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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Dec. 11, 2015

Shout Out from Haw River Elementary Melissa Border

Haw River’s fifth grade students had the wonderful opportunity to meet Van Denton (Fox News 8) meteorologist and learn more about weather!


Shout Out from Pleasant Grove Elementary Grace Cole, Technology/Media

On Friday, December 4th, Pleasant Grove held our school Spelling Bee. Each fourth and fifth grade classroom had a bee and sent their top 3 spellers to the school bee. It was a great competition with each student trying their very best. Congratulations to all of the class winners!

And a special congratulations and good luck to our runner up/ alternative- Adrian Contreras Gil (on the left) and our winner and representative to the District Bee (pictured at right)- Gabriel Parker!


Shout Out from Graham High Michael Irving, AP

We would like to send a big Shout Out to Windy Lampson, GHS art teacher. She was elected by her

colleagues to be Graham High School's 2015/2016 Teacher of the Year! Mrs. Lampson dedicates countless

hours to our students of GHS and certainly has earned this honor!

Shout Out to ABSS Child Nutrition Times-News

Check out the recent Times-News article about ABSS

Child Nutrition having students taste test new beverage

selections at all high schools:

http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20151206/NEWS/1

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Photo courtesy of Sam Roberts/Times-News




Shout Out from Graham Middle Lisa Cates, Sixth Grade ELA

Graham Middle Teachers take the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta by storm!


Shout Out from Southern High Tasha Dawson, FFA Advisor

The Southern High FFA Vet Science Career Development Event (CDE) team competed for state-level honors at Central Carolina Community College in Sanford on November 21st. The vet science CDE participants demonstrate their knowledge in all facets of the veterinary science from breed and parasite identification to clinical and handling practicums.

Our team earned 2nd place in the state! Sabrina Henry placed 3rd highest individual in the state!

Pictured left to right are: Sabrina Henry, Solomon Turner, Lindsay Long, and Sam Cross.

Great job!


Shout Out from Hawfields Middle Karla Robbins, 8th Grade Social Studies

Hawfields' own Melanie Dellinger has written a book titled The Mental which is currently available on Amazon.com! Melanie will be present for a book signing at Holly Hill Mall 6:30 to 8:30 inside The Art Gallery (right outside of Sears). Books are $12. This is an AWESOME accomplishment!! CONGRATULATIONS Melanie we are SO VERY PROUD of you!!!! How did Melanie get started writing? In the artist’s own words………. “In the sixth grade, I remember sitting in the back of math class, specifically looking out of the window. My teacher, Mrs. Wall, started talking about Linear equations and how the graphs of the lines were in a straight line, and the increase of decrease was the same. Then we started talking about how that equation would never work on humans, because all humans were different. Mrs. Wall said it was a human error for anyone to be the same. I thought, well, why can't people be the same? I pulled out a bright green notebook and started writing. At first it was really hard to get in sync with the characters, because they had been very new. It made me feel a little uneasy, but after sitting down and writing the first rough draft in the sixth grade, I feel like they're a part of me, almost stitched into my soul. I finished it in sixth grade, took a break of writing The mental in the beginning of seventh grade to write another story and plan a story I've been working on since fourth grade, and by March of this year, I decided to completely rewrite it, with more improved characters. My writing has greatly evolved since then. I've always wanted to be a writer since second grade. In August (of 2015) I took a writing workshop lead by a man named Wayne Drumheller. The Mental was almost finished without edits or revisions, and I decided to ask him to critique the first two chapters of it. He said he wanted to read more and that he really liked it, and pretty soon we were talking about publishing. He guided us through the process and I had to finish the story, revise, spend hours with my grandmother editing, and he showed us the way through Amazon.com and CreateSpace. This whole experience has been amazing, and I think the characters are excited as well. The best part about it was writing, and having the characters with me for two and a half years, growing and evolving into the young men and women that they are along with my writing.”


