USEUM SCHOOL NEWSPAPERVolume 1 - Issue 1 || April 2016

A Glimpse of the Future

On February 9, the Museum School had an assembly about sev-enth grade. Dr. Hanks spoke about what next year might look like. He explained what both the building and the process would look like.

We will have six regular class-rooms. Music will be in the Meijer Theater, and there will be a collabo-rative workspace where we will have art, lunch, and school-wide meetings. Hot lunches will be provided for every-one. The collaborative workspace will be open Monday through Thursday as a study zone. Don’t worry—there will be restrooms on the fourth floor.

There will be dedicated math available for seventh and sixth graders at eighth grade levels. Our sev-

enth grade theme will be “Rivers of Life,” organized around our own Grand River.

Next year, there will be four full-time teachers and two paraprofession-als. The staff organization depends on the situation, but Mrs. Marr & Ms. Miner are still planning to stick with teaching sixth grade, and we’ll have new seventh grade teachers. GVSU friends will be back, and possi-bly could be tutors.

We won’t have any foreign languag-es next year, but we might offer a Span-ish class in eighth grade. The staff wish-es for any language classes to be deep and connected to the learners.

We will still be using technology as much as this year. We aren’t planning any schedule changes, so the doors will

still open at 7:50, and Lyceum will ex-pand. You should expect to see adver-tisements for after school programs at the YMCA, which you may attend, but it is not required. Athletics will contin-ue, and you will have full access to the GRPS sports. Clubs will be introduced, and some may include: Odyssey of the Mind, Newspaper, and Programming. Future programs might include ju-nior educator/docent, junior curator, and junior exhibitor, which will give scheduled visits for museum guests.

The sixth grade retreat will be three days long. A few seventh graders can come as representatives for about an hour. We might have a seventh grade retreat here too, if all learners are interested.

A Musee ’s Insight into the Classroom

by Charlotte Haven

The in-progress construction of the Museum School's new fourth floor.

Consider volunteering to help rehabilitate pets.

owners. Also, dog fights can kill dogs from exhaustion and if they are adoped by someone else afterwards, the poor dogs may be fierce and untrusting. We also poach animals out of existence, whether they are remembered in draw-ings or writing or anything of that such or not. Humane societies may also kill cats/dogs/bunnies/etc., if they do not get adopted after a certain amount of time.

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Animal Mistreatment Is In Unexpected Places

Opinions & Reviewsby Madeline Bartleson

We should be kinder to animals. They affect our lives by making it easier for us to live, and our thanks to them is to hurt them. For exam-ple, in cosmetics testing, we treat an-imals like stupid things that do not feel emotions like us. Actually, cos-metics may just be the worst way to hurt animals than any other way.

There is a huge amount of cosmet-ics testing in the USA, and often, if the animals don’t die after the tests, they are killed. According to the Humane Society, scientists give guinea pigs in-jections to see skin reaction, which can give them redness, ulcers, scaling, inflammation and itchiness. Cosmet-ics companies also use rabbits to test for skin irritation/corrosion: they may get shaved and show redness, rash, scaling, and inflammation. But tests on rabbits’ eyes may cause blindness.

Scientists also test for acute oral toxicity, testing that chemicals in sin-gle/multiple doses do not negatively

affect people. But with rats, and/or rabbits the chemicals are forced and the animals may have diarrhea, convulsions, bleeding from mouth, seizures, paralysis and/or qualities that even-tually lead to death.

Animal cruelty doesn’t necessarily mean you have to swear off cosmetics, though. Some companies do not test on animals.

That’s not the only thing we do to animals, though. For example, sci-entists told a gorilla that it would die. After that, the gorilla signed “sad” and “scared.” This is a form of neglect, as you are doing something that shows that you do not care for the animals’ emotions.

Neglecting pets is also abuse. But pets have bad histories sometimes even before they come to neglectful

The new seventh episode of the Star Wars franchise hardly lives up to expectations. Although the mov-ie has many major qualities that make this a good movie, I found that a giant-sized production could be a bit better with getting rid of the smaller problems, mainly CGI.

The computer-generated imagery in this motion picture was ground-breaking, but I found numerous de-tails that were wrong, mainly with scale. When Rey stands in front of the super star destroyer in the start of the film, the thrusters are giant. Now, if the cockpit of the millennium fal-

con can fit about four people, then when the ship flew into the thrusters they should have been much bigger.

But I’m nitpicking here. The real problem was the performances. The actors didn’t seem to enjoy the roles they received. The movie had a 200 million dollar budget and made over a billion at the box office, yet it didn’t seem like they tried their hardest.

I did think that the introduction of an all new cast was a good addition, and the way Mark Hamill was rein-troduced in the end was clever writ-ing, yet as all overly advertised Disney movies, it didn’t live up to expectations.

