The Landry News

 In the beginning of "The Landry News", we meet Cara Landry. She is re-organizing some  pieces of paper but we don't know anything about the papers.  We also learn that her parents are divorced.  Cara's mom got custody of Cara.  Cara gets the world's worst teacher, Mr.Larson.  One Day, Cara puts up a paper on a cluttered bulletin board on the back wall of Mr. Larson's classroom.  Everyone wants to see what it is, including Mr.Larson. It turns out to be the first copy of "The Landry News"! Cara has a lot of informational facts in this newspaper. But what REALLY angers Mr.Larson is that Cara wrote about him and about how much learning is happening in the classroom: Almost None.  In anger, Mr. Larson rips up the newspaper and YELLS AND YELLS at Cara.  After school ends and Cara is the last one on the bus, she sees Mr Larson and glares at him and he glares back at Cara.  Thank Goodness, Mr Larson didn't go back to the classroom and see that all the pieces of the ripped up newspaper are gone from the waste bin.   The pieces of paper that Cara was organizing at the beginning of the book were actually the ripped up pieces of the Landry News.   After reading Cara's article, Mr Larson feels guilty that he hasn't been teaching the class.  Mr Larson asks Cara what is her favorite part of a newspaper.  Cara replies the whole thing but I love the editorials the most.  Mr Larson teaches them about newspapers and editorials.   Mr Larson asks Cara if there can be more workers for her newspaper.  The whole class then works on the newspaper.  They decide to get stories from other kids in the school.  One day, Michael Mortan comes and hands Cara a story called Lost and Found.  It turns out to be a story about divorce.  Cara could connect to the boy in the story.  She figures out that Michael wrote the story about himself.  When she publishes the story in the paper, Dr Barnes thinks that it is inappropriate content for children and tries to fire Mr Larson for letting the kids put the story in the newspaper.  Cara asks Michael if he can read the story out in front of the judge to prove that he wanted the story published in the newspaper.  Mr Larson ends up not getting fired and everyone is happy for the rest of the year but Cara had to print out a new newspaper because the Landry News was banned from the school.  The new newspaper is called The Guardian.  They hand it out at bus stops because they are not allowed to hand it out at school.  Dr Barnes banned all newspapers from the school.  The Guardian is still being printed out but Dr Barnes doesn't want to see it on school property.

Math Message 4.3

0.3 or 0.15? Witch is bigger?
0.3 Is bigger because it is Tenths and not hunderths like 0.15.
Tenths is bigger than Hundredths because Tenths is a long stick and a Hundredths are little cubes.

What am I thankful for?

I am thankful for my Mom. She is always there for me and my siblings and my dad. She doesn't work but she is always coming for our sports games. She always picks up my dad from work too. That is why I am thankful for my Mom!

My Online Life

Respect 

• I only remember my password 
• I do not try to learn the Ipad cart password or any other
•  Don't make fun of people
• If your friend E-Mails you a computer virus don't get mad and start yelling at them. Virus can E-Mail themselves
• Use emoticons 
• If you take a picture of a friend doing a silly thing, ASK them before posting it.
• If you find someone's phone return it to them & dont text mean things to people on it! Just dont text on it! 

Responsibility 

• Keep personal info to myself like full name age etc
• make a strong password not 12345 or your full name
• do not tell your password
• Do not give the name of where go to school to a online friend
• Do not give the name of your sports team to a online friend
• Do not give your home address 
• Do not give your E-Mail address
• NEVER meet an internet person in real life
• Never open i file you are not exepecting to get it 
• It is OK to talk about your opinions
• Don't post nasty and weird things to your friends. Your parents and friends parents can see.
• Stuff online is not private even though it seems like it is
• If you want to go to a movie with friends dont say witch movie theater and what movie call your friends to say what movie and theater
• If you get a link to a website & then you have to rate the people in your class about how cute & smart they are, Tell your mom or dad or try & find the person who made the website and ask them to take it down.
• If you are getting negative comments on something  you post you should tell a adult and block them

Fairness

• do not say things people do not want you to say online
• tell someone right away if you know their password
• Dont post anything of your friends if they dont want you to

Honesty

• If someone makes you feel scared or sad tell someone right away
• If you & your friend see someones phone on a bench DO NOT send texts with it. You & your friend could really hurt someones feelings.
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