Gingerbread Men in School?

By Kirsten R.

It’s true! Gingerbread men have been sighted all around the school. When the kindergardeners and first graders heard about this, they decided to take action! To do so, they made traps to catch the tiny men. One first grader said that the traps with jewels as bait worked best. The gingerbread men looked tasty, but as tasty as they looked they wouldn’t let the kindergardeners and first graders eat them! So instead they gave them tasty cookies to enjoy! This concludes our story, but remember to keep your eye out for the gingerbread men!

Student Interview: Jacob M.

By Iliana S.

What grade are you in? Mrs. Coulombe’s 3rd grade

What is your favorite sport? Basketball

What is your favorite candy? Nestle crunch Bar

What is your favorite part about EBLS? My friends

Do you have any pets? If so what is her/his name? A dog named Sydney.

Where were you born? Tucson, Arizona

Where would you most like to go? Asia

Who is your hero? Henry Stickman

What is your favorite book? Beast Quest

What is your favorite vacation? Hawaii

Who would you most like to meet? Psy

When are you the happiest? When I am sleeping!

Do you have any siblings? 1 big brother named Noah.

What do you want to be when you grow up? President

What is something you’re good at? Building things and video games.

What is your favorite part about being at EBLS? I have a place to go to school.

What is your favorite fruit and veggie? Oranges and broccoli.

Fit Bits at EBLS!

Fit Bits with Dr. Lee

By: Carina L.

A few weeks ago my 5th grade class got introduced to Fit Bits, a device that measures how many steps you take.  On our first day we pulled out papers from two baskets.  The papers said things like, “Jump for 30 seconds on one foot,” and “Run from the elevator to the copy machine,” and “Repeat skipping and walking,” and “step up and down on your chair for 30 seconds.”  We had to record our data and compare it to when we were still.  We were exhausted!

A few days later we finished and made hypotheses about what would happen if 

we tracked our steps and then tried it out.  A week or so later Dr. Lee, a student at Utah State University, and his cameramen handed out sticky notes with some information on them.  They separated us into groups and gave us big charts that read:

0-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc.  We looked at the sticky notes and back at the chart.  What were we to do?  “Oh!” someone shouted out, “my sticky note says: Carina, steps 27.”  So I put the sticky note on the number 21-30 because I got 27 steps.  Our teachers helped us chart the rest of our data by setting off to stick up the rest of our sticky notes! (Wow, that is kind of a tongue-twister!)

When we finished we did more fun activities and I hope that we will continue to do even more.