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The International School Nido de Aguilas - Elementary School. Santiago, Chile. December, 2013.TRANSCRIPT
DECEMBER 2013VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 1
Designed for YOU !
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
DEAR TALON READERS,
To The Talon Readers:
This is the first and last page a teacher will ever write in The Talon. The following pages are filled with original content of the kids, by the kids, and for the kids of Nido. The magazine staff of eleven dedicated students gave me the opportunity to introduce our new magazine to the Nido de Aguilas elementary school community. These eleven stu-dents should be applauded for their dedication and effort put into this project. Their mis-sion is to give the readers a chance to think, feel, laugh, and connect with each other. The Talon features ten sections filled with creative fiction, current events, interviews, comics, reviews, and much more!
The Talon staff has spent the last few months researching and developing a maga-zine with the right combination of fun and professionalism. We spent time with journalism experts, guest speakers, and combed through countless magazines so that we could find our own style and content that fit our community. We are confident you will enjoy the fol-lowing pages, yet the magazine staff is always open to the suggestions of our readers. This magazine is for you. In fact, we want to feature some of our reader’s talent within the pages of the following issues. We are always searching for fantastic stories, photos, or drawings we can use. Ask your teacher for more information about being published in our Readers Write and creative writing sections.
We want to thank the elementary school administration and especially Dr. Bergman for their support in The Talon. The print publication and the online version (coming soon) could not have been possible without their generous funding and support. The inspiration of this entire project came from a fifth grade student, Anastacia, who persuaded Mr. Steve and Mr. Jason to consider supporting her idea. Finally, we encourage our readers to value the efforts of all involved by reading the magazine from cover to cover, discuss some of the articles with your friends, and celebrate the creation of our brand new elementary maga-zine!
Happy reading,Chad Mills
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Inside The Talon
Your Vote .................................. 4 How To ....................................... 5 Animals and Nature................. 7 Spotlight On.............................. 9 Did You Know............................11 Sports..........................................13 World of Art...............................17 Imagination Creation.............19 Readers Write........................... 22 Staff............................................. 25 Wacky Page............................... 26 Your Page................................... 27 Back Page Comics.................. 28
Our Headmaster
A Chilean Folk Star
A Very Special Puppy
and much more!
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ELEMENTARY PLAYGROUNDS
By Madeline
We asked students in grades 1-5 the following question:“ If you could add anything to make our playground better, what would it be?”
We conducted a survey by asking students out and about on the Nido playground, and received 91 responses.
The responses are summarized in the graph below. Here are some responses thatwere in the “Other” category:
• Francisca Aguilera - 4C “Big swings”• Caileigh Hiten - 1F “Splash Pool”• Carlotta Managan - 4B “A good tree to climb”• Tim Briden - 1B “Rollercoaster:
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MAKE A CLAY VOLCANO BE A GOOD STUDENT By Liam Purcell
Have you ever wished that you could see a electrifying and thrilling volcano explosion with lava flying through the air? Well, you’re in luck! Follow these instructions and make your wish come true. The following recipe will only be successful if you following the directions correctly. Once you’ve accomplished the volcano eruption once, feel free to add details or your own creativity to make your volcano unique. Ingredients: 2 pounds of clay. 5 tea spoons of baking soda. 7 tea spoons of vinegar. 3 drops of red food coloring (optional) Steps: First make a reasonably small clay mountain. Next make a hole that is almost to the bottom of the mountain.
Later add the baking soda into the hole. Add three drops of food coloring (optional)
Finally add the vinegar and see the explosion. I would stand back if I were you!
I encourage you to go out, buy the ingredi-ents, and build it. It will be riveting.
By Anna Liston Have you ever wished that you could always be a good student? You know, the type of student that always remembers his homework, follows directions, and doesn’t talk in class when the teacher is talking. Well, if you do, read this and it’s guaranteed that you will transform into the ideal student! The best student is always positive and can keep up and learn. A positive student is constantly working and being focused on the task. A positive student looks at a test and says, “I’ll try my best!”. Every positive student has a good attitude. When you want to draw attention to yourself, you should draw the at-tention positively.
Being inquisitive is very important because if you never ask questions you’ll never find the answer. To be inquisitive you have to want to learn. When you’re inquisitive you can think more about the things people say, wonder about the world around them, and look things up out of curiosity. Being respectful is super important. When you are respectful you can listen. A respectful student does not interrupt. It is good to be a respectful student so you can hear and learn from other students. Well now you know how to be a good student. Now all you need to do is try it. I hope it works. Good luck!
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By James Lambert
Did you ever want to be a fabulous writer, best in your class but you don’t know the steps into writing? Then read this article, try some of my writing tips, and you’ll be on your way to becoming an author!
First you need these materials: a pencil, lots of pa-per, a computer and a fantastic idea. To come up with a fantastic idea, you think about what you really like. If you want, you can also use: a printer and an eraser. Second, you pre-write. To pre-write, using a pencil and a piece of paper, you make a timeline, spiderweb, or make drawings.
Next, you draft. Since you already planned by pre-writing, using a pencil and lots of paper, you use your plan to write a story without thinking stuff like: “is this spelled correctly?” or “does this make sense?” or “am I using gram-mar correctly?”. Remember: the 1st draft is written from your heart. Then, you edit. To edit, using a pen and your first draft, now you DO think about the things above and revise them to the correct way. You could also use a dic-tionary. After that, you revise. To revise, you use your ed-ited draft (draft 1) and with a pen and lots of paper you write and check all of the grammar, spelling etc. Also ask for feedback from a friend, teacher or parent. Feedback will help your readers interested in your book.
Why don’t you use these steps? Just use them and practice them to become a fabulous writer, best in your class!!!! Being a creative writer does NOT happen over-night, so start practicing on weekend mornings!!!!
