Sochi Olympics - Chesterbrook Academy

Chesterbrook Academy Elementary and Middle School
Winter Edition
Inside this issue:
Sochi Olympics
Cheetah Showcase
Book Review:
Robinson Crusoe
Spirit Week
Cheeroff
International Week
Events
Minecraft: Game
Review
The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games started on February 6 th, 2014. Sochi is a place in western
Russia. This year’s Olympics contained fifteen sports. These sports were: Alpine Skiing, Biathlon,
Bobsled, Curling, Cross-Country Skiing, Freestyle Skiing, Figure Skating, Hockey, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping, Luge, Short Track, Snowboarding, Skeleton, and Speed Skating. In this year’s
Olympics, there were twelve new events. The events were Ski Halfpipe – Men’s and Women’s,
Women’s Ski Jumping, Biathlon Mixed Relay, Figure Skating Team Event, Luge Team Relay, Ski
Slopestyle – Men’s and Women’s, Snowboard Slopestyle – Men’s and Women’s, and Snowboard
Parallel Slalom.
This Olympics, the temperature was really very high. Some of the temperatures reached the
mid to upper 60s. This caused the athletes to change their strategies in tying to compete in the
Olympics. The snow was soft, which made it hard to ski and snowboard. The indoor events, such as
speed skating, figure skating, hockey, and curling, were not affected. Some of the athletes protested
that they would not compete in those conditions, but that didn’t take full effect. It was one of the
warmest Winter Olympics in a very long time. In outside events, athletes fell, had missed checkpoints (in Alpine Skiing), and lost medal chances because of the temperature and the terrain.
This year, the Olympic medals were somewhat different. Close to half of the medal had a
hole in it. On the medal, it said: “sochi.ru 2014” which stands for Sochi, Russia in the year of 2014.
Then in a semi-circle around the left side of the medal, it said which event you won that medal. On
the back of the medal, it showed the Olympic rings.
-Matt Palmer and Kayla Sabet
Ice Skating
We go ice skating
Snow is falling on the ice
Ice skating with friends
-Alison Webster
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Cheetah Chatter
International POtluck
Chesterbrook Academy, had an International Potluck Day during our Multicultural week. Our school had a potluck so the students
could try foods from different countries. Gavin Flanagan, brought in a
very sweet and delicious food, called Kugel. It is a type of sweet pasta
with a cherry pie filling. Ishan Akhouri brought in a tray of delicious
veggie samosas. Ishan also brought in a bottle of homemade mango
lassi, a sweet mango milkshake drink. It was smooth and thick. Mihir
brought in Lindt chocolates; they were thick and creamy, with milk
chocolate filling.
Ms. Z’s 2nd grade class brought in sweets and an Indian snack
called pakora. Ms. T’s 2 nd grade class brought in sushi, German butter
cookies, samosas, and Russian pancakes. Ms. Clay’s class brought in
Irish Brownies, Korean Sushi, Rice and Beans, Dumplings, Hot Dogs,
and Fried Rice. We had a great time enjoying delectable delicacies from
all over the world.
-Ishan Akhouri and Mihir Sanad
International Reading Day
The most interesting day during the
Multicultural week was the performances
day. Students and teachers performed songs
and dances representing their culture. The
participants were Mrs. Kaur, Sneha, Ojas,
Greeshma, Mannat, and Mrs. O'Bryan.
Sneha did an amazing Bollywood dance.
Greeshma did a Marathi dance for the song
"Aika dajiba". Ojas recited an informative
poem about India. Mannat danced to a
northern Indian folk dance called "Maiya
Yashoda". Mrs. O'Bryan performed the
song called "The Prayer" by Andrea Boccielli. The performers had a lot of fun performing in front of the students. They were
all very interesting. The audience had a very
enjoyable time watching the performances.
They also got to participate during Ms.
Kaur’s “Punjabi” song performance. The
show lasted about an hour, but it felt much
shorter than that because we were all having
a lot of fun.
- Matt Palmer and Ahlam Mohamed
International Reading Day is a day when teachers read
books from all around the world in their class. The main
reason they do this is to educate their students on the
kind of books read half way across the world as well as
to expose them to different forms of literature.
International reading day was a blast. Kindergarten read The Korean Cinderella and The Egyptian
Cinderella, sounds like a classic! First Grade read different stories from around the world and also discussed the
cultures of the books they read. Second Grade read a
book called “Book’s from around the world”, a series of
multi-cultural books combined into one big book. They
even went as far to paint pictures of themselves.
