On December 14, 2015 Mrs.

Mayorga and Mrs.Chipy’s Dra-

ma classes performed a Holiday

themed show in the Elementary \

cafeteria. They performed

for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and

first grade students. The kids

enjoyed the show very much.

The show was a success!

Ruth K’s Got Talent

New Years Resolutions

Bobcat

TIMES

Show our school your talent!

Every year, our PTA team has

a talent show, where students

get to show their talents. This

year more than 20 acts were

performed. The participants

could either do an individual or

a group act. The performers

were required to be at school

by 5:45 P.M on the day of the

show. The time limit of each

performance could be no long-

er than three minutes, and it

was mandatory for the students

to bring their own music,

props, etc. This event took

place on December 15th from

6 to 8pm, in the elementary

cafeteria. Auditions were

held on November 16th, 17th,

and 19th from 3:15 to 4:30

p.m. Kayra Yuzbasioglu stat-

ed, “At first, I was nervous,

but when I got on stage it was

a really fun experience and I

would love to do it again”.

The purpose of this event was

for Bobcat students to have

fun and showcase their talent.

There was no charge to watch

or participate in the show;

however, pizza and water

were sold. The adults in

charge of this year’s talent

Mrs. Castillo’s and Mrs. Russo’s Journalism Classes

EDITOR: CAMILLE GARCIA

JULIAN RUBINOVICH

CO-EDITOR: KAYRA YUZBASIOGLU, SARAH

UTRERA, ELLA SIMON AND GRACE PAJON

Volume 4 Issue 4

Ruth K’s Got Talent

On Tuesday, January 5th

2016, a very special guest,

Marcel Santos, visited our

school with a special

presentation. Marcel San-

tos is Mrs. Vidal Santos’

son. He attended the Art

Center College of Design

in California. He is an in-

dustrial and concept pro-

duction designer artist. So

far, Marcel has been doing

this for five and a half

years. He has worked for

Disney Interactive, Walt

Disney Imagineering,

Marvel, Aerospace, Lucas

Films, Hasbro, Walt Dis-

ney, and Honda. Marcel

recently worked on the

new Star Wars movie,

“Star Wars: The Force

Awakens.” Marcel says

that working on the movie

was very humbling and

nerve racking because he

had to please many fans.

Marcel has worked on

other movies such as Iron

Man 3, Captain America

2, and Guardians of the

Galaxy, but he said Star

Wars Episode 7 was the

best movie he’s worked

on. Marcel loves what he

does and can’t wait to

help create more movies.

show were Nadine and other

PTA members. If you have a

talent or you love perform-

ing, you should come on out

next year!

By: Marie Agasse, Emilie Shar-

ma, and Oriana Simone

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Bobcat Makes it BIG! 1

Flowchart 2

2

Toys for Mystic Force 3

Art Week 3

3

4

4

4

Former Bobcat Makes it BIG!

By: Grace Pajon , Ella Simon,

and Kayra Yuzbasioglu

By: Noah Dorfman and Valeska Lander

Winter Wonderland

School Dance

Jump Rope for Heart

Yearbook Cover

Dear Alicia

By: Paula Cortinez, Maxine Hyland, Sofia Losada, and Jonathan Souto

Flow Chart

Page 2

Do you make a new resolution every year?

Yes Is it time to make

some changes? Do you keep track of

the resolutions you

have accomplished?

Yes

No

No

Go for it.

Good Luck!

Yes No

Skip it. En-

joy the new

year.

What are your

thoughts on res-

olution? It’s stressing me

out just thinking

about it. They’re good

challenges.

Get it together

Libra

Sagittarius

Virgo

Aries Leo

Cancer

Capricorn Taurus

Aquarius

Pisces

Gemini

Scorpio

Mr. Moss - “Work very hard , to heal the world.”

Mrs. Castillo- “Keeping my distance from negative peo-

ple.”

Mrs. Perez- “Workout more, four times a week.”

Mrs. Boundy- “Eat healthier.”

Mrs. Russo– “Not to stress out by the things I can’t change.”

Mrs. Mitchell– “To eat better, exercise more, be loving to-

wards family, and stress less

about little things.”

Mrs. Rodriguez- “To complain less.”

Daniel Caro-“Be more posi-tive”

Vivienne Hyland-“Reach for my goals”

Noah Dorfman-“Spend more time with friends”

Kimberly Silva-”Put more effort into things.”

Ayelen Posada-“Get Better Grades”

By: Paula Cortinez, Maxine Hyland, and Sofia Losada

which included pizza and

drinks. The DJ was the 8th

grade math teacher named

Mr. Giordano, better known

as Mr. G. The best part of the

dance for Maxine Hyland

was when the beat dropped

in the dubstep songs. There

were many remixes played at

this dance. So far, this has

been the second middle

school dance of the year.

Everyone considered this

The middle school dance

was an amazing event and

it occurred in the elemen-

tary cafeteria. It was from

3:15 to 5:30 on Friday,

December 4th. There was a

discriminate amount of 8th

graders and some 7th grad-

ers, but most of the dancers

were 6th graders. The dance

had a backdrop to take

pictures, a DJ, black and

white lights, and food

dance to be the best dance

Toys for Mystic Force

It’s a Party!

took place from the 7th of

December all the way to the

11th. “Art Week” is an

event that happens every

year at our school. The lead-

er of the event is April

Pullo. April helped to make

this week possible. To enter

“Art Week”, people had to

pay a fee of 10 dollars. Art

Basel stages high end art

projects and the most popu-

lar Art Basel shows are in

Miami Beach and Hong

Kong. ”Stay artistic!”

