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The Westing Game
By Safe Jassani
Mrs. Karabinus’s 4th-5th class started reading the book called the The West-
ing Game in October 2011. The book is a mystery about heirs who play a game to
figure out which one of them is the murderer of a man named Samuel Westing. To
help us solve the mystery, Mrs. Karabinus bought us notebooks to write down the
clues to the mystery. On every page we will write a character’s name and the mys-
terious things that happen to the characters. Sometimes we listen to the recording
of the book and sometimes Mrs. Karabinus assigns some of us a character and we
will read their part.
Mrs. Karabinus gave each one of us
a character to draw a portrait, which we
hung up in the classroom to remind us of
the characters. We all got partners to as-
sist us with drawing the details of the
character we were assigned.
I asked Alex some questions about
The Westing Game, he said “I like The
Westing Game because it is very interest-
ing and there are many mysteries that go
along with it.” He also said, “I have a
feeling that the murderer is _______ or
_______.”
I also asked Aidan some questions.
“I definitely like the book because it’s
very interesting”. There is a movie called
The Westing Game, but there are many
differences from the book..
Our Biomes Project
By Alyssa Belko
During October, Mrs. Karabinus’s class spent a couple of weeks doing a
project on biomes. Each student partnered up and did research on their assigned
biome during our computer lab time. Our class did the project for two reasons.
The first rea-
son for the
project was
because we
were doing a
unit on food
webs and
food chains.
The other
reason was
for the peo-
ple who
don’t have
much experi-
ence with
active-
inspire to
learn about
this soft-
ware.
The flipcharts we made contained facts on endangered animals, plant and
animal adaptations, precipitation and temperature, and a food chain the audience
could try to do themselves and then the answers on the next slide for the present-
ers check to see if they’re right. After about 3 weeks of research, we presented
them to the rest of our class. Lilly Horschke and Emma Hirsch did a flipchart on
the Temperate Deciduous Forest.
“My favorite part was getting the pictures off the internet.” Lilly said. “The
most interesting fact to me about my biome is that we’re living in a temperate de-
ciduous forest.”
Safe Jassani and Aurora Piotrowski were partners. “My favorite fact is that
coral grows three centimeters each year.” Safe said. “I was nervous about present-
ing it because I was afraid something would go wrong.”
Moldy Log Observation
Experiment
By: Aurora Piotrowski
Mrs. Karabinus’s class
dissected moldy logs in the
art room in October with a
hammer, chisel and gloves.
On our logs we found lots of
insects, decomposers, fungi
and other living and non-
living things that make a rot-
ting log their home. We dis-
sected moldy decaying logs
for our unit in science. Our
unit in science was about
food chains and food webs.
In a food chain or web the
arrows go the direction of the flow of energy. A food chain would consist of:
Sun→Grass→Bug→Lizard→Snake→Hawk→Decomposer
A food web is a bunch of food chains strung together. There can be many organ-
isms living on and in a rotten log. Those organisms feed off the decaying log and
make it into fertilizers for other plants so they can grow (I really don’t want to
into how they
do that
though). De-
composers
usually are
fungi, fungus,
worms, certain
insects and
mold.
Track and Field Day by Violet Jouriles
On October 7th, the students of Emerson School had Track and Field Day
outside on the baseball field and black top. The games we played were: Titanic,
Guard the Castle, Capture the Flag, Kickball, Three Man Dodge Ball, and obsta-
cle courses. This year we had it in
October because we wouldn’t be
having gym with Mr. Harter in
the spring. It will be replaced by
art class. Everyone knows that
there can’t be Track and Field
Day without Mr. Harter! My fa-
vorite game was kick ball because
it gave everyone a chance to run
around and have fun.
“My favorite game was
Three Man Dodge Ball because I
was paired with my friends.” Ai-
dan said.
Emma said, “My favorite
game was the Obstacle Courses
because it was fun and involved
running and endurance.”
