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Volume 2

Issue 7

March

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Calendar April 4th Track meet @ Ray Central 7th and 8th Intramurals start April 6th PLC Day-2 hour early dismissal April 7th-11th PTO Book Fair April 11th– May 12th MAP Testing April 12th Track meet vs. Excelsior Springs (8th grade only) April 13th Track meet vs. Northgate April 15th STUCO Movie April 18th Track meet vs. Kearney (7th grade only) April 21st Track meet vs. Smithville April 22nd Progress Reports Drum! Show April 25th Track meet vs. Ray South April 26th 6th,7th, Prelude Choir Grade Spring Vocal Concert April 27th Track meet vs. Kearney April 28th Last day of track practice April 29th Worlds of Fun forms due

Pirate Games Right before Spring Break the grade levels battled it

out in the 3rd quarter Pirate Games. They played many small

games to see which grade would get the pirate hook for the

last time this school year. Blowing over cups, the pirate

plunge, bobbing for worms, and separation anxiety were just

a couple. 8th grade won four out of eight games; 7th grade

won three out of eight games, and 6th grade won one out of

the eight games.

The 7th grade ended up with the overall victory by

staying close behind with their second place wins. 8th grade

came in close behind in second and 6th grade followed up in

last place.

8th grade Jazz Band is every Friday after school from 3-4 PM in the

middle school band room Dr. Bonsignore conducts and teaches the

basics of Jazz music. They plan on performing their rehearsed songs at

the 8th grade band concert.

St. Patrick’s Day

When we think of St. Patrick’s Day we think of little green

leprechauns and lucky four leaf clovers. Although that is not far

from the truth, there is more to this holiday than those mythical

creatures. St. Patrick’s Day was first celebrated during the

arrival of Christianity in Ireland and for Saint Patrick himself.

Saint Patrick, the “Apostle of Ireland”, was thought to have

banished all of the snakes from Ireland. He is the basis of the

celebration, but not the only reason we have a National holiday.

The day also celebrates Irish heritage and culture. On

March 17, the day of Saint Patrick's death, there is a

celebration. This celebration includes feasting, wearing green

apparel, shamrocks, and public parades. Hope the “luck of the

Irish” was with you on St. Patrick’s Day!

Academics

6th Grade

ELA: Creating a Tall Tale, novel study on Tuck Everlasting Math: MAP prep, graphing with Coordinate planes, calculating percent Science: Earth's Atmosphere and Weather Social Studies: Geography, History, Culture, Government, and economy of China, Africa, Russia

7th Grade

ELA: continuing argumentative unit and reviewing for MAP test Math: 7th Grade Math - Circles, Surface Area and Volume Challenge Math - Angles, Circles and Surface Area and Volume Science: Simple Machines, Electricity and Magnetism Social Studies: Asia - China, Japan, Korea

8th Grade

ELA: MAP prep and Mythology unit Math: 8th grade math: Surface area, Volume, Pythagorean Theorem Algebra 1: Graphing Quadratic Functions and EOC review Geometry: Circles Science: Peterson: Common diseases, and proper nutrition Fritz: Finishing up Ecology and beginning the Human body. Social Studies: Civil War

Electives Art: 6 - Pencil Drawing, Self- portrait Painting 7 - Paper Mosaic 8 - Human Figure Sculpture Applied Technology: 6- Design houses 7- Making floor gliders Band: Concert Music Choir: 6 - Concert on Tuesday, April 26 7 - Concert on Tuesday, April 26 8 - Concert on Thursday, May 5

Computer Literacy: 6- coding, typing, Word 7- coding, typing, Excel, PowerPoints 8- coding, typing, Excel, animations Delta: independent study topic and presenting topic and project to the class Gateway: Finish drag races Honor Choir: Concerts Music Appreciation: Soundtracks, video game projects

PE: Basketball Unit Read 180: 6- Cause & Effect; Review overall Comprehension Skills 7- Making Inferences; Review overall Comprehension Skills 8- Review overall Comprehension Skills World Language: 6- Chinese, French 7- Spanish, The verb Ser, Classroom & House vocab 8- Spanish, ER/IR verb endings, Tener, Restaurant vocab