The fact that they invited John Williams to compose the score of the new film was a nice touch, and I found Rey’s theme was well written. The movie was nominated for five Oscar awards including Best Original Score. J.J. Abrams directed this film, which ties the knot between Star Trek and Star Wars because J. J. Abrams directed the 2009 and 2013 Star Trek remake films which were a huge hit.

On Oscar Sunday Star Wars took home…zero, none, zip, nada, no Os-cars for them, despite having three nominations. Star Wars didn’t live up to expectations.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Can Hardly Keep You Awake by Esteban Clark-Braedle

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Adding Style to the School Uniformby Bethany King

Have you ever noticed how plain the school uniform is? Lots of students want to wear clothing that is more unique. Charlotte, a member of the newspaper staff, says, “I would like to be able to wear regular clothes some-times, but I like the idea of being able to pick out my outfits easier.” While the school uniform makes getting dressed in the morning easier, it is way more fun to wear what you want. But you can still add some of your personal style into your outfit without taking too much time getting dressed. The most common way to do so is using accessories. You can use scarves, jewel-ry, handbags, shoes, and hairstyles.

You can use the article, “The Top Ten Colors for Spring 2016.” Accord-ing to Sharon Clott Kanter, a fashion journalist from Instyle Magazine, the top ten colors for Spring are buttercup yellow, fiesta red, flashy green, iced coffee, lilac grey, peach echo, and rose quartz, Each color represents some-thing in your personality. Buttercup yellow shows you are happy and sun-ny. Fiesta red shows you are excited and free-spirited. Flashy green shows

you are unique and open. Iced coffee shows you are soft, subtle, and stable. Lilac grey shows you are neutral yet edgy. Peach echo shows you are friend-ly, warm, and accessible. Rose quartz shows you are gentle, compassionate, composed, reflective, and lightheart-ed. So, reflect on your personality!

But my favorite way to accessorize besides color, is to use handbags. You can store extra items in them. The most fashionable bags for Spring 2016 are fringed and tasseled bags, totes, sad-dle bags, tiny or small bags, graphic handbags, clear bags, and suede bags.

Another way to accessorize is to wear some stylish shoes! According to a fashion article I read, the most pop-ular styles of shoes are casual sneak-ers, flats, suede shoes, shoes with studs, and ankle boots. The last way you can accessorize is by trying new hairstyles. The most popular hair-styles are the side part, soft waves, braids, low ponytails and short hair.

So, whenever you want to personalize your outfit, you could always refer to this article for color and ways to use accessories.

Vote for the Title of Our NewspaperThe Museum School wants to

continue to write a classroom news-paper in the coming years, but we need your help naming it! Check the box next to the name that you'd like to see for the next edition of the Museum School Newspaper. Our motto is to be the voice of the people and now is your chance! Cut the ticket out and then submit it to your home-room teacher in order to secure your vote.

Newspaper Naming Ballot

[ ] Musee Messenger[ ] Museum School Mercury[ ] Museum Star

Student's Name: __________________________________

Bethany shows off some of her acces-sory options: sunglasses and a pocket-book.

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Upcoming Events

ey the school is trying to get a popcorn machine. The money from buying popcorn may be used for the trip if we don’t raise enough money. Anoth-er cost of the trip is that chaperones need to be paid for as well. There has to be a certain amount of chaperones, more than six and less than twelve.

This trip to Chicago will be the first of the Museum School so we should make the best of it. Going to Chicago will be new for a lot of students, though some students have already been there. Most of the musees are looking for-ward to this trip.

The Upcoming Chicago Trip by Violet Woodeck

On May 24th-26th the Museum School students will be headed to Chi-cago. We will stay overnight at a church that has forty cots. For breakfast we will have GRPS Breakfast, lunch will be GRPS Lunch, and for dinner we will go to a restaurant. We are going to two muse-ums: the Science and Industry museum and the Field museum. We will do work in class on this. We aren’t going to Chicago next year, but we will have a different trip.

Students are excited to go to the museums. Jesus, a Skywhale, said, “I’ve never been to the museums be-fore, I wanted to go as a kid.” Some other things the students are looking forward to are: the train ride, having

fun, and seeing the skyscrapers. Kelly, a Skywhale, is looking forward to the trip as well, “I’m excited for my first train ride and seeing the skyscrapers.” Some students have been there before

and some haven't, but it will still be a new ex-perience for everyone. Adrianna B., a Sky-whale, has been there. She said, “I go to Chi-cago all the time, I real-ly like the Science and

Industry Museum, because of all their hands-on exhibits.”

