Thursday, June 16, 2016

Mega Special Report

Teacher’s Appreciation Week

By Amy and Braeden

    May  2th-6th is Teacher Appreciation Week, and Soleil has made special cards for some teachers like Mr. Cho, Mr. Louis and Kim Zimmerman. The cards are vases filled with paper “3-D” flowers made from construction paper. Everybody in the class signed the cards, happy to have our teachers at Madrona.

What Kids in Soleil Like         By: Naomi & Payton

‘Q1: What’s your favorite song/artist?
Ava: Ice JJ Fish
Ben: Hello by Adele

Q2: What’s your favorite book?
Ava: Divergent
Ben: 7th Harry Potter

Q3: What’s your favorite food?
Ava: Guacamole
Ben: Pizza

Q4: What’s your favorite animal?
Ava: Otter
Ben: Peacock

Q5: What do you do for fun?
Ava: Watch Netflix
Ben: Play soccer

And that’s what kids in Soleil! 

 Interviews about next year
by Livia and Isabella





Why is Madrona Awesome?

We asked a few Soleil students about what they think about Madrona (our school) here are the questions we asked them. Why is Madrona awesome? What’s your favorite thing that’s different from other schools in Madrona? We also asked them What’s your favorite thing in Madrona that’s also in other schools?

Our interviews:
1:

Us: “Why is Madrona awesome?”

Student: “Madrona’s awesome because there’s a lot of fun activities that our school does.”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing that’s in Madrona that’s different from other schools?”

Student: “How there’s a band room.”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing in Madrona that’s also in other schools?”

Student: “There’s the woods and you can walk through it and ride bikes in the woods.”

2:

Us: “Why is Madrona awesome?”

Student: “It’s got a good music program, good homework, and they keep us safe.”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing that’s in Madrona that’s different from other schools?”

Student: “I really like how it’s a community”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing that’s in Madrona that’s similar to other schools?”

Student: “Good P.E.”

3:

Us: “Why is Madrona awesome?”

Student: “Madrona’s awesome because you get to hang out with friends and it’s fun learning.”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing that’s in Madrona that’s different from other schools?”

Student: “Having two recesses in intermediate.”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing that’s in Madrona that’s similar to other schools?”

Student: “Being able to learn in a nice environment in a nice community.”

4:

Us: “Why is Madrona awesome?”

Student: “During classes if you are picking groups the teachers let you pick most of the time so you can be with your friends.”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing that’s in Madrona that’s different from other schools?”

Student: “I like that the teachers usually let’s us choose between different choices.”

Us: “What’s your favorite thing that’s in Madrona that’s similar to other schools?”

Student: “There’s a lot of fun events. For an example, the Art Walk.”

Overall everyone who we interviewed said really positive things about our school, because Madrona is an amazing place for learning and making new friends!

                                         What did people like?
By Amy and Braeden
  We all know that Camp Cedar Springs had fun classes,  so a lot of people liked different things. But which one was liked the best? Here are the results!

-Student forestry 2
-Rock climbing 13
-Salmon 3
-Owl prowl 3
-Stream life 2
-Compass 2
-Geocaching 6
-Archery 15
    Overall, Archery was everyone’s favorite class, Rock Climbing was second, and Geocaching was third. No matter what, all of these classes were pretty fun! So, what was your favorite class?


Don't Share Food
By Ben and Joshua



Olympic Medals

Olympics is a subject in Soleil that is like a book report usually on 3 books. Right now we are doing the Gold Medal (Unicorns), the Sapphire Medal (H.I.M.P’s), and the 5th graders(H.I.M.P’s) are doing their last medal which they get to chose which medal they will do and they can even make up their own medal.
The Sapphire Medal is a Medal in which you have to read 3 books 1 can be whatever you want but the other 2 must also be made into a movie and have to chose one of those to present in front of the class showing differences and similarities in the book and the movie.
        The Gold Medal is a Medal that you choose a topic that could be anything (,place, person, item, landmark, etc.) but you have to find two non-fictional books and the third one has to be about your topic but could be fictional.
These are just 2 of the Olympic Medals and there are many more, like the Bronze Medal, Silver medal, Pearl, Ruby, Jade, and many more.
  


