Oscar/Grammy

The Grammys is an event where music artists are nominated for awards like “Song of the year”or “Best New artist”or “Artist of the year”. It is the biggest event in music ,every musician looks forward to winning a Grammy award. The Oscars are similar to the Grammys, but it involves awards like “Best Picture” “Actor in a leading role” And ”Art direction and makeup.” Many actors try their best to win an Oscar. The actors who get in to better movies are most likely to get an Oscar. The Oscars will be on February 27,2011.Don’t miss them.

Family Science Night

Family Science Night was on March 3, 2011. All of the teachers in the Science department were in charge of this fun event held at our school, conducting fun experiments with students and their families. Science Night gives students and their parents the opportunity to meet the wonderful science teachers here at Nightingale and get to experience some of the material they might be working with this year or next year. Some of the things offered this year were making oobleck, dissecting frogs, launching rockets made out of soda bottles, and making a boat out of aluminum foil and trying to make it sturdy enough to hold a lot of pennies without it sinking. Altogether, this was a very joyful experience. We hope to see you at next year’s Family Science Night.
-By Sarah R.

Spring Forward

Health

In the beginning of second semester 7th graders take health instead of science. LAUSD says that we have to take half a year of science and half a year of health. In health we are going to learn about the use of drugs. We are also going to learn about sexuality, how to take care of your body, and what to eat to stay healthy. Taking health is very important because if we don’t take it then we won’t know what to do with our body. Health shows us what is positive and what is negative. We are only going to learn a small part of health so that in high school we learn more about it.
Jennifer R.

March Madness

The world of collegiate of basketball season is fast approaching and March madness is right around the corner. Like so many other people, the anticipation March madness intensities during this time because we want to see who is going to put all their emotions out there for the world to see, the upset, and the unmet expectations.
-Yessenia D.

The LA Marathon

Hello people, it is almost for the La Marathon race! This race will be held at March 20, 2011 at Sunday. The people will be training for the race. The athletes need to train 3 days between Monday and Thursday and the athletes will start out with a 10 minutes warm up jog. The La Marathon will have a lot of runners and the winners will be awarded suck as trophies, certificate and medals. The La Marathon will get more exercise for people. The La Marathon race will start from Dodger Stadium and end at Santa Monica Pier. Also the La Marathon is 26 miles. The La Marathon runners will have to pay 143 dollars to join the Marathon. They also have training services for the people who wants to train before the Marathon. There will be water stations on every mile for the runners. After the race there will be food for the runners after the runners made it to the finish line. There are medical supports at the start, finished line and along the course.
-Kevin C.

Value Added Assessment

What is the Value Added Assessment? We had a few questions about it, like what is it? Why does teachers need to be evaluated? What happens when they get evaluated? We asked Mr. Knapp and some teachers on their opinions about teachers becoming evaluated. Some teachers think it isn’t fair because not all students put 100% effort into testing. Other teachers think its fair because everyone gets evaluated at least one time. It shows how much the teachers are teaching the students. If they don’t teach the students everything, then students will do badly on test. It is depended on how much the teachers teach. But, other times, the students don’t put all effort into testing. They think ‘Oh, it’s just a test. It’s not even part of the grade.’ But it’s part of the CST grade. If kids don’t pass, then is it fair for teachers to get evaluated? Even if the teachers teach what had to be taught. What do you think?
- Kin L.