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Around Our Schools Shout Outs December 2013, Volume III

Turrentine Middle Melaine Rickard, STEM and Social Studies K-12 Program Specialist Katie Zimmerman's STEM class at Turrentine is hard at work putting STEM into practice! Her seventh grade students are using engineering practices and science content knowledge to create prosthetic arms that can pick up objects.

Students have been using PVC pipes, tubes, pipe cleaners,

straws, string, wood, and tape, among other things, to create their arms.


Check out the story in Monday’s Times-News:

http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/top-news/turrentine-

students-build-prosthetic-arms-1.250121?tc=cr

(photo at right, courtesy of Sam Roberts/Times-News)

The Associated Press picked up the Times-News story and

now you can find TMS on Google! Here’s a couple of

examples of national exposure on this story:

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Western High Carrie Moore, School Counselor

Seniors from the Career Management Class along with underclassmen in the College Ready Core of Western Alamance High School attended UNC Greensboro and Guilford College for tours and information sessions on December 5th, 2013. Despite the gloomy weather, the students had a great time and heard about the college experience from their student tour guides. The students asked great questions about admissions requirements, financial aid and how to choose the right college.

We even ran into a few former Western Alamance students on campus at UNCG!

We are thankful to Robyn Hadley and the "What's After High School?" program for helping to make this trip possible!


North Graham Elementary Joy Rust, Music Instructor Kindergarten students from North Graham delighted residents at the Alamance House by sharing 12 songs from our music curriculum, including Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and patriotic songs. The residents were so welcoming, the students so kind and loving. Residents joined with the students to sing some of the favorites of the season! We were especially excited to serenade the mother of kindergarten teacher Jane Fogleman. This event made the season special for us; we look forward to continuing this relationship with our friends at Alamance House!


Congratulations to Drs. Maness and Schuhler!

Friday the 13th proved to be a very lucky day for Jean Maness and Rhonda

Schuhler! Both officially graduated with their doctorate degrees from UNCG.

Congratulations to the two new

doctors in the house!

North Graham Elementary Nancy Cothren, Principal

North Graham second grader Zoey Buckmaster was meteorologist Van Denton’s Weather Kid on WGHP Fox 8 for Thursday, December 19th! Zoey is a student in Mrs. Fields’ class.


South Graham Elementary Times-News

Check out the photo in Tuesday’s Times-News about the South Graham Elementary Fifth Grade State Float Parade. Photo courtesy of Sam Roberts/Times-News


North Graham Elementary Joy Rust, Music Director The NGE Dynamites performed at Elon Academy's Christmas celebration on Saturday, December 14. The event was held on Elon Community Church, and included a delicious catered luncheon for 200 people prior to our performance. We thoroughly enjoyed entertaining the scholars and staff of Elon Academy as well as their families!

NGE students and staff ended 2013 with a schoolwide celebration on their last day of school, Tuesday, December 17. Kindergarten students sang their December program for the school, followed by students in Mrs. Moyers' first grade delighting everyone with their entertaining rendition of "The Gingerbread Man." Third graders looked sharp in their Santa hats as they crooned to "Here Comes Santa Claus" in Elvis style. The staff entertained the students with a rousing rendition of "The 12 Days of Christmas!" The Dynamites shared an African drumming song, and then ended with "North Pole Rock and Roll" with the entire school joining in. To finish the schoolwide festivities each of the 4 Houses of NGE met for 30 minutes of team building. It was a great way to close out 2013! Happy New Year, everyone!


pictured at right: Mrs. Moyers’ first graders in “The Gingerbread Man”

Pictured at left: the entire NGE staff performing “The Twelve Days of Christmas”


NGE third graders performing for their school


Third Grade Read to Achieve Lisa Thompson Shout out to ABSS Third Grade Teachers, Principals, Academic Coaches and others who participated in the Dec 9th and 16th Read to Achieve Sessions! Steve Achey and Michele Woodson shared logistics of the Read to Achieve Legislation and portfolio implementation that will begin in January for third grade students. Participants also worked with the portfolio standards, experienced a sample portfolio assessment, and had time to discuss their implementation plan with their colleagues. It is a district-wide team effort!


