Issue 1 Chilliwack Chargers Sept.29/11Term 1News

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By: Cassandra Green

Skating and Swimming

On Friday October 14th of 2011, a group of Chilliwack Mid-dle School students brought a hockey stick and puck. Approx. 37 students in total went swimming and skating. There was some-what alot of room to skate around because of how many students went there. Mr. Zielman, Ms. Cosens and Mme Ropain were the teachers who went skating and swimming. At the Landing Lei-sure Centre there no special things to use. The teachers didn’t go swimming. Everybody had a wonderful time and if this activity is happening, next year, we hope to see a lot more of this activity.

Dylan Anderson, Justice Penner, and Brittany Green

Dylan Anderson

-Activity Day--Paintball-

On October 14, we had our famous Fall activity day. Paintball is one of the most popular activities and fills up the fastest. A group 50 CMS stu-dents went to Sniperz in Chilliwack. Each student was given 100 paint-balls to start and that adds up to 5000 paint-balls!!! Thats not includ-ing refills. Which were 100 paintballs for $7 dollars. We even had one of our grade 9 stu-dents referee the games. Thank you Zdravko Stanisavljevic for your amazing refing!! We

played 8 games and had an awesome time. Everyone was extremely tired on the way back home but It was extremely worth it. We played 2 games of Tag the Elk, 2 games of Eliminate the Enemy, 2 games of Capture the Flag, 1 game of Chase the Rabbit, and 1 game of Rezurection. The best game in my opinion was chase the rabbit. We had 3 teachers and 9 students on top of the mountain and 38 students going up the mountain. Everybody died on the teachers team except myself and Michael Fol-land by going down the

mountian and flanking the enemy. During the first couple of games, there happened to be the danger of friendly fire!! But then the teams smartened up and only fired at the enemy. Everybody at the end had paint all over their clothes and some had it on their arms and masks. The bus ride home was filled with laughter and talk of the days paint-ball matches. When we got to the school, we went to Mr. Hay’s room and waited for the bell. It was a good day.

Activity Daythe vancouver aquarium

On October 14th, Chilliwack Middle had their first activity day of the year. As usual, the Vancouver Aquarium was one of the

activities.

Kiera Luong- Wilson

Art Roomby justin lo

At Chilliwack Middle School, we have a selection of fine arts, including our art room. We do a wide variety of projects, such as, paper mache, sketches, three-dimesional pic-tures, and lighting based-sketch-es. The teacher, Miss Grieman, teaches the art class on all these different types of art styles. In art, we are allowed to mingle as long as long as we are quiet and speak respectfully. we also are able to work on any project we please as long as we work the whole class and dont spend our time talking and too much mingling. in art we also get to learn new art skills and

enjoy it while we do. and ya. that is all styles that we can make when we grow older. It helps us find a hobby for the future and could help us find a future career.

Mrs. Griemann

Boobies Bracelets

The boobies bracelets were made for awarness for breast cancer and has became very popular in our community. In 2000, Shaney Jo Darden and Mona Mukherjea-Gehrig found-ed the Keep A Breast foundation in the grow-ing need for breast cancer awarness. Every time someone buys a boobies bracelet, the money goes to the breast cancer foundation and will raise money for breast cancer. This event has became a very cool and popular way of raising money and awarness for breast cancer.

Alexis and Justin’s boobies bracelets.

Band 9

This year the grade 9 band class is amazing. Everybody in the class is comitted and always ready to learn and practice for their concerts. Ms Tarling must be so proud of her class and happy to be able to teach such a great group of kids! Here are some interviews.

Julia Hendley

Kimberly Van Den Dorpel

1)When we do not to written work 2)Someone told me that Pro-d-day stands for profes-sional down syndrome day and Ms.Tarling got mad, and Garrett fell off his chair cause he has problems. 3)October 27 and 3 amazing songs. 4) No, I wanna try something else and new.

