SNOW DAYS by Addi

So on December 16th & 17th we had snow days. I really wanted us to have 
school on the 17th because we have a lot of work that needs to be done. Also 
we need to practice for our game thursday we really need a win. I also hate how 
our teachers have to push everything back because some of the assignments 
can push up my grades. I think we could of had school yesterday and I know 
the back roads were bad but it's not like the whole town was trash. There’s just 
so much we needed to do our project in math, our test in social studies, and our 
fables in ELA. So long story short, there is a lot of work we need to before 
Christmas break.

VR by Regan

         Recently I was able to use virtual reality goggles during school, one of the best things about 
it was that all I needed was my phone and some free time. Located in the learning commons are 
virtual reality goggles available for anyone to use. If you have all of your work done in a class and 
you have enough time you can come to the learning commons with your 

phone and Ms.Travis can show you how to use the goggles. A brief review of how to use the 
goggles is go to youtube and search for virtual reality and what kind of VR you want to experience, 
such as virtual reality under the sea. Next, open the goggles and center your phone onto the goggles
so you see the video correctly, close the clasp over your phone to make sure that it won’t fall out.
My personal experience was so unreal. I did 2 different VR videos, one was a haunted house and 
one was under the sea. The under the sea one was the one that felt very unreal, it was also 3-D so 
if you moved your head you could see what else was around you. I personally liked the haunted house 
one even though I don't like scary things, I liked this one because it makes you jump. Thank you for
reading about the Learning Commons VR goggles and consider coming in some time to experience 
what it is like for yourself!

School is halfway through....by Izzy

12-05-19

  We are finally back from Thanksgiving break! Hopefully you all had a great Thanksgiving, 
but now we have to get back to school. The second quarter is almost over, as well as winter
 break. So get your late or missing assignments done and turned in and keep your grades up! 
Can you believe it? The school year is almost halfway over. Only two quarters left! 

  The book fair is here. Bring your money and wish lists and buy some books or some gizmos
and gadgets.

Book Recommendation by Audrey

    Alice in between 

I recommend Alice in between because it’s about a girl who is in the middle of growing up. She 
feels awkward standing next to her brother because he is a grown teenager and she is a teen 
who is just starting to grow up. When she gets invited to go down to Chicago to visit her aunt, 
she takes her two best friends and together, they set out on a journey to Chicago. Along the way 
they witness the real dangers of society and strangers. Read Alice in Between to find out what 
happens. By Audrey

Book Recommendation by Brice

If you liked the book series Divergent then you might like Hunger Games. Hunger Games is about a place once known as North America but now is the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. 16 year old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister. Her sister Prime soons gets called to represent her district but Katniss will not let her sister stand up there a fight for her life. Katniss volunteers as tribute. But Katniss has been to make the sacrifice to leave her sister and mother alone. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. Katniss soon finds herself in between a life or death situation. Find out what happens to Katniss in the book Hunger Games

Book Recommendation by Deagen

By:Deagen B

     One of my favorite books as a kid was A Wrinkle in Time . The reason I liked was the sense 
of serialism the book offered and it lets you make the story your own with the wild imagery it puts 
in your head . Also I loved the characters and the world it builds throughout the story . It’s just a lot 
of fun, so I recommend you give this book a read .

Book Recommendation by Braylissa

    A book I would like to recommend to everyone is the book called 
“restart” this book is by Gordon Korman. If you would like to read this book, you can find 
the book in the realistic fiction book shelves located near the back left of the learning 
commons.

   I recommend this book because it has a lot of surprises that you wouldn’t believe 
would happen. In this book a boy named Chase fell off of his roof and lost his memory. 
He didn’t even remember his own name. When he walks to school people seemed to be 
scared of him. He spent his school what trying to figure out why everyone is scared of him 
and angry at him. I would recommend this book if you like surprises and mystery that 
makes you feel like you are the book.

Book Recommendation by Izzy

The book I chose to recommend this quarter is Firelight. This book has a 
series, and is located in the Fantasy section. Firelight starts with a girl and her friend alone in a forest. 
They transform into dragon-like creatures, called draki, and fly around. They are almost caught by 
hunters and the friend runs away. The girl gets trapped in a cave and is caught by a boy. But he 
doesn’t bring her anywhere. He leaves her alone in that cave. Throughout the story, she encounters 
many different people who are very important. In the end? You’ll have to read it yourself. I would rate 
this book five out of five stars because I was so interested in it. It keeps you on the edge of your seat 
the whole time. Find this book in the Fantasy section along with its other books.