‘Twas the Week Before Christmas Danielle Woodall, Lead School Social Worker

‘Twas the Week before Christmas “School Social Work Style”

‘Twas the week before Christmas

And all through the halls School Social Workers were busy

With CFTs and phone calls

Christmas Cheer was sending lists Of families to adopt

Toys for Tots referrals were made As well as Shop with a Cop

When all of a sudden

The emails were a flutter The sheer number of new messages

Made us all shutter

There was one about McKinney-Vento And attendance too

Training on bullying, observations, And committee meetings, whoo hoo!

But because we are School Social Workers

And we love what we do Every task was eventually completed Without a bah humbug or boo hoo

Now January will come too soon And back to work we all will go

So enjoy this time with your loved ones Merry Christmas and Ho Ho Ho!!

Written by:

Seanee Alexander, MSW, LCSW School Social Worker

Child & Family Team Leader Broadview Middle School


District Science Fair Winners Melaine Rickard, Program Specialist K-12 Social Studies & STEM Elementary Winners

(yellow highlighted projects will go on to compete at the Region 5 Science Fair at Forsyth Technical Community College on Saturday, February

22)

Grand Prize Pleasant Grove Are There Bugs Under Your Seat? Cody McMillan

1st Smith Bouncing Around Grant Hauk and Evan Breedlove

2nd Sylvan Cleaning Oil from Bird Kaleigh Booker

3rd Sylvan Do Distractions Affect Driving Video Game Scores? Dylan Moorefield

Honorable Mention

Altamahaw Ossipee What a Bess Bug Knows Best Will Geiger

South Mebane Running with Speed and Beats Kaden Gibbs

Garrett Static Electricity Michael Giovinazzo

t Altamahaw Ossipee Food Power Sadler Gwynn

Highland Ping Pong Launch Garrett Howard

Alexander Wilson Burning Down the House Elsa Hall

Grove Park Slippity Slick Oil Dara Roseboro

South Mebane Do Mints Have a Cooling Effect Emma Royal

Altamahaw Ossipee Who Has the Best Hidden Secret Stella Snyder and Layton Turner

Middle School Winners

Biological Category- Group A (animal science, medicine, health and microbiology) Grand Prize

Woodlawn Middle What’s on Those Shopping Carts

Mikayla Faulkner, Courtney Marine, Asalyn Spencer

1st Western Middle That’s Fishy Patrick Roof

Biological Category- Group B (cellular plants, molecular biology, biochemistry, behavioral and social sciences) Grand Prize Turrentine Middle What Conditions Affect Yawning Anna Altman, Mason Connolly

Chemistry Category Grand Prize Southern Middle

Hot or Cold: Endothermic and Exothermic Results from Dissolving Salts Thomas Guthrie

Earth/Environmental Category Grand Prize Western Middle Global Warming in a Jar Cole Anderson


Physical Category Grand Prize Hawfields Middle The Need for Speed Amren Strigo

1st (tie)

Hawfields middle Parachute Thickness and the Rate of Descent Mason McCracken

1st (tie)

Western Middle

Splat! A Study in Forensics Meghna Mahadevan

Engineering and Technology Category Grand Prize Hawfields Middle Stay Cool John Mayle, Jac Patterson

1st Place Turrentine Middle Keeping the Rain Out Natalie Compton, Riley Fennelle

High School Winners

Biological Category- Group A (animal science, medicine, health and microbiology) Grand Prize Eastern High Ring, Ring, RIP Hunter Everett

1st Eastern High Death by Sugar Natasha Core

2nd

Eastern High Beat the Heat Caeli Blocker

Biological Category- Group B (cellular plants, molecular biology, biochemistry, behavioral and social sciences)

Grand Prize Cummings High CHS: Retained or Drained Irla Sosa, Charity Roberts, Irma Garcia

