Index

Page 2– Student of the Month Questionairre/Movie Poll/Upcoming Events

Page 3– Elementary and Middle School Students of the Month and Pre-K Blankets

Page 4– Senior of the Month and “Teacher’s Pet” Column

Page 5– “Got Values?” and Vetran’s Cards

Page 6- Winter Clothing Collection and Teens Against Tobacco

Page 7- Novel Review and Movie Review

Page 8– WAHS Door Decorationg and Basketball Game Schedules

Page 9—Word Find and Contributors List

ISSUE #3 DECEMBER

2017

Welcome to the third issue of

the “Weatherly Gazette” for the

2017-2018 school year.

We want to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday break.

Be merry, eat A LOT and enjoy the time with

your family and friends!

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6th Grade—36 Total Participants Elf 33% Grinch 11% Christmas Vacation 11% Polar Express 45%

Winner:

1st Grade

Gabriella Durham: Sitting on San-ta’s Lap

Adeline Peters: Giving presents to everyone

Reed Kennedy: Visiting Grandma and Grandpa

Jaxon McKeegan: Presents

Riley Zawilski: Choral and Gifts

2nd Grade

Evan Busch: Christmas

Karma Gold: Birthday

Joe Esposito: Presents

Kyle Reiner: Opening Presents

October 27th - Early Dismissal & Middle School Halloween Dance (MS Café).

October 31st - NHS Blood Drive (HS Gym) & End of the 1st Marking Period.

November 1st - School Board Caucus Meeting (MS LGI Room).

November 7th - FAFSA Night (HS Library)

November 8th - HS Picture Retake Day (HS) & School Board Regular Meeting (MS LGI Room).

-January 12th—National Guard Visits

-January 13th—Cub Scouts 007 Derby

-January 16th and 17th—Algebra Keystones

-January 18th—Keystone Make ups

-February 5th—Interact Club Meeting

Middle School Christmas Movie Poll

ES/MS Students of the Month Questionnaire

Upcoming Events

Students are chosen based on their behavior and their grades.

This month, we asked students what their favorite thing about the holiday season is.

3rd Grade

Rebecca Caldwell: Everything

4th Grade

Grace Portell: Watching Christmas movies

5th Grade

Ava Shaida: Spending time with family

6th Grade

Klaus Eroh: Not available during questionnaire

7th Grade

Hunter Eichhorst: Food

8th Grade

Ethan Duff: Getting and giving presents

-December 21st—Scholastic Scrimmage Practice in HS Room 2105

-December 22nd—First day of winter break. Classes will re-sume on January 2nd, 2018!

-December 28th—Scholastic Scrimmage Practice in HS Room 2105

-January 1st—Interact Club Meeting

-January 4th—Scholastic Scrimmage Practice in HS Room 2105

7th Grade—46 Total Participants Elf 50% Grinch 26% Christmas Vacation 9% Polar Express 15%

Winner:

8th Grade—27 Total Participants Elf 30% Grinch 30% Christmas Vacation 33% Polar Express 7%

Winner:

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ES/MS Students of the Month

Students pictured with Mrs. Slavick, Principal, from left: 6th Grader, Klaus Eroh; 7th Grader, Hunter Eichhorst; 8th Grader Ethan Duff

Students pictured with Mrs. Slavick, Principal. Row 1: Jaxon McKeegan, Riley Zawilski, Gabriella Durham, Reed Kennedy and Ade-line Peters. Row 2: Joe Esposito, Kyle Reiner, Evan Busch and Karma Gold. Row 3, Rebecca Caldwell, Grace Portell and Ava Sahaida.

Blankets for Pre-K

Weatherly welcomed it's first Pre-K class this year. St. Matthews Union Church made each Pre-K stu-dent a blanket to keep them toasty and warm this winter

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Senior of the Month: Samantha Knepper

“Teacher’s Pet”

Samantha Knepper, daughter of William and Melis-sa Knepper, Weatherly, has been named Senior of the Month for November at Weatherly Area High School. Samantha serves as president of the WAHS chapter of the National Honor Society, president of SGA, secretary of the Interact club, and historian of the Class of 2018. She is a member of the softball team, high school band and county band, the Health Careers Club, and is an editor for the high school yearbook. Samantha has participated in the TEAMS engineering competition at Bucknell University, and the Bloomsburg Math Competition. In the community, Samantha has volunteered her time as a team captain in the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Walk. Additionally, she has participated in Relay for Life, Weatherly Area Kinder Camp, and the Bri-an Morden Foundation. She has served as a confirmation sponsor at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Weatherly, and is employed as a busperson and server at the Powerhouse Eatery in White Haven. Sponsor for the month of November is Whitewater Challengers, Inc., of White Haven.

Quincy, a Shetland Sheepdog or “Sheltie,” belongs to Mr. Woolbert and his wife. He is four years old and was born on July 4th (His name was chosen because of John Quincy Adams).

