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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Apr 28, 2017

Shout Out from Hawfields Middle Rachel Clark, 8th Grade ELA

It was another successful year at the Special Olympics Spring Games at Elon for the Hawfields United Ambassadors! This was the second year our middle school students volunteered to run Olympic Town or serve as a Buddy. We had 26 students who painted faces, made Fruit Loop necklaces, made gigantic bubbles, helped athletes with crafts, or served as personal cheerleaders and buddies for the MU classes of Hawfields Middle and Garrett Elementary.

It was a beautiful day to compete and volunteer.

These students worked tirelessly to serve!


Shout Out for South Graham Elementary Amanda Almodovar, School Social Worker

Shout Out to SGE Panda Patch! We celebrated Earth Day with volunteers from Elon University and Alamance Community College teaching all our students how to plant impatiens in containers and also beautifying our flower beds with artwork. The plants were donated by ACC’s Horticulture program! Thanks to SGE Data Manager Liz Eckman for coordinating this event, also to our many volunteers who contributed their time and materials!


Shout Out from Elon Elementary Cheryl Howe

Elon Elementary School had its third annual National Elementary Honor Society Induction on Thursday, April 20, 2017! FIfty five students were inducted based on their Leadership, Scholarship, Responsibility and Service. The following students were inducted: Kayden Alexander, Macy Atkins, Grayson Averett, Noah Barrett, Preston Bays, Grayson Brady, Madelynn Collington, Jocelyn Delphias, Sarah Delphias, Luke Dworkin, Mram Elhussian, Kenley Elliot, Jeremiah Elmore, Cameron Fearn, Genevieve Fisher, Rachel Franks, Johanna Fuller, Kaelyn Gallagher, Jacob Garrison, Caroline Gray, Morgan Gregory, Caedmon Gresham, Evan Gwin, KJ Harris, Houston Hopcroft, Nevada Jarrell, Danielle Johnson, Smith Johnson, Isaac Jones-Blakeney, Ryan Jones, Rylee Lyon, Kimberly Martinez, Emma McCallister, Kennedy Melton, Jonathan O'Ferrell, Francisco Perez Velasquez, Hamilton Plunkett, Dominic Propoggio, Chloe Robinson, Noah Roman, Caleb Shutt, Adira Smith, Mia Sodano, Abigail Sykes, Adriana Szczepanski, Jayden Tapia, Keira Tapia, Ariana Thompson, Sabrina Tosczak, Abigail Walston, Casey Ward, Walter Watkins, Cayden White, Gabrielle White, and Ellie Wright.

Shout Out from Southern High Tracey Hollan, Interact Club Advisor The new Southern High Interact Club is sponsored by the Graham Rotary Club and is an active community service club for teens. There are plenty of opportunities for our club members to be involved in our community! Recently, club members helped to pack food at Graham Presbyterian Church to support elementary and middle school students with food insecurity in ABSS. This is an ongoing partnership.


SAHS Interact volunteered at the Burlington animal shelter to exercise dogs, fold cat litter boxes and whatever they could do to be of use. This will be an ongoing relationship. On April 29, we will be volunteering with NC Therapeutic Riding Services at a horse show exhibition and then meet with administrators to see how best Interact can be of service. Pictured below: Club founder and president (Alexis Hollan)

presenting to Graham Rotary current projects and future projects. Other planned volunteer opportunities will include: A Hearts Cry: (Graham) organize donations, light cleaning, outside work as needed. This will be an ongoing relationship. Food drive challenge for the Salvation Army during Christmas. Will be a repeating event. Feed the hunger: in cooperation with Graham Rotary. All future food packing dates.

Roadside pickup: in cooperation with Graham Rotary when this event is scheduled at the club. Blood drive: drives to be held during the next school year. Car wash fundraiser to enable the club to purchase club shirts. Date is forthcoming.

Shout Out from Woodlawn Middle Crystal Taylor, School Counselor Woodlawn Middle had the pleasure of hosting Pleasant Grove, E.M. Yoder, and South Mebane elementary schools this week for 5th Grade visits! Students were entertained by Woodlawn Band, directed by Grace Bennington and Noteworthy Acapella group lead by Elizabeth Zint.

