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Juggling Club
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 (247 reads)

Juggling Club

By Michelle Kiger

Some kids like to take up sports as an after school activity, some the arts. Some other kids just sit around all day on the couch and eat potato chips. But some choose to juggle.

The Fundraiser
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (162 reads)

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.

Youth Volunteer Club
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (189 reads)

Youth Volunteer Club

By Raven Brown

The Youth Volunteer Club (YVC) has been around for quite a while. The name of the club is self explanatory; the members of the club volunteer their time and hard work to those in need.

Knowledge Bowl
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (152 reads)

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.

The NICE Group
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (71 reads)

The NICE Group

By Sandra Jimenez Vega

The Native Indian Centered Education group specializes in helping young people who have a native heritage by tutoring them in math, language arts, and social studies.The students have to be Native American or have native heritage to be able to participate in this group.

Bridge Club
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (172 reads)

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.

African American History Challenge
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (153 reads)

African American History Challenge

by Lizzy Forrest

African American History Challenge is a club that helps adolescents learn about the African American Heritage. They meet on every Tuesday from 2:40-4:00 in the library. They also meet four Saturdays at UNO in the Milo Bail Student Center to get the feel of a challenge. They will also meet once at Northwest High School in February for their challenge.

Getting Tutored In Math?
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (157 reads)

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.

The Chess Team
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (210 reads)

The Chess Team

By Breanna League

"People either love or hate chess, there’s no in between," said Mr. Walter, the Chess Team coordinator.
The Chess Team meets on Tuesdays. Walter learned how to play chess from a friend in college, and thinks that chess is very competitive. "People who play online are especially competitive," said Walter.

Book Blasters
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (163 reads)

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.

Dance Postponed
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (168 reads)

Dance postponed

By Baileigh Shannon

Don’t get too excited students, the fall dance has been postponed until December. “One of the main reasons why the dance was postponed is that more time is needed for the planning of the activities and prizes for the dance,” said Mrs. Meadows, C.R.R

Special Projects
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (81 reads)

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.

Author Brenda Woods Visits
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (3866 reads)

Author Brenda Woods Visits

by Crystal Ishii & Keisha Witcher

Brenda Woods, author of Emako Blue, graduated from California State University Northridge. She had no degree in writing, but started writing in 1994. However, growing up in middle school and high school, her favorite subjects were art, reading, and being a part of the yearbook staff.

All That Jazz
Sunday, November 11, 2007 (177 reads)

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.

NJHS
Thursday, November 08, 2007 (196 reads)

National Junior Honor Society

By Keonna Chambers

What is NJHS? That is what a lot of people ask. NJHS stands for National Junior Honor Society.

Knitting Club
Thursday, November 08, 2007 (175 reads)

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.

Mathletes
Thursday, November 08, 2007 (175 reads)

Mathletes

By Steven Rose

The Math Team is the people who go to competitions and represent the school by showing their math skills. They meet every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in computer lab 262. They competed in the North High competition on October 31, 2007 and they finished in first place.


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Ms. O'Neill in the house!
Monday, November 10, 2008 (37 reads)

Ms. O'Neill in the house!

By Andreas Butler

Ms. O’Neill is happy to be a student teacher at McMillan and thinks the students and teachers are fun so far. She student taught under the direction of Ms. Balentine in language arts and journalism first quarter.

Ms. De'Brie
Monday, November 10, 2008 (60 reads)

Ms. De'Brie

by Lauren Vlasek

There is a new staff member at school. Her name is Ms. De’Brie and she teaches language arts. She graduated from a Nebraska Wesleyan in 2003 and she is from Lincoln, Nebraska. She used to teach language arts at a school in Las Vegas. “I decided I wanted to teach at McMillan because I heard really good things about it,” Debrie said.

The New Counseler
Monday, November 10, 2008 (33 reads)

The New Counselor

By ashton Watson -Jones

A new counselor, Ms.Gregor, said she likes the kids, the building and the friendly staff. Gregor used to be a fifth grade teacher at Liberty Elementary. “I like helping kids look toward the future and fix mistakes,” said Greogor.

Ericka Payton
Monday, November 10, 2008 (31 reads)

Ericka Payton

By McKenzie Cook

This year we have a new teacher Ericka Payton. This is Payton’s first year of teaching at McMillan, last year she assisted with Connie Colton. This year she is in room 254 teaching mathematics.

Mr. Bengier, A New Face
Monday, November 10, 2008 (31 reads)

Mr. Bengier, a new face
By Alexandrea O'Donnell

As there have been many new faces in the hallways, one is Mr. Bengier. Mr. Bengier came from North high school where he taught chemistry and human growth and developement.

Andrew Smith
Monday, November 10, 2008 (32 reads)

Andrew Smith

By Emily Jensen

The new eighth grade social studies teacher is Mr. Smith. This is his first year teaching. Smith said he wanted to teach social studies because he loves history and government and he was never really good at math or science. Smith went to Papillion La Vista High School and attended college at UNO.

Race for Kids
Monday, November 10, 2008 (25 reads)

Race for Kids

By Stacia One Feather

The Race for Kids are for kids who run to help donate money for kids in need. Kids run for at least a mile or half a mile. Ms. Madsen, math teacher, was the contact person at the school.

HSP
Monday, November 10, 2008 (35 reads)

Honors Special Projects

By Ashleigh Gildon

Honor Special Projects is a program for the gifted students. These kids have high abilities above most. To get into the class, students have to get high CAT scores.

