The columns in the Media Center look amazing! The

Pawprint asked Mr. Gem-mell the following:

How did this project hap-pen?

Mrs. Yesnick applied for an

Environmental Grant with

The Chesapeake Bay Trust.

This trust is an organization

that is funded by Save The

Bay License Plates. Once

we received it, we consid-

ered doing something out-

side. Mr. Gemmell thought

it would be more perma-

nent if we did an art project

inside the school building.

He was thinking about the

hallways but Ms. McIntyre

suggested the columns in

the Media Center.

How did the student paint-

ers come up with the de-sign for their columns?

What was the process of getting art work on the

columns?

The students researched ani-

mals that lived in the bay.

Each group selected one large

animal, a seascape, vegetation

and smaller species. After

students researched infor-

mation, they laid out on ban-

ner paper, how they wanted

the drawings on the columns.

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John Poole Middle School, Poolesville, MD

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Inside this

issue:

Reading with the Fishes 1-2

Timberwolves 3

Check-Mate and Candy DIY

4-5

Do You want To Build a Snowman?

6-7

NFL’S Einstein 8

MVP-Bryce Harper 9

JPMS Basketball Schedule—Riddles

10-11

Comic—Clubs 12-13

Word Search 14

Do you want to join Newspaper Club but can’t make it to the meetings? No problem! Just write articles, stories po-ems, comics and the like and submit them to the Hand-In

folder Period 1 Lightcap or see Mrs. Lightcap for details!

Volume 1, Issue 1 December 2015

Mrs. Yesnick

“Reading with the Fishes”

By: Luke Lightcap and Aidan

Auel

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For some of the large animals, they put

banner paper on columns and traced

their art work. Most of the drawings,

however, were done freehand by the stu-

dents. Some animals displayed include :

sting rays, trout, sea turtles, sea horses,

jelly fish and many others.

How long did this project

take?

7 months of after school sessions

Students that participated in this project?

Colin Hemingway, Keegan Morrison,

Jessica Carey, Alison Ransom, Tess Insalaco,

Olivia Burdick, Anna Akdag, Julia Pavlick, Aidan

Auel

Continued from

Page 1

Thank you Mr. Gemmell, Ms. McIntyre,

Mrs. Yesnick and JPMS artists for making

the media center beautiful!

Fun Facts about Timberwolves

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Timberwolves (or gray wolves) may sacrifice themselves

to save their family

They demonstrate close relationships and strong bonds

Wolves are the largest members of the dog family

When a wolf finds a mate, they usually stay together for

life

A pack consists of the female alpha wolf and the male al-

pha wolf, who stay together for life. Other wolves in their

pack are their offspring.

If a wolf is kicked out from the pack or just chooses to

leave, he/she is called a lone wolf who barely interacts

with others

Wolves nearly disappeared from the lower 48 states due

to beliefs discriminating against them in the 1900’s

When wolves meet humans, they run away out of fear

that the humans will attack them

Wolves are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar

They run on their toes

Wolf puppies have blue eyes, which turn into a yellow-

amber or green color when they grow up

By Michelle Lu

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Did you see the chess boards in the media

center? Now they’re open for play. You can

use them whenever you visit the media

center. If you aren’t the best at playing

chess or you’ve never played, there are

Coming Soon! JPMS

will have a chess club.

Listen to the morning

announcements for

more information!

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What you need:

A pipe cleaner (any color, it will be

covered with beads but preferably

green)

Red and white beads, unless you

want a different-colored candy

cane

Christmas DIY Candy Cane

Take a pipe cleaner, and stick the end

through the bead

Wrap the tip on the pipe cleaner

around the bead

Take another bead, and slide it through

the pipe cleaner until it touches the

first bead

Continue sliding beads through the

pipe cleaner, making the pattern you

want (i.e. red white red white)

When you reach the other end of the

pipe cleaner, wrap that end around

the last bead

Curve the pipe cleaner into a candy

cane shape

And you’re done! You can hang the

candy cane on Christmas trees,

even though they might not look

like the real ones

By Michelle Lu

Do You Want To Build a

By Jacob Chu

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Do you want to build a snow-

man? “OMG I can’t even, I

<3 this song and movie!”