The 5th Grade students had the opportunity to tour the school, visit 6th grade classes, as well as a question and answer session with current Woodlawn students about middle school.


It was a fun two days helping to reassure the transition from Elementary to Middle!

The 5th Grade visit was coordinated by Crystal Taylor and Abby Dufretay, Woodlawn Middle School Student Support Staff.


Shout Out from Elon University Allison Bryan, Director of Curriculum Resources Center

The middle and high school licensure student teachers at Elon University had the opportunity to hear from three tremendous ABSS educators. The practicing teachers honestly shared their experiences with, answered questions from, and offered advice to the student teachers. We are grateful to Caroline Crow (Williams High School), Jordan Hohm (Broadview Middle School), and Rebecca Meacham (CTEC) for their time and thankful for their willingness to help impact the next generation of teachers! Pictured at right: L to R, Rebecca Meacham (CTEC), Jordan Hohm (Broadview Middle) and Caroline Crow (Williams High)


Shout Out from B E Jordan Elementary James Shuler, Technology What better way to show what you've learned about Jamestown than to build it? You may have heard of Minecraft or may already be familiar with it. It's very popular among today's youth. Minecraft is a building game that gives students creative freedom to build what they want using many different kinds of blocks. We have been using the Education version of the game, MinecraftEDU, for student projects. It lets teachers monitor what the students are building, saying, and provides overall control of the environment.

Fifth grade students in Mrs. East's class learned about the early life of colonists in Jamestown fort. They researched the design of the fort including defenses, building types, roles of the townspeople, and daily challenges they

faced. Students spent time drawing out a map and labeling it with the features such as church, bulwarks, town hall, barracks, and Governor's house. Once the research was done and their plans were made, students broke into Building Teams. There were teams devoted to the wall, the ships, each of the buildings, and additional details such as crops. They came into the computer lab and sat with their team, working together as a class to build Jamestown fort in MinecraftEDU based on what they've learned.


It was a challenge, requiring a lot of collaboration and clear, positive communication between groups! Students discovered that their first design needed improvement. For example, the walls were built too high and the bulwarks were a bit too modern for the time period. Some of the boats weren't symmetrical and needed to be rebuilt. These design struggles were a great learning opportunity. I was thrilled to be able to work with the fifth graders on this project!

As we move towards becoming a STEAM school, we hope to plan more activities like this. We saw 100% engagement with all the students as they worked together to make this happen! Please enjoy looking at the photos of their work as well as the tour video created by two of the students. A QR code is provided if you want to scan that and watch it on a phone or tablet.

Shout Out for AYLA from Alamance Chamber On Friday, April 21, seventh and eighth grade students involved in the Alamance Youth Leadership Academy (AYLA) sponsored by the Alamance Chamber, enjoyed the unique opportunity to hear from Dave King, CEO for LabCorp, about his leadership journey and the chance to ask questions about his career path and decisions made along the way. LabCorp is the largest medical diagnostic testing corporation in the world.


It was a fabulous joint event with all of our ABSS middle school AYLA students, along with private and charter school AYLA chapters. The event was held at Elon Community Church with leadership help provided by Elon University students.

Shout Out from Graham Middle Christina Ingold

We would like to send a shout-out to two of our Graham Middle School seventh graders: Adora McCord-Patterson and Madison Williams! Adora was awarded Third Place for her poem, "The Unknown of My Story" and Madison Williams was awarded Honorable Mention for her poem, "Your Special" under the category of Middle School Poetry. Our ladies are remarkable writers and have a bright future ahead of them! Congratulations! Pictured L to R: Madison Williams and Adora McCord-Patterson Go Falcons!