1st Eastern High How Reliable is Your Eyewitness Kathy Horner

2nd

Cummings High Ant Direction Anthony Barrera, Eliel Marin, Noel Gaspar Ortiz

3rd

Graham High The Effect of Sugar on Yeast Sandra Candelario

Chemistry Category Grand Prize Graham High Sweet Thermal Chaos Jansen Haneline

1st Eastern High Which Brand Would You Trust With Your Life Jakub Sciora

2nd

Graham High Changing Polymer Properties Ana McKenzie, Kayla Jackson

Earth/Environmental Category Grand Prize Eastern High Plankton Scrubbers Josh Casey

1st Eastern High Does Your Gas Stink? Courtney Parsons

2nd

Eastern High A Worm’s Home Syndall Sims

3rd Eastern High Germination of Plants Austin T. Smith

Hon Mention Graham High Solar Heater Joe Harnett, Jorge Rivas


Physical Category Grand Prize Eastern High The Different Effects of Shotgun Patterns Blake Hartung

1st Eastern High Magnus Effect Eric Trollinger

2nd

Eastern High Shock Absorption Ally Shea Loy

Engineering and Technology Category

Grand Prize Western High Fuel Efficient Passive Flow Control for Class 8 Tractor Trailers Megan Miller

1st Eastern High Which HAM Radio Antenna Has the Best Reception? Garner Fleming

In addition, judges from the Environmental Protection Agency presented 2 EPA awards:

Elementary: Cody McMillan

High School : Josh Casey

Congratulations to all of our scientists! Good luck at regionals! Here are photos of our Grand Prize winners:

At left: Cody McMillan,

Pleasant Grove

Elementary

At right: Jansen Haneline,

Graham High


at left: Megan

Miller, WAHS

at right: Blake

Hartung, EAHS

at left: Hunter

Everett, EAHS

at right: Amren

Strigo, HAMS


at left: Josh

Casey, EAHS

at right: Jac

Patterson and

John Mayle,

HAMS

at left: Cole

Anderson, WAMS

at right: Thomas

Guthrie, SAMS


at left: WOMS team of Mikayla Faulkner, Asalyn Spencer and Courtney Marine at right: Anna Altman, Mason Connolly from TMS

not pictured: CHS team of

Irla Sosa, Charity Roberts,

and Irma Garcia


Heather Stephan, Western Middle Jodi Hofberg, Program Specialist for Secondary Math & Science Heather Stephan, 7th grade math teacher at Western Middle, was featured in the December issue of the “Gates Master Teacher Project” Newsletter! In the “premiere” she reflects on her moments in the classroom in regards to using formative assessments and on the power of discourse and questioning. The Better Lesson website goes live on January 15th! The website is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: http://www.blnext.com/public/betterlessonnext?from=landing

Congratulations Mrs. Stephan!

South Mebane Elementary Rebecca Royal, Principal and Tammy Yeatts, Assistant Principal For the past 22 years, Mrs. Shirley King has served as a custodian at South Mebane Elementary School. During these years, Mrs. Shirley has not only ensured the cleanliness of the building, but she has also established and maintained relationships with the staff and students. She has exemplified love and laughter at South Mebane. The staff and students wish her well in her retirement and hope that she will be able to relax and enjoy time with her new grandbaby! Thanks, Mrs. Shirley, for a job well done!

Mrs. Jane Love has served South Mebane for the past 34 years as the secretary and financial officer. These titles do not begin to describe all of the things Mrs. Love does each day to serve the staff, students, and parents of South Mebane. It is her smiling face and joyful spirit that defines the love in South Mebane’s motto Love, Laughter, and Learning. As Mrs. Love retires, she is welcoming her first grandbaby, Turner Jeremiah, and plans to spend lots of time snuggling with him. Her family at South Mebane wishes her much love and happiness as she begins this new journey in her life.


