CHS Prepares For Lip Dub!

Next Friday (Dec. 20th), Chadron High School will be filming a lip dup involving every student and staff.  Chadron High filmed its first ever (and only) lip dub in December of 2011.

Mrs. Paopao  and her Newspaper/Yearbook and Performing Arts students have been coordinating the event. High school students were given several song choices earlier this semester to vote on which would be used for the event.

In case you aren't familiar with a lip dub, they are typically filmed in one entire 'run' without edits. Background music is played while a camera travels throughout the school as a variety students lip sync to songs while others display the many sports, clubs, classes, and typical (and non-typical) scenes from the school. Every Chadron High student and staff is involved somewhere in the video.

The video will be filmed on the last day of the semester (Dec. 20th) at 10:00am. Before leaving for Christmas Break, a viewing of the video will be shown to students and staff in the Auditorium around 1:00pm.  We'll link the video to our school website for public viewing later that afternoon.

Wish us luck ... and stay tuned!

Noon Dismissal Changed From Jan 17th to Jan 24th

Please note that there has been a change on the district calendar.  We will have a full day of school on January 17th, 2014.  The 12:00 dismissal that was scheduled for the 17th will now be on January 24th. 

The change was made to accommodate the Chadron Invitational Wrestling Tournament, which will be held on January 24th & 25th.

Play Production Wins District Runner-Up

On Saturday December 7th the Chadron High one act team traveled to Sidney to compete in the Class B one act play competition.  At districts the team won the runner up trophy for their production of the "Wizard of Oz."    

The team competed against seven other schools including, Mitchell, McCook, Valentine, Ogallala, Sidney, Gordon/Rushville, and Alliance.  Ogallala was the champion with their production of "Robin Hood" and will represent the district at state competition in Norfolk on Friday.  

The team received critiques from three judges who complimented them highly for the set, costumes, makeup, and blocking.  The three judges score each team based on acting, characterization, and overall production.  Chadron received a perfect score, and a first, second, and third place ranking by the three judges.Eight students were recognized for their acting by receiving outstanding acting awards.  They were:  Shay Chamberlain, Caston Stack, Kodi Milburn, Telli Morford, Alex Lutz, Jenny Van Vleet, Tavia Passero, and Logan Lembke.  

Jill Paopao, the director, noted, "This is one of the toughest districts in the state.  If you look at the history of who wins Class B at state it is almost always a team from this district, and when it isn't, it's generally the second place team."  

Nelson Mandela Remembered

"I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart that its opposite."

     ~Nelson Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom

Adv. Biology Dissects Rats

By CHS Students: Mikki Hastings and Brittany Garza

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013, Mr. Bradley's Advanced Biology class got the hands-on opportunity to dissect rats. Through this experience, they learned about the different body systems, and, structures of vertebrates and mammals. These students gained abundant knowledge about the functions of internal organs, glands, and how rats live.

This dissection led for a very positive progress filled hour and a half. Students had fantastic class discussion, and were able to assist each other in a variety of different ways. From helping others pin point organs in the rats, to taking pictures of this memorable experience, each individual was able to lend a helping hand to another student. Dissections like this allows learning to be brought to life and made unique, yet fun, in Mr. Bradley's class. Development, not only in educational skills, but also in social skills were built.

At Chadron high school, each student is blessed to have the opportunity to work, and be trained and taught, by very educated, helpful, caring, and motivated staff. Teachers open numerous doors to inspire children and lead them to success. Without the help of these staff, fantastic learning experiences and hands-on dissection like these would not be possible.

Students first started the dissection process by gathering all of their needed materials such as an apron, tray, gloves, dissection kit, and of course the victim the rat. Second, we laid the rat on to the tray and followed  instructions that were given to us. We carefully cut the skin off the rat so we could see the muscular system. After pointing out different muscles we cut through the muscle system and looked inside the rat. There we located the different organs inside the rat such as the liver, kidneys, heart, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, etc. After locating the different systems inside threnody of a rat it was time for clean up. At the beginning of class we were very nervous to dissect a actual mammal, but at the end we were eager and ready to do the next dissection!

Yearbook Ordering & Senior Announcement

1.  Seniors and senior parents:  Please turn in a senior picture (wallet sized, vertical for the composite), baby picture, and congratulatory note (under 35 words) to Mrs. Paopao.  This needs to be done by Jan. 15.

2.  Any student that wants to reserve a copy of the 2013-2014 yearbook for only $60, before the price increases to $70, please fill out the form that was sent home from Jostens or go tojostensyearbooks.com.  The price will increase after Dec. 23.