Support Our Sports Games
October 24, 2008
I really like to see a wolf crowd at our sports games it makes the players feel so good to have some support!!! I am a volleyball player and i love to see football players and some classmates come cheer us on. Let’s keep it up…
Shawn B’s Life in P.E.
October 24, 2008
I am in P.E. sitting out
Now I feel nothing but doubt
Just because I didn’t dress out
I didn’t pout
Now I’m missing class and not learning how to pass
It’s the end of P.E. class at last
I think about what I did
I think it’s wrong, too late to turn back, as I think about this song
My conscience is too long
But my teacher’s being mean
I was wearing all red, blue, and green
I’m writing this poem while I’m in school
I feel like a lonely mule
Is being lonely cool?
Is being out of school cool?
The sign in the gym says no drinks, no food
Could we should we be
A school, a prison
You always got to listen
People say I’m lazy
I think they’re crazy!
One more ‘not dressing out’
I got detention so I must listen
Next time I’ll dress out without a doubt
I’m not sitting out.
And that’s a fact; you don’t have to believe
To succeed you got to listen.
Got to get in transmission
So I’m listening
Got on my P’s and Q’s
Now I have something to lose
But I’ve got news
I’m now getting A’s and B’s
But P.E. still gives me the heebee-jeebees!
The year is 2008, and my hope is forever
But never.
Haley’s Howl
October 24, 2008
Did You Know That:
~Winter lasts for 21 years on Uranus
~The average American eats 20 buckets of ppopcorn a year
~the first phonebook was 1 page long
~red means beautiful in Russian
~A hill in New Zealand is called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauquotamatapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
~ sharks have been in existance longer than trees
~there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth
~a cloud can way more than 1 million lbs
Another Cheesy Joke:
Teacher: You copied from Erica’s exam paper.
Rachel: How did you know?
Teacher: For question number 3, Erica wrote “I don’t know, and you wrote “Me neither”
The Darkside Haunted House: Will YOU go Insane?
October 24, 2008
by Ben R.
Are you easily scared? Light-hearted? Then this is a place that will SCARE YOU SILLY! A trail, full of frightening creatures, a meat house, a vampire camp, a maze of the scariest clowns ever, and much, much more. According to the man who greets you at the start of this pants-wetting journey, the grounds is 40 acres of terror. Unfortunately, it’s less than that. More like, 3 acres or so? Anyway, the trail is a warm-up, full of strange “experiments”. The meat house has a frightening secret that most try to hide, and several creatures are out to get you. This was the most scary house ever. I was terrified, and I’m sure you will too. If not, you must have a strange addiction to going to creepy haunted houses.
Editor’s note:
Darkside Insane Asylum
www.thedarksideinsaneasylum.com 919-269-8260
11750 Hwy. 222 West, Middlesex
Open select evenings Oct. 17-Nov. 1, 7-10 p.m.
Admission is $12.
Haunted house and trail. See Web site for rules and details. Low-scare night for younger kids
Oct. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Andrew R.’s Cafeteria Food review
October 24, 2008
Cafeteria Food Review
Reviewed By: Andrew R.
Welcome new readers, I am Andrew R. I shall be reviewing local eateries at least once a month. First, I have reviewed Wakefield Middle School’s Cafeteria food for the date of 10/22/08.
My menu included spaghetti with breadstick, cinnamon baked apples, tossed salad with ranch dressing, a chocolate chip cookie for dessert, and chocolate milk. Let us begin.
The spaghetti was very cheesy, but there was far too much cheese-basically, it was cheese casserole with a tasty breadstick. The baked apples were perfect, with the right amount of cinnamon. The tossed salad was adequate, but could use even a small amount of tomato, and maybe even a packet of cheese to add. The chocolate milk was refreshing, but could use a better taste of chocolate. The cookies have perfect dough, with rich tasting chocolate, either milk chocolate or white chocolate. Overall, my rating was seven and one half out of 10. (7½ out of 10) The sanitation said 99. That concludes my review of the Wakefield Middle School cafeteria.
Reporter: Andrew R.
Wakefield’s Football Season
October 20, 2008
I, Ryan am currently on the football team. So I know about Wakefield’s football season. Our current record is 3-2(3 wins 2 loses)
The last game we played was against Wake-Forest Middle School. The High School plays their high school team on Friday. Last night we played a hard fought loss against WF. Our Quarterback, Connor, has thrown for over 600 yards this season and was sacked once last night.
On the positive side, Evan had two fumble recoveries and a couple of sacks. Jordan and Tyson scored our two touchdowns last night. Jordan caught a passing touchdown and Ty ran in a touchdown. The final score was 22-16. Come out next game and support your Wakefield Wolves football team.
