Merry Christmas from your French friends! 
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 It is the library of Bouchain. 

Bouchain is the town where we go to school. 

The river is "L'Escaut".

It is a street in Bouchain, near Pierrick's house. 

It is the castle and the canal in Bouchain. 




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(Manon.T, Simon, Valentin, Lilian, Laurine, Nathan, Pierrick, Alexandre, Naomie, Samy) 

This was used to go down the mines and to extract coal. 

In the North of France - where we live - we extracted a lot of coal at the beginning of the 20th century. 

The picture was taken in Valenciennes. 

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(Flavie, Léa C., Laetitia, Jean-Baptiste, Manon H, Léanne, Marie, Léa J., Clara, Thibaud, Lucas, Tanguy, Kévin, Chloé).



 

       President-elect Donald Trump was named TIME magazine’s person of the year December 7, 2016. The title of the magazine was “Donald Trump, President of the Divided States of America.” Donald Trump said he did not like the title, but said it was a “tremendous honor.” The list of the top ten finalists for “person of the year” included people like Hillary Clinton, former presidential candidate; Simone Biles, Olympic gymnast; and Beyoncé, singer-songwriter. The award is decided by TIME’s editors and goes to the person or group that have had a major influence on the news for better or worse.

    

The Laingsburg, Michigan community of dance is a beautiful thing.  With so many different personalities and background,the people who love dance find meanings in another’s arms as they rhythmically move across the dance floor of life.

Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.We do ballet,hip-hop,jazz,junior musical theater.

 

The recital is the 30th of April. Dress rehearsal and pictures is the day before the recital.The recital is the chance to show all the hard work.  When it is the recital the dancers have to leave their parents then you go to a room filled with snacks and adults then bleachers. You can bring a blanket and a pillow then something to do. Then in the hallway there is some art stuff to do.  Then the adults will call your number you are dancing on.Then when all the dances are done we all get in a huge line big to small. Then we all say goodbye until next year.

Lincoln park police and fire department spread holiday cheer.

On December 8th, the police department gave 15 kids  $125 shopping spree for christmas since their families couldn’t afford presents. Later, Raymond Watters handed out pizza to the kids while they were on their spree.

Then; to top it off,  Santa came to surprise the kids.

                                                   Toys For Tots!!!

Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which gives out  toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas. The program was founded in 1947. Starting on December 5th 2016 to December 15th 2016, our school is collecting toys for toys for tots.

Burg Broadcast

Burg broadcast is a group of students who go live on the school T.V.s during our flex and lunch time. They announce what’s new that day, they do this every day of the week. Sometimes they will hold contests for the whole student body. At the end of every broadcast they draw two daily winners, the winners go to the office and claim their prizes.  

                     

On December 13, 2016, Alan Thicke died of a heart attack at Saint Burbank Medical Center in Burbank, California. “It is a shock. We were all just together for Thanksgiving. He was funny, talented and deeply devoted to his family.” Ex-wife Gloria Longing, had stated in a Facebook post. The heart attack occurred while he was playing with his 19 year old son, Carter. He was rushed to the hospital around noon, and was announced dead there.

Thicke was a Canadian actor who was most famous for his sit-coms, and has made appearences in “How I Met Your Mother”, and made an appearance in the Netflix reboot “Fuller House”.

“So sad is the passing of Alan Thicke. Such a good husband, father, brother, and friend. He will be deeply missed. Rest in Peace dear Alan.”

-Bob Saget

By Riley Freeman

                                                     THE SUPER MOON

On Monday, November 14th, 2016, a Supermoon occurred. This  SuperMoon is  The biggest and brightest full moon in nearly 70 years. A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.

  The North Dakota Pipeline

The Dakota Access Pipeline or Bakken pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long (1,886 km) underground oil pipeline project in the United States

As of November 26, 2016, the project was reported to be 87% completed.

The $3.7 billion project was announced to the public in July 2014

A number of Native Americans in Iowa and the Dakotas have opposed the pipeline, including the Meskwaki and several Sioux tribal nations.

In August 2016, ReZpect Our Water, a group organized on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, brought a petition to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineersin Washington, D.C. and the tribe sued for an injunction.

Now, Veterans have been preparing to join the front lines of protesting.

    This was a basketball game in school ball, you travel to the team or they come to you.This was a team called the Eagle’s the score was 21 to 22. We won that game, but it got so close I was  happy when we won that hard game. We said good game and we celebrated in the visitor locker room and then we went home.

The Laingsburg Middle School Wrestling Team had a meet at New Lothrop. The team consisted of 7 members, one eighth grader, two seventh graders, and four sixth graders. Two out of the seven wrestled only three times. The other four wrestled only twice. The last wrestler was unable to wrestle due to medical reasons. The team wrestled  schools from Perry, New Lothrop, Goodrich, and Flint Beecher. The meet started at 5 p.m.,  it lasted till about 6:30. I had lots of fun wrestling with my friends. The picture below is the team.  (one is not photed ) *I am the only girl pictured*

THE TWELVE DAYS OF THANKSGIVING.

Twelve days of Thanksgiving is a way we can give back to the community. It is a food drive, the students put food they were donating in this box.  It was a contest of all 6th hours. There were specific things that students brought each day.      

 This is the city of Valenciennes from above. 

Manon H took an air balloon.

 The river is "L'Escaut".

We see the cinema, restaurants and the ice rink. 

 We see the stadium of Valenciennes called "Stade du Hainaut" ("Hainaut"is the name of a group of cities).

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Election Recount       

Jill Stein, a former presidential candidate, is calling for a recount. She has raised over six million dollars to do this, she also wants it done by hand.

     But Stein request was denied late on Tuesday. Stein also filed a lawsuit to the bar officials in Wisconsin for carry out recounts by machine and not by hand. A hearing on Stein’s case was taking place Tuesday night at a court in Madison. The recount took place yesterday in Wisconsin anyway.