Chopped!

by Sophie

Chopped is a great cooking show. I really like it but I feel bad for the people and how they get "Chopped." If you do not know what that means it is like when you are in a contest and you lose but there are more rounds in cooking.

Let’s get back to the important part. Your time limit is about 30 minutes. Imagine having to cook a meal in half an hour! It sounds stressful and to get eliminated it can get really frustrating.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/chopped

Poseidon

by Michael

Hi! Have you ever read about the Greek gods? I’m focusing only on Poseidon. Poseidon is the god of the sea. He is really powerful, he is one of my favorite gods or characters. Poseidon has different looks but the looks I like is where half his body is a kraken and it’s really cool.

Me and Claire B.

by Katie

Yesterday, me and Claire. B were playing Pokemon. Claire. B was Greninja. I was her trainer. Well, Claire. B didn’t start out as Greninja, She started as Froakie. Froakie evolves into Frogadier that evolves into Greninja. At Spanish class, I told Claire. B to go to her class (it’s actually her table.) When Claire. B was going to back pick-up, I pretended that she was going to a play date with Frogadier and Greninja. And a sleepover.

Director Krennic: Rogue One

by Jack M

Introduction

In Rogue One, a new Star wars movie, there are some new characters and an impressive story about how the Death Star plans were stolen from under the nose of Director Krennic, the imperial producer of the Death Star.

Heathcote Spirit Day!

by Xiyan

At my school, we have a day called Spirit Day it’s when the whole school dresses up in our school colors (Yellow, White, and Black), but some people go even more far. Some people like my friend Carlie get so festive, that they have face paint, lipstick, and even tattoo’s! But the fun is when we get to have pom poms, and dance around at lunch! But there is also another activity we go to, it’s after Spirit day and it’s the Heathcote Carnival, but now since we aren’t allowed to have rides anymore, we call it a fair. But it’s still fun without the rides, like there is food, and you can even win special prizes, like maybe have breakfast with your teacher, or go to a curling game with Mr. Borgia (Our P.E. teacher). And this year, I am more excited than any other year because my teacher Mrs. Rago, promised that she would bring her kids Rory and Finn, and I haven’t actually met them in person but I know that they are super cute! Because the whole class has seen tons of pictures of them. I hope that this year’s Spirit day and Fair will be even more fun than ever!  

My Skateboarding Life

by Michael

A few days a go I got a skateboard I started years ago and I didn’t like it but now I have a total different feeling for skateboard. I really like it. I don’t use it for tricks I use it for transportation it might be a little boring if I always ride my bike to school but i’m planning to use the skateboard to ride to my school. Probably you're thinking why I can’t go to school right now it’s because i’m not skillful enough I know it’s kind of embarrassing.

Here is a video of how to skateboard...
https://youtu.be/p3NXd3DhH08

Well that was the end of my story!

State Test Perspective - from a 3rd grader

by Sophie

Today was the state test I personally  DO NOT LIKE the state only because it is so quiet and you are only allowed to write and answer questions it is really boring but to parents it is the best thing in the world and we have it for three whole days. I wish that the state test was at least a little shorter. The state test had 22 questions I hope tomorrow is a little easier and this are second time taking it. This is my first time doing the state test and it is only a tiny bit important to show the state your progress but in a kid’s perspective it is not important. Your opinion might be different but this is mine.

Bahamas

by Sophie

The Bahamas is a great place for vacation there is pools swimming with sharks giant fish tanks there are really good beaches and it is always sunny there is some really cool like how  you are allowed to bring pigs with you the sand is really soft and squishy. Bahamas has really good restaurants and really good sights to see to there is always something to do  and if you want a break there is a ton of entertainment.

The Greek Gods

by Xiyan

Hi guys! I recently read a series that were based on the Greek Gods called Percy Jackson and the Olympian Gods. I became so interested that I read all about the Greek Gods. I was inspired to write this chart of the Gods and what they represented:

Playdate with Alina and Caroline

by Katie

Yesterday, I had a play date with Caroline and Alina at Alina’s house. Alina made up this club called C.C.P. She got it from the book "Dork Diaries." Alina called Caroline, Steph. Me and Caroline called Alina, Jess. They call me Lizz. At first, I didn’t like the club C.C.P but later, I liked it. I played on Alina’s iPad Cooking Fever and helped Alina with words in Word Cookies. For dinner, we had dumplings. I ate the most dumplings because I’m a dumplings fan and second of all is because I eat a lot. Then we ate ice cream. I ate the slowest because I had a candy that takes a lot of time to make it tiny. Me and Caroline’s mom came after we ate ice cream.