The trip does sound fun to most students, but it does have costs. Ear-lier this school year in November we sold subs and pizza to earn money, and since early February we have been sell-ing chocolate bars. Also, to earn mon-

"I'm excited for my first train ride

and seeing the skyscrapers."

- Kelly

If you need more information, contact Mrs. Rowland at

rowlandk@grps.org or by phone at (616)-819-3611

Introducing the Newspaper StaffGrand Rapids Public Museum stu-

dents met for twelve weeks as part of a Lyceum class to learn about producing a school newspaper. They learned that newspapers have different sections, such as News, Sports, and Weather. Stories in these sections are based on facts. Anything in a newspaper that’s labeled Editorial, Opinion, or Review is based on the opinion of the writer.

The musee reporters learned the best practices of interviewing. It’s very important to record and quote a person’s statements accurately. People count on newspapers reporting the truth.

Many newspapers write their own code of ethics, and this newspaper is no different.

The Museum School Journalistic Code of Ethics is as follows:

According to one of the student reporters, Charlotte Haven, “It was re-ally fun to put the newspaper togeth-er, and I think it would be neat if that could be a monthly or yearly thing.”

The newspaper staff (Left to right): Madeline, Charlotte, Bethany, Brooklyn, and Esteban. Not pictured: Violet.

In the future, the school might choose to offer Newspaper as an after school club, so that students might continue to have a voice in the news of the Museum School.

• Be truthful• Be accurate• Be fair• Give proper credit• Be thorough• Be judicious• Give voice to the

voiceless

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There are different sports in dif-ferent seasons at the Museum School: there are fall sports, winter sports (part one and part two), and spring sports. In order to play a sport a student has to have a physical signed by his/her doctor and equipment for playing like shorts, shirts, water bottle, a headband, gym shoes, and a good attitude. It is a privilege to play sport, because you have to have good grades to play the sport. In sports, we play against differ-ent schools like City Middle School, C.A. Frost, and Burton Middle School.

For fall sports, we have volleyball and track. Volleyball was my choice, the coach was very nice, but you have to be very serious about it. It was fun because it was a lot of exercise and fun to do. I learned how to set, serve, and bump. Olivia, one of my team players and schoolmates, played on the volley-ball team with me. She said this about her volleyball experience: ¨I think it was a little hard because with other people and doing games every Thurs-day. I would start homework at 6:45 and be done at 7:30. Volleyball was

fun because I already did volleyball and playing on a real team. Yes, this is something I’ĺl do next year and so I could get better as I get older.¨

The next season that we did was Winter Sports part one: swimming and cheerleading. Swimming was fun and was a lot of work. Some people were working on getting better at swim-ming while other people were working on bettering their strokes. Swimming was four days a week and the practices were an hour-and-a-half long. Students must have a swimming suit, goggles, black hair cap, a water bottle, a nose plug, and a towel. Sophia played on the swimming team and she told me about some of the challenges she had while she was swimming. ¨Swimming was very fun, but it was challenging jump-ing off the block and into the water.¨

Winter part two sports were girls’ basketball and wrestling. Basketball is fun, but a lot of work. Players have to know what they’re doing when drib-bling, protecting the hoop, and shoot-ing shots. Students have to try out for the team and three people from the

museum school made the team. Other students from Montessori and U Prep made the team. In basketball there is a game every week and practice is four days a week, and one-and-a-half hours long. Adriana R. talked about her ex-perience with playing basketball so far: ¨It is a lot of work to do. I do home-work at night. Basketball is really fun. I will do it again next year.¨

The sports in spring are upcoming. One of the sports is softball. Spring sports start after spring break.

Most sports were four days a week. Sports are fun, but you still need to keep up with school. Most students did their homework at night, but some did some of their homework before and after practice. Sports teach you new opportunities, how to be on time, and how much work it is to do with homework, and practices. Being in a sport is serious, and it can help you stay on task and not make excuses because you have to go to practice!

Museum Sportsby Brooklyn Sykes

Animal MistreatmentSo do not discriminate against old

pets! And don’t forget the ivory trade. It’s 1) illegal, 2) super mean and 3) completely cruel, because it kills the animals that were poached. (The ivory in the museum was taken before it was made illegal, and you can go there to learn some more about it, too!)

Zoos also do not always have all the best ideas when it comes to ani-mals. Sometimes zoo animals are taken from the black market, which is mean

How you can help?

Do NOT:■ Buy products tested on animals!■ Support puppy mills!■ Neglect animals.

DO:■ Feed Odie or whoever your pet is!■ Care for your pet!■ Support good zoos!■ Consider an almost-vegetarian diet.

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We are unkind to animals, and we shouldn’t be, as they are basically us with some differences. Also, you can fundraise/donate stuff to a local animal shelters, humanesocieties, and veteri-narian places.

