Tomahawk Times

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2
JANUARY 11, 2013
SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST:
 Report Cards will be sent home on
Friday, January 18, 2013.
 District Leadership Team meeting on
January 25, 2013.
 Set up for Science Fair on January 29,
2013.
Tomahawk Times
Rock Hill Middle School
 Science Fair in gym on January 30, 2013.
 The next Advisor/Advisee will be on
January 30, 2013.
 County Science Fair on February 7, 2013
at South Point.
 Progress Reports for the 3rd nine weeks
will go home on February 13, 2013.
 There will be Parent-Teacher Conferences at the middle school on Thursday,
February 14, 2013, from 3-8:30 pm.
REDMAN RALLY
The first Redman Rally was held on Wednesday, October 31 with a Halloween theme. There was a dance and a costume contest. The winners of
the contest were:
Cutest– Amelia Boyd
Most Original– Cara Depriest
Funniest– Hannah Sexton
Scariest– Austin Riddle
 There will be no school on Friday,
February 15 and Monday, February 18,
2013.
 Building Leadership Team meeting will
be on February 21, 2013.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
CARNIVAL
2
7TH GRADE HISTORY
3
RHMS ROCKS JR. GAR- 3
DEN CLUB
RHMS BASKETBALL
4-5
CONCERT BAND
5
CLASS FAVORITES
6
7TH GRADE FIELD
TRIPS
6
THE HOBBIT
7
SPELLING BEE
NJHS
8
SCIENCE FAIR
9
7TH GRADE SCIENCE
9
Rock Hill Middle School Spelling bee winners:
1st Sara Jenkins
2nd Seth Baker
3rd Gavin Meadows
District winners:
1st Sara Jenkins
3rd Gavin Meadows
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CARNIVAL
The Rock Hill Middle School had a
carnival the 2nd year in a row. The NJHS
helped Mrs. Fraley and Mrs. Gore plan
and set up the carnival. There were
games, face painting, inflatables, cotton
candy, candy apples, cake walk, and
many other activities. The carnival was a
reward for getting school of excellence.
We asked two students per grade. We
asked Ryan Jenkins and Cheyenna Sword
from 6th grade if they both enjoyed it.
Ryan liked the cake walk. Cheyenna liked
the Basketball shoot. In 7th grade we
interviewed Taylor Hall and Austin Riddle. They both enjoyed it, and both liked
the basketball shoot. We interviewed
Makayla Schwab and Rose Kidd.
Makayla and Rose said they enjoyed their
time at the carnival.
We hope we can excel in our performance for next year.
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IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME!
While in ancient Greece, 7th grade students have learned about Greek mythology, which included the myth of Medusa,
as can be seen by their masks here, as well
as, performing the play of King Midas
and the Golden Touch, and learning
some of the differences between versions
of Hercules.
Also, in ancient Greece, vases were used
for everything. There were big ones,
small ones, and “gianormous” ones! They
were usually red and black in color and
had pictures depicting items from their
daily life. These vases are called amphoras and each student produced one
that represented what they like to do.
One day in class, we had a couple of very
special guest speakers, all the way from
ancient Greece: Alexander the Great and
the ex-king of Persia, Darius. Occasionally we had the honor of witnessing Alexander granting one final interview, before
his death, in 323 BC.
As all ancient Greeks know, the main
event in any Greek’s life would be participating in the Winter Olympics. The
torch runner this year was Gavin Jenkins,
to get our Olympic games started. Events
included puzzle solving, stress apple basketball, rubber band shooting, and cotton
ball catapulting. First and second place
winners received a gold or silver medal
for their efforts. At the closing ceremonies of the Olympics, the citizens of Ath-
RHMS ROCKS JR GARDEN CLUB
The Rock Hill Middle School Rocks Jr Garden
Club won the Autumn Harvest regional contest,
earning a blue ribbon in Ohio’s Region 10, which
includes, Pike, Adams, Scioto, and Lawrence
counties. The award qualifies RHMS—MD units
for the State Junior Garden Club Beautification
Award.
