Published: March 27, 2007 12:52 pm            

Westwood ISD School Happenings for 3-25-07

HIGH SCHOOL

• Scholarship Information — Any senior interested in the following scholarships should see Mrs. Vaughan for an application:

Anderson County Legal Professionals Association Scholarship: $1,000; must have at least a B average to apply. Deadline is Thursday.

The Charles, Lela and Mary Slough Foundation Scholarship: $5,000; Deadline is Thursday.

East Texas Professional Credit Union McLauchlin Scholarship: $2,000; the applicant or immediate family member must have an account at the credit union; must major in education to apply. Deadline is Saturday.

East Texas Professional Credit Union Presidential Scholarship: $1000; the applicant or immediate family member must have an account at the credit union to apply; open to any major or career field. Deadline is Saturday.

Texas State Technical College Marshall Scholarship: $1,000; must plan to attend Texas State Technical College in Marshall to apply. Deadline is April 1.

East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Scholarship: $500; must write a 300-750 word essay entitled “Why I Choose Not to Use” to apply. Deadline is April 9.

Cars of Palestine Scholarship: $500; must have at least a B average to apply. Deadline is April 15.

David Joe Walton Agriculture Scholarship: $1,000; open to any senior who has been involved in agriculture or 4-H during high school. Deadline is April 15.

East Texas State Fair Association Scholarship: $3,000; must plan to attend Tyler Junior College for the next two years to apply. Deadline is April 15.

East Texas Farm & Ranch Club Scholarship: $1,000; Deadline is April 15.

East Texas Cattle-Ettes Scholarship: $1,000; must plan to attend Tyler Junior College to study an agriculture related field to apply. Deadline is April 15.



JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

• Students and Teacher of the Month — Students of the Month are eighth grader Dakota Beckman and seventh grader Blake Bowers. Teacher of the Month is seventh grade science teacher Vickey Quarles.

• Upcoming Events — Thursday, WJH Band at Rusk Showcase event; Friday, girls track at Elkhart; Saturday, Expanding Your Horizons career conference.

• Expanding Your Horizons — Saturday, 44 girls in grades 6-8 will attend Expanding Your Horizons, a career conference at Tyler Junior College. The bus will leave Westwood Junior High School at 7 a.m.

After the conference, the girls will have lunch at Posada's Mexican Restaurant.



ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

• Second Grade — Mrs. McCann’s students prepared for Oregon this week. Students had the hard task of deciding the three items that they would take with them and what they would leave behind.

Students also had to compare their lives today to students from the time period of the Oregon Trail traveling. Science students learned about inherited traits by surveying family members. MiKayla Benson and Ryan Cernoch were the classroom managers.



PRIMARY SCHOOL

• The Great Race — Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Fish's second graders returned from winter break excited to follow the Alaskan Iditarod. Each student selected a musher participating in the XXXV annual "Great Race.” The students charted their daily travels from each checkpoint, the mileage, number of dogs and temperature through the web site and Official Iditarod Newsletter.

The students were able to move their musher's progress using "paw prints" along a charted route hung in their classroom.

The students learned to pronounce, locate and identify each checkpoint, using both maps and interactive Internet Web pages. During this 13-day race many questions came up about the number of dogs each day? What and why did they scratch? How cold is that? What kind of dogs do they use? These higher level questions kept the students interests as well as trying to research the answers using our internet resources.

Along with our literature story "Balto; The Dog Who Saved Nome,” creating dog sleds with popsicles sticks and finding facts about each musher, our cross curriculum unit was a success.

• First Grade — Mrs. Doran’s first-grade class is watching closely to see our mealworms evolve into beetles. We check them often to document the life cycle as it appears before us.

We are also learning about our wonderful state. Today we sang “Texas, Our Texas” and are learning about our state bird, the mockingbird, and the bluebonnet, the state flower.

• Second Grade — The second-grade classes have returned from an adventurous safari!

Animals were running at us in a friendly way and we were able to feed them from our food cups.

Wayne Herring of the Grapeland Drive Thru Safari entertained us with his animal antics, wit, humor, & knowledge of the animals.

He drove us in an old bus without windows to see pigs, llamas, an ostrich, turkeys, buffaloes, camels, deer, and many other animals.

The ostrich was so friendly that he tried to kiss one of us. We enjoyed a miniature train ride, pony rides, snow cones, a jumping house, and a picnic.

What a day to remember for a long time!

        

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