Meet Amelia Earhart

By Clementine

The Famous Aviator

Being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart changed history.

She was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. As a young girl, Amelia fished and played basketball with her sister. Her sister’s name was Muriel, but Amelia’s nickname for her was Pidge. Unfortunately, Amelia did not have a great young life. Her father was a lawyer and had to travel a lot. Because Amelia’s dad got several jobs, she lived in five different places! Imagine going to five different schools! But in any school, her favorite subjects were chemistry and physics. Even though she liked school, she never finished college. Since she did not finish college, she decided to become a nurse.


When Amelia lost interest with being a nurse, she started taking flying lessons from Neta Snook who was one of the first women to fly. When Amelia grew up, she got married to George Palmer Putman. Amelia was already famous and used her fame to help women’s rights. Amelia started a group called the Ninety-Nines. She made this group to encourage women to be pilots.


On July of 1937, Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan were trying complete a flight around the world. Sadly, Amelia and Fred was running low on gas and they crashed. No one knew what happened to them. Even though helicopters looked for them for 25,000 square miles, they were never found.

I think Amelia Earhart changed history because she showed that women could do anything men could do.

Here is a link to a Scholastic website about Amelia Earhart.

Below is a presentation of my scupture!

What do you think of Amelia Earhart?

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Science: Lovely Light

By Lexi, Clementine, and Chloe

In science, our class was learning about light. We specifically learned that objects can be translucent, transparent, or opaque.

Translucent is a science term that means only some light can pass through an object.

For example, this blue plastic T lets some of the light pass through it, so it is translucent.


Another term we learned is transparent.

If an object is transparent, all the light can pass through it. The cylinder above is transparent.

I can see Pelly the Pelican inside the object.

If you have a window at your house, notice that it is transparent.

If NO light passes through an object then it is opaque.

Opaque objects create a shadow. Your body is opaque. No light will pass through it. Shadow puppets are a fun way to show an opaque object. One shadow puppet you can make with your body is a bird.

How do you do it?

First, go outside on a sunny day. Make an X with your arms, hook your thumbs, and spread your wings.

See the opaque bird that you made with your hands?

Here are some other shadow puppet animals you can make.

Now you know about lovely light!

Mr. Mann Hits a High Note

By Clementine

About a month ago, the setting for one of our stories was Italy. Mrs. Yollis played some Italian opera in class. Mr. Mann, an opera expert, came to our class and taught us about the opera, La Boheme. It’s a story about four friends who were very poor and lived in Paris. One of them met a girl and fell in love with her. But she got sick and died. Mr. Mann played music from the opera for us and brought pictures of a few scenes.


Some of the songs were happy songs like when everyone was out at a parade. Some of the songs were beautiful, mushy, love songs. There were very depressing songs too at the end when the girl died. All of the songs helped tell the story and set the mood of the opera.



I interviewed Mr. Mann over the phone after the lecture and asked him a couple of questions.

C – “What did you think about coming in to lecture to our class?”

MM – “I was looking forward to it and I enjoyed it very much.”

C – “ How did you think the kids behaved?”

MM – “ I thought I would only talk for 15 minutes, but I went much longer because everyone was paying such good attention. They were so smart and so wonderful. This was my first time speaking to children and it was a treat.”

C – “Have you gone to a lot of operas?’

MM – “Yes, I have.”

C - “What was your favorite?”

MM – “La Boheme – the one I talked about.”

C – “ Is there really a fat lady with a hat with horns on it that sings in an opera?”

MM – “Sometimes.”

Thanks for reading!