Shout Out from Southern High Lynn Bare, English III Congratulations to our Southern students named as winners in the 2017 Burlington Writers Club Student Contest! All three students are juniors. Congratulations, ladies! Taylor Coffey, 1st place, high school poetry Serena Rowland, 3rd place, high school poetry Reagan Cooper, 2nd place, high school fiction

Pictured L to R: Reagan Cooper, Serena Rowland and Taylor Coffey


Shout Out from Woodlawn Middle Crystal Taylor, School Counselor On April 20, Woodlawn Middle School received the Food Lion Feeds Grant to replenish our food closet and be able to assist students' families in need of food. The manager, Renn Robertson at the Food Lion Store (#2590) located on First St. in Mebane, was instrumental in supporting this effort! Management representatives from Food Lion Headquarters located in Salisbury, NC, also came to Mebane to assist with loading and delivering the donation to Woodlawn Middle School. In 2014, Food Lion streamlined its philanthropic focus to ending hunger throughout the communities their stores serve with the commitment to provide 500 million meals by the year 2020. Food Lion Feeds partners with non-profit organizations by contributing to food banks, food pantries and feeding initiatives to provide meals to those who would otherwise go hungry. Thanks to Food Lion for being a community partner with Woodlawn Middle School and supporting our students! We also appreciate Rita Roberson’s support as Public Relations for Food Lion Corporation. The grant was submitted by Crystal Taylor, School Counselor, and Abby Dufretay, School Social Worker, at Woodlawn Middle School, on behalf of their Student Support Department at Woodlawn. Food Lion and Woodlawn staff pictured together L to R: Abby Dufretay, WMS Social Worker,Greg Ratley, EIS, Renn Robertson,Mebane Food Lion Manager, Peyton Bolick, Associate, Billy Williams, Food Lion Regional Director, John Morphis, EIS, Crystal M. Taylor, WMS School Counselor

A big THANK YOU to Glenn Terrell , WMS athletic director, who provided truck transportation or else we would still be standing at the loading dock at Food Lion! What a great donation to our school community. Thank you Food Lion!


Shout Out from Southern Middle Matt Ritter

On March 30th, and April 5th & 6th, Southern Middle School's 7th grade students attended a "First Look At College" Exposure Field Trip. The First Look College Program was sponsored by the UNC Visitor's Center. Students were given information about college admission, different ways to pay for college, and were taken on a tour of UNC's campus.

During the tour, students were shown various classrooms, visited the libraries, and were given an opportunity to participate in a mock graduation at Kenan Memorial Stadium. Students finished their day of learning about college by eating in the Rams Head Dining Hall.

Students learned valuable information about college and career planning on this field trip and came away with valuable insight about every single person can get admitted, pay for, and be successful in college!


Shout Out from Southern High Rebecca Tyree, Drama Coach & Rachel Johnston, Co-Advisor

The Southern Alamance High School Drama Club had its inaugural production over the weekend of April 22-23, 2017. Our play, "The Breakfast Club", was a huge success! This was the first production our school has had in several years. We are so proud of the cast and crew for all the hard work and long hours they put into making this show a success!


Shout Out for ABSS Students Lynn Bare, Southern High English III The following ABSS students have worked with the Music Makers at Studio One production of The Three Bears. They have faithfully helped Dr. Rosemary Fischer with the production in various ways on Saturday mornings throughout the school year.

These students are L to R: Lexie Hester, Southern Middle School Sydney Fischer, Hawfields Middle School Sam Cryan, Williams High School School Kendall Fischer, Hawfields Middle School Rachel Ealy, Eastern High School Dr. Rosemary Fischer, Director & Founder of Music Makers

Shout Out from Woodlawn Middle Sarah Banko, EC Department Chair The Three Bears is a special play! The core performers are developmentally disabled adults with the addition of a young vocalist who lost her sight at the age of two years, and special guest artist, Jonathan Fischer. Mr. Fischer is currently principal oboist with the Houston Symphony. This play is unusual because each character in the story is represented by a musical instrument. Our performers will not only have solo parts, but will play together as an orchestra. Under the direction of Dr. Rosemary Fischer (piano) and Annie Zimmerman (story teller/conductor) they will perform


interesting new melodies, rhythms, and harmonies. In essence, it will be the MUSIC MAKERS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA! The performances will take place in Studio 1’s new location at the Holly Hill Mall in Burlington and are scheduled forFriday and Saturday, April 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm and Sunday April 30th at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $13 and are available online at www.studio1online.org. Donations are always welcome to help defray the costs of the production and also to assist those students who cannot afford the class tuition.

