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MLK Jr. E.S. Dreamers’ Digest

January 2018

Issue No. 1

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Message from Mrs. Larsen……….…...2

Princess Club Community Service Project ........................... …....2

I.Y. students winter poems …………...3-4

MLK Jr. Poems .................. …… .5-8

3rd grade Winter stories ..... …....9-11

5th grade Winter stories ………………..12

Book Review…………….….. .... 13

New Year’s Resolutions …………….. 14-15

Acknowledgments……… ………………………..16

MEET OUR EDITORIAL TEAM

• Ms. Lansberry, Librarian

• Ms. Hessein, ESOL Teacher

• Ms. Tubioli, ESOL Teacher

MLK Jr. E.S.

Dreamers’

Digest


January 2018

Issue No. 1

#BETHEONE MESSAGE FROM …..MRS. LARSEN

We are excited to publish our own Literary Magazine, The Dreamers Digest. This magazine provides opportunities for our students to publish their writing for others to read - like true authors! Students can submit work for publication to their classroom teacher based around the topics of each issue. We hope this magazine will get our students excited about writing! I hope you will take the time to read the entire Dreamers Digest with your child and show your excitement about our student work. "Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing." ~ Ben Franklin

PRINCESS CLUB KINDNESS

AS PART OF OUR COMMUNITY SERVICE OUTREACH PRO-JECT THIS YEAR, THE KING E.S. PRINCESS CLUB WORKED WITH THE PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY “MEALS ON WHEELS” PROGRAM. BOTH GROUPS OF GIRLS DREW COLORFUL WIN-TER THEMED PLACEMATS THAT WERE PRESENTED TO MRS. KATHERINE AMBROSE. THE PLACEMATS WERE SENT OUT WITH THE MEALS IN DECEMBER.

NICE JOB, PRINCESSES!

Mrs. Stamper’s Class


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WELCOME TO OUR FIRST ISSUE……..

THE EDITORIAL STAFF IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE FIRST ISSUE OF OUR DREAMERS’ DIGEST. THIS IS SCHOOL-WIDE EFFORT TO PROMOTE LITERACY. OUR FIRST ISSUE FOCUSES ON THREE THEMES: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., KINDNESS, AND WINTER. LITERARY WORK HAS BEEN CHOSEN FROM STUDENTS IN FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, AND FIFTH GRADES AND POEMS FROM STUDENTS IN OUR IY TUTORIAL AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM.

PLEASE ENJOY…...

ACROSTIC POEMS BY THE STUDENTS IN THE IY TUTORIAL

PROGRAM

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW….

Winter is cold and freezing

Ice on all the roads

No leaves on the trees

Tons of kids playing snowball games

Everything is white

Run down the hill

By Hurya Hashimi

Why is it so cold?

I am freezing and I need marshmallows

No! I’m not going outside

Tight pink jacket for me

Excited, snow to throw at my friends hahaha

Right! I need a gloves, scarf and jacket.

By Abril Lozada

See Snow

Nice and cold

Open your mouth to get the snow

White

By Daniel Martinez Orosco

Snowman

New Years

Ocean is ice

Winter

By Edith Aldaz Sanchez

We went outside to make a snowman

It is freezing outside

No school in the winter

The wind is blowing my jacket

Everybody needs mittens for winter

Run away from winter

By Samim Koshani

Windy

Ice skates

No school

The Christmas Tree

Elf

Reindeer

By Camila Salazar Oliva


January 2018

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Dreamers’ Digest

More Winter Acrostic poems

Snowman at the playground

No school

Out of the town

Winter is coming

By Alessandro Rivas Chicas

Windy

Ice skate

No school

The Christmas Tree

Elf

Reindeer

By Camila Salazar Oliva

We went down the hill

I make a snowman

No one will stop me from play

The trees’ leaves fall down

Eating gingerbread cookies and milk

Rabbits are white to hide in the snow

By Aldo Chicas Diaz

We went outside to make a snowman

It is freezing outside

No school in the winter

The wind is blowing my jacket

Everybody needs mittens for winter

Run away from winter

By Samim Koshani


FIFTH GRADE—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ACROSTIC

POEMS

“Intelligence plus character-that

is the goal of true education.”

quote by MLK Jr.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ACROSTIC POEMS CONT.

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By Lizbeth Mendoza

By Marlon Blanco Zuniga


Caption describing picture or graphic

5TH GRADE—KINDNESS ACROSTIC POEMS

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Kindness is about love and sharing. I can show love as doing a favor to a friend. I can share my glue stick with a friend. That is what kind-ness is.

By Alessandro Rivas Chicas, 1st Grader


Martin Luther King Jr. Writing—5th Graders

By Aniya Jordan By Brisia Maldonado-Cortez

By Jason Waddell By Jestelle Ignacio

By Karsten Clottey


Mrs. Dittamo’s Class

One sunny afternoon I just came from school and it was snowing! Then I told

my sisters and they ran up the stairs as fast as they can. So we all put on

our hats, mittens, scarfs, boots and our coats. As soon as they finished

they ran downstairs so fast one of them almost fell! But in a while we got

bored, so then we went next door to see if we can play. They said yes.

