Bye Mrs. Hunt!

Our beloved Mrs. Hunt will no longer be working at our school as of next year. I hope you all get a chance to say good-bye! Also, if you have time, you can attend Mrs. Hunt's farewell tea.

I am sorry that I haven't written here in months. I have been busy with homework, etc. and never has time to write in here. I will try to post things for the next week (until the end of school), and since I will be moving onto high school, I will not be able to post any thing more after the last day of school. Thanks for understanding!

Speech Fest

Speech Fest is on it's way. This is a time where most grades speak in front of the class. The class will then vote on who should advance to the school's speech competition. Then, after the judges discuss among themselves, a winner will be chosen and the will advance to the district's Speech Fest. It's a pretty hard time for most people because of some students stage fright. Unfortunately, all the students who are in one of the classes that are participating have to give a speech in their class's Speech Fest. That is, of course, if they have an extremely good reason such as, they can't speak English. Speech Fest takes place after Spring Break. The criteria lies in the possession of your teacher. For intermidiate students, your speech has to be 4-5 minutes long, that's about 6 pages worth of writing (page one is the front of the paper, page two is the back). So, you might want to start thinking about, at least, your topic.

Spring Time!

After the fun in the snow and those cold, chilly days that feels like every part of your body is getting frostbite, Spring is coming soon! The days haven't been chilly, even on this one Saturday, it felt like late Spring. Spring is full of the adorable little baby animals, beautiful warm sunlight, and yes, Spring break. This year, it will be a whole two weeks starting at dismissal on March 9th. That gives us some more time to have fun and do "break homework" if you have any, that is.

Long Time No See

It's been awhile hasn't it? I'm sorry that I haven't written in a long period of time, but I've just been busy with homework and family things! Anyway, I'll try a little harder to wright in this blog.

Christmas Countdown

TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS EVE! I did not see that coming!!!!

Christmas Countdown

ONE WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas Countdown

TEN DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Assembly

The Christmas Assembly occured today. One of the four jazz bands from Mountain Secondary. After that stupendous (good word isn't it) concert, the chior sang three songs and the last one was the song that the Count from Sesame Street sings (they told us). Some Band 7 students helped cleaned up while Mrs. Lenko led a sing-along. She called up two students to help lead the songs, which just happened to be my friend Jaylen and me. That pretty much concludes the whole assembly.

10 Days Until Christmas

Time to get riled up! Christmas is only 10 days away and the Holidays are 2 days away! I know I haven't been writing quite as much but I will write until the end of the week and then I will go on my holidays. Over the holidays I will only be doing a Christmas count-down. On to other business, we are all encouraged to wear red and green, or a Santa hat, on Thursday and Friday. Now start Christmas shopping! Christmas is getting closer even as you read this!

The Vending Machine

The vending machine is either broken or is out of Brisk. People come and say that the machine ate their money. Please don't buy anything from the machine, just bring a water bottle to school. For those of you who did get their money eaten, office monitors left a note for the seceratary and she probably let Mrs. Lenko know.

Ice Packs

During the week, people come into the office asking for ice packs and we don't see them for about another week. We frequently have to tell hurt kids that we have no more and, trust me, it feels really bad denying them. Remember to return the ice pack when it melts so other kids can have it too. Also make sure that you really need it. Some just get one because they think that it'll make their wound heal faster, but really, it'll only help if your wound is bad enough. Please don't ask for an ice pack if you are bleeding. The office has a package of band-aids and the office monitors will give you one. If it's severe, get an adult playground supervisor; office monitors aren't trained to deal with major injuries.

Penguin Release

After an oil spill, people from New Zealand rescued many little penguins. They brought them back to New Zealand and nursed them back to health for several months. Just this week, they packed them up into little, animal safe boxes and took them to the beach. With all the boxes lined up, they opened them simotaniously. The forty penguin survivors waddled at once into the water. The video is much cuter then this description. Try looking the video up!

Pajama Day Confirmed!

The Pajama Day I wrote about earlier has been confirmed! It will be held December 9th along with hot lunch. This event will be added the Calendar.

Annoymous Help Suggestion Page

I am thinking of making an annoymous help suggestion page. This is where, if you want help with anything, you can email me and a person of my choice (not me) will give you an answer to your help question. Use a random nickname that has something to do with your question so no one will know who you are. I want to know if you want this to be a part of The News Fox. I will set up the page and only a few selected questions will be posted. The "answer person" will email me and I will post it. You can comment if you want this section to exist or email me a question and I will take that as a yes. Thanks for you support!

Grade 7 Hoodies

On Tuesday of last week, grade 7 hoodies arrived. In the front lobby, right next to the PAC board, there is the desgin of the hoodies. You may have noticed that the design pinned up and the design on the actual hoodies are different. If you want to check this out, you will find most of the grade 7's hanging around the swings at recess and lunch at the playground furthest from the staff parking lot. Anyway, Mrs. Schmit came in to grade 7 classes and announced that the company made a mistake. It turns out that we have a hoodie design in "storage" so they automactically printed a Langley Meadows custom made design. That's the truth Ruth (that's a pretty old saying).

Report Cards

End of term is coming and that usually means we get our graded report cards. This year, because of job action (strike), we don't get any grades. We do get report cards, but they only have our behaviours, suggestions, comments, etc. These report cards, like all others, come at end of term. Though, end of term is not the last day before Christmas Holidays. It actually is at the end of November, so you can expect those weird, new report cards soon.

Langley Star

A thirteen year old boy named Cole Armour appeared on Ellen not too long ago. Ellen was astounded at his voice; he sounded like a professional performer who's been singing for years. Cole Armour is now on his way to big time fame. From Youtube hit to Langley star, Cole is probably on his way to Canadian sensation or possibly even bigger! His passion has carried him to singing many types of music. Cole's parents said on Breakfast Television sometime this week, that whatever song they threw at Cole to sing, he could do it perfectly. He said that performing on stage with everyone watching is the greatest feeling in the world. Young Armour isn't doing this all for himself, though, he is caring, sweet, and has a great personality. Cole even has a website about charity. Please visit

colearmour.com

 "Kids Helping Kids"

Look out for more news on the Langley Singing Star, Cole Armour!

Have You Wondered.....?

Have you wondered why it has been getting so cold outside lately? I mean, it's only November! The fact is that, this year, its supposed to be the coldest in twenty years. At this point, you might be bummed about the freezing air that will stay from now until late February or early March. Just think of it this way: snow will most likely come earlier this year! Though if you don't like snow at all, I have nothing to make you feel better. Sorry, but the frostbite time is coming!

The Grade 7 Play

You might know that in Grade 7, you get to choose between band or music, drama, and art. Some of the music students are saying that the play for this year is Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat. They have also been saying that band students aren't going to be able to be in the play because they have already started rehearsing and all the lines are singing. I find that disappointing, being a band student and all. Anyway, the Grade 7's will continue to practise on Mondays and Tuesdays. Hopefully band students will get some chance to be in it, too.