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Becky Randel was a guest speak-

er who came to our journalism

class on Academy Day. Ms.

Randel is a freelance journalist,

who is self-employed and has no

contracts with any periodicals.

She has worked as a journalist

for about 11 years and has writ-

ten for People Magazine, Ocean

Drive Magazine, Daily Meal

rocks, and more. Ms. Randel

enjoys writing about pop culture

and celebrities. While she has

been a journalist, Ms. Randel has

met Dwyane Wade, Eva Longo-

ria, 5 Seconds of Summer, and

many more famous people. One

of her favorite articles she has

written was about somebody

who rescued a little girl and

then 20 years later they met

again. Her worst experience

while interviewing somebody

was that both her phone and

tape recorder ran out of battery

without her noticing until she

got home. Fortunately, Ms.

Randel was able to email the

person to get some infor-

mation. Ms. Randel loves inter-

viewing people, learning more

about them, and catching them

in honest moments. While Ms.

Randel was presenting, she

gave us her top ten tips for

being a journalist and they are

Mrs. Castillo’s and Mrs. Russo’s Journalism Classes

EDITORS: SOFIA LOSADA, GRACE

PAJON, ELLA SIMON, SARAH

UTRERA, AND KAYRA YUZBASIOGLU

Volume 4 Issue 6

Spotlight On Becky Randel!

In 2015, Joshua Sigal was

diagnosed with cancer. To

help Joshua, our school held a

blood drive on Sunday,

March 6th, 2016. The school

collected all types of blood to

help Joshua get better. Julia

Magnani and Hollen Rosen-

berg were two parents who

helped organize the blood

drive. Even though it is not a

worldwide cause, many

schools in Florida have held

blood drives to help Joshua.

Parents from our school were

able to take part in this event

by donating blood. Before

Joshua was diagnosed with

cancer, he attended school at

Miami Country Dade. The

organization that the school

is using for the blood drive is

oneblood.org. Joshua has a

Facebook page called “Super

Joshua Kicking Cancer’s

Butt.” Joshua was not able to

come to the event Sunday,

but everyone who attended

had a great time. Parents and

students were able to take a

picture with our school’s

super hero wall so we can

make a scrapbook for Josh-

ua. Remember, every drop

counts!

research, pop culture, be okay

with change, moral compass

(know when to stop), be a hus-

tler, don’t be embarrassed, be a

fast typer, be a reader, always

do a last read, and FIND THE

STORY!

By: Christopher Anderson,

Vivienne Hyland, Ayelen Posa-

da, and Oriana Simone.

Becky Randel 1

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Flowchart 2

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Presidential Candidates 3

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One Pint to be a Hero!

By: Emilie Sharma and Alicia

Jitta

By: Mia Erlichman, Isaac

Hoffman, and Nelson Parra

Mrs. Costa And Mrs.

Miller’s Gardening

Club

Night of Fine Arts

Spring Concert

Miller Project

Dear Alicia

Blood Drive

Did you know that

pesky cucumber bee-

tles keep their dis-

tance from orega-

no? So make sure to

plant oregano next to

your cucumbers.

By: Sofia Losada

Supervisors: Paula Cortinez, Maxine Hyland, and Jonathan Souto

Page 2

By: Marie Agasse, Valeska Lander, and Nataly Pedrazzoli

Academy Day

Do you get

emotional

often?

Yes No

Are you dramatic? Are you a

lighthearted person?

Are you confident?

Do you get angry

easily?

Do you put

yourself first?

You are neutral

minded person.

No Yes

Yes

No

Yes No

Yes

No

You’re a kind

person who puts

others

first.

You are a

sassy

person.

Yes

You are a sensitive

person.

You’re calm but you

occasionally have

your out-bursts.

was one dollar per person or

three dollars for a family of

three or more. About 200

people attended this show.

Each act was about 30

minutes long and in total the

whole concert was about an

hour long. This show took

place in the elementary cafe-

teria. This is an annual event

and won’t be canceling any-

time soon!

Have you ever heard about

the Fine Arts concert?

Well, this event happened

on March 17. During this

event multiple activities

were exhibited. The or-

chestra played their instru-

ments in order to start off

the event. The event was

followed by the guitar

class as well as the vocal

class later that night. The

price to attend the event

Lights, Camera, Action!

Night of Fine Arts

Kyle Behar has been chosen to be

our Vice President this year. He

decided to run to give his time and

effort to shape up our school. Mrs.

Bergman inspired Kyle to run for

the position of Vice President. He

was very confident going into the

competition.

He felt very

proud he

won and

hoped he

could make

school a

better place.

Student Council Election Winners This year, our middle school

students have chosen Sofia Iaco-

bacci to be our Student Body

President. Sofia had many ideas

to contribute to our school, and

make it a better place for students.

She also believes that everyone

has potential to exceed in their

learning abilities. She decided to

run to

benefit

herself

and to

give back

to the

school.

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Daniel Caro, Victoria Rodri-guez, Alessandro Simone, and

Matias Wainfeld

By: Grace Pajon and Ella Simon

Once upon a time, The

Young Patronesses of the

Opera performed a fairytale

for the elementary school

students. On February 26,

2016 the “Story of Cinderel-

la” was acted out in the ele-

mentary school cafeteria for

grades 1-5. This Cinderella

Story varied among other

versions because instead of

supportive mice as helpers

and friends, a dove was used.

