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Christmas Top Ten lists

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All I want for Christmas… on p. 3

King of the Sky Page #1 Issue #6 [December 18, 2013]

Teacher of the Week see page 2

Who’s the Best?

FMS

Early Dismissal- Friday, December 20

Christmas Holiday-

December 23- January 3

Students of the week Page 3

Upcoming Basketball games:

Jan 7 at FMS

Jan 13 at FMS

Basketball Shootout

Thursday, December 19

Bring your $1.00 to watch the teachers take on the students in

a basketball shootout!

Come cheer on your favorite teacher and friends.

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Teacher of the week This week’s Teacher of the Week, is the one

of a kind Coach Sellers!!! He is quite a unique person! To get to know him better we asked him a few questions. To start off his favorite color is Azure, his favorite food is steak, and if he could have any exotic animal of course it would be a Black Unicorn. We also asked him some “off the wall” questions. His response to the question, “What do you do in your down time?” was “I cook and eat.” When asked “What are your pet peeves” he simply answered “people who answer questions regarding to me!” If Coach Sellers had 1 million dollars he would buy the rights to all of Miley Cyrus’s songs and NEVER let them be played again. Some of the worst advice he has ever taken was to yield to pedestrians! Finally a subject he would never teach is Science!!! As you can see Coach Sellers is a lime

Top 10 Christmas Movies

1. A Christmas Story 1983

2. Miracle on 34th Street 1947

3. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 1989

4. The Santa Clause 1994

5. Home Alone 1990

6. The Polar Express 2004

7. The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992

8. Jingle All the Way 1996

9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1966

10. A Charlie Brown’s Christmas 1965

Top 10 Christmas Songs

1. “Sleigh Ride” Leroy Anderson 2. “Winter Wonderland” Eurythmics 3. “Let it Snow” Harry Connick, Jr. 4. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” The Carpenters 5. “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” Bruce Springsteen 6. “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Whitney Houston 7. “The Christmas Song” Nat King Cole 8. “Jingle Bell Rock” Bobby Helms 9. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” Brenda Lee 10. “It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas” Bing Crosby

Verse of the Week:

“But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a

dream, saying, ‘Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that

which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.’” Matthew 1:20 KJV

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All I Want for Christmas is…

Noah Mitchell- laoptop

Anthony Thoman- new flatscreen TV

Larissa Knight- DS

Garrett Cole- A new go cart

Mrs. Osborne- For her kids to be happy

Mr. Yelverton- kids, students, family to be healthy

Skylar Marchman- a phone

Ariel Livingston- iPod touch

Hope Gutierrez- iPhone 4S

Gavin Swift, Raven Thoombs, and Kelly Davis- iPhone 5S

Hailey Huggins- iPhone 5

Tori Price- purple case for Galaxy S3

Madi Allen- iPhone 5

Madison Porter- MacBook Pro

Bayleigh Morgan- clothes and shoes

Hayden Sullivan- clothes

Our FMS student of the week for sixth grade is Isaiah Flavell. He is a red color fan! I asked Isaiah, “What is your Christmas wish?” He says, “It’s a Windows 8 laptop.” Like all boys he likes football and basketball and his favorite game in P.E. is Capture the Flag. This is a big shock, HE DOESN’T LIKE HUNTING!!! Isaiah’s favorite teacher is Mrs. Thorton. He wants to become a doctor one day. Mountain Dew is his favorite drink out of all and he just devours pizza. He loves summer because, “there is no school and I can swim all I want” Isaiah says. The final question I asked Isaiah was, “What would you do if you won a million dollars?” He said, “I would buy Beats, Jordon’s, and Adidas with my new 2-story home.” By: Morissa Magee

This week's student of week for seventh grade is Walker Lander! One of his favorite sports is baseball. His Christmas wish is a pair of Beats Headsets. His favorite team is Ole Miss. Walker’s favorite teacher is Mrs. West! His favorite subject is Boy’s Athletics, his favorite food is pizza and he thinks Mountain Dew is awesome. Lander’s best buddies are Bryson Tucker and Jordan Sanders. He likes the color blue. His favorite brand of shoe is Nike. By: Dalton Ainsworth and Bryson Tucker

This week’s 8th grade student of the week is Laura Duncan! She has a very interesting life!! Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is just Mexican. An exotic animal she would like to have … A PANTHER!! Her downtime consists of reading!! A pet peeve of hers is being called “Laura disease.” She would absolutely, positively never teach English. The worst advice she’s ever taken in her life was “Hey, ask your mom a weird question!” Something she’s never done but, would like to do is to travel the world!! A million dollars would be spent wisely!! By: Sydney Abernathy, Bayleigh Morgan, and Autumn Tatum

Students of the Week

What are you doing for Christmas?

Ms. Nail- shopping, going out of town, family

Mrs. Osborne- bowl games and eat

Dalton Jones- Hunting

Hunter Dickerson- hang out with family

Mr. Yelverton- hang out with family

Mrs. Hodges- housework and spend time with family

Macy Maulding- staying home

Taylor Ford- staying at home

Ms. Virden- catching up on rest

Issue #6 [December 18, 2013]

This newspaper is written by the students in the Written Communications class. The ideas and views expressed in this paper are the views of the students who wrote the

articles, and do not represent the views of Florence Middle School in any way.

The Evil Elves Jordan Ingram and Baylor Little were quite mischievous elves. Pranks and games were in their nature after all they are the “whoopee cushion elves.” Santa (aka coach Blaylock) called them into his office one evening for a cup of cocoa and a stern talking to. “Jordan your name is 457th on the naughty list; therefore your elf hood has been banished, as for you Baylor your elf hood has been suspended due to half of the teddy bear makers having food poisoning.” Jordan and Baylor were so distraught they planned one of the worst pranks on Santa Claus in history! (duh duh duhhhhhh). After chewing Santa out, they politely walked out of the office. Santa was about to go into delivery mode when suddenly the package elf arrived “ SANTA! SANTA! WAIT! SANTA! Cookies for you, freshly baked.” The card stated, “Santa I’m dearly sorry for the choice words we had earlier. I hope you can accept my apology and know how dear you are to us. Inside are some rather extraordinary cookies and chocolate milk. ENJOY! LOVE, Baylor elf and Jordan elf.” Santa was so amazed he bit straight into a cookie, his throat was twice the size of his head, his hands were 10x the size of his thighs. “GARLIC! ONION! SHRIMP! HELP! IM ALLERGIC! HELP!” All of Santa’s worst nightmares in one single smidge of a cookie. Santa’s heart went into overdrive and nobody received presents ever again. SANTA was DEAD!

By: Hayden Sullivan and Autumn Tatum

What is Christmas?

We went around and asked people what Christmas means to them. This is what we found:

Noah Mitchell: Jesus’s birthday and just having fun with family Hunter King: presents, food, hunting Hannah Reed: decorating, lots of food, getting fat and lazy Emily Cole: love and food Wyatt Roberts: December 25th Brennan Sistrunk: When Jesus was born Kayla Jordan: no homework Starla Moore: decorating the tree Kyle Bruce: ginger bread Dylan Deloache: fun Kayla Hubbard: food Ethan Nowlen: snow Brianna Clark: traveling Cody Hilton: eggnog