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Houghman Herald
Inaugural Edition
BLACK OUT BULLYING WEEK
January 27, 2016
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Last week we had "Black Out Bullying Week" at Forest City Elementary and enjoyed many fun activities throughout the week.
On Tuesday we all put a negative thought on paper and threw it into the "TOXIC WASTE BIN" as we entered the cafeteria for lunch. Wednesday, we made some new friends by partner-reading with children from other grade levels. On Thursday, we gave compliments and if a teacher heard the compliment the student got a Hootie that was worth five Hooties! Friday morning we wrapped up the week with an amazing pep rally. We got to sing songs and even learned a new one written by Mrs. Schouburgh. The best part was getting to see our school mascot "HOOTIE" dancing and waving.
Just because we had a special "Black Out Bullying Week" doesn't mean that anyone should go back to being mean. Every week we all should act like it's "Black Out Bullying Week" and be nice to one another.
Keep Calm
and
TBK
Credits: Joyce, Alexa, Sunjay, NaKayla, Aliyah, and Anderson
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This is Dr. Holmes. Teacher of music, recorder, orff, and chorus.
Dr. Holmes has been a music teacher for 33 years, 8 years in Mississippi and the rest in Florida. Her inspiration to become a music teacher was from one of her college professors.
Recorder began meeting again last Wednesday, January 20th. The following day chorus met Thursday the 21st, and orff met this past Monday the 25th . The next performance will be May 22nd and the theme is musical montage. Grades 4 and 5 can participate in chorus, 3rd graders are able to join recorder, and orff is exclusively for 5th graders. Dr. Holmes has sent letters home about these important dates.
These are the orff instruments.
This is the coach of Physical Education and Cross Country: Coach Hartman.
Cross Country is a club for students to practice running and go to other schools to race against other Seminole County students. Practice is in the morning from 8:05-8:30. To attend these practices you must bring back a permission slip to Coach Hartman. All grades, Kindergarten through Fifth Grade, can participate.
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Owl News Network brings Forest City students the news each morning. There are many jobs to get the news on-air. The jobs are: Anchor 1, Anchor 2, Special Corespondent, Sound Engineer, Video Engineer, Director, Media, Teleprompter, and Two Multi-Experts/Floaters. If you are in 5th grade you can apply at the end of each trimester. Fourth graders can apply at the end of the school year.
School Clubs
This is Mr. Schimmel. He runs the Owl News Network.
Math club is a very important problem solving class. The questions are very challenging for many of the 4th and 5th graders that attend math club.
Math Club meets at 7:30 A.M. on Tuesdays. The students who attend Math Club meet in Mrs. Walton's classroom to start the morning with challenging math equations.
Students reveal their answers to the teachers and discuss if the answers are correct or incorrect. If the answers are incorrect then both teachers explain how to get the right answers.
Mrs. Walton, 4th grade teacher and Mrs. Baptist, math coach, run the Math Club and help students when they are stuck on problems.
Credits: Jessica, Aliyah, Karla, and Adrian
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Calendar and Events
January and February 2016
EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS
January 25 Literacy Week Kick Off
February 4 Dad's Breakfast
February 10 SAC Meeting
February 15 No School Presidents Day
February 19 Hootie Store Grades 2, 4, and 5
February 24 End of Second Trimester
February 25 Start of The Third Trimester
February 26 Hootie Store Grades K, 1, and 3; Hat Day
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January 25th through January 29th students at FCE will be celebrating Literacy Week by participating in many exciting events about reading. Also, we will be learning about students that are in an orphange in Albania. FCE students will be writing letters and sending books to these children far away from us.
Coming soon ...in mid February!
Forest City will be kicking off the Jump Rope for Heart Fundraiser. This important event raises money for the American Heart Association.
This is Literacy Week at FCE!
"Literacy Changes Our World"
Credits: Danielle, Ashton, and James
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Getting to know Miss Crum
Miss Crum: "Well, I’m very excited about it. The teachers and staff members voted for me so it’s nice to be recognized by the people that work with me. Even if I don’t talk to them every day they notice that I’m doing a good job teaching so that means a lot."
Interviewer: "How do you feel about being teacher of the year?"
Interviewer: "What's your favorite part about being a teacher?"
