2/28/2018 0 Comments Speech Team UpdateArticle Submitted by Mrs. Hodena
The Hinckley Finlayson Speech team is continuing to do great this season. Our Duo Team of Annika Maser and Courtney Hart have a great script this season for Dramatic Duo. It is a humorous piece called "Sorry Dude, I'm going Vegan so I'm gonna have to eat You!" They have had fun performing this piece. Our ext reading team is really strong. Both Josie Barstad, a senior, and Sally Nelson, a sophomore, are dedicated speakers and work hard to always have a strong showing against the larger schools in our area. This year the ext reading book is, A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury. Both Josie and Sally placed at the Onamia Meet on Feb 10th. Josie has continued by placing at the meets in North Branch and most recently she placed 4th in Princeton out of 31 speakers. Congrats to Josie!
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2/23/2018 2 Comments FFA WeekBy Abby Painovich Hinckley Finlayson kicked off it’s first ever FFA week on Tuesday, February 20th. National Future Farmers of America Week is recognized around the nation, however, this year is the first year we are celebrating it. FFA is a chapter consisting of high school students that are coming together to promote and support agricultural education. HFHS is just one of the 189 schools in Minnesota that offer this group. FFA is important because, according to Ms, Klar, “ it teaches everyone about agriculture and why all aspects of nature are important. Anywhere from Wildlife to Lots of different aspects involving your life.” FFA Week is aiming to raise awareness of the FFA club and is encouraging students to join. To start the week off, the whole school was herded into the gym where the Ag Olympics would soon take place. The crowd waited and listened in anticipation as members from each grade were called down to partake in the events. The first event was a relay race called The Cows are Out. In this relay, teams of four students from each grade got dressed on their farm attire and ran across the gym, trying to avoid the various obstacles of a typical farm. The next event was Shavin’ Sheep. For this event, student participants were given a popsicle stick to hold on their mouth as the shear. Then using the “shear”, they raced against each other to clear the platter of whipped cream in front of them. Next up; lunch time! Teams of four students from each grade were called down to compete in the Barnyard Lunch. Each student from each team had one plate of food they were designated to eat. The food ranged all the way from ice cream to lettuce, but all this was just the opening acts. The real event was when pairs of students were called out to compete in the vigorous Bale Toss. Showing off their strength, students threw a hay bale across the gym as far as they could. The event to conclude the Ag Olympics was Sack Racing. This event was a race between two students from each grade. This event was enjoyed as much, if not more, by the audience as it was the participants. As the grand finale, the teachers joined in and hopped across the gym as the whole rest of the school watched in amusement. Wednesday was hat day. Students were given the opportunity to pay a dollar and wear a hat for the day. All of the money earned from this fundraiser will go towards paying for FFA Week as well as to other activities that are put on by FFA. Thursday at lunch, there was Kernel Count and Ag trivia. For Kernel Count, FFA member filled a mason jar full of an unknown number corn kernels. Students then had the opportunity to write their guess on a slip of paper and submit it. Ag trivia was an event that got the crowd involved. Ellen Harth would read off various trivia questions relating to FFA and the crowd would answer with an array of answers. These events were enjoyed by the HFHS student body and will be looked forward to next year. On Friday, February 23rd, the East side of the building was the place to be. Just outside the doors of the FAC lobby there was a large attraction. Hinckley Finlayson High School senior, Ellen Harth, brought two of her cows to school. In addition, Brooklyn Hooker also brought in her Horse. These big animals were the center of attention as the elementary students came over to visit. Inside the lobby, however, was more chaos with elementary students running around, chasing the animals inside. There were puppies, chickens and bunnies squirming in the hands of FFA members, letting younger students pet them. The excitement of the elementary students’ faces as they pet the animals was enough to make anyone’s heart melt with delight. Here at HFHS, we would like to thank the providers of these animals who, according to Ms. Klar, “are our own FFA members because many of them live on a farm or have access to farm animals. The other animals are coming from local community members willing to share them for the day, especially since they are for an educational purpose.” Overall, FFA week was very eventful and enjoyed by all of HFHS and we all look forward to it next year. 2/23/2018 0 Comments Ms. Hart Gets a New HaircutBy Anderson Prater
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