| Soccer Afterschool by Isaac Leib Soccer Afterschool is like so Awesome! You should do it! 2:45-4:00 on Fridays! Just try it! Grade 3 - Grade 5. Our Coach is Ms. C.B. Some of The Names of the teams are: 1. Tom and jerry; a couple members of this team are: Brage and Kunga. 2. The golden eagles; Some members of this team are: Me, Owen, Jake, Rummy, and Rene. 3. The badgers A member OF THIS TEAM IS Eli. 4. The bulls 5. The Scorers |
Happening at the Healey Vol 10 #1 |
| Page Editor Ethan Cole Assistant Editor Justin Millette |
A Train Trip part 1 by Aidan Blum-Levine I went on a train trip to Florida. It was so fun because we were on the train overnight. My Mom and I shared a sleeper coach. Next to us across the row my sister and my dad shared another sleeper coach. I would rather sleep with my dad but he wanted to sleep on the top bunk and I wanted to sleep on the top so we couldn't share a bunk because there was one top bunk and one bottom bunk in each sleeper. This was my third over night train trip but my first time to Florida. At around 7:30 we took a taxi to the train station. A annoy thing is my mom was worried about us being late for our train so we got there like 2 hours early. The lucky thing about us having a sleeper is that we got to go to club Acela after we checked our bags for our train. Club Acela is a club like thing that has some snacks and a TV. You can get in it if you are on the Acela train or have a sleeper car in any Amtrak train. My sister and I really liked it because the TV was on nickelodeon and SpongeBob was on. Another reason I liked it was it had juice. When the train we wanted came we started walking to the place where the train took off from the station. When we got on the train we found a set of four seats and sat down. I wanted to sit in two sets of two because the sets had little fold-out tables so I could do my origami. It ended up fine because I could do origami on the floor. I got the origami for Christmas because it was around Christmas time. I built a mummy, a snake, a buffalo and a penguin. I tried making an elephant but it was so hard I couldn't make it and it seemed like the person who designed must have took like over a year too deign it. When we got to New York we got out of the train we noticed we had around an hour layover. When we were waiting my dad and I went to get a snack. We went to a little store near the waiting area that had snacks. The store also had magazines. I saw a magazine about electronic kits called Make. My dad got me a small one because there was a big and a small sized magazine. I wanted the big one but it was like twice the size and more than twice the price so my dad only got me the small one. The snack was pop chips with salt and vinegar. When we got back to my mom and my sister we decided to go in to the club Acela in New York. I didn't like it as much as the one in Boston because all of the seats that had tables where taken, and a sports game was on which I didn't like any of the teams playing. I just sat down and read my magazine. One of my favorite things in it was a really small electronic die that you dropped from about a half inch above the ground or table and some of six LEDs turned on and the number of the six LEDs that showed wan the number you rolled. The thing I didn't understand was that it didn't get how it was random which LEDs turned on. After reading the magazine for a while I decided to get a snack. After the snack I read my magazine some more and after what felt like an hour my mom told me it was time to get on the train. We had so many bags we had someone who worked there help us bring our bags to the train. We were a little early so we got on our train without having to go through a giant crowd. We had a sleeper which is a room with two bunks that can morph into a bed. It also had a bed that was an upper bunk that could get pulled down. There were many reasons that I liked the sleeper car. One was that in the hall there was a little cabinet with no door that had juices, ice and coffee. The juices there were was apple and cranberry. I got some cranberry right after we put our luggage away. I decided to do origami for an hour or two. After making a couple things [I don’t remember what they were] I looked out the window at the trees and water because that was all that was out there. Then for some reason I really felt like playing a game with my mom so I went and asked her to play a dice game with me but in the other room that my dad and my sister where sharing didn't have all the luggage out so my mom was helping my dad get the luggage where it belonged. I waited for a little bit for my mom to finish. When she was done she came into our room and we searched in the game bag to find this game we called dice games that has lots of dice and instructions for like 20 fun dice games. The one I wanted to play was a game called THE TRAIN GAME. . . |
