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