Student of the What?

By: Emmasae Hallen
Do you want to be a Students of the Month? Do you not know what Student of the Month is? If you just want to know more or see what's going on, this is the article for you.

So who are Student of the Month? SOM (Student of the Month) are students who have A's and B's, does community service and has other things to do after school. Everyone who fills out the sheets is a Student of the Month.
How do you become a Student of the Month? Have you seen those green papers that kids are carrying around? Those are SOM sheets. If you want to be a SOM you need to have a B- or better in every class, at least one co-curricular activity, and four hours of community service. On that green piece of paper is where you have everyone sign it to say that you have done those things.

What do you get for being a Student of the Month? Most months there is a trip that the SOM's go on. For the month of February GBS went to Granite Gorge. There they went tubing!

"I had a blast! I wish we could of stayed longer!" Stephanie Leandri said. Everyone had their own separate tube and they could go down together with as many people as they wanted. There was a record of 17 people go down at once. If you wanted to spin while you went down, all you had to do was ask.

"It was awesome! I really enjoyed spinning down alone. I went super fast," Joel Barwood said.

"I wish we did the trip when there was more snow. It would be more fun," said Liam Baldwin.

What are those colorful painted hand-prints on the top of the wall ? If you are a Student of the Month for all the months in school then you get your hand-prints on the wall. Those are for the Student of the Years. Just like the month trip there is a Student of the Year trip as well. This year they have not decided yet but the might be a trip to Canobie Lake Park! If you are Student of the Year for all 4 years you get your name on a plaque that says "Students of the Middle Years".

If you want to go on great trips and do fun activities, be a Student of the Month or try for a student of the year.

• Its easy as get a green paper.
  
• Get it signed
• Do some community service
• Then your done.

Junk to Funk Slide Show

By: Matt Davis
Here's a slide show from Junk to Funk. Enjoy!

Ceiling Crisis Continues!

by JT Clough and Angie LaFave

On Sunday, March 15, tragedy struck Great Brook School. A freak rainstorm proved to be too much for the school's roof, and water leaked through to the ceiling tiles. Some tiles became so saturated that the few staff members that were present had to poke a hole in them to let the water drain through. A note on a bulletin board describe it as “a waterfall”.

“We had ten five-gallon pails and all of the cafeteria trash cans trying to catch the water,” custodian John Gator said on March 16, recounting the damage from the day before. “We emptied them and refilled them three times each. Plus there were at least 60 gallons of water soaked into the carpet. It was like a faucet running slowly.”

Miraculously, Ms. Moncrief's outdoor band classroom did not suffer any damage.

The most devastating damage was dealt to the eighth grade molas that were hanging on the wall beneath the falling water. “I think we saved all but two rows,” said Mr. West, GBS and AES principal. Mr. Gator said, “One of the molas just disintegrated into a bucket.” These projects were extremely hard to make molas are art projects that are made completely of paper. They are many colorful pieces of paper that make a scene or an animal. They originated off the coast of panama made by the Cuna Indians. They took 30 or more hours to make. An anonymous student's mola was completely destroyed, and after he found out, he got very quiet and solemn-faced. If you're an eight grader who had a mola on the board and you were able to save it, thank Mr. West! He rushed to get the molas off the board before they were all completely destroyed.

This is not the first time this has happened. Water has leaked through to the ceiling tiles before. It causes the tiles to yellow and weaken and they have to be replaced. Some of the tiles that were just replaced quite recently are now in need of replacement again. A previous article (click here to see!) includes more information about the issue.

Ms. Bando, the art teacher, has a well-thought-out plan to prevent this from occurring again. “[The cork board] will have a little roof over it, like a cafe entrance,” she said.

Luckily, the ceiling has been repaired and all the works of art have been removed in the case of another incident. Molas that could be restored are now back to normal. Custodians are sighing in relief that the damage has finally been repaired, but, due to ongoing weather, everyone is crossing their fingers for no more leaks in the school roof.

9th grade counselors visits Great Brook's 8th graders

by Liz chase

What classes are you going to take in High school? Well thats what the Counselors from Conval are talking to the 8th graders about Freshmen year. Now It is a tradition for the consolers to come and talk and explain to the 8th graders, how hight school is going to work. For the up coming 9th graders for freshmen year you need 8 credits, each class is worth 1 credit and your special is worth half(.5) because you only have specials for half the year.

To Graduate from Conval you need 26 credits (it used to be 28 credits). You are required to take four classes in your freshmen year or Sophomore year. The classes you are required to take are English, Math (Algebra 1) and Eastern world history and English skills class and Science . On the side you can do prep band with Mr.Aines, Drama club or sports, but you have to get a physical during late May of 2010 to make sure you healthy enough to do it.