The regional director, Sue Thomas visited the
students during the last garden club meeting and
has nominated the Rocks Junior Garden Club for
Outstanding Jr. Garden Club of the year award.
The flower display theme was “Think Pink” in
honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
ens, Sparta, Ephesus, Troy, Corinth, and
Olympia were served by their slaves, at a
Greek feast of bread, grapes, olives, fig
newtons, dates, and grape juice.
After Christmas break, students will be
getting their passports ready, to travel
back to ancient Rome, where we will
learn that “all roads lead to Rome.” You
can check out our progress at the Rock
Hill website, for the Middle School, under Academics, and Mrs. Stevens’ website. Pictures are taken and posted regularly, there.
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RHMS GIRLS BASKETBALL
7th Grade
8th Grade
#24 Kyleigh Noel
#23 Jasmine Cumpston
#32 Madison Harper
#12 Mckenzy Barcus
#00 Lauren Mcknight
#33 Jill Hairston
#13 Taylor Hall
#22 Alyssa Monnig
#20 Abigail Kline
#30 Caitlynn Meadows
#31 Alexis Brammer
#5 Kacie Blagg
#10 Anna Darby
2012-2013 ROCK HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
Nov. 26-27
Dec. 3
6
10
13
17
20
Jan. 3
7
9
10
14
16
17
21
23
24
28
31
Feb. 7
11-13
OVC Previews
South Gallia
Buffalo
South Point
Coal Grove
Chesapeake
Symmes Valley
Open
River Valley
Buffalo
Fairland
South Point
South Gallia
Coal Grove
Open
Symmes Valley
Chesapeake
River Valley
Fairland
OVC Play-in Games
OVC Tournament
Boys Home
Boys Home
Boys Away
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Girls Home
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Boys Home
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Girls Away
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7TH BOYS BASKETBALL
7th Grade
# 20 Dylan Avery
# 4 Jaret Bacorn
# 11 Mark Sites
# 25 Gavin Jenkins
# 1 Logan Reed
# 5 Cody Lewis
# 15 Kyle Stanfield
# 24 Cameron Barnette
# 10 Isaac Floyd
# 14 Seth Baker
# Jason Haywood
# 12 Johny Ferrell
# 2 Michael Shope
8TH GRADE BOYS BASKETBALL
#33 Tyler Damron
#54 Brady Knipp
#23 Steven Holmes
#21 Timmy Adkins
#31 Gabe Casey
#34 Cameron Haas
#55 Nate Malone
#3 Brendan McCormick
CONCERT BAND
The Rock Hill Middle School Band held their
annual Christmas concert on
December 19, 2012. It was
in front of the whole Middle
School and consisted of four
Christmas songs. They performed at the Elementary
School on December 18,
2012. The seventh and
eighth graders that partici-
pated worked extremely
hard to make sure their audiences enjoyed the music.
They thoroughly love performing in front of people to
show people what they can
do, as well as showing people their talents in playing
music.
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8TH GRADE CLASS FAVORITES
Political Office
Tyler Fox
Arianna Beam
Teacher
Michael Frazier
Alexis Brammer
American Idol
Nate Malone
Chasity Murphy
Famous
Brady Knipp
Whitney Maddy
Tylan Eastham
Pro-athlete
Trystan Matney
Jill Hairston
Reality Show
Cameron Haas
Callie Layne
Comedian
Steven Holmes
Talyn McKenzie
Actor
Tyler Damron
Ally Stewart
Rose Kidd
Boss
Zach Bostic
Blaike Roberts
Emma Bare
Model
Brendan McCormick
Anna Darby
Millionaire
Derek Balmer
Alaina Brown
7TH GRADE FAVORITES WINNERS
Laugh
Eddie Duncan
Chase Nelson
Abby Kline
Smile
Michael Munion
Terri Clark
Dancer
Mark Sites
Shyla Sparks
Musician
Mitchell Robinson
Sarah Jenkins
Personality
Jaret Bacorn
Maddi Williams
Sense of Humor
Eli Matney
Cody Lewis
Hannah Sexton
Artist
Tyler Donley
Morgan Blankenship
Athlete
Cameron Barnett
Taylor Hall
7TH GRADE FIELD TRIPS
-School House of Rock live at Paramount Arts Center– September 25,
2012.
