School Snippers - December 5, 2014
Published December 5, 2014
The information below is provided by each school. Schools are listed in alphabetical order according to grade level.
Elementary Schools
Allendale Elementary
Allendale’s third grade enjoyed seeing James and the Giant Peach at the Nashville Children’s Theater recently. They especially loved the school dress-up days and bringing in canned goods for The Well. They are looking forward to using nature themes to practice their literacy skills of “summarizing,” “main idea” and “details.” In math, students will graph their names and determine the area and perimeter.
Bethesda Elementary
Bethesda Elementary Kindergarten Teacher Heather Adams recently read The Gingerbread Man to her class.
College Grove Elementary
College Grove second graders will be presenting a musical performance of The Nutcracker Suite on December 11 at 6 p.m.
Clovercroft Elementary
Clovercroft Elementary will be hosting Pastries with Parents on December 9-11. Students with last names that begin with A-H will attend on Tuesday, December 9, I-Q will attend on Wednesday, December 10 and R-Z will attend on Thursday, December 11. Additionally on Tuesday, December 9, the Clovercroft Colt Chorale will perform their Winter Concert at 6 p.m. Clovercroft will also have the 3rd Annual International Day on Thursday, December 18, where students will learn about cultures that are represented at Clovercroft.
Crockett Elementary
Crockett Elementary has had two students finish Type to Learn this year. Ryan Jordan, a fifth grade student in Shannon Hargraves’ class, was the first to complete Type to Learn over the Thanksgiving Break. Ana Antic, a fifth grade student in Wendy Comer’s class, was the second student to complete Type to Learn. In academic news, first grade is learning about long ago and the present and studying solids and liquids. Second grade is working on regrouping in math and space in science. Fourth grade is working on distance, speed and time through the use of hot wheels. In other news, The Giving Tree for children at the Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet School is up in the Crockett lobby. Children can be adopted by individual families or classrooms can go in together and adopt several children. This year, Crockett will be sponsoring 104 children.
Edmondson Elementary
At Edmondson Elementary, third graders are learning all about animals: their characteristics, habitats, adaptations and more. This week, the students observed crayfish and beetles in the science lab. The students also completed a research project and are publishing nonfiction animals books in writers workshop.
Fairview Elementary
It’s time to skate at Fairview Elementary! For the next few weeks, students will get to work on their balance, coordination and focus while they have a blast skating! They can’t wait to see how much they have improved from the previous year and maybe learn some new tricks. Third graders at Fairview Elementary are reading maniacs! They have bene charting their minutes read for each month and have totaled up 41,000 minutes for the month of November. Wow!
Grassland Elementary
An Evening for the Arts featuring the GES Art Extravaganza, second grade musical program, and the GES Chorus will be held Thursday, December 11. The Art Extravaganza will be open from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Each student’s art will be on display and available for purchase. The second grade’s musical “December Nights and Lights and Grassland” will be held in the gym from 6:30-7 p.m. Also featured is our own GES Chorus under the direction of Christy Summey.
Heritage Elementary
Heritage Elementary has the wonderful privilege of having Heritage Helpers come to the school weekly to help students and teachers. Heritage Helpers are eighth grade students from Heritage Middle School. The students work closely in small groups with students of all grades. Heritage Elementary is so thankful to have their help.
Kenrose Elementary
Kenrose Elementary School fourth graders are blending paint and oil pastels to create a Banyan tree. The Banyan tree is the national tree of India.
Oak View Elementary
Oak View will host the Scholastic Book Fair December 4-9 in the library. All students, parents and visitors are encouraged to visit the “Kingdom of Reading!” Shopping hours are each day during the school day as well as December 4 from 4-6 p.m. and December 6 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Please visit us and shop all of the wonderful books at this year’s Scholastic Book Fair. Another exciting event this week is the start of Oak View basketball! The Oak View basketball league is a great way for students and parents to get involved as players, cheerleaders, coaches and board members. The first games start this Saturday and run through February. It’s a great time for the Oak View community!
Scales Elementary
Scales Elementary School will host its Holiday Choir Concert Thursday, December 11 at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Sunset Elementary
On December 11, the fourth and fifth grade students will perform holiday favorites on tone chimes and English hand bells. They will also sing songs of the season. This program will definitely get you in the Holiday spirit! Please join the fourth grade students at 8:45 a.m. in the gym. The fifth grade students will perform on the English hand bells at 11:05 a.m. On December 12, the kindergarten and first grade classes will entertain friends and family with songs of the season. The kindergarten will perform at 9:35 a.m., and first grade will perform at 1:30 p.m.
Walnut Grove Elementary
Walnut Grove’s fifth graders have been working hard and becoming more independent and focused on academics this year. This week in language arts, they are concentrating on reading short stories and poems. Students are learning to analyze characters, plot and settings, as well as to recognize the author’s purpose for writing. Writing instruction goes hand-in-hand with reading, science and social studies. Students are learning how to respond to various text using graphic organizers to help them write detailed essays. Fifth graders are also building their math skills in fractions while adding and subtracting and solving word problems.
Westwood Elementary
Kindergarten students have just completed a project about family traditions and customs. Each student interviewed someone in their family to find out what traditions and customs they have. They are presenting them in class. Second graders at Westwood are also learning about traditions and heritages of our families and members in our community. First graders are learning to identify the penny, nickel, dime, quarter and half dollars as well as the values of each coin.