I was very excited about the turn out and hope it’s this fun next year also!
Courtyard Fix Up By: Michael Ferrone
During the year of 2011-12 Emerson Elementary is trying to fix up our very
own courtyard to make more room for classes to do work on nice days. We are
moving the garden to the side of the courtyard and then filling up the hole with
concrete to make more rooms for classes to do work.
In 2010 Mrs. Karabinus class planted this garden to make the courtyard
more of a habitat; we planted plants that were brightly colored so they could at-
tract butterflies and humming birds.
Mrs. Dunn was the one that started moving it. She removed the rocks,
loosened the soil, and then she moved the plants with the help of two of our stu-
dents. Sophia Ashby was one of the people who helped Mrs. Dunn with the soil.
“What we did was get all rocks and clay out of the soil so the plants could grow.”
Alice King was another helper and said that “It was fun we took the clay out of
the courtyard to the classroom, it was hard work.”
Mr. Shields and many other people are trying to get benches for the court-
yard to make it so you don’t have to sit on the ground if it’s damp.
OHIO STOCK MARKET
CHALLENGE
By Riley Geyer
The kids in Mrs. Karabi-
nus’s class are taking the Ohio
Stock Market Challenge. It
started on October 3rd and is
going to end on December 9th.
The Ohio Stock Market Chal-
lenge is a game that is played
on the computer. In this game
you receive a hundred thousand
dollars to buy stocks with. The
goal is to make the most money off of the stocks. Lots of students from Ohio enter
the challenge. Even students in high school have entered the Stock Market Chal-
lenge.
Mrs. Karabinus separated the students into four groups named, Karabinus-
1, Karabinus-2, Karabinus-3 and Karbinus-4. The groups worked together to find
stocks to buy and sell. We are taking the Stock Market Challenge because we are
studying economics and stocks.
“I am very happy with the stocks we have now and I am very pleased with
how we are doing.” said Aurora Piotrowski.
Zearatus Perry said, “I like buying stocks because it gives you a chance to
get money.”
“I think it is a fun chal-
lenge. We have to agree
on the stocks that we are
going to buy or sell be-
cause we are in a group
together.” Michael
Ferrone said
Trip to the Zoo
By Alice King
Mrs. Karabinus’s class and Mrs. Gerg’s class went to the zoo on Monday,
October 24 , 2011. We were split into groups for the trip. The group sizes were 4-
6 kids. We saw a lot of animals, including elephants, lions, monkeys, and birds.
First, we started in the elephant exhibit. “It was fun seeing the elephants be-
cause we haven’t seen them for such a
long time,’’ said Violet.
A lot of first graders chose to
write about something they found in
there. After that, we had some lunch.
From there, the groups were allowed to
go wherever the groups wanted to go.
In school, before we went on our
zoo trip, we picked a book from a bin
and did a page about the animal in our
zoo book. The zoo book is a packet of
paper the first graders fill out with in-
formation about an animal as well as
put a picture of the animal on the side.
OH DEER! By: Eliza Richardson On
November 2nd our class went outside to play
a game called “Oh Deer”. Oh Deer is a game
to represent what happens to the population
of deer when there is too many deer and not
enough shelter, water and food. Our class
concluded that when there are too many deer
and not many habitat components some deer
will not find what they are looking for and
the deer will die. When the deer die they
will eventually decay and turn in to more
habitat components. Since there will be less
deer and more habitat components the sur-
viving deer will have enough food, water
and shelter and produce more deer. The cy-
cle will repeat over and over again.
The game was played by starting out
with 6 deer and the rest of us were habitat components. We performed the cycle
by picking a habitat component and the deer would run over and pick a person
that had the same habitat component and if there was no more people with the
same habitat component the deer would die.
Riley said that, “ She liked the game but it got boring after a while.”