State Test Perspective

by Jack

Today we had the state test exams for the math set. It was really easy and only had 22 questions. But I don’t like the tests, because you have to do SO MANY practice tests that have more questions. The test takes up so much time and when you finish, in the ELA tests, you read for an hour. But today it was only 30 minutes. Then we went outside until lunch. But this was probably the shortest state test on record. The test was boring. I never liked the state tests. From a kid’s perspective, they are just a waste of time. That’s because they take up the whole morning having you do ELA explanations or answering math questions that just are not useful.

Funny Day - by Katie

by Katie

Today at Heathcote Herald, I was laughing! SO it started when I was singing this song and then Sophie told me to sit on Jack. I sat on Jack but he pushed me off. Michael dared Jack to sit on him but when Jack sat on Michael, he jumped off and said Michael had spikes on his legs which is not true. We were laughing a lot later. Once today, I made Jack laugh. Usually Jack makes us laugh. He also said some jokes. Some of Jack’s jokes don’t work. But now Jack isn’t funny anymore. Maybe he is later but that’s all for now.

How to Make Colorful Bath Soap Bombs

by Xiyan

Imagine tons of colors exploding into your bathtub. That’s basically how a bath bomb works after you put it in the water. I am literally in LOVE with bath bombs which is why I decided to give you guys a recipe for how to make a bath bomb:

Ingredients and Supplies:

1 cup of baking soda

½ cup of citric acid

½ cup of Epsom salts

1 tsp. of water

2 tsp. of essential oil

3 tsp. of olive oil

Any type of food coloring

A bowl

A whisk

A jar

Bath bomb mold

Steps:

Pokemon Sun & Moon - by Jack

by Jack

New! Sun And Moon Leaked Gxes!

Hi guys, it’s Jack. I’m back with information about more leaked GX information. Some new cards that I have found out about are Bewear GX, Drampa Gx, Metagross GX, Tokapex GX, Lycanrock GX, Tapu Lele, and many more, but let’s stick to these. I personally like Bewear because it is cute. Drampa is kinda powerful, but not very good. Metagross is now a reprint of the EX and Mega.

Tokapex is a ocean pokemon. Lycanroc has two forms. Midnight form and day form. And last there is Tapu Lele, which is A WEIRD POKEMON!

Thank you for watching this. Here it is on Pokemon Sun and Moon...

Scratch!

by Michael

Scratch is a coding program and it’s all free! You just need to make a account and it’s really easy! Scratch is really fun because you could do whatever you want to and you learn to code at the same time. And you could publish your piece of work and other people could play it and you could play other people’s creation and it’s fun!

Check it out here:

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Remember, click the Try It out Button, it’s green!

Heathcote Art and Poetry Festival

by Xiyan

April is Spring and our school always holds an Art and Poetry Festival. The Art and Poetry Festival is basically when all of the students write a poem and they have art work up on display so the parents can come in and look at all of the poems and art.

This year my class is making chairs for a person in art. But these are not just any kind of people, Fantasy ones like a wizard, or a giant. I got a Vampire teen, so I basically designed a very dark chair for him.

Our art teacher Ms. Cameron is also making a Poetree, get it? A poetree! It’s also very fun to look at other people’s poems, because you might be surprised by the stuff your friends write.

I hope this year I get to see some very interesting poems by my friends. I also hope that my parents can see my poem. No matter who you are at Heathcote, the Art and Poetry festival is very interesting and fun!

Tea

by Sophie

Tea is a really sweet and helpful for sore throats and it is always  good for winter my favorite is French Vanilla there is many kinds the most popular is green or black tea normally it is called regular Tea.

 

This Tea would probably be cinnamon or black Tea you can tell by the color or the way it smells.  Tea can have many things to go with it like Honey, Agave, sugar cubes and a couple more I  believe. Tea can also help when you when you have a headache  it helps me because it has caffeine but that sometimes it causes me to have headaches but it could work for you I do not know. Here are some flavors that I know french Vanilla, peach, Orange, decaf,  salted caramel, black Tea, Green Tea,cinnamon,herbal Tea, Mandarin Orange Spice Tea and lemon Tea. And A whole lot more.

