at this school, drop it off in Mr. Wagner’s box. If not, send me e-mail: gwagner@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us