Sports

6th Graders Join in the Intramural Fun

Intramural Basketball at PCMS and Barry now includes 6th graders. Boys and Girls from 6th, 7th, and 8th grades join to play basketball among themselves. Girls playing intramural basketball have impressed Coach Seymour and Coach Cerutti with their work ethic and basketball skills. Coach Cerutti states, “We are eagerly anticipating the interscholastic season for the 2016-2017 school year because we know we will have a team that puts forth great effort and intensity, but also has a lot of fun on the court!” The girls intramural team played a tough match against some of the 8

th grade girls from this year’s

basketball team. Intramural girls took the victory with the score being 14-13. Boys’ Intramural basketball is going great. The boys do lots of scrimmages and games of knock-out. They average 70 boys a day. Coach Baskerville says, “I was able to look at some guys who I know will make the team next year and the next year.” Alex McClure says he has improved a lot since the beginning, and his experience was fun. Alex is indeed excited for next year's school team. Isaac Havemeier says, “I have definitely improved.”

Run, Jump and Throw

This track season 7th and 8th grade were allowed to participate for the second time. Monday, March 28th

was the first track meet of the season. The meet was at Pirate Stadium on the PCHS track. This wasn't an

average meet; this was a dual meet between your Platte County Pirates and Smithville Warriors. The second

meet was held at Kearney. This meet was also a duel between your Platte County Pirates and the Kearney

Bulldogs. The results for both meets are as follows:

Monday 100m Hurdles- 7th girls-1st Olivia Minter 8th girls-1st Isabelle Geddes 8th boys-1st Will Hay; 3 Donny MacCuish 100m- 7th girls-1st Gabby Lopez; 3rd Mannon Bigus 8th girls-2nd Hayden Walls 8th boys-3rd Ismael Reyes 4x200m- 7th girls-1st Mannon Bigus, Natalie Wolbert, Claire Randolph, Kaden Kovar 7th boys-3rd Kevin Hughes, Drake Lacina, Erin West, Tristan Crane 8th girls-2nd Josie Smart, Mady Jackson, Bree Alvarado, Madison Shields 8th boys-1st Brice Bills, Gabe Harmon, Rhett Spell, Dylan Minshall 4x100m-

7th girls-2nd Alexis Stoner, Cassie Graham, Olivia Minter, Janiecia Sharp 8th girls-3rd Josie Smart, Xaire Keith, Gabby Wussow, Madison Shields 8th boys-1st Dustin Fagan, Matt Dubreuil, Dylan Minshall, Lewis Hunter 400m- 7th girls-2nd Katie Cordova; 3rd Paige Ely 8th girls-1st Isabelle Geddes 8th boys-1st Matt Dubreuil; 2nd Dustin Fagan; 3rd Matthew Sullivan 800m- 8th girls-2nd Karlee Chase 8th boys-2nd Donny MacCuish 200m- 8th girls-2nd Brianne Douglas 4x400m- 7th girls-2nd Bryn

McGhee, Gabby Lopez, Katie Cordova, Maddie Klippenstein 8th girls-1st Isabelle Geddes, Jaycie Call, Alexis Guillory, Coryn Stephenson 8th boys-1st Ismael Reyes, Trey Phan, Mahkhi Hagan, Walker Grimes Triple Jump 8th girls-3rd Jaylee Weidmer Pole Vault- 7th girls-1st Natalie Wolbert 8th girls-2nd Jaycie Call Long Jump- 7th girls -2nd Mannon Bigus 8th girls-3rd Lexi Elmore 8th boys-3rd Ismael Reyes High Jump- 8th girls-1st Jaylee Weidmer 8th boys-2nd Will Hay Discus- 8th girls-1st Arianna Saad 8th boys-2nd Chauns

Ashby; 3rd Spencer Fisher Wednesday 100m – 7th girls-1st Gabby Lopez; 2nd Mannon Bigus 8th boys-1st Will Hay 400m- 8th girls-1st Isabelle Geddes 8th boys-2nd Donny MacCuish; 3rd Dustin Fagan 800m- 7th girls-2nd Bryn McGhee 8th girls-3rd Karlee Chase 1600m- 7th girls-2nd Kaylee Major Hurdles- 8th girls- 1st Isabelle Geddes 8th boys-3rd Will Hay 4x100m- 7th girls-3rd Alexis Stoner, Cassie Graham, Olivia Minter, Janiecia Sharp 8th boys-1st Dustin Fagan, Ismael Reyes. Trey

