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Cell Phone Challenge

March 16, 2018

On the first Thursday of February, Chaffin Junior High hosted the cell phone challenge. In this challenge, kids had to put down their cell phones for the entire lunch to encourage physical communication between kids. The tables that could do it would be in the drawing for a free pizza lunch or candy...

Cell Phone Challenge
Chaffin Charmers for 2018-2019

March 14, 2018

Congratulations to the 2018-2019 Chaffin Charmers! Charmers Abby Senesomxay Maddie Harris Mattie McLellan Anna Claire Roberts Madi Tyler Izabelle Simonian Natalie Smith - Co-Captain Emily Schmidt - Co-Captain Maddie Davenport Alli Atchley Sadie Pelt Ella Atwell - Captain Elizabeth Bunnell C...

Chaffin Charmers for 2018-2019
Chaffin Cheer Squad 2018-2019

March 14, 2018

Congratulations to following members of the Chaffin Cheer Team! 2018-2019 Chaffin Cheerleaders: Captain - Bree Benavides Co Captains - Sarah Emmons and Emmalee Hibbs Freshmen - Haven Bracken, Erin Geren, Katie Harrison, Celeste Myers, Annie Scott 8th Graders - Maggy Grandstaff, Molly Grandstaff, Ka...

Chaffin Cheer Squad 2018-2019
Chaffin Quiz Bowl Wins State Championship

March 13, 2018

Congratulations to the Chaffin Gold Quiz Bowl team for winning the state championship. The Chaffin Gold team also placed in the state tournament by coming in 3rd. Several students from Chaffin also achieved special honors. Haris Rana won MVP All Tournament for the Red Division and Jack Minnick won top...

Chaffin Quiz Bowl Wins State Championship
National History Day

March 9, 2018

A while ago, some students went to the National History Day competition. National history day is a project based contest for 6th- 12th graders. For the competition, the students must select a historical topic that is related to a theme they choose. Then, they research the topic and present it. The p...

National History Day
Pep Rally

February 23, 2018

February 15, we had our last Pep Rally of the year. It was Freshman night so all of the Freshman on teams got introduced, the basketball players, cheerleaders, and charmers. The pep rally was for our last game against Ramsey. We had a fun obstacle course for the teachers and students to do. All ...

Pep Rally
Chaffin vs Northside: Battle of the Buzzers

Slate Stanton, Senior Editor-In-Chief

February 23, 2018

Congratulations to the Chaffin Quiz Bowl team on beating Northside in both games!

Chaffin vs Northside: Battle of the Buzzers
January Students of the Month

January 23, 2018

Congratulations to the following students for being selected as students of the month: 7th Grade- David Rotaru, Molly Mizell, and Elizabeth Williams 8th Grade- Bianca Perlera, Bree Benevides, Ethan Hall 9th Grade- Sara Hubbard, Jimmy Underwood, Mason Chrisman We are proud of these students for doing right and ...

January Students of the Month

March 13, 2018 • No Comments

Chaffin has a new addition; The Maker Space Room. This room has a bunch of cool technology like 3D printers, spheros, a ton of tools and models for simple machines. Before Christmas break, the Optimist club used the 3D p...

Iran/Iraq Earthquake

Nabila Siddiqui

December 13, 2017 • No Comments

On Sunday, there was an earthquake in Iran/Iraq. It killed 414 people and injured 6,500. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter magnitude scale. The worst damage occurred in the town of Sarpol-e-Zahab in Kerma...

The Nina and the Pinta

Kimberly Witt

November 14, 2017 • No Comments

Most people have heard of Christopher Columbus and his ships called the Nina and the Pinta. But, what many people don't know is that Fort Smith has the same exact replicas! The Nina and Pinta look alike will be docked for...

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Sports

Congratulations Cougar Basketball

January 19, 2018 • No Comments

Chaffin cougar basketball had a clean sweep over Ramsey last night! Chaffin 8th grade lady cougars - 25 Ramsey - 20 9th grade lady cougars - 38 Ramsey - 20 8th boys Chaffin - 35 Ramsey - 13 9th Boys Chaffin -...

Meet the Athlete – Evan Hindmarsh December 13, 2017
9th Grade Lady Cougars Roster November 14, 2017
9th Grade Chaffin Cougar Basketball Roster November 14, 2017
2017-2018 7th and 8th grade Boy’s Basketball Team November 10, 2017

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Student Life

Cell Phone Challenge

March 16, 2018 • No Comments

On the first Thursday of February, Chaffin Junior High hosted the cell phone challenge. In this challenge, kids had to put down their cell phones for the entire lunch to encourage physical communicatio...

Student Musician in the Spotlight – Amanda Cook

March 13, 2018

2018 Rotary Speech Contest

March 13, 2018

Maker Space Room

March 13, 2018

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Editorials

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Giving
Giving… what does that word mean to you? To me giving means so many different things. Like you could give a present, give advice, or give something ...
Best Kids Gifts of 2017
2017 Hot Toy List Fingerlings Interactive Baby Monkeys. Fingerlings Interactive Baby Monkeys are little plastic monkeys that latch onto your finge...
Year Round School?
How would you feel if you were looking forward to Christmas vacation and then find out that instead of two weeks you have one week for C...
Are Video Games Art?
The argument for whether video games are art or not has been going on since their creation in 1971. In my article, I’ll be explaining both s...
Superheroes
When I think of superheroes I don’t think of figures like superman, batman, or others like that, I think of just a normal person I can look up to, a...
Do kids need recess?
I do certainly think kids need recess… When I had recess it was the best part of my day, whether it was inside recess or outside recess. With recess...
My Hero
A hero is someone who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievement, or noble qualities. My mom’s name is Natalie and she has...
Red Queen
Top 10 Ways to Survive Jr. High
Top 10 Ways to Survive Jr. High Just started Jr. High? Scared out of your mind? Here are ten ways to survive your three years of Jr. High! Ma...