This year I think 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade read really
good books. I may even read some on those books. This
year I think the teachers did really well in choosing the
books. This event is one of my favorites in the school
year.
-Tyler Ross Sabet
Snowflakes
We all love snowflakes.
When winter comes snowflakes fall.
We all want snowflakes.
-Lola Danier
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Cheetah Chatter
The younger students at Chesterbrook had a winter concert. It
included all of my favorite Christmas and holiday songs. It is an amazing experience and one of the best concerts of the year. It is so much
fun to attend! The students get you into the songs with all of their energy and passion. The song selection was an intelligent choice, it wasn’t too hard for the kids, yet it was very amazing and fun to watch.
The songs preformed were Sleigh Ride, Santa Clause is Coming to Town, Jingle Bell Rock, Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer,
Frosty the Snowman, Let it Snow, Snow Day. The participating classes
in the Winter Musical were: Ms. Z and Ms. T’s first second grade
class, Ms. Clay’s first grade class, Ms.Oh’s kindergarten class, Ms.
Agrestas kindergarten class, Ms. Marandas kindergarten class, and Ms.
Mustafa’s Pre K class.
The winter musical was full of energy and wonderful voices.
We were all very impressed with the children who performed this extravagant concert! Snow day was Kayla and my favorite song, the reason why is because we heard all of the kids voices and their jubilant
year! It is a must see show.
-Kayla Sabet
and Matthew Cerniglia
Korean
Translations of
English Words
Cheetah Cheer off!
Hello - ann-nyung ha-se-yo
Thanks - gahm-sa-hap-ni-da
School - hak-yo
I’m sorry - jwae-song-hap-ni-da
Goodbye - ahn-nyung-he-ga-seyo
Student – hak-seng
Teacher – sun-seng-nim
Numbers:
One: ha-na
Two: dool
Three: set
Four: net
Five: da sut
Six: yuh sut
Seven: il gohp
Eight: yuh duhl
Nine: ah hohp
Ten: yul
-Ms. Oh and Min Kwon
The cheer off is the best way to show off your cheetah spirit
all day long. Junior kindergarten through eighth grade competes for
the spirit stick and the trophy. All of the students and teachers worked
hard making and practicing their cheers. Each cheer/ dance was original and had its own special features.
In the cheer off we saw a lot of performance that were funny
and interesting. We saw Ms. Z’s class do a phenomenal job of “What
Does the Cheetah Say.” Ms. O’Bryan’s class did a great job with
“Applause.”
This year the fourth grade won the spirit stick. They worked
really hard to practice their cheer. It was a wonderful experience
watching all of the grades do their cheer. They truly deserved this
award. All of Chesterbrook community had been showing their
school spirit by dressing up in ways they normally wouldn’t. There
were others that were fun and funny such as middle school's performance. During the week we had twin day, mismatch day, jersey day,
and school spirit day. We also had an award for the most school spirit,
which is the cheetah trophy. This year Miss Oh’s kindergarten class
won the cheetah trophy for maximum participation. They truly had a
lot of spirit and dressed up for each of the theme.
- Gavin Flanagan and Sneha Satapathy
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Cheetah Chatter
Before the Performance
This year Chesterbrook Academy hosted the third Cheetah Showcase. The Cheetah Showcase is where children from third through eighth grade showcased their talents.
The showcase was on Friday, February 7, 2014. Students practiced their performances,
created art pieces as well as creative writing pieces. There was dancing, singing, people
playing instruments and acting! Coach Curt was appointed as The Master of Ceremonies.
The students practiced diligently to give an amazing performance. The theme for this
year’s Cheetah Showcase was “expressing your individuality.” The students worked on
this showcase by themselves with some helps of the teachers. They enjoyed practicing for
the final, huge, extraordinary performance!
During the Performance
There were many extraordinary performances by the students. The Cheetah
Showcase started off with Pedro Da Silveria playing “Scherzo” on the piano. It was nice
to hear the gentle notes of the piano. Sasha Thorpe sang Beautiful originally sung by
Christina Aguilera. To end the first part Marissa Edmiston, Ahlam Mohamed, Matthew
Palmer, Kayla Sabet, Maggie Short, Aaryman Akhouri, Andre Monroy, Matthew Channel
and Pedro Da Silveria performed Three Sideways Stories from Wayside School. After this
came the 15 minute interval to stretch around and mingle. To start the second part Ethan
McCrea played “Malaguena”. Sneha Satapathy sung Reflection, also originally sung by
Christina Aguilera. The Cheetah Showcase ended with all the participants singing Firework originally sung by Katy Perry. Each performance was met with a thunderous applause from the audience.