Stephanie Dekker1) Playing music and hanging out with my friends2) Erin and Julia broke a shelf3) Three songs, Thriller, Colonal Bou-gie and Amazing Grace and our con-cert was on October 27. 4) I think so

1)Playing songs I know such as Mambo #52)When Eduard off his chair and almost landed on Erin Harma-tuik.3)Our first concert was October 27, and the songs are a secret. 4) I don’t know for sure at this point but I prob-ably will.

Questions 1) What is your favourite part of band class? 2)What is the funniest thing that has happened so far?3) When was your first concert and what will you be playing? 4) Will you continue with band in highschool? Why or why not?

Simran Sandhu

Entertainment N e w i n T h e a t r e s

Adam Lerner has a pretty great life. But when Adam discov-ers he has a rare and possibly fatal form of cancer, his entire life turns to chaos. As his world starts to unravel in every way, Adam finds himself dealing with the well- meaning but totally outrageous attempts by his friends to make it all better.

50 /50 Killer EliteDanny is one of the world’s most skilled special-ops agents. Lured out of self-imposed exile, Danny forms his crack team of operatives to exe-cute a near-impossible mission of retribution- to rescue his former mentor and partner, Hunter.

Inspired by the true story of a brave dol-phin and the compas-sionate strangers who banded together to save her life. A young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun.

Dolphin Tale A family unknowingly moves into a home where several murders were committed only to find themselves the killer’s next target. Successful publisher Will Attention quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby, and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived.

Dream House

Kiera Luong- Wilson

Entertainment: Polls - What are the top 10 songs

of CMS?Are you wondering what the students at CMS listen to? Well here it is. We asked 100 CMS students from different grades what their favorite song of 2011 is from a list of 20 songs. Here are the results:1) Sexy and I know it-LMFAO

2) Moves like Jagger- Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera

3) Party Rock Anthem-LMFAO

4) Pumped up kicks-Foster the People

5) Rolling in the deep- Adele

6) Stereo Hearts-Gym Class Heroes feat Adam Levine

7) Without you-David Guetta feat Usher

8) Cheers- Rihanna

9) Mr. Know it all- Kelly Clarkson

10) You and I-Lady Gaga

FOOTBALLOR

FOOTBALL ?

Foorball is the most widely played sport in the USA and is one of the biggest sports in Canada. Approxi-mately 111 million people in the USA watch thne Super Bowl this past year. Most of the people who like Football that I talked to, say that Football requires more strength than soccer, but also a degree of skill. It takes alot of quick thinking to know what deke to use to get around an oncoming defender. Overall, from what i hear, Football is a physical sport that requires alot of skill and a huge fan base.

Brandon G. Grade 9: I prefer football because it’s more physical, and I like running away from defenders to score a touchdown.

Zdravko S. Grade 9: I love soccer. It requires more skill and I love deking around people.

Soccer also known as Football is currently the most widely known and played sport in the world. Approxi-mately 3 billion people either watch or play soccer worldwide. Every 4 years the FIFA World Cup is played, each time in a different location. The most recent is the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.

Most people who prefer Soccer say that it is the number 1 sport because unlike Football, it requires a more profound degree of skill. In Football there are few ways to deke around a defender while in Soccer, there is almost an infinite number of possi-bilities. In the end, apparently Soccer is a skillful sport that has alot of depth and the biggest fan base worldwide.

From what I hear Football is mucb more physical and that it is tougher, yet Soccer requires more skill and is the biggest sport worldwide.

Hockey Academy Hockey Academy 2011/12 is a great group of promising hockey players. The Academy has great forwards, defensemen, and four awesome and talented goalies. Everytime the players go on the ice they are completely different people, they are no longer your average CMS school students, but fierce hockey players, with a goal to achieve by the end of the year! Here are some interviews.

Questions: 1)How has Hockey Academy helped you improve and become a better hockey player?2)What is your favourite game or drill?3)If you could change something about the Academy, what would it be?4)What is long or short time goal for your hockey future?