It’s an Artsy Week! Have you ever wondered

what “Art Week” is? Art

week is an event where

you make decorations such

as pop art, super hero

walls, and media center

walls. These projects can

be seen at Art Basel and

they work together to make

this experience unforgetta-

ble. The grades that partici-

pated were second through

eigth grade. “Art Week”

was held throughout the

entire school. This event

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Words of Wisdom

By: Daniel Caro, , Gianmarco Ranalli, Alessandro Simone, and

Matias Wainfeld

By: Christopher Carvalho, Jean-Paul Davila, and Daniel Santana

By: Jean Paul Davila, Nelson Parra

and Kelsey Varona

Every Christmas our school

holds a toy drive where toys

are donated to children that

don’t have the chance to

spend the holidays at home

with their families. This year

the toys that were collected

were donated to The Mystic

Force Foundation. This foun-

dation was created by Silvia

and her husband, Dr. Steven

Vanni to help raise money

and awareness to fund re-

search for childhood cancer.

On Christmas day, the toys

were given to the children

that were ill with cancer. The

reason our school holds this

toy drive every year is to

make children happy on

Christmas morning. Both

counselors, Mrs. Deleon and

Mrs. Cuenca, were in charge

of the toy drive. Mrs. Cuen-

ca and Mrs. Deleon would

like to thank all the students,

families, parents and teach-

ers that helped make this toy

drive a success.

Kite Surfing Winner!

By: Sofia Iacobacci

By: Jean Paul Davila and Nelson Parra

Part 2:Plants Off To Space!

By: Nicholas Baron and Grace Pajon

Students in Mr. Moss’ class

are making a hydroponics sys-

tem made from scratch. It will

be sent to N.A.S.A to test how

well the plant grows in water

and dirt.

“Life is like a book,

just because there is

one bad chapter,

doesn’t mean it’s the

end.” - William Perez

Andrea Gasc won a kitesurfing

competition on December 6 in

Crandon Park. She got 3rd place

overall and 1st place in her divi-

sion. There were about 50 partici-

pants.

Superhero Award

Did You Know?

Every year, our school partic-

ipates in “Jump Rope for

Heart” and “Hoops for

Heart.” Both events took

place in the basketball court

on December 14th and 15th

of 2015. Second through fifth

grade were able to participate

in “Jump Rope for Heart”,

while all of middle school

students participated in

“Hoops for Heart”. Students

were encouraged to raise a

goal of $20,000. All the mon-

ey that is raised goes to good

laying down. Don’t do hard

exercises, but just a few

light ones, or ones that make

you tired. Before lying down

you want to make sure that you lie down in a comforta-

ble environment, free of

mess. Another way of not

oversleeping is to ask your

parents to wake you up ear-

ly. This can be done in many

ways such as splashing wa-

ter on you, make loud noises

or simply just shake you

awake. There a few things

you should avoid like setting

your alarm too early or too

late. These are just a few

ways of not over sleeping.

That’s it for this Dear Alicia! If you want your questions

answered, drop them off in

room 265.

P.T.A. print enough year-book covers for the students. The grades that participated the most were kindergarten through 3rd grade. After all the votes were collected, our parents: Carolina Luczkow, Olga Vida, and Juliana Ar-raras volunteered to count the votes. They love helping our school out. The winning cover was extremely colorful. We can't wait to see how the yearbook will turn out!

And the Yearbook Cover is... Every year at our school there is an event that the stu-dents get the chance to vote for a yearbook cover. This year about an estimate of 100 students participated. There was six cover choices to choose from. Dr. Rodriguez, Mrs. DeLeon, and Carolina Luczkow were the ones who chose the covers. The stu-dents had to pay $1 in order to vote. All the funds raised went to the company "Jostens," to make the cover. The money raised helps the

Ancraophobia- Fear of

wind.

Aurophobia- Fear of gold.

Aviatophobia- Fear of

flying.

Botanophobia- Fear of

plants

Chromatophobia- Fear of

colors

Cnidophobia- Fear of

stings

Coulrophobia- Fear of

clowns

Kymophobia- Fear of

waves

Demophobia- Fear of

crowds

Epistemophobia- Fear of

knowledge

Gatophobia- Fear of cats

Hematophobia- Fear of

blood

Dear Alicia Welcome to Dear Alicia

our first question is: How

do you not over sleep?

One way of doing this is to

set an alarm. This may

seem easy but you want to

make sure you set your

alarm at an appropriate

time that suits you best.

Another way to handle this is going to sleep early. This

is hard for most people to

do, so here are a few sug-

gestions: exercise before

cause, The American Heart

Association. Our school holds

this event to help raise money

for people fighting heart dis-

ease. All second through fifth

graders were allowed to par-

ticipate if they raised any

amount of money. Students in

middle school were required

to raise at least $1 to partici-

pate. Activities that took

place were hula-hooping,

basketball, and jump rope.

Overall the students had fun,

even though the field was

under construction.

It Takes Heart To Be a Hero!

By: Mia Erlichman, Valeska Lander, and Nataly Pedrazzoli

By: Christopher Anderson, Alicia Jitta, Yesenia Monserrate, and

Emilie Sharma

By: Vivienne Hyland, Ayelen

Posada and Kelsey Varona

By: Sofia Iacobacci and Sofia Losada

Page 4

By: Gregory Kelly and Emilie Shar-

ma

Nine people were nominated

for the Superhero Award. The

two winners for the Superhe-

ro Award were Mr. Sosa and

Joseph Kurtz.