Then we asked my mom if we could take a family walk with our friend's fam-

ily too. And they all said yes. So we took a walk but it was very long. Then

we all found the most beautiful place in the world. So we all decided not to

tell anyone at all. Also it was a beautiful river and so many evergreens.

Then we started to relax. But after a while we went home but before my

friend went home I asked her parents if she can have a slumber party at my

house. They said yes so we had the best sleep over ever! We had hot

chocolate, candy, and we watched a very scary movie. Then we went to

sleep.

By Valeria Paiz

It was a snowy night Joe and Jolly were sisters and brothers. They were

discovering if mansions are real. So when they were walking, Jolly stopped

too. They saw… a big mansion right in front of their eyes. Next, they

knocked the door but, no answer, so they knocked again. Then slowly the

door opened. Then they saw people having fun. And they, Joe and Joly

joined in. After all that fun they had they were tired. But they decided to

play for a couple minutes then they went home and had another adventure.

By Ivory Ng

A winter evening is different than a summer evening but they can be the

same too. A summer evening and winter evening gets colder at night. A win-

ter evening might snow because winter is already cold. In summer you can

wear flipflops, shorts, short sleeve shires and you can go to the beach and

drink a cold glass of lemonade. In the winter you

would wear long pants, long sleeve shirt, boots so you

would stay inside of your house with the heater on.

Sometimes you would drink a warm drink and food.

They both have fun things to do like in the winter you

can play in the snow. In summer you play in the sand

at the beach. Summer and winter have things in com-

mon and they also have things that are different too.

By Naomi Saykhamphone

3rd Grade Winter Tales

3rd Graders

wrote stories

from a picture

prompt about

a wintery city.


Mrs. Dittamo’s Class cont….

3rd Grade Winter Tales

3rd Graders wrote

from a picture prompt

about a wintery city.

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One time I went to Canada on winter to see my cousins. It was already snowing when we got there. Then the next day everyone except my mom went to the park to play in the snow. We got the sled and slid down the hill and had fun. Then we were building a snowman. When the snowman was done my dad ran and everyone chased him. When we were chasing my dad we knocked out the snowman. Then we had a snowball fight. After we did that we did some more sledding. Then we played fris-bee. Last, before we went home, we made some snow angels. Then we went back to our cousin’s house and had a warm drink. That was a fun winter!

By Kinza Adeel

One winter evening my, my sisters and dad went outside to play with the snow. But my dad wasn't’ playing wit the snow. He was recording us on his phone. And also me and my sisters played snowball tag. We made it up. So basically you take s snow-ball and if they hit you with the snowball you’re it. Easy. We also made snow angels. My bib sister made a big snow angel because she is big. I made a medium snow angel because I’m big but not as big to made a big one. My little sister made a small one because she is small. Then we went inside and drank some hot cocoa. And then me and my sisters went to bed. And that’s how my evening ended.

By Alisha Shah

Zoe Street (1st Grade)

In action at King E.S.

Mrs. Salfer’s 3rd Grade Wintry Mix……..

It was a glowing night. It`s getting more and more frosty day by day. Days pass it`s almost Christmas. We go the café to drink coffee and eat delicious biscuits. Outside the houses are icicles that are really cold. All the trees were bare with lots and lots of snow. The cold breeze just makes me think be in a blanket just eating some popcorn and watching some movies with my family.

By Kayam Sedhai

One day in 1999 in New York, an author named Veronica Gale was just about to write her new chapter book: Night Owls. It was about high school detectives named: Adrienne, Shannon, and Jennifer. Veronica went to the café, when she went outside it was freezing and saw bare trees too. The glowing lights lit up and she saw frost and icy icicles. And so, she went into the café to start typing. So her new story could be bought online. When she went to the café, she ordered a double late with extra cream, and since it was Christmas she ordered a gingerbread man and a Christmas tree cookie. What Veronica was writing in her book, the “Night Owls” were about to go to the ware-house where the Glazers were at. The glazers were about to jump out from behind boxes… and Ve-ronica was tired so she went back Home AND... fell asleep.

By Thelma Saryon


MRS. SALFTER’S 3RD GRADE WINTRY MIX—PART 2

Claire Feldman,

5th grade

Winter Night

By: Samuel Barlay

One day as I was walking to the café. I saw the trees were bare. It was snowing in

the city. The Christmas lights were glowing as the I was walking in the snow. The

cars were covered with frost . It was freezing when I was going home. I almost

slipped and fell!

Midnight Snow

By Kendall Thompson

One day a boy named Brian was in class. Brian did not know it was snowing out-

side. Brian walked outside, he thought it was so cold that he thought he was so

cold that he was going to freeze, but Brian did not freeze. Brian ran under the

icy, glowing lights. Brian ran to a nice warm café. The café’ was nice and warm

and Brian got a nice warm coffee. When Brian left it was past midnight. Brian was

tired. Brian planned to go to bed right when he got home. The trees were bare.

Mrs. Frye’s Winter Tales

Winter

Winter has lots of snow. The temperature is dropping lower than 32 degrees.