Winstead Elementary
Winstead kindergartners are making fantastic progress writing complete sentences about different topics! They are working hard to apply what they have learned about letter sounds and vowels to sound out words. Students have also been learning about different holiday traditions. This week they will begin creating a book about their own family traditions.
Middle Schools
Brentwood Middle
On December 12, the sixth grade teams of Enterprise and Discovery will be tie-dying shirts in preparation for their Tie-Die Palooza. They will wear the tie-dyed creations on December 19 as they participate in a variety of interdisciplinary activities that culminate their study of Schooled.
Grassland Middle
GMS hosted the 3rd annual Grassland Games for the students. While the event is a fundraiser for the CI3T positive behavior program (commonly referred to as STARbucks), it’s a great night out for our students to let loose. A committee of faculty and staff, led by Jennifer Keith, plan the event and teachers volunteer to chaperone that night. This year the students formed teams to compete for points by participating in activities such Escape the Room, sumo wrestling, painting, dodge ball, Minute to Win It, and more. Winning teams were given medals and prizes.
Heritage Middle
The HMS Choirs will be Christmas caroling at Kroger Marketplace in Thompson Station on Friday, December 12 during choir classes. Plan to do your grocery shopping on that day and support the HMS Choral Dept. VOX AUREA will also be performing on Friday, December 12 from 3-4:30 p.m. and sharing lovely Christmas tunes.
Hillsboro K-8
Students at Hillsboro celebrated Freaky Friday November 21. Freaky Friday was a reward day for all of the student’s hard work that helped us receive Blue Ribbon and SCORE prize. Teachers and administrators wanted to give something back to the kids for their hard work, so the students were allowed to help the teachers come up with ideas to plan a day dedicated to them. Classes learned in different “outside of the box” ways with different incentives and they got to dress up (as well as vote on what the teacher’s would wear).
Sunset Middle
Everyone at Sunset Middle has their hands in art! Eighth grade is working on reductive block printing. Seventh grade is finishing up with a group scene where the students pose in a live action scene using recycled materials. Sixth grade is finishing their handwoven pouches and dip dyed Batiks. The staff and instructors made hand built clay mugs and pinch pots in our monthly after school staff art club.
Woodland Middle
Nathan Hale, a NYT Bestselling Author of The Hazardous Tales Series, will speak in the new WMS Performing Arts Center on Thursday, December 4 at 5:15 p.m. A book signing will follow at 6 p.m. in the library. The series is a graphic novel style format that is non-fiction and follows the spy Nathan Hale as he entertains his captors with exciting and dangerous tales from history. This event is open to the public.
High Schools
Centennial High
Thirty Centennial High students traveled to Murfreesboro November 21 to participate in this year’s Model UN. Led by Dean Frederick, the students were a part of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the International Court of Justice and the World Cup Quiz Bowl. Congrats goes to Garrett Foster and Ian Seal on being given Outstanding Delegate Awards for their exemplary participation in the floor debates. The CHS Band Winter Concert will be held at Clearview Baptist Church on December 8 at 7 p.m., while the Chorus will hold their winter concert at the Peoples Church on December 9 at 7 p.m.
Fairview High
Fairview’s Jobs for Tennessee Graduates chapter participated in the JAG Leadership Academy in Washington D.C. and won four national awards. Rachael Winesberry won first place in the Employment Interviewing event. The students dominated the Consumer Math event. Katie Conlan won first, James Grayson won second and Heather Warren won third. This has never happened before where the same school or state has won all three awards in the same category. Meanwhile, The Fairview High School marching band will represent the school in the annual Christmas parade, and art students are working on a cross-curricular project that mixes water color techniques with history and writing. The students will explore key concepts of the Renaissance, analyze the historical and context of the era and then create an illuminated letter.
Franklin High
The Franklin High Chorus Concert will be held December 4 at 7 p.m. in the FHS Theater; fall semester exams will be given December 16-19; and the Franklin Competition Cheer squad won first place in the UCA Regional Division over the break earning a bid to Nationals in February. Meanwhile, Corey Fatony was a finalist for the 2014 Titans Mr. Football Award for Kicker of the Year. Corey attended a luncheon and ceremony in Murfreesboro. He invited Senior David White as a guest. David was the long snapper for every kick that Corey attempted in his career at Franklin High.
Page High
On December 12, the Theatre II students will present The Most Amazing Christmas Play Series in the Entire History of the World. The play is directed by the Theatre IV students and the Theatre III students serve as the technical crews. The student show is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and curtain is at 7 p.m. Santa will also make an appearance at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby for photos. In other news, the Student Council will host “Cocoa, Cookies, and Cramming” midterm review sessions from 2:45-7 p.m. on Monday, December 15 and Wednesday, December 17 in the library. Any students are welcome to attend. Tutoring, snacks and beverages will be provided.
Ravenwood High
The Ravenwood High School football team will compete in the state championship game Saturday, December 6 at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville. The Raptors will face Maryville High at 7 p.m. Good luck!
Summit High
The French III students at Summit High enhanced their study of French by choosing a dish unfamiliar to them, researching its origin, and cooking it from scratch. The day before Thanksgiving break, these students prepared homemade croques-monsieurs, quiche lorraine, boeuf bourguignon, soupe aux champignons, brioches, mille feuilles (napoleons), crab croquettes, potatoes au gratin, French bread and madeleines for a fabulous French feast.