North River News
made by kids, for everyone
Friday, September 29, 2023
- Photography
- The Alphabet
- Have you ever ridden a horse?
- Zeki
- Showing Cows
- Cats
- Tibby
- Sharks
- About My Farm
- My Grandma
- T-Rex
- Sea Turtles
- Spiders
- Area 51
We hope you enjoyed reading the North River News! Have a GREAT weekend!
Colrain Fifth Grade (The Cheese Poofs)
Photography
By Ely
My report is about photography: I will be be talking about what you need to know. The best camera to use is a Canon but you can use your phone if you want. Then you need to get a good lens. Make sure you keep the lens clean and have no scratches when you take the picture. When you are going to take the picture you need to make sure you are focused so when you take it, it will be clear. I like to take pictures outside, then it will look vibrant. What do you like to take pictures of??
The Alphabet
By Abby
Hello and welcome to animals A to Z. Today we will start with some fun facts. An average adult alligator is up to 15 feet long! A group of black bears is called a sloth. Caracal kittens stay with their mom for 10 months. Some desert turtle tunnels are up to 32 feet long! By December, emperor penguin chicks can go off to hunt on their own.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/namra38/6153838485
And that's all for now. Read next time to learn about green anacondas! bye!
Have you ever ridden a horse?
By Brynlee
Have you ever ridden a horse?
Horses are very nice
They can be your best friends
They are the very best friends in the world
They are very nice and sweet
Come back next time!
Zeki
Chloe
I made a creature and her name is Zeki!
I made my character by getting ideas from my mums book
And that makes my character a silver blood alien.
She has ginger hair with a black stripe in her hair.
She has silver blood and she can't wear red or she dies. Well I made that part up, or if she touches red she dies.
She has no emotion, she just has a death stare.
She has long hair.
Zeki has a black spot on her face.
Zeki has one black eye and one white eye with one black pupil and one with a white pupil.
Zeki is kind to people and she likes to try to smile because she has no emoiton.
Zeki is 17 years old.
Zekis zodiac is a scorpio.
Her favorite song is day n night (it's a really good song.)
Her favorite food is brats.
She gets B+, and 98 too in school!
When she was a kid she was stabbed in the leg.
Zeki can’t speak English, she speaks alien.
Zeki can fight IF she needs to and she doesn't start fights she ends them.
Thanks for reading my story!
Showing Cows
By Clara
In this article I'm going to talk about showing cows and how to start with picking your calf.
First you will want to pick your breed. When I picked my cow I picked an ayrshire cow named Stormy.
It's good to start with a March calf. Now once you pick your calf you're going to want them to gain your trust so you could sit in their hutch or brush them.
Then as soon as they have gained your trust you will want to put them on a rope halter. DO NOT put them on a show halter right away! So now that you have put them on the rope halter and walked them around a bit, you can put them on a show halter. Now they might not like it very much but they will get used to it. I washed my calf when she was about 3 months old for the first time but you will probably want to get that out of the way so they will be more used to it by the time it's show time. Here's a list of stuff you should get to wash your calf:
Tide, dawn, whitening shampoo, brushes, curry comb and there are some more that you could get but we will get into that at a different time. Two days before the show or before you bring them you will want to clip them with cow clippers. Then when you get to where you are going to show, just give your calf some water and hay. You will want to just get them settled and sit with them if they are scared or stressed. And don't forget to pick up their poop. And do not give up if you do not get first place.
Cats
By Connor
Is your favorite animal a cat? Cats are cute because of their whiskers and their faces. Some cats can be soft and some can be bold. Also cats can be skinny or fat. Cats
like to hunt but not all cats go outside. Cats love to play inside and outside but some fat cats do not like to play at all!! Now you cat lovers know more about cats.
Tibby
By Dawson
Photo credit: myself
Sharks
By Eddie
Hello, and welcome to animals from A to Z. Today we are going to talk about sharks. Fun fact #1. A Whale shark can be longer than a school bus. That's cool! #2 Sharks are baby Megalodons. That’s a strange one! #3 Sharks can’t have friends. That's sad. #4 Whale Sharks can be more than 50,000 pounds. Wow that's a lot! #5 A Whale Shark's mouth is so big a 10 year old kid can fit inside its mouth. #6 Sharks can never swim backwards. #7 There are 500 different types of sharks like the Sand, Hammerhead, Great White, and the Tiger shark.
And that is it for animals from A to Z. Goodbye.
https://mayableu.com/blogs/journey/25-shark-facts
This is for 25 facts about sharks.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/hammerhead-sharks
This is for the website for the picture.
About My Farm
By Julia
My Grandma
By Lil
T-Rex
By Mason
The Tyrannosaurus Rex is also known as T-Rex. The T-Rex is a carnivorous dinosaur. It means meat eater. It has teeth the size of a pencil!!!!!! The T-Rex Skull is five feet long!!!! The T-Rex is 12 feet tall and has two arms that are only two feet long.
Sea Turtles
By Molly
Hey! Want to know something? I’m writing about sea turtles and I would like to tell you some facts about them but before we get started, I wanna tell you that I only have 5 facts for now. But I will have more soon so stay tuned. Let's hop over to the first fact!
Did you know that turtles are reptiles! I didn't know that until a few days ago!
Turtles can also grow up to 5 FEET! I also just found out about that!
They also weigh up to 500 POUND! OMG! That's so big and heavy!
Turtles also have diets. I don't really know what the diet is!
The shell color is mostly brown and a light green! Those are some nice colors!
I found these facts from National Geographic Kids! It helped me find the facts really easily!
I'm closing here for now but thanks for coming to look at my amazing facts about sea turtles! BYE!
Spiders
By Nicky
Hey, I have facts you would find interesting about spiders. Spiders are friendly most of the time but they kill other bugs by injecting with their venom. The 8 legged Uruknet uses its legs to crawl up walls and they also make their own webs with their silk. There are different types of spiders all over the world. That's all my facts about spiders. Have a creepy day.
Area 51
By Waylon
My report is about Area 51. Have you ever heard of Area 51? I have, that's why I’m doing my report on it. Did you know that 6 photos were taken through night vision goggles of strange objects in the sky? Area 51 is in Nevada. The government acknowledges Area 51, meaning they said it was real in 2013. Area 51 is still an active base. Did you know that a spaceship crashed in 1947? Learn more about this in the link below.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/area-51-aliens-ufos-real-history
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