Hester Homework & Daily Announcements

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Ms. Zill's student artwork..........Mrs. Castaneda's music class website..........Ms. Zill's art room blog .........Mrs. Petrin's Digital Literacy Class
Twitter: Hester Jr. High (@HesterJrHigh) Ms. Zill (@dustyartroom) Mr. Trotter (@GTrottr) Mrs. Petrin (@sarahpetrin)

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

BASSically Treble Performs at Franklin Park Library

BASSically Treble @FP Public Library Dec. 6, 2014
http://mcastaneda.wikispaces.com/BASSically+TREBLE


Wednesday, October 29, 2014

I'm an Acid, I'm a Base 8th grade Science 10/30/14

Mr. Zablocki and Mr. Milano rocking their new catchy tune to better demonstrate and celebrate the everyday uses for acids and bases to our 8th grade Science students.  A huge thank you to Mr. Trotter, Mrs. Gilman, Mr. Ray, Mrs. Arroyo, Ms. Zill, Ms. A'Hearn, Mrs. Siok, Mrs. Pertin, Mr. Maicki, and the students of Hester Junior High School for their appearance in this video.
LYRICS:
Might seem crazy what I’m bout to say. Yeah!
Acids are here you can take a base. Yeah!
I’m a strong solution with lots of O-H. Yeah!
With an acid I’m a trying to neutralize my waaaaay. Uh!
Chorus:
Because I’m an acid…..
Dip along if you feel like an acid like lemon juice-ah
Because I’m an acid…..
Dip along if you feel like carbonic acid eat your tooth-ah
Because I’m a base…
Dip along if you want a slippery soapy feel-ah
Because I’m a base….
Dip along if you smell that ammonia scent it’s real-ah

Here come H + floating near and far Yeah!
Take a sip and you’ll know it tastes real sour Yeah!
I should probably warn ya if your strip turns red Yeah!
Your Ph might be a 1-5
Because I’m an acid…..
Dip along if you feel like an acid like lemon juice-ah
Because I’m an acid…..
Dip along if you feel like carbonic acid eat your tooth-ah
Because I’m a base…
Dip along if you want a slippery soapy feel-ah
Because I’m a base….
Dip along if you smell that ammonia scent it’s real
Bring me down, can’t nothing, bring me down
My Ph is too high, Bring me down, can’t nothing, bring me down. I said
Bring me down, can’t nothing, bring me down
My Ph is too high, Bring me down, can’t nothing, bring me down. I said
Because I’m an acid..
Dip along if you feel like an acid like lemon juice-ah
Because I’m an acid…..
Dip along if you feel like carbonic acid eat your tooth-ah
Because I’m a base…
Dip along if you want a slippery soapy feel-ah
Because I’m a base….
Dip along if you smell that ammonia scent it’s real-ah


Dip along if you smell that ammonia scent its real-ah


…UH!

Friday, October 24, 2014

Food Day 10/24/14

Food Day inspires Americans to change their diets and eat real food. Today the FACs classes celebrated FOOD DAY. As a tribute, there were healthy oatmeal chocolate chip/ and raisin cookies available for staff/students outside of the library after homeroom. 


Friday Pics 10/24/14

Here's what's happening at Hester today!





Saturday, October 11, 2014

Band Night 10/10/14

Hester Jr. High Band marches at half-time during the Leyden vs. Morton varsity football game Friday night.  All Leyden feeder school bands are represented on the field!















Cross country meet 10/7/14

7/8th grade Boys 1st place

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Boys' Softball LNAC runners-up 10/1/14

Our Hester Wildcat Boys' Softball played a great game at The Stadium at Rosemont on Wednesday.
Nice work boys, you made us proud!
SaiMarie Rivera, Hester Wildcat, sang the national anthem too!

                                      






Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Hollywood film and TV editor John Quinn visits Hester

Thank you to our special guest and Hester graduate John Quinn, editor for film and television, who visited with Hester students September 23rd.  John took time from his busy schedule to meet with all of our Hester students and to talk about just what it takes to be a successful film and television editor.  John brought along some samples of his work to show our students the process from raw film all the way through to the final product.  Our students had great questions and were excited to meet with someone who is “in the business”.
John lives in southern California and works with various Hollywood production companies such as the Syfy channel and Sony Pictures.  He has worked on projects from small documentaries to recent large budget TV shows like Chosen, season 3.   Thank you Mr. Quinn!




Friday, September 19, 2014

9/19/14 National Talk Like a Pirate Day Hesterrrrrr Pirate Announcements

Hester Jr. High's resident pirate and Social Studies teacher, Captain No-Beard, read ourrrrrr announcements today.

Monday, September 15, 2014

POWER Half Hour! Not your ordinary study session....

Power 1/2 Hour Updated Pics!

We are excited to announce a new opportunity for Hester students: Power Half Hour!  Each Thursday from 2:46-3:16 students and teachers will have an extended homeroom that they can use for academic activities.  During this time, students can engage in activities such as homework, projects, organizing assignments & lockers, catching up on missing work, checking their grades on PowerSchool, and more.  Although students will be working primarily in their homerooms, they may go to other teachers for extra academic assistance.  This assistance may be at the request of the teacher or the student.  We feel this is an outstanding opportunity for our students to get work done, get ahead, or get extra assistance.   Yesterday our students were introduced to the Power Half Hour and the whole school will be ready for the POWER next Thursday the 18th!
To learn more and view the same 4 minute introduction the students saw at school, click here:
http://screencast.com/t/wEJhayc7J

Here are a few pictures from our second PHH on Sept. 18.