BY KARLMECIA JONES & WILL HANEYThe Jaguar Journal
THE JAGUAR JOURNALB8 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2012
Dear Santa,How are you doing thisChristmas? How are the rein-deer? How do you get to allthe houses in one night? Areyou tired from all that ridingaround? I’m really lookingforward to Christmas and Ihope to not fall at my AuntLoe’s house. I hope you havea good Christmas, too.Sincerely, Allison
Dear Allison,I am thankful for your con-cern. The reindeer are quiteanxious if I say so myself. I amdoing absolutely fantastic andcan’t wait for my worldwidegift delivery. I am magic, andmy reindeer help me get toevery house in one night. Iusually am quite fatiguedafter my journey, but when Iget home, Mrs. Claus is wait-ing for me with a cup of hotchocolate and my pajamas.Sincerely, Santa
Dear Santa,I want some clothes and ababy doll. I want someshoes. Then I want lots oftoys to play with. I want agame. Then, I want a com-puter and a jacket. How doyour reindeer fly? What ifyou can’t fit in the chimney?What if I don't have a chim-ney?From, Alayla Fields
Dear Alayla,You surely want a lot. I will domy best to fill your order. Myreindeer fly with magic and Ican fit in all chimneys. Youneedn’t worry about me fit-ting; I always find a way.From, Santa
Dear Santa,I want 1. Cars, 2. Trucks, 3.PS3, 4. ShoesFrom, Dawson
Dear Dawson,Thank you for making a list. Iwill attempt to get you all youdesire. I express my sorrowsin advance if I cannot get youall that you want.From, Santa
Dear Santa,How are you and Mrs. Clausdoing? Is Rudolph’s lightbulb working? If so, we wanta pillow pet penguin thatlights up on the ceiling, be-cause me and Sara Morganhave been very good.Thanks.From, Emma and Sara Mor-gan
Dear Emma & Sara,Mrs. Claus and I are having awonderful time preparing forthe holidays. Rudolph isdoing fine and his light bulb isworking. My elves will get towork right away. You bothhave been very good.From, Santa
Dear Santa,I want a game for my XBOX360 and I want a new pair ofshoes and a BeyBlade sta-dium and BeyBlades. I wanta phone and a game for myDS. The game is calledMario Bros. I want somenew movies also.From, Jakaylan
Dear Jakaylan,You have been quite well be-haved this year. Keep up thegood work. I will attempt togive to you what you desire.My elves will make doublesure!Merry Christmas, Santa
Dear Santa,I’m writing you this letter totell you what my wishes are.I would want a good day.And I would want to know ifyou are okay. How are thereindeer and elves feeling? Ihave been a good, matureboy. And that is all I want,thank you.From, Dallas Belton
Dear Dallas,This was a great letter youwrote. I will make Christmas amagical day filled with joyand wonder for you. I mighteven throw in a little some-thing extra. The elves andreindeer are doing fantastic. Ihighly appreciate your con-cern.Ho, Ho, Ho, Santa
DearSanta
Stone Fox
Stone Fox is a coming of agestory where its main character,Little Willy, has to grow upmuch too fast. Itis a great bookabout a deter-mined boy andhis grandfatherhaving to dealwith everydayconflicts while living in Alaska.Willy's grandfather won't move,talk, or do anything because ofthe taxes he owes. The worstpart is that it is the middle ofharvest season and they arerunning low on money. So, Lit-tle Willy has to become the manof the house and look for a wayto find money. When he findsout there's a dog sled race, hedecides to enter with his dog,Searchlight in hopes of winningthe prize money. After discov-ering the number one dog sled-der, Stone Fox, is also racing inthis race, he and Searchlightbegin training. Will he, as a tenyear old boy, be able to defeatthe giant of dog sled races? Willhe be able to care for his grand-father financially and physi-cally? That's for you to find outin this sad, yet fun book.
Book Review:
BY JACOB CAMPBELLThe Jaguar Journal
Snowman CakeIngredients:1. White cake mix2. White buttercream frosting3. Chocolate frosting4. Green food coloring (optional)5. Red and green sprinkles 6. Three eggs7. 1/3 cup of vegetable oil8. 1 1/2 cups water
Utensils:1. Spatula 2. Two round cake pans 3. Electric mixer4. #16 icing tip & an icing bag
Preheat oven to 350 degreesFahrenheit. Follow instructions oncake mix box. Mix ingredients to-gether with an electric mixer. Coatboth pans with nonstick cookingspray. Pour cake mix into both pans.If you want to have a swirl in yourcake, then put two drops of greenfood coloring into your batter. Thenget a knife or toothpick and put thetip of it in the cake mix and go backand forth and side to side. Bake cakefor about fifteen minutes. When timeis up, stick toothpick in and if it hasbatter on it put back in and check it
every five minutes until the toothpickhas no wet batter on it.