Shout Out to Southern Middle Matt Ritter, Athletic Director

Southern Middle's Softball Team finished the 2015 season with a 10-0 record. This was the 7th straight ABSS Conference Championship for the Lady Tigers Softball Team! The Lady Tigers are led by Head Coach Ashley Brazie and Assistant Coach Robin Duggins. Congratulations Lady Tigers!

Shout Out to ABSS EC Experts Stefanie Nance, EC Program Specialist

Our ABSS Related Service Department is extremely proud of Caroline Norman, Lead OT, and Sara Hammond, OT, for their presentation at the 65th Annual Conference on Exceptional Children!!

Caroline and Sara presented on the "Comfortable Cafeteria" program, which is a mental health promotion framework developed by Susan Bazyk, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA.

It provides structure and resources for creating a positive cafeteria culture for all students with and without disabilities. Caroline and Sarah are piloting this program at BEJ and EM Yoder this year!


Shout Out for Cummings Cavaliers Cynthia Bradshaw, FBLA Advisor Our Lady PEARLS and FBLA students have been collecting toys for Christmas Cheer! They have done a tremendous job with this collection. They also created snowmen and reindeer ornaments made of clothespins for the faculty and staff at Cummings High School. Additionally, ornaments were delivered to residents at White Oak Manor in Burlington, NC. Lady PEARLS is a female mentor organization. Our advisors are: Ms. Remonia Enoch, Mrs. Dawn Gallion-Dailey, Ms Jade Andrews and me. The mission of the Lady PEARLS is to enrich, encourage, and enlighten ourselves through self-awareness and personal enhancement, while also taking the necessary steps to ensure a successful future.

Our CHS Lady PEARLS and FBLA members will be providing volunteer gift wrapping at Barnes & Nobles on Saturday, December 19th, 2015. Stop by and see us to have your gifts wrapped!


Shout Out from Cummings High Part 2 Cynthia Bradshaw, FBLA Advisor Cummings High School FBLA members competed in the Regional Event Competition in Hillsborough, NC at Orange High School on Saturday, December 5, 2015. Malik Stacey won 4th place on his speech about "Money"! A huge congratulations for all members who competed: Todiah Romero, Arianna Lejia, Timera Poteat, Meredith Scott, and Jonathan Banda-Guerrero. I am very proud of all of our CHS FBLA members!


Shout Out from Smith Elementary Lindy Isley, Teacher/Librarian

In an effort to make our United Way donation grow, Candice Lewis, guidance counselor at Smith had a festive idea. She sold holiday pictures of the students for $2 per print. The endeavor raised $500 to add to our staff donations!

Our children were lined up each morning almost out the door waiting to have their pictures taken! Some were taken with friends while others were taken with just that student. This was a huge hit with the students. Merry Christmas from the Seabees!


Shout Out to ABSS Musicians Times-News

Check out the story in Times-News about the String Fling concert with ABSS student musicians from the Williams Zone Orchestra program! Photo courtesy of Sam Roberts/Times-News


Williams High orchestra director Veronica Allen conducts practice in the photo below.

Shout Out from E M Yoder Elementary Beth Curasi, Academic Coach

Author Bill Pike visits E. M. Yoder! Author of the book Murray and the Mudmumblers The Christmas Benefit at the Haw River Ballroom, Bill Pike, visited E.M. Yoder!



Mr. Pike’s book is about a group of musicians who are traveling from Florida to the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw for their next show. The animal characters were thoughtfully determined by the author and illustrator. They wanted to use animals that would be found in our area, Southeastern, United States. Many of the events in the story were actual occurrences from Bill Pike’s life, while other events were drawn from his imagination. The author kept the students fully engaged by projecting the illustrations and words of the text on the smartboard as he read from his book. The content of the book included many landmarks of our area that are familiar to the students which really increased their interest level!

Shout Out from Career and Technical Education Robin Bowers, Director

The playhouse raffle winner was drawn at Alamance-Caswell Homebuilders Tuesday evening. The raffle winner, Leslie Cooper, selected Graham High School’s building for her family. She is beyond thrilled, bought her raffle ticket at the Burlington parade, and has several children who will be extremely happy this Christmas! The four playhouses were built by Carpentry students at Eastern High, Graham High, Southern High and Western High. They are all fabulous examples of what our students are learning to build. Career & Technical Education would like to thank the Alamance-Caswell Homebuilders members for all of their support and assistance in this project!