AO Elementary Laura Bivins, Fourth Grade Teacher

This year my class (Mrs. Laura Bivins' 4th grade) and Mr. Godwin's 4th grade class worked to create angel necklaces, bracelets, and chocolate covered pretzels. We sold them for a $1.00 donation on 12/11, 12/12, and 12/13. Each day the students set up a selling station at three locations. A few of our fifth graders who participated last year were able to come and mentor the students at each station! Each day we sold out of our products. We made a total of $552 and took the money to buy toys for Christmas Cheer of Alamance County. A representative of the organization came by to collect the toys and talk with the students about the need in our county.

In preparation for this project, the students learned about economics in North Carolina. We taught them how to advertise, market, and package their products. It was a great learning experience for all! In the past four years we have raised over $2,500 for this organization!


Newlin Elementary January Bowles, Academic Coach

Students at Harvey Newlin Elementary School participated in the annual school-wide spelling bee on December 3, 2013. Fourth and fifth grade students from 9 classrooms competed against each other for about an hour before a school champion was declared. 5th grade student,

Mekiah Cousin, from Mrs. Thomas’ classroom was identified as the school champion in the 9th round! Congratulations to Mekiah Cousin and her 5th grade

teachers! Keep up the good work! We’re so proud of you!


AO Elementary Misty Brown, C.O.

Students in Ms. Turner’s class held a gift exchange on pajama day. Each child brought a gift for someone of the same gender...girls brought girl gifts, boys brought boys. Ms. Turner read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and every time she read "the" (a word wall word) the children passed the gifts to the left. At the end of the book they were able to open the present they had in their hands. The classroom elf on the shelf had also sprinkled glitter everywhere to help it be more magical for the children! Parents brought in snacks for the children to eat before the gift exchange.

Eastern High Steve Smith, CTE

Congratulations to Lauren Kirby, Eastern Eagle sophomore! Lauren entered the 8th annual North Carolina Hop on the BUS! High School Business Plan Competition sponsored by the North Carolina Council for Economic Education, NCDPI, North Carolina REAL Enterprise and the North Carolina Rural Center. She earned second place in the state!


Lauren’s business model was titled Kirby’s Country Ice Cream. She had to submit a full business plan that was judged by small business experts across the state. The top 10 semi-finalists were invited to create and submit a video presentation of their business plans to be judged by another panel of judges. Scores from the written business plan and the video presentation were combined to select the top 3 teams. Lauren will be honored for her accomplishment at the North Carolina Council for Economic Education award ceremony in May. Congratulations Lauren!

Williams High Rhonda Farmer, Finance Academy Director

Three students from WWHS earned third place in the 8th annual North Carolina Hop on the BUS! High School Business Plan Competition! The 3 developed a business model called WebFlex. We are looking forward to the state awards ceremony in May! Congratulations to our Bulldogs! Left to Right: Griffin Dupree, Nathan Bodenhiemer, Promise Nwoko

Shout It Out! ABSS had 2 of the 3 top winning teams in

North Carolina!


Eastern High CTE Robin Bowers The Carpentry and Electrical students at Eastern High have completed a collaborative project to clean up campus led by their teachers, John Stewart and Steve Scarlett! Together, students created trash can covers to beautify the EHS campus. The Electrical students were able to practice their wire bending skills and Carpentry students built the covers. Great job!

Graham High Dustin Austin, Graduation Coach

Each year, our GHS Student Services Department looks to help students in need during the holiday season. Through the help of several staff members, they were able to provide gifts for four families. LeAnn Wooten, the EC Department Chair, was able to get her church involved, donating $100 towards our school’s Holiday Cheer efforts! Through the help of Melissa Matthews, a member of the History department and SGA Advisor, the Student Services Department received hygiene products to distribute between all four families on behalf of Student Council! Mrs. Peeden, the school’s dance teacher, donated clothing, as well as other items from socks and gloves, to fragrances for both men and women.


With a shortened time to get things done this year, it truly was a successful effort for all those involved. The gifts looked great and all of the families were truly appreciative for the assistance. Go Red Devils for supporting GHS Holiday Cheer!

