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The Charles Russell School

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May 7, 2010 A CRS STLP/PTA Publication Volume 18 Issue 10

May Madness 5/7-6th Grade Mock Interviews, 8:30-11AM

5/7-1st Grade to Savage Branch, 8:30 AM – 2 PM

5/7-Blazer Theatre group, 1-2 PM, gym 5/9-Mothers Day

5/10-Charles Russell SBDMC, 5:30 PM, Library 5/10-6th grade @ Verity 8:30 AM-1PM, 6th grade parents, 6:30 PM @ Verity orientation

5/10-5/14-Kindergarten screenings 5/11-STLP State Competition, all day

5/12-5/16-Patrol Trip to Washington DC

5/12-Faculty Meeting & PD, 3 PM, Library 5/13-Writing PLC, 3 PM, Library

5/14-Ice Cream Sundaes 2-2:30 PM 5/17-Kevin Sinnette Flag Presentation, 8:35 AM, Gym

5/17-Gary Booth Magic Show, 9 AM, Gym 5/17-3rd Grade to Heritage Farm, all day 5/18-No School, Election Day/PD Day

5/20-4th grade and 5th grade field trips, all day 5/20-Math PLC, 3 PM, Library

5/21-Track and Field Day, AM only 5/21-Popcorn and a Movie, 12:45-2:45 PM

5/24-Boyd Co. Public Library Assembly, 8:30 AM 5/27-6th Grade Dare Day @ Gattiland, all day

5/27-Community Spelling Bee, BC Library, 5:30 pm

5/27-ALP Awards Program, Verity Auditorium, 6:30 pm 5/28-5th-grade play presentations, 4 shows, AM & PM

6/2 Kindergarten Advancement & Awards Program, 1:30 PM, Gym 6/2-Primary Awards, TBA

6/3 Yearbook Group Picture Day, 8 AM – 1 PM 6/3-6th Grade Advancement, 6 PM, Gym

6/4-Intermediate Awards Program, 8:30 AM, Gym 6/4-Last Day of School

2009-2010 Yearbook News Yearbook group picture day will be Thursday, June 3

rd. Please wear/bring special shirts—STLP, Patrol, Academic Team,

Wrestling Team, etc. Other groups taken will be: Operation Holiday Card winners, Keyboarding winners, and Knowledge Master Team. Yearbooks are on sale for $16 and the last day to purchase will be May 28

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Kentucky Derby Day

On Derby Day we all wore hats. We had different Derby activities. The inside games were in the morning. In these games we measured how many hands tall we were like you measure a horse and we learned about the rose blanket they put on the horse that wins the Derby. Then we all made a silk, which is a jockey’s uniform. Later in the afternoon we went to play games outside. One of the games was to race a stick horse around the trees. Another game was tricycle races. Also there was a corn bucket race where each team had to fill a box with corn feed using a small bucket and shovel. It was a great day! –Abigayle Crites

Money

The first grade learned about money. They got Hilma Harned from National Citizens Bank to come and help. She passed out sheets of paper with a jar on it to each of the students. Then they drew coins in the jar. Next Ms. Harned started passing around different coins to the kids. After that she gave everyone an apple bank and a penny to put in it. What they learned was how to identify each coin and how much it is worth. Now they know about money–

Abigayle Crites

Community Spelling Bee The Boyd County Public Library is sponsoring a community spelling be on Thursday, May 27, Main Branch, beginning at 5:30 PM. The Bee is open to all ages. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: elementary, middle school, high school, and adult. To register, contact Amanda Clark @ 329-0518 ext. 1140 or aclark@thebookplace.org.

Math-a-thon

Thank you to all of you who made this year’s St. Jude Math-a-thon a success. We were able to send a total of $1,040 to help those children who are fighting cancer. We had 19 students to complete their books and the following students raised enough money to receive a t-shirt and other prizes. Those students were: Layla Brown, Harlea Blevins, Shannon Phipps, Mikayla Martin, Kaiden Wells, Kaleb Kohut, Cameron Marushi, Cody Blevins, Zachary Stafford, Lindsey Brown, Christine Clarke, Miranda Martin and Drew Kiser. We plan to have next year’s Mathathon in January. We hope to have many more participate next year. –Mrs. McDavid

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PTA News At the April PTA meeting, members decided to change over to PTO effective July 1, 2010, once all needed transitions are completed. Election of new officers will be at the next meeting on May 3rd at 6 PM in the Library. Bunny Sales profits go towards playground improvements. Teacher Appreciation Week is May 3-7. A committee headed by Pat Greene, has planned a week of activities with the theme “Summertime Fun,” including lunch each day and massages.

