Mangum Upper and Lower Middle Schools

Barbara Gahagan, Principal 580-782-2702 Upper MS Phone 580-782-5911 Upper MS Fax 580-782-5912 Lower MS Phone 580-782-5914 Lower MS Fax www.mangum.k12.ok.us

Advisor: Mrs. Graumann, Editor: Destiney Osborn, Co-Editors: Alexis Augustine, Jaycee Harvey, and Daigen Lavoie, Reporters: Hannah Bryant, Austin Caffey, Dalton Clark, Andrew Lavoie, Colby Moreland, Halie Mullens, Dovie Rouse, and Jordan Taylor.

www.mangum.k12.ok.us

Tiger Trivia By: Dalton Clark What is the longest rattlesnake ever caught at the rattlesnake Derby? The first person to give the correct answer to Mrs. Graumann or Mrs. M c Al e x a n d e r B E T W E E N CLASSES will receive a free drink from The Loop.

Last   week’s   Tiger Trivia was answered by Aaron Lefler, 7th, and Kylie Mul-lins, 5th.

Question: When did Hawaii become a state?

Answer: August 21, 1959

MANGUM STAR-NEWS, Thursday, April 24, 2014, Page 5

Upcoming Events April 22: GT Students to OKC April 23: Slow Pitch Districts April 25: No School April 25-27: Rattlesnake Derby May 1 & 2: Baseball Districts May 1: Slow Pitch Regionals May 3: Track Regionals May 5: Methodist Senior Dinner May 5: Golf Regionals May 6: FFA Labor Auction May 8, 9, 10: Baseball Regionals May 11:  Mother’s  Day May 12: Golf State Tournament May 12: FFA Banquet May 13: All Sports Banquet May 13: HS Honor Society Trip May 13: Golf State Tournament May 15, 16, & 17: Baseball State May 18: Baccalaureate May 20 & 21: 9 wks. Tests May 22: Class Day & Awards May 22: HS Graduation May 22: Last day of school May 23: Mangum Alumni Banquet May 24: Mangum Alumni Parade

random facts By: Daigen R. Lavoie 1. Super Man was originally a villain. 2. In 1940 a twelve year boy wrote a letter to the President

requesting a $10 bill because he had never seen one. 3. In the 18th century you could pay for your admission

ticket to the zoo by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.

4. England is smaller than Florida. 5. In China, there is a soda machine that gives you free

soda for hugging it. 6. In Alaska, there is a pizza place that delivers pizza by

plane. 7. Ships today are more likely to hit an iceberg than the

Titanic was. 8. Shakespeare’s  daughter  could  not  read  or  write. 9. Scientists made a micro particle with oxygen in it that

makes you able to live without breathing and also live under water.

10. Greeks used to believe that gingers turned into vam-pires after they died.

11. Bart  Simpsons’  voice  was  played  by  a  woman. 12. Miss  Piggy’s  full  name  is  Pigathiuse  Lee. 13. Cheerleading used to be a male sport. 14. UPS only turns right. 15. The  Twitter  bird’s  name  is  Larry. 16. In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jacks. 17. People who laugh a lot live longer than those who do

not. 18. You can die of depression. 19. Construction workers in Brazil paved a truck to the

ground because the owner refused to move it. 20. In the 1920s, baby cages that hung out of windows

were used.

Boy Suspended For Asking Miss America to Prom By: Halie Mullens

Miss America is asking a Pennsyl-vania school district to reconsider the punishment of a senior. He asked her to prom during the question-and-answer portion of a school assem-bly. Eighteen year old Patrick Farves received a three-day in-school sus-

pension. The York Dispatch reported that Nina Davuluri posted a statement on the Miss America Organization's Facebook page. In her post, she said she contacted Central York High School to ask officials to rethink the three-day in-school suspension. The school knew that Patrick would ask her to attend the prom, and they warned him not to ask the question. "By that time, my mind was already set," he said. "ʺI  was  already  in  the  zone.”  Fellow  students  cheered  after-­‐‑

ward, but Farves was suspended for misbehaving. A video of Central York High School senior Patrick Farves ap-proaching 2014 Miss America Nina Davuluri on Thursday at a school assembly was posted on a local newspaper's website. It shows Farves walking up to Davuluri bearing a plastic flower and asks her to his prom, as the crowd of stu-dents erupts in laughter and cheers. He apologized for dis-rupting Thursday's event. Davuluri was there to talk about the importance of science, technology, engineering and math studies. "I was flattered by the gesture, although I am unfortunately unable to attend due to my travel schedule," Davuluri said in a statement posted to the pageant's Face-book page. "I later learned of the disciplinary action taken and reached out to the school in hopes that they will recon-sider their decision," she said.

Zipper Maze By: Dalton Clark

Sport Word Scrambles By: Andrew Lavoie

Unscramble the letters to find the sports. 1. llbseaba __________ 2. tblfooal __________ 3. bfotslla __________ 4. skeblbatal __________ 5. ninnrug __________ 6. kcyeho __________ 7. llorer stngkai _______ 8. lngiias __________ 9. yccbingli __________ 10. inksig __________ 11. tbrdingksaeoa _______ 12. cei stngkai _________ 13. nisnet __________ 14. eylvlbaoll __________ 15. mnticsgyas _________

1. baseball 2. football 3. softball 4. basketball 5. running 6. hockey 7. roller skating 8. sailing 9. bicycling 10. skiing 11. skateboarding 12. ice skating 13. tennis 14. volleyball 15. gymnastics

Answer to Sport Word Scrambles

Riddles 1. There was a green house. Inside the green house was a white

house. Inside the white house was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

2. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

3. What’s  the  only  room  from  which  no  one  can  enter  or  leave?

1. A watermelon 2. Corn on the Cob 3. A mushroom

Edison 4th graders are having some extra lessons in the STEM (science, technology ,engineering, and math) program. Mr. Ken Hamilton, Tech-nology Director, has been working with students to understand and use the technology used in the classroom computers, smart boards, etc. Stu-dents have been excited that the geometry and other math skills can be applied to more than a test. They then used the Carbots provided from a STEM grant to program in Word to manipulate the cars. They were able to program the cars to go in squares and triangles as well as the standard car fun. The next lesson will programming on the IPad Minis provided by the OETT grant. The students are thrilled that Mr. Hamilton has taken an interest in them and is sharing his expertise with them.

Testing…  From  Page  1 The students would then

have to go through the process of logging back on to the test only to see the same thing hap-pen.

At one point the students were sent back to their regular class, then called back to try the testing again. Once they were on the testing site it would crash about every 2-3 questions causing the students to go through the whole proc-ess again.

Fortunately the test answers for each student were saved each time their computer would crash, but it was very frustrating to both the teachers and students at this point.

“We   limped   through   the  test,”   Gahagan   added,   “but   it  was  so  frustrating.”

CTB/McGraw Hill was in charge of the testing site and had been paid $14million to set it up for our students. This is the second year in a row that this same thing happened just as the students were getting ready to test. Superintendent Janet Barresi blamed the indi-vidual school districts for last year’s   problems.   CTB/McGraw Hill held a news con-ference late Monday and “indicated  a  piece  of  hardware  malfunctioned and caused in-termittent  disruptions.” State lawmakers were quick to jump in with their com-ments. “The   State   Department   of  Education paid $12 million for this   testing   system,”   said   state  Rep. Jerry McPeak, a retired school   teacher.   “It  didn’t  work  last   year   and   it’s   not   working  today.  You’d  think  someone  at  the Department of Education would   get   the   message,”   the  Warner Democrat said.

Shortly after 10 a.m. Mon-day the State Department of Education advised in an email sent to school district test coor-dinators and technology coor-dinators that the Oklahoma Online  Test  Delivery  Client  “is  experiencing an outage that is affecting  some  sites.”  A  hyper-­link directing queries to the CTB OK web portal reported that  the  outage  affected  “a  high  number  of  sites.”

Less than an hour later,

school officials statewide were notified   that,   “As   a   result   of  online testing disruptions for students in grades 6-8 and end-of-instruction  …State   Superin-­tendent Janet Barresi has di-rected testing vendor CTB/McGraw Hill to suspend online testing  for  today.”

The Oklahoma Education Association issued a statement that read in part, “Earlier   this  morning, more than 8,000 stu-dents in grades 6-12 were abruptly interrupted during high-stakes testing due to what Supt. Barresi is now saying is the fault of CTB McGraw Hill testing vendor. Barresi and the State Board of Education (SBE) re-contracted with CTB/McGraw

Race…  From  Page  1 from Altus) - with a time of 20:50, 2nd teen - Jett McAlexan-

der - 22:24 and 3rd teen - Nick Davis - 25:00. 1st place youth - Brady Reimer - 24:58, 2nd youth - Jalen Warner - 25:10 and 3rd youth - Makayla Hamon - 31:02.

And just in case anyone wants to know Danny Deaver finished in 50:17.

The Mangum Education Foundation would like to thank all the sponsors and donors of door prizes. The following local busi-nesses made donations for prizes. United, Mangum Oil and Gas, Melvin's, Hamburger Inn, El Charro, The Loop, Heritage Park Theatre, Zeal by Sky Bull, Sagebrush, and Stand Strong Fitness in Altus.

The person that traveled the farthest was Chelsea Adams and she was here from Georgia.

We also have a few t-shirts left and if anyone is interested in purchasing they can contact Todd McRay.

Hill for $13,539,214 million after the testing interruptions in 2013. According to Barresi, the state is exploring options for the remainder of the testing window, including pencil and paper as-sessments.

“Students,   educators   and  families have been preparing for these mandatory assessments for the majority of the school year, including the "stress test" of equipment ordered by Supt. Bar-resi in January which halted instruction for all schools in order to later prevent testing interruptions. In addition, the high-stakes tests interrupted today may be used to determine whether students receive a driver's license or graduate high school”.

Ty Rope Smith lays down a perfect bunt in the Tiger victory over Olustee Monday afternoon.