Grade 8- player (forward)Eden Gustafson 1) There is lots of extra ice time and it helps keep my fitness up and become a better hockey player. 2) My favourite game is 1,2,3 shootout.3)The fact that girls don’t get their own changeroom.4) A long time goal would be going to university through a hockey scholarship.

Grade 7- goalieMitchell Davis1)The goalie coach Jeff gave me helpful tips, like where to put my glove.2) My favourite game is the russian scrimmage because I like the action and the breakaways.3) I would make there more time on the ice so we can practice longer.4)To get into the NHL and getting good grades.

Grade 9 - player(defenseman)Brendan Murphy1) It gives me extra ice time, for me to work on my skills and help me improve.2) 6 pass and 10 goals in 10 minutes are my favourite game and drill.3) I would start it later because I hate getting up early.4) To get into college hockey on a scholarship

Simran Sandhu

What the heck do Seventh Graders do?

Jesse ReimerFavourite thing to eat from Charlie’s

Kitchen? “Chicken wraps.”

Favourite class and why?“Art because Ms. Griemen is really

outgoing.”

Where do you and your friends hang out the most at lunch?

“Just around in the hall.”

Upstairs bathroom or downstairs bathroom?

“Downstairs.No particular reason.”

What activity did you want to join for Activity Day? Are you going?

“I wanted to go to Science World be-cause most of my friends are going to Science World. And I’m going to Sci-

ence World!”

After school snack?“PIZZA! I go to the pizza place by the school.”

After school sports or activities?

“No...”

Favourite genre of music?

“Pop.”

(Jesse Reimer is a male grade seven student at CMS)

First thing you do after school?

“Check my text messages.”

By:Aly Tonn

CMS Calendar

Rememberance Day

-No School-

Pro-D Day Term 1 Ends Term 2 Begins

Term 1 Report Cards

Things About November:Aviation History Month Child Safety Protection Month International Drum Month National Adoption Awareness Month National Epilepsy Month National Model Railroad Month National Novel Writing Month Peanut Butter Lovers Month Real Jewelry Month

Madison Halldorson

Paintball Collage

Paintballing On Friday, October 14, 50 students and 3 teach-ers (Mr.Hay, Mr.Hodson and Mr.Adams) went to Sniperz paintball for Activity Day. All together they played 8 games.

They played 1 game of capture the Elk, 2 team death-matchs, 2 games of capture the flag, 2 capture the “Rab-bits” and 1 game ressurection game where the players got infinity lives(the point was for them to use up the rest of their paintballs). During the first game the referees seperated the experienced paintballers from the non-ex-perienced ones with the ex-perienced players defending the Elk(which was a piece of wood shaped like an elk propped up against a castle like fort. In team deathmatch one half of the students got green ribbons to tie on their painball guns so the play-ers were well distinguished. After two team deathmatchs the non-green team came out on top. Capture the flag was practically the same as team

deathmatch except to win you had to run the flag(t-shirt) to the enemy’s base. Mr.Hay, Mr.Hodson and Mt.Adams each picked around three students to be the “Rabbits” which the other students had to eliminate. Sadly they never accomplished that. At the end during the ressurec-tion game Christian Ron-ner had his lense popped out so they had to stop the game early and the referee ran Christian out with his hand’s over his eyes. Then the students took a bus back to the school to get picked up by their parents.

Zdravko (left)Ti (right)

Mr. Adams (left)Mr. Hodson (right)

By Kyle Esau

Science World Friday, October 14th of 2011, the Chilliwack Middle School population had an ac-tivity day; a select few chose to go to Science World. Extreme Dinosaurs was the main attraction. The students can dive into adventure and acquire information all about

dinosaurs. The 10,000 square foot exhibition shows 19 animatronic dinosaurs as well as 2 to scale skeletons. The dinosaurs come to life including the blinking of eyes, loud roars, gnawing of teeth and moving limbs. Although the attraction was Extreme Dinosaurs the IMAX video took a different route and took students into space to learn about the Hubble Space Telescope, and the universe.