Southern High Lesli Heffner, SHS Data Manager

The Southern High carpentry students under the direction of Mr. Faulkner have been busy at work in Santa’s Workshop building 2 playhouses for good little children! The mini-houses will be completed just in time for Christmas delivery. Two little girls are going to be thrilled to open the hot pink front door on their very own pint-sized houses on Christmas morning!


Southern High’s Johnathan Lloyd Caroline Bolton, Environmental/Safety Manager

This article was put on goduke.com this week. This new DUKE student and football player is

from Southern Alamance!

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209342264&DB_OEM_ID=4200

School Social Workers Say Thank You! Danielle Woodall, Lead School Social Worker Thank you to Betty Johnson at Electra Sun Tanning Salon for donating 80 care packages to give to ABSS students! The boxes were filled with needed items including lotion, gloves, scarves, toothpaste, hair brushes, etc which were donations from her customers. The School Social Workers appreciate your generosity!

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209342264&DB_OEM_ID=4200


Broadview Middle Brie Butler, Principal

Attitude of Gratitude

Teaching students how to serve is key in character development. Each morning Ms. Sylvestre (guidance counselor), Mr. King (guidance counselor) and Mrs. Constable (art teacher) facilitate service-learning groups! These students help beautify the campus, create inspirational images that are displayed throughout the building and even held a canned food drive.

BMS student brought in OVER 1000 food items! Homerooms competed and the overall winners both came from 6th grade.

Congratulations to Mr. Owens and Mrs. Kirkham’s homerooms. But the biggest reward goes to these student organizers who are learning that a little service makes the world a little brighter! The Allied Churches of Alamance County received the donated goods from the Bobcats this week.


Instructional Excellence at BMS

There have been some incredible instructional strategies happening in Bobcat Country. Academic Coach Michele Cochran was able to capture some literacy learning in action this week!

Featured to the left, 6th grade All-Stars in Mrs. Stallings science class were color coding relevant text all while singing about science to Bruno Mars!

Pictured at right is just one example of how text frames have taken the focus in 7th grade science classrooms!

Teachers across the grade level have taken the lead and defined their role in teaching students this important element in analyzing non-fiction text!


International Competition at BMS

Congratulations 8th grader, Mayra Barillas! Mayra created a poster that represented peace. The poster was entered into the Lion’s Club competition. Mayra won the local competition. Her poster moved on and won the regional competition.

This week, Mayra and BMS learned that Mayra’s poster won the state level competition and is moving on to complete internationally!

Mayra says, “The theme was Our World, Our Future and I wanted to show hope.” Mayra describes her poster as the earth with hands holding it and dove.

Mrs. Constable is Mayra’s art teacher and has helped facilitate Mayra’s talent in 8th grade Advanced Art.

Congratulations Mayra!


Smith Elementary Lindy Isley, Teacher/Librarian

For the last few weeks the Kindergarten classes at Smith Elementary spent some time learning about Christmas celebrations all around the world.

Each teacher was responsible for telling the classes about a country of their choice.

Technology teacher, Allison Faircloth, followed up these activities by having the Kindergarten children create powerpoints, with the help of the second graders, about a country they researched. I treated the K’s to a visit from Sinterklaas (Holland’s version of Santa Claus).

The children were left clues written in poetry all over the library. The final clue resulted in a chocolate treat. Why poems? That’s what Sinterklaas leaves when he visits the children. Needless to say, they were very excited that he had been there!


Cummings High Cynthia Bradshaw & Chas Criss

Students in the Cavaliers’ Personal Finance and Business Finance classes were successful in completing Everfi, a financial literacy program consisting of 10 modules to complete. Our students have proven that they are financially literate. We are proud of them!

E. M. Holt Elementary Jenna Clark, First Grade Shout out to the entire first grade at EM Holt for collecting close to 500 cans in just 5 days!!! Students did a food drive this week to stock the shelves for our backpack program. Each day, students could see their progress on the bar graph outside of the cafeteria. Mrs. Farlow's class brought in the most with close to 175 cans! One of her students, Bradley Brown, collected money and purchased over 115 cans by himself!!! Great Job everyone!!!


