Brooks street Journal Friday, March 9, 2012 Issue: 6

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1 Brooks street Journal Friday, March 9, 2012 Issue: 6 Should kids have Kindles in class? By: Aimee Leal Should kids have Kindles in class? Well I think so. On Kindles you can read a lot of book s like they both include! All the Kindles in the Kindle family have a lot of different types. Like the Kindle, Kindle Touch, and the best... Kindle Fire. Kindles have great reasons to use them. No one can determine how long the book your reading, it could be short, it could be long. Either way no one will know. Did you know that you can upload a PDF file, Word, and Text files to your Kindle? Imagine, having an electronic library of student work readily available for all of your students to enjoy. This way you don t have to worry about your kids taking passes, putting clips on the wall, or taking their cards and going down to the LMC. Then possibly being late for class! On Kindle you can play games (sometimes it can annoying when other people are trying to read). But anyways back to the subject, kids play games but the kids that have them distract the other kids from reading, doing work, or homework. On the bright side kids can play educational game apps. For example, math facts, reading, division, writing and other things to do. I think teachers should let students play educational games, it can increase their knowledge. Since some kids in my class have Kindles including me, so I know how it is to have a Kindle myself. Classmates in my homeroom have Kindles, most of them normally play games and distract kids instead of reading. So, my teacher splits them up so they are not around each other. Others like to enjoy and read a good book instead of playing games and disrupting other people. But still I think kids should have the opportunity to play educational games if they don t want to read. 1

2 Who s Who at Brooks? Interviewing Mrs. Lewis By : Shadi Jarquin What is your... Favorite color? My Favorite color is black. Favorite TV show? It is How I Meet your Mother. Favorite sport? My favorite sport is NASCAR. Favorite food? My favorite food is baked spaghetti Favorite animal? It is a frog Favorite drink? Sweet ice tea. Favorite book? To Kill a Mocking Bird. Favorite thing to do? My favorite thing to do is go boating. Where were you born? I was born in Cincinnati, KY. When were you born? I was born in Favorite holiday? Favorite holiday is Christmas. 2

3 DID YOU KNOW? President s Day By: Lauren Coates To most of you, Presidents Day is just another chance to get out of school. But in reality, it s definitely much more, Presidents Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February, so this year it was on the 20th. It was originally TWO holidays, one to honor George Washington, and one to honor Abraham Lincoln also known as Honest Abe. George Washington was born on February 22, As most of you already know, he was our 1st president ever and he was the general that lead the U.S. army to victory over Great Britain. Once the colonists had won the war, they wanted George to be their leader. He accepted the title and served president for two terms (eight years.) This great president died in the year Abe Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809 in a log cabin. He grew up on several different pioneer farms, that seemed to spring up all the time. Believe it or not Abe had little and next-to-no schooling. In coming years, slowly but surely, his love for politics grew. As a politician he rose higher and higher on the scale of importance. Finally, he became president. But sadly, in 1865 he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. So, next year, when Presidents Day rolls around again, you can tell all of your friends and family what this great holiday is truly about. 3

4 DID YOU KNOW? St. Patrick's day By: Angelica Balcazar Happy St. Patrick Day!. Are you excited about St. Patrick s Day? I bet you are! It is on Saturday, March 17, 2012 which is fast approaching. We wear green because it is a tradition to the United States. Don't be saying Oww when you get pinched because you are not wearing green. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated with patron dancing and feasting on the traditional meal of bacon and cottages. Did you know that parades didn t begin in Ireland, but in America? In Ireland, people would burn leaves and boughs. They would spread the ashes on the fields in order to make the land richer. Ireland made the land rich and wealthy. So they would grow money in their backyard. St. Patrick s Day is celebrated in Dublin. You will see a spectacular fireworks show, live music, street theater, and the traditional parade. The three largest parades of recent years have been held in Dublin, New York, and Birmingham, England. Parades also take place in other central cities like, London, Paris, Rome, Moscow, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and throughout America. In the United States, St. Patrick s Day would not be St. Patrick's Day unless the Chicago River is dyed green. Hope you re ready for St. Patrick s Day! 4

