Haiku Poems

Haikus

By Amy & Alyssa

The Old Pond and the Fish

An old pond is still.

The water slowly ripples.

It’s a fish swimming.

~Alyssa Caneira

Autumn

Leaves falling gently

Tumbling through brown branches

Now it is autumn.

~Amy Wei

Ice Cream

Vanilla, Chocolate!

Rocky Road, Raspberry, WOW!

Ice cream is yummy!

~Alyssa Caneira

Snowflakes

Snowflakes drifting down

Showering the green grasses

Snowmen coming soon.

~Amy Wei

Christmas

Stockings by the hearth

Jingle bells are ringing

Santa comes tonight!

~Alyssa Caneira

Hot Chocolate

Brown chocolate froth

Marshmallow creamy delight

I can’t wait to drink.

~Amy Wei

It Snowed

     It Snowed!!   

By Kate Abbatemarco

Yesterday it snowed about three inches.” I’m so excited for more snow because it is so fun to play in,” quotes Kathryn Abbatemarco (writer of this article). I also like the snow because when I’m tired I can just fall back and land on the snow which feels like a giant pillow. Then there’s the icy snow, it hurts every time I fall on the ice and sometimes I can only lay there and wait until I regain my strength. Well, I hope you love the snow and enjoy it while it lasts because we are expecting some showers and warmer weather.

          

Typing Club

Typing Club

During computer the 4^th graders are going on a typing site called Typing Club. To sign into Typing Club first the

4^th graders sign into their Google accounts. Once they’re signed in they can easily get onto Typing Club.

Typing Club is a site that teaches the students how to type. After a lesson the computer shows your score. It shows you how many stars you earned out of 5. It shows you your accuracy and how many words you typed per minute. It also shows what you need to pass.

 A cool thing about Typing Club is the scoreboard. The scoreboard shows your overall score, stars earned, and average words per minute. I’m in 1^st place. If you think you’ve past every level, you’re probably wrong. There are 100 levels!

Mr.S sets a goal for number of hours on Typing Club. If the 4^th graders accomplish the goal they receive a special snack from Mr. S.

Jacob Bernstein from Turtle Island

Lunch Time Madness

By Claire and Alex

Usually at the 3^rd and 4^th grade lunch time goes pretty smooth but today on 12/4/13 there was a little craziness at lunch with Mrs. Hain’s 4^th grade class… but it was only 2 kids who made the funny incident. It wasn’t that big of a deal or problem but kids thought it was really funny. So, if you want to hear about the incident then keep reading.

Ok, so here’s how it went… First, Claire did not want to get squirted with her yogurt so she turned it away from her (in the other direction) but she did not see Spencer. She opened the yogurt and it exploded right in Spencer’s face. Spencer was drinking milk at the time and he could not help but laugh so his milk went all over Claire and the bench. The worst part about it is that Spencer got barely anything on him.  The second worst thing about it was that Claire does not like milk and Spencer does not like yogurt. But, they both laughed about it! That is the good part of this horrible tragedy!

Mrs. Gilmore

                         Mrs. Gilmore

Mrs. Gilmore likes art because it’s interesting to learn about, it makes life beautiful and it’s fun to create. Mrs. Gilmore loved art since she was a little kid. She loves to teach about Pablo Picasso.  She got an award in art in 2006.

She likes to paint more than using crayons. She likes to paint pictures more than she likes to paint jewelry. Mrs. Gilmore’s favorite art project is painting flowers and still life. She has done an out of the world unusual art project. She called it Trinity.

Teaching is her favorite job that she could have. She likes doing art herself more than teaching art but she still loves to teach art. Mrs. Gilmore never wants to stop being an art teacher. Mrs. Gilmore never wants to stop being an art teacher at Annie E. Vinton Elementary School.

By, Clara Shangold & Lily Helphinstine              

4^th Grade Google docs.

By Claire and Alex

In the computer lab on Wednesdays and Tuesdays the 4^th graders just got google docs accounts. They are now learning how to search, copy, and paste information. They each get their own e-mail and password.

Students work in teams for part of the time. For example someone types a “T” on your other teammates’ computer that “T” will show up on their computer with your color.

The person who set this all up for us is Mr. Sokoloski. We also use these accounts for our personal narratives that our teachers set up for us they can also go in our accounts and look at them. The fourth graders can also do homework or unfinished work from home.

We have a google drive and our teacher can log on our account then they can look at our work. We can add tabs at the top and go back and forth between them.  For example we go on the Vinton website and put it in a new tab then we open a new tab for research. When we are on that research website we can go back to the Vinton website by going to the top of the screen and clicking on the tab that says Vinton home page.

Maybe you will get a google docs account someday. 

