Newspaper Staff

Alice Adams

Caroline Badagliacca

Cameron Calcano Alexa Choy

Caroline Collins

Alexandra Dally Clay Garrett

Bridget Hamlet

Elizabeth Hisler Eva Iannaccone

Elodie Nix

Jacqueline Prata Isabella Quinson

Mariana Soto

Grace Sperber Carolina Suaid

Arielle Uygur

Dr. Ann Marr

Inside this issue:

Steven P. Jobs Pg. 1

The Wolf Conservation Center Pg. 1

October Snow Storm Pg. 1

Halloween Night Pg. 2

Interview with Mrs. Pelliccio Pg. 2

Letters & Literature Pg. 2

J.K. Rowling, Author of Harry

Potter

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Strengthening

The

Mind &

Deepening

The Spirit

Cub Chronicles

Volume II

Issue II

2011

Lower School

Smart Boards Pg. 3

Bullying

The Wolf Conservation Center

By: Isabella Quinson

Bullying and Teasing Pg.3

The Flood in Thailand

Interview w/ Miss Kitson

The Rescued Puppy Tale

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Dear readers, Thank you for reading Cub Chronicles! We are so happy to see all our articles come together. Immense editing

has been required. It has been a great joy for the new fourth graders to experience the way to put together a

newspaper! We can’t wait to put together our next piece! We hope that the third graders will find Cub Chronicles

so interesting that maybe they would like to do it! We would like to give special thanks to Dr. Marr for helping

us to create this!. Love, Elodie Nix and Grace Sperber

Muammar Gaddafi

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On October 20th, the 4th grade classes went to the

Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem. We

learned all about the wolves in North America. We

even got to meet a few. The first wolves we got to

meet were Alawa and Zephyr. They are brother and

sister. They are both ambassador wolves. They

were raised at the Wolf Conservation center. They

started their lives with people so they are not afraid.

The next wolf we met was Atka. Atka is an artic

gray wolf. He was taken to the conservation center

when he was only 8 days old. He is the oldest am-

bassador wolf. Those three were the only ones we

could see up close. We also got to see Mexican

gray wolves and red wolves. They were trying to

hide behind the trees. It was the best field trip I

ever went on. I wish you could have gone too.

Steven P. Jobs By: Elizabeth Hisler and Arielle Uygur

Steven Paul Jobs also known as Steve Jobs was an

American inventor and business man. He was also

a pioneer of the personal computer. Jobs became a

member of the Board of Directors of the Walt Dis-

ney Company in 2006 following the acquisition of

Pixar by Disney. Steven was born in San Francisco

and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. When

Steven was 5 years old his parents adopted Patti

Jobs. Clara Jobs had been a payroll clerk for Var-

ian. Asked in a 1955 interview with what he

wanted to pass on to his children, Jobs replied

“Just try to be as good a father as my father was to

me. “I think about that every day of my life.”

October Snow Storm

By Clay Garrett

An unseasonably early snowstorm left more than 3 million people without power from Maryland to

Maine. The storm smashed record snowfall totals for October. In Connecticut 750,000 people lost

power, breaking the previous record set during the recent Hurricane Irene. Making the storm’s

impact worse were trees with leaves still on them. These gave the snow something to stick to, cre-

ating tremendous weight on the branches. It is the fourth time since the Civil War that snow has

fallen in this area during October. Three deaths were blamed on the weather. One of the deaths

was in Connecticut where a person in Colchester died in a car accident because of slippery condi-

tions. Luckily conditions were back to normal for Halloween and trick-or-treating.

Stone Harbor

Interview with Clay Garrett

IPads

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FPS

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Do you know the true meaning of Halloween? Because it’s not just about dressing up in costumes and getting candy. We’re going to tell you how Halloween really started. The jack-o-lanterns started with a man named Jack who went around on Halloween night tricking everyone by setting their pumpkins on fire. Then people started to carve faces on their pumpkins. They also put lights in the pumpkins so Jack couldn’t burn them down. The costumes started when people would dress up to scare away the bad spirits. Over the years it gen-erated into people dressing up in costumes of scary, funny, and cute things. People started to like their cos-tumes so much that they started to give people treats like candy. We hope you enjoyed your Hallow-een!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halloween Night By: Cameron Calcano and Clay Garrett

Interview with Mrs. Pelliccio

By: Caroline Badagliacca

Mrs. Pelliccio is our Lower School Reading and Writing Specialist. This is the interview I did

with her.

Question: How many years have you been teaching at Sacred Heart?

Answer: I have been teaching at Sacred Heart for four years and this is the fifth.

Question: What is your favorite thing about Sacred Heart?

Answer: My favorite thing about Sacred Heart is the heart in the Community.

Question: What is it like teaching reading and writing?

Answer: I enjoy teaching reading and writing because they are the gateway to all learning.

J.K. Rowling, the Author of Harry Potter By: Jacqueline Prata

Letters about Literature By: Grace Sperber

“Books have wings, you may not see them but they are there..” The readers are trans-ported to the setting of their book. Some will only bring you to a place four blocks away, but some will bring you to lands of talking mountains, and peppermint build-ings. Some books touch you so deeply that they affect you your whole life. Letters about literature is a competition sponsored by the Library of Congress allow-ing fourth graders to write to their favorite Authors, telling them why and how their books affected us in meaningful ways.

