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We currently have 2 vending machines that have drinks in them, they are

located by the gym. The vending machines now have a variety of beverages in them:

Vita Ice, Gatorade, Mini Gatorade, water, Propel, and Lipton Iced Tea. The prices vary

from $1.00 to $1.25. A survey was sent out to the KMS students asking whether they thought the

vending machines should have food in them. 90.8% of the students that answered said

that they think there should be food located in the vending machines. The other 9.2%

disagrees. When asked why she thought the vending machines should have food

in them, Addison Kautzer responded with “I think the vending machines should have

food in them for kids at nutrition break that forgot to bring a snack to have an

opportunity to get a snack.” She thought that some good snacking ideas included: chips, cookies, granola bars, and

pretzels. Miles Detroye didn’t like the idea of food in vending machines. When asked

why, he said “All of the food would just be junk food anyways, or food that isn’t

healthy. Besides, kids are already spending too much time at the vending machines;

time that should be spent in the classroom!” If you think about it, it would make much more sense to have a vending

machine with food in it. If you’re thirsty you could really just go to the nearest

bubbler to get a drink. But if you didn’t bring any food to school you’re just going to be

hungry and there’s nothing you could do about it. So what do you think? Do you think

that kids should be able to get food from the vending machines or do you think it

wouldn’t be necessary?

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Advice: p.7

Should the vending machines have food in them?

By: Brooklyn Manz, Coryn Fromm, and Sarah Dawe

Super Bowl Sunday

By: Nate Stephany

On February 3rd, Super Bowl LIII took place at

Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Maroon 5, Travis Scott, and

Big Boi performed at the halftime show. While the game

moved along slowly many records were set. Including

fewest points scored combined (16), longest punt(65

yards) and fewest touchdowns combined(1).

This wasn’t the first time the Rams and

Patriots faced off in the Super Bowl. In 2002 the

Patriots won 20-17 against the Rams.

The game itself was a shocker. The first points

were scored by the Patriots five minutes into the second

quarter. The next points scored were late in the third

quarter, a 53-yard field goal by the Rams. The first

touchdown was scored nine minutes into the fourth

quarter. It was the only touchdown scored in the Super

Bowl. The game was sealed after a 41-yard field goal by

Stephen Gostkowski. Overall there were only 16 points

scored in the game which was the lowest scoring game in

Super Bowl history.

The 2019 NASCAR Season is here

By: Braeden Senkbeil and Mason Fintelmann

Boogity, Boogity, Boogity, let the racing

season come. On February 17, 2019 the new season

will begin. In 2018 Joey Logano won Homestead

Miami race and took home the cup from their race.

Logano’s score was 5040. In the endings it was

between Joey Logano and Martin Truex Jr. for the

win. There are 35 other tracks to race on, they

start in Daytona, Beach and end in Homestead,

Miami. These tracks are both in Florida. Nascar has

to get the 36 races done in 10 months. The flag will

approximately drop at 2-2:30 pm in Florida, but in

Wisconsin it will drop at 1-1:30 because of the time

zone difference

Many famous racers like Joey Logano, Kevin

Harvick, Jeffery Earnhardt, Martin Truex Jr, will

meet at Daytona Beach on February 17th, for the

season-opener. In 2018, the Daytona 500 took three

hours, twenty-six minutes, and twenty-nine seconds.

Sports

Battle of The Books

By: Josh Schwarz

As you probably already know Mrs. Sabel runs the battle of the books, and

she does a good job. All the information below came from Mrs. Sabel. Mrs. Sabel has ran the battle of the books for eight years and has

run a competition each year. This year 78 KMS students signed up to

compete in Battle of the Books. It all start off with grade level battles in

a double elimination tournament. This year there were 33 different grade

level battles, and then of course the grand finale battle where the winning

team from each grade level competes at the school wide assembly. We kick

off the battle in October and start battles the first week of December. Teams need to read 16 books to compete and have all the

knowledge of these books. Mrs. Sabel belongs to a professional

organization, Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association, and

recommendations are made by media specialist from all over the State and

a committee from the organization selects the books. There are actually

20 books, but we only use 16 for our school wide battle. The team that

advances to state will need to read an additional four books to be

competitive in the state competition. I asked Mrs. Sabel some of her opinions on the battle of the books. 1. What was your favorite book in this year’s Battle?

“Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz is one of my favorite books. I love

that it is action packed.” 2. Do you like doing Battle of the Books? “I LOVE doing Battle of the Books. It is great way to be able to

introduce kids to books they may not have selected on their own and have

them get excited about reading! The school-wide event brings everyone

together. You can really feel the excitement as each grade level cheers on

their team!” 3. Do you plan to keep doing Battle of the Books?

“Yes of course! I tell our elementary kids about Battle of the

Books and they always ask me ‘when is Battle of the Books going to start’

the first time they see me at KMS! It really helps keep me connected to

the middle school students.” 4. “If you could change anything about Battle of the Books, what

would it be? “Maybe that we would do it twice a year!”

News

Bingo

By: Xander Blanke

Have you heard that KMS students

have the chance to help residents at the local

nursing homes play BINGO? Well, KMS

students have already attended their first

BINGO game! It was on Thursday, November

15. The nursing homes that the KMS students

visited were WillowDale and Atrium, both

located in New Holstein. They let you take

turns helping with calling numbers, playing

BINGO, and handing out the prizes. The

prizes were various fruits including apples,

bananas, oranges, and pears.

The KMS students were split into two

groups. One of the groups went to WillowDale

and the other to Atrium. They were pulled out

of class in the beginning of 9th hour and

didn't come back until the end of 10th hour.

Mrs. Andre our school counselor, was our

leader for this trip.

We encourage that KMS students help

out with this if they can. Mrs. Andre said,

“The students do a fantastic job of

interacting with the residents. The residents

and the students always leave with smiles and

stories. Assisting with bingo is a great way

for students to give back to the community

and it's truly heartwarming to watch how

caring and thoughtful the students are when

they are a part of this opportunity!” For

more information, contact Mrs. Andre, at

aandre@kiel.k12.wi.us.

Features

Staff member of the month

This month, we asked Mrs. Lau at the front desk

a few questions

1.Where is your hometown?

Hilbert, WI.

2. When did you start working here

2013.

3. What is your favorite restaurant?

Parker John’s.

4. If you could teach a school subject, what

would it be?

Physical Education.

5. What is your favorite part of working

here?

The students.

6. If you could visit any place in the world

where would it be?

Wisconsin, “There is so many places I didn't see yet”.

7. What's your favorite movie?

E.T.

8. If you were a crayon, what color would you

be?

Green.

Movie review: 47 Meters Down

By: Sarah Dawe

Do you like the idea of exploring underwater? The

thrill of knowing that there might be creatures down there

that you’ve never seen before? If you do, then I strongly

recommend this movie.

47 Meters down is about two sisters that take a trip

to Mexico as a vacation, just to get away for a while. They

decide to go with some friends to watch sharks from a diving

cage. It’s all fun until the worst happens - the chain holding up

the cage breaks and the cage holding Kate and her sister Lisa

sinks all the way down to the bottom of the ocean. But that’s

not the worst part. How will they breathe once their air tanks

start to run out? But they can’t just leave the cage, what

about the sharks. What options do they have?

47 Meters Down is full of mystery and adventure, and

it’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat, wondering what

will happen next. Will they survive alone at the bottom of the

ocean? Will they cross paths with any sharks? Watch to find

out!

Movie Review: Black Panther

By: Laney Woods

Black Panther. A movie with a plot that is both

paper thin and boring, it makes you wonder how it had

such amazing ratings. Well, I have an answer for you,

it’s the end moral. That end moral being as bland and

basic as “racism is bad” without any other commentary.

