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Our Staff Maya Conway
Marika DupontBerry
Siska DupontBerry
Miranda Torres-
Garcia
Ava Jackson
Faith Labrada
Valentina Mendez
Ilana Sanz
Kathryn Serra
Sabrina Shipley
Advisors
Ms. Skinner
Amy Shipley
A newspaper by and for the students of Key Biscayne K-8 Center
Shark
Attack
May, 2015 Volume 3, Edition 3
‘Shark Attack’ Staff Gets Tour of WPLG TV Set
Continued on page 2
By Miranda Torres-Garcia and Sabrina
Shipley
Next year, a new curriculum from an Eng-
lish university will be coming to Key Bis-
cayne K-8 Center to start to prepare stu-
dents for MAST. This new program, the
Cambridge Program, will be implemented
in grades 5, 6, and 7.
MAST already offers the program.
Ms. Tarafa says that the main reason for
the Cambridge Program is that it “will help
with the transition for the students [to]
MAST, whether they leave in middle school
or in high school.”
You don’t know what the Cambridge Pro-
gram is? Well, the Cambridge Program is a
curriculum for grades K-12 including math,
science and English (language arts).
The Cambridge program is used in 160
countries by over 9,000 schools across the
globe. The Miami-Dade school district
plans to have 80 Cambridge Programs at
about 70 schools by 2016.
The difference between the new Cam-
bridge Program and the current program is
like the difference between typing and
writing with a pencil – two different
Cambridge Program Coming to KB K-8 Center
Continued on page 4
By Faith Labrada
The Shark Attack newspaper
crew went to WPLG Local 10’s
Hallandale headquarters on May
19 and we got to see how a real
news station really works. A tour
guide showed us what goes on
behind the scenes as well as on
the air.
First we saw where the stories
that are reported are written. It
was a big room full of cubicles
and the writers were busy at work
to get ready for the news at noon.
Next, we were taken to the con-
trol room where all of the shows,
commercials and the news are
broadcast.
In this room there is one person
who switches on the shows and
makes sure nothing goes wrong.
So remember this when you’re
watching shows like “Once Upon
A Time” and “Modern Family.”
After that, we were shown to the
room where the producers con-
trol the background and speak to
the reporters through their ear
Ms. Skinner, Ilana Sanz, Tiffany Berry, Miranda Torres, Sabrina Shipley, Ava Jackson,
Amy Shipley, Valentina Mendez, Siska DupontBerry, Kathryn Serra, Faith Labrada
and Marika DupontBerry flank Kristi Krueger, Constance Jones and Julie Durda.
P a g e 2 S h a r k A t t a c k
Newspaper Club Gets An Inside Look at Channel 10
pieces. We got to see what goes on outside of
the newsroom when the news came on live.
When they went to commercial we went into the
live studio, stood feet away from the live broad-
cast and met anchors Kristi Krueger, Constance
Jones and meteorologist Julie Durda.
Overall, the trip was both fascinating and educa-
tional.
“I felt like a girl in high school because I’ve been
watching these people for so long, and the plat-
form and the wall in the news room were just
beautiful,” said Ms. Skinner the head of the
Shark Attack newspaper.
So yes we had a very good time and we hope to
do this again next year!
By Valentina Mendez and Marika
DupontBerry
A lot of construction and a lot of kids have
left Key Biscayne K-8 Center with a big prob-
lem: Damage to the playing fields and green
space at the school.
There are big
open patches in
our courtyard
between build-
ings one and
two. There are
also problems
that continue
on to the P.E
field.
“They will be
removing the
portables once
they are done
with construction. So we want to fix all that
area,” Ms.Tarafa said.
The improvement will also take part in our
garden. For this concept, Ms. Tarafa will be
willing to concentrate on our garden to ex-
pand it and to make it beautiful. By doing
this, she could add more plants and flowers
and make sure they are watered daily so
they won’t die.
We have interviewed a couple of children to
see what their opinion is on the condition of
the green space.