Shout Out from Sylvan Elementary Bernie Hill, Music

Sylvan completed the third music program of the year by having our kindergartners and first graders perform an Earth Day program in the morning for the school and in the evening for parents, relatives, and friends. The students were accompanied by a live band, consisting of music teacher Bernie Hall on the piano; son Steven Hall on djembe and cajon; woodwind specialist Rob Yingling on flute, clarinet, and saxophone; first grade teacher Brandon Erskine on guitar; and Principal Mark Gould on guitar!

Shout Out from Burlington Police Department Check out this story from Times-News about the BPD girl’s leadership program graduation event: http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20170425/girls-with-pearls-learn-lessons-in-leadership

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Shout Out from Western High Esther Wu, Robotics Team Advisor A big CONGRATULATIONS to the Western Alamance robotics team, 5064 - Aperture Science, for their successful performance at the FIRST Tech Challenge Championships in Houston, TX. The team was able to partner up with teams from around the world, including the United States, Mexico, Israel, Australia, China, Canada, and many more! Aperture Science won 5 of the 9 qualifying matches, picked by the fourth best team, and advanced to the semifinals!

The team was happy to advance to the World Championships ranking 8th in the World out of 2,300 eligible teams that registered to compete at local, state, regional, and world levels! Go WA! Pictured L to R: Tobias Fischer, Lucien Gauthier, Beren Hollingsworth, Phillip Hooper, Samantha Luu

The refs are counting the points from the autonomous run while the teams are planning their first moves. L to R: Beren Hollingsworth (in tiara for tiara day), Lucien Gauthier, Tobias Fischer (green hat)


Three of our members were student ambassadors, and provided tours to the general public as well as VIPS! Pictured: Lucien was working as student ambassador for two days and was able to meet Dean Kamen, the founder of FIRST together, with Darrell after the ceremonies. What an opportunity!! Ranked 8th in the World! Below: Team photo L to R: Lucien Gauthier, Beren Hollingsworth, Samantha Luu, Tobias Fischer, Phillip Hooper


Shout Out from Eastern High Patrick Stokes Enjoy a great concert and support the Eastern High School Athletic Field House project! Sunday, May 7th, beginning at 4:00 pm


Shout Out from Hawfields Middle Hali Pyles, Media Coordinator 7th grade students in Mrs. Brittner’s and Mr Hanks’ Social Studies classes had the opportunity to speak to Mr. Gus Mommers from NATO in Brussels, Belgium! Mr. Mommers spoke to students about the history and creation of NATO and how it’s changed since the events of 9/11 He also spoke about his daily roles within NATO and how cybersecurity is a big portion of his job.

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Students from Hawfields were joined by two classes of students in Kenai, Alaska and together were able to chat with Mr. Mommers and ask questions.

The company of Polycom who makes the camera the school uses for video conferences sent a film crew to film the event for a promotional video and also spent time interviewing students about their experience doing video conferences in the library!


Shout Out from Southern High Lynn Bare, Yearbook Advisor

Congratulations to the 2017 Southerner Staff! Their publisher, Walsworth Publishing Company, has put the 2017 Southerner in the annual Gallery of Excellence. The book was nominated by their Walsworth representative, Ms. Brooke Smith, based on the theme, cover and pages submitted in the first deadline. It was then voted on by the company managers. The Gallery of Excellence features superior examples of coverage, design, photography and copy. The Gallery is also used as examples in Walsworth publications and workshops across the country.

The 2017 Southerner Staff includes Anderson O'Neal, Editor-in-Chief, McNeil Johnston, Photography Editor, Casandra Berens, Social Media Coordinator, Avery Lloyd, Business Manager, Abby Ballard, Lauren Bartley, Kristyn Davis, Carli Patterson, Gillian Pena, Caitlin Tolley and Mikayla Venable.


Shout Out from Western High Samantha Seligman, School Counselor Western Alamance High School utilized our half day to have Alamance Community College admissions counselors come out to meet with graduating seniors. During their time on campus the ACC counselors met with 25 students to help them select a program of study, register for freshman classes as well as set up placement testing. We are very grateful for ACC for taking time out to help our graduating seniors get set up for their next step in higher education. They are now well on their way! Students pictured are Angelica Ashworth, Shaun Sampson, Josh Mack, Bryce Jenkins, and Kenzie Kenyon.


