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Hillview
Review A School Newspaper produced by GATE students at Hillview Crest Elementary School - November 2002 |
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Campus News Guess what? Box Tops have started and so has Cub Scouts! You may not know it, but box tops are great. Last year, our school collected $750.!!! You can also collect Campbell's soup labels. Ms. Krug's room 23 collects your box tops. Just put them in the colored envelope in your classroom. These box tops help pay for field trips, assemblies, and school supplies (parties, too). Please help collect box tops and soup labels this year! Secondly, if you're a boy and you like camping, hiking and having fun, then Cub Scouts Pack 815 is recruiting boys grades 1 - 5. They meet at Hillview Crest each week. Student
Interview Name: Selena Jokes
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below for the Answers Games
What does a canary say on Halloween? Find out in the puzzle below. Cross out all the letters in the world "CANARY". Then write the left over letters in the spaces below. N T W A I N C Y K O N Y R R T A W A Y E E R T C ___ ___ ___ _C_ ___ ___ _R_ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ (I got this puzzle from "Ranger Rick" January 2002 issue -- Alex) |
Why Do We
Have Halloween As European immigrants came to America, they brought their varied Halloween customs with them. The first celebrations included "play parties." It was a public event held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each others' fortunes, dance, and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country. In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland's potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house-to-house, asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's "trick-or-treat" tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appears of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings, or mirrors. In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers, than about ghosts, pranks, and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season, and festive costumes. Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything "frightening" or grotesque" out of Halloween celebrations. Because of their efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century. By the 1950's, Town Leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated. Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration. Family could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats. A new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow. Today, Americans spend an estimated $6.9 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country's second largest commercial holiday. |
Staff Interview
Mrs. Rodana
Breen We had a chance to sit and ask Mrs. Breen a few questions: Why science? She enjoyed science as a kid and loves teaching science to the kids at Hillview Crest. She was also a 4th grade teacher for three years. Have you ever met anyone famous? Mrs. Breen once had lunch with "Bill Nye the Science Guy". She still has the "Stirring Spoon of Science" as a memento of the occasion. What is your background in science? Biology. What is your favorite food? Cheesecake or a good brownie! How many children do you have? I have two children, Collin who is in the 8th grade and is 13 years old and Ariana who is in the 5th grade and is 10 years old. Are there any strange places where you run in to your former students? I have seen former students at Disneyland and at Pumpkin Patches. Thank you, Mrs. Breen. Dates to Remember Nov. 11th
- No School Nov. 25th & 26th - Parent Conference Days Grades 1 to 5 - 9:10 to 1:15 p.m. Nov. 27th
to 29th - No School - Thanksgiving Break Famous
Person William Shakespeare Do you know who William Shakespeare is? He was a famous playwright. He was born in 1564. He was the son of a glove maker in Stratford, England. He moved to London and became a playwright. He wrote over 40 plays an 154 sonnets. He wrote plays such as "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", Macbeth", "As You Like It, "Much Ado About Nothing", and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". William Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of 52. |
