From the Desks of Halo and Lucy...

Winter Concert 

                                                          By: Lucy and Halo 

At the Winter Concert, band and chorus put on a wonderful show. The first half was band. They played about 4-5 songs. They sounded great. They also have been practicing for a long time. When they first started they didn’t know how to play even one single note or how to even put the instrument together. The chorus, known as the Trebblemakers, was also amazing. They sang the second half after the band played. Some of the singers were brave and came up in front of the microphone and sang a solo. They were brave because they are not just singing in front of nobody, they are singing in front of the whole school, even our Principal. The Winter Concert was in the morning and every one was tired because they didn’t want to be at school. When everyone started to sing and play their instruments, everyone felt much better. After the concert ended we all wanted to stay and listen to songs even longer.

From the Desks of Lucy and Halo...

                     Iatlian Night

                       By:  Lucy and Halo

January 16 is Italian night. Italian night is a night where you do not have to cook. Instead of eating dinner at home, you can come to Johnny Appleseed and have spaghetti and meatballs. Students offer to be your waiter. Italian night is awesome. Everybody who goes in there is happy, and everyone comes out like they want to go every night because it was so delicious. It is also a chance to get to know the staff and the kids in the school better. The pasta that they have is so good that everyone could have 100 boxes of it. The person who cooks it, does a really good job. Of course the servers do a good job too. You could choose plain pasta, pasta and meatballs, pasta and sauce, and pasta sauce and meatballs. There are so many options. Our PTO makes money to help bring events to our school and send us on field trips. It's a great night for Johnny Appleseed students.

From the Desks of Lucy and Halo...

      2020  

In writing we are working on our 2020 flip books.
Each page has something about 2020 or memories
from 2019. For example one page might be pink
that says “pick 2 memories from 2019.” or “What
are some accomplishments?” After you color the
front page, you cut them all out, and staple them
together. When you are done, it will be something
you can flip open and read. It will also be something
you can keep and remember all the fun times you
had in 2019. Some people in our class are almost
done the flip book and some people are not even
close to being done, but we are having a fun time
making it. Even better when we are done, we can
look back at all of are memories.

From the Desks of Halo and Lucy...

              Science Class

In Mrs. Demers science class we are doing a lot of fun science labs. The labs are based on chemical changes. For our last class we got a balloon full of 2 scoops of baking soda. Then we filled up a plastic water bottle with 18 scoops of vinegar. When we were ready we put the balloon on the bottle. Then we dumped the baking soda in the vinegar. After that the vinegar got all bubley and the balloon started to blow up. The balloon got really big, we thought it was going to pop but it didn’t. At the end the vinegar wasn’t bubbly anymore. But at the bottom of the bottle was some weird white paste. The paste was called “sodium acetate” and is evidence of a chemical change. The gas bubbles are evidence of a chemical change too. We do a lot of fun science labs in Mrs.Demers class. This was only one of them. 

Ice Cube Project

Hello, my name is Keira Traverse. You may have read my first story, Chemistry In Science, I talked about my class’ science class, but today I will be talking about our project. In science class we were making projects. The project was supposed to make a prototype that will keep an ice cube cold for the day. We were given a sheet to fill out that would help us find what we need and what to do. We had to look for materials with low thermal conductivity. That means it will not transfer heat well. The items needed to be good insulators. The most common materials used were Aluminum foil, Styrofoam, and insulation. These items are some of the best things to use. This project was like a contest because, there would be a first, second, and third place winner. We were given the morning to make these projects and in the afternoon we would open them and see who had the biggest ice cube. The team with the biggest ice cube would win. My team used a shoe box, aluminum foil, and styrofoam. At science class we opened them to see if we had an ice cube. We had an ice cube but it was really small. There were people who had ice cubes, but most of them were not that big. There were a few people who had big ice cubes so theirs were weighed to see who won. In third place was Halo and Lucy. The second place winner was Bailey and Jasleen. And the winners for first place were Alannah, Deanna and Isabella. They were the people with the biggest ice cubes. Thank you for reading my story. - Keira Traverse

From the Desks of Lucy, Sierra, and Halo

   Book Fair           By: Lucy, Sierra, and HaloEvery year Mrs Bradford works with the PTO to host a book fair.
Every year the kids have more and more fun.Things you can buy: You can buy a series of books like Guts,
Ghosts, Smile, and Sisters. Instead of books you can also buy bookmarks, posters, erasers, black light pens,
regular pens, and pencils. Book sections: Some of the sections of books are graphic novels, fantasy, fiction,
and non-fiction. There are also some fairy tale stories. After you buy your book: After you buy your books you
go up to the table with all of the people that work there and you pay for the books or other things like bookmarks,
you bought. After you pay usually Mrs. Bradford puts on a movie in the mac lab. She set up chairs in front of
the screen. For example the movie that was playing this year was “Wreck it Ralph 2.”

Chemistry in Science

Hello! My name is Keira Traverse, I'm going to be talking about our most recent science class. This class was one of my favorites. In class we learned about how pennies can turn silver nails to copper nails and what liquids could clean a penny. 

In the class we used vinegar and salt, vinegar, salt water, and soapy water to see which one was going to clean a dull penny, the salt and vinegar was the one that worked. We don't really know why, but we still had fun. Later we found out that vinegar is a weak acid. After that we put a lot of pennies in salt and vinegar and left them overnight. The next day we look at them they got kinda clean, but not fully. Then we got a silver nail, we put the nail in a bag and then poured the pennies and salt and vinegar in the bag with the nail. We left them overnight. The next day we saw something, the nails had turn copper but how? In the night, the copper on the coins came off and were spread in the water. Then the particles collected on the nail covering it in copper. The nail in this situation is like a magnet and the copper particles are like iron. Then on friday we were given sandpaper to sand the nail. We started to sand the nail and the copper was coming off the nail. The nail was copper plated, so when we sanded it the copper scraped off of the nail. And that was my science class. Thank you for reading, your fellow writer, Keira T. Thank you.

From the Desks of Halo and Lucy...

On November 7, 2019 we had a blow up planetarium in the gym. Mr. K came from the Springfield Museum. On that day the fifth graders got to go inside and learn about stars and constellations. It was dark in there and all we could see were stars and constellations and even the planets Saturn and Jupiter. We went in there not knowing a lot about stars, then we came out knowing a lot about stars and constellations. When you think about it there are a lot of stories about how the constellations are placed in the night sky. Mr. K set it up to look like we were outside looking at the sky, but we were indoors, and it did feel like we were outside. It looked like real stars, but they were pictures of stars. After he showed us the sky and told us about stars and what they were known for. He set up the same thing but it had lines connecting each constellation so we could see what they looked like. He showed us constellations like Aquarius, Cassiopeia, Leo, and Geime and lots more. It was lots of fun. We want to thank the JA PTO for bringing this program to our fifth grade.

From the Desks of Halo and Lucy...

Peter H. Reynolds meets JA on October 11, 2019. He wrote the books ISH, Sky Color, The Dot, Word Collector, Happy Dreamer, and Say Something plus tons more.) He visited our school with his brother Paul Reynolds. Both brothers also own their own bookshop.  It is called the Blue Bunny. Everyone was so happy to see this famous book author and illustrator. He also illustrated the pictures for Judy Moody.  We have had many authors and illustrators come visit Johnny Appleseed, but Peter Renalds is the nicest, kinds, and coolest. He is so kind to everyone and he wishes that everyone visits his Blue Bunny book shop in Boston.

Walk to School

We had a terrific morning walking to school. It was awesome to see our community stretched out over the sidewalk of Main Street. What a morning!