Miss Crum: "My favorite part about being a teacher is to be able to help students learn. And if they start to have trouble with something and then start to understand it...it's that little light bulb that goes off and I think that is the best part about being a teacher."
Interviewer: "How long have you been a teacher?"
Miss Crum: "That’s a difficult question, when I was in college I was in a lot of kindergarten classes. I’ve only taught first and second grade levels. I enjoy teaching them all but second is my favorite."
Interviewer: "What grade do you like teaching the most, and why?"
Interviewer: "What grades have you taught?
Miss Crum: "This is my 12th year teaching."
Miss Crum: "Forest City is the only school I’ve ever taught at. I’ve been here for 12 years."
Interviewer: "Where was the first school you taught?
Miss Crum: "Like I said before when I was in college I did a lot of work in kindergarten classes, they call those internships. After college I’ve only taught first and second grade."
Miss Crum: "Well, first of all, I could never see myself working at an office job and doing the same thing every single day, so I knew I wouldn’t like that. My aunt was a teacher and I was taking a class in college and one of the things the class was about was finding a career... a career course. It was for students who didn’t know what they wanted to do and I fit into that category. One of the projects we had to do was going to go visit people in different careers. So I decided to go visit my aunt, the teacher. For the whole day I just sat and watched and I really thought it was something I could see myself doing. I really enjoy being around the students so I guess my aunt Tracy inspired me to be a teacher."
Interviewer: "What inspired you to be a teacher?"
Credits: Chloe, Elizabeth, and NaKayla
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PTA STORE
The PTA Store is open on Fridays from 8:05-8:45am. These are just some of the many treats for sale!
These yummy looking cookies are only 75¢. You can get them when you are purchasing your lunch.
The location of the Hootie Store is in the lunch room (the last double doors on the right) . The Hootie Store will be open for 2nd, 4th and 5th graders on February 19th and February 26th for K, 1st, and 3rd. The best part about the Hootie Store is that you don't have to spend any money! Just earn those Hooties and go shopping!
HOOTIE STORE
FCE RESTURANT
GREAT AMERICAN FUNDRAISER
Help raise money for our FCE PTA by participating in the fundraiser!
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Credits: Matthew, Chevenee, and Walter
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Cartoons and Riddles
Beginner: When Moon runs away and Sun comes up?
Medium: What has roots that no one sees, it’s taller than trees.
Up up up it goes and yet it never grows?
Brainiac: All things it devours. Birds, beasts, trees, flowers. Gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal. Withers plant, ruins town and beats high mountain down?
Answers are on FCE Food and Restaurant page!
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Brain Teasers
Credits: Anderson, Bruce, and Jordon
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Food and the FCE Restaurant
Snowflake Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
½ cup sugar
1 tablespoon almond extract
2 ½ cups flour
Directions 1. preheat oven to 350ºF 2. cream butter and sugar together
3. mix in extract and flour
4. roll out on floured surface to 3/4 inch thick
5. cut with floured snowflake cookie cutter
6. place cookies on ungreased cookie sheet
7. bake at 350ºF for 10-12 min
8. remove from cookie sheet and cool
It may not snow in Florida...but you can still have some "snowflakes" if you make these easy to bake cookies!
Christmas Cookies Hallmark Gift Book
Meet Ms. McKinzie, our FCE Restaurant Manager
Ms. McKinzie, the FCE restaurant manager, has been working at FCE for over 8 years. That’s a lot of dirty dishes! She and the other lunch ladies serve up to 830 breakfasts and lunches a day. Good thing she enjoys cooking! Ms. McKinzie also enjoys serving kids. She feels that “every grade levels' manners depend on each student’s individual attitude.” Next time you enter the FCE restaurant you should use manners by saying, "please" and "thank you" to Ms. McKinzie and the other lunch ladies.
Brain Teaser Awnsers: Beginner - Sunrise Medium - Mountain Brainiac - Time
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Credits: Kaleb, Nadine, and Katelyn
Welcome!
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This is a test of Forest City Elementary's new digital publishing platform!
Owlpalooza
We are excited to see the different types of articles, videos, and news that can be shared using this medium! Students will work together to produce a comprehensive publication with some of the latest news from Forest City Elementary and the FCE community! Join us on this journey!