Trash War

On April 22nd or some people know it as Earth Day, Mrs. Schirtzinger’s kindergarten class participated in a “trash war.” The boys and girls competed to see how much trash they could clean up on the school’s playground. Whoever got the most trash won. It ended up being a tie. Everyone was happy and had so much fun! -Paige Kennedy

Kindergarten Recycling Project

In April, the kindergarten classes did a recycling project. The students made objects out of common household items that you would usually throw away. The kindergarteners did this so our earth wouldn’t be so polluted and dirty, and we could have fun items to use. Some of the things they made were birdhouses and feeders, trash picker-upper, and cereal box post cards. They were very creative and useful. –Amy Moore

Travel the USA From October to May, the entire 4th grade has done a ThinkQuest program at Charles Russell. 4th grade has been doing a project called Travel the USA. They did it where they could learn about one of the 50 United States. They did it by picking a card without looking at the state written on it. The card also had some information on it. We got three colors of construction paper that had five headings. They were Introduction, State Facts, Famous Natives, Important Places, and Fun Facts. The Introduction had the State Name, capital, and the population. The state facts page had the statehood, the state bird, state flower, and the nickname. The famous natives were people who were born from that state. The important places have places that are very popular. The fun facts are interesting facts about the state. We all enjoyed doing this project. –Mackenzie

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Huntington Museum Visits 1st Grade

On April 14th, at 8:30 in the morning the Huntington Museum of Art came to CRS to have fun with the 1st graders. This was held in the gym. Ms. Jill Asbury and Ms. Sunny Hammer from the Education Department came and did school projects with the whole 1st grade. Smartly, they did this by using their hands, heads, and creativity. First they drew whatever they wanted. Then they put stickers on a piece of foam using symmetry or symmetrical lines. I don’t even think the kids ever knew they were having fun with math most of the time! -Morgan Scherer

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Remembering Anne Frank On March 19, ACTC Theater presented 3 performances of “And They Came for Me…Remembering the World of Anne Frank.” Charles Russell’s Sheila Meade, Library Media Specialist played the part of Mutti, Anne’s friend’s mother. Mutti survived the WWII Auschwitz concentration camp and married Otto Frank, Anne’s father who also survived.

Design-an-Ad School Winner Congratulations to Xavier Rivera, 6th grade student, who was chosen the school winner in the Independent’s annual Design-an-Ad contest. The 6th grade students participated in the contest as part of Mrs. Reinhard’s art class.

District/Regional 4-H Speech Winners At the April 14th, District 4-H Speech Contest, the following CRS students won awards: Blue ribbons-Shannon Card, Levi Grayson, Amy Moore, & Sami Taylor; Reserve Grand Champions-Shannon Card & Amy Moore; Grand Champion-Levi Grayson. Levi Grayson was chosen Reserve Grand Champion at the Regional competition in Lawrence County with his speech “A Fed Bear Is a Dead Bear. Way to go!

Track & Field Day Activities

Track & Field Day is scheduled for Friday morning, May 21. Each class will be assigned a color to wear for the day to show team spirit.

3rd 9-Weeks Perfect Attendance

Alia Abbott, Will Adkins, Abigail Baldwin, Lindsey brown, Nadia Caldwell, Kameron Cavin, Keeston Clark, Aliyah Coffey, Shelby Elkins, Chloe Fields, Hannah Gillette, Riley Gransbery, Maddy Greene, Spencer Greene, Taylor Hamilton, Kimberly Hayes, Gage Hignite, Ivy Hobbs, Madison Howard, Jacob Kemper, Brianna Lambert,, Jade Mains, Mikayla Martin, Miranda Martin, Shay Lee Miller, Tyler Miller, Miranda Moore, Cailey Morella, Sarah Ratliff, Noah Roberts, Russell Rogers, Richard Runyon, Cheyanne Salley, Belle Sharpe, Aaron Simpson, Monica Skaggs, Beau, Smith, Zachary Stafford, Autumn Stambaugh, Gabby Talamantez, Josh Thomas,

Kylie Thomas, Chloe, VanHorn, Braedon Ward, Nikia Watts, Jimmy Worstell, Andrew York, Jason Zheng, William Zheng