Stephanie Nelson

Spirit Week Spirit week is the week where students get to show their school spirit in a good way. Spirit week happens a week before every special event. (For example, Halloween, Christ-mas, etc.) Here is our Halloween spirit week. (It starts on Wednesday because Halloween’s on Monday.)

Wednesday: PJ dayThursday: Gender bender dayFriday: Rainbow dayMonday: Costume day

Gender bender day. Dick, Cruze, Drew, Tyler and Alexis. (from right to left)

Spirit WeekGender Bender - On Thursday October 27th it was Gender Bender day at Chilliwack Middle School. The boys were very enthusi-astic about gender bender day. Some even wore dresses. Some of the girls also enjoyed dressing up as boys that day.

Halloween Costumes Day - On Friday Oc-tober 31st it was Halloween at Chilliwack Middle School and so many people wore their awesome costumes. Noah Clarke and Jes-sica Pham tied for 1st place in the Halloween Costume competition.

Pyjama Day - On Wednesday October 26th it was Pyjama Day at Chilliwack Middle School. Alot of the students wore their pajamas that day, and it was really cool to see all the differ-ent types of pajamas that some people were wearing.

Rainbow Day - On Friday October 28th it was Rainbow Day at Chilliwack Middle School. So many people wore rainbow colours and got into the spirit. It was really neat to see all the colourful clothes that people wore.

Teacher Snoop1. What do you do in your free time?2. When you were younger, what did you want to be?3. Favourite colour?4. What’s your middle name?5. What would you order at Star-bucks/Tim Hortons?6. Favourite food?7. Favourite part of teaching? 8. Favourite grade to teach?

Mr Buchwitz. 1.”I mountain bike, and look after my kids.”2.”An airline pilot. Instead I ended up being a shop teacher!”3.”Green, it’s the colour of my sons eyes”4.”Rudy, as in Rudolph the Red-Nose reindeer”5.”A large, 1&1 and Tim Hortons”6.”Mexican Food”7.”To see kids make, & finish projects. and having fun and just enjoying what im doing. I cant believe I get paid for this job!”8.”Grade 9’s”

Madison Halldorson

New T3chn0l0gy There has been alot of cool new inventions in the past year! From jet packs to google T.V’s! People come up with new

amazing and complexe inventions for man kind.

Martin Jetpack: You can buy it for $100,000 and it can fly up to 60 miles per hour, as high as 8,000 feet for 30 minutes on a full tank.

Ipad 2: The most popular brand of technology on earth Apple, now came up with a new Ipad! It is slimmer, faster, and better!

Google T.V: With 1080p video and a google chrome browser that can be controlled with android and apple smart phones, this tv is a piece of very advanced technology.

Terry Fox Fundraising.

A coin drive, a bake sale and one thousand dollars. From September 27rd to September 29th, the WEB team at Chilliwack Middle put on a coin drive in hopes of raising their goal of one thousand dollars in Terry Fox’s name to help can-cer research. The first day was quarters, then loo-nies, and the last day was anything. A couple of days after the coin drive had begun; a bake sale was under-way. The sale was popu-lar among the student population.

A bighearted thanks to the Hurley family for provid-ing CMS when we fell 300 dollars short of our goal.

Stephanie Nelson

About Ke$ha:

Kesha Rose Sebert, better known as Ke$ha, is an American singer-songwriter and rapper. In 2005, at 18, Ke$ha was signed to Dr. Luke's record label. Ke$ha’s big breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's number one single, "Right Round." Her debut album, Animal and its re-release, Cannibal, were released in 2010. Ke$ha's irrev-erent music and image propelled her to immediate commercial success, with Animal debuting at number one in the US and pro-ducing two number one hits, "Tik Tok" and "We R Who We R", and a string of top ten hits as well.