Intermediate Camp
We are interviewing people before our intermediate camp. We are interviewing them about what they are looking forward to, and what they hope they are going to learn.

Video


Passion  Project  Interview

Mira

Question: What are you doing your Passion Project on?
Answer: Tae Kwon Do

Question: Why are you doing that subject?
Answer:  I am doing Tae Kwon do, and I have been doing a class on it, and I have really liked it so far so I thought I would do my Passion Project on it.

Question: What are some of the moves you have learned?
Answer:  There is a front kick, there’s the low block, inside block, outside block, the ax kick, and there are….many more, though.

Ezra

Question: What are you doing your Passion Project on?
Answer: Service dogs.

Question: Why are you doing that subject?
Answer:  I really like service dogs, and I have liked them for a long time, I have always wanted to learn more about them.

Question: What types of service dogs are there?
Answer:  Autism awareness dogs, seeing dogs, hearing dogs, seizure alert dogs, and millions more.  

Saki

Question: What are you doing your Passion Project on?
Answer: Why we cry.

Question: Why are you doing this subject?
Answer:  Because I wanted to know how tears work.

Question: Can you tell us some of the reasons of why we cry?
Answer:  Emotions, fumes from onions, and when we get things inside of our eyes.

Sports Interview
By Kelvin





Sapphire Medal Interview

Bam: What Book are you doing for your Sapphire Medal Presentation?

Ben: I am doing the Swiss Family Robinson.

Bam: What is the book about?

Ben: The book is about this family that was stranded on a island. And they had to survive Pirates and wild animals like snakes, tigers and alligators. After about 2 years, the eventually get off the island with the help by the Marines.

Bam: Thank you for your time.

Bam: What book are you doing for your Sapphire Medal Presentation?

Billy: I am doing mine on a Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

Bam: What is the Plot of the book?

Billy: The plot of the book is about a group of three siblings that were rich, but then their parents died in a fire. They have go to the closest relative, which is a man named Count Olaf. The Count wants to steal the fortune that their parents left behind and will do anything to accomplish the task. The kids must Olaf before he does something horrible.

Bam: Thank you for your time.

Bam: What Book are you doing for your Sapphire Medal Presentation?

Giselle: I’m am doing my book on Sarah’s Key.

Bam: What is the plot of the book?

Giselle: The book takes place in World War II when the Nazis are trying to overtake Europe. Sarah is a young girl who lives in a house with her mother, father and younger brother, Michel in a apartment in France. Her mother and father never suspected that the French Police would try to take them away to concentration camps, because they are Jewish. They get taken away to the Vel D'hiv, which was a stadium that would be originally used for soccer, but was being used to house Jews before they went to a transit camp at Bergen Belsen. In the end, Sarah escapes from the transit camp, but her parents die at the concentration and brother died in a cupboard that she thought would conceal him from the Nazis. Her story ties in with the journalist Julie Jarmond. Julie discovers Sarah’s story but then finds out that Sarah has committed Suicide After world War II.

Bam: Oh, thats nice, well, thank you for your time.


What people think of the future in Summer and School
By Amy and Braedan

  We interviewed some 6th graders, Alexa and Saki, for what they think of the future of summer and school, and this was what they thought!

1.   Q: What are you excited for the rest of the school year?
         Alexa: I’m excited about hanging out with my friends going to the 6th grade pool party, and the 6th grade graduation.
         Saki: Pool party, the graduation party, and Passion Projects!
   2.   Q: Are you excited for summer? What will you do?
         Alexa: Yes, I’m excited for summer. I’ll be going to Hawaii, I’ll be building a treehouse with my friend, and having a sleepover in there with them.
         Saki: Yeah, I’m excited. I’m just going to stay home.

   3.   Q: Are you ready for middle school?
         Alexa: Nope. I’m scared. I think I won’t get good grades at the long-term projects because I’m bad at them. :(

         Saki: Not really.

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