Book Recommendation by Tanya

Stolen Children by Peg Kehret

This book is one of my favorite books. Mrs. Weber 
read it to our 4th grade class. This book is a combination 
of suspense and mystery. It always has you guessing. It 
is about a girl who goes missing and the kidnappers ask 
for a ransom. Little do they know, people they knew helped
with the kidnapping. Will they get their daughter back? 
Find this book in mystery section to find out!

Book Recommendation by Mia

I picked this book because it has 
other books with it because it a 
“Series” of unfortunate events. This 
book is about “The Bad Beginning 
is the first novel of the of A Series 
of Unfortunate Events by Lemony 
Snicket. The novel tells the story of 
three children, Violet, Klaus, and 
Sunny Baudelaire, who become 
orphans following a fire and are sent 
to live with Count Olaf, who attempts 
to steal their inheritance.” If you don’t 
know what inheritance means then 
inheritance means like someone is 
trying to take your identity because 
you might have a lot of money or 
something.

Book Recommendation by Regan

I recently finished a book titled The Thing About Jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish  is about a 
girl named Suzy Swanson, she had 1 best friend that she loved to spend time with. Her friend, 
Franny Jackson, gradually started becoming very snotty towards Suzy and started acting like all 
of the popular girls who were very rude. Franny went on vacation with her family and drowned 
while there. Suzy is amazed that such an amazing swimmer could drown and why god 

thought it was her time to leave. Learn about Suzy and her journey be reading The 
Thing About Jellyfish. 

By: Regan

Teacher Features by Lundyn

Interview

By: Lundyn

I think the idea of interviews of teachers are super cool, and we get to learn about the 
teachers in our school. Sydnie Speckman did an interview with Ms.P and I had no idea 
she had been working for that many years. When we are done and you share it with 
your friends then only your friends know. But what is awesome is when our interviews 
are done ms.Travis post it on the page to share with anyone who is following that page, 
and they get to learn new stuff about their kids teachers. I love this idea and I hope we 
will continue this program next year.

Book Recommendation by Lacy

Skeleton Creek 

A book recommendations that I have is Skeleton Creek because it 
is a really good book. This book is also really good if you like scary 
books or mystery books. They have a series of books and there’s a 
total of 5 books and right now I’ve only read the first one and I’m 
starting to read the second one called ghost in the machine. I like this 
book because it’s about two teens Ryan and Sarah who are investigating 
this mysterious dredge at their hometown and while they do that Ryan 
breaks his leg and their parents have forbidden Ryan and Sarah to talk
to each other. They investigate what they found at the dredge while 
secretly emailing each other and secretly meeting up. It leaves you on 
a cliff hanger so you’ll want to read the next book. Ryan writes all of his 
information in his notebook while Sarah video tapes all of it and post it 
on her website and the books includes the website you have to go to 
and a password so that you can watch the videos to. This is why I 
think Skeleton Creek is a good book.

Gobble Grams by Lacy

I like gobble grams and I think they are a good thing to have because 
they give thanks to your friends. They also tell them why your thankful 
for them and how much. The gobble grams also aren’t that expensive 
they are only 25 cents. Gobble grams can also brighten up someone’s 
day and it helps raise money for our school. This is why I like gobble grams 
and think they are a good idea.

Teachers by Mia

I think teachers are the smartest people in school, not 
just they have an answer sheet it's because did the work 
for the answer sheet. So if you ever say “ TeAcHeRs OnLy 
GeT tHe AnSwEr RiGhT BeCaUsE tHeY HaVe An 
AnSwEr ShEeT” well your wrong. I mean this is all in 
my opinion. You can think whatever you want about 
teachers. Some people might not like all the teachers on 
their team I mean whatever team your on. ( Kraken, 
Hippogriff, Dragons, Thunderbirds, Phoenix, and Gargoyles.)
I liked my teachers in 6th grade, because I was on team 
Kraken last year.