Science in Motion Trip
Monday, November 10, 2008 (30 reads)

Science in Motion Trip

By Austin Price

The Science in Motion trip will take place in Orlando, Florida. There are about ten people going on the trip. The sponsors for the trip are former science teacher, Mrs. Washington and language arts teacher, Mrs. Smith. This is their third and final year for the trip.

Pride Shirts and Stars
Sunday, November 02, 2008 (53 reads)

Pride Shirts and Stars

By Peyton Suggs

This is the second year for Pride Shirts. Dr. Bigsby, principal, started Pride Shirts so that every student could be branded. When students or teachers wear their shirts in public, people will know they go to McMillan Magnet.

Mrs. Kuti New The Building
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (44 reads)

Mrs. Kuti New To The Building

By Gavrella Dickey

Mrs. Kuti is one of the new paras for the Contained Classroom. This is Kuti’s first year. Before she taught at Nathan Hale, Beveridge, Hartman Elementary, and Adams Elementary. Kuti has been teaching for 17 years.

Trick-or-Treating Teachers
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (44 reads)

Trick-or-Treating Teachers

By Katie Randall

Students aren't the only ones who celebrate Halloween. Teachers do too. Some teachers celebrate with their children, some go to parties, and some simply stay at home and hand out candy.

New Music Teacher
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (42 reads)

New Music Teacher

By Alyssa Mount

Ms. Morgan is a new teacher added to the staff this year. She teaches Music Tech, band, and orchestra. Morgan was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She attended this school and Omaha North High School. She graduated college at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Favorite Foods
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (38 reads)

Favorite Foods

by Joi'Lesha White

Every student has a favorite food. Some people like greens and vegetables. Others like pork chops and meats. Everyone is different in their own way.

Not a Student nor a teacher
Friday, October 31, 2008 (39 reads)

Not a Student nor a Teacher

by Joe Jamrozy

There is a person at school that is not a student nor a teacher, she is in fact a paraprofessional. Her name is Ms. Meyers and she is an assistant to Ms. Staley, teacher in the special needs class.

Library News
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (86 reads)

Library News

by Liz Winkler

There are some new things in store for the library. There are new websites, new books, new clubs and much more. Surely some students have been wondering about laptops for the school.

New Reading Teacher
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (66 reads)

New Reading Teacher

By Danielle Ishii

New to the school this year is eighth grade reading and literature teacher, Ms. Harkleroad. Born and raised in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Harkleroad attended Buna Vista University. She started college at the age of 21 and attended college for 5 years.


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School Rules
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (44 reads)

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.

New snacks at lunch needed Nd Improved Prices!
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (47 reads)

New Snacks Needed

By Justin DeLaRosa

Should there be different choices at lunch that teens would like? For me I think that we need new snack items like pop, energy drinks, and maybe some candy bars. Candy bars I’d like offered would be Snickers, Milky Ways, Babe Ruths, Kit Kats, Hershey’s chocolate (also cookies and cream) bars, Butter Fingers, Twix, M&Ms, Hershey’s Kisses, Dove.

We Need Drinks!
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (40 reads)

We Need Drinks!

by Loren Ransome

Are you thirsty? I know I am. I am sick and tired of milk! Get us some soda and vitamin water. I’m tired of picturing a cow every time I go to lunch.

Violence needs to come to an END!
Monday, May 26, 2008 (104 reads)

Violence needs to come to an END!

By Kibra Watts

Violence in Omaha, is getting worse by the minute. We had 5 weekend shootings not too long ago. Now, that in my opinion is just too much! The first weekend shooting was near 24^th and Lake Streets. A 24 year old man was shot in his car in a parking lot of a convenience store at 2 A.M. The second shooting was Sunday at 2:30 A.M. on 30^th and Ames Ave. A 21- year old man was shot by an off-duty police officer.

Hugs are the drugs
Thursday, April 10, 2008 (199 reads)

Hugs are the drugs

By Samee Callahan

Getting a hug from a good friend in the morning can brighten any ones day, I know it does mine. I probably get around 40 hugs a day, and each one of those hugs makes me feel even more loved. It shows how much my friends really care about me.


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Cross Counrty
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (47 reads)

Cross Counrty

by Emanuel Acosta

The Cross Country team has been running like crazy! They have just finished their running season at Tranquility park. This was Mr. Benak is third year couching after the old gym teacher retired.

Volleyball
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (46 reads)

Volleyball

By Cooper Loth

The volleyball A-team had a total of 15 games and won 8 of them. The B-team had a total of 13 games and won 7 of them. Kallie Jones,7, said Mrs. Preston, and Mrs. Price were really good.

lightweight football team
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (49 reads)

Lightweight Football Team

by Ayoma Watts

Coach O’Donnell led the football lightweight team. The lightweight football team were 120 pounds and under. In practice the lightweight football team did drills and scrimmaged each other. There were 25 people on a team. Team member Charles Jackson, 8, said they won 2 games and lost two games.

The Spirit Squad
Saturday, November 01, 2008 (42 reads)

The Spirit Squad

By Jessica Corona

The Spirit Squad has been seen at numerous games cheering on the team members. They are under the direction of Ms. Harkleroad, reading teacher. Many of the girls said they like to be in the spirit squad because they like cheering and dancing.

Track Meet
Monday, May 26, 2008 (146 reads)

Track Meet

By: Keisha Witcher

There were a lot of students on the schools track team. Mr. Dillon, the boys’ gym teacher; Ms. Premer, a math teacher; and Mr. Meyer, a math teacher, said they enjoy working with the students on the track team.


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