Summer Newsletter

Rockets !

By Grace Goeckner and Tori Krahn

Our 2023 5th grade class is going to be launching rockets this year! The rockets we are going to launch will possibly be able to go farther than the length of a football field. On the week of the 23 of April we are going to be collecting 2 or more 2 liter pop bottles for the base of the rockets, we need 2 or more so we can redo them if needed. If we are able to, we will have some of the elementary grades come to watch the launch. We hope the 2023 fifth graders will be able to have a successful launch.

Final Classroom Newsletter

By Grace Goeckner

This is our final month of school, we only have about 22 days left, can you believe it!? I can’t believe that the school year is coming to an end. This information is awesome because we are going to be ending our fifth grade year, on a high note, with our Summer Newsletter!!!!! We will be writing about topics like all the fish activities, our Amazing Teacher Mr. Jackson, has put on, history activities, going to the Aquatic Center, the amazing art project Mrs. Green is putting together….and more!. We hope you will be able to view this newsletter. This is going to be the biggest newsletter yet!

Aquatic Center

By Ariyana Clark

This year our school will be going to the Aquatic Center towards the end of the school year.We haven't done something like this at the Waterpark since about 2018-19 so everyone is very excited. We never get to do any field trips as a whole school normally either, but we are with this one!We are going on the last week of school, on May 31 2023. We do it on the same day as the Holy Family School Is doing it. We hope the students of All Saints Catholic School will have an amazing trip.

Strive to drive

By Grace Goeckner

This is Grace Goeckner and our school is doing a fundraiser called stove to drive. We are selling tickets fo $10.00 each. Buy five get one free, thats 10 dollars less than buying 6 and getting none free, right? The kids at All Saints are supposed to sell as many tickets that they can to raise money for the school. There a lot of amazing people out there that will donate money to the Strive to Drive fundraiser. So please buy some tickets from a friend that goes to All Saints Catholic School.

Fish!

(The articles below will be on the topic of the steelhead activities we have done this year)

Hatchery

By Macee Wessels

A while after we received the steelhead, we took a field trip to Dworshak national fish hatchery. Our tour guide, Tom, led us through the hatchery and told us a bit about each place we saw.

The first place we went, the spawning room, was where a fish elevator lifted a few steelhead onto a sorting table to be sorted. The steelhead that were ready to be spawned were sent down a little metal fish slide and laid on a table to prepare for spawning. When it was a steelhead’s time to spawn, they were set in a metal bin and wiped down. They were then placed on a hook hanging by their gills. The person spawning them would then slit the fish’s bellies and all the eggs would spill out to be collected.

After the eggs are collected, they are held in the incubation room until they’re ready to hatch. We only briefly went into this room. We did glimpse the tube where all the alvin were put. This sorted the alvin because the strong would be able to swim out of it but the weak would be stuck and die.

Next, we visited the fish ladder where steelhead would jump up to get into the holding ponds. The holding ponds are where steelhead will stay for a while. The steelhead can feed themselves by jumping up and hitting the feeder. This would make the food fall out.

This is what we did on our hatchery field trip. It was a blast!

Dissection

By Macee Wessels

This April, we dissected steelhead trout. In class, we learned about the internal and external anatomy of steelhead. We took a quiz on the internal and external anatomy right before the dissection.

There were 8 fish so we were grouped in threes. Before we cut into the fish, we were allowed to touch and observe the steelhead and Mr Jackson taught us how to tell if they were male or female by their jaws and teeth. We also felt their tongues, which have teeth on them so that their prey can't escape.

The first thing we cut off was the operculum, or gill cover. This is what protects the gills from harm. It is so sturdy that you can knock on it and it makes a noise. We were then asked to cut off one of the gills and we were allowed to touch the gill arch, gill rakers, and gill filaments.

We then cut off some meat so we could see the organs. We were able to identify and touch all of the guts. One fish even still had the air bladder still inflated.

If you are one of the volunteers that made this project possible, Thank you!

History

By Emily Rothfusz and Grace Goeckner

This spring we have been studying the Revolutionary war. Lately, we learned about Lexington and Concord, Trenton and Princeton, New York, Saratoga campaign, and the battles of the south. I know I just said a lot, but I will break it down. First, Lexington and concord. The British got dominated by the colonists on the 19 of April in 1775. On January 3rd of 1777 there was an American victory, the Colonists dominated the British.

Then in 1664 the british took control over New York. In 1777 we won the battle of Saratoga. Then in 1778-1781 the French signed a treaty for joining the continental side of the war! We then won the battles of the south. This led to us winning the Revolutionary War! All through this time the fifth graders hade to chose a name from colonial days. Then we would have meeting of what choices the army officers, spies, and soldiers had to make.

Teacher Appreciation Week

By Tori Krahn

This week is Teacher Appreciation week. This means that we, the students and there moms, will be doing things so that the teachers know we appreciate them. On Monday we were supposed to buy our teachers flowers from about 7:30-8:20. Once you bought the bouquet of flowers you put them in the vase the Guardian Angles painted and put togetherfor the teachers and the staff all saints staff. On Tuesday we were supposed to wear our teachers favorite color. Mr. Jackson’s favorite color is blue so the fifth graders have to wear some shade of blue. The whole fifth grade class wore blue. Whichever class wears the most of there teachers favorite color gets a pizza party! On wednesday the Guardian Angles made breakfast for the teachers and staff of All Saints. On friday one person is supposed to bring there teachers favorite dessert.

Talent Show!

By Fabian Curet

I am proud to present to you the 2023 All Saints Talent Show! This is when kids come to the gym to show the beautiful, amazing, and unique talents. Some kids do jump rope, gymnastics, magic tricks, show and animal…. And more. This activity happens in the last week of school so that we can end school on a good note. So let's end the school year with a bang with our amazing talent show and great audience!

Dworshak Dam

By Macee Wessels

After we went to the Dworshak hatchery, we ate lunch at Big Eddy and it was very cold and wet. After the lunch break, we drove to the Dworshak dam. Before the tour guide took us on the dam, we looked at a model of Orofino and the dam that was on a table. Then we went out onto the dam and looked over the edge. It was very high up and we saw a guy walking down at the bottom and everybody yelled at him until he waved to us. This was an amazing

Steelhead release

By Macee Wessels.

We are going to be releasing the steelhead that we have raised in our tank into the river on Thursday May 25th. We hope that they make it back to the river to spawn, but we are sad to say that we are only releasing four steelhead due to a coagulated yolk disease. It has been an unusual year for steelhead. We are fortunate to have fish to release, unlike other schools. We may get to wade on the river to catch some water insects. We will have a pizza party and maybe get to see some beavers.

Fun Stuff!