J.K. Rowling is an author best known for the series of Harry Potter

books. There are seven books in the series, and movies have been made

as well. Her life story taught me to shoot for the moon and you may

land among the stars.

J.K. Rowling was a quiet child and loved English in school. After

graduation she moved to London. While being delayed on a train trip

she started writing a story about a boy named Harry Potter who at-

tended a wizard school.

Some of the main characters in her stories are based on real people.

Hermione is very logical, and is based on herself when she was 11

years old. Ron Weasley is similar to her best friend Sean Harris, and

Luna Lovegood, one of her favorite new characters, is the opposite of

Hermione.

The next project will be an encyclopedia of Harry Potter’s wizard world

but she said it may take 10 years to complete. That would make me

19 years old! I can’t wait!!!!

Smart Boards By: Arielle Uygur

The Smart Board is an interactive white board

that was introduced in 1991 by Smart Tech-

nologies. And not only is the Smart Board

used in classrooms, it’s also used in busi-

nesses. Almost all classrooms in the Lower

School have Smart Board. Smart Boards func-

tion with a computer, a projector, and a white

board. We are very thankful to have Smart

Boards.

Bullying By Mariana Soto

Bullying makes people sad and

sometimes scared. It causes

bad behavior and can lead to

fights. Bullying hurts the vic-

tim and the bully, too! If you

see bullying, tell the closest

teacher.

Bullying and Teasing By Bridget Hamlet

Bullying is often found in schools. In our 4th grade, we had a chat about bullying. We also read the book “One.” The book “One” is about the color blue and all of his friends. Red bullies blue, and none of his friends stands up to red. So the number 1 comes to help and all the colors turn into numbers. Blue turns into 6. Red feels really bad, so he becomes 7. A really cute story! In New York, there was a law passed about bullying. Somebody bullies at school, they call the po-lice. We are Sacred Heart girls and we promise to be reverant like St. Rose Phillipine Dushesne and Madeline Sophie Barat. We always promise to follow in their footsteps. So as Sacred Heart girls, let us all strive to be kind and caring to one another. Thank you!!!

The Flood in Thailand

By: Alexa Choy

Thailand has suffered severely from flooding and

mudslides. Prime Minister Vingluck Shinawatra

urged citizens to let the water flow slowly back to

sea. The flood started in July and over 300 people

were killed. Thailand is experiencing the worst

flooding in 50 years, with damages as high as six

billion U.S. dollars. The flooding shut down all air-

ports in Thailand. Over 90 elephants were hurt by

floods that have devastated the country. Some vil-

lages were so deep in water, the only transportation

was by boat. These horrible crises may last until

December 2011.

Interview with Miss Kitson By Caroline Collins

1. Miss Kitson’s birthday is February 9.

2. Miss Kitson’s favorite color is pink.

3. She lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

4. She went to Providence College.

5. Miss Kitson is a lifer at CSH because she went to school

here for 12 years, and now she teaches here!

6. When Miss Kitson went to school at CSH it was smaller.

7. Miss Kitson taught Preschool and now she teaches Kin-

dergarten.

8. She says the difference is that the kindergarten girls

don’t need her as much and they are more independent.

9. When Miss Kitson went to school at CSH, nuns taught

her and they were nice.

10. Miss Kitson is a great person and teacher!

The Rescued Puppy Tale

By: Carolina Suaid

One day in late October, the golden colored leaves were falling off the trees. My babysitter’s

husband was taking his family’s trash bags to the dumpster to throw them away.

He started to look into the dumpster when he saw a crying, abandoned, frightened puppy. It had

bleeding cuts and looked weak. It was a pitbull breed. A pitbull is never welcomed by anyone

because people think it will attack them. Would you have the courage to adopt the puppy? Or

would you leave the puppy alone and bleeding? You probably would not adopt it, because it’s not

cute and doesn’t look friendly either.

This brave, kind man had the courage to put the dog in the car and went straight to the vet. The

vet took care of this needy dog, and little by little the dog started to feel better.

Muammar Gaddafi By Alice Adams

Muammar Gaddafi had been the dictator of Libya for forty- two years at the time of his death on October 20, 2011. The rebels had been trying to find him for eight months. Because Gaddafi believed in terrorism and because Libya was responsible for the loss of an American airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland, the US and NATO forces allied against him and supported the rebels. From the White House, President Obama was happy to re-

port, “One of the world’s longest serving dictators is no

more.” Gaddafi ruled over 6.5 million people in a country

that was very poor but had a lot of oil. He was 69 when he

fell from power.

Stone Harbor

By: Eva Iannaccone

Over the summer I go to this place called Stone Harbor.

It is in New Jersey. It has big oceans and it has big

waves crashing on the sand. I have been going for prac-

tically my whole life. I love it there so much!!!

Interview with Clay Garrett By: Arielle Uygur

Arielle: What’s your favorite subject in School? Clay: P.E. and reading Arielle: How many years have you been at CSH Clay: I’ve been at CSH for two years now Arielle: I think that Clay Garrett is very kind and

friendly

IPADS By: Elizabeth Hisler

As you know the Lower School can now use IPADS for

educational purposes. The fourth graders can now

take learning to a whole new level. We love learning

with the IPADS but with the privilege comes responsi-

bility. What do you think about the new IPADS?