| Port Ogden & Northern Route in Trainz EE 2010 by Ethan Cole Have you taken a train on the Port Ogden and Northern Route in Oregon? That’s what I did this weekend (on the computer). On a program called Trainz EE 2010, or more simply TS 2010, you can drive your own train. You use the keyboard by pressing buttons to do simple commands such as lapping the train brake or honking the horn. I use the mouse to use the controls in the locomotive cab. You use the mouse to click and pull levers, like the independent brake, the throttle, the train brake, and the reverser. This weekend, I went out of the yard with my locomotive. My loco is a Burlington Northern and Santa Fe (BNSF) red and silver GE Dash 9. This locomotive is a freight diesel powered by solar fuel diesel. The yard looks like a turtle shell. I went 5 miles down the track and stopped at a red light. The red light was because a train was coming across the bridge and there was only one track. I had to wait for it to cross. When I was crossing the bridge, I went over a muddy river. Then it started snowing. I put my lights on. It started snowing slowly at first. Then it got pretty heavy. The snow got up to one foot deep!! I was going through a station, so I put my bell on. It was a faint horn going, “Honk, honk, honk, pause, Honk, honk, honk, pause, and so on. I went past the station and pulled into the station yard. I collected 20 BP oil cars. Then I exited the yard and followed the track down about 20 miles. Then I went across the Port Ogden lift bridge. Then I went into BP oil headquarters. A pipe took the oil out of my oil cars and onto an oil tanker. I pulled up to an animal shelter yard and picked up box cars filled with cat cages. The cats were meowing loudly. Then I drove down the track to a small cat shelter with 1 loading and 1 unloading track. At the Port Ogden yard, I made a passenger train. The coaches were 20 feet long and 7 feet wide. They were silver with black doors. The train was so long and heavy, I couldn't pull it with one locomotive, so I went into the roundhouse and got another locomotive. I pulled it on to the turntable, uncoupled and drove my locomotive off. Then I turned that locomotive around, coupled to it, and hooked up to the train. I pulled the train to Port Ogden Station, with 20 tracks and 5 acres of land, the biggest station on the Port Ogden and Northern route. A lot of people were waiting for the train, but all of them could not fit on the train! I radioed to the yard master, and told him we were going to need 4 more locos, 10 baggage cars, 50 coach cars, and 150 sleeping cars! I went back to the yard to get the stuff, but that was not enough! So I replaced all the cars with double-decker cars, but I had to add more! So I added 2 more locos (I now have 8) and collected more cars. Then I collected the passengers and left the train for another engineer. I went to a loco in the roundhouse, and I made a freight train filled with signals, which were Safetran™ dwarf, Safetran™ 1- light, Safetran™ 2-light, searchlight 1-light, searchlight 2-light, and searchlight 3-light. Then I drove out of the yard. I put the signals around the route. I put them places like around draw/lift bridges, at major switches, at yard entrance and exits, and of course, the exit of the Port Ogden. When I crossed the muddy river, I saw the broken part of the bridge. It had 2 repair locos on it. One locomotive was number 1905 and the other was 0004. The locomotives were 100 feet long, 6 feet wide and orange. They also had orange revolving lights. When I crossed the bridge, I put 3 dwarf and 2 classic Safetran™ signals at the switch. Then I put some signals at the oil yard. I turned around at the yard and I went back to Port Ogen yard, dropped my empty cars in the yard, and tucked my loco safely in the roundhouse. An Amtrak Superliner went by just as I got in my Amtrak P40 Loco. I went down to Port Ogen station. There was 1 Super Chief run by BNSF, 2 trains run by CP, 1 by CN, and 2 by Amtrak. 1 of the Amtrak trains didn't have a locomotive, so I coupled to it. The train was going the opposite direction of my loco, so I had to go to a cab car. A cab car is a regular car, but on 1 end, it has a horn, bell, headlights, and a cab. The cab sends a signal to the locomotive, and the locomotive does what the cab car tells it to do. Cab cars were developed so the engineer could look forwards and backwards with 1 locomotive. Anyways, I only had 20 passengers, so I didn't need any more locomotives. When we left, I put on the bell, turned the flashing ditch lights, and since it was really cold, turned my heater to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and did the same with the passenger heaters. This train was delayed 1 hour, so the passengers were really cold. The train pulled out of the station, and my Port Ogden subdivision exit light was red. I waited 10 minutes, and a BNSF freight train highballed through Port Ogden station. Then I had a green light, and I pressed on through the white snow. When the snow stopped falling, green signals stared at us across the plain, and as I supplemented crossing gates with blasts on the horn. After ten miles, little white placards with a “W” on them (for whistle) started showing up and I hit the horn. At Haddock Point, the grade went up to 5.68%. At the top, I highballed past a commuter rail station named “Haddock Point Station”. I had to go through the track closest to the platform, and I went by at 90 M.P.H. Also, I almost clipped a passenger's shirt, but I avoided him with a blast on the horn. The next stop was the border, and I put on the bell and flashing ditch lights. I blasted the horn at a little kid with a black shirt that was on the yellow line, as I was going 20 M.P.H. A CN freight train went by my window at 50 M.P.H., and it had all auto racks, 61 of them, and 4 CN locos. As the whistle came for me to go, a CN passenger train went by. Once we were going, a semi trailer