The Fundraiser

By Nichole Wicken

    “I really want to get the limo ride!” Kayla Clarkson, 8 exclaimed.

    She has a long way to go. Clarkson sold 7 items total. She has been doing fundraising for her school since third grade. “I wish I could have sold more,” said Clarkson.

Knowledge Bowl

By Tyler Wolterman

    Students, get ready for a new year of Knowledge Bowl! Knowledge Bowl is an activity where students compete against other schools in questions about all subjects in school. “There are thousands of schools participating from their location at the same time,” said Ms. Clasen, supervisor.

Bridge Club

by Keisha Witcher

    Sponsor Mrs. Figueroa started the Bridge Club last year because it is a challenging game to play and it helps kids with their knowledge skills. There are at least 20 to 25 students in the Bridge Club. Playing the game benefits children by helping them improve their social skills, team work, and math skills.

Getting Tutored In Math?

By  Leigh Gustafson

    Math tutoring is a place in the school where math lessons and activities are provided. It is held in a lab, so students get to use hands-on materials such as computers. If chosen, math games that work the brain, while letting students enjoy them, are also available. 

Book Blasters
By Crystal Ishii

            Book Blasters is a club where students are required to read 18 books over a five month period and then compete against other teams from all of middle schools in OPS. A competition will be held on March 21 at Girls Inc. Students prepare for this competition by meeting together once a month and remembering events and characters from each story.

 Special Projects

By  Brittany Kellogg

What is Special Projects? Is it fun? Well, Special Projects is a class eighth grade students could choose to take instead of Spanish, debate, journalism, or honors literature; if students weren’t required to take another year of reading. The students also had to be selected to take this class.  “I’m glad I picked to do this again because it’s fun,” said Sheree Haynie, 8.   

All That Jazz

by Max Dearing

What is jazz band? "It’s really to give out another opportunity for the kids to play their instruments, gives them more of a chance to learn about jazz, and most of all, have fun," said Mrs. Erickson, Orchestra and Band director.

Knitting Club

by Christine Anderson

      Mrs. Erickson, band director, is the coordinator of the Knitting Club. She likes the feeling of making something out of nothing. She wants to share that feeling with the students throughout the school.

Students Of The Month

By: Hanna Venclauskas

It's not even that hard to do, just do work and try hard. Then the reward will to become student of the month. PTO holds Star Student of the Month, one for each of the 11 departments.

Teachers Celebrate Christmas

 By Alex Christensen

It's that time of year again when everyone is getting ready for their perfect Christmas. Teachers do various different things. Some celebrate Christmas Eve with family and then Christmas day with another family.

New Student Teacher

By Shelby Hodge

Art got a helping hand as, Ms. Stark helped Ms. Sherman. She said her experience with the students was very positive. “Everything here just seems to fall into place,”said Stark.

The New Staff

By Mik'Asia Strickland

Ms. Wallman a new teacher to the building grew up on a farm south from Lincoln. She attended Norris High School in Firth, Nebraska. In High School Wallman was an average student, but she was very well involved. Her favorite subject in High School was family and Consumer and also science.

Inspirations within Teachers

By Austin Jackson

        The definition of inspiration is a thing or someone who inspires. The definition of inspires is to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence. In short an inspiration gives a person the momentum to do something. The school has many inspiring teachers.

Why should we have it

by Clintasha Westbrook 

   Why are kids always saying, “She’s/ he’s rude, she/he has no manners, she/he don’t know me with his/her negative attitude.” Well you have to give respect to get respect. It it’s not hard, so why do some people make it?

 Cold School busses

By: Cooper Loth

If you ride a school bus then you know that when it’s cold, it’s not cool. When I get on a bus I would like to be able to take my coat off and not be cold. It’s not cool that I’m sitting there shivering on the bus. It should be warming me up, not making me freeze.

School Rules

By McKenzie Nienaber

There are many school rules I'm not used to. Lunch is very different, you can't get up to throw away your trash, you have to wait till a teacher comes and takes it to put it in a garbage can. Also, when you sit down at lunch you have to sit with the people in the same class as you.

GO Team GO!!

By Precious Gaspard

Under the direction of Mrs.Harckleroad, the reading teacher, cheer squad is joined together. Forty-seven girls tried out only twenty-three made the squad. Harckleroad said that when she was younger she cheered as well. That inspired her to take the time and teach them all of the cheers and help come up with dances.

 Girls Volleyball

by Kaitlyn Faurot

Boys Football Season

by Jessa Royer

 Football season started the first week of school, many guys tried out and only 53 made it all the way through. Tristin Taylor, 8, said that there are many responsibilities that come along with playing football, but overall it’s a good sport. He plays outside of school for the Omaha Bobcats.

I Can Transform Ya

by David Knight 

Chris Brown has done it again releasing another hit song in I Can Transform Ya. Featuring Lil Wayne and Swizz Beats. The song is kind of going toward the transformer robot side probably from all the success of the current transformer movies.

A Christmas Carol

by Hannah Ramsgard

A Christmas Carol  is a classic story with the Scrooge and the three spirits. I think they did a good job of actually going along with the story and not adding in their own extra features like other movies from books or stage shows have done. I see too many good books and plays becoming something they’re not on a screen.

A Gift of a Friend

By Danielle Young

A person with musical talent wrote and sang this heart-swelling song, Demi Lovato. And the song she wrote is titled Gift of a Friend. I've gotta tell you it's a great song.

 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

By Lucas Hinton

Have you ever stepped outside during a cloudy day and saw a huge 15ft hot dog plummeting down at you with a very high velocity? If not I suggest seeing the latest 3D movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. This is based on the children's book with the same title.