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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
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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
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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.”
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“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