Girl's Basketball by Holly and Juliana

We are doing our blog post about girls basketball. There were tryouts on Thursday and Friday. We tried out for the JV team. We were anxious to see if we made the team. We have been practicing for a few weeks now. We are happy that we made it on the team. Our first game was on January 9th. We hope that you will be there to cheer us on at our home games. It is at Capital Christian. They are a pretty good team but we have a good chance at beating them. We practice from 3:00-5:00. We have 2 nice coaches. One is Myah Collier’s dad and the other one is Mia Collin’s dad. We thank the coaches and our teammates for helping us get better. We are very grateful for making the team and we are sorry for the girls that got cut from the team. It is fun being on the team but at the end of every practice we do runs from the half court back to the base line and the full court back to the base line. It is fun and a great experience being on the team. Our numbers are #11 and #12. #11 is Holly and #12 is Juliana. Our positions are low and high post. We have an important position. On low post we half to rebound the ball and in high post we half to find the ball and pass to low post. If we are on high post we can shoot the ball and we can pass it to our team mates. We won our second game 22-8 and our 3rd game we lost buy on 17-16 because we got called on a technical foul For having 6 players on the court but it's okay we're still learning!

Here is the roster with our names bright and clear.

Juliana Frye

Ava Royer

Holly Tully

Isabella O’Campo

Megan Moltzen

Gurneet Bring

Laiba Mehmood

Desiree Conner

Myah Collier

Paris Broadway

Jenna Yee 

Wellensa Yahannes

Marin Headlands Trip by Tobi A.

Marin Headlands is a place by San Francisco. The place is by the Pacific Ocean and the Bay. This place belong to the government because of its animals and marine life. The place is basically for academics. There are different schools that come here to learn about nature. Students can get graded in some classes like P.E because of hiking, Math for the waste graphing and some other classes.

They make you learn about all the animals. There like mountain lion, bobcat, gray fox, coyote, raccoon, brush rabbit, and some more.The sea animals are hermit crab, a line shore crab, a california mussel, a rough limpet a giant green anemone.

They have a lot of amazing place is like Point Bonita Lighthouse ,Gerbode Valley. The place used to be a navy camp. The camp was used in world war two. They put a lot of things there like guns and military ships, submarines, military aircraft. They also have missiles and they tested missiles there also.

These are my sources:
https://www.nps.gov/goga/marin-headlands.htm
https://www.nps.gov/goga/obo.htm
https://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm
https://www.nps.govgoga/planyourvisit/gerbode.htm

Bonus Photos from Mrs. Moltzen:

A week at Leading Edge By Logan and Izel

During the week of January 12 the sixth grade started their history day projects. Kids from every class will compete at history day project on Conflict and Compromise. They can choose to to go on to the next levels. Also 6th graders started the Historical fiction unit. We picked out books from the library with the help of Ms. Prettol. The newest unit in Social studies is ancient China. We have done many dynasties and made kites inspired by the book Dragonwings by Laurence Yep.

The Poetry Out Loud competition was this week ; there was one winner from each high school and middle school. James Race won for Middle School!! Next week we are going to Marin Headlands. I think most of the 6th graders are happily, nervously, and excitedly preparing for the trip. At Marin Headlands the learning experience and the beautiful wildlife will be breathtaking. All in all Marin seems like it will be a blast!

The girls basketball team had a game on Thursday this week. Lots of students went to the game to support the team. I like how all the sports at our school are highly supported with enthusiasam. Also the wrestlers had a match on thursday as well. The competition was set for Mills Middle School. Some of my friends are on the wrestling team and they sound pumped about the match. And that was a week at Leading Edge! There's always something interesting going on!

LE Big Day of Reading by Naqiya

This week all of Leading Edge did a pajama and a reading day. The point of this was to get a relaxing day after winter break so you can show up in your pajamas and to activities regarding reading. This special day is a very fun day because everyone can just be in their pajamas and read. Some of the reading activities we did were; reading a story in math called One Grain Of Rice and we had to double a rice of grain for each day and tell the total, in P.E we did the partner mile our partner would read while the other one ran. In science tech we learned about historical fiction, in expressions we did found poetry.

So basically in the partner mile thing what we did was we all brought out books and we each ran or walked a big lap and in that time our partner was supposed to read. This time for the partner mile there was no limit so you were just supposed to run as many laps as you can.

        

In math we read a story called One Grain Of Rice. And so what our job was that we were supposed to find out how many grains there would be at the end of thirty days.

And since every day the raja doubled the grains it was a little hard to do the whole addition in the end.

In Science tech we went to the media center and talked about historical fiction and the sub genres. We talked about historical fiction because it was the genre that we were going to read next.

So what we learned was that even in historical fiction there are many genres and some genres mix a little bit with fantasy and science fiction which gave a shock. (I hate historical fiction).

In expressions we did found poetry. The idea of found poetry Is to rip out a page from a book and use a couple words to make it into a poem. My poem was depressing because it went to the dark side of human nature. A little violence but amazingly cool.