How The Grinch Stole Christmas By Hanna Wiles & Kadance Kirk

The 8th grade ELA gets decorated for Christmas and this year they are
doing “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.” Hanna Wiles and Kadance
Kirk interviewed Mr.Garrett and here are a few things we learned about
it. Mr.Vonkamp and Mr.Garrett came up with the idea to start decorating.
They decorate for Christmas so the Elementary kids (preK-5th grade
and St.Francis) can see Santa.  The 8th grade staff, and willing students
help decorate. It takes a month ½-2 months to decorate. All of the
Christmas trees got donated to the 8th grade and Mr.Garrett thinks that
there are over 100 ornaments on all of the trees put together.
Mr.Garrett’s favorite part is seeing the elementary kids faces lighting
up when they see all the decorations in the ELA. They usually put up
the decorations after Thanksgiving break, and take them down the day
before Christmas break starts.

6th 7th and 8th Graders Assembly By Kadance Kirk

At the assembly the principal called down the kids that got all A’s and kids how got perfect attendance  in the 1th 9 weeks in the assembly kids in 6th 7th and 8th got to play dodgeball the first grade to play was 6th grade  it was a close game! Then the 7th grade got to play at was a good game! Than the 8th grade get to play they  all did good! Than it was time to let the teacher play the team that won in every grade got to play against the teacher ti was a  close game and ti was fun to watch but inthe end the teacher came out with a win  !!!!!

KOOKIE by Odalis Lopez

The Eighth Grade Revolutionary War Reenactment - Scheduled For May 11 and 12, 2018

Sixth Grade Student of the Month

Student of the Month

for October is proudly presented to

Abigail Davis

Grade 6

Abby has earned the recognition of student of the month because she works hard both in and out of school. She has a positive attitude, being kind and respectful to teachers. In school, Abby is responsible and conscientious worker. Her hard work has paid off and earned her all A's the first quarter of school. 

Parent Teacher Conferences

    We asked a Willard Middle School teacher, Mr. Garrett, how he feels about parent teacher conferences and if he feels that they are necessary . We asked him a set of questions about how he feels about the conferences.
    One question we asked him was how to determine if you need to have a conferences with the parent?" Mr. Garret replied "Any child that is struggling or needs extra help." I think that is a pretty good answer. He said it in a very nice way and didn't put down the children who need a little more help.
    We then asked him how many conferences a year does he have on average. "20-30 conferences per year." He replied.
    For our last question that we asked him, was "Overall, how do you feel about conferences?"  "It is a great way to help children." He replied.
    A special thanks goes out to Mr. Garrett. He answered all of these questions honestly. We thank you for your honesty and commitment to helping the Flashes Times Junction.
                                                                                                                         -Makena Northcutt
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Halloween Dance

October 31st there was a middle school halloween dance. The students were allowed to dress up. A majority of students believe this has been the most successful middle school dance so far. They provided snacks such as cookies, cupcakes and candy. The beverages were great, which included lemonade and punch. They had a series of musics and the decorations were extremely spooky. There was a haunted hallway which was loads of fun. They had different scenes and jump scares. A lot of people went into it and they received good feedback.

Seniors at Willard High School have an extremely important grade coming up quickly. While some of you may know, every year seniors have an overall project called ‘Senior Project’. Nice name right? Anywho, I was lucky enough to speak with a lovely young lady named Marnie Lillo. She taught me       

       All about her and her parteners, Kourtney Craft, project.

These two young ladies did not plan on working with each other but, their differences with one another made it conjoin to become one perfect project. Their project is called ‘WHO WE ARE’.  They’re using their different talents such as photography and public speaking to host an art show. This art show will be displayed at the Art Junction on November 17 & 18, 2017 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Art work will be for sale. All of the proceeds go to the Willard Hope Center.

The theme for this project is community. They chose this theme because they both respect our town. The art products have been inspired by the citizens attending the Hope center and local churches. One of these students are producing the photojournalism portion, while the other individual is hosting the artwork. The senior that is doing photojournalism will be taking the pictures of the students creating the artwork. Her pictures will also be displayed the same day the art show will take place.

The research on this project is vaguely intense. Their paper is commented on how art affects an individual's health and well being. The senior project is an amazing opportunity to do something you love and make it into something real. They use senior project to create a lifestyle for the students. These girls used this opportunity to make connections with the people in our community.

