EDITORS: VALERIA MALFAVON SARAH SCOTT Wings MADDIE KROLL ST. CATHERINE’S NEWSPAPER, GRADES 6-8 MARCH 29, 2019

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"My favorite part was when we "I am SO, SO PROUD got to of my forensics team. choose a Not only did three of my girls win individual bowl." trophies last night at our meet but "Eating with we also won THIRD my friends PLACE AS A TEAM!!!! ." It was an amazing night and these girls "The are so inspiring and breadsticks." wonderful. I am so proud to be their coach. They also all "Picking qualified to go to our bowls." State!!!" ~Ms. Petzke, Forensics Coach and SCHS English Teacher

“How was your day?” “Life doesn’t come with a MOM “Give me your phone.” manual, it comes with a mom.” “Have a good day.” “No matter your age you always Quotes “Even if you don’t win you could still need your mom.” win in my heart, if you change at least “Not everybody will be your Quotes By: one person’s perspective.” friend.“ MS students quoting their “Peace is the beauty of life.” “Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” moms “Do good today hun!” “If you don’t have anything nice Compiled by: “I love you.” to say don’t say anything.” Mariah Pfeifer / Maddie Kroll “You have one mom and it’s the only “Do your best.” one you’ll ever have.” “Work smarter not harder.” “Do your work.” “Don’t be like me, be better.” “Do you have homework?” “I’m your mom, not your friend.” Wings 3/29/192/15/19 Issue 1 By: Arianna Macias and Margarita Reyes-Peña ADVICE COLUMN DIY Credit: Arianna Macias DIY Dear Andy, Why are you cutting the middle school program? CONFETTI Sincerely, ~ Confused EGGS Dear Confused, They are cutting the middle school because they YOU WILL NEED: think it is a better choice, both academically and otherwise. When they cut the middle school program • As many eggs as there will be more opportunities for high school. They wanted would be able to add more classes and programs. While • Tape or glue they would be decreasing overall student enrollment, • Confetti it will be a better environment for learning. Finally, more sections of middle school grades will be added to • Tissue paper other Siena Schools in Racine for people still wanting a • Paint Catholic, private school education. • Brushes Sincerely, • Plates Dear Andy, How do I get my grades up? Sincerely, ~ Struggling Student WHAT TO DO: Dear Struggling Student, 1. First you crack the egg Everybody has trouble once in a while regarding their from the top with a grades. Even I myself have struggled with grades every hole about as big as now and again. My advice to you comes in two parts. your thumb. ONE: HOMEWORK. Obviously, right? By this I mean to actually go home and pick your iPad back up. We all get 2. Then you take out the relieved at the end of the day to finally put our iPad away egg yolk and egg and at last go home. However, you can’t forget that white. Make sure to after school, you still have to take out your iPad. SECOND: ASK! Yes, it’s always awkward to ask your teachers for put it into a bowl and help on a subject that you’re “supposed to” understand. not waste it. After that, However, you’ll only benefit from asking a teacher for wash it and let it dry. help. So don’t be afraid to ask for help, teachers actually praise that. Good Luck and know it can be possible! One 3. Once it dries you can grade at a time! start painting it. After Sincerely, you paint it let it dry for about an hour. 4. After the paint is dry, put the confetti in it. Then cut a little piece newspaper staff of tissue paper that can cover the hole. Cecillia Garcia Emilio Espinoza You can either Mia Gimbel Esmerelda Ruelas * Madeline Kroll~ Heaven Tanner

