School Snippets – May 13, 2016

Published May 13, 2016

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

Elementary Schools

Bethesda Elementary

Bethesda Elementary is proud to announce that Karyme Bancalari won third place in the 4-H competition May 12 at the Williamson County Ag Center. Karyme is a fifth grader in Susan Snowden’s class. This competition was the Central Region 4-H Project competition. Karyme’s project was on how to make a fruit salad waffle bowl. Bethesda is very proud of Karyme and all her accomplishments.

Chapman’s Retreat Elementary

Fourth graders at Chapman’s Retreat Elementary had their electric circuit open house this week. This was a conclusion to the unit on electric circuits. Students learned the difference between parallel and series circuits and how to make switches.

Clovercroft Elementary

Several students at Clovercroft Elementary had fun participating in the Special Olympics May 11.

College Grove Elementary

College Grove students exceeded their fundraising goal for the Rocket Run. The students raising the most money got to throw pies at our Specials teachers and the SRO officer. Mrs. Lillard was made into a ice cream sundae by all of the students at College Grove. All the students enjoyed watching this take place and cheering as Mrs. Lillard was being turned into a sundae.

Crockett Elementary

Crockett Elementary school was proud to have five students participate in the Special Olympics. Events included a 25 meter run, 50 meter run, 100 meter run, 200 meter run, and a softball throw. The students were elated with their achievements and awarded ribbons for their accomplishments. In other news, the kindergarten program was a huge success. The children did an amazing job and the audience was thoroughly entertained. Finally, the school held a celebration in honor of Nadine Bill’s retirement! She has been a dedicated teacher, colleague and friend to many for the past 27 years, 23 of which have been at Crockett Elementary.

Edmondson Elementary

Kindergartners at Edmondson Elementary have been observing, comparing, and investigating different animals in their science unit Animals 2X2. Students enjoy learning about this fun unit.Grassland Elementary

On May 11, a group of student athletes from Grassland Elementary participated in the Special Olympics at Summit High School. Students gave them a huge send off in true GES fashion by lining the halls and cheering.

Heritage Elementary

Students from Heritage Elementary had a blast participating in the special Olympics at Summit High School May 11.

Hillsboro School

Fifth graders at Hillsboro School recently held their annual living wax museum in which students assume the identity of a museum historical figure. Also, seventh graders had fun engineering their own catapults.

Hunters Bend Elementary

Third grade students tracing around the kindergarten students on large pieces of paper. The third graders worked together to create a math monster glyph. They used their standard measuring skills to draw the monsters and used addition and subtraction strategies to make each monster uniquely their own.

Kenrose Elementary

Kenrose elementary students had a fabulous field day. A huge thanks to our fabulous P.E. teachers and parent volunteers for organizing it!

Scales Elementary

Taylor Faith Gifford nominated he second grade teacher Tina Tidwell. Taylor wrote, “Mrs. Tidwell is a good teacher and teaches me well.”

Trinity Elementary

Students at Trinity Elementary had fun at the school’s annual field day on May 11. The students had a wonderful time playing games with friends. Also this week, Trinity held it’s annual volunteer breakfast. The breakfast is a way the faculty can give thanks to our hard working volunteers.

Walnut Grove Elementary

Walnut Grove students performed their annual Spring Choral Program this week for parents, peers, friends and relatives. Preparing for the center provided many learning experiences for the students. Those in grades three through five practiced weekly before school. Students were taught to focus on the importance of correct vocal technique, listening skills, performance skills, responsible rehearsal habits and the value of collaboration. Students learned to work hard, be disciplined and the importance of preparing for a performance. Ultimately, they learned to appreciate and enjoy music.

Winstead Elementary

Students at Winstead recently enjoyed a special treat as they heard a performance from the Ditzel Band. The Ditzels have been part of the Winstead family and come to share their musical talents with the students in a special assembly. Mr. and Mrs. Ditzel have played for symphonies and orchestral events and were in the Westpoint Military Band. Mrs. Rachel Grasso performed with them making a trio with clarinet, flute and French horn. Students listen to classical, jazz, and some favorite movie pieces as they played “Name That Song.” Students also participated being directors of the band holding a baton and conducting. Mr. Ditzel also showed how to create a brass instrument out of tubing and a plastic coke bottle! It was great fun and we are fortunate to have this amazing talent right in our own Winstead community!

Middle Schools

Grassland Middle

Congratulations to Jim Williams and Shreeti Amit for coming in fourth and eighth place, respectively, in Sixth Grade for the Middle Grades Mathematics Contest. Attention eighth grade parents, get ready for ninth grade by signing up now to receive FHS announcements! Just log in at fhsparents.org with the same user name/password you used for the GMS’ Parent Club’s site, GMSpc.org. Then, update your contact details and add your rising ninth grade student’s info. OR, if you didn’t have a GMSpc.org account, that’s okay! Just create one directly on the FHS’ Parent Association’s site, www.fhsparents.org. Jennifer Loftis with the FHS Parent Association at jloftis@comcast.net can help with any questions you may have.

Heritage Middle

Heritage Middle School students had fun at this year’s Special Olympics.

Woodland Middle

A number of Woodland Middle School students participated in the 2016 Special Olympics.

High Schools

Centennial High

Congratulations to CHS Senior Amelia Thiesing for signing with Austin Peay State University in Track and Field and Takeria Otey for signing with Cumberland University Track and Field. Congrats to the CHS Engineering & CAD program led by Tim Sawyer and Natalie Edgar on being recognized as one of the top 10 high school programs in the nation that feed into Auburn University’s Architecture, Building Science and Industrial Design programs this past year.

Franklin High

Please mark your calendars for the following events:

Sunday, May 15 – Baccalaureate – 3 p.m. at First Franklin United Methodist Church on Mack Hatcher Pky
Friday, May 20 – Senior Breakfast and Graduation Practice – 8:30 a.m. in the cafeteria
Saturday, May 21 – Graduation – 2 p.m. – Allen Arena on the campus of Lipscomb University
Saturday, May 21 – Project Graduation

Page High

Please have your student’s check the lost and found before they leave for the school year. There are a lot of eye glasses, clothing etc. Items left will be donated to non-profit organizations. Lost and found is located in the cafeteria on the outside wall and items more valuable in the office- before the last day of school. Items will be donated to non-profit organizations. We will be having renovations at Page High and no one will be permitted in the main areas of the school after Friday, May 20. The main office and guidance office will be relocated to the 200 hall for the summer. Entry will be from the 200 hall wing. Students need to remove all items from their lockers by the morning of Wednesday, May 18. Items left will be donated to non-profit organizations. We will Not be able to keep items left behind due to shortage of space due to renovations. Parents- If your student has medications with the Nurse please be certain to pick those up as soon as possible but certainly by noon Wednesday, May 18 at the absolute latest unless arranged with Nurse Karri. We are not able to keep any prescriptions or non-prescriptions over the summer.

Summit High

Summit’s National Art Honor Society had an onsite field trip this week and painted “en plein air” with artist Kim Barrick. Kim, the founder of the Chestnut Group, and an amazing nationally recognized artist, came and did a demo and taught the students the basics of plein air painting. Plein air painting is from the French phrase “en plein air” which basically means painting in the open – or outside. Because Summit is located on top of some beautiful rolling hills and farms with cows sprinkled throughout, we didn’t have to go far for some great views. The goal is to start and finish the painting quickly before the light changes. Usually the work ends up being more Impressionistic than realistic, but it was cloudy and the light was more constant so we were able to spend a little longer on our paintings. We used water based oil paints and for most students it was the first time painting with oil paints.