I hope all citizens that attend this event find it pleasurable and very helpful with our town. So please come join these two lovely ladies in their evening event. Do not forget. Come visit the Art Junction November 17 & 18, 2017 6:30-9:30 p.m. Have a great day and show your flashes spirit.

Senior projects are coming up quick, even as quick as this upcoming Saturday. November 4, Emily Bentz will be hosting a Sock Hop. What is a Sock Hop you may ask yourself? Well, I’ll tell you. A Sock Hop is basically a fundraiser for the Clock Tower Project. This project is to restore the old clock tower that used to sit among the old City Hall building.  Did I mention she is doing this all by herself?

The Sock Hop will be a 50’s dance that will include many activities. These activities include a 50’s drive in, a 25 cent Hoola Hoop Contest, a 50’s diner, live music,  50/50 raffle and even a cardboard box car contest ages 10 & under, which is a 2 dollar entry fee at the door. There is also food for purchase. These activities seem spectacular. I would have never came up with such an intellectual yet fun project.

The project will be at 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm at the Christian Alliance Church, 1608 Conwell Avenue, Willard, Ohio 44890. If you would like to get to know more about this fundraiser you cand find it on facebook  @ClockTowerSockHopFundraiser  or you can visit her website (WWW.Willardsockhop.weebly.com). All of these proceeds go towards this project. Anyone can come and enjoy this great Senior Project.

The paper behind the scene of the project is all about importance of restoring historical culture and heritage. She believes it is important to push students to be creative and for them to be able to share intellectual interests with individuals. She had picked this project because she has always loved heritage and culture. She also enjoyed that she will be able to bring the community together for a good cause. Emily researched how heritage culture affects us as humans and the changes it brings. She also researched what it is, because a lot of people do not comprehend what is being said.

I encourage everyone to visit this Sock Hop, not only due to it being a good cause but, because it will be loads of fun and entertainment to come together with your community and get to know the people in it.

October 18th High/Middle School Announcements

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October 17th High/Middle School Announcements

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October 16th High/Middle School Annoucements

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October 13th High/Middle School Announcements

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6th-Grade Camp at Mohican

The 6th-grade students will be going to Mohican May 1-4, 2018. Some activities to get excited about include boating(canoe), hiking, pioneer cooking, animal care, and archery. Some classes the 6th graders might be taking are about survival, meteorology, and mammals.

- By Hanna Wiles and Kadance Kirk

Build A Jack-O-Lantern

October 13th High/MIddle School Announcements

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Future Flashes Basketball Players

The Willard high school girl’s basketball team will be holding Future Flashes Basketball camp throughout this season. The camp will be held on Saturday mornings for grades 3-6. The camp is FREE and will last an hour and fifteen minutes each Saturday morning, the fifth and sixth graders will be in the Haas Gym starting at 8:00 AM -9:15 AM. The 3rd-6th graders will play at halftime during a varsity home game this season. The kids be admitted FREE of the game the night that they are scheduled to play.            

                                                                           - Tianna Tackett

Middle School Pep Rally!

Hey Flashes! Once again we have ourselves another Pep Rally! We watched students against staff in head to head battles to win it all! A certain selection of students had the opportunity to play games against the teachers. They faced a certain amount of challenges as teams, teachers vs students! We did a great job going crazy for our team! Challenges included an Oreo competition, a Marshmallow challenge, and to top it all off, a cup stacking race! We also had the opportunity to listen to the Willard High School Band. They performed a few stand tunes with some of the Willard Middle School band members. We hope you all enjoyed this crazy Pep Rally!

October 11th High/Middle School Announcements

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October 10th High/Middle School announcements

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October 9th High/Middle announcements

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Basketball Fundraiser

As most of you probably heard, our seventh grade language arts teacher Mrs. Freed’s son has been sadly diagnosed with Leukemia. To take steps to help Mrs. Freed, the Willard Basketball Team will be holding a fundraiser. In this fundraiser we will be selling rolls of twelve thirty gallon trash bags for fifteen dollars a roll. If you would like to help out the team you can give one of the many basketball players phone numbers that they can contact to sell trash bags to. Thank you Flashes!