Violet said, ”I think the game was very fun because we don’t often play games
like that in school.” After we finished the game we
went back inside and graphed how many deer we had after each round out of 9
rounds. When we were done graphing we noticed that the number of deer popu-
lation was more, then less, more, less, more, less, more, less, more, less. The
point of this game was to realize that the population in nature is not balanced, it
goes up and down.
Survival How-To
By Lillian Horschke
Our class wrote articles
about outdoor survival. We did
this in our classroom because we
were reading the book, Hatchet,
by Gary Paulsen, where the main
character was lost in the Canadian
wilderness. We turned the com-
pleted articles into a book that
each student’s parents will receive
at conferences.
The articles are about how
to tell your direction, how to get
clean water, how to signal for
help, how to make a shelter and how to cross water safely.
Tully Worron wrote an article about direction. I asked her what she thought
was cool about it. “I think it’s cool because when you’re in a place where you
don’t know your direction there are so many ways to find it.” she said.
Riley Geyer wrote her article about making a tepee out of a parachute, and
Zearatus Perry wrote his about how to make a compass. Lots of people wrote
about dif-
ferent
things, so
this book
can teach
you lots of
things. We
hope you
enjoy the
book!
Hermit Crabs By: Aidan Bohac
The students of Mrs. Karabinus’s
class and their first grade buddies
from Mrs. Gerg’s class were doing
research about hermit crabs. They
were doing this because Mrs. Gerg’s
class was going to get a hermit crab
for their classroom pet. The pairs had
questions to answer and put in Power
Points. Some of the groups had the
same questions, but the Power Points
were very different. Some of the
questions were: What do hermit
crabs eat? Why are there empty
shells in the tank? When do we clean the aquarium? and Where do hermit crabs
get their shells?
The pairs put together a PowerPoint to present to the two classes. The stu-
dents met 4-5 times to: find answers, to make are Power Points, to practice read-
ing the PowerPoint’s. A PowerPoint about the Power Points will be presented to
our principal and other buddy classes to encourage them to do other things than
just read together. Michael Ferrone said “I have one of my own (hermit crab). So
when I was helping it was a lot easier than it would be if I did not have one of my
own.” We used a
program called
Read Please to
read are answers.
The program
read and high-
lighted the word
at the same time.
Eventually we
read the Power
Points to the two
classes after all
that hard work.
How To Register To Vote By Nate Bilski
You have to have certain qualifications to vote. You must be a resident of
the U.S.A to vote and at least be 18 years old. You must be a resident of the state
in which you’re voting. You must have lived in your area for at least 30 days to
vote. You only need to register once in your life. Those are the qualifications to
vote.
Here are your directions on how to register to vote. Contact the Board of
Elections in your state either by calling or through the internet. Next, you may get
a form from them or places like the post office or library. Certain states have
deadlines for when the form is supposed to be turned in before the election. Now,
mail the form to the Board of Elections. Finally, you should get a voters card in
the mail. In most states you don’t need a voter’s card but it does tell you where to
vote. You do need to bring a form of I.D. to vote. Now you know how to start vot-
ing.
Special Research Report:
Published by Zearatus and Emma
Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs By Evan Bell
On November 6 and 7, our class compared and contrasted Tho-
mas Edison and Steve Jobs. We used Venn diagrams, biogra-
phies, and the smart board to help us. We did this to learn more
about these world-changing people.
“What we had to do was fun and interesting!” Sophia Ashby
said.
Mrs. Marshall gave us Steve Jobs quotes to think about, such as, “You can’t
do a great job if you don’t love what you do.” We realized that what Steve Jobs
did would not be possible without Thomas Edison. Afterwards we did a paper
and had to choose whether we would go to Thomas Edison’s or Steve Job's house
and what gift we might bring. Some common examples are bringing Steve Jobs
apples or things made of apples, and giving Thomas Edison light bulbs. One of
the more inventive examples was Alice’s, she went to Edison’s house and brought
flowers because they would last longer than other gifts and looked very nice in a
unique way.