Mountain View Riverview Valley View Longfellow A STEAM project is an investigation that incorporates one or more of the STEAM areas (science, technology, engineering, and math). A STEAM project needs to communicate the process of the investiga- tion. The process most commonly con- sists of a question, hypothesis, proce- dure, data table(s) and graph(s), and conclusions. The 2016 STEAM Expo - Earth Day Event was another great suc- cess! Thanks to all of the participants and volunteers that make it hap- pen! See you next year!
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Mountain View
Riverview
Valley View
Longfellow
A STEAM project is an investigation that incorporates one or more of
the STEAM areas (science, technology, engineering, and math).
A STEAM project needs to communicate the process of the investiga-
tion. The process most commonly con-
sists of a question, hypothesis, proce-
dure, data table(s) and graph(s), and
conclusions.
The 2016 STEAM Expo - Earth Day Event was another great suc-
cess! Thanks to all of the participants and volunteers that make it hap-
pen! See you next year!
I Like Charlie Russell Because… Each year, Great Falls Puublic Schools holds a n essay competition for its fifth graders write an essay ex-
plaining their respect for one of Montana’s great-Why is Charlie Russell Important? Charles Marion Russell is important to-
day because? His art was unique about him-
self and could catch your eye a mile away.
His stories would give you a vivid image in your
mind. He had extraordinary soul. Also Charlie
never gave up on anybody. You could al-
ways rely on Charlie Russell.
First, Charlie Russell is important today
for his art. In his paintings it has action, ad-
venture, and stories. When the west was be-
coming an old memory Charlie gave it back
to us fresh. He would show the Indians herding
buffalo. Or cowboys trying to break a horse.
Even in some paintings of him. He would use
water colors for some of his paintings. Also his
morning skies gave the art texture.
Second, Charlie Russell was also a great
story teller. When he wasn’t busy Charlie
would let children come into his studio and tell
stories to them. The stories Charlie Russell
would tell were extraordinary even though
Charlie Russell didn’t attend school. They
would be about a mountain man or cowboys
and his amazing adventures. The kids we’re
probably amazed you could picture it in your
mind. He probably had to just think of one
thing and make it into a huge story.
Third, Charlie Russell would not
stop fighting for what he wanted. When Char-
lie was fifteen his parents enrolled him in mili-
tary school. Hoping that he would forget
about making art and sculptures. When Char-
lie returned home, the military school insisted
on him not coming back. When Charlie Rus-
sell grew up he became one of the best artists
in the world.
Charlie Russell had really good charac-
ter traits. I liked him because he would never
give up on what he wanted to be. He had
loved kids and his wife. Someday I want to be
just like Charles Marion Russell. I thank Charlie
Russell for not letting the west become an old
memory thank you.
~Antoine Lacey, Longfellow Elementary
Why Charles Marion Russell
is Important There are lots of people who have the
grit and dedication to keep going in life. One
artist had the determination to show us the old
western world. Charlie Russell can today show
us the diligence that we need to do what he
once did. Not only is Charlie an important artist
he is a person that showed us what life was
when it was simpler.
Imagine a golden crisp prairie with buf-
falo grazing as far as one eye can see.
Charles Russell wanted us to see how magical
life in the old west could be. Charlie was so
meticulous with his art that people all over the
world could see what nature looked like be-
fore towns, cities, skunk wagons, and railroads
changed life as Charlie knew it.
Russell thought friends were more im-
portant than art. He gave authentic paintings
to them and could make every one of them
laugh. Charlie loved to have Native compan-
ions – true Americans – come and visit him in
the day. He even had a tee pee for them to
feel at “home.” Kids of all ages came to listen
and see his spectacular wax figures made
from hand.
Charles Marion Russell clearly had a pas-
sion for art and truly respected animals, Na-
tives, and nature. His kind heart will always be
remembered as long as the world lives.
The Wonders of Charles Marion Russell
By Izzy Rukavina, Valley View Elementary Imagine that you walk out onto your
front porch. The year is 1920 and you have just
moved to Montana. Walking down the road
you see a horse-drawn hearse. There is a huge
crowd and everyone looks gloomy. A neighbor
comes and stands next to you. This is when you
learn the story of Charles Marion Russell.
When Charlie Russell was a small boy he
always wanted to go to Montana. He would
make sculptures of the characters in the stories
he heard from fur traders. At the age of 16, he
finally got that chance when a friend offered
him a job in Montana. In 1880 Charlie and his
friend traveled on their journey by train. This is
when his adventure began.
Charlie was great friends with the cow-
boys. Unfortunately, he wasn’t great at his job.
He would think of a situation, and go from
there. Some were suspenseful others were fun.
Above all, he could tell a fabulous story!
