Superintendent Honors Choir

UF Trip

Red is the color of love

Spring Crossword

Guards/Security Appreciation

Sports

Hats off to Literature We‟ve been played!

Valentine‟s Day

Adventures of Flam-Guy

Fashion Zoe Pop Ed

Imanol Montero

Bobcat

TIMES

On January 21st, auditions

were held for the Honors

Choir. The Honors Choir is a

choir made up of selected 5th

grade students from all over

Dade County. The students

have to pass a challenging

audition to get in. On April 8th,

they will perform in a big con-

cert in front of teachers, par-

ents, and administrators. To

pass the auditions you need to

have a good tone quality and

lots of confidence. From our

school, four out of ten stu-

dents that auditioned got in

and will be performing at the

Miami Coral Park Senior

High School. These four stu-

dents are Frankie Benitez,

Emily Frank, Briana Halmon

and Alicia Krasner. “It was

really nice, the teachers were

amazing, and it took a lot of

practice.” said Emily. Three

out of four of the girls have

been in chorus at our school

for two years. We would like

Mrs. Castillo, Mrs. Russo, and Ms. Carpenter’s Journalism Class

EDITORS: VERONICA ZANOTTI

CO-EDITOR: KELSEY VARONA

NELSON PARRA

VOLUME 3 ISSUE 5

Bobcat Science Winners at University of Florida

to congratulate these girls

and wish them luck for

their final performance!

Bobcats Take Part in

Superintendent Honors Choir

On January 26, the science fair

winners from 7th and 8th grade

went on a trip to U.F., in Gaines-

ville. The group of 10 students

went for 3 days to experience the

other science fair presentations

from high school students. Ni-

colas Taylor, a 7th grade winner

said his favorite project was a

group that tried to come up with

a cure for cancer. Matthew Pra-

da, another 7th grader, said his

favorite part was when he held

snakes. Shelly Albergel, an 8th

grader, stated that she enjoyed

all the labs that they did. Some

of the students‟ projects were

about how chemicals in water

affect the reflection of light and

feeding turtles. After the event,

awards were distributed out

based on how well everyone

did. A special congratulation

goes out to Matthew Prada and

Jake Rubin for winning the

gold and Broadcom masters

awards. Isabella Sharifi, Tal

Gottesman, Camila Serrano,

and Carolina Navarro all got

silver and were all alternate

winners in case one of the state

finalists could not go. All the

winners loved all the attention

especially since they were the

youngest ones there. Everyone

who went wishes everyone

good luck next year and they

should try extra hard to be

recognized like they were.

By: Valeska Lander, Maya Feldman, Brett Posner–

Ferdman and Noah Dorfman

The students who went to the Science fair were:

Matthew Prada and Jake Rubin who won the gold

and masters awards. Isabella Sharifi, Tal

Gottesman, Camila Serrano and Carolina Navarro won silver. The bronze medal winners were Kyle

Behar, Maya Feldman, Nicolas Taylor, Jordan

Frank, Shelly Albergel and Paris Brock.

By: Brett Posner-Ferdman, Ca-mille Garcia and Daniel Caro

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Red is the Color of Love

By: Lola Fernandez & Maria Pirela Assistants: Paula Cortinez, Marie Agasse & Maxine Hyland

SPRING CROSSWORD PUZZLE

BY: Julian Rubinovich

What do you do Valentines day?

Stay at

home. Hang out with

friends..

Out on a date!

What do you expect?

Something

good on TV

Receiving

hugs

Big teddy bear

What would you do to impress

your Valentines?

Nothing Memorize

Romeo and

Juliette

gesture

Outsider

You‟re not a very social person,

and don‟t really like doing any-

thing on Valentine‟s day. You

should try and go outside more

often.

Friendly

You like to hang out with

friends, however you are not in

the romantic zone yet. You

should keep it up! *IF YOU HAVE ONE OF EACH COL-

OR, THEN YOU ARE FRIENDLY!*

Lover

You are spending Valentine‟s

Day with your sweetheart! You

are all about the sweet gestures

and dates. Good for you!

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Castillo says that the reason she

chooses this project every year is

because “its interactive project that

student get to show their artistic

ability.” This was an amazing expe-

rience for the 7th graders and more

to come. This project was for the

students to interact with a book of

their choice and get the chance to

design a hat and pour their heart into

it. Students did spend a lot of money

on this project but they said it was

worth it. Vivienne Hyland was one

of the students that did the best hats.

Every year Mrs. Castillo assigns

her 7th grade students the “hats off

to literature” project. The stu-

dents had to decorate a hat that

matches a classical novel they

chose. It took some of the stu-

dents about 1 day to a week. A

few students were interviewed,

one student named Emilia Mour-

ier stated that she loved this pro-

ject because “it was challenging

and it put my artistic skills to

work”. Most students found this

project difficult but fun. Mrs.