Shout Out for Cummings High Check out the great story in Times-News and a segment from News 14 Carolina about a novel way that students in Elizabeth Teague’s Civics and Economics class learned about assembly line production and its importance to the war effort during World War I and completed a community service project at the same time. Ms. Teague had students pack supply bags to distribute to homeless citizens in Alamance County, timing their production and checking their quality control. The Cavaliers rocked it with great teamwork! Great class project idea tied to the curriculum, Ms. Teague! Times-News story: http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20151209/NEWS/151209008 News 14 Carolina story with Elaina O’Connell: http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triad/news/2015/12/8/teacher-turns-learning-experience-into-project-helping-

homeless-.html?id=21.html

Photo courtesy of Sam Roberts/Times-News

Here is a picture of the finished production

product!


http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triad/news/2015/12/8/teacher-turns-learning-experience-into-project-helping-homeless-.html?id=21.html

http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triad/news/2015/12/8/teacher-turns-learning-experience-into-project-helping-homeless-.html?id=21.html


Shout Out to B E Jordan Elementary Laura Kimball, School Counselor

On Friday, December 4th, BEJ held its School Spelling Bee. We had representatives from each of our 4th and 5th grade classes. Our spelling bee this year incorporated both vocabulary and spelling rounds!

Our winner, Collin Ferguson, will go on to the Times-News Spelling Bee on February 11th at the Paramount Theater, with our runner-up, Braiden Stines, as the alternate if Collin is unable to compete. Congratulations to our awesome BEJ spellers!

Pictured below left: Collin Ferguson

Pictured below right: Braiden Stines

C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S


Shout Out from Sylvan Elementary Christine Harris, Academic Coach

Our Sylvan Blue Jays would like to shout THANK YOU to SMS Tigers Book Drivers for selecting our Give 5, Read 5 program for their book drive! These students collected 3 boxes of books for us! We are so thankful for their generosity. We can't wait to get these books in the hands of our readers over break! SMS Book Drivers (left to right) Chacey Kilcrease Brooke Moore (former Sylvan Blue Jay) Kentley Smith Kearsyn Henderson

Here’s A Big Blue Jay THANK YOU!

http://www.abss.k12.nc.us/sye


Shout Out to Smith Elementary Lindy Isley, Teacher/Librarian

Our Smith Seabees were buzzing with acts of kindness in November! As a school, we focused on kindness for the month of November because World Kindness Day is November 13 and one of our behavioral expectations is to "Inspire Others." During monthly classroom guidance lessons Ms. Candice Lewis, guidance counselor, focused on kindness. The kindness wall was a representation of kind acts that our students and staff completed during the month of November. When staff or students found an act of kindness being displayed, they wrote the act and the name of the person showing that kindness on a Post-It note and stuck it on the wall. We collected over 215 kind acts! What a wonderful way to inspire others! Seabees are bee-ing KIND to one another!


Shout Out from Andrews Elementary Pam Burney-el, School Social Worker

Vanessa Stone is a valued member of R. Homer Andrews Elementary and had been selected for Classified Employee of the Year! Mrs. Stone has 23 years of educational experience with grades 1-5. She has worked with 21st Century Community Center. She has a positive attitude and love for children which is reflected in her daily contacts with students and teachers. Jennifer Russell, 5th grade teacher at R. Homer Andrews Elementary, has been named Teacher of the Year! Ms. Russell has something that the great teachers possess....the ability to make every student feel good about themselves. She creates an incredible learning environment in her classroom. She has been teaching for 18 years and has taught grades 3rd, 4th and 5th. Picture: Jennifer Russell (left) Vanessa Stone (right) Congratulations!

Shout Out from E M Yoder Elementary Roberta Powell

EM Yoder students in grades 3-5 showcased their talents in scientific research by competing in the E. M. Yoder school science fair! This year's competition drew 35 contestants. Projects were exhibited in the gym. Participants were able to demonstrate their work and practice their communication skills as they were given the opportunity to share their hard work with their peers prior to judging.


