What s Poppin. 16th Avenue School

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1 16th Avenue School What s Poppin December 2016 Welcome to our first edition of What s Poppin for this school year! We are so excited to share all of our great articles with you. ~ What s Poppin Editorial Staff

2 Thanks for reading. Enjoy! By: Wania~Paulina~Sofia What s your favorite activity? Building Snowmen Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies Winter Treats Sledding 5th Grade: Building Snowmen - 2 Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah - 8 Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies - 9 Winter Treats - 0 Sledding - 5 Total th Grade: Building Snowmen - 2 Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah - 15 Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies - 8 Winter Treats - 1 Sledding - 11 Total rd Grade: Building Snowmen - 1 Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah - 39

3 Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies - 18 Winter Treats - 1 Sledding - 9 Total nd Grade: Building Snowmen - 3 Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah - 15 Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies - 23 Winter Treats - 2 Sledding - 8 Total st Grade: Building Snowmen - 18 Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah - 20 Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies - 23 Winter Treats - 1 Sledding - 8 Total - 70 Kindergarten: Building Snowmen - 31 Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah - 25 Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies - 22 Winter Treats - 6 Sledding - 8 Total - 92 Pre-K: Building Snowmen - 7 Celebrating Christmas/Hanukkah - 7 Sitting By The Fire~Hot Cocoa~Watching Movies - 8 Winter Treats - 7 Sledding - 0 Total - 29

4 Community Spirit Project In lieu of homework for the month of December, the 1st grade team at 16th decided to ask the students to perform three random acts of kindness for the community helpers within the community of Elmwood Park. Grade 1 has been learning about the important jobs of community helpers and what it means to be a good citizen. Students distributed handmade Thank You notes, baked cookies, hot chocolate, etc. in appreciation for the efforts of our Elmwood Park everyday heroes! To memorialize each good deed, parents could snap pictures or students could write about their experience. Each recipient was given a ticket to a concert given by the first grade where hot chocolate was served. McCrum's bakery on Market Street even donated cookies for the event.

5 DECEMBER RECIPES By: Amber Garcia, Sofia Degabriel, and Samantha Lumbreras Our first recipe is Winter Wonderland Cookies! Ingredients: (from scratch) 1 cup of softened butter 1 cup of sugar 1 egg (any color) 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract ½ teaspoon of almond extract

6 2 and ½ cups of all purpose flour ½ teaspoon of salt, 1 white frosting and blue food coloring Preheat oven to 350 Directions: In a bowl, mix the butter, sugar, egg, extracts, flour and salt until soft and fluffy. After that, divide the cookie dough into 4 equal pieces. Then, cover with plastic wrap. Keep this in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, until easy to work with. When the dough is out the fridge knead with flour. With a circle cookie cutter, cut out as many cookies as you can. Put cookies into the oven for 6-7 minutes till golden brown. Last but not least, decorate as you desire!

7 Our next recipe is a Strawberry Christmas Tree! Ingredients (from scratch) 2 boxes of strawberries 1 apple 1 carrot stick White melted chocolate 1 box of toothpicks Directions:

8 Take your apple and cut it into thirds. With one of those thirds take your carrot and trace the bottom of your carrot and cut out a whole so your carrot can go right through. Once the carrot is in the hole, put the toothpicks through the carrot.then, melt the white chocolate for decoration! While your chocolate is melting wash and dry your strawberries. Make sure to not take the top off.when your chocolate is melted, decorate any kind of design you want on the strawberries and place them in the fridge until completely cooled. The last step is to stick the strawberries onto the toothpicks. Your tree is done! Our last and final recipe is Christmas Themed Cupcakes! Ingredients (from scratch) 1 and ½ cups of flour 1 and ½ teaspoons of baking powder ½ teaspoon of salt 2 large eggs room temperature ⅔ cups of sugar 1 ½ sticks of unsalted butter

9 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract ½ cup of milk Christmas color frosting and sprinkles Directions Preheat oven to 350. Then, in a bowl whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder. Get another bowl and beat the sugar and eggs for 2 minutes. While stirring, add the butter and vanilla extract. When you are mixing add half the dry ingredients, then the milk, and the other half. Now that the batter is all mixed, divide the mixture into the pan. Let it cool and decorate as you wish! 16th Avenue School Newsletter Mrs. Kluz s Interview

10 By: Luisanna Rodriguez, Anais Velez, and Delilah Phillips For this month we are interviewing our school counselor, Mrs. Kluz. Q = How do you feel about being the school s counselor? A = I love this job, I am always busy, but there is something different every time. Also, I enjoy this job and love working with kids. Q = Have you ever dealt with a situation that you had to take something from someone? A = Yes, I talk about it with Mr.Silla, and I always run it by him. Q = Did you ever take a student to the main office? A = Yes, although I will always help as much as I can, but sometimes I need Mr. Silla s help. Working together is always important. Q = How do you always decorate your room so perfectly? A = I try to make the colors bright, and I try to change the decorations every year. Q = What do you do in your free time? A = I coach basketball at the high school. I love going to the gym. Also, I love to cook, so I could eat it all. Q = How do you deal with situations? A = Every kid needs someone to talk to and for someone to listen. We all have bad and good days. Q = What's your favorite quote?

11 A = A little bit of kindness goes a long way! Q = Was being a school counselor your dream job? A = In college, I knew I wanted to work in a school. Also, that I wanted to help kids with their feelings and their experience in school. We were so happy to interview Mrs. Kluz!