Student in 8th grade are grade wants to stay another year, all kids want to go to high school for who knows what reason. The district made it harder for students to pass by saying we need a B to pass and that are starting to worry about not passing the 8th grade because of their grades. Nobody in 8 Galileo scores are 6o% of are grade. Students think that the district shouldn’t have done that because now they are worried they might flunk. Students who had good grade might be getting bad grades right now because they raised the passing grade to a B. this is why its harder for students to pass because of Galileo.
Miguel ,Jairo
Friday, January 22, 2010
No uniform
Why do we have to wear uniforms? It would be better with out uniforms.
The school would look colorful. Some student doesn’t have money to buy
uniforms. We think normal clothes are way better then uniform. The
teachers say that when we wear too much of a color we are in a gang.
Another idea can be that every Friday we can wear normal clothes.
By: Leslie
The school would look colorful. Some student doesn’t have money to buy
uniforms. We think normal clothes are way better then uniform. The
teachers say that when we wear too much of a color we are in a gang.
Another idea can be that every Friday we can wear normal clothes.
By: Leslie
Jerking .
Jerkin’s a Habit now a days. Everybody tends to do and enjoy it. Especially in this school, Mr.Pina supports the jerkers by doing battles and giving prices to those who jerk the best . We have plenty of jerkers here at school. Better yet a crew named Nasty Minded.
Daisy.
Jerking
Jerkin is a dance that everybody does. It’s a hobby where everybody learns or invents their own moves like there are battles and all so group battles but the thing is you have to have your own moves or thats gonna be called cheating. They’re even songs to get you pumped up.
That’s how you jerk so we invented a crew named Nasty Minded Jerks. The moves of jerking we’re doing is called reject, heal and toe kneedrop, jump over your leg. And also foot work.
Luis
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
School uniform
Why does all middle scholars have to wear uniform at school? For me it’s much better to wear normal clothes, so everyone could be satisfied. If everybody wears normal clothes they would be much better at paying attention in class. The principle always thinks that if we wear black and red we are on a gang, but we aren’t. I think that if we could wear black and red to school it will be great even though we aren’t using normal clothes at school.
By: Brenda
By: Brenda
PE Class
The last semester, I had so much fun in p.e. We played lots of sports in p.e for example; we played football, basketball, kickball, and all other sports we played in p.e. We also had a great time in health class. We learned everything about losing weight and how to see how many calories every food it has. We also did free time on Fridays but not every Friday. We also played medic dodge ball whenever we had a bad weather outside. We sometimes had to do some sports activities or go for a walk for a few laps until class is over. 1st semester was the best!
We also had a great time in health class. We began learning about what’s in our bodies and know how to do CPR. We also do exercises before we go to health class like sit-ups, running from cone-to-cone, jump rope, and all other stuff we do in health class. We also write the definitions in health class that was the best! We sometimes watch a video but not all the time. We also went outside to do obstacle courses some times in health class and also in the gym. We also had to write in our notebooks to take notes in health class. Health class was the best!
Sometimes, we have substitute teachers in p.e when our p.e teachers are absent or unable to go to school. We sometimes play kickball, which is our favorite sport we do when our p.e teachers did not make it to school. P.e and health class sometimes get together to play dodge ball or doing free time sometimes we go to p.e. We started to have fun in p.e and health class because we had good times in that class. We wanted to stay in p.e more but we had to go to our new electives sadly. We will always remember the good times we did in p.e and health classes.
By Karina
We also had a great time in health class. We began learning about what’s in our bodies and know how to do CPR. We also do exercises before we go to health class like sit-ups, running from cone-to-cone, jump rope, and all other stuff we do in health class. We also write the definitions in health class that was the best! We sometimes watch a video but not all the time. We also went outside to do obstacle courses some times in health class and also in the gym. We also had to write in our notebooks to take notes in health class. Health class was the best!
Sometimes, we have substitute teachers in p.e when our p.e teachers are absent or unable to go to school. We sometimes play kickball, which is our favorite sport we do when our p.e teachers did not make it to school. P.e and health class sometimes get together to play dodge ball or doing free time sometimes we go to p.e. We started to have fun in p.e and health class because we had good times in that class. We wanted to stay in p.e more but we had to go to our new electives sadly. We will always remember the good times we did in p.e and health classes.
By Karina
Castro update
Friday we had a dress down day because the Cardinals won the last game. We could’ve brought jersey shirts to represent the team we like, or we could just wear whatever we wanted. Also we had just had a jerking contest it was pretty cool. We do this every once in a while. We also just had two games, one was on 1/11/10 it was a basketball game against Atkinson. Then on 1/13/10 was a football game against Estrella.
by: Lilibeth
by: Lilibeth
Galileo test
Why does the Galileo Test affect our grades?