By Alex Arthur
I first stumbled across Minecraft in 2012 in the App Store on my dad’s I-pad. Since then, I’ve made about 29 different worlds. The game’s title describes it well - you mine and you craft. You can mine raw materials and extract substances. Or you can find things like diamonds, gems.. There is al-most no limit to what you can build - once I made myself live in a statue of a bee!
In Minecraft you can be as creative as you want to. You can build from a hut to a continent! You can also join a server (a game created by an-other player) but beware, because the owner of the server could have made hidden traps. With red-stone you can make a railway-line from your nor-mal house to your holiday house. Your pet can feed itself.
In Minecraft you build your world with blocks. You can create some pretty interesting ar-chitecture. I even saw the Sun Temple of the Aztec civilization with my dad! You can build almost any-thing if you try. Once I built a two story plane and you walk around inside it! That is the best thing I have ever built.
WARNING! Minecraft is very addictive so limit your playing time. My mum has limited me to 4 hours per week of Minecraft. Here’s a quote I found to try and convince her to give me more time, feel free to use it with your mum. Christy Wyatt, head of Good Technology, and mum to another Minecraft fan, says parents might well be surprised at what their children have built in the game. “My initial reaction was that it was just another video game,” she says. “Now I think of it as digital Lego and he is using it to build all these amazing things.”
Finally, you publish. You type ev-ery little item that you wrote on your revised paper (draft 2). Then, if you wanted to use a printer, you print it out and then staple it to-gether. Once you have done that, your story is finished.
MINECRAFTWRITE LIKE A CHAMPION
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MOUNTAIN LION By Anna
The facts are clear. Three species of beautiful mountain lions are on the en-dangered list. They live in many places like the United States, Canada and they eat deer and smaller creatures. Some of us don’t care about wildlife.
Did you know that young moun-tain lions have spots, but adults do not? Another fact is that after killing its prey, they will bury it and come back when they are hungry.
The mother has about two to four kittens and raises them alone. Their mat-ing season is commonly from December to March.
Did you know mountain lions can be almost as large as jaguars, but are less muscular and not as powerful? They live for about 12 years in the wild and 24 years in captivity.
If we don’t do something to help the mountain lions we will have no more wildlife because poachers and hunters are killing other endangered animals such as elephants, rhinos, and other endangered species including mountain lions.
Here is a way we can prevent that from happening. Sign up and help them at: www.mountainlion.org.
Remember that they are dangerous and do not approach them for any reason. If seen by one do not run, walk back slowly.
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GUARDY THE BUNNY KILLER
By Dan
When you get to Nido in the morning, Have you looked to the right and seen a dog house? That’s because we have a new dog for all the school. Her name is Guardy, she is a female dog. The guard from school told me it was a mix of breeds. She is pretty cool because she is a hunting dog and her favorite food is bunnies! She hunts bunnies in the evenings and early mornings.
Guardy arrived here while all of us were on vacation, on winter vacation. When you look at her you think she is a big aggressive dog, but really she is the friendliest dog I’ve ever met. She will happily lick you if you let her.
I encourage you to go to Guardy and pet her a little because she prevents strang-ers from coming to school. (No wonder her name is Guardy.)
So go ahead and give her some love.
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Dr. Don Bergman
At the end of the school year, Dr. Bergman is leaving to be the leader of an international school in Lebanon. I am glad I spent a few minutes with him before he left.
Dr. Bergman is the headmaster of Nido. A few weeks ago I asked him a variety of questions for The Talon readers.
Asher: What is the favorite part of your job as Headmaster? Why is it the most favorite part of your job?
Dr. Bergman: Well, my favorite part is seeing happy, successful children. That’s the favorite part of my job, so whether that’s standing in the parking lot in
the morning to wave ‘good morning’ to everybody, or it is watching kids on the playground, or in After School Activities, or busy visiting classroom seeing everyone busy working and learning... that’s the best part of my job.
Asher: What is the least favorite part of your job as Headmaster? Why is it your least favorite?
Dr. Bergman: That is a very difficult question. I would say, the least favorite part of my job is when we have to help kids make better choices and better decisions. Sometimes kids don’t always understand that the decisions they make can hurt other people’s feelings. They don’t intend to be mean or impolite, but they can say and do things that make other kids not feel welcome here. And if I have to get involved with that child or with their parents that’s the part that is the hardest for me.
Asher: What do you love most about Nido?
Dr. Bergman: What I love most about Nido is that it’s a very inviting place. We all feel that we all belong here. I think we all feel that we belong here in the Nido family. Do you feel like you belong here Asher?
Asher: Yes, I do. So Dr. Bergman, when you were young, what did you want to be when you ‘grew up?’
Dr. Bergman: I actually wanted to be a farmer. I wanted to work with my father on the farm. I grew up on the farm. We had to milk cows, we had horses, we had pigs, and sheep, and all my friends were farm kids. We all grew up on the farm, so I just thought I should be a farmer like my dad. But when I finished high school and went to the Navy. I went to university, and I decided to be a teacher.
By Asher
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Asher: Who was your most memorable teacher? Why was this teacher so memorable?
Dr. Bergman: His name was Bill Rice. He was a high school teacher. He taught typing and business education, he was also my basketball coach. He was my favorite teacher because he always encouraged us and believed in us, even when we didn’t play basketball very well. We lost a lot of games, but he still saw us as winners. He made us all feel valuable.
Asher: If you could be an animal, what would you be?
Dr. Bergman: That’s a tough one. My favorite animal is the elephant, but I don’t think I want to be an elephant. If I could be an animal, I think I would like to be an eagle. I could soar through the sky, glide high above Nido, or my house, I would love to float through the sky.
Asher: What is better to see, a sunrise, or a sunset? Why?
Dr. Bergman: The sunrise. The sunrise is very quiet. Many people are still in bed. I can often have the sunrise all to myself. I also like it because it is a new start. The day can be anything I want. I can make the day anything I want, but by sunset most of the day has already happened. I don’t have much control by sunset time.