The top three submissions are: 1st Place: Nicky Liu and Ray Phillips, 4th Grade, “Loop the Loop”

2nd Place: Paulina Henze and Elizabeth Tomblyn, 3th Grade, “Watch What You Drink”

3rd Place: Connor Walker, 5th Grade, “They Are No Good to Me Melted”

Honorable Mentions: Mattison Malone and Megan Layne, 5th Grade, “Hot or Cold” Wyatt Faucette, 3rd Grade, “Which Cup Best Prevents Ice from Melting?” A big Shout-Out to all our participants! We wish our top three the best as they move on to the next stage of competition at the district level.


Shout Out from Alexander Wilson Elementary Jennifer Noah, Speech & Language Pathologist

AWE partnered with Cub Scout Pack 65 out of Saxapahaw to hold a food drive to support S.A.F.E. (Southern Alamance Family Empowerment Food Ministry). Our food drive ran from December 1st through December 11th. The grade level that brought in the most items won a popsicle party and the homeroom that brought in the most items won a pizza party. The Scouts helped go around the school and gather the food as well as make a delivery to S.A.F.E. We are very excited to announce that the students brought in a total of 3,631items!!

The winning class was Mrs. Reich’s class with 566 items! 1338 items were donated just in one day, today, Friday! This has been an

extremely successful community outreach for our school and we are very proud of the generosity of our school family!

Pictured above: Cub Scout Pack 65

Pictured at right: Mrs. Reich’s winning class


Shout Out to North Graham Elementary United Way of Alamance County

Congratulations to Kirstie Dixon from North Graham Elementary!

Kirstie was the “last lady standing” among 12 finalists in the annual Auto Rally car giveaway sponsored by all Alamance County car dealerships and the United Way of Alamance County!

In the reverse drawing, Kirstie’s lucky number 5 was the last styrofoam ball pulled from the ticket spinner. Then, Kirstie pulled a manila envelope out of the spinner, and pulled out the keys to a brand-new silver Dodge Dart from Nichols Dodge!


The crowd cheered when Kirstie got to sit in the front seat and honk the horn of her new car at the event on Thursday at the Children’s Museum of Alamance County!

Below, Kirstie is congratulated by Heidi Norwick, president of United Way of Alamance County and a representative from Nichols Dodge.

Congratulations!


Shout Out from Graham Middle Joy Rust, Choral Director

Twenty students from Graham Middle School's 7th grade Teen Leadership and Advanced Chorus traveled after school to Cedar Ridge Retirement Center to share time, conversation and music with senior residents on Thursday, December 10! Students were delighted (and shocked) to meet a very spry 102 year old resident! Residents requested songs, chorus students sang several songs, and Teen Leadership students mingled with residents. Our field trip was capped off with dinner at none other than Golden Corral! A special Shout Out goes to our stellar bus driver/parent/teacher Joe Little!

Photo above: GMS seventh grade teacher Carol Feddeman and her mother (Cedar Ridge resident) surrounded by some of the 7th grade students from Mrs. Rust's classes.


Photo above: What an absolute delight to hear stories from two Cedar Ridge residents who attended and graduated from "the old" Graham High School! Pictured is Bartialette "Barky" Braxton Thompson (L), a 1936 graduate, and Annie Smith (R), a 1942 graduate. Our GMS students were entranced hearing some of the stories shared about "the old GHS!"



Mrs. Taylor's 4th grade students have been showing they understand erosion. Using sand in a paint container, students have been demonstrating making: valleys, hills, mountains, and then using water to show gentle erosion and severe erosion.


Shout Out from Newlin Elementary Rachel Sherrill, Second Grade

One day my class was reading a story about a girl in Tanzania. The students saw pictures of girls with water jugs on their heads and it automatically prompted questions. "Why are they carrying that on their heads?", "Why are they getting water?", "Don't they have water in their house?", and many more questions followed that. When the students learned that some children can't attend school, get sick, and sometimes die from unclean water they have to collect, the next question was from a serious little girl..."What can we do to help?".