Mr. Woolbert and his wife got their fur-baby when he was only a few months old. It was a spontaneous birthday present for Mrs. Woolbert and was the best decision the two ever made. Quincy is such a won-derful addition to the house and the family.

When he is not lounging around during the day, he enjoys playing around outside, having his mommy or daddy throw some toys for him to retrieve, like his favorite tennis ball, or enjoying some snuggle time while watching a good movie on TV. He really dislikes getting up in the morning (don’t we all?) and for some reason always barks at the mailman whenever he delivers something to the house.

Quincy also loves going over his cousin, Sophie’s house. Sophie is a five year old Border Collie. The two love chasing each other through different rooms of the house and share each other’s toys with one another. Any time he knows a visit is going to happen, he waits by the door, anticipating when he can see his favorite cousin.

Quincy has a great personality and is loved by all of his family and friends.

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December's Got Values? bulletin board is super festive. Thank HS FCS group mem-

bers Grace Miller, Holly Gehman & Alexis Colecio for the warming message!

The HS FCS class prepares over 200 holiday cards for patients at the VA hospital in WB. The students chose this as one of their Service Learning Projects. Veterans should never be forgotten.

FCS Veterans’ Cards

Miss Kufro’s “Got Values?” Board

What are values? What do they mean? How do ones values re-flect on their responsibilities and character? Those were some of the questions that were asked during Family and Consumer Sci-ence Class. High school students, Grace Miller, Alexis Colecio, and Holly Gehman created this month's bulletin board. The five values they chose were humor, friendship, compassion, empa-thy, and sharing. They designed the board to be festive to tie it in with the holiday season.

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Tobacco is the number on preventable cause of death, according to Rebekah McFadden, adviser of the Weather-ly’s Teens Against Tobacco Use.

Members of TATU, under the leadership of school nurse, Rebekah McFadden, tried to male those statistics more relevant by chalking the outline of a person eight times during the day, one for each class period, with forty-one tally marks inside each outline.

“Within each (45 minute) class period, forty-one people die of a disease caused by tobacco use,” Ali Hernandez said.

Taking a stand can be tough, but TATU students, like Kenny Hinkle, said the message is worth sharing. “It’s not hard because there are so many reason it’s bad, that it’s not really difficult to explain to people why it’s bad and hope-fully get people to quit smoking,” Hinkle said.

~ Excerpts and photo taken from the 11/17/17 Standard Speaker article “Weatherly teens don’t need tobacco.”

The WHS Varsity basketball team collected winter coats, hats, scarves, etc. for the Valor Clinic Foundation and recently participated in the distribution on December 3rd.

This organization provides services to homeless veterans in our area. Here are some pictures of the collection and distribution. Great job, boys!

Teens Against Tobacco Use

Clothing Collection for a Good Cause

TATU Members from left: Michayla McPeak, Jarrod Gillot. Kenny Hinkle, Elijah Derr, Ali Hernandez, Rachel Caccesse, Matt Buck and Tara Flores.

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Novel Review

Movie Review

This month I have decided to review The Land Of Sto-ries: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer. This is a story about twins, Alex and Connor, who accidently travel into a different world known as the Fairy Tale World. The story explains the quest they take to return home and the encounters with characters that they read about in their childhood stories. With many plot twists, alliances, and enemies the twins encounter se-crets that change their world forever. I highly recom-mend this book, even for people who aren’t big fans of fairy tales. For some, this may come off as a children’s book; yet it is suitable for all ages. I would personally give this novel a 10/10 for creativity. Thank you for reading my review and I hope you enjoy this novel. Any recommendations for future reviews please let me know at pretea@weatherlysd.org

This review is on a holiday movie called “Elf.” This particular movie is a personal favorite of mine. It was released in 2003 and was directed by Jon Favreau. It is about a man named Buddy (Will Farrell) who is brought to the North Pole acci-dently when he was a baby. He is raised among Santa’s elves. After he is all grown up, he finally learns where he really came from and travels to New York to find his father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan).

Against his initial feelings, Walter decides to take Buddy in and quickly, Walter’s life turns chaotic. In the end, Walter finally accepts his role as Buddy’s father and everything works out.

I know this movie may sound a bit cheesy, but I promise it is a really good movie. Also, my summary barely scratches the surface of how great this movie truly is. If you have yet to see it, I recommend that you watch it over the holiday break. It will be worth it; trust me!

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High School Door Decorating

Basketball Game Schedules

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Junior High Boys’ Basketball Word Find

This Month’s Contributors!

Title—Jessica Howard

Cover Art—Angelina Davis

Questionnaire—Rhianne Markovchick and Gianna Lowman

Movie Poll & Game Schedule Info Collected—Jordan Mitchell

Novel Review—Antonia Prete

Movie Review—Jess Moser

Word Find—Ricky Ray and Brady Walters

“Got Values?” Write Up—Alexis Colecio

Want to contribute to next month’s issue? Email Mr. Woolbert @ woolberts@weatherlysd.org for

more information!

Want a copy of your own? Download the PDF on our district website!

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