Playing outside in the chilly now, making a snowman. So cold you need hot coco

with a doughnut to keep me warm. Lots of holiday decorations all over the place.

So many animals hibernating. Frosty snow at your porch, sometimes on your

roof. Perception falling form the sky. The end.

By Alex Lozano Nieto

Winter is a wonderful time of the year. You celebrate Christmas,

sometimes it snows. And when it is chilly, you sit by a warm and cozy

fire. The best part is when you go outside. You do snow fights and

build a snowman.

By Diego


Fifth Grade Winter Stories

THE SNOW MIRACLE

One morning I woke up and it was snowing. It was my first time seeing snow I didn't know what to do, so I put on my clothes on and hurried out-side to play. I went down the hill with my sled, made some snow balls and created a snowball fight. I made a snowman, and a snow angel. When I was done with my snow angel my dad called me inside to have some hot chocolate. When I came back out the snow angel was gone not like a bike rand over it no it was completely gone. The snow was the same as it was before I made even made the snow angel, I looked around to see if I had made it somewhere else but I knew I had made it there, I just made anoth-er snow angel and kept playing until I had to go inside I tuck a shower and went to bed.

The next morning it was Christmas when I woke up, I went to my mom

and dad's room and woke them up, when they finally woke up we went to

the living room were the Christmas tree was and opened the presents. My

last present was really big! When I opened it, it was a big stuffed animal.

In the shape of my snow angel! It was as big as my actual one. It was so

pretty but how?

By Amparo Daar Joren

DIARY OF AN ELF

I live at the North Pole. I am an elf but I'm the kind that bakes. I usually bake cookies for Santa Claus. Mrs. Claus helps with baking the cakes and cupcakes. All of the elves that were on present-making duty would stop by the kitchen to get some cookies and ice cold milk. When Santa was checking the naughty and nice list for the second time I would send head elf to check on Santa because sometimes Santa gets a little stressed. One year I sent Bernard, the head elf, to Santas office with a plate of sugar cookies. When I went to ask Santa if he liked the cookies, his reply was " I never received any cookies!" I was surprised. When I went to find Bernard, he looked very guilty. I asked him if he ate the cookies and he nodded his head very shamefully. That was the end of that. Anyway, I get up very early in the morning because I need to make breakfast for Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. My two elf best friends are Sydney and Bella. Bella is a baker and Sydney is a toy maker. Did you know Santa has a cat named Magic? Magic is an orange tabby cat. Well, it's time for me to make lunch. Bye!!!

By Lorelai West


Book Review by Jason Waddell

When I was deciding on a book to review on, I thought I was going to review

on a small book. It was going to be a kind picture book. But then I remembered a

book about how it does not matter how you look. I remembered a book by the mind,

the great mind of R.J. Palacio, Winder. This book is one of the best books I’ve read

by FAR! One part that was phenomenal was the fact how we got to see the story

from other people’s angles.

August Pullman, the main character of the story has a disorder that made his

face unique. He hasn’t gone to school and his parents are deciding whether he

should, or not. Auggie meets new people along the way, some willing to accept how

he looks, and some not.

I think that it’s very peculiar that people want to make fun of someone be-

cause of their looks! Well, we should always have good words to say, and if you

don’t , don’t say anything. Auggie makes some friends along the way, and it’s very

interesting. Now lets talk about some of the books side characters and see the

kindness they have.

The first side character I’ll talk about will be Olivia Pullman (Via is her nick-

name.) Via is the caring, strict type of sister. She always stands up for Auggie and

is a good sister all around. Jack is August’s best friend. He’ll always be there for

him, no matter what! Though some things do happen. Summer is also one of Aug-

gie’s best friends. She was the first one who wasn’t “hired” by the principal Kush-

man to actually confront and greet him. Summer is amazingly nice to August.

Well, that’s it for my report on Wonder. If I had to rate it, I would rate it a 5 out

of 5. If I was forced to reread any book, it would be this. I can’t wait to see the

movie!

5th Grade Student Book Review……


OUR KING CLUB NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR 2018

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By Amanda Ezzard

2nd Grade

By Abril Lozada

2nd Grade


By Josefa Daar Joren, 2nd Grade

By Gianana Omary, 2nd Grade


Contributing Authors and Artists by Grade

First Grade: Fourth Grade

Alessandro Rivas Chicas Edith Aldaz Sanchez

Daniel Martinez Orosco Aldo Chicas Diaz

Camila Salazar Oliva

Zoe Street (Artwork) Fifth Grade

Emmanuel Acheampong

Duha Al-Tamimi

2nd Grade Marlon Blanco-Zuniga

Josefa Daar Joren Karsten Clottey

Amanda Ezzard Amparo Daar Joren

Abril Lozado Jestell Ignacio

Gianna Omary Samim Koshani

Brisia Maldonado-Cortez

Lizbeth Mendoza

3rd Grade Jason Waddell

Kinza Adeel Lorelai West

Samuel Barlay Claire Feldman (artwork)

Hurya Hashimi

Alex Lozano Nieto

Ivory Ng

Valeria Paiz

Thelma Saryon

Naomi Saykhamphone

Kayam Sedhai

Alishba Shah

Thelma Thompson

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