Tuesday during seventh period orchestra students who will be in attendance during the New York trip had one of their final rehearsals until they play in New York. This is the orchestra’s second year playing in New York. Students attending left right after school today and will return Sunday night. Orchestra teacher and chaperon for the trip Doug Elmore is excited for the trip. “[I’m excited] to see the looks on my students’ faces when they see New York.” When asked about his fears about playing in New York, Elmore responded with faith in his students. “Nothing [about this trip] scares me. These students are mature, organized, and well prepared.”
A look in photographs of the past few weeks at Floyd Central. The week’s activities include Godspell, the Dazzlers’ national preview, a lab in science teacher Michelle Harbison’s class, NJROTC annual inspection, and design and sketchbook assignments in Intro to Art and Drawing I-IV classes.
Dazzler’s preview their national competition routine of Jan. 29. Photo by Jalyn Kowalski.Junior Savannah Wormley strikes a pose ending the scene at a showing of Godspell. Wormley has been involved in theater since she was a freshman. At first it was the nationally and internationally renowned theater department that drew her in. “I went into it not knowing if I’d have any talent or knack for it at all, but I took intro my freshman year and never looked back.” Part of the reason she likes it so much is the people involved in theater. “The department is truly a melting pot of interesting personalities and it really is like being a part of one big, huge dysfunctional family.” Photo by McKenna Click.Junior Bailey Hussung sings one of many songs in the theater’s production of Godspell. Godspell ran its last round this past weekend, selling out their final showing. The next show that the theater department will be showing is Thoroughly Modern Millie. Tickets can be reserved by calling the box office at 812-542-2284. Photo by McKenna Click.Junior Jade Dailey recites her lines during a performance of Godspell. Dailey has been involved in theater since elementary school. “I needed something to take my mind off of the everyday aspects of life,” said Dailey. She started out her high school theater career at New Albany but switched to FC this year. “My favorite part of FC theater is they are on a very high professional level when it comes to the rehearsal process and the audition process.” Dailey continued on saying, “Everything is so well put together by Mr. Steiner.” Photo by McKenna Click.Student teacher Kelly Book explains some of the lab work to juniors Kaylee Newland (left) and Rose Mintkenbaugh (right). Fitzgerald and Book agreed that the hardest part of the lab is writing out the chemical equations based on what the students have observed in the lab. Photo by McKenna Click.Juniors Rose Mintkenbaugh (left) and Kaylee Newland measure out liquids for a two day lab “Pipes of Reactions” in Beth Fitzgerald’s Chemistry I class on Monday February 28. Photo by McKenna Click.Senior George Emily stands and listens as Captain Tim Naville inspects him during NJROTC’s annual inspection that was held Wednesday morning in the gym. This is the 20th annual inspection since 1994. Photo by McKenna Click.Junior Lance Youtsey (center) stands at attention in front of other JROTC students Wednesday during annual inspection. Youtsey said he went into ROTC because he’s always wanted to go into the coast guard, but his favorite part about ROTC is the people. “It makes my day, they’re actually pretty funny,” said Youtsey. Photo by McKenna Click.Sophomore Cassie Nale (right) and junior Katrina Klingsmith (left) work on art projects for Susan Higdon’s intro to art class. “My favorite part of art is being with the art community,” said Klingsmith. Nale was working on a sketchbook assignment, but Klingsmith was working on her potential design for next year.’ Photo by McKenna Click.Freshman Matthew Jewel works on his potential design of next year’s planner cover in Susan Higdon’s intro to art class. A design senior Zach Nichols’ came up with will be used if a new design is not created. Photo by McKenna Click.Senior Parker McCullough works on his project in Kerri Jones’ Drawing III/IV class. McCullough has been around art his whole life. “My grandpa used to teach art here,” but goes on to say “I don’t think I really became interested in art until sixth grade. My favorite part [about art] is the freedom of expression. Photo by McKenna Click.Juniors Brett Yeaton and Sarah Henry work on their pen and ink projects in Kerri Jone’s drawing I/II class. Henry first became interested in art when her middle school art teacher Diane Emerson suggested she take classes outside of school with the Louisville Visual Arts Association. “The teacher there was fabulous so I became hooked.” Henry continued on with art from there. Her favorite part is “working with new mediums that I haven’t worked with much before.” Photo by McKenna Click.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am creative, so it is no surprise that in my free
time I get on Pinterest and look at D.I.Y. projects. Recently, when I was looking through many
of the ideas, I started to wonder how hard they really are. So I decided to try out a
salt dough pendant. This seemed like it was really easy and something that I could not screw up, but I was wrong.