There are so many ways you could help that you could probably make a book, so you can think of more ways I didn’t list as well to do.

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SUDOKU!

Puzzle answers on page 8

Word Scramble!Can you unscramble the names of some of the

animals you may see at the Robot Zoo Exhibit?NLOI

KAESNS

LOW

EHCTEHA

GREIT

KOMEYN

LKAAO

RAFEGIF

BZREA

URTTEL

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Puzzles

MadlibFollow the instructions under each line in order to create your own kooky museum school madlib!

One day when everyone was in the middle of (school subject)

a , flew into the classroom and(noun)

S/he grabs (-ing verb)

and starts(noun)

it. Soon, everything in the classroom is back to being

(teacher's name)started

(popular song title)"What do you think you're doing?"

(-ing verb). asked. " "

sang the(repeat noun #1)

.(repeat teacher's name)

started(-ing verb)

, so someone else had to solve the

problem. (name of Musee)

said, "Quick, everyone, go to the(place in museum)

!" Hearing all the commotion,

(plural noun)(name of teacher #2)came into the classroom and said, "Where are all the ? This is a job for

(name of superhero)(name of teacher #3)(name of superhero)!" Suddenly, turns into and says, "I've got this!"

. The Musees were all very excited and shouted, "Thanks, you're our hero!"(adjective) (name of teacher #3)

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By Charlotte Haven

Cooking

A cookie pizza is good to make on a special occa-sion like your birthday, weddings, holidays or even a hot day or weekend. You can use any type of candy you want to make it. It is also fun to do with family. You can be creative about it and it can be colorful!

Kids Recipe: Chocolate Cookie Pizza by Brooklyn Sykes

This recipe takes:15 minutes of prep time60 minutes total time

This recipe makes:16 sevings.Recipe by bettycrocker.com

Photo credit: Bettycrocker.com

INGREDIENTS:

½ cup butter or margarine, softened½ cup packed brown sugar¼ cup granulated sugar1 teaspoon vanilla1 egg1 ¼ cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking soda1 bag (6 oz) semisweet chocolate chips (1 cup)2 tablespoons butter or margarine3 tablespoons milk1 cup powdered sugar½ cup pecan halves½ cup candy-coated chocolate candies¼ cup shredded coconut, toasted, if desired2 oz white chocolate baking bars, melted

DIRECTIONS:

1 - Heat oven to 350º F. In large bowl, mix 1/2 cup butter, the brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla and egg until well blended. Stir in flour and baking soda (dough will be stiff).

2 - Pat dough in ungreased 12-inch pizza pan or into 12-inch round on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake about 15 minutes or until golden brown. Cool about 30 minutes.

3 - In 2-quart saucepan, heat chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons butter and milk over low heat, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted; remove from heat. Stir in powdered sugar. Beat with whisk until glossy and spreadable.

4 - Spread chocolate mixture over baked layer. Immediately sprinkle with pecans, candies and coconut; press lightly. Drizzle with melted baking bars. Let stand until set. Remove from pan if desired. Cut into wedges and serve!

Jokes & RiddlesWhere did the kittens go on their field trip? Why does the whale skeleton at the GRPM not greet visitors?

How did the museum tour guide know that the artifacts on exhibit were 200,000 years and five months old?

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SUDOKU (Answers)!Word Scramble (Answers)!

Answers & Extras

GRPS Museum School Newspaper Volume 1 - Issue 1

April 2016 ©

Contributing WritersMADELINE BARTLESONESTEBAN CLARK-BRAEDLECHARLOTTE HAVENBETHANY KINGBROOKLYN SYKESVIOLET WOODECK

GVSU FriendsPROFESSOR HAVENPAIGE DHYNEMICHELLE KUZNICKI

Design & LayoutPAIGE DHYNE

PrintingGRPS

Pictures & Photo CreditPROFESSOR HAVEN

COURTESY CCL

Special ThanksGRPS MUSEUM SCHOOL

Jokes (Answers)!

LION

SNAKES

ELEPHANT

CHEETAH

TIGER

MONKEY

KOALA

GIRAFFE

ZEBRA

TURTLE

To the mew-seum!

She can't come up with the guts to say "hello!"

He was told when he started working that the artifacts were 200,000 years old and he had

been working there for five months!

Upcoming EventsApril 14th: Goblin Secret Performance 1:30-2:30 pm in the Meijer TheaterMusees will perform short vignettes that tell the story of William Alexander's Goblin Secrets.

New on Mondays and Wednesdays:After School Tutoring 3:15-4:15 in the CafeStarting after Spring Break, students can stay after school for tutoring. One of our GVSU friends will be available to help students with homework. There will be a sign up sheet at breakfast on Monday and Wednesday mornings so students can indicate their intent to attend after school study.

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