     

Snowboarding

by Michael

Have you ever went snowboarding it’s really fun. The first ever snowboard was made in 1977! Wow! And the snowboard changed a lot from 1977 to right now. Here’s a picture of what the 1977 snowboard looks like and a “right now” snowboard.

It’s a big difference you could see right. So here I chose the snowboard because it’s colorful and it’s cool like you could go really fast but you might not like fast I use to not to but not now. I love going fast and another reason is that when I go skiing my brother always says that I need to parallel and it’s really annoying and so it’s really good for me to go snowboarding. The first time I snowboarded I learned how to turn and stuff. So start SNOWBOARDING!  

My Night - Ice Cream and Movies

by Katie

On Saturday, 4/1/17, I went to eat dinner with Alina. After having dinner, we went to Carvel. We got ice cream. Me and Alina had one scoop. Then they went to our house to watch Arrival. Well, me and Alina watched Camp Rock and Pokemon. Camp Rock is a show about music and singing. The people get to perform singing in front of every camper in the final jam. In Pokemon, Ash catches Caterpie that evolves into Metapod that evolves into Butterflee. A swarm of Beedrills were attacking Ash and Misty. Instead, the Beedrills attacked Metapod. Then we went to sleep. Alina didn’t bring her stuff so we had to loan stuff to Alina. When we woke up, we started practicing our song and dancing The Power Of Brave.

The Process of Making Chocolate

by Xiyan

researched on BrainPop

1. After the beans are harvested, they have to be fermented for about a week
2. Then the beans get dried in the sun for much longer
3. Then the beans that have already been fermented and dried in the sun will get roasted
4. After that, the beans are winnowed
5. Then they get mashed into a gooey liquid that’s called chocolate liquor
6. Then cocoa solids are ground into cocoa powder like the stuff we use to make hot chocolate

How to Make the Usual Chocolate We Eat

1. Most of the recipes start with the baker’s unsweetened chocolate
2. Then you have to add more cocoa butter to be added into the bowl
3. Next, sugar and flavorings are added into the mixture
4. If it was milk chocolate we were making then we would add a lot of milk too
5. The ingredients then get mixed all together in a special process called conching
6. Finally, the conched chocolate is heated then cooled on a very complex process called tempering

Glossary:

Fermented - Dried out for a period of time

Winnowed - De-shelled

Conched - Ingredients getting mixed up in a special mixing process

Tempering - The chocolate is heated and cooled

Rockin' Jump - a review

by Sophie

Rockin' Jump is a trampoline park and it is really fun. There are some pros and cons.

Pros

• You can play DodgeBall
• Rock in Jump is a great place for parties
• BasketBall hoops

Cons

• There are only 21 balls and most parties need 22
• You need to wear special socks
• Hard to get out of foam pit

But other than those cons it is a great place the foam pit is really fun to. Hope you go if so have a great time there is also another foam pit surrounded by trampoline.

The address is RockinJump.com

Amtrak Mystery

by Jack

Amtrak is a very big company. There are many types of trains on the rails, many crashes. But there is one that will baffle investigators for centuries. One night, May 12th 2015, in Philadelphia, a typical late-night northeast regional train was carrying in little bit over 200 passengers. It was going around a curve at a shocking speed: 107 miles per hour. The train curved off the rails and bursted into flames. 2 cars were thrown into the bridge and smashed to pieces. The power car was thrown 2 tracks away from the rest of the train and came to a stop. But no one knows why the train was going 107 miles per hour. The conductor, Brandon Bostian, didn’t remember anything that night. But this is the #1 mystery for Amtrak that they will never figure out why it happened.

The Boston Tea Party

by Xiyan

When it was the night of December 16, 1773. The Sons of Liberty pretended to be some Indians and boarded three ships on the Boston Harbor and they threw 342 chests full of tea into the sea. This is today known as the Boston Tea Party.

The Cause of the Boston Tea Party

The American Revolution had started and the king had just passed out a new law, that everyone had to pay taxes for all the Tea they drank, that’s a LOT of Tea, so on December 16, 1773, some of the true patriots of our country decided to dump 342 chests full of tea into the sea.

The Effect of the Boston Tea Party

When all of the Tea was dumped overboard, the British shut down the Boston Harbor until all of the Tea was all payed for.

The Boston Tea Party was one of the most important and famous acts of the American Revolution.