In The ZONA - Scottsdale Jan. 2014 | Page 11

in th ez on VIEW FULL ARTICLES ONLINE a. Q. What are some different ways that Girl Scouts help the community? A. Parts of cookie income from sales go to Desert Voices to help them. We are also going to build them a hearing garden. Q. How many Girl Scouts cookies did you sell total? A. I sold 630 boxes. Gabrielle Roman 5th Grader at Cherokee School Tesseract School’s Colonial Days m Q. What is your favorite part of being a Girl Scout? A. My favorite thing is cookie selling, because there are different prizes that you can earn. Cherokee School’s co This year, Troop 550 is working very heard on earning a Bronze award. One of the ways they are helping out their community is by giving a proceeds of cookie sales to help make a hearing garden at a school for the deaf, Desert Voices. Here is what Gabrielle Roman, 5th grader at Cherokee Elementary has to say about this project and about being a part of such a great organization. On Friday December 6th, the 5th grade students at Cherokee Elementary School enjoyed Colonial Days. This tradition at Cherokee has been celebrated for over 15 years and brings to life the lessons of early American History that the students have been learning since August. The students participated in centers where they learned to make butter, candles, soap, homemade paper, and corn husk dolls. The students also learned skills and crafts from colonial times including calligraphy, cross stitching, quilling, wax seals for personal letters. Here is what some 5th graders had to say: Maya Whiley: “I dressed up a an Indian, and my favorite part was the outdoor games because we got to hoola hoop and throw horseshoes. Emma Dessoy: “My favorite part was the apothecary. One fun fact was that back then they thought leeches could cure anything. If you had a sore throat they would tie a leech to a string and make you swallow it and then pull it out 10 minutes later. That was my favorite station!! Class Newspaper Tesseract’s third grade class has embraced a project-based learning initiative by forming their own Class Newspaper. The students are inviting guest speakers from the industry to learn more, they have auditioned for specific jobs and are learning various writing styles with the ultimate goal of publishing their very own “Tiger Times”. “I think Mr. O is the best science teacher in the world! He makes learning fun, while teaching fun things.” Their first assignment was an opinion piece on why they thought Tesseract School was great. Here is what the third grade students wrote: Tesseract School is so proud of their third grade class for the amazing effort they put into these writing assignments. The Tiger Times will be available online at http://www.tesseractschool.org/lower-school/ grade-3/ soon. “Tesseract is the coolest school in the world. In science you let your mind go crazy.” inthezona.com “Miss Terri is the best music teacher ever. Every grade does amazing plays.” “Tesseract is the school of your dreams. In science you do creative things. We have awesome pets for science. January 2014 / 11