The class did some research and found The Water Project. Our class made posters, told their family and friends, made a video and showed the school, collected money, counted the money, and wrote thank you cards to each and every class that participated.

Many staff, teachers, and students at our school participated by donating change and spreading the word about this issue. In a little over a month, these students raised over $800 to put towards this important cause.

They are true leaders i n our community!


Miss Sherrill’s Second Grade Leaders

To find out more about The Water Project, visit: http://thewaterproject.org/

http://thewaterproject.org/


Shout Out from Smith Elementary Lindy Isley, Teacher/Librarian

The stage in the gym of Smith Elementary became a mall of sorts as the annual Christmas Cove took place this year! Children were given envelopes on which to put the names of individuals for which they would like to buy gifts. Then the parents put money in the envelopes so that the children could purchase gifts for the people on their lists. The gifts ranged in price from $1 to $5. There were even parent volunteers to help with wrapping so the gifts could be kept a secret until Christmas! For those students who needed help financially, some parents made donations so every child would be able to buy something.

This has become a very popular tradition at Smith. The children are so proud to be able to have gifts for their loved ones.

Thanks to PTO parent Sharon Holt for organizing the event and to all of the parents and grandparents for helping with wrapping and gift selection!


Shout Out to Pleasant Grove Elementary Grace Cole, Technology/Media

Mrs. Taylor's 4th grade class has been working on fluency and expression in their reading, as well as their presenting skills. How have they been doing that?

They have been rehearsing books, and then reading aloud to Kindergarten classes through Google HangOuts!

Our Kindergarteners have been really impressed to have an older student show up on their SmartBoard and read them a book!



On Tuesday, December 8th, the students of Pleasant Grove Elementary got up on stage and shared holiday songs that they have been learning in Music class.

There were funny songs, and thoughtful songs, and even a song sung in Spanish.

There was lots of laughter and applause. Our students did an AMAZING job!



Shout Out to ABSS Signature Schools

Two ABSS schools were recognized by the Piedmont Triad Education Consortium on Friday, December 11 as Signature Schools for significant demonstrated improvement during the past 12 months in a wide array of indicators such as: positive systemic change throughout the school; academic achievement for all students, overall quality of teaching, and successful engagement with parents and the community.

Congratulations to E. M. Yoder Elementary and Williams High School for being honored for their accomplishments!

Pictured top right: Williams High School L to R: Dr. Joe Ferrell, principal; Dee Harrison, teacher; Elizabeth Trevathan, teacher; and Dr. Harrison

Pictured at right: E. M. Yoder Elementary School

L to R: Christine Kreider, assistant principal, Leslie Eldreth, principal; Jen Keefe, 2nd grade teacher and Yoder’s Teacher of the Year

The Piedmont Triad Education Consortium is a collaboration of fifteen K-12 public school districts and seventeen higher education institutions in central North Carolina, including Alamance Community College and Elon University.


Shout Out to Our ABSS Teacher of the Year, Kevin Scharen

Congratulations to Mr. Kevin Scharen, our ABSS Teacher of the Year! Mr. Scharen was surprised today by Keana Triplett, current North Carolina Teacher of the Year, and DeAnna Foust-Platt, regional Teacher of the Year faciltator, who visited the Alamance-Burlington Early/Middle College today to announce…………..Mr. Scharen has been selected as the Piedmont Triad Region Teacher of the Year! This means that he will advance in competition for North Carolina Teacher of the Year in the spring! Kevin had been notified earlier that he was one of two finalists for the region, but now it is official!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Pictured above: Mr. Scharen with North Carolina Teacher of the Year, Keana Triplett

Pictured at right: Mr. Scharen with his wife, Christina (teacher at Sylvan Elementary) and his oldest daughter Keira


Pictured above:

Mr. Scharen with DeAnna Foust-Platt

Pictured top right: Mr. Scharen with principals Bonnie Roane and Charlotte Holmes

Pictured at right: Dr. Harrison with Mr. Scharen

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