Of course I agree with this message, it would be hard

to find a person who doesn’t, but it’s bland, and it makes

for a bland movie. Even Zootopia, a movie meant for

children, handled its message in a more mature way. Even though the message is bland and

uninspired, there was much more to hate about the

movie. Such as the story and the characters were both

overplayed and stupid. The main character has the most

predictable plot line in any movie I’d ever seen and

literally every other character is either boring or

unnecessary. The story itself was boring and uninspired,

and most of the humor ranged from bland to groan-

worthy. Of course in any movie there is always

something to like about it, specifically the

cinematography-which means everything technical with

the movie, editing, lighting, etc- was fine, though most

of that is expected of a movie from Marvel. Of course

the actors were fine, some were worse than others, of

course. In the end, most of Black Panther was just

shlock that I wouldn’t watch again. Most movies I can

take, there is usually something that stands out with

every movie ever, some are so terrible it becomes

hilarious and some have beautiful action scenes that

look amazing, but Black Panther was just a movie that

had no merits and just left me looking at the clock

through the whole viewing.

A & E

Should we Have the Check System?

By; Xander Blanke, Josh Schwarz, Lexus Koeser, and

Porsche Burrell

We have checks for behavior problems and as

a punishment if you have not been good. Most grades

have an incentive but you have to make the cut by

having a certain amount of checks or lower. Checks

aren't too harsh on students, but it tells them to stop

and fix what you did or are doing. It tends to become

crueler when a teacher gives more than two in a day.

When you earn too many checks, you get out of the

incentive and have to sit out and do not fun stuff (it

depends). As the check system lives on other people

wish it wouldn't. The check system is supposed to keep

students on their best behavior. In the fourth grade,

some of the teachers had their classes do checks to

prepare the students for fifth grade. They had the

same rules as all the teachers have now for their

students for checks. We took some of the student’s responses on if

they think we should keep the check system. Coryn

Fromm said, “Yes we should have the check system so

that the misbehaving students aren’t ruining the

incentive experiences for others.” Josh Thiry said,

“No we should not have the check system because

whoever gets checks always get so many so quickly

that they don't care about the incentive afterward

because they already have the limit, therefore they

go right back to being disruptive.”

Overall, 54% of the students we surveyed

were in favor of the incentive system, while 46% were

opposed to it.

Should Kiel add another restaurant? Just an

opinion

By: Owen Korb

I recently asked the school what

restaurant they would like to be added to Kiel.

The results were all over the board with two

really standing out. Those two were the most

requested restaurants. The restaurant in first is

Culver with fourteen people. The second most

requested restaurant is Taco Bell with an

astoundingly close number of twelve people.

Although there was one person who came up with

a new restaurant. That person is Josh Thiry who

said he would like to have El Camino 2: Electric

Boogaloo added to Kiel.

As much as I love Culvers I personally

would have liked have like to see Taco Bell win. I

really like their food and I think it would be a

nice addition to Kiel. My favorite thing on the

menu though is their cinnamon twist. If you

haven’t had those you are missing out. Either way,

a little change wouldn’t be bad.

Opinion

Kindness is key

By: Mallory Jenkins

On January 15th, Mike McGowan came to Kiel

Middle School to talk to each grade about kindness. In

case some of you don’t really know much about Mike

McGowan, he is a well-known public speaker that goes to

schools to talk about our generation. Mike teaches

subjects like bullying, kindness, and working hard in

school. This year’s topic was about kindness, for the up

and coming kindness month (Which is in February).

Though he mainly covered kindness, he also

covered many other topics. During his presentation to the

eighth graders, he stressed how important it was to work

hard in school, and how far a little bit of effort can go. If

you work hard and don’t give up, you can’t fail. Mike talked

to every grade at KMS about things like bullying,

kindness, and to never give up on your dreams. I surveyed

KMS, the coolest thing I found was that 100% of the 50

people I surveyed said they want him to come back.

Which hints that he might be coming back next year!

Only 2 people did not like the presentation, but

the funny thing is they weren’t there. The things I saw

the most on the results of the surveys was he was funny,

he touched on important topics, and was encouraging.

Mike McGowan definitely left a good message for KMS to

follow. But the real question is, how will you use kindness

in your daily life?

If you are having any other issues at school

or home, don’t hesitate to talk with Mrs. Andre in

room 203c!

Advice