Colonel Wheeler Middle School Volume 6, Issue 1 Paw Print What’s Inside Curiosity..............Page 2 France...................Page 3 World Series........Page 4 By: Kayla Guerrero After school did you hear the beats coming out of the gym? Did you feel like dancing? Well, the dance was Septem- ber 7th, 2012 and it was a moment of excitement for the whole school. The Colonel John Wheeler Dance spon- sored the dance to raise Back to School Dance Students dancing in the Main Gym. By Elayna Hernandez Do you want to know what’s happen- ing in the library? We got a new librarian! Mrs. Winter is a new li- brarian at Colonel John Wheeler Middle School. She attended Pur- due University and earned a Bachelor’s degree in ac- Winter has also been mar- ried to her husband for 17 years! That’s a long time. Our new librarian says” I wanted to work as a librarian because I enjoy reading and being around books. The best book I’ve read all summer is Out of my Mind by Sha- ron Draper. I like to count myself as a creative per- son that loves to help kids Make sure you stop by the library and welcome Mrs. Winter to our school! And make sure you keep on reading! money for the team’s uni- forms. Once you walk into the main gym it was crowded with over 500 students. The DJ was blasting songs that every- one enjoyed dancing to. Kids started dance offs and people crowded around them to watch. If you didn’t want to dance you could’ve gone to the Aux gym and played a good game of basketball. The concession hungry students waiting to get a tasty treat. Can’t wait for the next dance! It’s Always Winter in the Media Center By: Natalie Anderson Spread the love is a peanut butter food drive that the food bank of northwest Indiana holds in the month of Septem- ber. The peanut butter goes to different food pantries all over. It ended on September 30th 2012. The peanut but- ter has been counted and the results are in! During the month of September, the Food Bank was able to raise a total of 25,026 jars from all participating schools and local donors. The total count from participating schools alone was 17,426 jars. Col- onel Wheeler contributed 270 jars of Peanut Butter. The New Librarian Mrs. Winter.
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Colonel Wheeler Middle School Volume 6, Issue 1
PawPrint
What’s InsideCuriosity..............Page 2
France...................Page 3
World Series........Page 4
By: Kayla Guerrero After school did you hear the beats coming out of the gym? Did you feel like dancing? Well, the dance was Septem-
ber 7th, 2012 and it was a moment of excitement for the whole school. The Colonel John Wheeler Dance spon-sored the dance to raise
Back to School DanceStudents dancing in the Main Gym.
By Elayna Hernandez Do you want to know what’s happen-ing in the library? We got a new librarian! Mrs. Winter is a new li-brarian at Colonel John Wheeler Middle School. She attended Pur-due University and earned a Bachelor’s degree in ac-
Winter has also been mar-ried to her husband for 17 years! That’s a long time. Our new librarian says” I wanted to work
as a librarian because I enjoy reading and being around books. The best book I’ve read all summer is Out of my Mind by Sha-ron Draper. I like to count myself as a creative per-
son that loves to help kids
Make sure you stop by the library and welcome Mrs. Winter to our school! And make sure you keep on reading!
money for the team’s uni-forms. Once you walk into the main gym it was crowded with over 500 students. The DJ was blasting songs that every-one enjoyed dancing to. Kids started dance offs and people crowded around them to watch. If you didn’t want to dance you could’ve gone to the Aux gym and played a good game of basketball. The concession
hungry students waiting to get a tasty treat. Can’t wait for the next dance!
It’s Always Winter in the Media Center
By: Natalie Anderson Spread the love is a peanut butter food drive that the food bank of northwest Indiana holds in the month of Septem-ber. The peanut butter goes to different food pantries all over. It ended on September 30th 2012. The peanut but-ter has been counted and the results are in! During the month of September, the Food Bank was able to raise a total of 25,026 jars from all participating schools and local donors. The total count from participating schools alone was 17,426 jars. Col-onel Wheeler contributed 270 jars of Peanut Butter. The New Librarian Mrs. Winter.
Page 2 NEWS AND INFORMATION
The Paw Print is a student publication created by the newspaper club and distributed to students, faculty, and staff of Colonel Wheeler Middle
those of CWMS faculty, staff, or administration. We welcome letters-to-the editor, provided they are signed and submitted to Mr. Hensley or via email.
Mitchell Dzurovcik, Kayla Guerrero, Elayna Hernandez, Cora Knight, Billy Pouch, Taylor Richards, and Cole Wignall
Faculty Adviser: Mr. Hensley
By: Billy Pouch Have you ever wondered what it would be like to roam around on the surface of Mars? NASA just placed their latest rover on the plan-et named Curiosity. This rover landed on August 5th to look for ingredients in Martian soil and/or rocks that could have once possibly sup-ported microscopic life. It has been one
C u r i o s i t y H i t s M a r s
month has since Curios-ity landed and it has trav-eled a little more than then length of a football
er has left tracks so big they can be seen from space. No rover before has ever left tracks deeper or wider than Curiosity.