 What’s Happening During Recess

At recess time on Tuesdays and Thursdays there are kids who do Mileage Club. Mileage Club is where you run at least 2 laps and you have a card so that whenever you run a lap someone will help you punch a hole in your card to tell you that you have already ran that lap. If you run 10 laps, you will get a toe-token. There are 20 numbers on your card so every time you run 20 laps around the field, you will get 2 toe-tokens and a new card. When you get the new card you need to write your name and the class you are in. When it’s almost winter we stop running because it gets too cold outside to run.

Tag is also one of the things people play during recess. The people that are playing Tag be creative by splitting into groups like Boys vs. Girls. They also add more things to their game, Tag. One of the other things they add is base. Base is where you have a color or thing to touch which means you can’t be tagged when you touch it but you have to touch it for you to be on base.

There are also some sports that are played during recess like kickball and basketball. Kickball is played in the fields and basketball is played on the blacktop where the basketball hoop is.

By Grace Nieh and Hope Fu

What's Happening at Turtle Island

ABBY and BELLA

What’s Happening at Turtle Island

Fourth, Third, Second, First, and Kindergartners go to Turtle Island.  Mrs. Terry is the Enrichment Teacher.  Turtle Island is the Enrichment building.  Mrs. Terry does science with all the grades. 

Mrs. Terry also does math with the 3^rd and 4^th graders at Turtle Island and in the main building with 1^st and 2^nd graders.

Mrs. Terry does a writing group with 3^rd and 4^th grade.  We are working on an on-going blog in writing group.  Writing group is for 3^rd and 4^th graders.

Mrs. Terry also does a Recycling Club at recess with 1^st graders. She is also running a Chess Club with 3^rd and 4^th Graders.  And, she runs a Post Office Club with 4^th graders which will involve the entire school very soon!

She will also be in charge of Invention Convention and the Science Fair.

 

Sports Report

Sports Report

By Alex Semenza & Clare Greene

The fourth graders are taking a physical fitness test in gym for our state. The first event is a mile run, second is push-ups and third is curl ups. The best 3 times for the mile runners are… first place is a time with 7:22, second place is a time of 7:23, and third is a time of 7:33. The slowest time in 4^th grade was 15:24. A good pace was 2 minutes per lap.

The push up limit is 40 push-ups per person. In Mrs. Hain’s class the lowest score was 10 push-ups out of 40 possible.  There were 2 people in Mrs. Hain’s class who got 40 push-ups, and there was 1 person who hit the mark of 40 push-ups in Mrs. Phelp’s class. In Mrs. DeLoretto’s class there is the record of 31 push-ups.

The curl up limit is 60 curl ups per person. Many people got 60 curl ups. Most people thought that push-ups were way harder than curl ups. The lowest amount of curl ups is 0.

The third event was sit and reach. Mr. Kronish put a ruler on a hollow box and we had to had to stick our foot in the box and he would measure how many inches our hand could reach. The farthest reach was around 15 inches. 

2^nd Grades; Paper Airplane Science Experiment

    Second grade has completed a paper airplane science experiment. For this experiment the 2^nd graders made their own paper airplanes and had 3 tries to fly them. Mrs. Terry would then take the best flight out of the 3 and that would be their score.

In Mrs. Bailey’s class Will’s paper airplane flew the farthest. It flew 26ft!

In Mrs. Harbec’s class Lex’s airplane flew the farthest. It flew 28ft!

In Mrs. Joyce’s class Amelia’s airplane flew the farthest. It flew 28ft.

Other airplanes ranged in between 3-27ft in the whole 2^nd grade.

The best\farthest flying airplanes go to Lex and Amelia!

The Board of Education invited some 2^nd graders to share their airplane project with them.

                                                                                                                       

          

Daniel Zhou and Jacob Bernstein from Turtle Island

We made a survey on Vinton’s favorite things to wear. The choices were…

Skirt, dress, pants, high heels, jewelry, shirt, head bands, and sweaters. The most amount of people liked sweaters. The least amount of people liked head bands and jewelry. We surveyed 17 Vinton students and teachers.

     By Clara Shangold & Lily Helphinstine           

Musical Instruments

       There are many different instruments that are very interesting and that are very hard to play but when you learn them you get better at them.

           There are lots of tips for you to get better at playing. The first tip is you should play in a place where you can concentrate and not get distracted while you’re playing. The second tip is you should try to imagine a place that matches the mood of the song you are playing. The third tip is to play your best at all times.

It is best if you have your songs with you because at first you can try it slow then get faster and faster so you can memorize your song.  You should never play too fast or too slow because sometimes the notes you play will sound messy.

There is also a way to play better and that is you should always like the song you play because then you will want to play it and you spend more time playing it.

An example of a fourth grader playing is Claire Green who plays 2 songs on her trombone which are Jingle Bells and Hot Cross Buns.