To ice the cake, get a number six-teen icing tip and bag. Put your whiteicing in the bag, and then put the tipon and squeeze. You can either dot itor you can swirl the icing over thecake. Then get a new bag and get adifferent tip. After that put yourchocolate icing in the bag and drawyour eyes, nose, mouth, scarf anddots down the middle. You can addsprinkles inside the eyes and dotsdown the middle or on the scarf orboth.
PUZZLE
GINGER WORTHINGTON, FACULTY ADVISOR FOR THE JAGUAR JOURNAL
Mr. Kevin Tripp, Teacher ofthe Month, is always trying to bethe best he can be. Mr. Tripp isBell Academy’snew P. E. teacher.He’s a teacheryou can countand depend on.He’s a teacherwho wants thebest for all of his students. He’s ateacher who is serious about hisstudents being active andhealthy. So, without him wewouldn’t be as healthy as we arenow. We asked him how it feelsto be Teacher of the Month. “Ithink that I have done a greatjob around the school to be thebest I can be,” he replied. Whenasked about his vision for the fu-ture of our school, Mr. Trippreplied, “Why not make a gym?”Kevin Tripp treats his studentsgreat, engaging them in fun ac-tivities that teach them abouttheir bodies and the importanceof exercise. He’s the teacherwho puts work in, to get some-thing out. He challenges his stu-dents by pushing them toparticipate in all activities. Hetreats his students with respectand the dignity they deserve.He’s not a guy who steps oneveryone he sees, he’s KevinTripp: Teacher of the Month.
BY GARY FORREST ANDJAMARCUS RICHARDSONThe Jaguar Journal
Teacher ofthe Month
Kids Corner
Kids Corner is a weekly sec-tion in The Cleveland Current
that highlights students wholive in the local area, and are in-terested in making an appear-ance in the newspaper. Ourteacher, Mrs. Worthington, gaveus a permission slip for our par-ents to sign and a survey foreach of us to complete. Shetook pictures of us and sent thesurveys to the Kid’s Corner. Van-niesha Foster, one of our class-mates, made a recentappearance. She was happy andexcited when she saw her smil-ing face in the November 11Sunday edition of the newspa-per. “My family was very happyto see me in the newspaper, es-pecially my grandmother,”replied Vanniesha. “I was begin-ning to doubt being chosen forthe Kids Corner, but I think I seta good example by not givingup.” If you’re interested in ap-pearing in the Kid’s Corner, con-tact Kelli Cotton [email protected] to get yoursurvey. Keep looking for otherBell Academy students in theKid’s Corner every week.
BY ELISHA JONES & JAMYAMOOREThe Jaguar Journal
Art with Mrs. KoehlerBell Academy has started an
eight day art program with Mrs.Katherine Koehler. Even thoughshe is teaching art, we are learninghistory. The sixth grade will begoing on a trip to St. Louis thisyear and Mrs. Koehler is preparingus with a little knowledge aboutthe Lewis and Clark expeditionand the westward expansion. Mrs.Koehler has previously lived inGeorgia, Tennessee, Texas, andSouth Carolina. During her child-
hood she enjoyed figure skatingand never thought she would be-come an art teacher, however sheloved art. In fact, she started draw-ing when she could hold a crayon.When she got older she then be-came more interested in art andteaching. Some of her art workhad been featured in The LittleRock Art Museum and Jacob K.Javits Museum in New York. Mrs.Koehler’s art and history lessonshave been very educational andfun!
BY KANARIAN LUSTERThe Jaguar Journal
“He’s not answering” Gary saidfearfully. “Hey, we have to go helphim,” Centen said bravely. “Who’sgoing to help us? We’re the only Jedileft,” Ashton said. “Yeah, Ashton isright. Where are we going to find anarmy?” Gray said questioning theothers. “Let’s search for enemies ofthe empire,” Centen said. “To theQUANTUM EAGLE!” exclaimed thethree Jedi. Their journey beganright there in the Jedi temple..... AsJacob landed on the landing plat-form to go get an upgrade on hissaber he heard his masters voicesay, “You have betrayed the Sith em-pire!!!” Suddenly the bottom of theship hit the ground and Jacob gotoff. “Excuse me, fellas, I will needto speak to Malgus,” Jacob said tothe clones at the door. “Sorry sir, Ihave orders from Malgus to destroyyou,” the clone leader said, choos-ing his words carefully. Jacobstarted to jump in the air and forcethe clones into the ground. “Let me
in Malgus, you traitor!” Jacob yelledangrily. “Come in,” Malgus said sar-castically. Pish! Malgus’s lightsaberwent off. “I told you I am a man ofmy word and it was a lie, it is a pitythat you can’t kill me, not even ifwe...” Malgus stopped talking as theforce lightning went right throughhis body and he fell to the ground.As Malgus died his power was re-leased upon Jacob. He walked outand flew away with them...... “We’relanding on Naboo now, Ashton,”Centen said. “Oh my, TuskinRaiders have taken over this part ofNaboo,” Ashton says. “Hey I see agirl.” Gray says in shock. “She’sbeen a slave for the Tuskin Raiders”Gary says. “She’s got like a drop ofblood left in her body, I predict,”Ashton says. “That is an exaggera-tion. She has 78% of the blood in herbody, and is that a drop?” Centensays. “How’d you know that?” Ash-ton said. “I am very advanced andpowerful in the force all you have todo is think, which you rarely do,”Centen says. They got off the ship
