Students Using Hands on Materials By: Ben Pletch

Paw Prints

Here is your Mattoon Middle School newspaper filled with

sports, upcoming events and games! We hope you enjoy your

new newspaper.

2019

Hands on Projects 1

Art Class 2

Teacher of the Month Interview

2

Sports Headlines 2

Book of the Month 3

Upcoming Service Projects

3

The Art of Yoga 3

Inside this issue:

Special points of interest:

Check out the back

page for Paw Print

Puzzles!

Miss Unkraut and Miss Johnson both have created a science fair for their students to

receive the opportunity to research and investigate scientific questions. They said

they wanted students to get to learn how to work in a group, collaborate, and prob-

lem solve. They also wanted to give students a chance to show off their creativity

and interests. What do they do in this class? Good question! The 6th and 7th graders

will create a scientific question that they will come up with; then the teacher will

pair them to a group of other students that have the same interests, so they can be a

7th grader from Johnson or a 6th grader from Unkraut. Then they put them in groups

so they can test their scientific question. In their groups THEY are in charge of cre-

ating a middle ground for ideas for their experiment and then analyzing the data and

forming conclusions.

The students said they enjoy the enrichment class be-cause they do more hands-on

educational things that will help them lat-

er.

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This year’s art class is extremely creative!

They do projects called W.O.W. works,

which stands for Wonderful Original

Works of Art. These W.O.W. works are the

students own projects that are inspired by

whatever they want to create. The 8th grade

is doing projects based off of statistics and

creating anything to represent it.

A student named Jace Gardener explained

his project and how it related to the statistic

theme. “I am doing a chart for what I do in

a day.” We asked him what kinds of things

he does in a day and he replied with, “I go

to the Y and play basketball, play Fortnite

and 2K, and ride dirt bikes.” Jace’s chart is

a pie chart showing the statistic theme by

dividing the pie

chart to show how

much he does

these things dur-

ing the day.

Another student

named Lorelei

Warren explained

what she was

doing, but it was-

n’t statistic

themed. “I’m making an invention. It’s

called the plag, it’s a pillow bag for the

homeless.” Lorelei is not just making beau-

tiful art, she is helping the community and

the people who don’t have homes.

Alexis Tucker is a student who is very cre-

ative using the statistic theme. “For each

book I’m going to try and make people,

like each one a different person.” Alexis

believes people should be treated the same,

and it doesn’t matter what their shape or

size is.

Josie Auer is a

student who

made a picture

on what it may

look like inside

your skittles

bag! This sweet

treat comes in

an abundance of

different colors

and is loved by

many. “I’m doing a skittles thing with sta-

tistics, and how many skittles are normally

in a bag, or not normally in a bag but an

average of what colors may be in the

bag.”

It looks like there are statistics not only in

your everyday life, but also in your sweet

day, November 22nd (That’s the

big game against the Charleston

Trojans!). Make sure to check the

“Wildcat Nation” board outside of

the Cafeteria door for all of the

upcoming sports events taking

place her at MMS. Don’t forget to

congratulate all of our girl basket-

Come join us for a school wide

tailgate on Friday, November

22nd before the boys basketball

game against Charleston, The first

boys B team home basketball

game is on Thursday, November

7th and the first boys A team has

their first basketball game on Fri-

ball players for a great season so far!

Good job Wildcats!

Wildcat Sports

Art Class By: Makyla Chasteen

Michaelangelo: What is your favorite part about being a

teacher?”

Miss Johnson: “My favorite part has to be that there is

never a dull moment, and it doesn’t matter who your

teaching or which group of kids it is; they always keep

you on your toes.”

Michaelangelo: “Why did you want to become a teacher?”

Miss Johnson: “Because my mom was a teacher and I

remember how excited she was to be a science teacher. I

was surprised how interesting it was to be a middle school

teacher.”

Michaelangelo: “What is your favorite part about summer

break?”

Miss Johnson: “My favorite part is hands down, is sleep-ing in and getting caught up on reading books.”

Teacher Interview, Miss Sarah Johnson By: Michelangelo Reynolds

Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 3

Mare Barrow’s world is di-vided by blood; red and sil-vers. Mare’s blood is red, destined to serve the royal and all-powerful silvers. But

as Mare accidently succeeds in a mistake beyond com-pare, she may get a taste of the powers silvers have al-

ways known. Because in a

world of deadly wires, Mare might be the electricity that could test a kingdom and slowly bring it to its knees. In

this thrilling series-starter, Victoria Aveyard pulls to-gether a web of lies and twists so thick that even pow-ers over blood may be the

one downfall to an empire of fire.

are due back to Mrs. Minger by

Friday, November 15th in order

to participate! Hope to see you

there!

This event will also be open to

community members, who can

register by calling the MMS of-

fice!

Come join us for “The Art of Yo-

ga” on November 19th from 2:30-

3:30! This event is open to all

MMS students that would like to

participate. If you are interested,

stop by the library to pick up a

Goal Setting Sheet from Mrs.

Minger. All Goal Setting Sheets

The Art of Yoga

Book of the Month by: Lance Chaney

visible people in our community?

Who are the people, we as a socie-

ty, take for granted?" The quote

resonated with students in differ-

ent ways, which led students to

take initiative in different service

projects. The classroom is current-

ly divided into four groups based

on student passion, interest, and

strengths. The different service

projects are a video to recognize

"invisible" people in Mattoon, a

coin drive for The Haven, a drive

of some sort (possibly coats), and

publicity planning. These projects

were ideas from students and will

be completely student led. Each

student felt a connection to the

characters and felt motivated to

serve others through acts of kind-

ness.

Miss Scott's enrichment read An

Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff

during first quarter. The book is

based on a true story about a boy

named Maurice, who met a wom-

an named Laura as he was pan-

handling on the streets to get mon-

ey for food. This was the start of a

life changing relationship between

the two. As the class read, they

focused on a quote from another

book, Piecing Me Together by

Renee Watson. "Who are the in-

Upcoming Service Projects

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