February, 2016

The Slate

Anahuac

Independent School

District

Inside this issue

of The Slate: Board is Honored

Pgs. 2 & 3

HLS&R Art Winners

Pg. 4

Revised School Calendar

Pg. 5

The Anahuac High School Academic

Team traveled to Nederland January 23

to compete in its annual academic meet.

It was a successful trip with many of the

Anahuac students bringing home a med-

al.

The Current Events team started

things off on the right foot finishing in

2nd place, with Carlos Chavez finishing in

1st place for the event. Luciano Palacios,

Ana Gonzalez and Tia Cormier rounded

out the team.

The calculator team finished in 2nd

place with Dante Nguyen finishing in 2nd

place and Mason Duhon in 5th place.

Ana Gonzalez finished in 3rd place in

informative speech, Jaden Blue 6th place

in Accounting, and 4th place in

Ready Writing. Imani Wooding fin-

ished in 2nd place for Ready Writing.

The Spelling team also placed

2nd with Kate Hankamer, Imani

Wooding, Blane Daugherty and

Keagan Frank participating.

Dylan Jircik finished in 2nd place

in both Feature and News Writing,

and 5th place in Editorial and Head-

line.

The Math team finished in 2nd

place with Gabriela Salazar finish-

ing in 3rd place, Dante Nguyen in 4th

place, and William Orozco 6th place.

Olivia Sierra and Mason Duhon

rounded out the team.

Kodi Abshier finished in 1st place

for Biology and Tyrique Smith fin-

ished in 1st place Chemistry.

Congratula-

tions to all the

c o m p e t i t o r s

and thanks for

all the hard

work. The

students will

participate in

the Virtual

Challenge on

January 27 and

the next meet

will be on Feb-

ruary 13 at

Port Neches

Grove.

Dylan Jircik

Imani Wooding and Jaden Blue

Academic Teams Compete in Annual Meet

AHS Congress Team

Competes @ State The Anahuac High School Congress Team compet-

ed January 12 in the third State Congress Meet

held in Austin.

Seniors Ana Gonzalez and Addison Hemphill and

sophomore Tia Cormier qualified for the State

Meet after finishing in the top three spots at the

Regional Meet held in November.

Ana Gonzalez authored the bill that was intro-

duced from the 3A Region 4 Meet. She along with

the other competitors discuss, debate and ques-

tion a variety of bills from the other state qualify-

ing regions.

None of the girls were successful in moving to the

final day of competition, but they each learned a

great deal about the legislative process and

events of the day.

Above, left to right, are Addison, Tia and Ana.

Recently, the Anahuac ISD Blended Learning (BLT) Team was asked to demonstrate the innovative blended learning activities taking place in the district. On January 13, the team presented a blended learning program to area educators at the Region 4 Digital Learning Conference. On January 27, they team presented to state administrators at the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) Mid-Winter Conference.

Both presentations were well-received, with several partici-pants requesting additional information and opportunities to collaborate with the Anahuac BLT.

Pictured at right are Patti Nauman, Karen Hooper, Cindy Bertrand, Rebecca Green, Tam-my Duhon and Lori Lambert. Not pictured is Tammy King.

AISD Educators Present at State Level

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Students will have five fewer days this school year, thanks to a new House Bill and Anahuac ISD board members. The state, through the passage of House Bill 2610, now calculates a school year in Texas by minutes instead of days. Instead of being required to hold 180 instructional days, schools are now required to hold 75,600 instructional minutes per school year.

Because Anahuac ISD will end up having more than the re-quired number of minutes by the end of the present school year, the last day for AISD students this year is May 26 instead of June 3. AISD instructional staff members will use May 27 and 31, and June 1, 2 and 3 for curriculum planning for the 2016-17 school year. Anahuac ISD approved the school calendar revi-sion during its January 12 board meeting.

Public School Board of Trustees across the state are hon-ored for their service during January school board meetings. AISD Board of trustees were honored by members of each campus. Prior to the Board meeting the members were treated to a 4-course meal consisting of shrimp and grits appetizer, a sweet vinaigrette salad, and roasted pork loin, followed up by a delectable raspberry lemon mousse for dessert.

The delicious meal was prepared by high school FCCLA (Family Career and Community Leaders of America) students as well as AHS’s culinary finest and their teacher Kristyn Copeland.

First graders entertained the board with two songs – “I’m a Little Teapot” and a personalized “Thank You” song.

Anahuac Middle School cheerleaders and band members gave a mini pep rally before goodie bags made by National Junior Honor Society and Student Council members were hand-ed out. AMS 6th and 7th grade Gifted and Talented students presented a tile made by student Reagan Richard for each board member with a sketch of that board member as well as a poem. Other GT students created lunch certificates for free lunches at the AMS cafeteria.

Members of Anahuac High School organizations handed out gift baskets containing various goodies to the board members.