Western High Beth Wertz, Art Teacher Congratulations to CT Harris! His original design for a car wrap for The Decal Source was a unanimous selection to win their design contest! Take a look at the photos showing CT’s creativity! President Tony Johnson and sales manager David Oakley from TDS surprised CT when he got off the bus at WAHS this morning—they had the car waiting for him.

As part of the award, CT

earned $1,000 for the art program at WAHS and free pizza for his classmates! The car is a marketing promotion for the company, so when you see it around town, honk!


Grove Park Elementary Shadonna Gunn, Principal Ms. AnnGayle Thomas' 4th grade class has been learning about North Carolina. The students created tree decorations that display their learning! What a great way to integrate social studies and the holiday season. All 100 counties on the red, white, and blue chain and 30 symbols!

Andrews Elementary Staff Spreading Holiday Cheer Andrews Elementary celebrated the day before winter break as Pajama Day, and staff members joined the fun. Secretary Lisa McCracken stopped by while conducting business at central office in her footie pajamas.


Eastlawn Elementary Tameka Cloud, Assistant Principal Before our students left for Winter Break, Eastlawn Elementary School’s administrators, support staff members, specialists and classroom teachers performed various reader’s theaters such as: Santa and the Three Bears, Cowpoke Christmas, and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.

We engaged the students by asking them to make predictions prior to the plays and use textual evidence to support their answers after the plays were complete.

This has become a tradition that our students and staff look forward to each year!


Ray Street Academy Darrell Thomas, Principal

For the months of October and November the Ray Street Executive Club set a goal to collect 500 pounds of canned foods to donate to the community.

These young men promoted the canned food drive throughout the school as well as the Graham Police Department, they collected cans that were donated each morning before class, and delivered the food to Allied Churches. They ultimately exceeded their goal, receiving 600 pounds of canned food from students, school staff, ABSS central office staff, and the Graham Police Department!

The Executive Club is dedicated to community service, personal growth, and providing a positive image for the Ray Street Academy. The Ray Street Executive Club would like to thank those that donated canned food, money, time and other resources in their effort to make a positive impact on the community. The Ray Street Executive Club members are RJ Lloyd, Chris Thompson, Feneil Richmond, Chris Bradley and Bailey Bunting. The Executive Club is facilitated on campus by Officer Adam Nicholson and Tyler Kelly.


On December 20, 2013, the Ray Street Key Club assisted the Graham Police Department in stuffing stockings for the community.

The students set up an efficient assembly line to stuff holiday stockings with fruit, socks, shampoo, and other items for needing people in the community. They assisted the Graham Police Department in loading these stockings that will be given out this Christmas season.

The Ray Street Key Club members are Maria Lopez, Daniel Jessup, Madison Bunting, Feneil Richmond, Chris Thompson, Bailey Bunting, Chris Bradley and RJ Lloyd. Staff facilitators are Jeremy Wilson and Tyler Kelly.


Pleasant Grove Elementary Grace Cole, Technology Teacher

Students at Pleasant Grove sold gift cards to Texas Roadhouse. The top selling student received a variety of prizes, including the ability to eat for free at the restaurant for the next year. Since a certain amount was raised, the staff will receive a catered meal, and the top-selling class got to go to Texas Roadhouse for lunch! This was a great opportunity for the first-grade class. Thanks bunches, Texas Roadhouse!


Representing Pleasant Grove Elementary at the District Spelling Bee will be 5th-grader Skylar Childress. The runner-up is 4th-grader Carmen Wilson. These students took the top awards at the school spelling bee.

All of our class winners worked diligently and did their best spelling their words. What a great bunch of kids!


Happy Holidays from Chef Thorpe’s new tv pilot premiere for the Cooking Channel Dr. Thorpe was dressed to impress, just waiting for his gloves to begin serving food at central office in his complimentary apron and hairnet from the CN Department. Marie Chavis from HR was the only one allowed to hold a sharp instrument. No one was harmed in the filming of the first (and last) tv culinary special.

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