Asher: If you could live in any time period, what would it be, and why would you choose that period?
Dr. Bergman: My favorite time period is right now. Some say the time of the early explorers or the cowboys would be best. For me, right now is the best because the future is what is important. Today is what starts the future. It is more important what I will do in the future than what I did in the past.
Asher: What is your favorite language or accent to hear?
Dr. Bergman: Spanish. Even though my own Spanish isn’t very good. I like the way Spanish sounds. It is a romantic language. It sounds friendly and inviting. Some languages don’t sound so happy.
Asher: What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?
Dr. Bergman: My favorite holiday is Independence Day, no matter where I live. Independence means freedom. It is the best thing in life to have. Freedom is better than money or any other material things in the world. Being free is a terrific thing to celebrate.
I will miss Dr. Bergman when he leaves to Lebanon. He made a big difference at our school. I encourage you all to thank Dr. Bergman for all he has done for our school.
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Top 5 Places For Kids to visit in Sydney, Australia
By Asher
Sydney is the largest city in Australia with a population of 4 million. Here are my top 5 places you should visit in Sydney:
1. Toronga Zoo- Toronga means “for the wild” in the Aboriginal language. The zoo cares for over 4,000 animals from over 400 species.
2. Sea Life- This Sydney aquarium includes shark eggs and pups. They care for about 250 species of fish, 100 species of sharks, and 50 species of crustations.
3. Sydney Wild Life- This zoo in Sydney has a saltwater
crocodile that is 5.5 meters long! The croc’s name is Rex. They care for hundreds of animals.
4. Featherdale- This is like a zoo. It has many animals such as dingoes, kangaroos, saltwater crocodiles, snakes and much, much more. Some of their reptiles are kept in a pavilion called The Reptilian Pavilion. But most of their animals are kept outdoors.
5. Whale Beach- This is where I stay when I go Sydney. It is a wonderful beach. Sometimes if you’re lucky you see whales with their calves. There is a saltwater swimming pool that is not too deep.
By Eugene
Cafeteria food. Hot lunch. Does it taste good? Does it taste bad? Or is it just somewhere in between? If I had to rate cafeteria food from a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being “this food is disgusting” and 10 being “I wish I could eat this at home!”), I would rate it a 5. Some of you might give it a 2. Or maybe an 8. The reason why I chose 5 is because there is about an equal amount of pros and cons. Think about it. Cafeteria food isn’t that bad. Yes, I agree, sometimes cafeteria food makes you think “eww! I can’t believe I have to eat this thing!” Fortunately, you don’t have to eat that kind of food everyday. In my opin-ion, cafeteria food is pretty good. For instance I really enjoy the square pizza. According to people who I know and eat hot lunch, most people think that the lasagna is the best. The taste of it, the many layers, and the cheesiness.
Here’s a con about cafeteria food: Not everybody gets a popsicle. I know, it’s no big deal if you’re a hot lunch kid. But people who bring lunch from home, feel jealous. I’m one of those people, but I know how it feels when the lunch ladies are serving popsicles because I used to eat hot lunch. Also, I think that the lunchroom isn’t always clean. Once, as I sat next to my friend I noticed that I had stepped on some tuna. It was disgusting. I had tuna stuck on my shoe.
What do you think about cafeteria food? Do you think it’s just plain gross or do you think it tastes like gour-met food? How do you think it could become better? Should we ask for some things to change, or is it okay the way it is already? The one thing I want to change is the popsicle thing. I don’t really care about it much, but I know some people who do. Sometimes, the people who eat hot lunch give their popsicles to friends. That makes the other people feel bad especially when it’s a hot day. I think the school should let kids who bring lunch from home buy popsicles. It would mean the school would have to buy extra popsicles, but I think it’s okay. Anyway, that’s what I think about cafeteria food.
NIDO’s CAFETERIA FOOD
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THINGS FOR KIDS TO DO IN MIAMI, FLORIDA
ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS II
By Tommy
Angry Birds Star Wars II is this awesome game that introduces Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi. But this time the Porkside will have some help because in this epic game you can play on the bird-side, but now if you want to go on a much more darker path, then you can join the pork-side with Darth Sidious. Will the bird side defeat the pork side or will the darkness consume young padawan Anakin? Discover it all in Angry Birds Star Wars II.
Here are some tips for the game. First, al-ways save your bird/pork tokens even if you’re tempted to. I repeat, never use your tokens. Sec-ond, always get the collectibles even if there is a really difficult one, never miss! It helps to aim high with Yoda to obtain certain collectibles. My final tip is if you get to the next world you will be al-lowed to use Padme, so don’t buy any character. Trust me, I made that mistake myself.
So, I hope you have fun playing this new game app. Remember my tips and I’m sure you will be successful. If you don’t like this game, I also recommend Angry Birds Go. It’s sort of like Mario Kart, but the Rovio version. Thanks for reading my review, I hope you like the rest of The Talon.
By Catherine Do you want to explore Miami, Florida? Well good for you, because I have some good news for you, because I’ve been to Miami, Florida. Do you like swimming? Because if you like swimming go to the Loews Hotel where the beach is across the hotel and there’s a pool and a kids club. Girls would love the Ameri-can Girl store. It is small but fun. When you walk inside you see American Girl accessories, books about the Amer-ican Girl dolls. You can have breakfast, lunch, dinner with American girl dolls.
Do you like the wacky and fun things in muse-ums? Because there is a children museum you don’t want to miss. And did I mention a surprising looking art gallery.
If you like fish, go to Miami Seaquarium. It has dol-phins and other water animals. Or, if you like jungle ani-mals, go to Miami Monkey jungle or Miami Parrot jungle. Go to Zoo Miami for animals from Asia, Australia and Af-rica.