One other amazing quality of his was
that Charlie Russell was amazing friends with the
Native Americans. In fact, he lived with the
Blood Indians for six months in 1888. He would
draw and paint them, always with realistic char-
acteristics. Charlie worried for them because
the white people kept taking their land. Charlie
Russell truly cared for them.
Wait! That’s not even the best part!
Charles Marion Russell was an artist. He could
draw, paint, or sculpt an animal with more de-
tail than most people even paid attention to.
His art really stood out! He was passionate
about Montana. Charlie could tell a story with
his art. People from all over the world came to
buy his art including royalty and famous peo-
ple. He would learn new techniques from other
artists. Sometimes, we can look out our window
and see what he was painting. Charlie painted
exactly what he saw. Of all the things he could
do, I like his art the best.
I think Charlie Marion Russell was an
astonishing man. Personally, his art was my fa-
vorite. Charlie could express his love for the
West through his hands. I think this is what makes
him a truly extraordinary man! At the age of 15,
my great-grandpa stood on his front porch and
watched Charlie Russell’s funeral procession as
it traveled down 5th Avenue North. Who
knows? Maybe he could have been that neigh-
bor...
The Great Man Charlie Russell
Have you ever wondered about Charlie Russell and
his past, when he was growing up? I have , and I want to write
to you guys and tell you about his past and the life he had
while growing up.
Charlie Russell was born in St. Louis, MO, in 1864. At a
very young age he loved to go outside and go on adven-
tures. He would always beg his parents if he could go to Mon-
tana out in the west, but his parents would always say no.
Finally at the age of 16, his parents said he could go to Mon-
tana, hoping he would come back home soon and work in
the family business. He loved Montana and the West so
much, he never wanted to go back home. I can relate to this
because during my dad. My brother, and I go to see my dad’s
side of the family.
Charlie Russell’s first job in Montana was as a sheep
wrangler, and he wasn’t that good at it. He would lose the
sheep and always had to chase after them. After a while, he
got fired and got a job as a cowboy and he was a night
wrangler. At first, he wasn’t great, but he was better at it than
a sheep wrangler. He didn’t like how things were evolving. He
didn’t like the power lines, fences and cars, but he showed
how Montana shouldn’t change and how it was perfect the
way it was. Montana was a great place and never wanted to
leave either. This is where Charlie got into his art more serious-
ly.
He quit as a cowboy and became a full time working
artist in the year 1883. He would always be making silly funny
things out of candle wax whenever someone was telling him a
story. He would have his hands in his pockets and make awe-
some stuff. Sometimes he would take it out and show people
what he did, but whenever they got close enough to see
what he really did, he would take it back, roll it back into a
ball and put it into his pocket. Every painting he ever painted
or every picture he drew told a story. Whenever he could find
a pencil and paper, he would start sketching everything he
looked at, When he started to work as a full-time artist, he
would paint and five the painting away to people, but his wife
Nancy found out and sent the people bills for his art. His art
started to get better and his clay models were used at the
local fair. His art was very unique ; he got ribbons and medals.
Man! He was a great and unique artist. Someday I hope I am
a great and unique artist, too.
Charlie died on October 24th, 1926, of congestive
heart failure in his Great Falls home. He had a swelled up
neck and he refused to go to a doctor because he didn’t
want a person to cut open one side of his neck. When he fi-
nally agreed to go get surgery, it was too late, and he only
had a few months to live. When he was walking upstairs to
check on his 10-year-old son, he had a heart attack.
When Charlie Russell died, it put a hole in everyone’s
heart because he was a loving and caring guy. Charlie Russell
did a few things that weren’t good, but the bad things don’t
matter; it’s the good things that matter. Charlie was being
who he was and I believe you should be who you are and you
shouldn’t care what people think, and that’s what Charlie did.
Will Rogers pointed out…”He not only left us great living pic-
tures of what our West was...but he left us an example how to
how to live in friendship with all mankind...He left us...But he left
us much.”
By Fairuza Redo,
Mountain View Elementary
Ms. Lainie Warneke has always loved
school and learning because she had ex-
traordinary teachers growing up. She has
always wanted to be a teacher.
This is her twentieth year teaching in
Great Falls. She taught in a “normal” class-
room for nine years, and has been teaching
ECS (Extended Curriculum Services) for elev-
en years. She has taught in eleven out of the
fifteen elementary schools in Great Falls.
She even taught fifth grade with Longfel-
low’s principal, Mr. Gilbert, at Roosevelt Ele-
mentary!
She finds teaching more rewarding
now than she did at the beginning of her
career. Ms. Warneke loves nothing more
than seeing her past students succeed and
what they do with their lives.
