Volume 6, Issue 9

May 31, 2017

OzoBots & LEGO-bots 1

BRAIN BUSTERS 2

LEGO Bots Cont. 2

Field Trips! 4

Community News 5

NAIA 5

21st Century 6

CALENDAR 8

Inside this issue:

Special points of interest:

W.O.W. –Pg. 3

Walk-a-thon –Pg.3

Grizz Kid—Carter-Pg.4

Massed Band Concert—Pg. 6

STAR SHINE: Tea, Root beer, & Show—Pg.7

OzoBots When you

hear the word program-

ing, you probably think of

years on the computer

trying to complete a task.

But that is not so! And I

am here to tell you about

OzoBots - those fun little

robots that anyone can

program! Yes, even you

can do it. But you might

be asking, how do you

program them? Well, it’s

easy. All you have to do is

to draw a line, and the

bot follows that line. The

color that the line is, de-

termines the actions of

the bot. It’s that simple.

Fortunately, the 3rd grade

Grizzlies got a chance to

mess around with these

bots. I have the thoughts

and feelings of some of a

few of the kids. Enjoy.

Ozobots Hello, my name

Mrs. Hocking. I am one of

the 3rd grade teachers. I

think that the Ozobots

were very educational and

fun. What I really liked

about them was that it

made kids think in a new

way. This benefited them

because they are now be-

ginning to understand a

little bit more

about computer

programing.

Aikin W. My name is Anikin W.

from Mrs. Bydalek's Class-

room, and I got a chance

to play with OzoBots.

Here’s what I felt about

them. I felt like the Ozo-

Bots were fun to use, and

that we should use them

more often. What I found

cool about them is how

they were programed with

lines. Awesome stuff!

Myquela My name is Myquela from Mrs. Hocking’s class. I got a chance to mess around with the OzoBots. I liked the Ozo-Bots because they are small and they could fit on my hand. They were also very mobile. I think that good be-haved kids should get a chance to play with these because they deserve it due to their good attitude.

Kayden E. My name I Kaiden E. from

Mrs. Bydalek’s class. My

class and I got to program

Ozobots and complete our

given taskes. Here’s how I

felt about them. I felt like

the Ozobots were awesome

and that other classes

should have a chance to

have them. What I thought

was cool about them is how

you could program them to

make them go somewhere.

Robotics continues on page

By Raymond M.

By Navayah C.

Q: Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl go

to the bathroom?

A: Because the pee is silent!

Knock, knock?

Who’s there?

Dozen...

Dozen who?

Dozen anybody want to let

me in?

Q: What can you catch but not throw?

A: A cold!

Q: What is as big as you, but

does not weigh anything?

A: Shadow

Q: Where do cows go to parties?

A: Mooovies!

Q: If you drop me, I will crake, but if you

smile at me I will smile back, what am I?

A: Mirror

Q: What did the big flower

say to the little flower?

A: You are really

growing bud!

P A G E 2 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 9

BRAIN BUSTERS !

SOLVE THIS!

OUT ^

Lego Robotics The Lego robotics the 3rd graders used

were called Mindstorms. And they had

to build them first from an instructional

manual. After they built them, they had to

program them with a computer. It is a drag

and drop process. They first view a tutori-

al, the tutorial is basically an instructional

video, teaching the students what they are,

and how they work. They then drag and

drop instructions to the open program, to

instruct the Mindstorm’s what to do. How-

ever, these Mindstorm’s have more poten-

tial than just following a line. They can

dance, put on a light show, sing, and much

more-if you want to get real fancy! The 3rd

graders learned a lot! Plus they were FUN!

We had a wonderful World of Work on Friday, May 19th. The kids get a chance to see and hear about different jobs of people in our community. Certain students prepare an introductory speech for each presenter and then help him or her throughout their presentations. Then the Staff has a nice luncheon in the library for them! We thank you pre-senters, for being here! Here is a list of the folk who pre-sented and talked about their jobs! *Colby Witters-lineman *Cathy Jo Witters-risk assistant manager *Bandy Earl-welder/fabricator *Mike Ridinger -photographer *Mark Bradley-Plumber *Jackie Hough-Banker *McKinzie Welch/lawyer *Joe Snider/deputy *Morgen Lohman/helicopter pilot *Cammie Jackson/salon owner *Ty Aiken/manager flooring store *Miles Sidener -clown entertainer Thanks for coming Professionals!

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 9

It was a warm cloudy day and we had a walk-a-thon to raise funds for our school on May 18th. We also gave at least a third of those funds to some great people who have supported us! The Vet-erans in our valley! The Veteran group we are helping this 3rd year is the Veterans Treatment Court. They help veterans who have been imprisoned get back on their feet. Twice a year they give them a fine dinner to those who have completed their treatment program. It is a Veterans Treatment Celebration Dinner! We raised enough funds to be able to give over $300.00

to them. Mrs. Heath introduced Jasmine Smith, who interned as a Teacher here in Mrs. Nedrow’s class and her husband, Chris Smith-a Veteran himself, who works with these veterans. We are happy to help these veterans get back on their feet! Enjoy & have a great dinner on us!

