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School Snippets – March 27, 2015

Published March 27, 2015

The information below is provided by each school. Schools are listed in alphabetical order according to grade level.

Elementary Schools

Allendale Elementary

This week Allendale hosted their 4th Annual Student Talent Show called The Stars of Tomorrow. Kindergarten through fifth grade students participated and showcased their talent to students, staff and parents. Acts ranged from singing, dancing, playing musical instruments and magic acts. Everyone who participated did an amazing job.

Bethesda Elementary

At Bethesda Elementary, Ryan Linton’s second grade class recently hatched some baby chicks. They are taking care of the chicks and will be able to take them home.

College Grove Elementary

College Grove faculty and staff enjoyed getting dressed up as their favorite book characters during Read Across America week! Students also took part in themed days all week to celebrate Dr. Seuss and our love of reading.

Crockett Elementary

Crockett Elementary School third, fourth, and fifth grade students were given the challenge of coming up with a t-shirt design for the Kids Rock Marathon. Students were asked to create a shirt with the slogan, “Crockett Will Rock It.” This year’s design winner is Elena Amonette, a fifth grade student from Mrs. Ford’s class. Special thanks to our art teacher, Mrs. Jahnig, for helping the students with this fun project. In other news, Shannon Hargraves’ fifth grade students have been busy working on multimedia presentations to teach their piers social studies standards centering around historical events like the “Cold War,” the Civil Rights Movement, President Kennedy’s assassination, the Vietnam War and the Nixon years.

Edmondson Elementary

In Ms. Suzie Mellinger’s third grade math class at Edmondson Elementary, the students used a hula hoop and different colored numbers to create a clock. The students also created a human number line to represent the relation between hours and minutes. The students really enjoyed the visual lessons.

Fairview Elementary

Fairview Elementary students had a fantastic spring break and are back at school ready to learn! Before break, students enjoyed visiting the spring book fair and loved coming to our family fun night. On Thursday, March 12, parents and students came to FES to shop and learn some awesome math and reading games that they were able to take home with them and play over break. Third graders also had a wild time dressing up in their Pi Day costumes on Friday, March 13. Second graders are busy at work this week creating PowerPoints about early Tennesseans. They are taking their social studies skills and putting them to work with technology and writing.

Heritage Elementary

Heritage Elementary invites you and your family to the Spring Hill Kids Marathon! Our annual kids race is coming up on Saturday May 2 and starts at 8:30 a.m. Please check the website for the specific start time for your child’s grade level. This will be a one mile kids race at Summit High School. This year we are having a Color Chaos theme where the kids will be throwing color powder and there will be two color stations throughout the race where color powder will be thrown onto them. It should be a blast! We are really looking forward to a great race and having lots of Heritage students attend. You must register online at www.shkidsmarathon.com and the cost is $15 per kid. One parent or guardian can run with their child or you can pick your child up at the finish line. Each participant will receive a race packet with a t shirt, race bib, one color powder packet, and lots of other goodies. Each child will receive a medal as they cross the finish line. There will be other color powder packets for sale at the race for $1 each. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to email me and let me know. Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you at the Spring Hill Kids Marathon this year!

Kenrose Elementary

Judy Rogers first grade class received two letters from soldiers in Afghanistan for collecting and sending candy to the troops. According to the letter, “the great kids of KES keep us motivated to do our jobs and defend the freedoms of America!” A big thank you to all who participated!

Nolensville Elementary

Nolensville Elementary School recently held its first Family Literacy Night. The event gave parents and students a chance to visit the school while learning new and fun ways to improve their reading skills.

Oak View Elementary

Recently, the third grade students at Oak View became entrepreneurs and shopkeepers at their annual market day event. This event is the culmination of the study on the economic system. Lessons included the study of goods, services, supply, demand, profit, loss and manufacturing. The students made their own products and sold them to students and teachers. Prior to the sale, the students had voted and selected a charity to donate their earnings. This year’s charity was St. Jude Children’s Hospital. In other news, our student leadership is currently sponsoring a “pop top drop” contest between the grade levels to support the Ronald McDonald House. Finally, the annual Give a Hoot Race is coming up Saturday, April 18 benefiting the Imagination Library. Registration is open now at www.giveahoootrace.com.