5 BOOK REVIEWS Peter Nimble And His Fantastic Eyes Review By: Lauren Coates Have you ever found something, something you weren t supposed to find? Something you maybe stole? Well, in the book Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, written by Jonathan Auxier, young Peter, a ten year old boy who lost his eyes, lives on stealing. His incredible skill with his fingers enables him to pick locks. He has no home, but with a grumpy old man who adopted Peter in exchange for him helping him steal things. One day, Peter steals a fancy wooden box from a man at the pier. When he finally when he makes it home and opens the box, to Peter s disappointment, he finds that all it contains is 6 eggs. But Peter knows that there s something wrong after all, the man went through the trouble of locking up the cart. Later that night, he cracks the eggs, and inside, instead of yolks, are three gleaming pairs of eyes. One gold, one onyx, and one emerald. When he tries the gold pair, Peter is instantly teleported away and finds himself headfirst into a journey that could save a kingdom. With the help of friends that come in all sorts of odd shapes, and sizes, will this master thief succeed on his quest? Read Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes to find out. 5

6 PUZZLES Happy St. Patrick s Day B N E T H N R K Y I D I N V W E L I G E C C P R A X R R J H E S A E N O N E B L P I M V I P T R R R A L I E R S S K V T C G A M N A R P P R N H P X E E L A L N E R O T A I D D I V J H O D O E Y O P I O A A D U S I E V C C P S M N C C E L R N N E H E N O E T B D I R O Q O E A M A R C H Y O D N B G O Y U W Y P O S I C W N G A B S N F E E B D E N R O C E D Q V B A G P I P E S G I H V O Y J X E G A B B A C H X S M S K F Y K C U L V Y Y C S R H S G H BAGPIPES CABBAGE BLARNEYSTONE CORNEDBEEF MARCH ORANGE PINCH POT RAINBOW SHAMROCK SODABREAD WHITE GREEN IRELAND IRISH IRISHDACING LEPRECHAUN LUCKY CHOCOLATE CLOVERS COINS 6

7 Presidents Day Puzzle PUZZLES X B J P X H P A F Y S U F W S S P R Q R P Z J B V U L T J I P T K A I Z N A E O J I P C E W R L O Y T S G S R B R D W M M P E E Y P P R Z T E R Y Y S B O D P I W U H B I J N R O A B B A N S U E O W A L O O X P I R T J G D F P J R R T R T B M J S P G S X A R Q G K Q F E S N B G T M E E P Y J V O S S P P N D Y X R H U S W E E V Y X L D M J R P W A H N I P A H Stars Stripes Suit TopHat Tradition WhiteHouse Blue Cabin Feburary Fireworks Flag GeorgeWashington HonestAbe P W R G A L F Q V E D I E H D L S Q Q Z A T H V M S N I S T G Y O Z H T Q P R Y I H Q U T I R I E N P V I Y E S U O H E T I H W B D D R M Q N J N C B Y X D O T P T A A F E E Z G C P M E U I N K C R J H Q C R N R T C B A F B N Z J T S B T Y Y J J T O E Monday Patriots Podium PowderedWig President Puppets Red 7

8 PUZZLES Riddles By: Esha Mandadi 1. What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years? 2. Which is the correct term: The yolk of the egg is white, or the yolk of the egg are white? 3. Suppose you were running a race, and you passed the person in second place, what place would you be in? 4. A butcher s clerk weighs 200 pounds, is 6 2, and he also has size thirteen sneakers, what does he weigh? 5. What was the president s name in 1990? 6. If the blue house is made of blue bricks, the red house is made of red bricks, the purple house is made of purple bricks, and the yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is the green house made of? 7. If you have five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another field, how many haystacks would you get if you combined them altogether in another, empty field? 8. A woman accused her sister of robbing her husband s brother s house, but the judge did no punishment to the sister, why? 9. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a mouth but never eats, and has a bed but never sleeps? 10. At night they come without being fetched, by day they are lost without being stolen, what are they? 11. There was a green house, in the green house there was a white house, in the white house there is a red house, in the red house there is lots of babies, what is it? 12. The more you have of it, the less you see, what is it? 13. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? 14. You throw away the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, and throw away the inside, what did you eat? 15. What kind of room has no windows, or doors? 8

9 PUZZLES Answers to the Riddles 1.The letter M 2. Neither, a yolk of an egg is always yellow 3. Second place 4. Meat 5. Barack Obama 6. Metal and glass 7. One 8. The sister and the woman were Siamese twins 9. A river 10. Stars 11. A watermelon 12. Darkness 13. A penny 14. Corn on the cob 15. A mushroom 9