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A S Wings 3/29/19 Issue 2 +Manager Wings 2/15/19 Issue 2 Quotes By: Upcoming What does EASTER MS students answering poll Compiled by: Events mean to you? Mrs. Aguila by Emma Scott and Mrs. Aguila I think it means to be with family and friends and to enjoy Easter. Monday - Friday, April 1-5 t means get to eat a lot of food • Forward Make Up Testing I I . Tuesday, April 9 Chocolate, family, and Jesus rising from the dead. • No MS Classes Having fun with my family. Friday, April 12 Are you It means celebrating Jesus’ life and loving life. • Middle School Play 7 p.m. going to church esus dying for to save us from sin on Easter? Saturday, April 13 J . • Middle School Play 2 p.m. Fun bonding time. • Black and White Ball I think it means that you should be TBD with your family and go to church. • Stations by Shadows he day esus rose from the dead and Wednesday, April 17 T J • Holy Week Mass he was on the earth 40 more days. Friday, April 19 - Sunday, April 28 • Easter Break-No School Sunday, April 21 uotes y • Happy Easter Q B : What is your favorite MS students answering poll Monday, April 29 Compiled by: • Classes Resume thing about EASTER? Mrs. Aguila Sunday, May 5 • Festival of the Arts The money in the eggs Family, friends, CaNdY! Thursday, May 9th Partying with my family When my grandma cooks • 6th Gr. Mlwaukee Art Museum/ Eating 100,000,000 plates of food Dying eggs and cracking Cathedral of St. John Field-trip The Easter Egg Hunt them on people heads

FOOD By: Esmerelda Ruelas REVIEW FEATURED NATURE McDonald's Photography by Wynter LaCount We took our order and got our correct food order really fast. We also didn't have to pay for extra sauce! Nuggets and Grilled Chicken Sandwich both taste very good. The fries were a little salty but still good. The drive thru is always fast and the service is always friendly. The restrooms are usually clean, they have a great dollar menu, friendly staff, and a good steady management team. Wings 3/29/19 Issue 3 172 Jokes Poll responses Selected by: Valeria Malfavon By: Mariah Pfeifer If you’re American when you go into the bathroom and American when you come out, what are you in the What is your favorite What are you doing bathroom? European spring flower? on Easter?

What do you call a fish with no eyes?A fsh Iris Dying eggs What do you call a can opener that Pansy Going out to eat doesn’t work? A can’t opener Tulip Having a party There are three types of people in the Freesia Hanging with friends/family world. Those who can count and those Azalea who can’t Hyacinth What is Forrest Gump’s email password? Ha1forrest1 FEATURED Compiled by: Arianna Macias 7th Grade Artwork Winner 6TH, 7TH AND 8TH GRADE and Mrs. Aguila Kimora Corbitt

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Title: The Selection Rating: 5/5 Genre: Dystopian, Romance” Author: Kiera Cass Reading level: Grades 3-5

Summary: America Singer lives an ordinary life. A perfect mix of doing the work she loves, enjoying time with her family, and even sneaking out to see her secret lover. Her whole life changes when she finds out that she is one of the 35 suiters in the Selection. The Selection is a process that the eldest son of the royal family goes through to find his perfect match. America is sure that there is no way that she will fall in love with Prince Maxon, and she is determined not to let the ideas of fancy dresses, royal balls, and most importantly, being a princess and eventually queen, get to her. But she was wrong... Rating: 5/5 Grade level: 3-8 Genre: Fantasy Book Review Wings 3/29/19 Issue 4 by: Alive Selected by: Maddie Kroll Faculty Interview Arianna poetry By: Natasha Sajé Macias & Fr. Bill Mariah You and me, of course, and the animals Pfeifer we feed and then slaughter. The boxelder What is your Favorite Color? bug with its dot of red, yeast in the air My favorite color is Red. making bread and wine, bacteria in yogurt, carrots, the apple tree, hat is one word you would use to W each white blossom. And rock, which lives describe yourself? so slowly it’s hard to imagine it I would use the word “Wordy” to as sand then glass. A sea called dead is one that describe myself. will not mirror us. We think as human beings we deserve every last thing. Say What is your favorite movie? the element copper. Incandescence My favorite movie is The guns of glowing bright and soft like Venus. Ductile as a shewolf’s eyes pigmented red avaronne N . or green, exposed to acid in the air. Copper primes your liver, its mines leach lead What is your favorite dish? and arsenic. Smelting is to melting Steak and potatoes is my favorite dish. the way smite is to mite. A violence of extraction. What’s lost when a language What is your favorite hobby? dies? When its tropes oppose our own? My favorite hobby is Fixing things. In the at-risk language Aymara the past stretches out in front, the future Why did you decide to become a priest? lags behind. Imagine being led I heard a call from god. by knowing, imagine the end as clear.

