Social Studies Students Learn Supply and Demand

Photos and Story by
DESIRAE ORLASKI
Mr. Rocky Biggers' social studies classes do skits to represent certain scenarios of supply and demand. The students were split up into groups, one per table, and then split in to two groups per table. Biggers gave each table a different scenario, and one group at a table had to act out that scenario in a market economy, and the other group had to act it out in a command economy.

Paint ball

Paintball Every other Friday East Middle School gym students play paint ball. East Middle School gym students play with dodge balls. There are two teams. One team wears green vests and the other team wears their regular shirts. You can only have one ball before you can start the game. One team has to try to get the cone and take it to your teams side. You have green team and shirts team. They have to set up barriers to hide behind them. There are both boys and girls. In the game you can’t throw, catch, or block or you are out. If you get out then you stay out until your team gets the other teams cone. This game is played in gym at East Middle School.

Video provided for August 28 Joplin School Board meeting

Art classes working on major projects

By JEREMIAH MARTIN

Staff Writer

Mrs. Rachel Hardee is making a successful art year in East Middle School by taking it one step at a time.

For a first major project, she is making sixth grade make clay coil pots. Seventh grade is making clay jewelry. Eighth grade is making piggy banks, slab boxes and potter wheel. She plans to rap clay up for sixth grade next week, Seventh that next week and eighth at the end of quarter. She says, “The students think clay is very fun and love doing it!”

(Photo: Hayley Stamper working on the beginning stages of her piggy bank for Art Club)

First dance scheduled for Friday, September 21

Art by Thomas Reynolds

Sixth graders Ship Wrecked

By KALEY BELCHER
and BROOKLYNN ROBERTSON
Staff Writers

Gordon Korman’s first non-comedy work, Ship Wreck is a story of six troubled kids forced to participate in a character building experience learning after a tragic ship wreck to work together in order to survive.

Mrs. Kim Frencken's sixth grade reading classes are studying the book.

     Characters in Ship Wreck are Luke, Lyssa, Will, Ian, and J.J., Charla, all sent on the Phoenix for different reason. Luke is in trouble for possessing a firearm found in his locker. Will and Lyssa fight way too much, even for brother and sister, put in the hospital and were sent to the Phoenix. Ian watched way too much television, instead of spending time with real people. Charla suffers a stress related nervous breakdown. J.J. is a spoiled, troublesome brat.

 To learn more go to www.gordankorman.com/shipwreck.htm  or http://www.scholastic.com/titles/island/quiz.htm

EMS volleyball on tap for Thursday night

East Middle School seventh and eighth grade volleyball teams will be in action Thursday night at College Heights, beginning at 5 p.m. with the seventh grade. The eighth grade game will follow.

Color Guard Practices

Story by HAILEY STAMPER and photo by DESIRAE ORLASKI
Color guard practices its routine for the new school year. It's going to be performing for the first time this year on September 27th.