DAWSON ELEMENTARY
The Dog’s Ear January 2016
Striving for Excellence
UIL
Academic
Champs
Dawson Elementary has captured the
title of first place District Academic
champions for the third straight year.
They attribute their success to practice and
the support of their teachers who coach
them in various events such as spelling,
oral reading, math, and writing. Parents
also play an important role in student
success by helping them study for these
events at home and by helping them get
home from after school practices.
Contest winners this year are as follows:
Art for fourth grade, Marlee Parker, 5th
place. The team placed second and also
includes, Haley Wheat and Melanie
Martinez. The 5th grade team placed third
overall and includes Madison Davis,
Natalie Sykes, Tiffany Hall, Paris Sanchez,
and Elizabeth Benton. Madison Davis
place first in the contest and had a perfect
score. This is her second year to receive a
perfect score.
In chess puzzle for second grade Henlee
Brooks won 1st place, Emma-Jade Guerra
won 3rd, and Brant Boatright placed 6th.
Their team was first overall. Third grade
chess puzzle winners were Daniel Keele
2nd and Ana Harper 6th. Fourth graders
placing include Andrew Hopson, 1st and
Devon Brock 6th place. The team
also included Bryce Bode, and they
won 3rd place. The 5th grade team
took 3rd as well and includes Jase
Elkins, Brytan Petty, and Gabe
Hawthorne. Jace took 3 rd
individually.
In 5th grade Dictionary Skills,
Alexandria Kammerer won 2nd
place, and Jace Elkins, 4th. The team
including Paris Sanchez won 1st place.
The Listening Skills team made up of Cade
Onstott, Paris Sanchez, and Alexandria
Kammerer won 2nd place. Onstott took 2nd
and Sanchez placed 6th. The Maps,
Graphs, and Charts team won 2nd place.
Alex Kammerer took 1st, other team
members were Brook Martinez, and
Ashlyn Matthews. The Social Studies team
won 3rd overall and includes Kylie Rogers,
Paris Sanchez, 4th place, and Alex
Kammerer, 5th place.
The fourth grade music memory team
including Andrew Hopson, Tanner
Williams, and Haley Wheat won third
place team. In number sense, our 4th
grade team took first with every member
placing. Andrew Hopson, 1st , Colby
Springer 3rd, and Rosendo Jaramillo, 4th.
Fifth grader Alexandria Kammerer placed
4th in number sense.
In oral reading , 4th grader, Marcella
Bryan won 3rd place. Fifth grade oral
readers swept the top three places. Maggie
Crawford, 1st, Brooke Martinez, 2nd, and
Cade Onstott, 3rd. Third grade story teller
Andrew Hall won 2nd place and second
grader Henlee Brooks placed 6th in story
telling.
Places for ready writing were as follows,
third grade, 1st place, Tamia Valenzuela
and 5th place, Ana Harper. In fourth
grade, Colby Springer won 4th, and
Marcella Bryan placed 6th. All Dawson
spelling teams placed in this competition.
Third grade placed 3rd, including Breana
Cook, with Tamia Valenzuela winning 2nd,
and Ana Harper, 5th. In 4th grade Kassidy
Skonetski placed 2nd. The team won 3rd
and also includes Marcella Bryan, and
Rika Bryant. The 5th graders took 1st place
Important Dates to Remember
Fri. Jan. 15th—End of 3rd Six Weeks & 1st Semester Early Release @ 1:00 p.m.
Mon. Jan. 18th—No School.
Tues. Jan. 19th—Beginning of 2nd Semester
JANUARY
S M T W T F S
No
School No School 2
3 Back to
School 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 End of
Semester
and Early
Release
16
17
Student Holiday/
Staff workday
Beginning of
4th Six
Weeks 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Call before 2:00 p.m.!
If you are changing how your child is getting home in the afternoon, call before 2:00 p.m. Calls after 2:00 make it difficult to get messages to students. It makes it very difficult to get messages to students if you don’t call earlier. We have students that go to Athletics and Band at the High School
team with Cade Onstott, 6th place,
Madison Davis winning 1st place and
Tiffany Hall.
Many of these contests require
extra work outside of class. Students
are required to study classical music
and works of art, spelling lists that
include 800 words, or studying extra
math, social studies, or other
subjects. All of the students that
participate in these events go the
extra mile. There were six schools
that competed in the elementary
meet. Dawson Elementary was the
District meet winner, Hubbard
Elementary won second place, and
Cayuga Elementary won third.
6th Grade Junior High Results:
Listening:
5th Place— Sarah Greeness
3rd Place Team—Cadence McKinney,
Sarah Greeness, Alejandra Becerra
Oral Reading:
1st Place—Jessie Hodges
2nd Place—Cooper Williams
Math:
1st Place—Zane Monger
2nd Place Team— Hunter Boatright,
Tyler Case, Zane Monger
Social Studies:
3rd Place—Hunter Boatright
3rd Place Team— Zane Monger,
Hunter Boatright, Cadence McKinney
Music:
3rd Place Team— Zane Monger,
Hunter Boatright, Isaiah Johnson
Ready Writing:
5th Place—Alejandra Becerra
Impromptu:
3rd Place—Jessie Hodges
Number Sense:
3rd Place—Zane Monger
2nd Place Team—Dillon Hopson,
Sarah Greeness, Zane Monger
Spelling:
4th Place—Cadence McKinney
3rd Place Team—Alejandra
Becerra, Cadence McKinney,
Gracie Nemjo
Chess:
2nd Place—Zane Monger
6th Place—Hunter Boatright
2nd Place Team—Hunter Boatright,
Dillon Hopson, Zane Monger
Maps:
1st Place—Cooper Williams
4th Place—Jordan McAdams
1st Place Team—Jordan McAdams,
Cooper Williams, Dillon Hopson
Art:
5th Place—Cadence McKinney
3rd Place Team– Emma Onstott,
Cadence McKinney, Sarah Greeness,
Jessie Hodges