Players you can give numbers to

• Broc Baldridge
• Skeeter Baldridge
• Dorian Holiday
• Gavin Sweet
• Caulin Morris
• Dasian Savongsak
• Chase Hall
• Brevon Polachek
• Gabe Sanchez
• Bryce Thompson
• Trey Paxton
• Cole Weiss
• Casey Sallee
• Logan Lofland
• Seth Lawrence
• Kyle Smith
• Isaiah Washington

Fall Cheerleading To End On October 14th

Willard Middle School Cross Country

This years Willard Middle School Cross Country teams season is coming to a close. This year has been better than past years, placing in the top fifteen runners in every race in which they competed. I had the opportunity to have a few words with some of the players and hear what they thought of their team. Let’s see what they said.

I got to interview two of the eighth grade runners, Fernando Huerta and Jordan Sweet, who have been running cross country for two years now. “We had a rough start, but towards the end we started practicing really hard and began to place higher in the races” Fernando Huerta stated about this year’s cross country team. Jordan Sweet responded, “Great, because we have a lot of great runners and have been practicing very hard.” The Willard Middle School’s Cross Country team will soon be competing in the district championship meet. So make sure you wish them luck as they compete for our school! Go Flashes!

- Casey

Sallee

WMS SPIRIT WEEK!

                      Attention Flashes, this week is spirit week, due to fall sports coming to their ending period. Each and every day this week (except Monday) the middle school students will  be permitted to dress down. participation in this event will not be mandatory, but if students do not wish to attend they will indeed be required to come to school wearing campus wear. All rules for dress code apply for all four days (including no leggings, holes in jeans etc.). Show your Flashes pride this week. Dress down days are as following.

Tuesday: Black & White Day
Wednesday: Fav Sport Day
Thursday: Comfy Cozy Day
Friday: Flashes Spirit

World Smile Day :)

Happy Friday Flashes!!! Today, October 6th, is National World Smile Day. Every first Friday of October this global event spreads happiness through all the world. Everyone should conjoin in this day to make one another cheerful. You should make new friends and be sweet and bright to everyone. These school years are all we have left, because right after its hello world. Thank you for reading, and don't forget love life.

October 6th High/Middle School Announcements

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October 5th High/Middle School Announcements

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Academic Challenge?!

    Have you guys heard about Academic Challenge? I bet you are thinking, why would anyone want to do more schoolwork, after school? Well, Academic Challenge is so much fun. We don't do worksheets like you're probably thinking of. We watch the news, we play fun games, read books, and other cool things. 
     We bring food and eat it while watching the news. Lots of laughter and hard work is put into this extracurricular activity. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we gather in either Mr von Kamp's or Mr. Napier's room. It's a lot of fun but it's serious too. You have to be able to learn new things very quickly. We will have competitions, and other things. It is a lot of fun, but you have to be willing to put in the hard work and effort.  
    Right now we are in the process of reading "How They Choked". It is about famous people in History that failed. The point that the book it making is that everyone fails, even the most successful people. You should check out "How They Choked". You'll probably really like it. 
                                                                                                                -Makena Northcutt :)
                                                         

October 4th 2017 High/Middle School announcements

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Bullying Prevention Tips

October 3rd, 2017 High/Middle School announcements

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Middle School Football

The 7th & 8th grade middle school football teams have been through a lot these past couple years. This year has been extraordinarily different.  You may sit and wonder to yourself, why? Well, I had the opportunity to have a chat with a few of the coaches and a couple of the players to react to all of our questions. Please, stay awhile, and read all about how and why this year was about to change dramatically.

Our astounding coaches, Tom Crawford and Ryan Bond, Have been there for these players through thick and thin. These coaches enjoy teaching young student athletes the extracurriculars they loved growing up. They wish to make football more enjoyable for all of the players. Mr. Crawford and Mr. Bond have agreed all students must have obtainable grades such as A’s, B’s and or C’s, and if they have not reached this goal they will come to a so called “study table” to do missing work, study for tests, basically just work to boost grades. These coaches make more and more progress every single days

As of our players, the 8th grade and 7th grade have combined due to a shortage of our 8th grade players. A lot of the students have came to a conclusion that the coaches try to push the team to the best of their abilities. Their offense and defense could use a little bit of work but if they work themselves just enough they can become better as a whole. They enjoy after school practice, and they should know to the fact of them having it five days a week.These players work extremely hard and try to achieve their goals through the season and even out of it.

                                            By Kamdyn Polachek

Halloween Dance!

It is officially October Flashes, which means Halloween is right around the corner! Willard Middle School will be celebrating Halloween with a Halloween Dance! The dance will be held October twenty-sixth in the Hass Commons.