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What is your favorite place to visit? What’s your favorite snack? My favorite place to visit is a beautiful old Apples church with stained glass windows. What’s your favorite video game? What place would you like to visit in the Sword Art Online Integral Factor future? hat is your favorite movie vengers I would like to visit the holy land. W ? A Infinity War If you can describe your perfect vacation how Bill Fr. would it be? Meet My perfect vacation would be involved in What’s your the one of my hobbies like fixing old homes and favorite Staff playing music. color? Blue or Arianna Macias Turquoise Do you have any pets? If you do what is it? Interview by: Emilio Espinoza I enjoy the pet dogs in our friary. What is your favorite season? What is your favorite holiday? Why? Summer My favorite holiday is Christmas. because my family and I go to the beach and have fun What is your happiest childhood memory? outside My favorite childhood memory was getting a What is your happiest memory? My 3rd birthday party guitar for my birthday What is your favorite thing about Newspaper club? I get to do fun things Wings 3/29/19 Issue 5 with my friends. https://www.livewellbakeoften.com/the-best-carrot-cake-recipe/ Happy Birthday! By: Emilio Espinoza

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by: Emilio 1. Pre-heat the oven to 350°F E • In Switzerland it’s illegal to own just sp in 2. In a bowl, mix together flour,baking o one guinea pig. z a • Snakes can predict an earthquake powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and around five days before it actually salt. happens! 3. In another bowl, mix together oil, • So far two diseases have been eggs, brown sugar, granulated sugar, eradicated; smallpox and rinderpest. applesauce, and vanilla extract. • Cherophobia is an irrational fear of 4. Then add grated carrots. fun or happiness! 5. Mix the wet and dry together, after pour the • 7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk mix into your pans. comes from brown cows. 6. Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes. • If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground, it can’t jump and loses its balance, makings it fall over. DIRECTIONS FOR FROSTING • Bananas are curved because they grow towards 7. In a bowl, beat cream cheese with a hand the sun. mixer. Then add powdered sugar and • The inventor of the frisbee was cremated and vanilla extract. turned into a frisbee. 8. Frost your cake after cooled and enjoy!

https://www.thefactsite.com/top-100-random-funny-facts/ Wings 3/29/19 Issue 6 Mrs. A’s by Mrs. Sarah Aguila Spring Fav’s Book Spotify Current Allegiant Deep Focus P(tolaylist help hows I’m Reading: S me focus on getting Product Tidying Up my thesis done!) Hart of Dixie Movie (I finally saw!) Simple Mills One Strange Rock Fantastic Beasts: The Chocolate Cake Crimes of Grindelwald and Muffin Mix February Recap Spring Favorites CHOCOLATE CAKE BED FORT WITH SLIDE I haven’t had any time to We are in the process of try any new recipes, but my making my son’s room more husband bought me some interactive. My husband is chocolate cake mixes. I doing most of the work, but I then cover them with my paint and offer advice when chocolate recipe from last I’m not working on my thesis. issue as the frosting. This This was one of our inspiration brand (Simple Mills) is great photos. Photos to come in for people with allergies/ the next issue of finished intolerances. Helps you get upgraded bed fort with a your chocolate fix! slide. We’d like to add a rock wall too later. GIRLS HAIRSTYLES I am trying a few hairstyles in UPHOLSTERED AND PAINTED preparation for Nina’s final BENCH debut at her 1st Birthday I’ve had this second-hand Party. Only one style really bench for awhile, so I plan worked: one rubberband to paint it white and recover with hair sticking up. it (like this sample one) with grey fabric. Extra points VALENTINE’S DAY KIDS for me if I can add some CRAFTS button details to it like the I made a couple Valentine’s headboard I did. Day projects with my kids. The first one I used a piece GIRL BIRTHDAY PARTY of cardboard from a cereal DECORATIONS box to make a heart, then Nina is turning one, and we used the eraser on the end will be keeping things simple of a pencil to dot paint for the party. I found a few onto the canvas around the cute ideas that won’t take heart stencil. I added my too long to hang/create, daughters hands and feet but provide some nice to the center of each heart. backgrounds Then, I had my son try the for pictures. toilet paper roll hearts. He made a birthday card for my sister-in-law, and we may make some more for the rest of the birthdays coming up. https://www.pinterest. com/saguila/mrs-as- favs/?scrlybrkr=63dff6e6 Wings 3/29/19 Issue 7 Growth by: Faculty Interview Emilio HAPPY Ms. Coy Espinoza HOW TOs What is your happiest memory? My happiest memory is back when my whole How to Find family was together on Christmas. Your Passion! What is your favorite Color? By: Arianna Jones Pink