If you like science go to Miami science. Do you like going outdoors? Go to the Flamingo park. There are swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts, run-ning tracks, showers for after going to the swimming pool and much more things that I can’t remember.
You and your family will have so much fun and make so many memories.
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By Dan
The following essay was entered into an NFL writing contest entitled, “Why are you the biggest fan of the NFL?” Dan, our sports journalist, wrote his essay a few weeks ago, and has entered it into the contest. Good luck Dan!
Hi I’m Dan. I am 10 years old and I am in 4th grade. I live in Santiago, Chile even though some people don’t even know what American Football means here in Chile. My favorite team in the NFL is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (And my dad’s is the 49ers), don’t even ask me how I started to like the Bucs. Anyway, this is why I like - excuse me, this is why I LOVE American Football:
See, since I was born my dad always took me to the basement on Sundays to watch the NFL. OK here are the reasons why I love football:
The throws. Nowadays the QB’s in the NFL are throwing beautiful lob passes and amazing bullet throws. My favorite throw was in week 6 in the 2013 season when there was 00:05 seconds left and the Pats were losing against the Saints and the Pats were on the 10-yard line of the Saints, so the center snaps the ball and
Tom Brady throws a beautiful lob pass to rookie Kenbrell Thompkins over the head of Jabari Greer and the Pats win the game.
2nd reason: The catches. These receivers in the NFL are so athletic today, they can make sick one-handed diving catches and amazing corner-of-the-endzone foot drag TD’s. My favorite catch was in Super Bowl XLIII when Big Ben threw the pass to Santonio Holmes in the corner of the endzone and he dragged his feet and did an amazing TD catch with 35 seconds left in the game.
3rd reason: The big-gain runs. Today RB’s have such good vision and speed so they use that to get big gains every time they see a hole. Nowadays the O-line is so good, so that makes it easier for the RB to find holes. One reason is because now Wide Receivers are much better downfield blockers. For example: When a RB is running downfield a WR could just come and easily block a CB or a LB or a safety.
4th reason: The INT’s. These cornerbacks today are really good. One reason why I like the INT’s is because like the Wide Receiver they can make amazing INT’s but the reason I like the best is the concentration. The CB’s have to look at the QB and be covering the Wide Receiver all at the same time so it’s a little hard for them but the trick that they do to cover the Wide Receiver and look at the QB at the same time is: They look at the QB and keep a hand touching the WR so the WR doesn’t get away from the CB.
5th reason: The big-hits. Today these Linebackers, D-line players, and Safety’s (and maybe CB’s) can make these amazing big- hits with all that power that they have. My favorite
WHY I LOVE THE NFL
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A DISADVANTAGE FOR ELI MANNING
By Dan
Eli manning has had a slow start to the season. Sure he has had some great plays, but his problems are the interceptions. He has had a lot interceptions and the least touchdowns of a starting QB in the season! More interceptions than touchdowns. He is averaging 2 interceptions a game, that’s horrible. I hope he’s not going to be playing like that all season, and if he does he will get benched, and in the draft the most prob-able thing is that the Giants will pick a good college Quarterback. (For example: Teddy Bridgewater, Johnny Manziel, or Tajh Boyd.)
The Giants are also having other prob-lems because the starting RB got injured and he is out for the season so they have to use their 2nd string RB. Bad news for the Giants.
It sure looks like he’s frustrated!
hits are when these players make these ferocious hits, you can even hear the hit because of hard it was!
6th reason: The celebrations. These players when they score TD’s they can do crazy things such as do a marriage proposal to a cheerleader, grab popcorn from the fans and throw it on his helmet. But my favorite celebration is of Victor (Salsa-man) Cruz. That Salsa dance that he does, I love it!
7th And last reason: The breast cancer awareness support. Even though this might be weird to hear from a 10-year old kid you have to support any type of cancer research.
These are all the reasons why I LOVE the NFL SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!!
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It took Chile a lot of time and effort to qualify for the 2014 Brazil World Cup, but they did it with a ton of work from: Alexis Sanchez, Eduardo Vargas (aka Turbo Man), Jorge Valdivia, and Arturo Vidal. Of course the others also did well, yet those that I named before were the main reason that Chile advanced to the World Cup.
The last game against Ecuador they had to tie or win or lose to qualify but they could only lose and go to the World Cup if Uruguay won against Argentina, which was already qualified. Sound confusing? But Chile did win against Ecuador so they qualified. I think the main reason they beat Ecuador was because of the passes, they were passing all day long, forward, backwards, sideways, every way! The
funniest thing in the Chile-Ecuador was that all the Ecuadorians were so tall and all the Chileans were much shorter.
However, the funny thing was that both goals that Chile scored involved a header. The first one was a header by Alexis Sanchez and the second was a header pass by Alexis Sanchez to Gary Medel, and Gary scored the goal. I hope Chile does well in the World Cup. Buenas suerte!
!!!VIVA CHILE!!!
CHILE QUALIFIES FOR THE WORLD CUP
By Dan & Tommy
Your country just qualified for the World Cup, how do you feel?
“Hi I’m Arturo and I’m happy that Chile qualified to the World Cup because it’s the second time in a row that they qualify and I’m passionate and proud of them and I think they will win.”
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“Hi I’m Andres and I’m happy that the U.S.A qualified to the World Cup because the U.S is not known so much for soccer and it makes me proud of the U.S.”
‘’Hi I’m Josefa and I am in 5th grade and I’m happy that Chile qualified to the World Cup because…. CHILE WILL WIN!!!”
“Hi I’m Lukas and I’m in 4th grade and I’m from Ecuador. I’m happy that Ecuador qualified to the World Cup because they were working hard and I had faith in them and I knew that they were going to qualify to the World Cup.”
“Hi my name is Chiara and I’m in 5A and I’m from Japan and I’m happy that Japan qualified to the World Cup because it’s the second time in a row they qualified and I hope they do better this time.”