Book Recommendation by Lydia

My book recommendation is Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel. It is a realistic fiction novel about 
a girl named Maisie whose passion is running. One day when she was out on a run, it started 
storming. Lighting struck a tree next to her which caused the tree to catch on fire and the fire 
spread to her body. When she woke up, she was lying in a hospital bed trying to figure out what 
happened to her. She had a burn on her side, her hand, and worst of all, her face. The doctors 
offer her a face transplant and she accepts. When she sees her “new face”, she doesn’t feel like 
herself. When she gets out of the hospital, she has to deal with bullies, her family, her best friend, 
Selena, her boyfriend, Chirag, and trying to love herself. You can find this book at the Excelsior 
Springs Mid-Continent Library.

Harry Potter by Emma

      Harry Potter 

                                  Book recommendation 

I think that Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone is a good book 
because its about a boy who didn’t have a great life living with his 
aunt and uncle and cousin they treated him different because his 
parents were a witch and wizard. But Harry didn’t know that until he 
got a letter from Hogwarts wizardry school, and then his life completely 
changed he didn’t have his family bossing him around anymore he 
had a real bed and not living under a staircase anymore. But on the 
way he finds out the guy who killed his parents. Harry ends up coming 
across that guy during his stay at Hogwarts.

Blog by Audrey

Hello everyone and welcome back to another one of Techsperts’ Blogs! We only have one 
week until thanksgiving break! Keep up the good work and you’ll earn the break!  What have 
you guys been working on at school? Do you like your topic? Is it fun? Well the 7th grade science 
.topic sure is! We are doing electricity and magnetism! It’s interesting! Well, that’s it for today! Tune 
in next week!

Book Recommendation by Trent

Book Recommendation

I've been reading Restart by: Gordon Korman and I want to recommend it because I thought that it was a really good book and I want you to read it. Restart is about a kid named Chase Ambrose that fell off a roof and lost all his memory. In the story chase begins to remember some stuff but the more he remembers and see he finds out that he is a star football player and the biggest bully in the school. Each chapter you see a different person's point of view. I hope you read this amazing story. By Trent Craven

Book Fair by Braedyn

11/08:

The book fair will be from December 2nd to December 13th.  The profit made from the book fair will 
go towards buying more books for the classrooms.  The theme of the bookfair is, and the winner is.

We are trying to decorate towards the theme by making gold trophies with books coming out of it.  
We are trying to make gold medals, and ribbons. We’re thinking about other stuff as well like ribbon 
cutting and voting.

Book Fair by Jacob

The book fair is December 2-13.  Family night for the book fair is December 10, it is from 4-6:30. 
Your parents can come in with you and you can browse the book fair, and if you want, buy anything 
in the book fair. They can also talk to Ms. Travis about any questions they have with any books or
special items. Make sure to not touch the gadgets unless you are buying them. Techsperts will help
find prices of items if you want to buy them.

Blog by Alyssa

So I made the basketball team, and I’m super proud of myself for it!! I 
worked really hard for this. Basketball practices have been going well. 
We have done many drills and a lot of running. We have learned a lot of 
plays like our defensive play “blue”, which is a 2 3 zone, and our offensive 
play “california”, and this friday is meet the tiger night, where we mix together 
and scrimmage each other for 15 minuets. Then we have a parent meeting 
afterward. Our first game is November 25 in Warrensburg. Our Team does 
a great job of being there for each other and picking each other up when we 
make a mistake. What perkins tells us most is “we are a team, not a 7th grade 
team and an 8th grade team, we just play that way!” we have really good 
coaches as well. If your a 6th grader this year, I suggest trying out for a sport 
in 7th & 8th grade, it will keep you in shape, and keep you out of trouble. A little 
tip if you are wanting to play sports, keep your grades up to date and good. 
They will tell you all the time that you are a student athlete, and student comes 
before athlete for a reason.

Book Recommendation by Caroline

Book Recommendation Dragonhaven

Today the book I recommend is Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley. This book follows the story of a 15-year 
old boy who discovers a dying mother dragon and her one surviving dragonet. Jake lives at Smokehill National 
Park, a park set up to protect dragons. Sightings of dragons are pretty rare though. But when Jake embarks on 
his first alone overnight stay in the park, he finds a dying mother dragon with her dead newborn dragonets & 
a dead poacher. He is shocked to find out one of the dragonets is still alive & decided to rescue it. But beyond 
hurting or killing a dragon, saving a dragon is even more illegal. Jake must somehow raise the dragonet & 
reintroduce it to the wild without being caught by the authorities. Will he succeed? Will the young dragon 
survive? Find out more in Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley! By Caroline