The Bulldog Times E-News Issue 3 January 2012 Announcements/Upcoming Events Happy Birthday to all of the horses out there! Inside: Contest Winners, Zack s Father- Part 2 and more! Happy Birthday if your Birthday is this month! Happy New Year!! We hope you had the best New Years Eve ever!!!!! Year 2012 has come so fast!! The News Staff wishes you the best new year!! Let us know what one of your New Years resolutions is in our comment box in the library. 2012 Fun Activities Craft
Duct Tape Flower Pens What you need: Colored Duct Tape any color you want. (patterned or not patterned) A pen with a cap Scissors What you do: Cut a small strip of duct tape. (It can be as big or small as you want it to be.) Bring the corners to the middle and fold them like you would fold a paper air plane. Attach it to the end of the pen. Keep doing this until you have a few layers around the pen. This is what a flower pen looks like when it is finished. Story of the Month Zack s Father- Part 2 Zach finds out he his a demigod in Zack s Father Part 1. It continues here... Correct, Emily said. We are both demigods. But why are you on top of a shark in the middle of a lake Zack said. Sharks don t even LIVE in lakes!, Zack said. We have a lot of explaining to do. Come over here, Emily said. Ok, Zack said. But I don t know how I am going to get in the middle of the lake without getting eaten by a shark! You won t even get in the water, Emily said. Just walk over here! Okay, Zack said. So Zack walked over but he found himself in midair, on a
cloud. Help!, he said. It s okay, Zack, Emily said. Just fall. What! okay, Zack said nervously. So Zack fell off his cloud onto a rock in the middle of the lake by Emily. okay, Emily said. Time to tell you a lot of things. Let s start at the beginning. I know that you know about Greek Mythology. So gods came down from here to Earth and married mortals. That made us, demigods. So when we first find out that we are demigods, we go to Mount Olympus. There we find our TRUE mother or father there and we find another demigod there. We all have powers depending on what are parents are. My father is Poseidon, so I can control water and all the animals that live in them. What powers do I have?, Zack said. Find out what happens next in Zack s Father- Part 3! This is the lake that Zack is at with Emily. Movie of the month Dolphin Tale Dolphin Tail is about a dolphin named Winter who gets captured in a fishing net and washes up on shore. Her tail gets infected and they cut it off at Clear Water Marine Hospital. Winter is now faced with the challenge of swimming...without a tail.
Find out what happens to this brave little dolphin in Dolphin Tail! (This is a real story) Jokes Kate: Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? Shruthi: I don t know, why did the monkey fall out of the tree? Kate: Because it fainted. Why did the chicken fall out of the tree? Shruthi: Was it because it fainted, too? Kate: No, it was strapped to the monkey! :)
Contest Winners Sadly, no one entered last month s contest. Please enter next time! The contest for next month is : Write an article about your favorite sport and hand it in to your teacher by February 12th. Teachers: Turn it the articles to Mr. Wallace by February 14th. Brain Teasers (Answers are on the bottom) 1. You have some coins that add up to 7 cents. One of the coins is not a nickel. What coins do you have? 2. A man is on a bridge. He saw a boat. The boat was going under a bridge. When the boat came out out, he couldn t see a single person. Why is this? (Hint: The answer is not There is no one on the boat or They all got off of the boat. )
Nina s Weird Theory Nina: I have another weird theory. Kate: What is it? Nina: I don t think that dinosaurs really are not extinct. I think that they grew gills and they swam far down in the ocean. That s why humans can t find them. Their bones wash up on shore. Kate: Okay then. Nina: I know it is kind of weird but I am still sticking with it. Next month: Into
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! How the Newspaper started I bet you guys were wondering how the Newspaper started. If you were wondering, read on. If you don t really care, don t read this page. Ok, this is how it started. One day, we were reading the activities that we could do for our story in our Trophies book. One of the activities was a thing that said write a newspaper article. Then Ryan said We should have a school Newspaper. Then one of our teachers said You can ask Mr. Palm. And that is how we got the idea for the Newspaper. Yes, we had to get people and plan how we were going to do it and what the name was and all othat boring stuff that you probably don t want to know about. And finally, the Newspaper started. Yay!
(Apparently the Yay is because the newspaper started Fun Links Do you like to play fun math games? If you do, then check out this link! http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ Do you like to make fun crafts? Then check out this link! http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/crafts-by-age/
Answers to Brain Teasers 1. One of the coins is a nickel (It only said ONE of them is not a nickel, not all of them) and two pennies. 2. Everyone on the boat is married. Quotes of the Month Just because someone thinks you can t doesn t mean you can t do it. ~ Kate (Newspaper Writer) Courage can t see around corners but it goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin Thanks for reading this months issue of The Bulldog Times E-News! The Bulldog Times E-News