Shout Out for ABSS Senior Athletes George Robinson, Athletic Director On April 25th, we had 6 student-athletes receive scholarships of$1500.00 individually to be used for college tuition from the Corrigan-Faircloth Chapter of the National Football Foundation! The banquet was held at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. The honorees are pictured L to R: Western Alamance - Coy Goss Graham - Josh Currie Southern - Michael Wells Cummings - Torey Cash Williams - El Ra King Eastern Alamance - Garner Fleming


Shout Out from Highland Elementary Holly Wroblewski, Principal The Olympic athlete oath states, "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." Highland Elementary School celebrated our Special Olympics Athletes all week through a Spirit Week for all students and a daily coin collection competition among the grade levels! Students wore super hero shirts and sports team shirts and ended the week wearing yellow to honor the color of the 2017 Special Olympics. The school held a pep-rally on Monday to kick off the exciting week, and the students were cheered by the entire school as they loaded the buses to head to the event on Friday!

Students from Highland Elementary School participated in today's Special Olympics event at Elon University. All student athletes were accompanied by fifth grade students who are a part of the Best Buddies program. This program matches special needs students with responsible fifth graders who partner with them throughout the year in various activities. The Best Buddies students are chosen through an application process.

Highland also has an EC Committee comprised of various staff members who have worked to make this week a success! Highland students raised over $1,145.23 in coins that will be donated to Special Olympics of Alamance County. School Principal Holly Wroblewski would like to especially thank the EC Committee and all of the staff for their efforts in supporting and highlighting our student athletes! The attached photo shows some of the activities of the week at Highland!


Shout Out from Southern Middle Tracy Schledorn, School Counselor

On Wednesday, April 19th, Southern Alamance Middle School hosted our first-ever "Future Leaders Day” as part of our Career and College Ready school counseling program. During the event, all of our 6th grade students participated in mock interviews. Students prepared for this event months in advance by exploring their own interests, skills, and values through creating their résumés. They also spent hours learning about and practicing professional interview skills.

Community leaders served as interviewers. They were thorough yet incredibly thoughtful and compassionate in their interviews and their evaluations of the students' performance. I am amazed at the contribution of time, effort, and expertise from our community. The students were nervous but prepared and wowed us all! Students were beaming as they read their evaluations and wrote thank you notes.

Thank you to all the staff and volunteers that assisted in making it such a success! And to Ms. Cooley's Focus class for the inspiring artwork created for the event! It was certainly a meaningful experience for our students that provided them with important skills for their future endeavors.


Shout Out from E M Yoder Elementary Beth Courtney, Roberta Powell & Barbara Hestetune

The classes in E.M. Yoder's Autism Program celebrated their participation in the Voices Together program with a concert at Williams High School! It was fabulous!

Shout Out from ABAEOP Lori Bryan

On April 26, ABAEOP (Alamance-Burlington Association of Education Office Professionals) held a professional development opportunity for office personnel across our district.

Thank you to Dr. Harrison who greeted and thanked us for our dedication to serving children-appropriately, it was Administrative Professionals Day!


Shout Out from A O Elementary Stefany Johnson, Second Grade On Friday, April 21st, AO's second graders held their annual Lemonade Stand. After completing our economics unit, we applied what we had learned to raise money to donate to charity. We had to make sure we made enough lemonade for the entire school (supply and demand). We divided up the work so everyone had a chance to participate (division of labor). We, the producers, had to make sure the rest of

the school, the consumers, knew about the stand, so we made posters that were hung all over school. During the sale, everyone had a specific job to do, and, at the end of the day, we had raised $452.50! We are donating the money to heifer.org so families around the world can have a better life. Big shout-out to second grade parents for donating cups, lemonade mix, and gallons of water! Also, another big shout-out and thanks to all of AO for supporting our second graders!

