NUMS Paws & Print October 2012 Volume 6, Issue 2 Survey for October Autumn What teachers like about Halloween. Past the humid summer Think about what you like the best during But not quite winter frost this season/holiday. By: Jessica V. I spend my days of autumn Ms. Fry -- “I love dressing up to hand out Watching the fall of every leaf candy”. that’s lost Mrs. Sheets -- “I like Halloween because of Little animals scurry the candy and the spookiness.” And I like the change of leaves Mrs.. Wade -- ”I like Halloween because Not quite myself anymore the choice of costume.” Not quite like me Mrs.Welch __ “I like Halloween because of True I still laugh and smile the pumpkins.” I still sing my songs Mrs. Miller --”I like Halloween because of I still write out my little lyrics the candy.” As fall sings along Mr. George --”I like Halloween because of My voice has grown quieter the candy.” My mindset changing too Mr. Mayers --”I like Halloween because of I watch the autumn colors shift the costumes and the haunted houses.” Into winter blue Spring is nowhere near me Mrs.McMahan -- Halloween is during the Fall season & I love Fall. Summer slips to grey Mrs. Mathys--”I like Halloween because of Winter’s slow and cold advancing the candy.” But today is an Autumn day Mrs. Chapman -- “The pumpkins and the jack o’lanterns By Kaleah P. North Star Halloween Party By: Madison P. On Halloween, there will be a party up at North Star from the end of school until 6:00. We need as many people as possible to go. Wear your costume. There will be games, snacks, and a drawing contest and more -- maybe a costume contest. Thanks to Mike and Katherine who are the directors of North Star. Please come, it will be a blast!!! Future City By: Andrew W. i l d c a t B a n d The Future City team has made progress R o c k s ! ! ! with their city, Oasi Blu. As stated last month, their challenge for this years competition is to design an innovative way to deal with water run-off. They have decided that the entire city floor Marching Band Talk will be built with a certain material that By: Monica W. absorbs the rain water through it. Un- der the material, there will be a open- This month has been a fun full month. With the faced pipe that carries the water to a snake dance and homecoming, the 8th graders get a purification center, then distributed to really strong taste of being a marching Wildcat. At the city as needed. Other than that the the snake dance they all had to wear school col- team has made a good start in the Sim- ors in the coldness of the October weather. Since City portion of the project. It looks like this was the first snake dance that the th8 graders North Union may do good in the Future have marched in, it was a fun time. Then there was City competition this year. the homecoming game and all the anticipation of how the new show would go for a big crowd. We all played at halftime two of our normal routines -- Runaway Baby and The Hand That Feeds, and then we had the alumni band come out as we rocked out to Ain’t Been Good and Free Ride. We had both old and new graduates. One was the 8th grades own Mrs. Rainey (Trombone). The game after homecoming was the senior show. The band played Disturbia, Boom Boom and Stray Cat Strut. All of the routines are great,but they take a lot of work. The marching band season is coming to an end, but we still have Football Tournaments and hopefully the team will go far this year. The 8th graders in the Marching band includes Robert K., he 8th grade just finished and Austin N. Sorry I forgot them last month! working on public ser- vice campaigns dealing with bullying. They all Tcreated t-shirts and voted on their favorite, which was cre- ated by Maddie G, Megan S., M.S. is a Nate K., Colten B. and Nicole n o F. The hope is that the whole i school will wear them on the n U day that Cabot Rea comes into h speak on November 14th. Mrs. t Martin is covering all but $5.00. r (See article on page 4 about the o 8th Grade ELA unit on Cyberbul- N lying.) NUMS Football Teams Mandel Vs. Brown By Anna A end Season @ Cardington It’s time for you to decide! Look at these articles and decide who you want to vote for. At the bot- tom of the page you will see a link to vote! Both teams finished the 2012 season at Sources: https://www.joshmandel.com/contribute3/?gc Cardington on October 18th. The final lid=CICC84yaq7MCFUZgMgod93kAdg game was a combo