After the Performance
The showcase was a total success! The students did a remarkable job on the Cheetah
Showcase. The songs, dances, and skits were out of this world. Also the art and writing
pieces were phenomenal and breathtaking. The Three Wayside School stories were very
hilarious to the audience. Reflection, sung by Sneha Satapathy, was also very marvelous.
The group number Firework, originally, the students did stupendous job. However, the
Cheetah Showcase lasted longer than most people hoped to.
-Ahlam Mohamad & Marrisa Edmiston
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Cheetah Chatter
Sochi Winter Olympics were running on television since February 7, 2014. Therefore, we chose to do a
poll predicting the country that was going to win. We know that lots of people were watching the Olympics, so we went around the school and asked students to vote for their favorite country.
The top three countries in the medal ranking at that time were Norway, Canada, and The Netherlands. In
this poll, we went around the school and asked the Kindergarten class through the 6 th and 8th Grade
classes. The results were pretty amazing!
Looking at the result Canada was a popular choice. Maybe Canada is our neighboring country so the
students were favoring it. However, I voted for Norway, since they were doing awesome.
P.S: By the time we were going for print we found out that Russia won the Sochi Olympics. What a disappointment!
-Ishan Akhouri and Adam Mohamed
Snow
You play in the snow
I will have a snow ball fight.
The snow hit my face.
-Arjun Prasad
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Cheetah Chatter
Book Review
Robinson Crusoe is a primo book, created by a very talented author. The author is
Daniel Defoe. Daniel was a spy and also a journalist. Daniel Defoe has also written
other books such as “The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” and other books.
The book was originally published in 1719 April 25th. We liked how the book was
sequenced. This book has been an inspiration for many other “Marooned on an island” movies, like The Cay, and books like Cast Away.
Robinson Crusoe always had a knack for adventure and finally narrated his action
filled tale in this book. His adventure began on the first of September during the year
1651. He boarded a ship bound for London. As soon as the ship left the dock one of
the biggest hurricanes struck the ship. Poor Robinson had never been at sea and got extremely sick and terrified.
Then he realized what a mistake had done leaving his main land. This was just the start of his troubles.
The next day the sea got calm then got hit with an even more death-defying hurricane. This time the ship
sank because of a leak that sprang on the boat. Robinson however escaped on a nearby boat; the powerful waves
threw him from his boat. Then his tale began. Throughout the book is an account of his life and how he survived
on the island isolated from mankind.
We enjoyed the book very much. The reason why we enjoyed it was because we like survival and action
stories. Many of the people who read this book did not like it because they thought it was boring and not logical.
We enjoyed it very much, but I can see why a lot of people did not like this. This book is enjoyed by people all
around the world, majority of the people who enjoyed this book were from England, where the book was originally
published.
In the end of the book Robinson Crusoe returns from the isolated island and becomes an old and wealthy
plantation owner. All of his family died when he returned, expect his sister. We recommend this book to kid’s ages
9+. If we could rate this book we would give it 4 stars. This book is a classic and we would highly recommend you
read it.
-Tyler Sabet and Mihir Sanad
The Winner
Mark waited eagerly at the starting line, anxious to start running. When the horn blew, Mark
took off. He had never felt this adrenalin. He could hear his friends and family chanting, “Mark,
Mark!” He noticed he was in second place. He pushed with all the extra force he had in him.
Mark ran his heart out, and then he heard a cry of pain. He stopped and looked behind.
A young boy about the age seven to nine was lying on the ground crying. Mark stopped
and ran over to him and asked, “Are you okay?” The child continued crying. Mark thought
about what he was about to do. He picked up the boy and carried him to the finish line.
Mark saw one of his friends looking at him with an expression that said, “You could
have won!! Why did you help that kid!?!?” Mark continued walking the boy on his shoulder.
When they finally reached the sideline, he saw a set of parents in dismay.
“Oh my, thank you so much,” said the boy’s parents. They grabbed their son and ran
away to get him some help. Mark stood still for a moment, shocked about what he did. Then out
of nowhere the crowd started cheering.