      Hope Fu and Grace Nieh

Vinton Favorite Animals Survey

 By Clara Shangold & Lily Helphinstine

Vinton School Shirt Sale

VINTON SCHOOL SHIRT SALE

By Alexander Almagro & Andrew Li

Vinton School was having a shirt sale. There were only 2 T –shirts.  There was a basic T-shirt that had the Vinton symbol and a tie-dye T- shirt. There are 2 sweatshirts and 2 pairs of pants. There was also a bag, long sleeve shirt and a football jersey that says Vinton. The sale ended in 10/16/13. If you missed it you’ll have to wait.

How to Make an Origami Piano

By Alyssa Caneira & Amy Wei

Step 1: Fold a square piece of paper in half vertically. Unfold. Do the same horizontally.

Step 2: Look for the crease that should be in the center of the paper. Take the sides that are short and make those edges touch and crease.

Step 3: Put your hand on one half of the paper. Stick one finger from the other hand into the pocket on the side your hand isn’t on.

 Step 4: Squash and crease. Repeat steps 3 & 4 on the other side.

Step 5: Pull up center and crease.

Step 6: Fold and crease the top of your folded-up center down a centimeter.

Step 7: Close “doors” (sides) and crease.

Step 8: Unfold “doors” (sides) and bring down folded center.

Completed Origami Piano!

Harry's Frog Poem

A pond at twilight;
A frog jumps in the water
A lilypad bobs.

by Harry Moss

Vinton Students' Favorite Things to Do Graph

Interview with the Principal

Dr. Palmer stays as the Vinton principal because he thinks Vinton is such a good place. Also, he has invested most of his career in the school’s success. “It’s just really hard to do something else,” states Dr. Palmer. He spent most of his career in the schools’ success.

One of Dr. Palmer’s favorite things about Vinton is building the Vinton family. He quotes, “It’s like being the mayor or the town manager of a wonderful little village.”

In Dr. Palmer’s free time which he has very little of, he is doing errands and house chores. Dr. Palmer and his wife enjoy going to the beach and the theatre.

Dr. Palmer loves helping make Vinton a great place to teach and learn.

                                                                     Daniel Zhou and Jacob Bernstein

                                                                                         From Turtle Island

Vinton Student's Favorite Things to Do

Vinton Student’s Favorite Things to Do

      We took a survey in Annie E. Vinton School about students favorite things to do. The choices  they had were Math, Writing, Playing Outside, Art, and Sports.

These are the results:

  

3 people like sports

2 people like art projects

2 people like to play outside

3 people like writing stories

0 people like math

Turtle Island Bloggers

Turtle Island Bloggers

In the afternoons on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 2:45 a group of fourth graders and third graders meet with Mrs.Terry in the computer lab and we pick a topic to write about.

When we’re done writing it on the computer we go to File then we’re going to go to 2014 folder and click that. Then we go to the Terry folder, click on it and go to EDIT.

            Mrs.Terry checks it and then we put it in DONE the folder. Then Mrs. Terry posts it on the Vinton’s Turtle Island blog.

Your parents and friends can read what you wrote and then if it’s very important they’ll get the message by looking at the blog.  They can even make comments and so can you!

           It would be cool if you went on the blog and read what kids wrote!!!

                           ~Kiley Girard

How to Draw

Some students draw pictures in many different ways. Like with oil pastels, crayons, markers, paintbrushes, and sharpies many people outline their pictures and color the inside of the picture lightly. Other people can overlap their drawings to make it look 3-D. You can also use tissue paper, fabric, or photographs to help you make your picture more interesting.

You should also try not to press so hard with your pencil because if you make a mistake it is harder to erase and it might look bad. You should also concentrate on your work and try not to get distracted. Another tip is you should also try your best.

Grace Nieh and Hope Fu

THE NEW ENRICHMENT TEACHER

Today the reporters for Turtle Island interviewed Mrs. Terry.

She enjoys being the new enrichment teacher.  “I enjoy working at Vinton School because as the enrichment teacher I get to work with all of the grades,” quotes Mrs. Terry. Her favorite thing about Vinton is being able to work with everyone in the building.

Out of school Mrs. Terry is busy with her three sons' activities. Alone she enjoys biking.

                                                                        Daniel Zhou and Jake Bernstein from Turtle Island

    

Musical Instruments for Fourth Graders

A few weeks ago 4^th graders started waking up earlier in the morning to get on the middle school bus. Can you guess why? Well, here’s the answer…they’ve been playing  musical instruments!

Their choices were saxophone, violin, cello, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, or, percussion.

Here’s a kid who plays one, Jacob Bernstein, he plays the euphonium. He thinks it’s pretty easy because he wakes up early anyway. He likes it because the teachers teach at a good pace for the students and he  enjoys playing the instrument. So, 3^rd graders, don’t think it’s going to be hard. Maybe you could play too!

-         Kiley Girard and Kathryn Abbatemarco

Welcome

Welcome to Turtle Island!!