Now, I would like to talk about the actual walk or running that we do for this event! We walk around the field and have a tally stick. Each time we do a lap our teacher will tally it on our tally stick. The Kinders & 1st graders have a smaller lap to do. But they go around and around! This is serious business! They have spray hoses and contraptions set up for us to run through to keep us wet and hydrated! It was a little cloudy & chilly this year but the spray felt good anyway! Some of us like getting wet! A Certificate and a prize were given to the top lap walker/runner for each class & sometimes there are ties. And the Top money makers from each grade were given a certificate and the prize for them is lunch out with Mr. Lee! We sure had lots of fun! Let’s do it again next year!

Walk-a-thon By Sunshine S.

World of Work by Siras P. & Kobey C.

Camp Wooten By Parker W., Emma M., and Sidney B.

The 6th graders went to Camp Wooten on May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. At Camp there is the annual tug of war by the end of tug of war there is a girl cabin and a boy cabin that go against each other. This year it was the Bobcat Cabin and the Wolf cabin. The girls ended up losing and the boys won. The other school that went with us was Heights. There was a campfire on the last night we were there. During the campfire every cabin had to perform a skit and some cabins got to lead campfire songs. We thought nothing was scary but maybe it was for some. For kids going next year, you need to not be afraid of making new friends because that is something we all did. Also on

the night hike, be quiet and don’t ruin it when eve-ryone is listening to the animals be-cause one of the counselors did, but oh well!

P A G E 4 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 9

Carter Kamps By Zoee R. and Anna P.

Today we are interviewing Carter Kamps.

This kid is a very interesting one and happens to

know my only girl cousin and that is his best friend

Danika H. His favorite books are Animorphs. His

favorite song is: One Call Away. His favorite food is

–PIZZA! LIKE MINE! His favorite sport is baseball.

His favorite desert is choco-

late. Also his favorite color is

BLACK LIKE MINE! If you see

this amazing kid with an

amazing sense of style, please make sure to say hi. This is

Zoee R. and Anna P. with your Grizz Kid News!!!!!!!!!!!!

4th Graders @ Spalding Park

Spalding Park was so much fun. When we were in the

museum we saw so many artifacts and old time sculp-

tures. When we went outside we made a tent, a teepee

style one. When we made the tent we used really long

sticks and cloth. After we made the tent we got to go in-

side. When you go inside it feels like you are a Native

sleeping inside the tent and you have fun at the same

time though!!! When you get into 4th grade, you get to go

to Spalding Park and see all of the cool stuff and artifacts.

Now, you probably want to go and can’t wait till you get

in 4th grade. So keep your dreams high and laugh away!

~Sighing off

with Alina T.!!!

Grizzly Kid Interview

Field Trips!

Public Works EXPO!

By Mrs. Hocking, Mrs. Bydalek & Mrs. Layes The third graders at Grantham went on a Public Works

field trip! It was the 10th Annual Public Works Expo, held on

Thursday, May 25, at the Nez Perce County Fairgrounds. The

Expo is to give awareness of Public Works’ responsibilities and

provides an opportunity where the students can experience a

variety of activities related to practices of Public Works profes-

sionals. Public Works Departments from the City of Lewiston,

Asotin County, and Nez Perce County Road Department partic-

ipated in this Expo.

What the kids saw at the Expo: • an interactive Geographical Information System (GIS) used in Public Works • a demonstration of how Public Works utilizes GPS to find and document City services• street signage • a wastewater jet cleaning demonstration • video inspection of a utility line • traffic sign safety • a storm water quality model • water system backflow information • the path of water used from the river back to the river. They have Public Works Day in hopes to acquaint the students

to professional opportunities in a growing field, learn how our

daily activities affect the environment, and learn about the

many services provided by the region’s Public Works Depart-

ments. This Expo was part of a nationwide observance honor-

ing leaders in Public Works. All local Public Works agencies in

cooperation with the American Public Works Association partic-

ipated as well as the community whom was invited to this

event. The kids just loved it!

EVENTS & NEWS P A G E 5 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E 9

NAIA PLAYERS CAME! By Siras P. & Kobey C.

The NAIA players came to our school and the team we visited with, were called the Royals. The little kids and us big kids were thrilled to get au-tographs from them. We had a great BBQ with them! They loved Theresa ‘s cooking! And the kids had fun with the baseball athletes getting autographs!

NAIA GAME Hey guys it's Zaedyn S.

and today were talking

about the NAIA game

that we went to on the

26th of May.