What is your favorite tv show? All around the world people are The Golden Girls constantly searching to improve and better their lives. The most What is your favorite experience as important thing that goes into a teacher? Teaching and taking two marching improving your life is you. The drive bands to Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas and and effort you put in is the only way to better yourself. Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida. What is your favorite season? Why? Fall, 1) Identify your Skills: When trying to because the color of the leaves and the weather. find your passion, you first must figure out the skills you have. If you don’t have many that you’re interested What high school did you attend? Weston High in, start researching different career paths you may What is your favorite type of food? Ice Cream be interested in. What is your favorite restaurant? Culvers Vision 2) Create a Vision Board: What is the most challenging thing about boards are great for motivating you to stare right at teaching? Trying to keep the students focused the things you want and envision yourself succeeding at them. It’s also very helpful to help you gather all Who do you look up to? My mom your favorite things in one place. What is your favorite movie? Love Actually 3) Make a List: A list is a proven way to Where would you like to travel to in the future? show you on paper what you like and what you’re Italy the most passionate about. Label the list “Passions” How would you describe a typical day in your life and see what you come up with. with three words? Scheduled, full, and tiring

What is your favorite thing to do during the G r o w t h day? One hour each day and watch my young

and the restless and the bold and beautiful. Ms. Coy QUOTES By: Emilio Espinoza Netflix By: Mia to Keep in Mind Gimbel “The journey is never ending. There’s always SHOW gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the LIST moment.” ~Antonio Brown 1. Riverdale 2. The Umbrella Academy “Strength and growth come only through 3. Stranger Things continuous effort and struggle.” ~Napoleon Hill 4. Vampire diaries 5. The 100 “You’ll never be able to grow if you’re afraid 6. American Vandal to lose people during the process. Sometimes 7. Jane the Virgin 8. On My Block

past relationships don’t belong in new QUOTES seasons.” ~Trent Trenton 9. Pretty Little Liars 10. Flash https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/growth https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-quotes-on-growth/ Wings 3/29/19 Issue 8 Zodiac Signs Zodiac