In fact, her most memorable events
are seeing her own students grow and
achieve the goals they have set for them-
selves. Through the years, her students have
taught her that there are many ways of
learning, and people do so at various rates
and paces.
However, there are challenges in her
job. She thinks the expectations and amount
of material to be covered is difficult and
sometimes seems unrealistic in the time that
is available. Yet Ms. Warneke tries to focus
on positives, and she has seen a lot of posi-
tive support from parents and the communi-
ty and a strong work ethic from her students,
especially when it comes to committing to
the school newspaper and completing a
STEAM project.
Ms. Warneke is sure
there will be changes in the
future; however, she doesn’t
know what they will be but
assumes they will be technol-
ogy-related.
If Ms. Warneke could
talk to all of her students right
now, she would tell them:
Play as hard as you work.
Olivia Butterfield’s mom is the manager of
a beauty supply store. Her responsibilities are to
run the store, which means she must order prod-
ucts, sell merchandise, keep track of money,
does employee schedules, and does employer
reviews. My mom works 40 hours a week usually,
but sometimes more if an employee is sick or she
has extra work to do.
Her day starts at 8:00 and she opens her
register, checks e-mail, opens the store, cleans,
do inventory, and helps customers. My mom
does not have a set routine; she does whatever
needs to be
done. She says
one needs or-
ganizational skills
to run a busi-
ness. There is
lots of variety on
a day to day basis.
She got where she is today by working
hard, demonstrating leadership, using organiza-
tional skills, and going above and beyond. What
she has seen change through the course of her
career is the type of cash register, the items that
10. Tattoo Trouble Find the most real looking tattoo you can and (very gen-tly) apply to someone’s arm in their sleep. They might even get all the way to school or work before noticing! Stick a tattoo on an unsuspecting person 9. Lacing up Take a pair of shoes and switch out their regular laces with crazy mismatched laces – this works best on dress shoes and sneakers. 8. Cell Phone Switcheroo When they aren’t looking, change the default language on your friends’ phone, they won’t know what happened! 7. Sour Milk Add blue or green food coloring to the milk in your fridge, so when someone tries to fill up their cereal bowl they’ll think the milk has gone WAY off! 6. Sugar and Spice Replace salt with sugar or sugar with salt, guaranteed to bring a surprised look to anyone’s face when they tuck into their food or sip their coffee. 5. Full of Hot Air If you can find a way in, fill a car full of balloons before the person can get to it in the morning. They won’t be-lieve their eyes. Talk about air travel! Fill a car with balloons. 4. Crank it! Turn the volume to the absolute max on someone’s ste-reo or laptop before they turn it on!
3. Bug Out Buy plastic bugs and place them in ice cubes, drawers, beds, pockets – anywhere they might freak some-one out! 2. Waterfall Balance a cup of water on a partially open door, then wait for the splash when someone opens it! 1. Vaseline on the Doorknob Probably the oldest trick in the book, Vaseline on door-knobs continues to be an April Fools' classic. Bibliography http://www.kidzworld.com/article/28036-top-10-april-fools-jokes
We did some surveys, and this is what
Austin, grade 2 at Valley View, found
out:
“BROKEN PENCILS ARE POINTLESS.”
Conrad, Addi, Cooper,
Grade 3 ~ MV “It could be a
joke because a
good pencil has
a good point and
a bad pencil has
a bad point.”
Keenan, Emma, Halas:
Grade 3 ~ MV “There’s no point in using
a pointless pencil.”
We did some surveys, and this
is what Zander, grade 1 at Val-
ley View, found out:
Bottlenose Dolphins By:Caimbrie Brost
Dolphins send messages to one another in
different ways. They squeak and whistle and use
body language-leaping as high as 20 feet in the air!
Dolphins produce high frequency clicks, which act
as a sonar system called echolocation. When the
clicking sound hits an object in the water, like a
fish or rock, they bounce off and come back to the
dolphin as echoes. Echolocation tells the dolphins
the shape, size, speed, distance, and the location
of the object. Bottlenose dolphins also have a
sharp sense of hearing. Scientists believe that the
sounds travel through the dolphin’s lower jaw to
its inner ear and then are transmitted to the brain
for analysis. Bottlenose dolphins are amazing!
Should the Government Waste Money
On Space Exploration?
Do you want to save over 6,761,000 children?
All you have to do is hold up a sign to not spend so
much on Space Exploration!
Why would the government want to explore
space when we haven’t even explored the whole
world?
Citizens’ debts added together is 12.12 trillion
dollars (that’s more money than the government has).
We’ve already explored what we can, and we can’t
explore more than what we have. It costs a lot of
money just to launch. There are poor people on the
streets that are dying of hunger and thirst, so do you
want the government giving up on us or not? Launch-
