"Paws" and See the Extended Paw Store Hours!

Hey look ! Now there is more time to get fun new toys from the paw store!Did you know the paw store is now open from 1:40 to 2:05 as well as the regular times in the morning on Wednesdays? Jill Pierson, KJ Ammon, Lilly Holt, David Blanchard, Matt Metzemaekers, Mike Comeau and Alyssa Mackay are going to run it in the afternoon. There  are lots of different and new toys to get now at the paw store. Take a look at these pics I took of the afternoon paw store.

Canned Food Drive

by Andrew

Are you wondering what your kids are meaning when they say “Can I bring some caned food into school?” Well then, you're reading the right article. The whole school of GBS are collecting non-perishable foods for the Antrim food bank. 5th grader Jeffery said “It's basically about to help out the community.”
The goal for the canned food drive is 2,316 and there are approximately 325 kids in the school. That means that every kid in the school need to bring in approximately 7 cans each. Thats not much to give up. Mrs. Welch said, “I think it makes students think that it's good to help the community.” If we get that goal, Mr. West will give a special prize to the whole school. Mrs. Kidd, the one who started this food drive, believes that the school can get 3,000 cans which means each kid must bring in approximately 9 cans each. The canned food drive will last until the 16th of April and Mrs. Kidd thinks that we'll reach our goal on the 14th because the whole school may bring in a ton of cans in on the last week. Mr. Winchester stated that “It's nice to have assistance when your in a hole.”
Thats the update on the canned food drive. Please remember to send in cans so we can reach our goal.

Life of a Union Leader Newspaper

Life of a Union Leader Newspaper

The E.L.P Magazine class had plenty of fun on the 26^th of March... we had a trip to to the Union Leader! The Union Leader is a newspaper company in Manchester,

New Hampshire. We saw how they make the article and print the paper! Now lets see... the life... of a... Union Leader newspaper!

While at the Union Leader Printing building...

1^st,Write. 2^nd, Type. 3^rd, Edit. 4^th, Print. Last, send!

If sent to a store...

1^st, Receive. 2^nd, Display. Last, purchase!

If sent to your home or once purchased from a store...

1^st, read. Then keep!

or...

1^st, read. 2^nd, recycle. Last, reuse!

or...

1^st, read. 2^nd, thrown away. Then, last, sent to a dump.

Once at the dump...

1^st, compressed. 2^nd, buried. Oh no... GLOBAL WARMING! NOOOOO!

The paper they use:

That's only a MONTH supply!

Lets get some paper!

This is one of the machines that reach up and pull the paper off from those massive paper stacks you saw earlier in the article.

Comics!

Here is the sheet they use to make the comics, but this one has been framed in wood.

Being Printed:

This is only part of the machine!

More of the machine...

That's about half of the machine... there is some downstairs, too!

Like a roller coaster!

This machine comes down from above and picks up news papers and carries them to next room. But the whole belt is around 45 times larger.

Lots of advertising!

These are the advertisements that the hide in the paper! These are from Home Depot.

Lets read!

Now, after all of that, you read it! Picture credit below.

http://www.clipartof.com/details/clipart/23429.html.

Now that you know the every day Union Leader newspaper, do you think that you want to BE one?

The Week Without 8th Grade

By Emmasae Hallen

No 8^th grade? Most of the 8^th grade students at GBS are on a class trip to Washington DC for 5 days. The Monday after vacation at 7:00 am is the departure time for a week without 8^th graders.

Here is a schedule of what they are going to be doing.....

Day 1 Monday April 26, 2010	7:00AM 12:00 PM 9:00 PM	Depart from school Statue of Liberty/ Ellis Island- eat lunch Check into Best Western- Arlington
Day 2 Tuesday April 27, 2010	7:00AM 8:30 AM 11:45 AM 1:00PM 2:00 PM 5:00PM 6:30PM 7:30PM	Breakfast at Hamlet in Crystal City National Zoological Park Group Picture at the Capitol Building, Capitol Building Tour (inside) Lunch at Ronald Reagan Building Ford's Theatre and the Petersen House U.S. Holocaust Museum Dinner at the Pentagon City Mall Kennedy Center, Jefferson Memorial, FDR Memorial
Day 3 Wednesday April 28, 2010	7:00AM 8:00AM 11:00AM 12:30PM 4:30PM 6:00PM 7:00PM	Breakfast at Hamlet in Crystal City Arlington National Cemetery, Iwo Jima Memorial National Archives Sightseeing on the Smithsonian Mall until 4:30PM. National Air & Space Museum, Museum of Natural History Depart for Baltimore Arrival and Viewing of the halls at Medieval times Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament begins
Day 4 Thursday April 29, 2010	8:00AM 9:00AM 11:00AM 12:15PM 1:30PM 3:30PM 5:15PM 7:00PM	Check out of the hotel and depart for breakfast at the Hamlet in Crystal City Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Korean Memorial, World War II Memorial National Cathedral, Embassy Row Lunch at Ronald Reagan Building Museum of American History Depart for Baltimore Check in at the Holiday Inn Express in Baltimore Baseball Game: Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees with dinner
Day 5 Friday April 30, 2010	7:00AM 8:00AM 6:00PM	Breakfast at the hotel and check out Depart for home- Lunch enroute Estimated arrival in Antrim NH

“Why are we going to these places anyway?” 8^th grader Jesse Edwards asked. Ms. Doherty answered, “ To go see the museums are a valuable experience to these kids. Most of these things they are studying right now.” For example the they are learning about the Holocaust so they are going to the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Also their text books are called the American Journey so they are going to the Museum of American History.

