Introducing Our New Class Journalists: Chloe and Devin!

Ballroom Dance Recital The Ballroom Dance Recital was fun! Chloe and Devin had interviewed many people across The Many Fifth Grade Classes. Most people liked The Swing for mostly the same reason, its energetic. One of the people interviewed was Max. S he had a solo last year. Unlike Max. S, Max. O thinks of the dance Rumba differently. Max. O thinks of the Rumba is the best dance. 

Sydney likes the waltz. She is the only one that likes the rumba and that Chloe and Devin interviewed. Sydney likes rumba for its patterns. Out of the people Chloe and Devon interviewed seven out of nine people like the swing. One person was honest that they were nervous. Another was fooling around in the interviews. Everyone except Jesus liked the show. The recital was great everyone did there part except when one person was in the wrong place.

Scholastic "Book" Fair

Sam and Le1a

Should we really call it a book fair? Statistics show that more kids buy stuff, like posters or erasers. And those are a lot more expensive than the books. 

"The books are actually pretty expensive, too!" says a reporter of class 5-316. "The books are good, also." But, the stuff is double the price of the books. That's not right.

The average amount of money kids spend on stuff is up to $30! We interviewed students from the 5th grade and this is what they spent.

"STUFF" PRICE AVERAGES:
$6.00-15.00 on posters
$3.99$ on fake phones
$0.50-$3.00 on erasers
$0.50-$3.00 on bookmarks
$50.00 on a lunch box
$5.00 for 2 highlighters or a pack of metallic markers
$3.00 on a pencil/eraser/sharpener

Not everyone is buying the books, though. Most kids find the "stuff" addicting and buy it. Even the class journalists, honestly. It may look fun and cool at first, but really, it is a waste of money- or quoted from a class journalist, "It is a bunch of overpriced lousy cheap-quality junk."

It´s not just that, though. Do you think the parents are okay with giving their kids a lot of money, just to buy junk? Yeah, 20$ to buy a fake phone, at a BOOK FAIR.

But maybe a fake phone is better than... a Poop Fountain, a book available at the fair.