Published: February 26, 2009 11:53 am      

Westwood ISD Happenings for 2-23

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

• Important Dates — March 2 – Texas Independence Day; March 3 – TAKS 7th Grade Writing; TAKS 8th Grade Reading; March 3 – Boys and Girls Track Meet at Westwood ; Last day to turn in form for Expanding Your Horizons (to R. Huffman); March 7 – Formal Dance at Palestine Civic Center;

• New Band Director — Westwood Junior High School’s staff, students and faculty would like to welcome the new band director Joshua Shellenbarger. 

• Solo & Ensemble — Congratulations to the following students who participated in the Middle School Solo and Ensemble Contest recently held in Nacogdoches. These junior high students all received 1st Division ratings:  Erin Bailey, Karson Lanningham, Jayna Spillman, Heather Wooden, Savannah Harris, Zack Phillips, Jacob Richards, Gustavo Castillo, Tyler Vintila, J.T. McLain, and Chris Thompson.

• Lovelady Tournament — Congratulations to Coach Lagrone’s seventh-grade girl’s basketball team. They received 1st place in the Tournament held in Lovelady. The scores were 30-2 and 38-18. The tournament concluded the basketball season for the girls. 



ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

• Fifth Grade — This week our Fifth graders are working hard on Accelerated Reading and Accelerated Math with only two weeks left to meet their goals. In Accelerated Math, we are working on specific objectives that the students may have had difficulty with on their Benchmark tests to better prepare them for the TAKS test.

In Science, we are studying electricity and magnetism with experiments in the Science Lab and in the classroom.

With the help of our FOSS (Full Option Science System) kits, the students will be making electromagnets in the classroom.



PRIMARY SCHOOL

• Head Start — The Head Start children enjoyed a “balloon in motion” activity with their parents before the Valentine's party last week. Not only did they get to do the activity with their parents, they observed science in a very fun way!

• Kindergarten — This week kindergarten students are continuing their study of letter Uu and introducing letter “Zz.”

• Second Grade — Second graders are continuing to work with fractions. They are still discussing heroes in Social Studies. In reading they are comparing and contrasting “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and “Abuelo and the Three Bears” along with learning more about contractions and subject/verb agreement.

• P.E. — Second-grade polo hockey tournament started Feb. 16 and will last for two weeks.

Mrs. Cherry says the second graders are very competitive and are working together as a team to win the tournament for their class. Good luck second-grade classes!

• Character Club — The following students were named as Character Club members for the week of February 9-13, because they demonstrated the character trait, “Love”; Caden Alexander, Marilyn Umansor, Shaun Meadows, Cameron Navarrette, Jason Jones, Dustin Sides, Jilmer Cruz-Hernandez, Me'Kaila Oliver, Gary Pyle, Ethan Richardson, J.S. Banks, Bryanna Stotts, Ian Axum, Bolu Adeyemi, Stephen Marshall, Ja'Tavian Wilson, Dylan Boothe, MaShala Sanders, Adriana Olvera, Julia Escobar, Peyton Frey and Matthew Dean.