We asked a teacher about how she feel about the Galileo
Test and it being 60% of are final grades. Her answers were this. Ms. Farley said the way she feels about the test is impartial meaning it has both pros and cons. 1 pro was: it gives a good over view of the student. 1 con was: it might be a bad testing day for the student therefore the students grade will be affected by the actual grade in their class on the report card.
By: Adrianna Sanchez,Dejonna Quinney,Diana Perez
We asked a teacher about how she feel about the Galileo
Test and it being 60% of are final grades. Her answers were this. Ms. Farley said the way she feels about the test is impartial meaning it has both pros and cons. 1 pro was: it gives a good over view of the student. 1 con was: it might be a bad testing day for the student therefore the students grade will be affected by the actual grade in their class on the report card.
By: Adrianna Sanchez,Dejonna Quinney,Diana Perez
The Jerks
Do you ever wonder how the ‘jerks’ jerk? They each have their own style and way to do different moves in their dance ‘jerking’. Some jump before they drop and some twist before they drop, as you see there are many different ways to express this dance. January 15, 2010 there was a dancing contest held in the gym for both 7th and 8th graders. They battled each other to see who came out as the best ‘jerk’, and I’m sure it was a very hard decision to make. Though, everyone did his or her best and I’m sure if you try you could come out as the best jerk in Castro Middle School.
Ismenia V., Genesis A., Ashlee G.
Ismenia V., Genesis A., Ashlee G.
Free Dress Day!!
Friday January 15, 2010 was free dress day at Castro Middle School.
A lot of people were wearing regular clothes, not school uniforms.
We could also wear jerseys. This gave us a chance to wear our favorite team jersey. Our teachers also brought jerseys to school. It was nice to get out of our school uniforms and bring the clothes we would like to bring!!
By: Angel B.
A lot of people were wearing regular clothes, not school uniforms.
We could also wear jerseys. This gave us a chance to wear our favorite team jersey. Our teachers also brought jerseys to school. It was nice to get out of our school uniforms and bring the clothes we would like to bring!!
By: Angel B.
The style these days
Now in these days there is things that are in style that were in style back then but not all things . Like when girls tease there hair and skinny jeans ,nerdy glasses were in style back then too . Some of the things that are in style right now some people think they are weird like zebra type skinny jeans and retro clothes . Like converse have always been in style but for a while they weren’t and now they are in style again .Now the shoes that are in style are VANS,BLAZERS,CONVERSE and JORDANS . Another thing that is cool right now are checkered shirts or clothes and JANSPORTS or DICKIES backpacks . One of the color’s that is in style right now is purple . The other style of skinny jeans is the colored skinny jeans and the guys are now wearing like vests and some of there vests are checkered , shorts that are khaki and caps too. Now that’s the style that’s OFF THE WALL.
BY:ESTEFANIA
BY:ESTEFANIA
School dress code
I think that it's cool that we can wear jeans to school. I think its cool because in other middle schools, students can’t wear jeans. They have to wear a uniform. Last year we could of weared different color shirts but now we can’t we can only wear gray ,white and maroon, But I still think its nice. That we can wear only those two colors. Also the thing I like about Castro is that we can wear jeans. They have to be dark blue, light blue or gray I found out that we can wear gray jeans back then we couldn’t wear gray jeans only dark blue, light blue, But now we can wear gray jeans. That’s one of my other favorite things about this school that we can WEAR GRAY JEANS. I hope that students at Castro like the code that we have!... The other thing that a lot of people like its when we can wear regular clothes.
BY: Yarixa
BY: Yarixa
Gum
Here at Castro we are having issues with gum. Students put there gum everywhere which makes Mr. Piña upset. Mr. Piña does not want students in his office just for chewing gum. We would rather want to be in his office for a better excuses like fighting or something serious. We should be able to chew gum once in a while but we shouldn’t leave our gum everywhere. We should be able to chew gum. We should be able to chew gum because we can handle where to put out gum and that’s in the trashcan. We’re smart students and we should be treated like that. We are smart and we will work on the gum issue. Mr. Piña should allow students to chew gum.
Monica and Erika
Castro is the best school
Castro is a brand new school. I enjoy coming and walking the halls at Castro middle school. We have good teachers. Teachers here at Castro try to make us not want to drop out of school and that’s why we have jerking contests and free dress days. The walls, cafeteria rooms, library and gym are so nice here at Castro. One of the reasons I come to school is to have fun while I’m learning. This school is not like others. It is the coolest school a kid can come to. When there are fights or problems the teachers fix it. Especially the principal Mr. Pina.
Citlali
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