Interview by Terry Dowell 1. How long have you been teaching? A:I’ve been teaching for 8 total years. 2. If you wanted to be a famous person in the past who would you be? A: Sargon the Great 3. What type of music do you like? A: Depends on what mood I’m in. 4. How would your students describe you as a teacher? A: The best 5. How do you handle under stressful situations? A: Try to take a deep breath and go through with school and teaching. 6. If you could only teach one topic out of social studies, what would it be? A: Vikings 7. In what ways do you encourage creativity in your classroom? n: Try to make students think their answers through 8. Tell me about the most challenging student you've taught so far. A: Students who don’t want to learn 9. What is your greatest strength? How does it help you as a teacher? A: Like to learn new things 10. Why do you love to teach? A: It’s fun to see kids learn new things they never learned Photos & Report By Jake Carnahan-Curcio The formal this year turned out wonderfully! There were so many students dressed up fancy! The dance was well decorated and was nicely arranged. There was also a really nice selection at the snack table in the cafeteria. This dance actually had the tables out in the cafeteria! Form my understanding, students were complaining during the last dance because there was no where to sit and enjoy snacks. The lovely ladies selling snacks were Mrs. Stanko (who looked very nice in coral) & Mrs. Rook. The snacks that were sold were Cool Ranch Doritos, white cheddar popcorn, Rice Krispies, Scooby Snax, & chocolate bars. Let me just say: they were delicious! Also the ladies said "It's a pleasure doing business with you" after serving every student. The people at the door providing tickets were Mr. Chamberlain & Mrs. Carney. The other two chaperons were Mrs. Kloss & Mr. Mosier. They were out on the dance floor with the rest of the students. It seemed that everyone was indeed enjoying themselves, even with the slight music malfunction at the beginning of the dance. During the dance, I had interviewed a few students. I asked them what their opinions were about the dance. Here are their thoughts: Kaylee Walker: "The dance is great so far!" (said during the dance) Karissa Prosser: "I wish that they had the bleachers down so that we could sit." She had also mentioned that in years before they were down during the dance. Cassie Ford: "Sometimes I wish we had more dances like this" I had also interviewed the person in charge of the dance, Mr. Chamberlain, and Mr. Stanko and Mrs. Carney. Here are their thoughts: Mrs. Carney said that the dance was well attended. She also said that s was wonderful to see students dressed up nicely. The one thing she liked the most was seeing everyone include everyone being kind. She said that is shows that middle school students have a "nice culture". Mr. Stanko said that it was also nice to see everyone dressed up and having a good time. He also said that he liked being able to do a different theme every time. He said that the music didn't go as well as planned but everyone was patient He also complimented the decorations and said that Mr. Chaimberlain did a very nice job. He told me that 155 people came to the dance. He said that there have been dances in the past where 170 or so came but those dances weren't formals. And Lastly, Mr. Chamberlain's opinion. He said that most of the students dressed fantastically and stepped it up. He said that there were many wonderful dresses and bow ties worn. .He was very impressed by the bow ties because he supposedly can't tie a bow tie! And he was happy that the DJ had found new speakers and fixed the mishap with the music. Over the past four months, North Central PA middle school students visited manufacturing locations to create videos answering the question: "What's So Cool About Manufacturing?" Kane is one of the MS that is participating in this content. All videos are available to viewed and voted on the site.
Vote for Kane at: DreamItDoItPA.com By Ashleigh causer
I interviewed mason who is in 7th grade. His favorite sports are football and wrestling. He likes the Bills for the NFl. His favorite animal is the red panda. He likes the color blue. He likes to shop at Cabela’s. The subjects he likes are World Geography and math. He watches baseball, and he likes the New York Yankees. Fall is his favorite season. He helps students that need help and also likes to participate in class. These are some things about Mason. By: Dawson Glogau 1. Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to. 2. Flowers can grow faster by listening to music 3. The song Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving 4. In 2015, Astronaut Chris Hadfield released the first album of songs recorded entirely in space. 5. When Benjamin Franklin invented his own harmonica, it became so popular in Europe that Mozart and Beethoven composed music for it. 6. Music can help severely brain-injured patients recall personal memories. 7. 5% of people have a biological disdain for music, called "musical anhedonia." 8. The word "music" comes from the Muses, goddesses of the arts in Greek mythology. 9. Music, painting, poetry, literature and architecture, all used to be part of the modern Olympic Games from 1912 to 1948. 10. There's a "sea organ" built on the coast of Croatia that plays music like an organ when waves crash in and out of it 11. Pianos can have upwards of 12,000 individual parts. 12. 'Ukulele' translates as 'jumping flea', likely after the movement of the player's fingers 13. Playing music regularly will physically alter your brain structure. 14. None of the Beatles could read or write music. 15. Warner Music Group collects approximately $2 million/year in licensing fees for the song "Happy Birthday to You". 16. A single violin is made up of 70 different pieces of wood 17. The London Symphony Orchestra was booked to travel on the Titanic's maiden voyage, but they changed boats at the last minute. 18. The Japanese word 'karaoke' comes from a phrase meaning 'empty orchestra'. 19. The most famous violins in the world are constructed of wood with tiny holes 20. Listening to music while exercising can significantly improve your work-out performance. The Kane area school district will be presenting "The Wizard of Oz." Usually the yearly musical is just open to high schoolers, but this year it was open to middle age elemtary schoolers up to 12th grade. The younger kids were munchkins, the middle schoolers were other minor parts and the high schoolers had most speaking roles and leads.
The first photo is of Meredith Rasey, the wicked witch of the West and two fifth graders. The second and third photos are of the poppies practicing their dance. The poppies are all middle schoolers. The final photo is all of the munchkins getting prepared to practice. Make sure to see all of these people and everyone else's hard work. You can see the musical on March 30, 31 and April 1. Article by Jillian Watts This "can you spot it" is an item that you can find in school and most likely at home too. This might be a little tricky, so good luck!!it.
This year’s Science Olympiad teams from both the middle school and high school, competed with fifteen other schools of northwestern Pennsylvania at the Penn State Behrend in Erie on March 7th. The teams have been practicing at their schools since early January. Preparing to compete consisted of; after school practices, and during KANE period, and some at home preparation. Their hard work has paid off! The team did very well and brought home ten medals!
Aldin Payne and Nick Marconi got first place in Reach for the Stars, an event to do with astronomy. Carter Carlisle and Wyatt Jenson took first place in Optics, an event on lasers. Avery Bechakas and Samantha Hulings- second place in Disease Detectives, which is an event about diseases. Nick Marconi, Carter Carlisle, and Wyatt Jensen took second place in Experimental Design. Joshua Greville and Justin Mishic took second place in Hovercraft. A machine that had steps for the travel of a ball was built by Nick Marconi and Jonathan Mishic won a second place metal. Aldin Payne and Nick Marconi won third place in a meteorology event Mackenzie Blankenship and Aldin Payne won fourth place in Dynamic Planet, and event that focuses on the geographic features of the Earth Justin Mishic and Joshua Greville showed their map skills and acquired fourth place in Road Scholar. Aldin Payne and Carter Carlisle got fourth place in Tower, they built a tower that held over 17kgs. The students in both schools did an amazing job at the competition. Congratulations to them! Submitted by Mrs. K. Johnson
The Kane Area Middle School Accelerated Reader winners for the month of February have been announced. The students who earned the most points in each grade level are Abigail Deane (6th grade, 149 points), Ashleigh Causer (7th grade, 98 points), and Nick Marconi (8th grade, 115 points). Winners who were randomly drawn as basket winners are Elaina Deane (6th grade), Grace Tigani (7th grade), and Brooke Lehman (8th grade). Pictured from left to right are Ashleigh Causer, Grace Tigani, Elaina Deane, Abigail Deane, Nick Marconi, and Brooke Lehman. |
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