Pearre Creek Elementary

Pearre Creek Elementary is holding a Fun Run this Friday, March 27 to raise money for the PE, art, music and guidance departments that will go towards additional expenses that the related arts budget does not cover throughout the year. The students have been gathering sponsors for this event that will take place during their related arts time on Friday. There will be prizes for every student and the two classes with the most money raised will win a pizza party.

Walnut Grove Elementary

Walnut Grove Elementary was the recipient of a $1,000 grant from Reebok, which helped our school start a “BOKS” (Build Our Kids Success) program. The BOKS program allows students to receive additional physical activity through movement, running and stretching, before school. Research has proven that getting kids moving before school improves focus, academic performance and behavior issues. The students also receive information that encourages healthy living and positive nutritional choices. Students showed significant improvement in nutritional knowledge and facts after participating in BOKS. The BOKS program takes place every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday morning and is led by Coach Woods and Coach K.

Winstead Elementary

Winstead fourth grade students are preparing for their annual Wax Museum. Students have been researching a famous person’s life and will have the chance to portray these famous people in a Wax Museum format. On Friday, March 27, students will be in costumes and will give speeches acting as the character of the person they chose. It’s a fun way to have kids not only learn about history’s important people, but also researching and speaking skills.

Middle Schools

Grassland Middle

Grassland Middle School students recently completed a unit in drama that explored storytelling through the use of fables. Students rewrote familiar fables with a warped twist. This project allowed GMS drama students to exercise full creativity in script writing, set design and costume design. This is another example why students value and enjoy the related arts curriculum that GMS proudly offers! Our GMS Girls Night Out Event that was cancelled due to weather has been rescheduled for Friday, April 17 from 6-8:30 p.m. Please contact the GMS Office for additional information.

Heritage Middle

It has been a wonderfully busy week here at HMS! The snow days tried to stop them but the show must go now and this weekend it will! The HMS Theatre Department presents Disney’s Aladdin Jr. on Friday and Saturday nights at 6:30 p.m. and a matinee performance Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and children over 5. Come out and see “Why you never had a friend like ME!” On Wednesday we welcomed all our rising sixth grade students from Longview, Winstead, Bethesda, Oak View and Heritage Elementary School. The students were grouped with representatives from our STARS Leadership Team, the Heritage Helpers and some of our current sixth graders to tour our school. Then they went to the gym to hear about all the wonderful opportunities awaiting them next year from Art & Theatre to Choir & Band as well as all the Athletic programs here at HMS. The entire HMS choir sang “We are the World,” the eighth grade band played their pep rally songs and they even got a sneak peek of the musical. It was a wonderful day!

Hillsboro K-8

The Hillsboro 7th and 8th Grade Symphonic Band traveled to MTSU earlier this month to perform in the MTSBOA Concert Performance Assessment. The 81 members of the band were evaluated by four judges in two separate areas: prepared performance and sight-reading. The band earned EXCELLENT ratings in the prepared performance and SUPERIOR ratings in sight-reading! Way to go,
Hillsboro Band! There were many great comments from band directors and audience members about the professionalism of the students, their appearance on stage and the musical development of the band. The future of the Hillsboro Band looks very bright!

Sunset Middle

One event that sets Sunset Middle School apart is its annual Academic Fair, hosted by the eighth grade students. For one day, the eighth grade hallway becomes a museum of natural history, science and technology with the students acting as the curators. Students spend two months becoming authorities on topics of their choosing and then create interactive, educational and highly-engaging exhibits which they spend the day presenting to the community. This is the favorite day of many of Sunset’s faculty as the students have an opportunity to shine and display their many and varied talents. It is a long, grueling road of painstaking research to arrive at that point, and the students are starting their journeys this week in Ms. Wilson’s Reading class.