In other business, the district received a clean opinion on its annual audit, with no material weaknesses or deficiencies found by the auditor. The board also hired the audit firm of Hereford, Lynch, Sellars and Kirkham to continue its auditing services for 2015-16 school year.

The board approved the May 2016 Order of Election. Board of Trustee positions up for re-election are those currently be-longing to Kate Hampton and Kenneth McGraw.

A workshop was held January 12 after the regular board meeting. The board received information from the architectural firm of Claycomb & Associates who is conducting a facilities assessment.

Board Revises School Calendar; Students Get Out A Week Early

Board members Lane Bertrand, Kate Hampton,

Ken McGraw, Dr. John Redman, Cris Stephenson

and Chris Jircik are flanked by AHS students who

created and presented gift baskets to the trus-

tees.

Board members Chris Jircik, Lane Bertrand

Kate Hampton, Ken McGraw, Cris Stephen-

son and Dr. John Redman show off gifts given

to them by members of AMS’s National Junior

Honor Society, Student Council and Gifted

and Talented class.

AMS cheerleaders and members of the

AMS Band put on a pep rally in honor of

the AISD board members.

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- Sue Hawthorne, Editor

Above are AES first graders performing “I’m a Little Teapot” for the AISD board members. The students were directed by

Music teacher Meredith Johnson.

Anahuac Middle School

Honor Roll 3rd Six Weeks

Sixth Grade A Lillian Edwards, Jarelis

Hernandez, Conner Jones, Hannah Kelley and Angela Rodriguez.

Sixth Grade B Haley Alfred, Savanna Al-

fred, Marshall Allen, Alvin Av-alos, Shelby Daugherty, Caylee Garcia, Phoebe Hampton, Thang Huynh, Alys-sa Jackson, Jatorian Landry, Diego Mares, Kyler McKenzie, Diana Miranda, Halley Moor, Grace Sharp and Baker Walk-er.

Seventh Grade A Jewell English and Reagan

Richard. Seventh Grade A-B

Alejandra Amaya, Cody Anderson, Graci Berry, Brady Bertrand, Jessenia Cabrera, Roselin Cabrera, Anna Cao, Mason Cook, Lushias Cooper, Christian DeHoyos, Cade Dye, Conner Garcia, Becca Henicke, Sandra Hernandez, Chase Herrington, Destiny Husband, Zoe kKy, Sanaa Kingsberry, Breighana Lino,

Logan Lotz, Eric Martinez, Preslie Moor, Mylik Oppenhei-mer, Kassidy Ortiz, Alex Sanchez, Mailey Sherman, Madison Smith, Owen Ste-phenson and Dadrien Whit-tington.

Eighth Grade A Yael Andujar, Sydney Ber-

trand, Ana Chavez, Jessica Gonzalez, Demonta Lewis, Tracy Ly and Brandon Win-bush.

Eighth Grade A-B Bree’anna Anderson, Re-

gan Artis Briggs, Megan Bar-field, Logan Borne, Laurena Brisboy, Jose Cabrera, Brylie Dillard, Charles Fertitta, Sara Graves, Mikayla Griffith, Jack-son Hampton, Santiago Her-nandez, Karissa Jircik, Foster Kreuzer, Donald Langham, Cydney Lassetter, Emily Ma-gana, Joanna McGregor, Crystal Moreno, Christa Mor-ris, Pablo Neyra, Morgan Rose, Madison Sherman, Jun Tran and Bryan Vargas.

Ninth Grade A Kodi Abshier, Kristin

Cao, David Edwards, Kev-in Gonzalez and Zachary Kelley.

Ninth Grade B

Nona Brisboy, Blane Daugherty, Tanner Fugere, Kate Hankamer, Mitchell Hargraves, Kevin Husband, Kyle Lake, Sa-mantha Lopez, Jennifer Lugo, Francisco Martinez, Cameron Mayes, Keeli Meyer, Jacy Norris, Antho-ny Ramirez, Olivia Sierra, Cale Swope, Kaila Thom-as and Kassidy Tilton.

Tenth Grade A

Ryan Murphy.

Tenth Grade B Kaitlyn Bennett, Ty Ber-

geron, Haley Binur, Araceli Chavez, Dominique Claw-son, Cara Hooper, Eliza-beth Klecka, Kyle Kreuzer, Victoria Magana, Morgan Oler, Trent Robertson, Ty’Rique Smith-Gantz, Emma Swonke, Katrina Swope and Brian Totty.

Eleventh Grade A

No students.

Eleventh Grade B Alyssa Adame, Camer-

on Bertrand, Claudia

Chavez, Guadalupe Diaz, Madison Dunn, Erykah Hill, Haley Jircik, Brittany McDaniel. Madelynne Nauman, Kailee Richey, Landyn Rose, Gabriela Salazar, Meghan Thomas and Sabrina Trahan.

Twelfth Grade A

Cameron Lieck, Tori parish, Ximena Valencia, Victoria Wedin and Madi-son Wilkins.