This is what some of you

guys would probably sound

like right now. The other half

of you guys are most like

this,

“AHHHHHHHHHH! NOT

AGAIN, PLEASE SPARE MY

POOR MIND FROM THIS

TORTUROUS SONG AND

THAT AWFUL MOVIE!!”

Now to stop your panicking,

this article is fortunately (my

opinion) not about Disney’s

2013 animation of talking

snowmen and magical ice

powers, Frozen.

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IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME!! As

everyone knows, the only

important thing about

Christmas is wait for it-

PRESENTS (usually, well for

me)!! This statement may be

true for some people, but a

lot of people forget an im-

portant factor to Christmas,

making a snowman. Today, I’ll

be telling you how to make

a proper snowman, but be

warned this will not be an

Olaf… I REPEAT THIS WILL

NOT TURN YOUR MAS-

TERPIECE INTO A DANC-

ING SNOWMAN THAT

TALKS! GOT IT?!? Ok now

for the instructions for the

best snowman you have ev-

er seen.

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1. Find suitable snow to use. The snow

can’t be dry or it won’t stick to-

gether. Try to find snow that is

slightly moist and not completely

watery. If you can’t find any snow

like that, just get some water and

sprinkle a patch of snow.

2. Take a clump of that snow and try to

shape it into a ball or sphere (the

ball should be a bit smaller than a

basketball).

3. Take that ball and place it in an area

where there is a large layer of snow

(like your backyard/front lawn).

Start rolling the snowball in the

snow and you should notice the

ball getting larger and larger. Stop

when it is about 2.5 feet tall.

4. Repeat the first 4 steps 2 more

times. Each time you repeat a pro-

cess, you should make a snowball

be smaller than the first one.

EX: Bottom Piece-2.5 feet, Middle Sec-

tion-1.5 feet, Head-1 foot

5. Stack the snowballs from larg-

est to smallest

DECORATION

Popular things used as decorations

on snowmen are coals for eyes, a

scarf, a hat, a carrot nose, and stick

arms. While these are original and

easy items to use, there are a world

of other objects you can easily use

to make your snowman cooler than

the other snowman. For example,

one idea I have seen was putting

printed faces of celebrities on your

snowman’s face!

Graham Richter, (left), Will Ennis (right)

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AMERICAN FOOTBALL By William Ennis

I had the privilege to have an interview with Graham Richter. For

those of you who don’t know, Graham is the great great grandson of

Hugh L. Ray. Hugh Ray was the main person that made the NFL foot-

ball more safe and fun to watch—basically the Einstein of the NFL

for 14 years. During the interview I learned that there was a book

written for Hugh L. Ray. It turns out that the book was written by a

family member because they wanted The Hall of Fame to give him

credit for making football better around 1938 to 1952. And to be

honest with you all it did get a lot better because of how it saved

people by making it safer. It also made football more playable be-

cause he changed the design of the football, which allowed more

passing in the game.

Thanks Graham, for your family contribution to American football!

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The first 5 people to come to the media center with

an answer to a riddle will receive a small treat!

Mary’s father has 5 daughters—Nana, Nene, Nini,

Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?

What has a foot but no legs?

What comes down but never goes up?

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound

of bricks?

What has 4 eyes but can’t see?

By: Antoinette Hovor

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By: Michelle Lu

Famous Quotes:

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.—Wayne Gretzky

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that some-

thing else is more important than fear.—Ambrose Redmoon

Get Involved!!!!!!

Clubs to join:

Spa Day *Maker Taker Club

Lego Club *Game Day

Music Club *Voice and Vocals

Leo Club Rocketry Club

Cards and Crafts *Ukulele Club

*Tennis Club Book Club

Jeopardy Bowl Dance Club

*Chess Club Newspaper Club

*Sewing Club Homework Club

HERO Club Drama Club

*Kickball

* Coming Soon

HIGHLIGHTED CLUB OF THE MONTH

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