Minute to Win It

In “Minute to Win It” you get a challenge and you have one minute to win it. At Southeast, only third and fourth graders get to do the Southeast “Minute to Win It” because “Minute to Win It” is to celebrate finishing the C.M.T. and give the third and fourth graders a little fun. Mr. Hendricks is the one who runs it. Each year, he chooses students from third and fourth grade to be part of his pit crew. Once he has chosen his pit crew members, they start thinking of challenges for “Minute to Win It”. The pit crew members come to the gym during recess and help Mr. Hendricks set up and make some new challenges. Every year they have new challenges. For example, this year they had two games called “mad dog” and “dizzy mummy”. “Minute to Win It” in 2013 was fun. 

By: Michelle & Brooke

Battle of the Books

In Battle of the Books you get to read books. After you read, you get to have buzzer battles. In the buzzer battles you have teams. The teacher asks you a question about the book you read and if you think you know the answer you buzz your button. If you get it right you get a point, on the last day the team with the most points wins the Battle of the Books in the library.  If you win on the last day you get to have 2 extra books the next time you go to the library. The person who runs Battle of the Books is Mrs.Meimers, the librarian. Sometimes you get to watch a movie, at the last day you get to have pizza. Also you do not fight with books!  

By: Dakota 

The Flu

(I interviewed the nurse to learn about the flu).

I am interested in the flu.

The symptoms are: headache, pain, coughing and being tired.

The flu started a long time ago by viruses.

Wash your hands to prevent the flu.

It got the name from a French word: Influenza.

By: Joshua

Building Bridges Group

Who is in the group? Cy’leek, Ethan, Colin D, Colin W., and Damian (all 3^rd and 2^nd graders)

What do we do?  We learn about bridges by reading books, making them, and testing them.

How do you make bridges? First, you take 2 books and stand them up 6 inches apart. Then, you take 2 pieces of paper and curve it into half an oval which is called an “arch.” Next, you put the other paper on top of the books over the arch.

Some things we do to build teamwork are build bridges and test them to see if they work by putting as many small plastic dinosaurs on top as we can before the bridge sags.

We also made bridges with our bodies! The 2 outsider people pulled and the 2 inside people pushed to show a suspension bridge.

Today in group, we made a bridge with two books. We took a piece of paper and pretended we were making a fan by folding it back and forth. Then we put the fan over the book and put a flat piece of paper on top. When we tested it, it held 106 plastic dinos!  

Ethan and I testing our bridge with the dinos

By: Colin D.

XC Skiing

In gym, the 3^rd and 4^th graders went cross-country skiing.  You need snow clothes, ski boots, and skis. Then you need a big hill. After that you need to climb up the hill and then you need to go down the hill. In order to ski, you push then you squat down. I recommended this to my cousin Tori. I also recommend cross-country skiing at Mansfield Hollow. It’s not hard! 

By: Zach

Trestle Tree

In gym we are doing Trestle Tree. Trestle Tree is almost like gymnastics. We climb big ladders and go on balance beams. Kids also climb ropes. We do summersaults, pencil rolls, cartwheels, and jump off the stage onto the mat. There are ladders everywhere. We play Star Wars on the Trestle Tree. For example, if we are on the balance beam, then we go over or under the light savers. Our favorite thing is when we jump off the stage. There is a lot of action on the Trestle Tree!!       

By: Arwen and Raghad

Valentine's Day at Southeast

Valentine’s Day is on February 14^th every year. This is what Valentine’s Day is like at Southeast School. We give out Valentine’s Day candy and cards. We also see teachers and kids wearing red and pink. We make gifts for our moms and dads. People act nicer and are kinder on Valentine’s Day. We even get special deserts at school. Sometimes teachers get balloons and bouquets of flowers.

By: Fawn