Hester Jr. High Wildcats ROAR!
A celebration of the outstanding, DAILY TEACHING and LEARNING that goes on at our ROAR-tastic school!
* * * * Responsibility
Organization
Attitude
Respect
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
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.
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!
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!
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!
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: