by Vanessa Fierro
by Vanessa Fierro
8th grade Wildcats have a lot of questions about prom. On May 19th, students in 8th grade will have a dance. This dance will be from 7:30 to 10:00 PM. Teachers said students should dress semi formal. Semi formal means to dress up nice but not all out wedding. Guys can wear a dress shirt and nice jeans, girls could wear a nice dress, or skirt with a nice shirt. The dress code does not apply, so girls can wear spaghetti straps or strapless dresses.
The last day of school will be a day for 8th graders to relax and hang out with friends. The dance is at night is so that we can see our friends in a different maner outside the class room. Other things are happening like themes, prom king and queen, and food. The prom committe will vote on themes for prom; the decorations will be based on the theme. Prom king and queen will be decided by a vote. Students will vote for a boy and girl in their 5th period. The Wildcats that are picked will be the students you can vote for at prom.
Food is mostly snacks. It is all free. The drinks will be bottled water. People who can't go to prom are students that have proven to be a safety hazard during the school year. Teachers want all 8th grade Wildcats to go. Your year will really suck if you don't get to go over bad decicions, so make good choices and have fun.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Prom Committee
by Sham Cisneros
Can prom have a re-vote? Sorry eight graders, no re-vote. Space is the prom theme. Prom commitee already did some of the invitations and bought the decorations. Here's a hint on how the invitations are going to look: they will be black with purple stars. Here's some info on the prom: it's on May 19 from 7-10. The DJ is from the Rock-n-Bowl. The photographer will send out forms if you want pictures. Food and drinks will be free. For the boys, no worn out jeans. Girls can wear stuff that's semi formal. Invitations go out next week with permission slips in the back. You must have the invitation to get in. One more thing eighth graders, the queen and king vote will be by the end of next week, so get those votes in and think space!
Can prom have a re-vote? Sorry eight graders, no re-vote. Space is the prom theme. Prom commitee already did some of the invitations and bought the decorations. Here's a hint on how the invitations are going to look: they will be black with purple stars. Here's some info on the prom: it's on May 19 from 7-10. The DJ is from the Rock-n-Bowl. The photographer will send out forms if you want pictures. Food and drinks will be free. For the boys, no worn out jeans. Girls can wear stuff that's semi formal. Invitations go out next week with permission slips in the back. You must have the invitation to get in. One more thing eighth graders, the queen and king vote will be by the end of next week, so get those votes in and think space!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Prom!
by Sham Cisneros
Can prom have a re-vote? Sorry eight graders, no re-vote. Space is the prom theme. Prom commitee already did some of the invitations and bought the decorations. Here's a hint on how the invitations are going to look: they will be black with purple stars. Here's some info on the prom: it's on May 19 from 7-10. The DJ is from the Rock-n-Bowl. The photographer will send out forms if you want pictures. Food and drinks will be free. For the boys, no worn out jeans and girls can wear jeans but just stuff that's semi formal. Invitations go out next week with permission slips in the back. You must have the invitation to get in. One more thing eighth graders, the queen and king vote will be by the end of next week, so get those votes in and think space!
Can prom have a re-vote? Sorry eight graders, no re-vote. Space is the prom theme. Prom commitee already did some of the invitations and bought the decorations. Here's a hint on how the invitations are going to look: they will be black with purple stars. Here's some info on the prom: it's on May 19 from 7-10. The DJ is from the Rock-n-Bowl. The photographer will send out forms if you want pictures. Food and drinks will be free. For the boys, no worn out jeans and girls can wear jeans but just stuff that's semi formal. Invitations go out next week with permission slips in the back. You must have the invitation to get in. One more thing eighth graders, the queen and king vote will be by the end of next week, so get those votes in and think space!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
VALENTINE'S DAY
by Brittany Fitzgerald
St. Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14th. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flwoers, or offering candy. The holiday is named after two among the numeropus early Christian martyrs named Calentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the traditions of courtly love flourished.
The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines". Modern Valentine symboles include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards the sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America was important to the future of commercialization of holidays in the United States.
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association estimates that workers purchase approximately 86 percent of all valentines.
St. Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14th. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flwoers, or offering candy. The holiday is named after two among the numeropus early Christian martyrs named Calentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the traditions of courtly love flourished.
The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines". Modern Valentine symboles include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards the sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America was important to the future of commercialization of holidays in the United States.
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association estimates that workers purchase approximately 86 percent of all valentines.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Thanksgiving Stuff--ing
by Saul Alvarado
Eel, clams, lobster, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and eagles. Yummy or yuck? If you were in the America during 1621, that's what you would have eaten for Thanksgiving. There were no supermarkets back then so they had to eat what they could catch and these animals were all around back then. Nowadays, we can just go to the store and buy a turkey but if you were not a good hunter back then, you didn't eat. Also, dinner was served without forks. Pilgrims ate with finger and knives. Ouch!
Actually, Indians were having Thanksgiving long before any Pilgrims showed up. Thanksgiving was a harvest festival, where they celebrated the harvest of the crops. This was a time when there was lots of food and the Indians were happy that all the crops grew successfully. It just happened that one year the Pilgrims were around and the Indians invited them. So it really is an American tradition since the Indians are the first Americans.
So no turkey with stuffing and no mashed potatoes. What else was missing? Pies. Bread. Cake. The Pilgrims didn't have any sugar so there were no sweets. They ate mostly fatty foods but they weren't worried about heart attacks. They were more worried about dying from the plague or the pox, deadly diseases that killed many of them. The food was spicy though. They added cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pepper, and dried fruit. They were glad when the harvest festival was around because they could eat all they wanted and still have food left over. Kind of like us.
But if you were kid back then, you wouldn't be eating first. The adults sat down and the children waited on them!
Today, we have it easier. We don't have to go out and catch eels and eagles. Now we can go buy turkey. Turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, soft rolls with butter, corn, pumpkin pie, chocolate cream pie, and sparkling cider. Sorry, I gotta go eat!
Eel, clams, lobster, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and eagles. Yummy or yuck? If you were in the America during 1621, that's what you would have eaten for Thanksgiving. There were no supermarkets back then so they had to eat what they could catch and these animals were all around back then. Nowadays, we can just go to the store and buy a turkey but if you were not a good hunter back then, you didn't eat. Also, dinner was served without forks. Pilgrims ate with finger and knives. Ouch!
Actually, Indians were having Thanksgiving long before any Pilgrims showed up. Thanksgiving was a harvest festival, where they celebrated the harvest of the crops. This was a time when there was lots of food and the Indians were happy that all the crops grew successfully. It just happened that one year the Pilgrims were around and the Indians invited them. So it really is an American tradition since the Indians are the first Americans.
So no turkey with stuffing and no mashed potatoes. What else was missing? Pies. Bread. Cake. The Pilgrims didn't have any sugar so there were no sweets. They ate mostly fatty foods but they weren't worried about heart attacks. They were more worried about dying from the plague or the pox, deadly diseases that killed many of them. The food was spicy though. They added cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pepper, and dried fruit. They were glad when the harvest festival was around because they could eat all they wanted and still have food left over. Kind of like us.
But if you were kid back then, you wouldn't be eating first. The adults sat down and the children waited on them!
Today, we have it easier. We don't have to go out and catch eels and eagles. Now we can go buy turkey. Turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, soft rolls with butter, corn, pumpkin pie, chocolate cream pie, and sparkling cider. Sorry, I gotta go eat!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Journalism Students Learn to Blog
This is the Camino Real's first online newspaper, brought to you by our Journalism class. Students researched, wrote, and uploaded these stories. Because we are students, we make mistakes. That's okay; that's what we work on in class!
One of the features in our newspaper is the "comment" feature. This means that you, the reader, can post a comment to our story. As we said before, we know there are mistakes. Please don't post to tell us about spelling or editing mistakes because we are already working on those in class. What we would like is your comments on the content of the story. For instance, if you make a connection, comment about it. If this story made you think a little bit, tell us what you think. Comments are for your thoughts after reading the story; we'd really like to hear from you! A bonus is that your comments will be posted on the newspaper after we've read them and made sure they are APPROPRIATE!
If you want to comment on the story, look for the "comment" line at the bottom of the story. Click on that and it should bring you to a comment box. Type in what you think and sign your name if you like. Then you have to type in the weird letters. Finally, click on the "Annonymous User" botton and then "Publish Comment". After we okay your comment, it will appear in the newspaper.
If a comment is WAY off base, we can re-comment back and explain our point of view. Again, we are professional journalists and we don't attack other people's views. Hopefully, with our staff of respectful, knowledgeable, reporters and editors, we will teach the whole school how to blog in a safe atmosphere.
(Please be respectful in your comments. We have to review all comments before we post them to the newspaper and if a blogger is being repeatedly disrespectful to us or the paper, or threatening in any way, our advisor, Mrs. Nix, will take care of it. )
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