Need a gift idea for Valentine's Day? The MESA club is selling various Valentine's balloon gifts starting at just $1.25. They also have many other accessories for celebrating the day. Orders will be taken from Feb. 9 to Feb. 12 in room B201. Deliveries will be made to classrooms February 12.
Feb 6—Two hundred twenty-seven Dons attended the 2010 Winter Formal this year. The Saturday evening event took place in Fountain Valley at the Mile Square Golf Course. The Winterbelle Queen Kajal Kandoria was on hand wearing her crown and sash, as was Princesses Kazondra Ramo and Maritza Garcia. A buffet-style dinner was available, consisting of pasta, lasagna, or ravioli as the entre, plus salad, bread, an all-you-can-drink soda bar, and a table full of fresh cookies and brownies. An online survey the week before helped the DJ spin the Dons' most favorite songs during the evening. Gallery #1 | Gallery #2
Feb 5—ER's Choraleers began their competition season Friday night at the 12th Annual Show Choir Spectacular. The event regularly draws some of the best high school show choirs in Southern California, and the judging is notoriously tough. Vocal quality, costume and choreography were all on display during the sold out event, which was held in Citrus College's Haugh Auditorium.
Feb 4—It's competition season, so don't be surprised if you hear loud, rhythmic beats echoing through the hallways. The students of the ER Drumline are spending their afternoons busily practicing marches and cadences in preparation for upcoming competitions. There will also be an on-campus demonstration of their competition routine—once its perfected—later this semester, so watch the Don Page calendar!
Jan 23—Saturday morning nearly 300 students and 25 teachers joined together for a few hours of hard work in the 5th annual Pride Day for El Rancho High School. The event started as a way to spruce up the campus for the Academic Decathlon, which began using the ER campus to host its first five events back in 2005. This year, besides the usual scrubbing and cleaning, a lot of effort was put into moving textbooks out of classroom closets and into the new textbook room, which has just recently been set up in Y-1.
Jan 25—With the end of the semester comes Mr. Zook's well-known trebuchet assignment. For two days, the outside area around the N-building is full of objects, flying this way and that, launched by Physics students and their trebuchets. If you don't know, a trebuchet is like a catapult, only more powerful. Both were used by armies in the middle ages to batter down castle walls. This year, Mr. Zook added in a "water-balloon launcher." It may not sound as regal or historical as a trebuchet, but, according to Zook, "they are pretty good examples of elastic potential energy and projectile motion."
You can read the January 28th issue of the school newspaper here.