Saegertown High School

What an exciting finish! The Spanish 3 & 4 combined classes have come up from behind and WON! Their total score earned FIRST PLACE with 251,650 grains of rice. They fed 13 people for 1 day. The SECOND PLACE class was Spanish 1, period 2 with 246,380 grains of rice that fed 12.83 people for a day. The THIRD PLACE class was Spanish 1, period 7 with 242,960 grains of rice that fed 12.65 people for a day. The FOURTH PLACE class was Spanish 2, period 3 with 226,470 grains of rice that fed 11.79 people for a day. The FIFTH PLACE class was Spanish 2, period 5 with 224,280 grains of rice that fed 11.68 people for a day. In all we fed 62 people for a day! Imagine what you could do if you tried to play the game in English or any of the available languages. Stretch yourself and feed the world at freerice.com! The Spanish 3 & 4 classes won a taco fiesta with tacos and Mexican rice pudding!
¡Vamos a divertirnos! ¡VIVA LAS GUERRAS DE ARROZ- HASTA EL AÑO PROXIMO!

Seniors in Mr. Young’s Earth Science classes wrapped up their unit on volcanoes by creating a movie on a specific volcano and any eruptions of the volcano of significant size. The videos were created using iMovie which was made available through the computers purchased with the CFF grant. Please take a moment to view some of the students explosive videos below.

All SHS videos can be seen at http://www1.schooltube.com/Organization/OrganizationHome.aspx?oid=192252

On Wednesday, May 6, Mrs. Brawn’s Spanish classes reported to the library prepared for battle. Spanish 1-4 were in the library for several more days throughout this month dueling to see who has the most knowledge of Spanish vocabulary on FreeRice.com. FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. FreeRice’s goals are to provide education to everyone for free and to help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. FreeRice quizzes people on their vocabulary, and for each word for which they select the correct synonym, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice to help end hunger. Mrs. Brawn’s Spanish classes faced off against each other as they embarked in the race to get the highest score. The class that raises the most will receive a taco fiesta with Mrs. Brawn’s surprise rice dish! We will let you know who reigns supreme in the battle of FreeRice.

By Darcie L., The Panther Press

SchoolTube.com has awarded Saegertown High School with the Certificate of Awesomeness for the videos that Mr. Young’s science students have posted on SchoolTube.com. This certificate means that SHS will be the featured school of the day on Tuesday May 12th. Be sure to check out http://www2.schooltube.com/Educators/FeaturedSchools.aspx on the 12th to view the videos.