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Abby Kjeldsen
7:30 – You wake up and get ready for a 25–45-minute drive to Chicago to spend your day in a city with many people and many buildings.
11:30- You get to the city and park in parking garage.
11:45- You find the beautiful Bean that you thought was 10x smaller and take pictures by it. Sadly, these pictures are a mile away from the Bean because of construction.
12:15- After you walk across the street and then buy tickets to the Chiago Art Institute. You check out the Thorn rooms and paintings of all different sizes. You also find sculptures and grab a snack at one of the cafés inside the Art Institute.
1:30- You head right back over by the bean where you see these gigantic tile walls that show people’s faces. The only bad thing is that when the picture shows, water squirts out of their mouth! It is very interesting and a little weird though. Other than that, it is a cool exhibit.
2:00- You are starting to get hungry so look down many streets and finally find a pizza place. Instead of pizza you get a pasta that is baked with cheese and comes out so gooey that you have all the sauce on your face.
4:00- Next on the agenda you want to look for a gift shop, for you to get a cool looking Chicago shirt to remember this day trip. You spend lots of time and moola in the store and think to yourself “I need a sweet treat”.
5:15- You finally find a bakery called Magnolia Bakery and cannot wait to see what they have. You grab a banana pudding that they are known for and a chocolate chip cookie square. You devour the pudding and want to get more while eating whole cookie square in one bit.
5:45- You start to head back to the parking garage and head home while thinking about how wonderful your day has been.
SUMMER VS. WINTER
Amelia Speropoulos
Summertime is the best time
Summer is the time of year when you can play at the beach and do not have to wear layers and layers of clothes. Summer is the best! In summer you have no school/homework, can play sports like softball, basketball, and football outside, and it is warm outside! What is better than that!?
It is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
Wintertime, it's cold, it's snowing, it's GREAT! Winter is when most holidays are held, like New Year's Eve, Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukah, La posadas, and other interesting holidays. Winter break is the time when some families would go on vacation in warmer climates, this is why winter is up for the win!
VOTE BELOW - WHAT DO YOU THINK?
ANIMAL AWESOME
Isaac Bell
Hello, welcome the first ANIMAL AWESOME of 2024! We'll kick off this new year by sharing 5 facts about our first reptile in animal awesome history, the rattlesnake.
1. Its bite force is 150 PSI (pounds per square inch), which is as strong as most industrial and commercial applications, like air compressors.
2. On average, rattlesnakes lay 8 to 12 eggs per clutch, but certain rattlesnakes, like the diamondback, can lay up to 30 eggs. Sadly, only 30% successfully hatch.
3. Rattlesnakes do their rattle by using 3 muscles, the supercostalis lateralis, iliocostalis, and longissum dorsi. These muscles create the rattle sound associated with rattlesnakes.
4. Rattlesnake's diets include rabbits, mice, squirrels, frogs, lizards, and other smaller animals.
5. The largest rattlesnake is the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, which is 4-6 feet on average. Meanwhile, the smallest rattlesnake is the Pygmy rattlesnake, which are just under 32 inches.
That's all I have for now. This was one of the most interesting animals I have researched in my writing career, considering there are 3 different rattlesnake species. Thanks for reading animal awesome. And that's the bottom line, see ya!
FOODS THAT ARE UNDERRATED
BY: JOHN DOYLE
ORANGES
Oranges are a very, very good fruit that gives you a great source of vitamin C. Oranges are also a super refreshing and juicy. Eating this on a summer day is truly something to beat and hyrates you almost instantly.
AVOCADOS
This is a controversial one, but in my opinion, avocados are such a good and healthy food to eat. Avocadoes can be eaten in many different ways such as on toast, in guacamole, and even just by itself with some salt and pepper sprinkled on top of it. My favorite version is guacamole. I make it a lot of times throughout the year especially summertime. It is so good especially with some add ons such as tomatoes, red onions, cilantro, salt and pepper, lime juice, and more. It is such a good food to enjoy with friends and family at gatherings, parties, etc.