MOON OVER MANATI
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Leisabel Soto Ortiz
Taken with: Galaxy S5 phone camera
At: Manatí, PR
I'm from Levittown, PR
Study at: Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
From Newark to Brooklyn
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Finding beauty in strange and different places.
Last Night I sat and listen to the reading of "Kafka's Last Laugh" by Vagabond Alexander Beaumont, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Last Night I sat and listen to the reading of "Kafka's Last Laugh" by Vagabond Alexander Beaumont, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Science Fiction at its best.
To summarize this short pice, just re revisit big corp and the prison system. The manipulation of inmates into believing what is and what is not, according to the standards created by capitalism and its goons.
In order to understand Kafka's Last Laugh, the reader has to relate to science fiction and activism.
Vagabond defined Activism as been Science Fiction, what one got to do with each other?. you may ask. Activism goal is a to imagine a change in the future. Science fiction is base in imagination in how the future could be. One can relate to the other through the fact that all is played in the arena of what is to become of the future in the near present.
RECUERDOS DE MI TIERRA
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HUMACAO, NAGUABO,PONCE Y FAJARDO
BORICUA PA QUE TULO SEPAS
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From where I stand “La Cordillera Central” and the Empire State stand side by side. I am the seed with the hope of greatness that struggle to be in when every one saw me out.
My name is atypical, is not Maria nor Juana, but Catherine. My last name is not Castillo, but Costello, but not so clear as to why is not. My birth place is not Puerto Rico, but New York. But mi lengua is Spanish. My heritage is not one of hamburgers and pizza, but one of rice and beans and cocoro.
From where I stand the history of a country influenced my decision to love and hate my birthplace and to long for a place that I fit but don’t fit me. I guess that longing comes from the doubts everyone had about me and where I will go in this long path call life. From the hills of the small town I grew up to the asphalt city that saw my temporary downfall.
Yes, the temporary fall that once held me back makes me want more. From where I stand; I was born 16 years ago. A layer of fear came off, some hate slide down my back and a ton of habits became obvious, the drugs and the alcohol that came to a halt, just waiting to have access to my life again. How could I be so fearful, hateful obviously torn away by the habits that consume my everyday life?
In order to answer this question I had to sit back and look at the long road ahead of me. I went to A A and N A meetings, one each day for 30 days, maybe 2 or 3. I came early, stay late, shared and made coffee. That was a lot of coffee, that was a lot of meetings, it was a lot of work for someone who never work more than a week on a job. And for those meetings and all the down falls in between, I rose above the stereotype that follow me.
It was ups and downs, lefts and rights. Never a dull moment, 9/11 came and Islam became a household name. I exchanged my shorts for a long dress and my hats for a scarf and then I became part of the change. I had no idea how this was going to work out, but it was no stopping me, from growing, achieving, reacting and loving something unknown, something so big it could not be explain with one word. I grew older, a bit wiser and found love again. I learned I can do everything I put my mind into and is no reason to allow any one to make me feel less than and never, never, ever feel that age is a hinderance to step to greatness.
From where I stand, I stand, I stand on the mountain, under the blue sky and on the concrete jungle that have see me grow. From the music of my jibaro, the salsa and the plena and the sun bathing my skin, and playing dutch rope in Jackson Heights I stand stronger. I am Catherine Costello, Boricua pa’ tu lo sepas.
My Pride or just my Flag?
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IS this my pride or just my flag?
How can I develop pride for these colors when I don’t know the history behind them?
How can I be a proud full owner of a title I don’t understand? Who am I then? What kind of diluted sentiments are they?
How can I believe in the one stared flag that waves over my country?
A country I call my own, who was never own by those who put a stake to belong?
Do I know who own the mountains, the sun, the yucas and yautias? No, I don't.
My tainos are gone, they said goodbye to freedom and hello to the mirror image the African came to endure.
Do I know the stories of those who don’t sing or dance any longer?
No I don't. A new civilization came and changed our names, gave us new gods and once again our music, drums, and voices were silenced. The voices of the ones stripped from their homes,the ones called savages, the ones taken as slaves, brutalized and raped.
The ones who were substituted by a darker skin, substituted by that man taken from afar, the ones stripped of their identity, their religion, their home, and their hopes. And then we became one, Tainos and Africans, Africans and Tainos.
Al son de los tambores que repican en la distancia se baila la plena y la bomba.