-Miracle on 34th street Paramount
Arts Center– December 6, 2012.
-Super Scientific Circus at Paramount Arts Center– February 12,
2013.
-Camden Park– May 16, 2013.
Eyes
Shawn Butler
Cody Pack
Lauren McKnight
Singer
Gavin Jenkins
Mckenzie Clark
Clown
Jimmy Stewart
Kyleigh Noel
School Spirit
Logan Reed
Loren Horner
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THE HOBBIT
The 8th grade students recently read “The Hobbit.” When I interviewed Mr. Owens and Mrs.
Fraley, the 8th grade reading teachers about “The Hobbit,” I asked, “Why are the 8th grade students reading “The Hobbit?” Their answers were, “They are seeking a story packed with action
and adventure in order to be entertained.” Then I asked them “What is The Hobbit based on?”
and their reply was “It is an epic novel about a hobbit who is chosen by a wizard, Gandalf, to
help the dwarves get their treasure.”
The students finished reading The Hobbit shortly before our class field trip. We were assessed
after reading ten chapter sets and compared the movie and book by writing an essay.
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NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY
On November 9, 2012 Rock Hill
Middle School held the “Carnival of Excellence” for the second year in a row. The
NJHS members helped work the booths that
were set up along with Mrs. Fraley, Mrs.
Gore, and many others. The carnival wouldn’t have occurred if it weren’t for the help
from the adults, staff, members, etc. Thank
you for your help and support of our academics. The carnival was a success. The
students had a great experience because of
the variety of booths there.
On Sunday, November 18, 2012
the NJHS along with the NHS did a “Rake
and Run.” The purpose of the “Rake and
Run” was to find people who wanted work
done on their homes/yards and once those
people were found, the NJHS and NHS
went and raked leaves in their yards and
pulled unwanted weeds. It was a great and
humble experience for the members. Be-
cause of the help from the NJHS members, Mrs. Fraley, and Mrs. Gore, in the
“Carnival of Excellence,” they were
rewarded with a field trip. They went to
Giovanni’s and the Lawrence County
Museum. The Lawrence County Museum recently put in a “Time Capsule.”
The Time Capsule is going to be
opened in twenty-five years, and someone is going to read everything that was
put into it. They are allowing people to
donate things to put in the capsule.
Therefore, the NJHS wanted to donate
a few items due to the field trip they
had. They put in the “Tomahawk
Times” that was released earlier this
school year. In addition, they donated
our “Student Handbook,” a Rock Hill
Redman pennant, and a “scroll” that
had the NJHS members’ names and
how they thought the world was going
to change in twenty-five years. I guess
we’re going to see if the members were
right in twenty-five years when their
thoughts are read. The NJHS also held
a bake sale to raise money for the Lawrence County Museum.
The NJHS had a peanut butter
drive with the NHS at the high school
that started November 8, 2012. This
drive was to help local food pantries
obtain a staple/needed item. To get
more peanut butter than that of the
NJHS and the NHS, the Middle School
decided to have a contest between all of
the homerooms. The homeroom that
earned the most jars of peanut butter
from the students received a pizza
party. The contest and requirement of
the NJHS members was very effective.
There were about 402 jars of peanut
butter from the drive. The NJHS thanks
you for all of the peanut butter that was
turned in. Mr. Kidd’s homeroom won
the contest.