As the mission continues, engineers must check out Curiosity’s right arm, a piece crucial to this mission. The right arm is a Swiss-army-knife of sci-
to test rocks and chemi-cals in the Martian soil. So Curiosity will be exploring Mars for another 2 years and will be expected to send mes-sages for another 14 years.
Barack Obama is running for re-election. In
African American presi-dent of the United States with promises to make America a better place and improve its economy. This year Obama has the exact same goals to put Americans back to work and rebuild the economy. One of these Ameri-cans will lead our country to the future. Although the question is who will win?
E l e c t i o n 2 0 1 2By Ricky Dee In this year’s presidential election Mitt Romney is running for the republicans against Presi-dent Barack Obama. He was elected Governor of Massachu-setts in 2002. If Romney is
to rebuild the foundations of the American economy on the principles of free enterprise, hard work, and innovation. He plans to re-duce taxes, spending, reg-ulations, and government programs in America.
By: Mitchell Dzurovcik Many things are happening around Wheeler and if you want to be part of the action, continue reading the article. The Library is hosting the young Hoosier book program again and they have quite a few great books. The National Junior Honor Society is a great organization on campus. They do many community service projects throughout the year. See Mrs. Croell for more information. The Fall Sports recently com-pleted with Cross Country, Volleyball and Football ending with successful seasons. Science Olympiad is looking for mem-bers. If you are interested, see Mrs. Santos for moreinformation.
Page 3F E A T U R E S
By: Taylor Richards ParaNorman is a hilarious movie with a moral behind it. Nor-man was pushed around all the time because he wasn’t ordinary. He can see and speak to ghosts.
Norman’s uncle’s ghost comes to him and warns him of the witch’s ghost awakening. Norman had to read a story to keep the witch asleep. Alvin prevented Norman from reading the story to the witch and it caused chaos. The curse that the witch put on the towns people back in 1800s, was becoming real. Zombies were taking over. It’s up to Norman to save the town. Will Norman stop the zombies? Will the town ever be safe again?
Norman looking around
Some vampires are good.
Some are evil.And some are faking
it to get girls.
By: Cora Knight Finbar Frame is basically your average 16-year-old, awkward, allergic to the sun high school boy. When he notices every female in sight going gaga over vamps, our little Finny decides to boldly go where no man has gone before. He will fake the fangs to get the girl.... This is not your average vampire story. This book is so funny, that it’s actually worth opening.
Are YouThirsty?
By Kayla Dyer I want to start of this sto-ry by telling you about the program that gave me this chance of a life time. This program was called Peo-ple to People. It takes kids on a educational journey across the world! I went to Paris, France and London, England. Today I’m go-ing to tell you about those experiences I had France. If you heard stories about France those sto-ries are nothing com-pared to the real thing. The places I went to were extraordinary! I saw the golden gates of Ver-sailles Palace, The ever-
lasting view of the Eiffel Tower, and the watchful eyes of the Mona Lisa! The foods are better than they say. I thought I didn’t like frog legs until I went to France. Choco-late eclaires are quite a delicacy. There is even
chocolate pizza. It was the best pizza in the world! Versailles Palace was
were the prettiest in the world. The golden gates sadly weren’t real gold. Still Versailles Palace is one of the most gorgeous
palaces I’ve ever seen. The Eiffel Tower has four elevators and only one of them was working. The stairs were the quick-est way to go the view was breathtaking though. The Louvre is inde-scribable. The very de-tailed artworks in that place overwhelmed my heart with joy. Seeing the Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa just made me pinch myself because I thought I was dreaming. Someday in the fu-ture I would love to see France again as much as I would love to visit other countries as well. Left, Nicole and Kayla on a gondola in England.
Page 4S P O R T S
“I Went to the British Isles for a month. I
missed my friends, but it was a ton of fun!”
- Erin Sizemore, 7th
“I went to Osage Beach at the Lakes of the Ozarks.” - Mitchell Bolden, 8th
“I swam and hung out with friends. It was
amazing!” - Cara Hubster, 7th
“We went to Gatlinburg, Tennessee to ride Go
Karts.” - Hunter MacDonald, 6th
By: Ricky Dee The MLB post season ended very fast. Last year’s excitement for the winner of the wild card spot caused the league to make some changes to the post season rules. This year instead of one wild card there was two. The Detroit Ti-gers had been impres-sive throughout the play-offs and swept the New York Yankees in four
games in the ALCS. The San Francisco Giants enter the World Series having to battle for their lives. They were down 2-0 and won the next three games to advance. Then they took the NLCS after being down 3-1. In a quick four games, the Giants swept the Tigers. This give the Giants their second title in three years. Will they de-fend their title next season?
By Cole Wignall Just a week ago the Indiana Fever won the WNBA Championship against the Minnesota Lynx 87-78 in Indi-
Tamika Catchings was the MVP of the game averaging 24.8 points per game in the whole series. She scored 25 points in the last game vs. the Lynx. During Tamika’s career she was in the Olympics three times and won the champion-ship each time. But she never one a WNBA championship until Indiana defeated the Lynx. The Fever defeated Connecticut to face the Lynx in the championship and won. The Fever went 7-3 in the entire playoffs. This was an amazing moment as
