DAWSON ELEMENTARY

The Dog’s Ear January 2016

Striving for Excellence

UIL

Academic

Champs

Dawson Elementary has captured the

title of first place District Academic

champions for the third straight year.

They attribute their success to practice and

the support of their teachers who coach

them in various events such as spelling,

oral reading, math, and writing. Parents

also play an important role in student

success by helping them study for these

events at home and by helping them get

home from after school practices.

Contest winners this year are as follows:

Art for fourth grade, Marlee Parker, 5th

place. The team placed second and also

includes, Haley Wheat and Melanie

Martinez. The 5th grade team placed third

overall and includes Madison Davis,

Natalie Sykes, Tiffany Hall, Paris Sanchez,

and Elizabeth Benton. Madison Davis

place first in the contest and had a perfect

score. This is her second year to receive a

perfect score.

In chess puzzle for second grade Henlee

Brooks won 1st place, Emma-Jade Guerra

won 3rd, and Brant Boatright placed 6th.

Their team was first overall. Third grade

chess puzzle winners were Daniel Keele

2nd and Ana Harper 6th. Fourth graders

placing include Andrew Hopson, 1st and

Devon Brock 6th place. The team

also included Bryce Bode, and they

won 3rd place. The 5th grade team

took 3rd as well and includes Jase

Elkins, Brytan Petty, and Gabe

Hawthorne. Jace took 3 rd

individually.

In 5th grade Dictionary Skills,

Alexandria Kammerer won 2nd

place, and Jace Elkins, 4th. The team

including Paris Sanchez won 1st place.

The Listening Skills team made up of Cade

Onstott, Paris Sanchez, and Alexandria

Kammerer won 2nd place. Onstott took 2nd

and Sanchez placed 6th. The Maps,

Graphs, and Charts team won 2nd place.

Alex Kammerer took 1st, other team

members were Brook Martinez, and

Ashlyn Matthews. The Social Studies team

won 3rd overall and includes Kylie Rogers,

Paris Sanchez, 4th place, and Alex

Kammerer, 5th place.

The fourth grade music memory team

including Andrew Hopson, Tanner

Williams, and Haley Wheat won third

place team. In number sense, our 4th

grade team took first with every member

placing. Andrew Hopson, 1st , Colby

Springer 3rd, and Rosendo Jaramillo, 4th.

Fifth grader Alexandria Kammerer placed

4th in number sense.

In oral reading , 4th grader, Marcella

Bryan won 3rd place. Fifth grade oral

readers swept the top three places. Maggie

Crawford, 1st, Brooke Martinez, 2nd, and

Cade Onstott, 3rd. Third grade story teller

Andrew Hall won 2nd place and second

grader Henlee Brooks placed 6th in story

telling.

Places for ready writing were as follows,

third grade, 1st place, Tamia Valenzuela

and 5th place, Ana Harper. In fourth

grade, Colby Springer won 4th, and

Marcella Bryan placed 6th. All Dawson

spelling teams placed in this competition.

Third grade placed 3rd, including Breana

Cook, with Tamia Valenzuela winning 2nd,

and Ana Harper, 5th. In 4th grade Kassidy

Skonetski placed 2nd. The team won 3rd

and also includes Marcella Bryan, and

Rika Bryant. The 5th graders took 1st place

Important Dates to Remember

Fri. Jan. 15th—End of 3rd Six Weeks & 1st Semester Early Release @ 1:00 p.m.

Mon. Jan. 18th—No School.

Tues. Jan. 19th—Beginning of 2nd Semester

JANUARY

S M T W T F S

No

School No School 2

3 Back to

School 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 End of

Semester

and Early

Release

16

17

Student Holiday/

Staff workday

Beginning of

4th Six

Weeks 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Call before 2:00 p.m.!

If you are changing how your child is getting home in the afternoon, call before 2:00 p.m. Calls after 2:00 make it difficult to get messages to students. It makes it very difficult to get messages to students if you don’t call earlier. We have students that go to Athletics and Band at the High School

team with Cade Onstott, 6th place,

Madison Davis winning 1st place and

Tiffany Hall.

Many of these contests require

extra work outside of class. Students

are required to study classical music

and works of art, spelling lists that

include 800 words, or studying extra

math, social studies, or other

subjects. All of the students that

participate in these events go the

extra mile. There were six schools

that competed in the elementary

meet. Dawson Elementary was the

District meet winner, Hubbard

Elementary won second place, and

Cayuga Elementary won third.

6th Grade Junior High Results:

Listening:

5th Place— Sarah Greeness

3rd Place Team—Cadence McKinney,

Sarah Greeness, Alejandra Becerra

Oral Reading:

1st Place—Jessie Hodges

2nd Place—Cooper Williams

Math:

1st Place—Zane Monger

2nd Place Team— Hunter Boatright,

Tyler Case, Zane Monger

Social Studies:

3rd Place—Hunter Boatright

3rd Place Team— Zane Monger,

Hunter Boatright, Cadence McKinney

Music:

3rd Place Team— Zane Monger,

Hunter Boatright, Isaiah Johnson

Ready Writing:

5th Place—Alejandra Becerra

Impromptu:

3rd Place—Jessie Hodges

Number Sense:

3rd Place—Zane Monger

2nd Place Team—Dillon Hopson,

Sarah Greeness, Zane Monger

Spelling:

4th Place—Cadence McKinney

3rd Place Team—Alejandra

Becerra, Cadence McKinney,

Gracie Nemjo

Chess:

2nd Place—Zane Monger

6th Place—Hunter Boatright

2nd Place Team—Hunter Boatright,

Dillon Hopson, Zane Monger

Maps:

1st Place—Cooper Williams

4th Place—Jordan McAdams

1st Place Team—Jordan McAdams,

Cooper Williams, Dillon Hopson

Art:

5th Place—Cadence McKinney

3rd Place Team– Emma Onstott,

Cadence McKinney, Sarah Greeness,

Jessie Hodges