Cardboard Month

Written by Monkey Business Employees: Camryn & Brielle

The month of October is cardboard month! Our innovation teacher, Mrs. Deeley asked us to make mini Topsfield Fair rides out of cardboard. We watch videos of real Topsfield Fair rides. We also watched videos of cardboard ones too. Some of them were really cool! One of them was a dragon ride, it was where someone turned a lever and it went all the way around the circle outline. Then after that we got to work and started building. Here is the Dragon Slayer by one of our classmates. It even lights up!

Our classmates were using paper towel rolls, string, pom poms, and pipe cleaners. Our innovation teacher also said to make it out of cardboard and make it move its self. Like you can give it a nudge but can't use your hand to control it. 

Since this is cardboard month our projects had to include cardboard we could use other things but it must include cardboard. We can’t wait to share our projects. Virtual Fair Slideshow will be posted next week.

Book Tasting

Chefs Klipfel & Durden whet appetites for fiction when we opened the DK Diner and served up six scrumptious genre courses. During our book tasting, patrons from both classes were able to get a taste for their interest level for our upcoming fiction unit and even find some books for future reading. We loved opening our diner so both classes could join together. 

Our historical fiction table allowed students the delectable taste of our oldest recipe and our dessert course of graphic novels was delicious to the last crumb. Even with the Mystery genre still a mystery, we are happy to report that our opening morning of the DK Diner resulted in a 5-star Yelp rating. 

Bon Appetite!

Monkeying Around with Monkey Business

Written by Monkey Business Employees: Camryn & Brielle

Last week we went bananas and got jobs called Monkey Business. Monkey Business is where we each got to apply for a job and we are now Monkey Business Employees. These jobs are called monkey business because our teacher Miss. Klipfel loves monkeys. 

Some of the jobs include chat master which is where you monitor the chat. Another one is Snack Attack which is who designs and picks snack topics. One more is called Smile Manager. With Smile Manager, you pick out school appropriate jokes and memes to help brighten our days and they get added to our slides. Here is an example from the Smile Mangers.

There are many more jobs that we have, these are just some examples. Most of our classmates have already tried out their jobs. We are pretty sure everyone is loving their job so far. Before we got our jobs we needed to fill in an application. Each student was given an application asking them their top three job choices so if another student wanted the same job as you and nobody wanted your second choice you could just have that job. Then we got a message from our Cheif Executive Monkey (aka Miss Klipfel) with our job.

Our job is social media ambassadors. We are writing blog posts for the next month. What job would you want?