3rd Nine Weeks Honor Roll

4th All A’s: Megan Atkins, Blaine Collins, Abby Crites, Chase Goodrich, Sarah Ratliff, Leah Smith-Mensah, Zachary Stafford, Andrew York, William Zheng 4th A’s/B’s: Alexus Ball, Eliott Collins, Andre Donalson, Ema-Leigh Forbes, Hattie Killin, Makenzie Lucas, Alannah Molenda, Baylei Park, Brock Rogers, Sarah Rymer, Jackson Stussie, Aly Taylor, Morgan Vanover, Jakob Williams 5th All A’s: Bryan Lucas, Koriah McIntyre, Breck Oppenheimer, Sami Taylor 5th A’s/B’s: Cody Blevins, Elijah Keaton, Mycah Miller, Shay Lee Miller, Amy Moore, Blake Rogers, Casey Walter 6th All A’s: Dylan Blevins, Erika Bonner, Jenna Cook, Courtney Gibson, Hannah Gillette, Levi Grayson, Jonathan Litteral, Paige Morella, Lesley Phillips, Kaylee Thompson, Jason Zheng 6th A’s/B’s: Zack Endicott, Kelsey Gute, Madison Howard, Paige Kennedy, Bethany McDowell, Madison Murphy, Morgan Scherer

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3rd 9-Weeks AR Rewards Ledford: Gold: Raegan Stevens, Shalayna Rice, Kimberly Boyd, Robbie Francis, Jade Mains, Elizabeth Senters, Brianna Lambert, Dillon Adkins, Nick Endicott; Silver: Zeus Gonzales, Jaden Stevens, Preston Ledford, Harlea Blevins, Alex McKenzie; Bronze: Johnathon Peterman Rowlett: Gold: Will Adkins, Breaunna Callahan, Elizabeth Colyer, Jake Damron, Maddy Greene, Gage Hignite, Tyler McKnight, Jordan queen, Chloe VanHorn, Braedon Ward; Silver: Olivia Allen, Christine Clarke, Betty Conley, Kaytlin Hunt, Jacob Kemper, Kaleb Newman, Jett Porter, Russell Rogers, Jacob Sexton, Autumn Stambaugh; Bronze: Branda Burgess, Hunter Mays Hood: Gold- Alexus Ball, Blaine Collins, Julia Conley, Blade Lester, Tommy McGlone, Sarah Ratliff, Zachary Stafford, Morgan Vanover, Andrew York; Silver- Abby Crites, Austin Perkins, Madalon Ramey, Brock Rogers, Leah Smith-Mensah; Bronze- Alex Banfield Manning: Gold- Megan Atkins, Ema-Leigh Forbes, chase Goodrich, Ivy Hobbs, Makenzie Lucas, Alannah Molenda, Jakob Williams; Silver- Eliott Collins, Cameron Conley, Madelyn Hamilton, Bentley Meade, William Zheng; Bronze- Andre Donalson, Jackson Stussie Fifth Grade: Gold- Bryan Lucas, shay Lee Miller, Koriah McIntyre, Mycah Miller, Breck Oppenheimer, Sami Taylor; Silver- Amy Moore, Emily Schipmann 6th Grade: Gold- Dylan Blevins, Erika Bonner, Cody Cline, Jenna Cook, Courtney Gibson, Levi Grayson, Kelsey Gute, Austin Kelly, Sarah Mullins, Kaylee Thompson Kacie Black, Haley Brown, Hannah Gillette, Lesley Phillips, Cameron Reffitt, Jason Zheng; Silver: Taylor Donahoe; Bronze: Braden Barker

Students of the Month

Taylor Hamilton Bonner

Spencer Greene Schirtzinger

Eden Forbes Blankenship

Catalina Pavez Bocook

Nakeita Dye King

Brian Burgess McDowell

Miranda Martin Ledford

Kaleb Newman Rowlett

Abby Crites Hood

William Zheng Manning

Cheyanne Salley Foster

Mitchel Bailey McDavid

Hannah Gillette Childers

Kelsey Gute Fields

Sarah Ratliff Slater

Jade Mains Elkins

Nick Endicott Meade

Kendrick Hogsten Love

Noah Roberts Reinhard

Christine Clarke Jackson

Taryn Smith Green/Salyers

Breaunna Callahan Lees/Brown

Timothy Withrow Minton

Aliyah Coffey Armstrong Recycling Collections Monthly Totals

Bonner 758 Schirtzinger 1475 Blankenship 1001

Bocook 988

King 270 McDowell 373

Ledford 517 Rowlett 427

Hood 1189 Manning 282 Foster 751

McDavid 202 Childers 376

Fields 329