and found a stick to poke her with.Poke! She woke up like she wasready to fight. “Shhh! We are here tohelp,” Ashton says. Then they cutthe rope that was hanging her overthe ground. “Thanks but I couldhave gotten out by myself,” the girlsaid. “Then why haven’t you got outalready?” Centen says. “I have mywhole family here and they wantedto defeat the empire the same asyou,” the girl said. “Really, what theheck are you really here for?” saidthe girl. “Her name is Ivy, one of theroyal family of Izok,” Gray says.“How do you know,” Ivy said. “Iread your mind,” Gray says with su-periority. “We are really here to findan army,” Centen said. “Well I knowwhere you can find one but it’sgoing to be challenging,” Ivy said.“Where are they?” Centen said inexcitement. “Captured, in therewhere I was almost beaten todeath,” Ivy said. “How the heck arewe going to get in there?” Ashtonasked. “I’ve got a plan,” Centensaid.......TO BE CONTINUED
Star Wars 7BY ASHTON SHERWOODThe Jaguar Journal
Angel Children
Bell Academy’s third grade adopted angelchildren. Angel children are little paper an-gels that go on Christmas trees, and you canget them at Wal-Mart. They have real infor-mation for different children in our commu-nity, such as their age, gender, name, etc.These children are very unfortunate andusually receive nothing for Christmas.“Adopting” them is a great gesture, and youmust attempt to give them a good Christmaspresent because they are less fortunate thanus.
Third grade is happy about adopting twosuch angel children. They decided to get intothe true Christmas spirit by giving instead ofgetting. They are passionate about givingtheir money away for the less fortunateangel children. The third grade enjoys thisproject, and they like they have done a verygood thing.
BY BAILEY USERYThe Jaguar Journal
Box Top Winner
America’s schools have earned over $475million through the Box Tops for Educationprogram to help meet their needs. In ourschool, these box tops help provide class-room needs such as books, shelves, desk,boards, and other things.
Every class at Bell Academy collectedBox Tops for months.On November 26, Mrs.Johnson’s first grade class was announcedthe box top winner. She said, “On some daysher class brought in over 100 box tops andother days none.” Mattie and Carolyn ColeRocconi brought the most box tops to helptheir class win. Mrs. Johnson and her classwere very excited about being the winner.When they found out about winning, theywere very thrilled. Mrs. Johnson said, “Firstgraders get excited about everything.” If youwould like to join Box Tops for Education,visit www.boxtops4education.com. Look forBox Tops on all of your purchases when youvisit local markets. Feel free to drop yourBox Tops off at Bell Academy office.
BY VANNIESHA FOSTER & BRIUNNA TERRELLThe Jaguar Journal
Hand Bells with Mrs. Guest
Bell Academy third graders are lucky tohave Mrs. Guest volunteering from the DeltaArts Alliance to help them with the HandBells. Mrs. Guest picked the third grade, be-cause she likes working with them. She did-n’t work with other grades due to her strictschedule and limited time. The kids in thethird grade thoroughly enjoyed participating.Parents, family, and friends of the thirdgraders were invited to the Christmas pro-gram to see them perform. They played twoChristmas songs using Hand Bells. In orderfor them to be in the program they had tolearn how to play the Hand Bells. The pro-gram was at Cleveland High School, on De-cember 10, 2012 at 6:00pm.
BY SHAMIAH MCGEEThe Jaguar Journal
Reading FairChildren all over the world
are participating in readingfairs, and here at Bell Acad-emy we are among those par-ticipants. A reading fair is acompetition to show what youknow about a book you’veread. Each participant dis-cusses in writing the story ele-
ments of their book on anartsy tri-fold board. The ele-ments consist of the title, au-thor, publisher, publicationdate, summary, setting, pur-pose, and mood. The partici-pants are allowed to portray acharacter from their book bydressing according to how thecharacter might dress.
There are three categories
in which you can compete: In-dividual, Group, & Family.Arin Kelly, a sixth grader, wonfirst place in the individualcategory, while Allie Mon-temayer & Lily Yawn, both 4thgraders, won first place in thegroup category. Fourth grader,Madelyn Bryant and brotherLandon won the family cate-gory. Arin won 1st place with
the book, The Messenger, byLois Lowry. Allie and Lily wonwith the book, Marley and Me,and the Bryant’s won with thebook, The Polar Express.These students will now go tothe district reading fair. BellAcademy’s librarian, Mrs.Amanda Holder, thought theschool reading fair was a hugesuccess and everyone had fun.
BY LISA PATTERSONThe Jaguar Journal