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Shout Out from Pleasant Grove Elementary Grace Cole, Media & Technology On Friday, April 21st, our fifth grade students of Pleasant Grove Elementary reached the culmination of their DARE program. Principal Sharon Lamberth said, "The DARE Graduation ceremony on Friday was very, very nice! The DARE T-shirts were a big hit as was Sheriff Terry Johnson's presentation. Deputy

Kathy Edmonds did a great job as the DARE instructor for 10 weeks. I studied the looks on the faces of our 5th graders and was so impressed with their level of attentiveness. Also, Connor Bullis and Ayola Haith wrote and delivered excellent essays. Thanks to Ms. Boyd and Mrs. Coltrane for coordinating the event and for working so hard with students on their essays. All in all, a great event!"

Elizabeth, Jason, and Connor all shared that Sheriff Terry Johnson stated that they are now the leaders of the future. It is up to them to decide what the best choice is for their lives. And, that they can call him day or night if they are unsure what the best decision would be.


Thank you to everyone who

supports DARE and our students!

Shout Out from Southern High Elizabeth Bruch, Media

Here’s a big Southern Shout Out to retired Patriot teacher and poet, Jack Tomkovick, for coming by Southern Alamance High School for a reading in the media center 4/27!

Pictured above: Mr. Tomkovick with student and faculty audience

Pictured at left: Young poet Ron Dumas with Mr. Tomkovick


Shout Out from E M Yoder Elementary Roberta Powell and Barbara Hestetune Third grade Eagles at E M Yoder are SOARING Into EOGs with the help of their teachers and parents. Staff members hosted a fun and interactive session that provided parents with useful information regarding the upcoming EOG testing.

The discussion focused on what they can do to help their child build confidence and reduce stress as they prepare for testing. Parents were given a general overview of testing as well as strategies to help their child at home. Students attending were able to work on their upcoming Heroes Wax Museum project in

addition to activities designed to build their reading and math skills. Thank you to Ms. Laura Williams, Ms. Alex Shierant and Ms. Michelle French for organizing and hosting this important event!


Shout Out from Southern Middle Tracy Schledorn, School Counselor Friday, April 21st, our soon-to-be 6th graders from AW, BEJ, Highland, Sylvan, and EM Holt Elementary Schools visited Southern Middle. Principal Ward and our College Club scholars presented information ranging from SMS clubs to agendas.

These student ambassadors also led tours of the school for all the 5th graders and introduced them to some of our staff.

Thanks to SMS College Club for showing our rising 6th grade class the ropes! We’re so excited to welcome the class of 2024 to SMS! Go Tigers!


Shout Out from Graham High Morgan Shearon, Theatre Arts GHS presents Hairspray Jr. April 27, 28, 29 at 7pm and 30th at 3pm in the GHS auditorium. Tickets are $5 for all students and $10 for all other patrons. ABSS employees attend for FREE with your badge! Concessions will be available in the lobby before the show and during intermission. There will be a 15 minute intermission. We hope to see you all there! The cast includes students from North Graham, South Graham, Graham Middle and GHS and ABSS staff members!

Shout Out from Woodlawn Middle Suzanne Simpson, Assistant Principal

Last weekend, our Woodlawn Middle School Varsity Science Olympiad team traveled to NC State University to compete against the top 50 teams in the state tournament. The team finished with top 10 places in 8 different events! We ended up placing 11th overall. We are so proud of our students and coaches! We would also like to thank all of the people who supported us along the way, especially our parents and the Woodlawn staff.

Duct Tape Challenge 3rd place Jackson Stokes and Ben Walton Scrambler 4th place Landon Perry and Drew Logan Crimebusters 9th place Shane LaRue and Owen Sawyer Road Scholar 6th place Shane LaRue and Owen Sawyer Dynamic Planet 3rd place Paarth Tara and Ethan Brouwer Meteorology 5th place Paarth Tara and Josie Gonzalez Ecology 7th place Paarth Tara and Thomas Turner Microbe Mission 8th place Paarth Tara and Ethan Brouwer


Shout Out from Smith Elementary Lindy Isley, Teacher & Librarian

Global Gone Great! The Seabees explored their world this week with events set up by their wonderful PTO parents. On Wednesday they had guest speakers presenting to each grade level in their area of study. The PreK students had Spanish speaking visitors from Western High School visit their classroom. The Kindergarten classes learned about the Great Barrier Reef as their area of the world is Oceania. The first graders were treated to a taste of Indian culture. Brazil was the area of study for the second graders. A Smith parent is originally from Brazil and she is always willing to share artifacts and

information from that area. Third grade learned about

Nigerian culture as they are learning all about Africa this year.

