School Life: Winners
Published 9:18 pm Monday, December 31, 2007
EHS fares well at JROTC competition
Everett High School Junior ROTC cadets recently took third place for Unarmed Drill Team and fourth place for Armed Drill Team in a competition with nine other high schools.
Individual students earned honors as well.
Josh Harmer, a senior, took second place for Individual Armed Exhibition Drill and first place overall as Armed Drill Team Commander.
Bailey McShurley, a junior, earned third place for her work as Unarmed Drill Team Commander.
Wesley McIver, a junior, and Jose Correa, a sophomore, won second place for Dual Armed Exhibition Drill Team.
The team’s next competition takes place at Mount Tahoma High School on Jan. 26.
Everett schools get Audubon grants
Six classrooms at three Everett School District elementary schools have won $250 Pilchuck Audubon Society classroom conservation awards.
Two View Ridge Elementary School teachers, Heidi Davis and John Arbuckle, will work with their second- and third-grade classes to produce puppet shows describing environmental problems.
They will research the problems by visiting a neighborhood park and using scientific methods to answer the questions that result from those visits.
Ira Siebert’s View Ridge fifth-grade students will focus on ways to solve recycling challenges. They will design and produce fliers that show classmates what is and what is not recyclable and what each student can do to help with recycling at school and at home. They also plan to produce CDs that other teachers can use in their classrooms. They plan to use their grant money to build permanent recycling stations in the View Ridge lunchroom.
Dolly Gamlyn at Woodside Elementary plans to buy materials so that her second-graders can study the life cycle of butterflies. Each student will have an opportunity to take part in raising and caring for caterpillars and the butterflies they become.
Penny Creek’s third-graders, under the guidance of teacher Kathi MacDonald, are planning to keep nature journals and use “First Field Guides” this year. Kindergarten students at Penny Creek should benefit from the project as well as the third-grade students who share their journals and observations with the younger students.
Penny Creek highly capable students in Laurie Miller’s third- and fourth-grade classrooms, working with technology specialist Wanda Hill, are planning to podcast messages to the community. Using a Web site to broadcast reports about state environmental issues, students will distribute their messages to an audience beyond the school campus. Topics they plan to cover include recycling, littering, taking care of the trails, being careful with campfires and of the state’s water and salmon.
The local Audubon branch provides the annual grant awards to instill in young students a sense of the need to conserve and protect natural resources.
Traditionally, 10 such awards for $250 each are awarded to Snohomish County public or private school teachers.
Mountainview names student of the quarter
Mountainview High School in Marysville recently named Robin Perez as its student of the quarter for the fall. Others nominated were Melissa Casillas, Manual Galvan and Olivia Webb-Robinson.