“Hi I’m Rina and I’m in 5th grade. I’m happy that Belgium qualified to the World Cup in Brazil because my soccer crazy grandma was so happy about it. Belgium will do good, I know it.”
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By Del
There was a famous Chilean musician on campus in late September. I was given a few minutes to ask him several questions for our new magazine “The Talon.” Luis is the singer for the band Santiago del Nuevo Extremo.
Del: How do you make your music?
Luis: First something comes to the guitar. After that I get a sense of where to put my fingers. Then I get an idea for a song. Next I start making up a tune. Finally, I practice every day and add to it until the words come to me.
Del: What is the difference in the song “Canela y Baldomero” on the CD “Calacalacaaa” and when you had the same song on the CD “El Combo Cuequero”?
Luis: With that song being on two CD’s, on the first one, I didn’t have a lot of instruments. In the second version, I realized I needed to add in more instruments.
Del: What was the first song that you ever made?
Luis:: It was like a folklore song that repeated a tune in my head. I made the song when I was either ten or eleven years old, but I never recorded this song. However, I sometimes sing it to my granddaughters.
Del: What is your favorite band?
Luis: I don’t have a favorite band. I like all of them. Music is very different in different places. Music is like a game to me. Sometimes I like to play tag, sometimes I like to play hide-and-seek. In the end, it’s the same thing (playing), but different ways of doing it. Either way, you have fun.
Del: Would you rather make a song by yourself, or with your band?
Luis: They’re very different things. When I’m alone, I am very poetic, and with I’m with my band, it is easier because we work together. When I’m by myself it is all poetry, but when I’m with my band it is all music.
Del: At what age did you start playing guitar?
LUIS LE-BERT
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Luis: I began at age 7. My dad just put it on my lap because there were always lots of music and instruments in my house. There was a piano and my mom played it. My dad was an awesome tango singer. There were many musicians in my family.
Del: What do you write your music about?
Luis: I don’t know. It isn’t something I plan. I just get a feeling of what my songs can be about. I know what the song is about, after making the notes.
Del: What is your favorite song that you have written?
Luis: My favorite song is always the last song that I wrote.
By Rowan The Chilean Museum Of Fine Arts is a beautiful museum that holds many different types of art. It has sculptures, paintings, and digital art as well.
In my opinion, it is a very lovely place to go. The work is interesting to look at. In fact, some of the work is interactive. For example, there is a big wooden egg. It is one of the first things you will see. And if you get close enough, you can see that you can actually go inside.
Some of the paintings would remind you of some of the kings and queens of the past.
Digital art is a real treat to watch. I am not going to tell you about it so it remains a surprise.
I would recommend the museum to many people that enjoy art.
For more information visit: www.mnba.cl
The Chilean Museum Of Fine Arts
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THE CAVEBy Elizabeth Holtheuer
Grade 3
Faith strolled around in the rain-forest. She was reciting a poem she had to learn for school. She was gazing up at all the beautiful tall trees, when she suddenly stumbled over a log. She got up, looked for-ward, and to her surprise there was a dark, mysterious cave in front of her.
She rubbed her eyes to see if it was all real, but it was still there. The cave was long and narrow. It was also pitch black, Faith thought a mole lived in there. She stepped forward and into the cave. She shouted “Hello!!” An answer came back “Who’s there?”
Faith stumbled into the cave. She was scared, but curious at the same time. She wanted to find out what was in there. Suddenly a short man, about 1 foot tall, pink puffy cheeks came upon Faith’s feet. The short man’s name was Al-fred. Alfred was no ordinary man, he was an elf. Usually elves have pointy ears, a pointed hat and a grouchy, deep or squeaky voice. Al-fred was the squeaky type. He was mind blowing he talked too much. It was cute, but annoying.
Alfred and Faith started ask-ing each other questions like, “what is your name?” And “how old you? Soon they became “BFF”. Suddenly Faith got a really good idea. She would decorate the cave. Faith told Alfred she had to do something, and left to her house to get all her allowance.
She went to the store and bought all she could with her mon-ey. Like Alfred didn’t have any mon-ey she had to pay. Soon the cave was decorated doors, carpets and all. It looked like a masterpiece.
One day while Faith was in school a green mamba slith-ered into Alfred’s cave. The green mamba bit Alfred on his leg and simply slithered out. Alfred fell to the ground in pain. He had broken a leg. The Green mamba had bit him on the bone and the bone had snapped. The next day Faith came to the cave. She was delighted be-cause she had gotten 100% on her poem. She was going to tell Alfred about grade when she found him lying on the floor. Faith picked him up and ran to the local hospital. The doctors immediately rushed Alfred into surgery. He received xrays, his leg was opened up, and then the doctor stitched everything togeth-er. Alfred had to go through the en-tire medical procedure. Sometime during the procedure he fainted. They continued the operation. He was finally ready and he came out on a wheel chair. The doctors said to Faith that Alfred had to be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. But there was one problem, Faith couldn’t pay for the operation bill. She was poor. She had to borrow money from her parents. She ran home and asked her parents for some money. She said it was for the operation and Alfred rode to his cave.
Faith paid the debt and Alfred was still stuck in his wheel-chair. One day, in the summer, Faith
went to Alfred’s cave. She wanted to see if Alfred was doing okay and when she got there Alfred’s wheel-chair was abandoned. She went to the kitchen and Alfred was cooking eggs on a stove, standing on his bad leg...
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TSUNAMIBy Alex Arthur
Grade 2
As a giantMass of blueIt gets soGiant then runsTo the shoreAnd squashesTons of thingsLike trees,Houses, building,And people.They come inGroups butThe 3rd and 8thAre strongestRumble, rumbleWhoosh, bang!
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A DAY WITH VAN GOGHBy RinaGrade 5
Hello, I’m Rina. Our class, 5A, has been study-ing about impressionists in social studies. I had writ-ten a short narrative about me spending a day with Vincent Van Gogh. This is the story: “Van Gogh was one of the most famous impression-ists in history. Impressionists are artists that...”
