Introducing Lena!

By Lacie

I would like to introduce you to Lena. Lena enjoys reading, drawing, playing sports, and annoying her sister.

In school her favorite classes are music, math, and P.E. she likes music because she enjoys listening to it. She likes math because she likes learning new things. And, she also enjoys music because she likes to listen to all the different notes.

Her hobbies include playing sports. She is the team captain on the volleyball team. She also plays softball. Her favorite spots are 1^st base, catcher, and 3^rd base. She has not yet played basketball but she is planning to sign up for it. As you can see Lena is very active.

She has been to the Emergency Room twice. The first time was because she got a bad earache. Lena says it hurt and they wanted to make sure there was nothing horribly wrong. The second time was because she cut open her knee. She was playing on the rocks and she fell on them. They rushed her to the hospital because it was a pretty big cut. She had to get three stitches because of that fall. She learned after that not to rough house on gig rocks.

Lena has a very active and exciting life. She had to learn a couple lessons the hard way. At least she doesn't sit around all day. And now, you know Lena.

Homework Times

By Kyler

Dear Editor,

 

My name is Kyler. Many students here at my school are getting frustrated about homework. Parents want their kids to have a life instead of doing homework all the time.

These are my reasons for having less or no homework. Homework is kind of ridiculous … sometimes. Sometimes homework is fun and easy, but some is hard and tiring. Some homework assignments take hours and I have stayed up to midnight doing assignments. I think we should limit the amount of home work teachers should give the students.

Work, work, work. That's all we seem to do here at my school. We go to class to class and work for seven hours straight. And on top of that we have homework. Some kids have after school programs such as sports and occasionally clubs like reading groups. All of that on top of each other sounds like a pretty cramped day. And that's how most people's days are. Like I said, parents want their kids to have a life. Not much of a life I would say.

Many times teachers don't like our behavior and give us extra homework. I don't think that should be allowed. Some teachers just don't know when to stop. They sometimes give us tons of homework for the entire week. Some teachers are nicer and give us a steady stream of easy homework.

Homework can be fun and easy, all we need to do is limit the amount that is given to us. In the end people would be much happier with less homework.

Homework

By Jasmine

I think that homework is necessary just sometimes. Like if student already knows what the lecture that the teacher is talking about is about, then I don't think they need so much homework. But if they don't then they should get homework for practice and study.

If teachers want students to learn the lecture they should teach it to them instead of just waiting for them to learn by giving them a lot of homework. I don't think that teachers shouldn't give students bagfuls of homework that take 2 hours to finish unless if it is necessary. In language arts we don't get so much homework and some kids don't even do it. Mr. Heist then has to punish them and then they have to stay in at recess. All that Mr. Heist gives for homework is a page a day which is for spelling to help learn the spelling words for the test.

I don't think that students need homework on weekends because those are the only days off of school that we have to enjoy. Anyway we have all the week to do homework and then we sometimes still have to do it on our free time (the weekend!). But the only subject that we have homework on weekends is Math with Mrs. B., but her homework isn't really even that hard. Sometimes her homework is hard but that's only if you don't learn what she is talking about! If you don't do your homework in any class, you will have a bad grade and then you will be on the ineligible list, and you won't be able to go to any of your games. LLL

Lunch

By Jasmine

Our lunch time is from 12:30 – 12:55. We line up outside when one of the teachers blow the whistle. Then we go inside and it starts getting noisy as people go in. The lunch line starts from where they serve lunch all the way outside. About 12 people bring lunches, about 20 people don't eat, and then the rest eat school lunch. After everyone eats their lunch, we just talk until it is time to line up. When we line up, we stay there until the bell rings and then we go to or 5^th period class. And that is the end of lunch!! JJJ