“Honestly for right now I think it looks ugly,”
said Marcela Sauce, a fourth grader. “When
I am on the field I notice it a lot when I am
playing. When I am playing on the field, I get
tired and decide to sit down but there is
nowhere to sit because of all the empty
patches of dirt.”
Marcela said she looks forward to when the
green space is done.
“I would be grateful because I would be able
to sit down and see the beautiful flowers,”
she said.
Right now Ms.Tarafa is working on the in-
side of our school. For instance, bathrooms,
cafeterias and classrooms.
After she is finished with her work on the
inside of our school, she would move on
to the green space -- to transform all those
ugly patches and empty spaces to beautiful
flowers and green grass. Soon enough, our
school will be a dirt-patch free school!
Fourth-grader Marcela Sauce.
Ms. Tarafa wants to replace construc-
tion-damaged grass like this patch.
Continued from Page 1
The Grass Will Be Greener at KB K-8 in the Fall
Marika, Faith, Siska, Valentina, Kathryn, Ilana, Ava, Miranda and Sabrina
pose for a photo in Channel 10’s newsroom.
P a g e 3 V o l u m e 3 , E d i t i o n 3
Students Hit D.C., Boston and Many Local Stops for Field Trips
Parents, Students Enjoy ‘Take Your Child to Work Day’
By Kathryn Serra and Siska DupontBerry
Imagine five kids sleeping next to a dolphin,
three kids sleeping next to an orca, and 10
kids sleeping next to a sea lion. Well, this is
what the seventh grade does on its overnight
field trip to Sea World: Kids sleep next to
animal habitats for one night.
Field trips in Key Biscayne K-8 center come
in an abundance. This year alone we have
participated in over 20 field trips. For exam-
ple, the kindergarteners went to Butterfly
Garden; second grade went to the movie
theater; the fourth grade went bowling -- and
that’s just three of the field trips.
On a much larger scale, fifth and sixth grade
went out of the state to Boston and Washing-
ton for three nights (most students without
their parents). Those three days weren’t just
fun and games, though. Every day students
get jam-packed with a lot of information.
Plus, they have to wake up at 6:00 a.m. and
go to bed at 10:00 or 11:00 p.m.
“We walked so much in those three days my
legs nearly fell off, but it was worth it!” said
Ava Jackson, a fifth grader who participated
in the Boston trip.
Why does the school go through all the trou-
ble to have students participate in field trips?
As Ms. Ferreyros Jr., a fifth-grade teacher,
said:
“it offers students to learn in an engaging
way.”
And, as most students, like Maya Conway, a
fifth-grader, will say:
“It is an amazing way to learn new things,
and it’s the most fun we have in school.”
By Ilanna Sanz and Maya Conway
Take Your Child to Work Day is a
day that was created to let chil-
dren learn more about their par-
ents’ jobs.
It used to be called Take Your
Daughter to Work Day because
girls were not able to get the
same jobs as men so people cre-
ated a day for girls to learn more
about the jobs of men. Then eve-
rybody felt that Take Your Daugh-
ter to Work Day should be for
everyone so they changed it to
Take Your Child To Work Day.
“It’s a great way to learn about
the different jobs that I can have
when I grow up.” said fourth-grader Kathryn Serra. Kathryn Serra worked with her
mom who is a speech therapist.
“Take your child to work day is
fun especially when I got to teach
the second graders with my mom
and Ms. Peña,” said fourth-grader
Brianna Babani.
Brianna Babani is the daughter of
a second-grade teacher from this
school named Ms. Babani.
“It’s not something that just
Dade County came up with,
it’s something that is out there in
all the state and everybody does
it,” said the school principal Ms.
Tarafa.
Take Your Child to Work Day is an
opportunity for you to go out and
see the different types of careers
that there are out there.
Key Biscayne sixth graders visit the White House during their May trip to Washington, D.C.