Aries: March 21 - April 19 Taurus: April 20 - May 20 Gemini: May 21 - June 20 Symbol: The ram Symbol: The bull Symbol: The twins House Ruled: First House Ruled: Second House Ruled: Third Quality: Cardinal Quality: Fixed Quality: Mutable Element: Fire Element: Earth Element: Air Gender: Masculine Gender: Feminine Gender: Masculine Ruling Planet(s): Mars Ruling Planet(s): Venus Ruling Planet(s): Mercury Basic Characteristics: Energetic, Basic Characteristics: Security, Basic Characteristics: Social, Forceful, Outgoing, Headstrong, Comfort, Sensual, Willful, Stubborn, Intellectual, Curious, Two-sided, Impatient, Physical Kind, Loyal, Steadfastly Flighty Most Compatible signs: Leo, Gemini, Most Compatible: Pisces, Virgo, Most Compatible: Aries, Leo, Aquarius, and Sagittarius Capricorn, and Cancer Aquarius, and Libra Least Compatible: Cancer and Least Compatible: Leo and Least Compatible: Virgo and Pisces Capricorn Aquarius Cancer: June 21 - July 2 Leo: July 23 - August 22 Virgo: August 23 - September 22 Symbol: The crab Symbol: The lion Symbol: The maiden House Ruled: Fourth House Ruled: Fifth House Ruled: Sixth Quality: Cardinal Quality: Fixed Quality: Mutable Element: Water Element: Fire Element: Earth Gender: Feminine Gender: Masculine Gender: Feminine Ruling Planet(s): The moon Ruling Planet(s): The sun Ruling Planet(s): Mercury Basic Characteristics: Protective, Basic Characteristics: Dramatic, Basic Characteristics: Neat, Orderly, Nurturing, Moody, Security passive, Creative, Assertive, Energetic, Organized, Tendency, Emotional, Emotional, Subtle Courageous, Honest, Self-confident, Demanding, Obsessive Most Compatible: Taurus, Virgo, Attention seeker, Leaders Most Compatible: Scorpio, Scorpio, and Pisces Most Compatible: Aries, Libra, Capricorn, Cancer, and Taurus Least Compatible: Libra and Aries Gemini, and Sagittarius Least Compatible: Gemini and Least Compatible: Scorpio and Sagittarius Taurus Libra: September 23 - October 22 Scorpio: October 23 - November 21 Sagittarius: November 22 - December 21 Symbol: The scales Symbol: The scorpion Symbol: The centaur BASICS House Ruled: Seventh House Ruled: Eighth House Ruled: Ninth Quality: Cardinal Quality: Fixed Quality: Mutable Element: Air Element: Water Element: Fire Gender: Masculine Gender: Feminine Gender: Masculine Ruling Planet(s): Venus Ruling Planet(s): Mars and Pluto Ruling Planet(s): Jupiter Basic Characteristics: Charm, Basic Characteristics: Intense, Deep, Basic Characteristics: Idealism, Elegant, Good taste, Social justice, Personal magnetism, Persuasive, Expansion, Directs forthright, Good Hard decision maker Coerce, Strong, powerful natured, Blunt, Honest, Humor, Most Compatible: Leo, Gemini, Most Compatible: Virgo, Capricorn, Moral natured Aquarius, and Sagittarius Cancer, and Pisces Most Compatible: Aries, Leo, Least Compatible: Capricorn and Least Compatible: Leo and Aquarius, and Libra Cancer Aquarius Least Compatible: Virgo and Pisces Capricorn: December 22 - January 19 Aquarius: January 20 - February 18 Pisces: February 19 - March 20 Symbol: The sea goat Symbol: The water bearer Symbol: The two fish House Ruled: Tenth House Ruled: Eleventh House Ruled: Twelfth Quality: Cardinal Quality: Fixed Quality: Mutable Element: Earth Element: Air Element: Water Gender: Feminine Gender: Masculine Gender: Feminine Ruling Planet(s): Saturn Ruling Plane(s): Uranus and Saturn Ruling Planet(s): Neptune Basic Characteristics: Ambitious, Basic Characteristics: Rebellious, Basic Characteristics: Subtle, Practical, Social, Conscious and Eccentric, Spontaneous, Origin, Emotional, Friendly, Likeable, Middy, driven at the same time Innovative, Logical, Confident, Introspective, Dreamy, Sensitive Most Compatible: Virgo, Scorpio, Spirituality Most Compatible: Capricorn, Taurus, and Pisces Most Compatible: Aries, Gemini, Cancer, Taurus, and Scorpio Least Compatible: Aries and Libra Libra, and Sagittarius Least Compatible: Gemini and Least Compatible: Taurus and Sagittarius Scorpio https://www.astrograph.com/learning-astrology/aries.php Wings 3/29/19 Issue 9