almost got into an accident. I was going 90 M.P.H., and the crossing gates lowered 2 min before I came through. The driver stopped on the crossing, and it looked like he had headphones on. I honked the horn and put on the emergency break. I stopped just before I hit the truck, and that delayed the train 2 hours. After that mess was cleaned up, we crossed the border and entered Washington State. All I had to do now was sit back, and let my train do its work. The track here went down, and then a sharp curve up. The speed board read 50/25, which meant passenger trains could zip along at 50 M.P.H., but freights could only go 25 M.P.H. I started slowing down because I was stopping at this station. This part of the route is very scary for engineers, because it looks like they’re about to crash. I turned the dynamic break on half, because it will slow the train down. Another train, a commuter train was there, and the whole platform was filled with people going to Port Ogden Station. The train started leaving, and I did too. The speed board ahead read 100/50, so I pulled the throttle up to 75%. About a half hour later, I pulled up to an 11 track station. I had a termination flashing red signal, and I thought why? Then I remembered. This was the end of the Amtrak part of the route, at the Canada border! I saw a Trans-Canada train coming to termination. My train was terminated. I got in to the Trans-Canada and went up to Canada. Now that is another story. |
| Giant gorillas Leo Perez Giant gorillas have no taste in fashion Giant gorillas have no taste in food Giant gorillas NEVER wear pants Giant gorillas can`t use a fork Giant gorillas don`t have any manners Giant gorillas never brush their teeth Giant gorillas never take a bath Giant gorillas destroy EVERYTHING That is why giant gorillas well at least I think are very good pets Reference http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3933309440/tt0024216 |
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| SUN by Justin Millette The sun is more than 9,900 degrees F on the outside. On the inside (the core) it is over 25,000,000 degrees F. DON’T TOUCH IT!!!!!!!!!! If you do, you’re dead. The outer layer, which is 300 miles thick, is called the photosphere. The sun is about 5 billion years old, half through its life. At the end of its life, it will expand to be so big it will boil the oceans to evaporate away. Rock will turn to lava. (Don’t live 5,000,000,000 years). The sun rotates every 11 years. The sun burns hydrogen and turns it into helium. That is how it gets so hot. |
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Meet Mr. Charles
by Isaac Leib
Healey School Somerville Feb. 2
2012.
This morning, Mrs. Holland said on the
loudspeaker that Mr. Charles will be our
new vice principal! Plus, he is the only
new principal or vice principal in this
case to say a few words to the school!
Mr. Charles is going to be our new vice
principal, everybody!!! He’s going to be
our vice principal until at least the end of
this year. We hope he will be here next
year to be our vice principal again, right,
everyone? He says he likes the Healey,
right? Lets give it our best for Mr.
Charles, everybody!
So Mr. Charles, I want to ask you some
things about you now. Why did you want
to sign up for vice principal? It’s a tough
job, right? Are you going to change any
thing about this school? I sure hope not!
Anyway, where are you from? Here?
Somewhere else?
Lets give it our best for Mr. Charles,
everybody! Again! Again! Again!
by Isaac Leib
Healey School Somerville Feb. 2
2012.
This morning, Mrs. Holland said on the
loudspeaker that Mr. Charles will be our
new vice principal! Plus, he is the only
new principal or vice principal in this
case to say a few words to the school!
Mr. Charles is going to be our new vice
principal, everybody!!! He’s going to be
our vice principal until at least the end of
this year. We hope he will be here next
year to be our vice principal again, right,
everyone? He says he likes the Healey,
right? Lets give it our best for Mr.
Charles, everybody!
So Mr. Charles, I want to ask you some
things about you now. Why did you want
to sign up for vice principal? It’s a tough
job, right? Are you going to change any
thing about this school? I sure hope not!
Anyway, where are you from? Here?
Somewhere else?
Lets give it our best for Mr. Charles,
everybody! Again! Again! Again!
| Coyote on the loose By Aidan Blum Levine A coyote got lost this week, on May first; a coyote was spotted on Main Street in Somerville. The coyote was grey and brown. Rachel Taylor, the assistant animal control officer, said,” It is most likely that it was living near or on the train tracks. The coyote got lost wandering down them. When the coyote was sighted, the environmental police said that the coyote had to be left alone.” |
| MISSIE the Cat! by Alena Thalput Missie is waiting A tail swishing Watching the ground and sky She wants to catch a good meal The meal of meat and wings She wishes she was near the water Fishing or laying in the sun Missie hopes that one day Mark will bring her to a river With sweet salmon sailing through it Golden fur appears of a dog Named Brewer He looks at Missie and Missie looks at him He approaches in a dangerous way For a second Missie goes “HISS” He jumps back to late In confusion I know he just wanted to play But Missie raised her paw extending her claws As Brewer yelped and scampered away! |