This year is going to spookier than ever with the new terrifying Haunted Hallway. There will also be music, snacks, drinks, and other fun activities. Today I spoke with the Student Council Vice President Ellen Fox about the dance. “I think this year, with the haunted hallway, will be spectacular!” Student Council Vice President Ellen Fox said. The estimated cost of the dance will be three dollars with a costume and four dollars without a costume. So remember on October twenty-sixth in the Hass Commons to come to the Halloween dance.

- Casey Sallee

Announcements for Monday, October 2nd

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Student of the Month

for September is proudly presented to

Ricardo Gomez-Santos

Ricardo deserves this honor, because not only is he an outstanding classmate and a student of integrity, but also an incredible teammate and hard worker. He is always willing to help his classmates by loaning them supplies or trying to brighten their days when they need a lift. He brightens the classroom with his persistent smile and off-the-wall attempts at humor. He is respectful to his teachers and gives his best effort. Ricardo is an excellent example for his classmates and embodies what Flashes Pride should be.

September student of the month for 6th grade

September Student Of The Month

The student of the month I would proudly like to present is Grant Adams! Grand has done an excellent job transitioning into the sixth grade. He is demonstrating Flashes Pride by being respectful of all his teachers and classmates. Grant is demonstrating excellent in his work and his determination to complete his assignments well and on time. He also has a great attitude in class and conducts himself with integrity as he not only participates in class, but is able to speak intelligently and enhance class discussions. Keep up the great work Grant… and continue to demonstrate that FLASHES PRIDE!

Student of the Month

for September is proudly presented to

Naomi Schag

Naomi is a hard working young lady who is excelling in all academic classes. 

In addition to all her academic success,

Naomi is a caring individual who is always willing to help others.

Announcements for Friday, September 29th

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September 20th Updates

            Hey, Flashes. Welcome to today's issue of Flashes Junction. How are you guys today? Hopefully you all are having a great day.
       
               Have you guys seen the movie Sing. If not, you have a FREE chance too. On Saturday, September 23, 2017, they are playing Sing. At the high school Auditeria. You should bring your family. The best part is, popcorn is provided! Additional snacks are available for purchase as well.
So you should come and support our school! :)
               For those of us in Art Club, there are meetings after school on Tuesdays after school. If you haven't joined, we are doing super awesome projects. The meetings last until 4:30. Please see Ms. Smith for more information.
                If you're interested in school Newspaper, see me (Makena Northcutt) or Mr. von Kamp. You should really join. We need photographers, writers, and some other positions that need filled.
                Academic Challenge meetings are after school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. If you want to improve your academic skills, you should totally join. It's really fun, so why not join?
                          Have an amazing day!
                                                                                   Go Willard Flashes!!! :)
                                                                                    -Makena Northcutt :)

September 11 updates

       

           

Hello, Flashes. Welcome to today's issue of Flashes Times Junction. Today I'm not only going to be talking about things going on in school but what today means and represents.

            Don't forget tomorrow there is an art club meeting. For everyone participating in girls basketball, there are going to open gyms and weights held after school. See Mr. Dawson for more details. If you're interested in the academic challenge, there will be a meeting after school on Wednesday in Mr. von Kamps room after school. Also, if you're interested in writing for this paper, please see Makena Northcutt, for details. Mr. von Kamp and I would like to have 8th graders, 7th graders, and 6th graders to participate in the newspaper, see Mr. von Kamp of myself for more details.

           Today is a sad day for America. Today there was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers. It happened at approximately 8:46 a.m. A hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11, crashed into the North Tower. The hole left in the building caused a fire. Unfortunately, everyone on flight 11, was killed. Shortly after, the South Tower was hit by flight 175. The whole city was in shock.Unfortunately, everyone on flight 175 was killed. These horrific attacks killed 2,996 people and injured over 6,000. The attacks were the first terrorist attacks on US soil.The fourth and final plane crashed in StonycreekTownship near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The people on flight 93, had heard about the attacks on the World Trade Centers, and the Pentagon, took over the flight. Flight 93 was intended to hit the White House. Thank the Lord for the brave heroes on flight 93. 9/11 is the deadliest incidents for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively. Let's all take a moment and thank the brave souls of flight 93, and all of the firefighters, police officers and everyone affected by these horrific attacks. So a huge thank you to all of the firefighters and officials that were helping people on 9/11.

                                             Go Willard Flashes.!!

                                                                       -Makena Northcutt.