The NHS at the high school
started a “Clothing Closet” to help students, kids, and/or families in the
school district. To contribute in some
way, the NJHS members were to bring
in an article of clothing to donate. They
also used their money to buy some necessities for the “Clothing Closet.”
After the tragic event in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14,
2012, the NJHS felt it would be appropriate to make a pledge. The pledge
would hopefully act as a remembrance
for the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary. They were to do an act of kindness. Once their deeds were done, the
members were to tie a white ribbon into
a bow and place it in a basket. Because
there are 26 members in the NJHS and
that’s the number of victims in the
shooting, it seemed like the right thing
to do. It was not just for the members
but also for the Rock Hill Middle
School as a whole. The victims will not
be forgotten.
Earlier in the year, there was
an Ohio State raffle hosted by the
NJHS. The raffle was to raise money
for a foundation called, “The Shriners.”
All the proceeds were given to the
foundation. The NJHS donated $264.00
to each hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio and
Lexington, Kentucky.
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SCIENCE FAIR
It is science fair time again. Students in
grades 6-8 will be working on science fair
projects or research papers.
The 8th grade students are not required to
do science fair but if they do not, they have
to do a research project. Students will work
on their projects on their own. If students
need help they can see Mr. Scythes before
homeroom, during lunch or enrichment,
and after school.
All 7th grade students are required to complete a science fair project following the
scientific method. If they set up at science
fair they will receive 25 bonus points. They
began working on their projects in early
November and will be working on parts in
class and at home as well. They are expected to have the experiment on parts of
the projects done by the time they return
from Christmas break in January. The
complete projects will be due by January
16.
All 6th grade students are required to do a
project but the science fair is optional.
Students will have to do their experiment
at home but they will do the typing of
their papers at school unless they need
more time. If students need help they can
see Mr. Sark during his planning 1st block
or during lunch.
7TH GRADE SCIENCE
Halloween brings the perfect time to explore dry ice and its properties. Dry ice is
frozen carbon dioxide. It is the gas that
we exhale during breathing and the gas
that plants use in photosynthesis.
Through demonstrations and hands on
activities, students watched as the solid
changed directly to a gas (sublimation)
without going through the liquid stage.
The solid just seems to disappear when left
laying on the table. We also found that dry
ice, water, and dishwashing liquid can make
some interesting bubbles that vanish into a
puff of smoke when busted. An important
safety lesson learned was that dry ice is 109
degrees Fahrenheit below zero and must be
handled with gloves and never your bare
hands.
Students will set up for Science Fair on
Tuesday, January 29, 2013. The science fair
will be Wednesday, January 30, 2013. If we
are out for snow, the science fair will be the
next day we are back in school. The projects
will be judged that morning and the awards
will be announced at the assembly that day
at 2:00 pm.
For those students who qualify to complete
at county science fair, forms must be filled
out on January 30 to be submitted to the
county board office. The Lawrence county
Science fair will be Thursday, February 7,
2013 at South Point Middle School.
RHMS QUIZ BOWL TEAM
RHMS students who qualified for the 2012-2013 middle school quiz bowl team participated in
the academic competition involving weekly matches with other Lawrence County middle
schools (including Ironton City Schools and Ironton – St. Joseph Catholic Schools.) The OVC
middle school quiz bowl season began last October and ended on Dec. 19 with an all-day tournament.
Members of this year’s team are:
8th Graders: Brady Knipp, Derek Balmer, Alaina Brown, Noel Fleeman, Blaike Roberts, Ally
Stewart, Whitney Maddy, Jill Hairston, Shayden Estep, Trevor McCormick
ROCK HILL
MIDDLE SCHOOL
YEARBOOKS
Yearbooks are now on sale.
The price is $28.00 for a
hardback colored yearbook.
See Mrs. Gore to order your
yearbook.
7th graders: Laurie Littlejohn, Mark Sites
Shayden Estep
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