Seekers
October 16, 2008
Are you a fan of the Warriors series? If so, you’ll love the new Seekers novel by Erin Hunter. The novel Seekers, A quest begins is about three bears and their journey in the wild. The setting takes place in the future. No, not with flying cars but, when we start expanding further into the wild destroying animal habitats and the environment. The story has three main characters. Kallik is a polar bear who needs to make a journey to land before the ice melts. Toklo, a grizzly bear needs to travel with great courage to help bring his sick brother, Tobi, into safety. And lastly Lusa, who has lived in a zoo all her life, escapes to help keep a promise she made to a friend. These three bears meet, changing their lives forever. They travel to a place of adventure to get closer to a future they could only dream about.
I personally couldn’t put the book down. At first I thought a book about bears would be boring but it turned out to be great. The author did an awesome job with introducing the problems from the animal’s perspectives. You really change your views on how you see things by the end of the novel. All in all, I would give this novel thumbs up and anyone who likes to read will enjoy this novel.
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The Tour of Superstars
October 16, 2008
What’s up Wakefield!? Everyone knows we just had the Olympics and gymnastics was one of the sports. In gymnastics, the gymnast compete on four events; vault, bars, beam, and floor. Six girls and two alternates travel the long journey to the Olympics. This year’s Olympic team included Bridget Sloan, Samantha Pezek, Chellsie Memmel, beam gold medalist and all-around silver medalist Shawn Johnson and all-around gold medalist Nastia Liukin. Nastia Liukin is included as one of the three American all-around gold medalist. he goes in the history books with Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson.
After every Olympics the gymnasts get together and travel around the U.S. performing. This year Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson are performing around the U.S. This year the show is called “The Tour of Superstars”. The Tour of Superstars is coming to the RBC Center Sunday October 19, 2008. In the Tour of Superstars the gymnasts do their routines on all the events. After they do some of their routines they team up and do partner routines. At the Tour of Superstars, men perform there too. The men gymnasts go and do their routines and also partner up. At the end of the show they go around signing autographs.
I went to the last Tour of Champions and it was alot of fun. The stars did their routines and then partnered up. At the end they signed autographs and left to go to the next show. It was so much fun and I wish I could go to the next show.
No. 22 UNC Wins Over Notre Dame 29-24
October 16, 2008
In last weekend’s college football match-up, No. 22 UNC beat unranked Notre Dame 29-24. The 4-1 UNC Tarheels played 4-1 Notre Dame Fight Irish at UNC. Both teams won the week before; UNC over No.22 Connecticut 38-12 and Notre Dame over unranked Stanford 28-21.
Notre Dame opened the scoring with Jimmy Clausen touchdown pass to Golden Tate. UNC later kicked a field goal to make it 7-3. Notre Dame kicked a field goal followed by a UNC field to make it 10-6 ND. Later in the second ND Jimmy Clausen, throw another touchdown to Michael Floyd. After another field goal by UNC, the score was 17-9 ND.
On the first play of the third quarter, Quan Sturdivant of UNC had a interception returned for a touchdown. Later in third, ND scored again, this time a rushing touchdown by James Aldridge. The score was 24-16 ND. Then, a Ryan Houston rushing TD, but a missed two-point conversion made it 24-22 ND. However, on the first play of fourth quarter, Cameron Sexton rushed in a TD. UNC got its first lead of the game 29-24. Late in fourth, ND got the ball back on their 18 with 1:47 to play. They got it to UNC 33 with 11 seconds to go, Jimmy Clausen found a wide receiver, but fumbled the ball and UNC recovered it. The play reviewed and after a lengthy review, the fumble was upheld and ran out the clock.
Jimmy Clausen threw for a career-best 383 yards. Sexton threw for 201 yards and a rushing TD. Quan Sturdivant had a key interception returned for a touchdown. UNC is now No. 18 and 5-1 and ND is 4-2. UNC plays Virginia and ND plays Washington. It was UNC’s first win over ND since 1960.
The Economy and the Fair
October 16, 2008
The News & Observer discussed how the economy is not going so well and how it affects the fair. The fair is not so concerned about how the economy is going, but how the weather will be on the fair days, because this crisis is not going to contain the people’s joy to come to the fair and have fun. The weather is a concern to the staff and the people coming to the fair, whom are expecting a dry weather. The fair is even adding another half day in case of any rain, to make more money, and to reach their goal of having 1 million people come to the fair.
Another concern is the rising prices of food, because it has been about a decade since they raised the prices, for example to a get a full meal at the fair last year it was about $20 but now the price is $27, but the people will come anyway because not even this great crisis the U.S. is going through is going to stop the people from coming to the fair and have the best time of their lives.