Phan, Lewis Hunte 4x200m- 7th girls-3rd Kaden Kovar, Claire Randolph, Mannon Bigus, Natalie Wolbert 8th boys-3rd Brice Bills, Gabe Harmon, Rhett Spell, Matt Dubreuil 4x400m- 7th girls-2nd Madeline Klippenstein, Katie Cordova, Gabby Lopez, Bryn McGhee 8th girls-2nd Isabelle Geddes, Jaycie Call, Karlee Chase, Coryn Stephenson 8th boys-1st Ismael Reyes, Donny MacCuish, Trey Phan, Mahkhi Hagen Long jump- 8th boys– 1st Ismael Reyes Triple jump- 8th girls-3rd Jaylee Weidmer High Jump- 8th girls-1st Jaycie Call; 3rd Jaylee Weidmer 8th boys-1st Will Hay

Pirates Rock Winners

6th Grade

Lauren Bailey Meredith Ballou Audrey Booth Morgan Cox Mariah Dandini Addisen Grell Dylan Kephart Logan Metten Connor Rhoads Ben Spence Nick Stone Karson Suiter Austin Vanek Madi Watkins Sophia White Nicolus Wrinkle

7th Grade

Alexa Bergstrom Ben Brown Chaperlain Brownsberger Ryan Dye Presli Firkins Elizabeth Hample Hayden Humes Kaesi Keokhamthong Maddie Klippenstein Tygen Mair Braden Major Kaylee Major

Bryn McGehe Natalie McKinnley Sarah Meyer Emma Murray Jaxon Rhoads Chris Ruhnke Robin Schlimm Emma Seckinger Breadon Swain Robert Wibright Emilia Wisniewski Natalie Wolbert

8th Grade

Grant Albright Sydney Allen Kyle Bean Alli Brinton Zada Burch Jaycie Call Allie Campbell Ava Clark Grace Clark Austin Davis Brenna Davis Matt Dubreuil Alexsi Elmore Isabelle Geddes Jessa Hammerschmidt Gabe Harmon

McKinley Helmer Kara Hill Mallarie Hynes Andrew Ivy Alex Johnson Megan Lewis Ainsley Lienemann Ashley Lienemann Emma Marsh Haley Otting Ismael Reyes Madalyn Sharma Lauren Sherwood Rhett Spell Marissa Whitt

Spring Break is a week long break every student and staff member appreciates and definitely needs. Spring Break was started because of a movie Where The Boys Are. Many families take advantage of the time and take a mini vacation. Here are some of the things your PCMS students and staff did: 8th grader Josie Smart went to Chicago.

8th graders Mishell Simms and Riley Stehlik went skiing in Colorado. 7th grader Hannah McEnaney went to different traveling spots all over Missouri. 7th grader Sarah Meyer watched Netflix every day. 6th grade Jaydon Walls went to St. Louis. 6th grader

Spencer Hay went to Colorado. Teacher Pam Singer went to Florida. Teacher Erin Brinton went to Las Vegas. What did you do over Spring Break?

Spring Break 2016

Spring Fashion 2016

Spring has sprung, and new spring clothes and accessories are trending. The spring fashions for girls are Birkenstocks, Converse, gladiator sandals, Vineyard

Vines & Ivory Ella shirts, and ripped jeans and shorts. The boys’ spring fashions are Vans, Nike socks with Slides, Roshes, Sperrys, joggers, hoodies, button-up shirts,

and cargo shorts.

New Members Inducted Into NJHS

NJHS stands for National Junior Honor Society. The pillars of NJHS are scholarship, citizenship, character, service, and leadership. To be in NJHS, you have to have all A’s and one B, which is

equivalent to a 3.8 GPA. In NJHS, you have to do a certain amount of service hours, which for our school is 20 per year and 10 per semester. The new members of the PCMS NJHS are:

8th grade

Grant Allen

Zada Burch

Brianne Douglas

Matthew Dubreuil Grace Hanson

McKinley Helmer

Annika Jackson

Madysen Jackson

Xaire Keith

Nicola Kingery

Megan Lewis

Donny MacCuish

Walker McDonnell Max Renner

Jakob Richardson

Samuel Smith

Julian Suiter

Matthew Sullivan

Madison Thornton

Beth Wing 7th grade

Alyson Anderson

Bailee Anderson

Alexander Baker

Madeleine Baldeh

Shannon Banark

Alexa Bergstrom

Mannon Bigus Aubrey Boren

Benjamin Brown

Cameron Brown

Chamberlain Brownsberger

Hunter Burge

Evan Callow

Kylee Cannon Hannah Claire

Katherine Cordova

Spencer Cupp

Delaney Danner

Connor Dean

Harrison Deutch

Ryan Dye Ashley Edwards

Paige Ely

Abigail Enderson

Presli Firkins

Jacob Flynn

Ashley Griffith

Colby Guffey

Mara Gullett

Joseph Habel Mary Hackler

Elisabeth Hampl

Evan Handke Luke Harms

Emily Helmich

Kevin Hughes

Hayden Humes

Danyelle Huntsman

Ellie Hurst

Caitlynne Jenni Sarah Johnson

Andrea Jones Ava Jonkman Jenna Jurgensmeyer

Madeline Klippenstein

Mallori Klopfer

Emma Koeneke

Avery Krahenbill Madison Kunz

Mason Landers Taylor Lawver

Gabrielle Lopez

Haley Luna

Tygen Mair

Brayden Major

Kylee Major

Alex McClure

Hannah McEnaney

Bryn McGehe

Natalie McKinley Emma Murray

Grace Neece Diamond Perry Samuel Peterson

Lillian Puntney

Ryanne Rhude

Christopher Ruhnke

Piper Ruwe Hailey Ryerson

Victoria Sanders

Quinlynn Sanneman

Robin Schlimm

Myles Schmitt

Emma Seckinger

Elizabeth Siskey

Emily Siskey

Alexis Stoner

Chloe Stuart

Grace Tinder

David Tohm

Linsday Vanover

Lucas Walters

Robert Wibright

Emilia Wisniewski Natalie Wolbert

Grant Allen, Bree Alvarado, Allie Campbell, Millie Campbell, Mallarie Hynes,

Annika Jackson, Alex Johnson, Ainsley Lienemann, Emma Marsh, Hailey Morgan,

Arianna Saad, Madelyn Sharma, Lauren Sherwood, Hayden Walls, Savannah White

Mrs. Singer—Adviser

Reagan Meyer-Production Editor

Allison Brinton—Managing Editor

JOURNALISM STAFF:

Allegiant The book Allegiant was very popular for teen readers. It was the ending to a great series written by Veronica Roth. Most of the fame came from a book series similar to it, The Hunger Games. As most series go, the books become movies. Divergent was the first, and it was a huge success. Insurgent followed with an even higher viewing. On March 18th, the long-awaited third movie came into theaters. The whole series is based on a dystopian setting in Chicago. In this book, Chicago finds out what happens outside their wall of protection. The book was a lot like the movie, except for slight differences that lead to significant events. Allegiant has been turned into a two-part movie, with the second part called Ascendant, predicted to come out in March of 2017.

Batman vs. Superman

Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Clark Kent (Superman) have separate lives, until a mad scientist, Lex Luthor, brings them together. People looked at Superman as God on Earth. People looked at Batman as a vigilante because of the people he caught. Lex Luthor wanted a battle between the two; Man vs. God. Of course to do this, he had to pit them against each other. Batman was easy to turn because he saw Superman as a threat to the human race. Superman was a bit more hard to crack. They ultimately battled one another but had to come to a compromise to defeat the common enemy. Wonder Woman appears to help fight against the unnamed foe. This movie is filled with action and suspense that everybody will love.

New Books Miller’s Valley

Anna Quindlen Tuesday Nights in 1980

Molly Prentiss The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

Laura Tillman

The Glittering Court Richelle Mead When We Collided

Emery Lord Flamecaster Cinda Williams Chima

Shadow Magic Joshua Khan

Booked Kwame Alexander

New Movies for April 2016

APRIL 8 Before I Wake

APRIL 15

Jungle Book

APRIL 22 The Huntsman Winter War

APRIL 29

Ratchet and Clank