MEXICAN FOOD
I don't really know if this food is underrater, but I have to add it just because of how good it is. There are many different foods in the “Mexican Food” category and they are almost all perfect. Some examples of these foods are tacos, burritos, enchiladas, Mexican rice, guacamole, beans, salsa/Pico de Gallo, Quesadillas, flautas, and many, many more things. All of these have great and unique flavors that make your mouth water anytime you see one of these dishes.
PICKLES
And last but not least, pickles. Pickles are a great food that are refreshing and could be sweet, salty, and even spicy. Pickles are great in many recipes and are great final touches to many dishes. Pickles also are a good source of vitamin A, vitamin k, and calcium.
Book Recommendations
By: Abigail Kjeldsen & Keira Keaty
Are you having a tough time finding a book to read for your book report because it needs to be a certain genre? Well, you’re in luck! This article is full of tons of fantastic books from several different genres, that are great for reading logs, book reports, and even outside-of-school reading!
Mystery
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
The book The Sixty-Eight Rooms is a very well-done mystery that is easy to understand but incredibly detailed. The book setting is in the Chicago Art Institute. Other than what around them they, particularly in the Thorn Rooms. They find a magical key that shrinks them into size to fit the Thorn Rooms. Then they find magical items and events that happened decades ago. Then they find an object that looks familiar to them, but who’s is it?
Keeper of the Lost Cities
The book series Keeper of the Lost Cities is a thrilling, nail-biting mystery book. The series is about a 12-year-old girl named Sophie Foster. She has a huge secret; she’s a telepath and she’s never met anyone with this ability. Until one day she meets a strange boy who happens to be a telepath too. She then learns that staying with her family will put her in grave danger and is forced to leave her old life behind. She must learn to live in a strange world much different from what she’s used to. Sophie discovers that there are secrets hidden in her memories about who she is and things many people would really want to know. This series has 9 volumes (10 hasn’t been released yet) with several other extras told from other characters’ point of view.
Alone
Alone is a fantastic poetry book centered on a girl who must learn to survive on her own. It is about a girl that tries to trick her parents into a sleepover, but things take a turn. She thinks everything is normal until she finds out the whole west side of the United States has evacuated. She has been stuck by herself for many years since that she had to savage for food, make shelter to a city that has had many natural disasters, and had to find somethings to get her mind off the matter that she is by herself for how long. What will happen next?
Before the Ever After
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson is a superb poetry book for middle school ages to read. It is about a boy that people know by the nickname “ZJ”. “ZJ” is going through a problem with his dad. His dad is a professional football player and is going through a challenging time but is taking is anger out on “ZJ” by being very moody while they talk. “ZJ” is very worried about his dad. His dad is making life with his friends harder because his dad embarrassed him in front of his friends. Even though some of his friends have not stuck together with him though these challenges. He is sticking with the friends that have stuck with him and is ready for anything that is going to come next.
Science Fiction
The Fourteenth Goldfish
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm is fictional but has interesting, true facts throughout the whole entire book making it qualify as a science fiction book. Ellie is an 11-year-old starting middle school who has always disliked change. So, this year she’s not happy, for example she misses her goldfish, her old best friend and especially fifth grade. Until one day some strange kid appears who reminds her of her grandpa who has always been obsessed with making himself young again. Ellie is trying to figure out so many questions. Could this kid really be her grandpa? Did he finally figure out how to make someone become young again? Find out in this book and its sequel-The Third Mushroom
Historical Fiction
The Hero Two Doors Down
The Hero Two Doors Down is meaningful but extremely exciting book because it holds on to player that many people know, Jackie Robison. In this book an 8-year-old boy named “Stephen Satlow”lives in an all-Jewish neighborhood, but a new family is moving into a house in the neighborhood that is African American, the whole neighborhood is not happy with this move other than Stephen because the family is the baseball plyer who broke the race barrier in baseball, Jackie Robinson.
Graphic Novel
Katie the Cat Sitter
Katie the Cat Sitter is a very suspenseful book that finally leads you to the character solving the mystery. This a great for a fun reading time. It is a book about a girl named “Katie” and she has to babysit her neighbor’s cat, or what she thought was just a cat. She finds that her neighbor has more than 100 cats. While she is babysitting, she starts to be suspicious of the neighbor. This leads to the mystery of who is her neighbor? “Katie thought she was just a normal person but now double thinking herself.
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