Ms. Peña and Brianna Babani
Glitches Accompany Debut of FSA Test at Key Biscayne K-8
Going to 1st Grade
Biscuit Goes to School, Baby Dol-
phin’s First Day, Wemberly Wor-
ried, La Oruga Muy Hambrienta
(EFL), The New Kid (ESOL), Let’s
Have a Play (ESOL)
Going to 2nd Grade
Hey Diddle Diddle: A Food Chain
Tale, Nate the Great, Abuelo y Los
Tres Osos (EFL), Click Clack Moo
(ESOL), Henry and Mudge and the
Big Sleepover (ESOL)
Going to 3rd Grade
Who Was Helen Keller? Lost Treas-
ure of the Emerald Eye, Una Tarde
en el Amazones (EFL). How to Eat
Fried Worms (ESOL), The Lemonade
War (ESOL)
Going to 4th Grade
Bobby Vs. Girls, Alvin Ho: Allergic
to Girls, School and Other Scary
Things, Me Llamo Maria Isabel
(EFL), Summer Reading is Killing
Me (ESOL), Lawn Boy (ESOL)
Going to 5th Grade
Hoot, Wonder, El Amor es Como el
Queso (EFL), Joey Pigza Swallowed
the Key (ESOL), A Long Way from
Chicago (ESOL)
Going to 6th Grade
The Name of this Book is Secret?
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t
Want to Know about Fast Food,
Kidnapped in Key West (adv.)
Going to 7th Grade
Technology, 90 Miles to Havana,
Tooth and Nail: A Novel Approach
to the SAT (adv.)
Going to 8th Grade
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie,
The Wright Brothers: How They
Invented the Airplane, Gifts (Annals
of the Western Shore) (adv.)
methods of doing the same thing.
This summer, teachers in grades 5,
6, and 7 will be trained by teachers
from the actual Cambridge Univer-
sity in England.
Next year will mark the beginning of
our school as a Cambridge school.
“It’s basically focused on enhanc-
ing the types of learning students
get in language arts, math and
science so that it’s a more worldly
perspective,” Ms. Hill said about
the program.
Teachers are mostly supportive of
the program, including Ms. Moore,
who said that “anything that is for
the benefit of the kids, the teachers
are supportive [of].”
By Ava Jackson
Every year, the Key Biscayne K-8
Center has the children doing the
reading, writing and mathematics
FCAT. But this year we don’t have
the FCAT assessment test --
instead we have to take the
FSA assessment test to
determine where we will get
placed next year.
Right when the test was going
smoothly, the technology and
weather just had to cause many
issues.
The computers had major glitch-
es occurring in them, maybe be-
cause of the weather issues or
the power surge occurring. But
luckily the computers saved stu-
dents’ work once the glitches had
subsided.
“It’s kind of frustrating, when
you’re taking a test, you’re read-
ing, and all of a sudden – voom!
The computer goes down, black,
and then you have to start
again,” said Ms. Tarafa. “Luckily,
we’ve been doing really well. The
kids have been great. The teach-
ers have been great. And we just
have to deal with Mother Nature
sometimes, and the technology is
not always the best.”
Soon the children were able to
turn in the FSA test so now we
wait for our results.
Finally, what is the FSA assess-
ment test?
“The Florida Standards in Mathe-
matics and English Language Arts
were approved by the Florida
State Board of Education in Feb-
ruary 2014 and will be fully im-
plemented in grades K–12 in the
2014–2015 school year,” ac-
cording to the Florida Depart-
ment of Education. “All Florida
schools will teach the Florida
Standards, and the Florida De-
partment of Education (FDOE)
has contracted with the Ameri-
can Institutes for Research
(AIR) to develop and administer
new statewide assessments.”
Even though the computers had
many issues going on we still did
a fantastic job on cooperating. So
now the anticipation is killing me:
what are the results of the test?
You may not have the same opin-
ion I had, but still!
“All of a sudden — voom! The computer goes down, black,
and then you have to start again. Luckily, we’ve been do-
ing really well. The kids have been great.” — Ms. Tarafa
Continued from Page 1
Cambridge Program to Start Next Fall
Fifth graders visit Harvard during their annual Boston trip (see story page 3)
2015 Summer Reading List
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