The judges walked over to Mark and said, “You did something that was better than winning a trophy.” Mark would never get back the time he trained for this race. But what he did
earn that day could never be replaced by any feeling ever again
-Tyler Sabet (6th grade)
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Cheetah Chatter
If you are looking for a survival, building, action and adventure game, try Minecraft. Minecraft is a building game, with action in it. It was publically released on May 17, 2009, as an alpha version. The full version with
all the awesome stuff in it came out on, November 17, 2011. There are many versions of this game. There is one
for Xbox 360, iOS, PC, and Mac. There are three modes in Minecraft. There are Survival, Creative, and Adventure.
In survival you can survive days and nights, when monsters are around. The main goal is to build a house
before nighttime. That is a hard task. To build a house you need to get wood, and make resources out of that wood.
After you have made a basic house, you can start mining, and getting iron, gold, diamonds, etc, and can make tools
out of those. With those tools, you can do many things. The tools are the sword, the axe, the pickaxe, the hoe, and
the spade.
Adventure mode, is much harder. You cannot hit wood with your fists, or dirt, so that means you must
search for the bonus chest, a chest that has a few torches, so you can make some light at nighttime, an axe, so you
can get wood, and a shovel, for getting dirt. It is harder to get diamonds, and other resources, so only a true Minecrafter can play this mode.
With the sword, you can fend off monsters. You can get wood faster using the axe, besides using your
fists for wood. With the pickaxe, you can mine, and get awesome stuff like gold and diamonds. With the hoe, you
can make a farm, and tame animals, like horses, so you can ride them. With the spade, you can dig dirt faster, besides using your fists for dirt.
The creative mode is a fun relaxing version of mine craft. You have unlimited amount of resources and
cheats. You can build to your heart’s desire and you can fly. This allows you to build stuff that you wouldn’t be
able to build in survival. There many cheats that you can use in the creative version of mine craft. Like you can set
the time of day in mine craft and you could fly. Creative mode truly allows you to do whatever you want and lets
you build in it till you drop.
Minecraft is also online game that means that you can join servers. There are many many servers that you
can join. On servers you can chat with other people and build, do survival, or do whatever the server was made for.
You can also make your own server. You can program the server to make it however you want to. You could make
it so it’s just creative. Servers are truly fun. However, we would recommend being careful allowing kids on a public server.
-Ishaan Akhouri and Gavin Flanagan
Pandora
One day a ballerina girl named Pandora tried to dance on a pumpkin. When she twirled,
the pumpkin rolled away. And she fell off. Pandora knew she needed a bigger pumpkin.
Unfortunately, she didn’t know where to find one. So she grew one herself. When it was
big enough for her to twirl on , she got on top of it and completed her dance with a
lovely twirl.
-Adalia Udechime (3rd grade)
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Cheetah Chatter
My Best Experience Ever
If you ever dreamed of
swimming with dolphin,
read on and hopefully you
can feel like you’re doing it
with me. When my mom,
dad, and I were in Mexico,
my mom surprised me with
the best surprise ever. She
said, “We are going to
swim with dolphins”. My
mom and I walked down a
peer and walked right into the ocean and there were two dolphins waiting for
us. Their names were Cathy and Frances and I saw them do amazing tricks. I
got to kiss a dolphin which I thought was weird because I kissed it right on
the lips (I never thought my first kiss would be with a dolphin!) Then I floated
in the water and the dolphins swam around and I grabbed onto their fins and
we swam across the ocean together. Another thing I got to do was dance with
Frances which I thought was cool because Frances was actually moving back
and forth. My favorite part was riding across the water standing up in the air
on both of the dolphin’s noses. It felt like I was riding right on top of the
ocean.
Swimming with Frances and Cathy was my best experience ever. I hope you
had a good one with me!
-Emily Lupisella (4th Grade)
Sled Ride
Snow is falling
down
I like playing in the
snow
Making snow
tunnels
-Katherine
Creative Writing pieces
provided by:
Tyler Sabet (6th):
The Winner
Emily Lupisella (4th):
My Best Experience
Ever
Adalia Udecime (3rd):
Pandora
Staff
Editor
Jasveen Kaur
Haikus provided by Mrs. Taterway’s class
Reporters
Kayla Sabet
Matthew Palmer
Matthew Cerniglia
Ahlam Mohamed
Marissa Edmiston
Gavin Flanagan
Mihir Sanad
Sneha Satapathy
Ishaan Akhori
Adam Mohamed
Tyler Sabet