Do you like the Olympics?

by: Maddie ,Caroline and Kathleen


If you do, then how about we have are own Olympics at school. We could do cheerleading , soccer, football, basketball , tennis, baseball, and kickball, and more. Instead of gold, silver and bronze medals, whichever class wins, they have a choice of a chocolate trophy that is ten feet long or a water balloon fight with all of the teachers. If you want both prizes, your class has to win the water balloon fight. Instead of just a one day long field day, we could have one day for the Olympics and the other for field day. And if you do not want to do one kind of sport, you do not have to do it. You could be a spectator and just watch. Lunch would be pizza or ice cream.
We think this would be very fun for our school to do. What do you think of our idea?

The Winter Olympics

Are you watching the Winter Olympics in Vancouver? We have a number of Olympic website suggestions on our Countryside webpage. Our class is doing Gail Skroback Hennessey's web quest. We want to hear from you. What did you think about Friday night's opening ceremonies? What sport have you enjoyed watching? There is talk about changing the luge structure so there would be limits to the speeds these sleds can reach. At what point does safety supercede the original competiveness of a sport?

BUS RULES

by: Kathleen

I would like it if 3rd graders could sit in the back of the bus because the 4th and 5th graders hog it. This is not fair to 3rd and 2nd graders. 4th and 5th graders say that only 4th and above can sit in the back, but when they were in 3rd they sat in the back. So something I want to know is, Who made this rule?
How can we change this? What do you think?

The Gogo's Craze

by John C.

Everyone in 3rd grade is going crazy for Gogo's. They are little trading people that are very, very fun! Boys and girls love to play with them during indoor recess. We trade and battle with them.

Some Gogo's are rare, and some are ultra rare. There are 15 rare gogos, and 5 ultra rare Gogo's. The way that we like to battle is to have two people [maybe three at the most] line their Gogo's up and try to either flick or push them and get theGogo's to hit the other person's Gogo. You get 3 lives, but you lose your Gogo if you are playing for keeps. If you play for fun, you don’t have to give up you're Gogo.

There are 5 different series of Gogo's. Most people only have series 1 but some have series 2, 3, and 4. I've never seen a person with series 5. The best place to go for Gogo's is Learning Express, but they are also at Target and other stores like that. I will give you one of the names for an ultra rare Gogo. The answer is: Fist. You will learn more about this when you get GOGO'S!

Do you collect Gogo's?

Let's Learn a New Language

by Maddie
Sometimes I feel lucky, because I am in Dual Language. Dual Language is where you learn to read and write and talk in Spanish. I would like to talk to more people in Spanish. So I was thinking maybe students that aren’t in Dual Language could learn Spanish in a one hour class. They could attend a class once a week and then maybe everybody would get better at speaking and understanding Spanish. We would become one of the smartest schools. I think it would be fun for other students to learn Spanish. What do you think of my idea? Please respond.

An Interview with Mr. Groundhog

By: Shivani

G reat, you made us have 6 more weeks of winter.

R eally, we don't need it

O n the first day of spring, I will draw a mustache on your picture

U h – oh, more snow

N ow it might snow for a month and 2 weeks!

D on't rub it in!

H eat will come soon (I hope)

O nly SOME people like winter

G roundhog!