Ke$ha Early life Kesha was born in Los An-geles, California on March 1, 1987. Her mother, Pebe Sebert, is a singer-songwriter who co-wrote a single in 1978. When Kesha was an infant, Pebe would often have to look after her onstage while performing. Kesha says she has no knowledge of her father's identity. Kesha's younger brother Louis was born shortly after. She said that she did not fit-in school, explaining that her unconventional dress sense including homemade pur-ple velvet pants and purple hair did not warm her to other stu-dents. The Seberts were fea-tured in an episode of The Sim-ple Life as the host family to Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in 2005. Ke$ha later on described herself as being a dilageant child in school.

By: Acacia Babuin

Grade Interviews

We asked three questions to a boy and a girl from each each grade, about middle school and what they thought of it. Some of the questions are giving advice to gr.7’s, and other questions are about the changes in middle school.

Grade 7 Whats your favourite thing about middle school?

Joel Babuin : Hockey Skills Acad-emy, girlsCharlotte Mackenzie: Different teachers

What was your biggest fear about grade.7?

Joel Babuin : The teachersCharlotte Mackenzie:getting lost

Grade 8Whats advice would you give a gr.7?Laneya Ollenberger: Dont be late for classes

Taylor Glennie: Be your-self, but not too much

What changed the most in gr.8?Laneya Ollenberger: harder work

Taylor Glennie: People are more mature.

By: Acacia Babuin

Jessica MorganFavorite thing to eat from

Charlie’s Kitchen?“The chicken caesar wrap.”

Favorite class and why?“Art because you’re allowed to

talk.”

Favorite teacher and why?“Ms. Ganske or Ms. Griemann

because they’re amazing teachers.”

Where do you and your friends hang out the most

at lunch?“The halls. We just kind of walk up

and down the hallway.”

Upstairs bathroom or downstairs bathroom?

“Downstairs because it’s the only one I use.”

What activity did you want to join for Activity Day and are you going?

“The aquarium and no, it was full the second day. Now I’m going to

the Zoo.”

After school snack?“I don’t have an after school

snack.”

First thing you do after school?

“I hang out with friends.”

After school sports or activities?

“Soccer and horseback riding.”

Favorite genre of music?“Pop.”

By: Jamie Hisco

Media Literacy Print:

Behind the Scenes

You read our newsletters, but how exactly are they made? The process is quite

simple. At the beginning of the term, we first learn how to use the program on our com-

puters called Adobe InDesign that we use to make the individual pages. After we do that, we are told to write two pages each for the

newsletter,

either on a given topic or one we think of ourselves. We are encouraged to think

of our own topic in order to make the newsletter more interesting and unique. From there, we work on our pages with a group of about four people and make

sure they’re done by the end of the term.

Aly Being Aly.

Marlena & Melissa signing up for their

pages.

Braedon & Mckeon working on their pages while Aly watches.

Melissa taking pictures.

Mckeon relaxing in the wood-

work shop on Costume Day.

Connor working on his pages. # supermodel

Mckeon smiling for the camera.

Alexis and her group looking at pictures.

By: Jamie Hisco

SPORTSiNTerViews

Jake Mcllean Question 1: football because

it has full contact Question 2: football be-cause it is exciting Question 3: longboarding and biking

Kyle Esau Question1: hockey be-cause you have to be fast and tough Question2: rugby because its funny when they beat each other up Question 3:hockey

Conner Vinchoff Question 1:basket-ball because it is fast paced Question 2: soccer because theres lots of action Question 3: soccer and basketball

Questions Question 1: What is your favourite sport? Question 2: What is your favourite sport to watch? Question 3: What sports do you play?

Grade 9

InterviewsAfter School

ActivitiesAll of the CMS students do different things after school, from things like video games to sports

teams. We have asked a few students some ques-tions and these are their answers:

We asked: What do you like to do after school?Simran Sandhu

I like to go home to beat up my broth-ers ,watch T.V ,go on the computer and

listen to music on my ipod touch.

Carter Kassam: I like to listen to

music and longboard.

Jake Mclellan: Video Games, Biking and listening to music.

