“Solving crimes like who stole my doll, who stole the cookies, and cracking codes are the kinds of activities we do in CSI!” said Ms. Tiffany Wishard who teaches this exciting class. CSI has been taught at CFK for two years, and Ms. Wishard started it because of student interest in detective shows.

“Some other activities we do are figuring out mysteries and finding out whose bones we have,” said Kiah Richner.

Lauren Raemore explained, “My favorite activity is finding out the person that did the crime! I thought that was really fun!”

Madeline Tritch added, “I would sign up for this class next year because I am having a lot
of fun!”  

“We had paper bones, and we cut them out and taped them together. Then by taking a measurement of the person’s leg bone, we could figure out how tall they were,” Ms .Wishard explained.

They also went to the library to get a book; there was a hole in the book with a piece of candy in it, and the young detectives had to crack the code to get the candy.

Another task they did was a visible ink project with a wax crayon and coffee grinds. They wrote on a piece of paper; when they put the coffee grinds on the paper, they stuck to the wax writing, and you could see what had been written.

“Cropping, matting, and cutting are the types of things  we do in Scrap-It,” said Mrs. Julie Marzzacco, the
instructor of this exciting class who has been teaching here for six years.

“Doing all the stickers and matting the pictures is my favorite part,” commented Catherine Haas.

Two Scrap–it classes are offered. Scrap-it I is a class for  fourth and fifth graders where they get to make a scrapbook,  journal their pages, and do other fun activities.

There is also Scrap-it II which is a class for repeaters and students in fifth through eighth grades. It is a more advanced class where they make another scrapbook, add journaling to their pictures and do a lot of other exciting and more advanced layouts on their pages.

Kaycee Puller said, “I took this class because I could keep the scrapbook, and I could look back at my memories.”

They also do matting and cropping. Matting is when you cut out a piece of paper and put it behind the picture to frame it. Cropping is when you cut a picture to make it smaller, cut out parts you don’t want or just make it a cool shape.

 “I would take this class next year because I get to put my memories in a book, and I can look back at them; AND because I really like this class!” exclaimed Courtney Stotsenburgh.

 “I do have some background in scrapbooking. I used to be a consultant; I scrapbook and I used to sell scrapbooking supplies,” explained Mrs. Marzzacco.

In this class they do a lot of fun activities such as each day they do a theme page. One day they did a triangle page; another day they did a page with a border, and the next day they did a birthday page.

One day they even did marble painting! That’s when you take a marble, put it in a cup of paint, then you drop it on your paper and roll the marble around so that it makes a trail of paint.

“Scrap-it has been taught at CFK for six years, and I started the course here,” Mrs. Marzzacco stated.

This year Sarah Weber helped as Marzzacco’s assistant; she took the course three times and has been assisting for three years. Obviously, Sarah loves scrapbooking!