It can be heard the tears of a nation making rivers and oceans, mountains and valleys; with the screams in the distance for freedom, justice and equality.
Freedom from the harsh hands, equality to be like we are meant to be, and what we know we need to become.
The voice of Luis Pales Matos, Albizu Campos, and Ramon Celso de Barbosa were the men who gave the Island nation a reason and a voice that could be heard in the fight for freedom. Not only with arms but also with the pen, with the intelligence, and gracefulness of a panther who awaits patiently for the right moment to pounce.
Is that Revolution, that revolt, that will become the beat on the drum that fuels the fire for freedom once more.
New Year
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A nEw YeaR...
As we are getting closer to a New Year, our dreams and hopes might take a bit longer. It is understandable we don't like to wait, and we want everything to happen in a blink of an eye.
It is hard to admit we are powerless against life itself, but we like to pretend that is not so. We are the mighty human, full of power and almost godly attributes (in Islam this is call shirk (shirk is believing that something only Allah can do, can be done by someone/something else.) And we discovered that we are not God. That we are not all powerful, and we live and die on time prescribed.
Even when it comes to our hopes, dreams and everything in between patience is the best practice.
I am not patient with life and how slow things sometimes happened. I get upset, question myself and then I realize that either I have not been paying attention to my own words or I am just loosing my mind. Then I realize that Allah talah is the only one that can help me, and give me that tranquility I am looking for.
So next time you think, life is evolving too slow and that you deserve or need something right away, look forth, behind, to the left and right and tell me what do you see? People trying as hard as you to get ahead, work, eat, live, and love.
Start this New Year like you have some sense, not everything you want is going to be given to you. Maybe you get some needs met, but remember that is other people that have less, much less than you and me.
As much as I would love to live in a mansion, pretend that I am the boss of my destiny, I know better. What about you?
THE ARTIST WITH A VISION
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THE ARTIST WITH A VISION
by Catherine Costello
link to videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkMqvSfCFjY
The Island of Puerto Rico is synonymous to music, food and the arts. One area that is constantly visited by tourist is the Old San Juan, La Fortaleza del Morro, la Catedral, and the small art exhibits and museums are the main attraction of the area.
However, a young man with a vision took the initiative to merge towns along with the arts bringing their stories into a non-conventional canvas.
Meet the artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo the artist with a vision. Rosado-Seijo has a commitment to better communities through the arts, by engaging the young and old. By tapping into the raw talent found not only within the communities he is involved with, but around the island of Puerto Rico. He has also worked very closely with the residents of La Perla, in San Juan, presenting art projects, teaching art workshops and becoming involved in many community engagements.
Born in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, Rosado-Seijo graduated from the painting department of the Puerto Rico School of Visual Arts in 1997. In 1998, he worked with Michy Marxuach to open a gallery that transformed into a not-for-profit organization presenting resources and exhibitions for contemporary artists in Puerto Rico. In 2000, Rosado-Seijo had his first solo show at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, including interventions on billboards around the city. On 2009, Rosado-Seijo converted his apartment into a museum that also serves as a meeting place for artists. The Chemi Room creation has helped up and coming artist with self-exhibits.
One of the most amazing projects Rosado-Seijo was involved in was the creation of “La Perla’s Bowl. Since inaugurated in 2006. La Perla’ s Bowl has served as both a skateboarding ramp and a pool. El Cerro is another of Rosado-Seijos projects, involving the community of el Cerro located in the town of Naranjito. This project consists of painting the houses in the hillside in different tones of greens. To depict how the community has respected the hills and build their homes without changing the topography of the area.
Rosado-Seijo is dedicated to safeguard the arts in Puerto Rico. Hopefully, the initiatives he has taken to safeguard these projects and the arts don’t die with the moment.
EL CERRO
The project consists in painting their houses different shades of green paying an homage to the way the community has been built respecting harmoniously its surroundings and the topography of the mountains where it stands.
LA PERLA BOWL
One of the most amazing projects Rosado-Seijo was involved in was the creation of “La Perla’s Bowl. Since inaugurated in 2006.
THE ARTIST WITHIN US!!!!
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THE ARTIST COrNER, SO LETS TAKE A PEAK
DON FELIPE LUCIANO @RUTGERS NEWARK.