Woodland Middle

Congratulations to the Woodland Middle School Orchestra who received all Superior ratings at The Regional Concert Festival. Further, the orchestra was awarded Superior ratings in sight reading. It is quite rare that a group receives all Superior ratings the very first time they attend Concert Festival. We are very proud! Woodland hosted the Battle of the Books this March. It is a quiz bowl style tournament based on the Volunteer State Book Award books. Team “Lucky Duck” did a fantastic job representing Woodland! This year’s team included the following students: Ben Huggett, Nilai Sheth, Alexis Enderle, Grace Sullivan, Spencer Townes, Sam Dahms, Hannah French, Grace Woodside, Adriel Nuta, Kevin Frost, Azeem Husain and Nolan McGinnity.

High Schools

Centennial High

Congrats to the Centennial Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble for all superior ratings! The CHS Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Scott Miller, traveled to MTSU on March 11 and March 13 for the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association 76th Annual Concert and Sight Reading Performance Assessment. Both bands received superior ratings in every category. CHS Cougar pride is alive in the Centennial High School band room! Congratulations to the CHS Winter Percussion Ensemble for placing first last weekend at the Spring Hill Contest, making them undefeated going into championships at the end of March. Congrats to the CHS students who competed in the DECA competition recently. Joshua Gile placed fourth in the Accounting Applications and Nicole Zeller won fourth in the Community Service Project.

Fairview High

HOSA students are enjoying success surrounding their achievements at the State HOSA Conference. Savannah Hester placed first in Medical Terminology. The state conference is designed to motivate HOSA members to study, work hard and achieve a high standard of excellence in a variety of leadership and skill disciplines. The conference was held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville. Broadcasting 3 students are preparing this year’s Senior Video. They are interviewing classmates and preparing sports highlight segments. Broadcasting 2 and Broadcasting 1 students just finished participating in the 2-week film festival. Patterned after the 48-hour film festival, the two-week festival requires students to make a complete movie – planning, scripting, record, editing – within two weeks. Each team drew a genre (category assignment) such as action, drama, romance, comedy, silent, and had to make their movie in that style. The students have also completed videos to enter in festivals. The festival entries will be premiered at the Fairview High Performing Arts Show on May 7.

Franklin High

The next mandatory TN Promise meeting will be on Monday, March 30 at 5:30 p.m. Students are encouraged to arrive around 5:10 p.m. to ensure adequate time for sign in and to find their assigned table. Applicants are required to attend this meeting to remain eligible for the TN Promise. Parents are encouraged to attend but cannot attend in place of their student. Information regarding excusable absences are in the handbook on p. 31, and a student must follow the excuse form protocol on p. 7 of the handbook.

Ravenwood High

Our Ravenwood Computational Linguistics team had a very successful outing at the MTSU Linguistics Olympiad on March 21. Competing against the largest number of schools in the Olympiad’s nine year history, our team won two gold and two bronze medals. Here are the results:

High School Two-Person Team Competition:

  • 1st Place: Stacy Xiang & Ted Grosson
  • 3rd Place: Adam Rucker & George Rucker

High School Individual Competition:

  • 1st Place: Abhi Raju
  • 3rd Place: Rohan Tummala

Summit High

Summit HOSA participated in the HOSA State Leadership Conference March 19-21 at Opryland Hotel. Summit High had 29 students who competed. Those that placed at the state level are:

  • Hayden Hughes – Dental Science – 3rd place
  • Maria Vera – Personal Care – 2nd place
  • Jayden Cartelli – Home Health Aide – 1st place
  • Ben Leach – Job Seeking Skills – 2nd place
  • Megan Crowell – Human Growth & Development – 4th place
  • Kenzie Ehrsam – Medical Law & Ethics – 3rd place
  • Sarah Moser – Transcultural Health Care – 2nd place
  • Gil Horner, Kaylene Fodra, Theone Rizane & Kristen Demorest – Medical Reserve Corp – 2nd place
  • Elliot Geary, Caitlyn Mulcahey & Reilly Bethmann – Biomedical Debate – 1st place
  • Kaleb Stone & Josh Mason – EMT – 4th place

Summit HOSA was also awarded “Most Professional Chapter” in the state. Those students that placed 3rd or higher have advanced to the National Leadership Conference to be held in Anaheim, California in June. Their teachers are Christina Isong and Denise Asbury.