Written By: Jonathan Wendt

EVENTS: Activity Day-Vancouver AquariumOn October 14th, 45 students went to the Vancouver Aquarium for Activity Day. We all had a blast and learned lots of things. There was all sorts of sea animals like jelly fish, beluga whales, dolphins, turtles, octupus and more. Some of the students went to a 4-D show that talked about the peguins and polar bears’ life in the north

pole and the south pole. It was very interesting and imformative There was also a beluga and dolphin show which was very en-tertaining and they did lots of cool tricks. Everyone had a great time!

Acacica Babuin enjoying her hot choclate.

Kacie Smith and Zach Parker putting coins in the fountain.

Loren Davidson and Kiera Luong Wilson hanging out in the gift shop.

CMS students waiting to get in the Aquarium.

By : Marlena Neels

Halloween Sugar CookiesDecorate them with icing after baking by using confectioners sugar, lemon juice and food coloring. Use black decorating gel to add detail.Cook Time: 9 minutesTotal Prep Time: 2h9 minutesIngredients: •5 tbsp butter, softened•3/4 cup sugar•1 egg•1 tsp vanilla extract•red and yellow food coloring (optional)•1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour•1 tsp baking powder•1/4 tsp salt

Preparation:In a large bowl, mix butter and sugar with an electric hand mixer until creamy. Add egg and vanilla, and food coloring (if using), mix well. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt. Using a wooden spoon, gradually stir flour mixture into butter mixture until a stiff dough forms. Don’t worry if the dough appears crum-bly at first; it will come together.

Wrap dough in plastic and chill for 1-2 hours in the refrigerator. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to a 1/4-inch or 1/8-inch thickness. Use Halloween-themed cookie cutters dipped in flour to make cutouts. Gather scraps and reroll until all the dough is used.

Place cookies on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake for 9-10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Transfer to wire rack to cool.

Yield 30 cookies, depending on size of cookie cutters used.

Melissa Tyler

Activity day~pAInTBALL~

on October 14th, 50 CMS students par-ticipated in paintball at our local family owned paintball buisness. We participated in 8 games, there was sev-eral hours of paintball excitement. The dif-ferent games were tag the Elk were there is a team of about twelve defending and another thirty attacking very few were left in the last 30 secounds which the games were deter-mind in the last thirty secounds. Then there was elimate the enemy there were two differ-

ent teams with even numbers and the ob-jective was to elimate the most amount of people on the oppo-site team in the time given. When it was north vs. south none were safe in the small amount of space given the objective was to take the “flag” and bring it to the enemys base this was almost an imposssible task, and lastly there was my favourite “hunt the rabbit” ther were two teams one was filled with the three teach-ers and nine students of there choice against the other forty-one students out of the

twelve only two stu-dents survived but they were well on there way of flanking the enemys who didnt notice them slip past them and move into position. At the end of the day we just unloaded are paintballs in receration were you can come back alive as many times as you wanted. All was good some people were lucky enough to get some welts to show-off. There were no serious inju-ries and most left with a smile on there face and I hope that everyone else had as much fun as I did in there selective activi-ties.

“Otters Holding Hands”

The Vancouver Aquarium is home of the cut little in-ternet hit “Otters Holding Hands” which has 16 million views on Youtube. So, I took advantage of Activity day to write about the otters in this video... Nyac and Milo. Nyac was a female otter who sadly past away at 20 years on September, 23 2008 from chronic lymphocytic leuke-mia (CLL). CLL is one of the most common leukemias for humans. It’s when you ave cansers and your white blood cells and it effect b-cells in the bone marrow. Nyac was 6 months old when she sur-vived the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. The Vancou-ver Aquarium took her in to monitor her progess and study long-term chronic ef-fects on sea otters due to oil cantamonation.

Milo is the other otter and re-courses say that milo has been diagnosed with lymphoma and had his first chemo therapy ses-sion two months ago. He is now curently being switched between tanks. One where he can rest and the main otter tank where he can play with the other otters.

I love otters!

By: Aly Tonn

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