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National Anthem Day!

March 2, 2011 Edition

By Jazmin Alvarez (dedicated to Ms. Tifre) Field Trip to Science Museum

National Anthem Day is on March 3. Our
National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. It
was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 while he
was witnessing the battle at Fort McHenry during
the War of 1812. When he woke up the next
morning, he also witnessed the American Flag
soaring on top of the fort. This was what inspired
him. This poem was set to the tune of a common
British song, “The Anacreontic Song”.
The National Anthem was recognized for
official use by the Navy in 1889 and by the
President in 1916. The song was made the National
Anthem on March 3, 1931.
The actual song has 4 stanzas, but we only
sing one.  Here is the Star Spangled Banner in its
entirety:
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
By Anissa Berry
On February 23, the entire 7th grade and a
few 6th and 8th graders went to the Science
Museum of Minnesota. The Science Museum is a
great place for students to get educational
information about King Tut right now, and to find
out a lot about science too.
At the Science Museum we watched a movie
called “Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs” and
took a tour through “The Life of King Tut”. There
were so many different artifacts and they all
mean so much to Egypt. Although King Tut is not
allowed out of Egypt, they did have the only
replica of King Tut’s Mummy. Although King Tut’s
body isn’t there, his solid gold mask is, as well as
his gold sandals.
For the rest of the day we toured other
exhibits, including learning how to write names in
hieroglyphics, some cool physics and math
activities, and other really neat science things.  
All of theth
100 students who were on the trip had
Day Celebration
a great
By Elijah time and learned a lot. Thanks to Ms.
Cross
On Tuesday,organizing
Gliske for it.the 6th grade celebrated the
February 22,
100th day of school at Ramsey. Ms. Martinez brought some of
her famous cookies, which everyone enjoyed. I even got to eat
one – a snickerdoodle, which was the best cookie ever! :D

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!