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Super hero
My assignment was to ask someone who their favorite super hero is. Jo’E Jenkins favorite super hero is Wolverine. He heals his wounds from battles. He has blades that come out his fingers for up close fighting. He knows and can get good help from other good super heroes.
The Wolverine is very ripped or tough in other words. He is one of the fastest super heroes that travel on land.
He can run on all four legs and stand up tall on back to legs. He can climb up walls and buildings. He is one of the X-Men (the good guys.)
The Tallest and Shortest of Them All
By: Taylor Miller
Mr. Perry is the new high school physical education teacher at Winchester High School. He stands at a towering 6’9’. Although he is very tall, both of his parents have an average height. His mother is 5’6’ and his dad is six foot tall. On his mother’s side of the family he has an uncle that is 6’5’ and grandpa that is 6’6’. Mr. Perry had numerous advantages with being tall such as athletics, reaching things, and being able to stand out from a crowd. He also said there were some downsides, like hitting your head, buying clothing that fits correctly, and injuries because when you are taller joints in your body become weaker.
On the other end of the totem pole is Chancey Sturgeon, she stands barely at five foot. Chancey is the shortest of her class but even though she is very short her mother is in the average height range. Her grandma’s side of the family is pretty short though. Chancey enjoys being short because she can hide in smaller places and reach things that a taller people can’t. Chancey said the only bad thing about being short was that no matter what pants she buys they are always too long.
Too much pressure on students????
Kayden Savage thinks teachers put too much pressure on students to raise money and sell things such as magazines for prom. She thinks this because students have too much homework, projects, and some are working and in sports. Some students don’t have the time to go and sell things to raise money. She does think students should have to get money themselves, but she thinks teachers should pick better times for them to sell and give students more time to do so, because we have sports, work, and school work to worry about most of the time. If students had more time to raise money and sell things students may sell more magazines or whatever else is chose to raise money for prom, school activities and field trips.
Kaylie Horrer thinks we get too much pressure put on is to sell things and raise money. We waste our advisory times to go to meetings for things we don’t even want to attend. If students don’t want to go to prom they shouldn’t have to go to meetings about selling magazines and such. And for the kids who want to need more time to sell things because they give them like two weeks to sell these. If they had more time more items would get sold.
“I think the school puts too much pressure on students to raise money and sell things for upcoming events. I think this because they don’t give us enough time to do so between work, school/homework, and sports. If they gave us more time to sell magazines, we could have sold three times the amount we sold. I also think teachers should help the students sell things. I know that if I would have gotten more time to sell magazines I would have sold more, but with the short period of time, I didn’t have enough because I was always working and doing homework and studying.
By Brooke Bartmann
Lunch and Breakfast
Children of all ages have many excuses for skipping breakfast. Many older teens are busy until late into the night with homework, extracurricular activities, and part-time jobs. They go to bed late, then get up and rush off to school, too frantic to eat. Students who eat breakfast have higher test scores than students who skip the morning meal.
Breakfast is often described as the most important meal of the day. Not only does it provide important daily nutrients such as protein, fiber, calcium and carbohydrates, but it also helps improve school performance, allowing students to do better on tests, according to the Food and Nutrition Service. If your child feels tired or has difficulty concentrating during the day, consider adding breakfast to his or her routine.
Eating Breakfast will improved grades, increase concentration, weight maintenance, considerations. Some people believe that skipping breakfast may help them lose weight. Not so! Skipping meals often leads to overeating later in the day. Becoming over hungry often leads to a lack of control and distorted satiety signals (meaning it's hard to determine when you're full). This can result in taking in more calories than if one had an appropriate breakfast. As a matter of fact, it's easier to control one's weight by eating smaller meals and snacks more frequently.
75 percent of the students in Winchester High school don’t eat breakfast, due to thinking they don’t need to eat it or due to not having food to eat, money to buy food and/ or not having the time. The other 25 percent does eat breakfast because they are hungry, and have time to eat before or when they get to school. 90% of the school eats lunch, they go home, to restaurants, the grade school, bring lunches from home or get sack lunches from in the Conference room. The 10 % that doesn’t eat lunch either cannot afford it forgot their sack lunch or lunch money at home. Some of the students don’t want to eat lunch and breakfast because they’re having a big supper and want to save room. What they don’t know is they are going to gain more weight doing so.