The book showed a self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh in the corner of the page. He had red hair, and a serious face. His left ear is smaller than the right. I read that he cut his ear because he was so sad. Historians say that he had a disease that causes sudden sadness. I examined the picture very carefully. At that moment, his mouth twitched. Then he smiled. I blinked. What happened?
“Hello. Theo wrote to me that he would send a helper for me. It must be you.” Vincent greeted. I was staring at Vincent. Vincent was staring back at me. I needed to speak.
“Hi, hello, my name is Rina. Nice to meet you. Um, who is Theo?” I asked.
“He must be a very caring brother.” I com-mented. “Indeed. Ok. Let’s get to work now. Pass me the blue. I’m painting the sky.” Vincent announced. The sky was dark, but some spots were brightening up with stars.
Vincent started swishing his brush quickly and made short brushstrokes in his canvas. He was draw-ing very thick lines. I continued assisting Vincent by passing the paint tubes, changing the water, and so on.
“Aha! Finally!” Vincent shouted suddenly in a compla-cent tone.
The painting looked magnificent. It showed swirling movement in the dark, night sky. The stars looked so bright that I needed to blink.
“I will name this painting, Starry Night.” Vincent an-nounced.
“I think it’s a wonderful title.” I complimented.
But suddenly, his smile began to fade. His face turned serious. I gasped. I was staring at the self-por-trait of Vincent. But there was a new painting under the self-portrait. It was Starry Night.
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CROUCHING TIGERBy Del Cartwright
Grade 2 Roar, roar, scratch, scratch Climbing up a wall While eating its prey Chew, chew, gnaw, gnaw Raw chicken dripping, spit Roar, roar, scratch, scratch Climbing up wall Like a cat sharpening its claws Then when a little Boy walks by The tiger jumps and frightens him. The boy runs away crying to his mom.
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EL OPTIMISTA
Por Valentina AnabalónQuinto básico
Mi tío es el hombre más optimista del mundo. Cuando le roban no se enfurece ni se en-tristece. Una vez le robaron todo lo que tenía en su casa, pero saltaba de alegría al ver que su perro es-taba vivo y sin un rasguño.
El siempre se levanta diciendo que será un gran día. Un día dijo eso después de que chocara su auto y lo golpeara un rayo.
Yo he visto a mi tío enfermo mas de una vez. El invierno pasado estuvo en cama un mes y medio.
Eso no lo incomoda porque dice que la sopa de pollo de mi tía es muy buena.
La mayoría de la ropa de mi tío está arruinada. Todas sus corbatas están manchadas con café. El aún se las pone, dice que el café le da un toque especial.
A mi tío no le importa caerse. En más de una ocasión ha llegado al hospital con fracturas. A él no le importa pues dice que los doctores y enfermeras son muy simpáticos.
Mi tío ha tenido muchas mascotas. En total ha tenido: 8 perros, 10 gatos, 2 canarios y 1 ratón. To-dos se han escapado o huído. El cree que llegaron a encontrar una nueva familia, pero en realidad todos han sido aplastados o atropellados.
LA CASA EMBRUJADAPor Rebeca LeivaSegundo básico
Un día tenebroso una niña estaba caminan-do por un bosque encantado. cuando, de lejos vio una casa embrujada. Ella quería ir a la casa embru-jada.
De repente las luces se prendieron y se dio cuenta de que el fantasma era su papá disfrazado y la casa embrujada era su casa. Todo era una broma.
SUPER ESQUIADORAPor Maya Tumblin
Tercero Básico
Una zorra, mamá de cinco cachorros, estaba cazando para poder darle comida a sus hijos. La zorra se cayó de una montaña y no tenía la fuerza suficiente para escalar hasta donde estaban sus cachorros.
La Súper Esquiadora fue esquiando hasta donde estaba la zorra. Por donde tenía que ir estaba lleno de rocas. La zorra estaba atrapada debajo de mu-chas rocas. La Súper Esquiadora sacó todas las rocas que estaban arriba de la zorra. Súper Esquiadora tiene mucha fuerza.
Después de sacar las ro-cas recogió a la zorrita en sus brazos y la llevó velozmente a donde es-taban sus bebés. Los be-bés aullaron de felicidad al ver a su mamá.
En el camino, la niña vio una llave encantada y dijo: “ Esta llave debe ser de la casa embrujada” De pronto chocó con algo, era la casa embrujada. Ella intentó abrir la puerta pero no pudo, entonces intentó con la llave y le funcionó. Entró a la casa embrujada pero un fan-tasma llamado Brubo la atrapó.
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READERS WRITE
There was this one time when I was at Disney World and I was on a roller coaster. I was so
scared that I shut my eyes and waited for the ride to finish. After that I went to another rollercoast-er that was called The Matterhorn. My heart was racing, and my arms were trembling. I was the most scared when I saw the abominable snow-man roaring as we past. I heard his screaming and roaring when we were deep inside the mountain. After the ride was over, I got out and I felt better. Soon, I decided to go on ANOTHER roller coaster. I saw one that was called The Pirates of the Caribbean. When I went inside, it wasn’t so scary, so I opened my eyes for the whole ride. When it finished, I got lost! My other family members were not next to me. Suddenly, I was thinking I would be lost forever. I was searching all around.
I needed to find them. I looked at the en-trance, but they were not there. I decided to stay in the entrance, it seemed like for hours! Finally, I waited for a bit more and saw my family members walking towards me. When my family came they gave me a big hug. I felt better when they came. Then, it was time to go home, so we went home. When we got home, we went to bed. When I went in my bed my mom tucked me in and I was so glad that I got found, when I was lost.