When the students are not in their room they are not allowed to have their phones with them. They have to give their phones to their chaperones.

“I think it's dumb that they are taking our phones away. What if we need them?” Jack St. Jean said. If you are caught with your phone after they tell you to give it to them they call your parents. If they catch you again you could be sent home.

“I am really excited to go! This is my first year going on the trip but I remember when I went when I was in 8^th grade. It was so much fun!” Ms. Leclerc said. This is Ms. Leclercs 1^st time going, for Mr. Bolduc however has gone on this trip for 13 times.

It sounds fun doesn't it? Wish them well and have fun while they aren't here! Too bad for the unfortunate 8^th graders that have to stay here at GBS while they others have fun on the trip. But they have some great plans for them to do here too.

Special Olympics

What do you think of Special Olympics?

On Sunday February 28, 2010 the GBS team went to Waterville Valley to compete in races for Special Olympics. We all did the same thing - 200 meter,50 meter and 100 meter in snowshoeing.
 It was cold and hard snowshoeing.

We went to the opening ceremonies. There was a parade. We ate dinner and went to a carnival. It was fun. We stayed in condos at a little village. We got to look in some of the stores .Some of us was nervous at first, but at the end of the races we were proud. Here are some amazing photos.

Rwandan Inspiration

by Matt Metzemaekers ( Guest Writer)


On 3/25, a man from Rwanda came to tell us about his life growing up in Africa. His name was Justin Mazimpaka, which means " finish trouble." He told us about the three tribes in Rwanda: the Tutsi, the Hutu and the Twa.

The Tutsi and the Hutu have a checkered past, though, full of genocide, hate and hiding. What happened was that the Hutu attached the Tutsi in a massive genocide.

Justin's family thought they were safe because they were living in the Congo. (Or Zaire, as it was known at the time.) Until, one night, where the Hutu knocked on Justin's door. They had to escape using a small window. Good thing they were Tutsi tribe, or they never would've fit through.


They just kept running until they got split up. Justin had to hide under dead bodies just so he wouldn't get caught.  He eventually had to hide in a mango tree. His life was in the balance because of a monkey. If the monkey made noise, he was dead!


Justin ended up working for the UN. Unfortunately, the people of Rwanda did not want the aid of the UN. And they hated Justin. Fortunately, Joe Landers, a UN worker, took in Justin. But Justin had to get a visa before going to America. After three tries, he got his visa and made it to America. He is now an American citizen.


This story is very heart warming, yet sad at the same time. I could never had made it through that experience!

Here are some pictures of Magazine's field trip to the Union Leader

Recycling Club SOS !!!

by Jt Clough

I am going to tell you why Recycling Club needs help but, first what is Recycling Club? And what do they do? Recycling Club is a club run by Ms Bundy. Recycling Club reduces trash items that goes into land fills. They go around the school and collect the green bins that are in the class rooms. There are 36 bins and on an average there are 125 pounds of paper each week that is amazing. They sort colorful paper from white paper cardboard from paper and cans from bottles and glass. They do all of this in a two hour day and get all of it done! This club is open to 5th through 8th grade students.

Ms Bundy said “recycling club is not just fun and games it is work too”. Kids like visiting other rooms in the school and love using the scale to weigh the paper. The people that are doing this club are Bo Hoyt, Dylan Coyne, Tiffani Ellis, Ally Beckman, Alyssa Mackey and Annika Klemett. All these kids do this work every Tuesday. That is a lot of work. Recycling club needs help because there are not enough people to sort out 125 pounds of paper each week, so if you are not doing anything and want something to do or need community service, this is the club for you. It is not just for your benefit, it is for the world's.

Slideshow of the Talent show

By: Matt Davis and
Morgan Whitney

Do you want to see people show of their best talents? Check out the slide show at the bottom of this post.

On March 18th , GBS had a whole school talent show. There were kids from every grade performing. Some people sang, some people were balancing, and one insane dance!

Current Event Craziness

by Andrew

Have you ever wondered what is going on in 7^th grade? The 7^th grade is doing something called current events in Mrs. Janulis's room and they must be done once a week. There are four classes and all but one must get their current events done by Friday. The other class has to get it done on Thursday because of another ELP class. Here's some more info about current events.

The reason they are doing current events because Mrs. J. wants students to understand what's going on around the world. The competition that is going on will last 10 weeks and so far, a few weeks have already passed. If a class wins overall, each kid in that class gets a free certificate that gets them out of one C.E. C.E. have been going on for four years. Austin, a 7^th grader, said, “Current Events are pretty cool because different countries have different news [and] thats very interesting but sometimes is a challenge to get them in because of other homework.” Maddy, a 7^th grader said, “I like hearing about what happens and I like the competition because it gets people doing them. I don't like doing the opinion sometimes.” Dakota of 7^th grade said, “I like how you have to write about it and I don't like doing two column notes. I [also] like how you sit in a circle and explain them. [But] I don't like [how sometimes people get low] grades even if people work hard [on them].”

Current events are simple to do. You find an article about anything (it may have to be on a specific country) then you print it out. Then you must underline all of the important parts of the article. After that, you get a sheet that you must complete two column notes on the back and complete a paragraph on the front. On the bottom of the front, there is a place where you put a comment about the article plus a place for questions about the article. Then you bring it in on the day you're told to and you're trying to get the highest percentage if you're doing a competition. The competition that happens lasts for a long time and you are responsible for getting your C.E. in. if someone in your group doesn't get a C.E. in, it hurts your teams percentage.

Overall, C.E are easy to do if you keep up with it, but difficult to catch up on. All the 7^th graders will always remember doing C.E in 7^th grade.