The caption of the picture says, “2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, cold water. Mix until has
consistency of play dough. Bake at 250 for 2 hours, then cool and paint.” The directions were
not very clear to start out with but I tried to follow them anyway.
I got the two cups of flour and one cup of salt. It was pretty straight forward, I could do
that, but cold water, how much cold water? I didn’t really know how much so I just added a
random amount of water and mixed.
If you plan on following this recipe, I suggest adding the water slowly and mixing the
batter very well before adding more water. If too much water is added the batter will resemble
pancake batter and will need to be thrown out.
Once the batter has the consistency of play dough, flour the surface that where the dough
will be worked on. I suggest rolling out the dough with a rolling pin so that the dough has the
same consistency all the way through and will cook evenly in the oven.
Also, if planning on making shapes out of the dough I suggest first putting the dough
on parchment paper and then using a cookie cutter to make the shapes. If the shapes are cut
out when the dough is still on the counter, the dough is likely to stick to it instead of coming off
easily.
I cut out a heart and had planned on making a pendant but learned that just poking a
hole through the side of the heart with a toothpick would not be good enough. I realized that
a toothpick should be inserted in the dough but then wiggled around to make the hole bigger
because a normal toothpick hole will shrink up after it has been baked.
Once the dough has been baked at 250 degrees for two hours and then cooled down,
painting is the next step. I bought enamel acrylic paint at Benjamin Franklin’s, and I am sure
it is a great product, but read the directions before using it. The surface to be painted needs to
be wiped down with alcohol and washed with soap and water before painted, but by the time I
realized that, it was too late they were already painted so they turned out looking silver instead of
metallic.
So this Pinterest project was a failure. It could be the lack of sleep lately, the bad directions,
or simply the fact I tried to salvage something when I should have started over. Either way
this project was not one that I would recommend if you actually want the product that is in the
picture.
The Lady Highlanders basketball team is half way through their season and because of their statistics, can already be considered a winning team. The girl have won six of their ten games so far this season. Which means senior Tori Kingsley’s goal of “[winning] sectionals and conference and to have a winning season” is well on its way.
“We’ve got a lot of returning kids who’ve played varsity and a lot of hard working kids,” said counselor and head girl’s basketball coach Kirk Hamsley. He has hopes of a winning season. Winning does not just happen, teams need to be strong, and the Lady Highlanders have quite a few strengths.
Head coach Kirk Hamsley works with the girls’ basketball team in practice.
Junior Taylor Andrew recognizes their strengths including the teamwork among the girls. “We’re a pretty good shooting and scoring team too,” said Kingsley.
Although the team is strong, Andrew realizes the girls still have improvements to make. “[We need to] talk and work on leadership.”
Leadership may be something the girls need to work on but Kingsley and Hamsley realize there are other things the girls need to work on also.
Kingsley wants the team to work on their defense, but Hamsley said, “[the girls] need to buy into being a team and playing together.”
The girls said they have been trying to grow together as a team. “We do team bonding like three times a week,” said Kingsley. Andrew and Kingsley rattled off team bonding activities including making balloon animals, a scavenger hunt, and team dinners.
“[At team dinners] we all indulge in a lot of food and talk about stuff that’s really funny and that makes us come closer,” said Kingsley. Team dinners help the team grow closer. “We are a lot closer than past teams. We’re all really good friends and we hang out outside of school,” said Andrew.
Not only have the girls been trying to grow together as a team, Hamsley talked about how the girls have been working hard to have a good season.
“[We worked for] six weeks conditioning. We have practice for two hours and fifteen minutes six days a week,” said Hamsley.
They successfully beat Scottsburg, who were sixth in the state last year, and Seymour, who are a part of their conference. Hamsley cited both of those wins as big wins for the team.
Hamsley looks forward to playing Jeff, New Albany, and Bedford, FC’s main rivals.
The next time the girls can be seen in action is Dec. 27 at 2:30 pm or 28th at 11:00 am at the Lady Highlander Classic held at FC.
For those looking to see a rival game the girls play New Albany at New Albany, January 5th at 6:00 pm for JV or 7:30 pm for varsity. There is also a game at FC January 12 against Bedford 1:00 pm for JV or 2:30 for varsity.
Due to the increased popularity of “do it yourself” projects, below is a DIY Christmas ornament wreath. Overall the project totaled about twelve dollars and was relatively easy to make. The goal of this video is to help students and parents alike take on the task of making a Christmas wreath that is cheaper than similar wreaths sold in stores. The wreaths would make great holiday decorations but also presents for the holiday season too.
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