By: Brooke Bartmann
 Book and Breakfast Club
Mrs. Kuchy and Miss. Fairfield are in charge of the WHS Book and Breakfast club. The meetings are held in Mrs. Kuchy’s room at 7:30am and are 30 + minutes long. There’s time to eat and discuss. Their first meeting of 2013 was in October. The next meeting is in December and the last one would probably be in April. Miss. Fairfield said there are about 10 students who attend the Book and Breakfast Club. Miss. Fairfield said she wanted to do the Book Club because, “I think it was a way to bond with students, and give students and teachers a way to bond and have other discussions non-school related.” Mrs. Kuchy wanted to do the Book Club because she wanted to give students the ability to discuss more controversial topics outside of class. She also said it was “A better way to provoke reading.”
Miss. Fairfield does plan on continuing the Book and Breakfast Club in the future because she loves doing it. Mrs. Kuchy also plans on doing it in the future. They said “we had the best turnout the three past years.” They’re hoping they can catch more of the student’s attention in the next couple of years.
- By Brooke Bartmann
What Animal Would You Be?
By: Taylor Miller
When asked “what animal would you be?” Blake Russwinkel responded with a bear. Blake said he would enjoy being a bear because he would have a mother that would always being caring, loving, and compassionate. He said he would really like this because he is a compassionate guy. He said he would also enjoy being a bear because they fished all the time and he is a fisherman. Blake said the best benefit of being a bear would be that you could sleep all winter and no one would dare wake you up. Blake enjoys sleeping a lot. He also said that bears can run fast and climb trees, this would be a bonus because Blake doesn’t run very fast and isn’t very good at climbing trees.
The second person that was interviewed was Tori Elliott, she stated she would probably be a monkey. Tori would want to be a monkey because they have human like characteristics. They are usually good but can be ornery sometimes. (Just like her) She would hang from trees and swing on her tail, which she has always wanted a tail. She could eat bananas all day which was good because she loves bananas. And the best benefit of being a monkey is you always live where it’s warm and somewhere tropical.
October 22nd, the Winchester FFA Chapter attending Land Use in Carrollton.
The team was required to find the slope of the land, find water holding capacity, look at soil structure and color, and look at the soil texture. The Winchester FFA Chapter placed second with a score of 1986. Rachel Sellars placed 5th with a score of 408, Ben Fletcher placed 8th with a score of 402, and Anita Moore placed 9th with a score if 396.
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Visit From Former Student
Larry Howell came to speak to the Winchester high school chemistry class about his life. He graduated from Winchester high school in 1962. He then went into the military from 1962-1966.
He is now a consultant of energy business in petroleum refining. He went to the Berkeley University of California. He now has two homes, one in California and one in Dillon, China.
Veteran's Day Ceremony
 
 
Veterans Day!
Winchester High School is celebrating Veterans Day November 8, 2013 in the Winchester High School auditorium at 11 a.m. We are inviting all local vets in the local are. We celebrate this day to honor American Veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.
History of Veterans Day
President Eisenhower signed HR7786, changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
Raymond Weeks of Birmingham, Alabama organized a Veteran’s Day Parade for the city on Nov 11, 1947 in honor for loyal services. In 1954 President Eisenhower signed a bill proclaiming November 11th is Veterans Day.
Congress moved Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October in 1968. The first Veteran’s Day under the new law was Monday October 25, 1971. In 1975 after it became evident that the actual date of Veterans Day carried historical and patriotic significance to many Americans, a new law was signed by President Ford returning the observation of Veterans Day to November 11 beginning in 1978.
This photo was taken at 10:58 a.m., on November 11, 1918, two minutes before the armistice ending World War I went into effect.
Pesident Eisenhower signing HR7786, changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
-By Brooke Bartmann
When will be the First Trackable Snow?
I went around the Winchester high school and did a survey on when the first traceable snow fall will happen. I did this to see how close people could get. Here are the results I got.
If you would like to guess come find me. Whoever gets the closest get a free soda!
Brayton smith
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