A Smith grandmother and her granddaughter taught the 4th graders all about European clogging and even got the kids in on the adventure.

The fifth graders, who are studying North America, brought things right on home with a visit from Eric Henry from T.S. Designs. This is a North Carolina based t-shirt company which works on the idea of people, planet and profit.

The following day we had a global parade to start off our day. Students, staff and parents were invited to wear any type of global outfits they had representing other countries of the world. There were many colorful outfits.

We got to learn a little bit about the culture of our families that attend Smith School.


The Seabees are on their second year of going global. It’s a big world out there and we are bringing it home to Smith a little bit at a time!

Shout Out from Graham High Tracey Patterson, Media

Red Devil Leaders! The Graham High School Makers Club, led by Tracey Patterson and Jason Cheek, participated in their first ever Maker Faire in Burlington at Holly Hills Mall on Saturday, April 22nd. The GHS Makers Club is a new club this year and the students decided that the Burlington Maker Faire would be their culminating project. Students created mazes and obstacles courses to be used with our Sphero Sprk robots (which were generously donated to us by LabCorp), operated a green screen area and took photos of Maker Faire attendees which we have been sharing via email, demonstrated stop animation video

creation and experimenting as well as allowed attendees to try out the amazing game controller that one of our club students made with only cardboard, constructions paper and aluminum foil! The Maker students worked all day talking to the public and teaching them about just some of the amazing things we do at Graham High School! Fantastic job Maker Club!!! Way to demonstrate excellence! #RedDevilsInnovate #thinkRED #GrahamGreat


Red Devil Maker Club Students: Michelle Peneda, Thida Lorvan, Andrew Southiphonh, Jennifer Arce, Michael Hernandez, Thommy Naleudy, Mathew Bounvalai, Isaac Lopez Parra (not pictured) Danial Santamaria and Diana Ramos


Shout Out # 2 from Graham High Tracey Patterson, Media College and Career Ready! Graham High School held our first ever College/Career Mini Conference for juniors and seniors in the library this week with 22 student participants! This event was organized through collaboration between our amazing college advisor Veronica Trujillo, CTE Coordinator Kim Davis, and librarian Tracey Patterson. Students left the

conference with completed student resumes, dress for success skills, proper introductions etiquette, completed scholarship applications, college comparisons, prizes, career photos and more! We hope to expand this project next year to continue to encourage our students to be college and career focused! Way to display determination toward career readiness GHS juniors and seniors! #thinkRED #GrahamGreat #3Econf


Shout Out from Western High Christina Caltagirone, Theatre Arts

After an almost two-year break, the Western Alamance Theatre Department is back producing quality musical productions. The show in this year’s repertoire is “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” This exciting production takes place in 1920s New York. Join the cast of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” through their quest to live like the other half, and to find the true meaning of love. Don’t miss your opportunity to see this uplifting and comedic show, great for the entire family. Showtimes are 7 p.m. April 27-29, 2017, in the Pamela B. Mebane Auditorium at Western Alamance High School, Tickets are $7. Come join us for a great show!

Shout Out #2 from Western High Joe Miciotto, FFA Advisor

On Tuesday April 25th the Western Alamance FFA competed in the West Central Regional Ag Mechanics FFA Career Development Event and placed second. This event consisted of a problem solving test, general knowledge test, arc welding, soldering pipe and oxy-fuel cutting. With the placing the team qualifies to compete in the NC FFA State event this June. Team members consisted of Phillip Cole, Ty Eastwood, Graham Moore and Collin Swain (left to right).

Additionally Phillip Cole received recognition during the West Central Regional Rally this Thursday, April 27 for finishing 1st in the West Central Region for Truck Driving and 3rd in the West Central Region for tractor driving. These were both State FFA events and were held in Raleigh this past February. Congratulations, Warriors!

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