She stated “this was the best project I

got all year”. The students of Ms.

Castillo‟s 7th grade class had a month

and a week to complete this project

and the greatest majority of the stu-

dents completed this project and they

looked great.

We Appreciate You!

CASTILLO’S HATS OFF TO LITERATURE

SPORTS General Manager of the century Pat

Riley has been on the phone trying

to change the Miami Heat season

around. First, he signed Josh

McRoberts, but later in the year he

got hurt and had to sit out for the

remainder of the season. Then, Pat

signed Hassan Whiteside to replace

McRoberts. He quickly became the

star that the Heat needed. Sadly, all-

star Chris Bosh was hospitalized due

to a blood clot in his lungs. Since

the Heat was desperately in need of

players who could generate points,

Pat Riley signed Henry Walker and

Michael Beasley to a 10 day con-

tract. Last week, Walker‟s contract

expired, but since he showed poten-

tial, he was signed to another 10

days. The Heat are now ranked 7th

place in the Eastern Division and are

contenders for the 2015 NBA

Playoffs.

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“Treat the cafeteria like your

own home”- Jasmine

By: Sophia Sperduto, Jonah, Shelly

Albergel, and Lucia Dal‟ Orso

By: Maxine Hyland and Paula

Cortinez

BY: Lee Iaslovits and Zach Matz

We‟ve Been

Played!

The Bobcat family truly ap-

preciates all the hard work

and effort our custodians,

security guards, cafeteria

staff, and crossing guards put

forth every day. The school‟s

support staff have been work-

ing at our school for up to 20

years! Several words of ad-

vice spoken by our own fac-

ulty include, “Stay in school,

don‟t do drugs and enjoy

yourself” -Ileana, “Kids need

to be more into school work

and love each other”- Severn,

“Study, finish school all the

way, and go to college”-Mr.

Bello and “Try to make the

world a better place” - James.

Bobcat students should really

take these wise words into

consideration. Mr. Bello and

quite a lot of other staff mem-

bers enjoy working at our

school because they like being

around kids and having the

opportunity to help them. Stu-

dents, make sure to thank them

the next time you see them!

McRoberts Walker

Beasley Whiteside

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Roses are red, violets are blue.

This Valentine‟s Day was a

tremendous accomplishment.

Our school raised $2,100. On

behalf of the Journalism team

we would like to thank Caroli-

na Luczkow and all other par-

ents who made this event hap-

pen. The money raised goes

towards the 8th grade prom.

Some photos are posted on the

bulletin board by the elemen-

tary cafeteria. We hope every-

one had a great Valentine‟s

Day!

www.ZoeGoldemberg.com, which

was started over the summer. In

this website, she will soon be

selling her handmade clothes to

all who are interested. For three

years, Zoe has taken fashion

courses at DesignLab Miami. Zoe

started to create and design

clothes when she was six years

old because she always enjoyed

art and fashion. Last December,

Zoe was chosen to show one of

her designs in the Adrienne Arsht

Center, a 3D printed shoe with the

slogan “All about Shoes.” Zoe

wants to be a famous designer

when she‟s older and be like the

designers who inspire her. She

was chosen to speak at TedX

Youth in Miami to share her

ideas with people who would

like to sponsor them. Zoe Gold-

emberg is an example that if

someone works hard to achieve

something, it can always be

done.

Valentine‟s Day!

The Adventures of Flamin-Guy

Pop Ed

This month we are rec-

ommending a movie.

If you are planning to

go to your local movie

theater, we recommend

this movie for you. The

Imitation Game is one

of the most popular

movies out right now.

One of the quotes from

a fan is that “If Bene-

dict (actor in the lead-

ing role) doesn‟t win an

Oscar for his perfor-

mance, then no one

should.” This movie is

rated PG-13, so if you

go, take a parent.

By: Assie Lobanova and Ange-

la Peña

FASHION ZOE

Meet our

Bobcat

fashonista!

Zoe Gold-

emberg is a

fifth grader

who has a

unique hobby. She loves to

express herself by designing

and making clothes. Zoe uses

designer Iris Van Herpin‟s

clothes to get ideas for design-

ing her own clothes. She owns

a website called

By: Robert Behar, Dan-ielle Castillo, Ilan Lucz-

kow and Tyler Force

By: Lindsay Diaz, Nicole Boutureira and

Victoria DeLeon By: Karla Baldriche, Sofia Iacobacci, and Candela

Peleteiro

Imanol Montero read a very com-

plicated high school level book

„Don Quixote‟ in Spanish when he

was only in first grade. He is cur-

rently in third grade and is very

proud that he read this book. He

just moved from Cuba so he finish-

es reading the last part of the book here. We wanted to give him recog-

nition for accomplishing this diffi-

cult task of reading a high school

book in 1st grade.

By: Alessandro Simone