-Dominic LambertGrade 1
My dad has an extremely wealthy friend. This friend, Mr. MacNeil, has a huge house that feels
as though it is the size of Central Park. Mr. MacNeil has two butlers, five maids, and a huge master bedroom. That’s not all: the kitchen has one of those new ‘smart’ refrigerators that keeps track of its contents and tells the owner what to go buy, the roof is equipped with what could only be a helicopter landing pad (“that’s how he commutes to work,” I think to myself ), and a gigantic infinity pool that makes the view feel as though the pool is an extension of the Pacific ocean which the house overlooks.
Last Saturday, my family was invited to his house. My dad, mom, and I were picked up by a shiny limousine stocked with refreshments. It had soft seats and clean windows. But the limousine isn’t my story. My story begins when I arrived at the mansion.
“Welcome!” said Mr. MacNeil. “Here, let’s go to the liv-ing room.” He walked over to the spotless main door. Then, he faced me. “Eugene, if you want you to go somewhere else to play, you can.”
“No thank you, Mr. MacNeil.” I said.
That was a bad choice. My parents and Mr. MacNeil blahed and blahed about economy and re-cent world conflicts. I nearly fell asleep listening to this. Because I was bored, I decided to take Mr. MacNeil up on his offer to go play- so I went out to go explore the house. I didn’t even bother to ask for permission since the grown-ups were too into their conversation.
I went out of the vast living room which seemed 2 times bigger than my entire house. In just a few seconds I found myself in a wide, and never end-ing hallway. There were many doors lining both sides
This section of The Talon asks readers to express themselves on a particular broad topic. Writing style isn’t as important as thoughtfulness and sincerity. This concept is taken from the magazine The Sun. Our topic this issue is, “There was this one time...” Because of space limitations, we’re unable to print all submissions. We may need to edit pieces as well to a more concise version of the original. We encourage you to write on our next issue’s next topic: Right and Wrong. Send your writing to [email protected] or bring it hand written to the G&T room.
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of the hallway. It was a hard decision to choose which door to go into be-cause each one of them seemed like the beginning of an exciting adventure was waiting on the other side of the door.
Eventually, after a few min-utes, I chose a medium-sized chest-nut door. I probably shouldn’t have. I was now in a room bigger than the living room. Way bigger. About 12 times larger. After scanning the en-tirety of the place, I realized I was in some kind of library. There were tow-ering bookshelves with an overflow-ing amount of books. As I explored the private library, shelf by shelf, I only found books about law, history, and economy.
The bookshelves weren’t re-ally lined up or organized in any way. They just seemed to be placed in a random order that made the library seem like a small village that had been made with no particular de-sign in mind.
It wasn’t long before I real-ized I was lost in what seemed like a dead end in maze made by tower-ing pieces of wood. I felt my heart thumping and echoing in my ears. I felt stuck between all the book-shelves. I panicked. There was no way I was going to find my way back. This place was too big. I know it’s sil-ly to panic when you’re just “lost” in someone’s house, but trust me, Mr . MacNeil’s house is an absolute maze. Anyway, I tried to retrace my steps. It was harder than I thought it would be. While wandering around, I had gone too far into the library without even noticing. I ran around, probably look-ing silly and weird. After a few more minutes of running like a frightened
horse, I caught a glimpse of a huge, white and fancy door. Obviously, it wasn’t the door I had used to get in the library but that didn’t matter. I ran toward it, glad I had been “res-cued” by a way out. Turns out that fancy white door actually led to the garden. The garden had clean, bright, well-trimmed grass. There were tall, thick trees with gleaming leaves. I tried not to pay any attention to the gar-den, since I had a problem to worry about.
I wandered around the gar-den, hoping to find an exit. I knew I couldn’t use the white, fancy door because it would be even more hopeless back in the private library. After what felt like hours of walking cluelessly around the garden, I final-ly found another exit.
This door was marked “Use only for emergencies.” My situa-tion wasn’t what you might call an “emergency” in the normal sense of an emergency- but to me, this was a definite emergency. I pushed the door open and went in. I was in a small, damp and dark stairway. This place really didn’t match the whole luxury point of the rest of Mr. Mac-Neil’s home.
I decided going downstairs would be better than going upstairs for no reason. Each time I stepped down, I heard a hollow, echoing sound. Just after going down 2 floors, I noticed a door with a sign that said “Maids’ floor: Private.” I completely ignored the sign and pushed the door open. The moment I stepped foot in the new room, a plump and short maid saw me.
“Young lady, who are you and what do you think you’re doing here?” The maid was outraged.“I’m the daughter of one of Mr. Mac-Neil’s friends. To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure what I’m doing here” I said, speaking quickly, hoping the maid wouldn’t tell my parents about this moment..“Still, young lady, that doesn’t mean you can be in this part of the house. Now, get going.”“I’m actually kind of lost. I don’t know how to get back to the living room.” The maid sighed. “Girl, just go straight over there and make a right turn. Then. go upstairs.” She pointed across the way to emphasize the di-rections she was giving. Awkwardly, I forced my feet to walk down the narrow hallway. My face was as red as a fire hydrant. I did as I was told: I walked straight down the hallway, went right and then up the stairs.
I found my parents and Mr. MacNeil and I have to admit, I was glad I had stumbled across the maid. My parents seemed not to notice that I had even gone away for a while. It was pretty disappointing to not be noticed, but who cares? At least I wasn’t in trouble.
I realized the safest thing for me to do was to stay in the conver-sation. “Mr. MacNeil, do you think there’s going to be a World War III?” I used my fake adult voice. As the grown-ups replied weird, words-only-adults-know, I thought “Should anyone have a house so big some-one could get lost in it?”
