In September and October, we worked to make BIG CHANGES in the place where we spend most of our day! CHALLENGER SCHOOL is a great place to go, but we worked tirelessly to make it even better!

Clean Up Challenger Day! Alma and Tomi put on this event to make Challenger a more beautiful place to learn! More than 13 homerooms participated in the day long clean up, right before election day was held at our school!

Challenger Top 5 Reward Party: Rico, Vicente, and Rey created certificates and a reward party to recognize the top 5 students in each grade. They wanted to make sure that these students recieved recognition and also continued to be good leaders making positive choices.

Dear Ms. Molina and Ms. Birrell Hi, our names are Rey Flores, Rico Anaya Perez, and Vicente Araiza. We are writing to you to convince you to let us have a Halloween party for five kids in each grade who are being good. We want to have the Halloween party during the school day. It will change the school by making kids pay attention and do their work in class. We will make the project happen by working hard. This is important to us because we want to check how many students pay attention during classes and if they don’t pay attention they will not get to go to the Halloween party. It will change the school by making kids pay attention and do their work in class. The kids that don’t pay attention will not get to go to the party .If they don’t do their work they will not be allowed to go. If they have more than 5 assignments missing they will not get to go. If they get more than 3 detentions they will not go. We are going to let the teachers from every grade pick 5 students from their class. We will make the project happen by working hard. We will write a letter to the adults that can help us. We will buy the stuff that we will need for the project. We will start decorating so it could look nice. We will help with every thing so it can look really nice. This is important to us because we want to check how many students pay attention during classes and if they don’t pay attention they will not go to the Halloween party on October 31. I want to see students going have fun at the party. I want good students to have so much fun doing things at the party. Thank you for reading this letter. Thank you for taking your time out of your day to read. We hope you decide to let us have the party. It is really good to reward the students that do their work in class. Sincerely, Rey Flores, Vicente Araiza and Rico Anaya Perez

Challenger Cooking Class! Janet led over 60 Challenger students, with the help of Ms. Gorzen, in learning how to cook! 3 seperate cooking classes were held to teach Challenger students to cook.

Dear Ms. Molina and Ms. Birrell, My name is Janet Mondragon and I am a student at challenger school. I am writing about my change the school project, and to tell you what my project is. I want to have a cooking class. I am going to open a cooking class on Oct 21st. I will tell you this will change the school, how I will make my project, and why this is important to me to happen. How will this change the school? Students would have the chance to learn how to cook. Some students have younger brothers or sisters they have to take care of them and they have to make them food. It would help them in many ways with this. Some students don’t know how to cook. This is how I will make the project happen. I have to talk to the principal (you!). I need to talk to a teacher to be the teacher watching us. I have to have a classroom. I have to get supplies. Other stuff also. Why is this important to me to happen? It’s important to me to happen because I love cooking. The students don’t know how to cook. This cooking class will help people learn how to cook. In conclusion, I think you will like my project. Thank you for reading my letter. I hope you like it. I hope you enjoy this letter. I feel great about you reading my wonderful letter. Sincerely, Janet

Challenger Track Meet! Zach, Glensha, Ryan, and Victoria created the first ever Challenger Mile Challenge to get kids in shape and allow them participate in a one mile run for prizes. Every participant got a certificate, and the top 3 got trophies!

Challenger Bully Free Zone! Sarah worked to make Challenger a bully free zone, creating posters and lessons for teachers to share with their classes so that Challenger would be a better place for everyone!

Challenger Choir! Chantel, Celeste, and DeAndre created a Challenger choir, with the help of Ms. Denault. They will be performing at fall festival, a parent's night, and possibly during future assemblies! Their choir currently allows more than 20 students to show their musical talent! Read below how they convinced the school to make this happen!
Dear Ms.Molina and Ms.Birrel, Our names are Deandre Goodloe, Celest Nunez, Chantel Weary. We are convincing you to have a choir. We are from Ms.Clark's class. We want to have our choir perform at fall festival. We will tell you how we are going to change our school, how we will we make the project happen, and why this is important to us. First, we are going to tell you how this will change our school. First of all we will influence people. They can try to be out going. We can have another club. This way, we won’t have the same clubs every year we can have an opportunity to improve our music skills. Lastly, we can get to know people. Next, we are going to tell you how the project will happen. We can go do a concert at fall festival. We can get the materials. We can do lots of flyers. We need flyers so all the students know about the choir we can do posters. We need to do posters so the student know about the information. Lastly, we can do a petition. Lastly, we will tell you why it’s important to us. First, so kids with music talent can have an opportunity to be recognized. Second, so we can have music again. Next, after school we have nothing to do at home. There’s always the same clubs every year. Lastly we can get to have a new club. Thank you for reading this business letter. From, Deandre Goodloe, Chantal weary, and Celeste Nunez

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