There was no pumpkin car-

riage and fairy godmother.

This play contained a power-

ful seed that bloomed into a

magical and helpful dove.

This version was a musical

with a live pianist. The

meaning of this act was to

implement and teach chil-

dren self-worth. The perfor-

mance consisted of 7 actors;

Andres Cantey as the dove,

Alicia Branch-Stafford as the

prince, father and painter.

Karen Eileen Gordon as the

stepsister Ruthless, Kenya

Anthony-Moore as the step

sister Barbarous and Jen Tip-

ton as the stepmother. One of

the actors Andre Cantey

said, “One of the most chal-

lenging parts was there was

only one day to rehearse this

performance. Practice makes

perfect! “

Memories Last Forever!

By: Jean-Paul Davila and

Valeska Lander

By: Sofia Iacobacci and Kelsey Varona

Science and Fun!

By: Sofia Losada, Grace Pajon, Sarah Utrera, and Kayra Yuzbasi-

oglu

Agri-Science students Vivian

Nosovitsky and Isabella Ba-

tanero recently made a pro-

ject that has been nominated

to be sent to the Youth Fair!

Get your yearbook now for only

$25 at the media center. Collect

your memories and remember

“Once a Bobcat Always a Bob-

cat.”

Words of Wisdom

We are not born to be per-

fect, we are born to be

real.”- Alexa Magnani

By: Marie Agasse, Christopher Carvalho, Gregory Kelly, Nataly

Pedrazolli

This year, the Secretary of our school

is Marian Abuhazi. Her goal is to

make the school more sanitary and

make learning easier for the students.

She plans on doing this by having a

constant refill of soap in the bath-

rooms and have

the classrooms

cleaner. Ms.

Deleon, one of

our school coun-

selors encour-

aged Marian to

enter the con-

test.

Zoo Miami

Did You Know?

Ms. Rubin has done it again

with this year’s Spring Con-

cert which was held in the

elementary cafeteria at 6 pm.

With a very reasonable one

dollar admission, it was a

great time to spend your

Wednesday evening (March

16, 2016).The chorus after-

school-class performed sever-

al songs with great rhythm

and tempo. In addition to the

chorus children, there was

also a special cello appear-

ance in the middle of the

show, followed by a piano

on somebody else. First, try not

to provoke the bully because

he/she might be angered and

harm you. This is because the

bully may be sensitive to in-

sults from others. If things get

worse than they already are,

just walk away. This will de-

crease any chances of conflict

arising. If you know you can,

stand up for the person and tell

the bully to stop. Last, tell an

adult and they will handle the

bully. If you do this, it will

make sure that the bully does

not bother the person again, and

learns his/her lesson. These are

some ways to stop people from

bullying others. These are just a

few ways to prevent bullying

around the school. The main

thing that you should remember

is stand up and speak out.

Styrofoam. A boy from Ms.

Miller’s class named Logan

Brennan created a Pointer from

Styrofoam and paint. He thought

that the project was truly amaz-

ing. A boy from Ms. Larson’s

class named Alexander De-Mier

created a Boston Terrier out of

styrofoam and fake fur. Alexan-

der thought that the project was

awesome as well. Even though

it was fun, the students did learn

lessons that they would use in

school. Some of these lessons

were achieving research goals

and practice writing essays. The

dog show is now in the media

center and will be there until the

beginning of April.

Top Dog! Ms. Miller and Ms. Larson’s

third grade classes created a dog

show on January 29, 2016. It

occurred in the middle school

cafeteria. They did this after

reading the book “Because of

Winn-Dixie”. After they read the

book, each student researched a

dog breed and created a dog

picture out of random materials.

Some materials that the students

included in the project were felt,

cardboard, paint, fake fur, feath-

ers, cotton balls, tin foil, and

Dear Alicia Welcome to Dear Alicia.

What should you do if you

witnessed a child with spe-

cial needs get bullied?

The methods to handle this

are the exact same as the

methods with any other bully.

Usually, the bully has person-

al issues such as anger, jeal-

ousy, or household problems.

Because of these issues, the

bully lets go of all this stress

solo. For the final part of the show, children showed off

their recorder flute skills.

Spring is In!

By: Noah Dorfman,

Camille Garcia,

and Julian Rubinovich

By: Christopher Anderson, Alicia Jitta, Yesenia Monserrate, and Emi-

lie Sharma

By:Nicholas Baron, Paula

Cortinez, Maxine Hyland, and

Gianmarco Ranalli

By: Jean-Paul Davila and Valeska Lander

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By: Jean-Paul Davila

On March 14th, Zoo Miami

brought a variety of animals to the

school. It was a great learning

experience for the 7th graders!

Peladophobia- Fear of

bald people.

Pogonophobia- Fear of

beards

Porphyrophobia- Fear of

the color purple.

Hippophobia- Fear of

horses.

Consecotaleophobia-

Fear of chopsticks.

Koutaliophobia- Fear of

spoons.

Ichthyophobia- Fear of

fish.

Chaetophobia- Fear of

hair.

Acousticophobia- Fear

of noise.

Katsaridaphobia- Fear of

cockroaches.

Mageirocophobia- Fear

of cooking