Dance Moves

• Gas Pedal
• Harlem Shake
• Twerking

Headline News

• The government shuts down for 16 days.
• Evidence of the use chemical warfare is discovered in Syria.
• Massive wildfire affects Yosemite National Park.
• Bomb goes off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Newsmakers

• Miley Cyrus twerks at the VMAs — her music video for “Wrecking Ball” causes controversy.
• Royal baby, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, arrives.
• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s baby is named North West.

Trending Topics

• Videos are posted on a new social media, Vine.
• Anonymous questions are given on Ask.fm accounts.
• Chevron pattern becomes popular in clothing and accessories.
• Vineyard Vines, Lilly Pulitzer and other preppy clothes reach the closets of many Blue Valley students.

Sports

• Royals’ winning percentage is .531.
• Chiefs go undefeated for nine wins.
• Sporting KC stands second in the Eastern Conference in their regular season and advances to the final match in the MLS Cup.

Top Moments at BV

• New football stadium is built and opened at Blue Valley.
• BV Relay For Life ranks 10th in nation from combined money raised.
• BV loses power at 9:45 a.m. causing school to be let out at 11:15 a.m. on Jan. 29.
• Fence is put up around mobiles — students can no longer enter the school through mobile doors.
• A controversial Tiger TV episode sparks the #freejosh movement.