- Eugene JangGrade 5
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The cloud of white powder forming as my body plowed through the snow made seeing diffi-
cult. I was sliding, completely out of control, down the side of a mountain that my dad had insisted that we ski down. My body was getting sore as I slid through the hard snow. It was my first time I went on a really steep mountain, but nothing was really going through my mind because all I was focused on was the out of control slide down the mountain that had ALL of my attention. Then I saw Mom. Before that, my brother, mom, dad and I had de-cided that we were going to try to ski down the steepest mountain in Valle Nevado. We went up on one of those ski lifts that you lean on a bar and a rope pulls you. Those are meant for people on skis, but my brother was on a snowboard. My dad was in front, I was next, then my mom and last was my brother. When my mom turned around, she saw my brother holding onto the bar where you have to lean. She was screaming, “Let go! Let go!” She was scared that if he didn’t let go right away, his snowboard would fall off and he wouldn’t have anything to go down the mountain with, and he would have to stay up there. He finally let go, and snowboarded down to the bot-tom of the mountain. It was definitely an interesting moment, but it wouldn’t be the most interesting mo-ment of the day.
After that near disaster, my mom, dad and I were standing at the top of the mountain. A really steep, snowy mountain. I was a little nervous because it was so high and steep. I could see miles of Santiago from up above. The wind sounded like a lawn mower in my ears. I had trouble keeping my balance. My mom had already started going slowly down the mountain. I decided it was too steep. The idea I had to deal with this steepness was that I would go down on my back-side, and when it wasn’t too steep I would ski the rest of the way down. So, I took off my skis and started sliding. It started well. Then, I accidentally let go of my skis, and instantly it became worse. I lost control. My body sped through the snow. I tried to hold on to the snow around me, but it was no use. “Aarrggggghhh-hhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The cloud of white dust forming as my body plowed through the snow made the outside of my goggles fill with snow crystals. I was skidding, completely out of control down the steep, snowy mountain. I was al-most sure I was going to be bruised and beaten as I slid through the hard snow. It was my first time I went on a really steep mountain, but nothing was really go-ing through my mind.All I knew was that I was sliding, out of control, down the mountain. Then I saw Mom. My eyeballs nearly popped out of my skin into my ski goggles. “Mom, watch out!” I shouted. She looked back. “What?” she asked, completely unaware of the danger that was racing towards her. “Move!” I shouted again. But it was too late. THUD! We crashed, and she landed on top of me. It didn’t re-ally hurt because of all the layers of clothing we were wearing. What did hurt was all of the moving of my mom caused by the collision. My mom turned to try and grab onto the snow behind us and stabbed her knee into my thigh. Then she turned back and jabbed her ski pole into my rib. All of a sudden, my mom started screaming, “Look out! Careful! Move! Look out! Watch out!” all in Eng-lish. There were other people on the mountain. We were in Chile, so they didn’t understand a word she was saying, but of course they looked back. In an in-stant, they were out of our way. After a painful slide, we finally stopped at the bottom of the mountain. I thought it was awesome. It was just like being in an amusement park on a really rough roller coaster. On the other hand, even through all those layers of clothes, I could see her stomach going up, and down, up and down. Her facial expression was like she just had seen big-foot or something. Then she looked up and saw my dad. He was laughing his head off. My mom didn’t like it, not one little bit. That day, I learned two things. One is to always know when you can’t do ‘it.’ Two is to never slide down a really steep mountain on your backside as you might end up completely out of control- which rarely ends up with a good outcome.
Lara BejaranoGrade 5
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Asher- Grade 2 student. Journalist. Creative Writing contributor. Layout design.
Catherine- Grade 2 student. PhotographerWriter. Cartoonist.Art contributor.
Rowan- Grade 3 student. Journalist. Creative Writing contributor. Layout design.
Ruby- Grade 4 student. Layout contributor. Journalist. Art co-director.
Anna- Grade 3 student.Journalist.Layout design. Art contributor. Creative Writing contributor.
Anastacia- Grade 5 student. Cartoonist. The spark that inspired the creation of the magazine.
Tommy- Grade 4 student. Editorialist. Art contributor. Journalist.
Eugene- Grade 5 student. Senior editor.Journalist. Creative Writing contributor.
Dan- Grade 4 student. Journalist with a focus on sports. Senior editor. Humorist.
Madie- Grade 5 student. Journalist. Creative Writing contributor. Layout contributor.
Liam- Grade 5 student. Humorist. Cartoonist. Journalist. Editor. Creative Writing contributor.
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Del- Grade 2 student. Journalist. Photographer. Creative Writing contributor.
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By Dan
9. Instead of giving hi-fives, give low-feet.
8. Develop an unnatural fear of staplers or tape dispensers.
7. “Hi-lite” your shoes. Tell people that you haven’t lost your shoes since you did this.
6. Walk into the classroom backwards.
5. When your friend walks by, motion him over, lean forward as if you are about to say some-
thing then go back to doing your work.
4. If you are a teacher or principal page yourself over the intercom. (Don’t disguise your voice.)
3. If you are a teacher send an email to the rest of the school telling them what you’re doing.
For example, “If anyone needs me I’ll be grading papers at my desk.”
2. Include a personal note on every email that you send. “On a personal note, I’m feeling a bit
tired today.” “On a personal note, I’m pleased to an-nounce that I got my highest score ever on Angry Birds last night.”
1. Every time you turn in an assignment, write, “I think you’re the greatest teacher in this entire
room!” on the top of your paper.”
Top 9 Ways toKeep Wackiness in School
What happens when you cross a vampire with a snowman?
You get frostbite.
What does the bad-tempered cook do when he is angry?
By Liam
JOKES
He beats the eggs and whips the cream.
If a seagull flies over the sea what do you call a bird that flies over the bay?
What type of songs do planets sing?How can you tell the ocean is friendly?
A bagel.
It waves! Nep-tunes.
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THIS IS YOUR PAGEWe left a page blank just for you. Design, create, or write anything to add to The Talon! Use your creativity, and when you’re finished you can cut the page out and give it to your teacher, or even bring it down to the G&T room. The Talon staff can’t wait to see your ideas!
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