Mrs. Bieber & Carson

Mrs. Bieber and Carson

Mrs. Bieber, technology assistant at Central High School, holds an after school club for coding. Carson is a 10th grade student at the high school in the club. Carson has been coding for five years. He became interested in coding when he got a Leap Frog.

Coding is the instructions that tell things to do something. For example, you might code a robot to move a cup two times. In the club Carson is coding a drone to fly around the high school to take pictures with a camera inside the two pieces of the drone. Mr. Stauffer’s class made the drone. The instructions for the drone come from Carson’s phone.

Most of the time the drone does what it is supposed to do, but sometimes it crashes. So, they put foam around it to protect it. Even then, occasionally it crashes on landing so duct tape is needed to mend the drone.

We learned a lot by interviewing Mrs. Bieber and Carson. One more interesting thing we learned is where the word “debugging” came from. A woman was having problems with her computer and they found that it actually had a real bug inside. Isn’t it interesting where some words come from?

Coding is fun to do, can keep you busy, and helps you learn! We really like coding.

Mr. Caufman

Mr. Caufman

             Roundtown honored our military people with a great assembly for Veteran’s Day to learn more about our service people. We interviewed our own Mr. Caufman, principal at Central High School.  Mr. Caufman is in the Army. He has been in the Army for 13 years and counting. He was stationed at Jordan and Kuwait for 2 years. He was an Intelligence Officer. That means he couldn’t tell anyone any information about what they see or do on a mission for the Army. He thinks it is cool being in the Army because he got to go many places like Europe, and Jordan. SWEET!!!

Holiday Meal

Yum,Yum! Jaiden, Ava and Megan found out facts and opinions about the Thanksgiving holiday meal.  The lunch ladies were interviewed the day after the holiday meal was served. Holiday meal is prepared with gravy, turkey, stuffing balls, mashed potatoes, corn, and chocolate and vanilla ice cream cups. To start with, you should know about what part of the holiday meal is home made. The answer is… the stuffing balls! Could you imagine making 375 stuffing balls? Not only did the ladies imagine it, they lived in the moment and made 375

Here are some quotes from some kids and adults that ate the holiday meal.

“It’s really good,” commented Jaiden.

”Awesome!” Mrs. Zuver said it like she meant it.

“Nice and hot!” Julia wrote in our notebook.

“Good food” announced Jordyn.

“Awesome food!” Riley told us.

“Best turkey ever!” Ava said like she was in heaven.

There were a lot of good holiday meals that were purchased. The lunch ladies felt happy because most people bought holiday meal instead of chicken patty.

Justine Landis, Artist & Historian

Mrs. Justine Landis is not your typical eighty-three year old who sits around on the couch all day watching her soaps on television. She goes to the gym, draws, paints, and on November 21st, she came into the classroom to volunteer.

She taught us about Lewis Miller. He lived a super-long time ago, even before Mrs. Landis was born. He is known for his paintings that showed people living in York in the 1800s. He wrote too about what he drew.

Mrs. Landis knows a lot about Lewis Miller and she even painted murals in Cherry Lane of his little drawings. She showed us pictures and had us draw a picture of a family member or friend, or someone we knew using Sharpie marker and water colors after sketching with pencil. Our work looked like Lewis Miller’s work, at least something like it.

We want our work to look like his work because we are writing and drawing like Lewis Miller. We are Modern Day Lewis Millers!

Fun Facts About Australia

Australia is a lot different than where we live in York, PA. We know this because we had a Skype conference with Margot Finke, an author from that country. She told us interesting facts.

Australia is noted for boomerangs, which were originally used for hunting.  A boomerang usually has a painting on it that goes with the owner’s personality. For instance, a person who likes hockey might have a hockey stick painted on their boomerang.

The Australians used to use message sticks, made of clay or bark, with sign language on them to communicate. An example of this would be if someone found a bad water source they would leave a message stick so the next person going there would not drink from that water.  

In the old days, the people used to do bark painting, which is a painting that tells you about culture, childhood, and tribes from Australia.

At the end of our conference she read to us from her book Kangaroo Clues. The book had a narrator, who was a mother kangaroo. It was told in rhyme. In the book, the Outback looks like a desert!

We learned a lot about Australia and loved talking with Ms. Finke.

Time For Halloween Fun

Every year on October 31, something crazy happens, it is called HALLOWEEN!

Trick-or-Treaters dress up in funny, spooky, and cute costumes and go from house to house to get candy. They ring the doorbell. When someone answers they say, “Trick-Or-Treat.” That’s when the Trick-or-Treaters get candy. Chocolate is the most popular candy to get on Halloween.

Sometimes instead of getting candy, people pull pranks. Back in the old day, in the 1900s, people soaped windows, or toilet paper houses, or egg houses if they did not get treats. If you don’t get any treats, then you can pull a trick!

If you go out Trick-or-Treating, you might see spooky decorations in some people’s yards. People put up decorations like hands popping up out of the ground, zombies, and soul carriers. Some families and kids carve faces in pumpkins and sometimes carve even other things.

Besides, Trick-or-Treating, people host Halloween parties as a treat. Some are costume parties. Others are not. Halloween parties can be really fun, just as fun or even more fun than  Trick-Or-Treating.

Mr. Miller’s Morning Announcements According To Mrs. Musone’s Third Grade Class

Many of us at Roundtown Elementary have heard Mr. Miller on the morning announcements, but we actually got to see him behind the scenes sharing the announcements with all the Roundtown PROUD students. Mr. Miller was in his office on October 7, 2013 ready for the morning announcements, but the technology was not ready for him to broadcast them. Even though the technology was not ready for him, he still had a smile on his face. Finally, the technology was cooperating and Mr. Miller began playing a Stevie Knicks song for the school. He was bobbing his head with joy to the beat of the music. He always plays a different song to start morning announcements. When he stopped the music, He used his office phone to speak to the school. The phone acted as an intercom! “Go-o-o-od Morning, Out There Roundtown Friends.” Mr. Miller greeted us in a friendly way before playing the National Anthem and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. He showed respect by standing up, putting his right hand over his heart, and looked at the American flag. After that, he shared the lunch menu (while he was looking at the lunch menu) and played a silly song about pizza. “It’s a pizza, it’s a pizza, mama mia, pizza pie…” Kids grin when they hear that song and start singing along. It’s a catchy song. He went straight into the weather with Weather Copter Man. Mr. Miller (AKA Tex from Texas) gave the weather report in a western accent. He read the weather off of a sticky note to make sure he was correct about what the weather was before telling the school about Parent Visitation Day. He told kids not to get upset if their parents weren’t there because his parents couldn’t come either. After that, Mr. Miller gave Norah D. a Roundtown PROUD Panther roar because she was acting Roundtown PROUD. Yeah, Norah! To wrap things up, he played the Roundtown Creed song, while telling the filmers “We’re almost home.” He meant the announcements were almost over. To end the morning announcements, he gave a double Panther r-o-oar-r-r (sound effect). He usually only does a single Panther roar. We’re thinking he did it by accident. Anyways, morning announcements were over. As always, we enjoyed them!

by: Mrs. Musone’s Third Grade Class

Artwork by: Conner