event because Carding- http://www.brown.senate.gov/ ton did not have two separate teams for 7th and 8th. Overall the teams ended with a 3-4 record. The 7th grade team beat Mt. Gilead I promise to... Leading by example in the Treasurer`s office 38-6 and then lost to Highland 8 to 14. The End the wasteful spending in Washington 8th grade team lost to Mt. Gilead 6 to 12 Stop the Reckless Borrowing and then beat highland 18 to 0. Now the Balance the Federal Budget teams can work to cheer on the Varsity vs. Overhaul and Simplify the Tax Code Galion at NUHS Friday 11/2. Go Cats! Reforming Federal Regulations Achieving American Energy Independence 8th Grade Volleyball Providing Accessible and Affordable Healthcare I promise to... We came in third place in the tournament with Aerospace, Science, & Innovation our final total record being 12 for 6. We got 11 Agriculture & Rural Communities for 5 in the regular play. I feel we could have Trade & Foreign Policy done better but we still had fun playing the sport Economy & Jobs we all love. Coach Brittany Levering is amaz- Education & Workforce Development ing and we are very thankful that we have had Military & Defense her for 2 years. These girls should play in High Financial Services & Housing Policy That Works School next year. (Alexis Nicholson, Tiffany for Main Street Grose, Riley Plotner, Summer Blevins, Autumn Health Care Hudson , Devyn Feasal , Haylee Day, Cheyenne Mandel in Depth Wiley, Jenna Rodenburger, Avery Ballinger, Ka- Cutting the Budget, Slashing Spending and Run- tie Dotson), By Alexis N. ning a Surplus: Treasurer Mandel launched a top-bottom review of the Treasurer’s office that 7th grade Volleyball team has resulted in millions in savings and stream- ended on a good note with finishing 2nd lined government, allowing him to cut the bud- in the COAL tournament. They all worked get and generate millions in surplus. hard and were sad to end the season, *Protecting Public Funds, Credit Ratings and but happy with their ending. The team Investments: Treasurer Mandel has focused lost against the Northmor Knights in the on core functions of the office, such as protect- championship game in 2 games. In the ing tax dollars, conservatively managing debt, early season, they lost in 3 games against maintaining and improving credit ratings, safe- the team. They are all ready to come back guarding investments, and leveraging technol- ogy to improve operations. next year and bring home a 1st place tro- *Leading as a Government Watchdog and Tax- phy! By Paxon S. payer Advocate: Treasurer Mandel has restored integrity to the office, gone after banks accused of defrauding taxpayers, and been an advocate NUMS STUCO -- R.E.A.P. Food Drive for Ohio taxpayers. is coming so get ready to bring the goods! 8th Grade ELA Oppa Gangnam Style In 8th grade ELA the students were asked to read a book based on bullying. By Andrew W. The book choices were: Wondering why people are so obsessed Bystander Egghead with some weird Korean guy dancing and Bullyville Schooled singing lyrics you can’t even understand? The Revealers The people who are obsessed with it are After the students read these books, wondering the same Exact Thing. It’s one they were assigned a project to summa- of those songs that you hate, but love at rize their books by doing the following the same time because it’s either strangely outstanding projects: catchy or easy to make fun of or both. Monologue I decided that we needed to find out what Puppet show it meant and find an interterpretation as Public Service Announcement well ... being South Korean based makes For the Monologue, we used MS Word, it a little complicated. Let’s start with the phrase that is the only part of the song any- and for the PSA, we used Windows Movie body knows. Oppa Gangnam style. Oppa is Maker after recording the videos using a term that female Koreans use to refer to the Flip cameras. All of the books had their older boyfriends, husbands, fathers, the same theme of bullying. Mrs. Huber friends etc.. Gangnam is a district (like a is grading these projects carefully. The state or province) in South Korea where the PSA is the most impacting project, be- majority of the population is rich. When cause of the fact that the winning group’s I tell you rich it is a filthy rich locale with announcement will be presented around only around 1% of the South Korean popu- the school.