Twelfth Grade B

Eduardo Alvarado, John Artis, Bethany Brown, Carlos Chavez, Allison Cormier, Addison Hemphill, Maricela Her-nandez, Jacob Jackson, Jamus Lotz, Dylan Lugo, Paulin Netro, Meagan Oler Jamie Reily, McCaleh Sanders and Kaylie Vil-lemez.

Anahuac High School Honor Roll 1st Semester

AHS Art Students Bring Home Ribbons

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The Anahuac High School Art students participated in the

2016 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Contest. Landyn

Rose received the Best of Show award and Juan Sustaita re-

ceived a Gold Medal.

Jessica Edmonds, Maleni Cabrera and Geordan Howard

earned finalist ribbons. The artwork will be displayed in the Hay-

loft Gallery at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo throughout

the run of the rodeo.

Blue Ribbon winners were Beatriz Hernandez, Dalton Rich-

ards, Ivy Herrera, Bridgette Sherman, Haley Kruger, Hailey

McDaniel, Cheyenna Green, Kullen Till and Kassidy Tilton.

Red Ribbon winners were Beau Cendejas, Kodi Abshier, Lane

Harrison, Alex Hisler, Haley Oldham, Audrey Barrett, McKenzie

Williams, David Avalos, Cameryn Lewis, Kyle Kreuzer, Stephanie

Amaya, Ryan Murphy, Alonso Rodriguez, Jose Cabrera, Dario

Cabrera, Madalyn Orozco, Joseph Dodd, Anthony Capili, Landon

Hatfield, Savannah Magana, Jonathan O’Banion, Gabriela Sala-

zar, Gabriela Ramirez, Katie Reily, Brianna Humphrey, Calob

Wiley, Imani Wooding, Cortney Hisler, Krista Theriot and Shelby

King.

White Ribbon winners were Sam Chavez, Jai’laia Landry, Tan-

ner Fugere, Gabriel Land, Kailee Rhame, Yasmene Lino, Buddy

Reedy, Briar Totty, Jennifer Lugo, Samantha Lopez, Kaitlyn Ben-

nett, Guadalupe Pescador, Michael Harris, Camryn Jackson, Lan-

don Thompson and Aaliah Castillo.

Support SPEED Day 2016 by making a purchase

at the Chick-Fil-A (located on Hwy. 146 in Mont

Belvieu). This fundraising event will be held

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 from 5 p.m-8

p.m.

Be sure to tell your server that you are making a

purchase to benefit SPEED Day so that a portion

of your sale will be donated to this annual event.

Shown above are finalist ribbon winners

Jessica Edmonds, Malenia Cabrera and

Geordan Howard with their artwork.

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Important AISD Dates to Remember:

Feb. 9: AISD board meeting, 6 p.m. in Administration Build-

ing. Public welcome to attend.

Feb. 12: Pancakes for Parents, 7 a.m., AES cafeteria.

Feb. 15: AMS Spring photos.

Feb. 17: Senior cap & gown retakes.

Feb. 26: End of 4th six weeks.

March 8: AISD board meeting, 6 p.m. in Administration

Building. Public welcome to attend.

Anahuac ISD Administration Office

804 Mikhael Ricks Drive

Anahuac High School

201 S. Kansas Street

Anahuac Middle School

706 Mikhael Ricks Drive

Anahuac Elementary

905 Ross Sterling

District Phone: 409-267-3600

Anahuac ISD does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, nation-al origin, gender, sex, or disability in providing education services, activities, and programs, including vocational programs, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amend-ed; Title IX of the Educational Amend-ments of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

The following district staff members have been designated to coordinate compliance with these legal require-ments:

· Title IX Coordinator, for concerns regarding discrimination on the basis of sex: James Hopper 409-267-2001.

· Section 504 Coordinator, for con-

cerns regarding discrimination on the basis of disability: Cindy Bertrand 409-267-2017.

The Slate is published by

Anahuac Independent School District

P. O. Box 369 Anahuac, Tx. 77514

Superintendent

James Hopper

Board of Trustees

Ken McGraw …………...…....…. President

Kate Hampton ….……..…. Vice President

Chris Jircik ……………………...…. Secretary

Calvin Hill Dr. John Redman

Lane Bertrand Cris Stephenson

Sue Hawthorne, Editor

Anahuac High School Roots and Shoots members and microbiology students attended round

two of the invertebrate trip at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. The students separated out

tubs of invertebrate to study what local water fowl eats in this area.

The students’ efforts are to help a Texas Tech graduate with research for her Master’s pro-

ject. The information will be published in a scientific journal through Texas Tech.

Sorting Through Invertebrate

Rocket Club Takes Its Show on the

Road Members of the Anahuac High School High Altitude Engineering

Design Class presented to engineers from NASA, Boeing, SAIC,

and Blue Origin on Thursday January 28 at Space Center Hou-

ston. The students performed a preliminary design review of

their Whites Sands rocket. The presentation gave students the opportunity to

have engineers evaluate, critique and question the students about their design

choices.