It is the start of the second grading period here at Carlé and the Carlé Chronicle wants to tell everyone to keep up all the good work!

We have some interesting topics to report including the Mountain Vista Middle School garden project, new ways to get physical education credits at Carlé, the Big Read, Student of the week and projects student council is working on.

Recently Ms. Seely from Mountain Vista Middle School approached Carlé to do some business. Mountain Vista has made a big school garden and they wanted some nice signs with the garden’s rules on it.

Alyssa Peterson once had Ms. Seely as a teacher and is very fond of her, so she made a couple beautiful handmade signs. She won two T-shirts from the business for her hard work, one of her signs was laminated, the other pressed onto a metal plaque. About five other students submitted designs for the garden contest as well.

Carlé is trying to organize different ways to get physical education credit. Vice Principal Mr. Wickersham has decided to open up the basketball courts at lunch for credit.

As has been mentioned in previous articles, paintball club is another way to get credit. Student Jonathan Lansdowne came up with the idea to organize softball games to be held after school, which also gives physical education credit to those who attend.

The Big Read is back! The Big Read is a grant-funded program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ms. Shrive runs the Lake County Big Read. She brought the Big Read to Lake County with the help of Wally Holbrook, the county superintendent of schools.

Lake County is one of 77 selected organizations to receive a Big Read grant this year. The purpose of the Big Read is to promote literacy and bring communities together through literature.

The Harbor On Main will have a discussion group about The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, which is the featured novel. Former Carlé student Nura Brown will be leading the discussion group as she is now an employee at The Harbor.

For more information about the Big Read, see Ms. Shrive at Carlé High School.

Congratulations to Lukas Carlson, who won student of the week this week! Keep up the good work!

While on the topic of congratulations, Lucas Stickel presented the first portfolio of the year! It was a great representation of who he is and serves as a great example for portfolios to come.

Student government is trying to brainstorm different ways to raise funds for the school.

One idea that was brought up at a recent meeting was that we should make a prom donation box to be set up at back to school night. Another topic brought up was a treat for the students, lunchtime music. Student government decided it was only fair to play music if there were songs everybody likes in the play list.

The next step is to gather favorite songs from students around the school, similar to the method we used to gather songs for prom last year.

Kasandra Colwell is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.