Then the Counselors talked about lunch. Lunch is divided into four groups, groups A,B,C,D now this part is kinda confusing.

Some people might wonder were do you go in the morning when you don't have advisory?. Well you go to your first block class or you can hang in the hall or the band room. Band and Choral are always 2nd block for the whole semester. Then on Tuesdays and Fridays you go to your advisory after second block. 8th grader Becca Goldspring said “She did a good job, and it was a lot of fun.” Also 8th grader Courtney Gagnon said “She did good and filled in a lot of Information for me.” Mrs. Brown also said “I think it's important, to 8th graders to be provided about their high school choses. Mrs. Brown also stated that there are some classes that you can take like if you want to become a police men/women and if you know someone who is a police man then you can get a credit for doing work that involves police stuff. So that is what is going to happen to the up coming 9th graders.

Student of the Month Tubing

This is a slide show of the SOM tubing trip to Granite Gorge.

Change for Haiti Update

By Emma Kendall

How much money did we raise for Haiti? Here is an update on Change for Haiti. We had a big assembly February 19^th 2010. The kids from AES came to GBS to celebrate all the money we raised for Haiti. GBS made $795.30 and AES made $763.90.

The magazine staff counted all of the money that GBS had collected for Haiti. We found lots of coins from other countries that accidentally got mixed in. There were coins from Europe and the Carribean. We also found many wheat pennies mixed in and other weird coins. One had a bullet hole. Another was from Chuck E. Cheese! At AES, someone put a $100 bill in the jar. No one knows who.

Every one was so happy that we got all that money for Haiti. We cheered for all the work that we had done for Haiti. The money is going to the Clinton Bush Fund for Haiti. The money is going to buy supplies like clothing, toothbrushes, food and medicine.

Mr. Elder did end up wearing the girl costume! Mr. Elder had promised to serve lunch in the cafeteria for all grades and wear a girl costume if we raised $750 for Haiti. ( Not including AES.) (Here is a link to another article about this). Students thought it was funny and enjoyed seeing him like that. Mr. Elder actually served the lunch to the students with an ice cream scoop. He looked funny and everyone thought his slippers were funny.

Overall, Change for Haiti went well. It feels good to help people in Haiti get what they need.

This is a slideshow of some of the students of excellence awards. The students of excellence awards are kids who have done something good or who is a good student. There are kids from each grade that get one. So hope you like the slideshow of students of excellence

Cheerleaders cheer for AES!

by Liz Chase

Cheerleaders Cheer for AES

'' 1-2-3-4, Antrim teachers make us roar.'' The GBS Cheerleaders made a cheer for the AES teachers on February 12 in the AES gym. Ms. B, the cheer coach, told us before our last game that she was retiring from being a coach and going back to a school teacher. The only reason for her leave is because she has to take care of her son, so Mrs. B thought because she asks a lot of favors of the teachers, we should do a cheer for them.

So the cheer captains thought of a cheer to do for all the AES teachers that helped out Mrs. B. The words are, ''1-2-3-4 Antrim teachers make us Roar! 5-6-7-8 thanks for helping us be great!, without Coach B, Cheering's a bore, she really really makes us soar, So many thanks to all of you for helping us do what we do'! THANK YOU!”

Then the Cheerleaders did their half time dance with the song ''Can You Move It Like This?''. The AES students seemed to really like it. At the beginning of the half time dance, Sydney Hutton did a round off, which really impressed the kids. Then after the Cheerleaders were done they introduced them self to the students and said which elementary school they went to and Mrs. B said, '' I was really glad to have these girls as team mates''. Thanks Ms. B for a great year. She was a great coach and we'll miss her!

Roof Crisis !!

by Jt Clough

Did you here about the huge storm that left many people out of power it took its toll on Great Brook School. The snow storm happened when the school was on vacation. The storm did not leave the school out of power, but it did have a variety of snow, rain and hail at one point.

After the storm there was several inches on the roof and the ground. The sun came out directly after the storm and melted most the snow. You would think it was a good thing wouldn't you ? It would melt the snow, it was a bad thing that the snow melted.When the snow melts it turns to water and the water goes straight through the roof and straight to the tiles inside the school.

The water leaves the big brown spots that are on the tiles. “ I think the brown spots are gross and they need to fix them” said Kari an eighth grader. “When water hits the tiles it is like putting a piece of paper in a bath tub” said Frank a janitor for Great Brook School. Frank has put up all the new tiles. The water did not effect any of the electrical wires up in the ceiling.

I thought that the water would effect the wires. Ms Gnade said that “ the roofs are hard to fix”big thanks to all the janitors for trying to fix them.

Here are some of the pictures