It’s a ball game for col-lege level players. NAIA stands for National Asso-ciation of Intercollegiate Athletics. The NAIA takes place at LCSC in Lewiston, ID. I’m in 5th grade now & I went last year and will go again next year. It was pretty good, but we sit there for 2 hours (it is a little bit hard on one if they are a bit fidgety) but, if you bring money you can go to the food stand and the vending machine to get food and if you did-n’t bring money the school did provide a sack lunch for us to eat. Hope you all enjoyed the baseball games! It’s 1,2,3 strikes your out at the ‘ole ball

P A G E 6 V O L U M E 6 , I S S U E

By Angela D. Hi friends! I’m Angela. Today I am going to tell you about 21st Century Program

here at Grantham. All year we have been doing all kinds of activities that have improved our academic, physical, and artistic talents. We want to thank Mrs. Chelsey Snyder, who is the lead teacher for our program and her twin sister Mrs. Courtney Lightfield. They have been instrumental in our learning this year!!! For this summer, they are making cool arts and crafts. So, I really want to hear that you joined this summer! You will have a great time! Below, I put pictures of the twins! They hope you have signed up for summer program! Let’s have a great fun artsy summer!

21st Century Program

This last week we 6th

graders from all elementary schools participated in a massed band. It was very awesome. Mrs. Ronningen,

from our school and all the other elementary music teachers, made sure we learned the new music for the

event and got us over there to the CHS Auditorium and we practiced all together under the direction of the

Jr. Hi band teacher- Mrs. Alison Henderson and the CHS Band teacher-Mr. Greg Kolar. Then we had an

evening concert that evening. The CHS Wind Ensemble played with a few of the songs with the kids as

mentors. And the last song played, we thought we played well, but then Mr. Kolar directed one more song

with just the CHS Wind Ensemble group to surprise us and it was awesome sounding! See ya in band next

year in seventh grader people! Here are a few pictures Mrs. Layes took!

P A G E 7

Star Shine

Girls Afternoon Tea

And Boys Talk Over Root Beer

By Jaycee

C.

On May 17, 2017 we girls (5th & 6th grades) in Star Shine (an After School Arts Program-GAP) we

went to tea in the library. Mrs. Patti Lee with the help of Mrs. Layes set up a beautiful teatime. We tasted

different types of tea & mini cupcakes and we received a little party favor box of chocolates! Our adult

guests were Abbey Terlson & Mrs. Anna Cox . She spoke on how we really

need to start thinking about our good hygiene and how it is NOT so im-

portant that we look like everybody else just be a generous person and use

our good manners. We had a marvelous time.

The boys in Star Shine + other boys had Root Beer

Floats with the guys: Mr. Call, & Mr. Wendt. They talked

about boy stuff-how to be clean and use our good judg-

ment. Also, they want us to realize what to expect in Jr. Hi.

next year. They really want us to have a smooth going

when we get there!

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Star Shine Show! By: Asia M. & Angelis G.R.

The Star Shine show is so much fun! Mrs. Lee

& staff are the best persons! We all get to

choose clothes that were gathered up, for the

girls and boys to choose, and then they help

us style them into the look we want! We got

to go to the Moxie Salon on Main Street in

Lewiston to get their hair done. Then on May

23rd we had a fashion show. There were 13

girls and 5 boys in 5th or 6th grade who partici-

pated. Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Nedrow, the

“Fashionista Sisters”, narrate and we model

our new creations

off to our families!

It was a fun event!

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Dani Layes, Advisor, Editor of Grizzly Kids News

Did you know we have poetry writers in our school? Yes! A few classes participated a National Schools Project, the Young Ameri-can Poetry Digest. Second & Third graders learned to write a Haiku Poem, entered in the contest and now some of their poems will be published! In October the library will receive a book with all the ac-

cepted poems! "Haiku" is a tradi-tional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme. I tried my

hand at this, and here ya go! School is ending, I think I’m going to shout, Have a great summer! dyl

See our wonderful poets below!

By Keegan H.

1st -4, 5,6 grade District Track Meet at CHS

9am -1pm

1st - Marimba performance at Alive After Five

5:30-6PM

1st -3rd grade play “Grammersaurus”

6:30PM @ WWCC

2nd -Classes walk to WWCC

9:30 am for play

2nd -Birthday Book Club party in Library

1:30 pm at 1:30

5th –Sixth graders go to visit LMS

9am

6th -Grades 1st, 2nd and 3rd go

to the Palouse Science Center 9am- 2:15

6th - Grades 5th & 6th go to Field Springs

9am-2:15pm

6th -End of year GAP Program

6pm

7th -Practice Evacuation to

Arnold Park

1:30pm

9th -Awards Assembly 9am

9th -Last day of school! Report cards come

home, NO

lunch—half day!

13th -Summer school starts

Ends June 30th

16th –Boosters Rum-

mage Sale

7am-

4pm

18th—Father’s

Day!