ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018
Shout Out from Highland Elementary Rachel Fowler
Last week the students and staff at Highland Elementary participated in Red Ribbon Week. The theme of the week was "Life if your journey, travel drug free!" PTO decorated the school with red ribbons and had students sign to say that they would be drug free
Highland's PTO helped students celebrate being drug free with a spirit week. Monday students dressed to impress. Tuesday students turned their backs on drugs and wore their clothes backwards! Wednesday students wore crazy socks and "socked" it to drugs! Thursday students teamed up against drugs by wearing their favorite sports team shirt! Friday showed that they pledged to be drug free by wearing red!
Teachers and staff participated by wearing a red ribbon each day. Not only did students wear their Red Ribbon Week spirit, but they displayed it in their creations as well! PTO sponsored a Red Ribbon Week poster contest, where each classroom made a poster to display each student being drug free.
One winner was chosen from each hallway and rewarded! Students also showed they promised to not do drugs by signing a pledge banner!
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Excellent job showing your drug free spirit this week Highland Hawks!
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Shout Out from Central Office
Everyone at central office enjoys Halloween as our favorite day of the year because we are lucky enough to have pre-K and K students from Eastlawn come over for trick or treating! It is a toss-up who enjoys this day more—kids or adults!
Our building was filled with incredible super heroes,
princesses, ninja turtles, police officers and more! Some Som Some little, some big!
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Shout Out to Graham High School Kim Draluck
I would like to send a special Shout Out to Kim Davis, Career Development Coordinator at Graham High, and all the others staff at the high schools who prepare our children as they are getting ready to take the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) tests and make their way into the military to serve our great nation. Had it not been for Kim, I would have been stressed out to the max while waiting and getting my son ready for the ASVAB test. Thanks to her, my son registered for the test, took it and got his results without any issues. She works with all of the recruiters to make sure our brave future military young men and women’s needs are met as they begin to prepare for their journey and a future defending our country. Thank you!
(Kim Davis (on left) at the High School Options Fair talking with parents and students about CTE options) ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018
Shout Out for Election Day, Tuesday, November 6
Just a reminder that Tuesday, November 6 is Election Day. It is a teacher workday for Alamance-Burlington Schools, so students are not in schools that day. This is a safety precaution because ABSS has 9 schools that are used as election sites by the Alamance County Board of Elections. Those schools are:
Andrews Elementary Grove Park Elementary Hawfields Middle Hillcrest Elementary Newlin Elementary Pleasant Grove Elementary Turrentine Middle Smith Elementary Sylvan Elementary
Shout Out for ABSS What’s After High School? Program
At the Saturday, October 27 Success By Design College Knowledge Conference, one lucky ABSS student won a laptop as a door prize! See below for his thank you to Michael Lane, director—Duke Dix from
Western High is busy writing a book!
Good afternoon Mr. Lane,
I was excited to win the laptop yesterday! It was completely unexpected! I will use it for school work, college research, and writing my book. I have it up and running today and I will begin using it for my homework. I am currently in the AP Capstone Program at Western High and I will be using it often for research.
Thank you for organizing the Success By Design Conference yesterday. I learned a lot and will use the information provided to guide my college and scholarship research. Winning the laptop was a huge bonus, but the conference answered a lot of questions that my parents and I had about planning for college.
Sincerely,
Duke Dix
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Shout Out to Graham High
Check out the Times-News story about the Graham High launch of the UNC virtual reality college tour: http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20181027/at-graham-high-unc-campus-tours-go-virtual
Shout Out to Sea Turtle Superhero at Central Office
School employee dedicates her summers to sea turtle conservation
By Jessica Williams Times-News
Suzan Bell’s office pays homage to one of her greatest loves: sea turtles.
When she and her husband purchased a home on Oak Island in 2002, she channeled her lifelong love of turtles and tortoises into the Oak Island Sea Turtle Protection Program, protecting mothers and babies during the nesting season from May to October.
“We get up about five o’clock in the morning and we go out on the beach, and what we’re looking for are tracks,” Bell said. “We’re looking for the mama’s tracks that say she came out of the ocean. And once we find the tracks, we follow the ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018
tracks up, and we try to determine if she laid a nest, where she would have laid the eggs, or if it’s a false crawl, you know, what happened. And if we determine that it is a nest, we actually get on our hands and knees and dig in the sand … to verify that it is a nest and that there are eggs there.”
If they find a nest, they determine if the area is safe — somewhere far away from beachgoers and high tide — and move the eggs to another location if necessary.
“We try not to move nests because it should be as natural as possible,” Bell said. Generally, nests hatch 55 to 65 days after the eggs are laid.
For staff with the Protection Program, that means around-the-clock observation starting on the 50th day and continuing until the turtles have hatched and made it to the water safely.
“It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen it,
and I’ve seen it, I couldn’t even tell you the number, it is exciting every single time,” Bell said. “I still get goosebumps. I still get excited. I still get that feeling that this is such a miracle.”
An Alamance County native, Bell graduated from Eastern Alamance High School and worked in classrooms for a number of years before moving to ABSS’ central office to become an administrative assistant for Dr. Angela Bost.
“Now that I’m out of the classroom and over here, if a teacher calls me and says, ‘We’re doing a project on this or that, would you come and speak?’ I’m always willing to go to share, and I love it,” she said.
The kids get to see fun pictures of sea turtles hatching and even a “triplet egg” with three turtles inside of it, but they also learn an important lesson: clean up after yourself, and recycle.
Trash left on beaches can block mother sea turtles from laying their eggs, and trash floating in the ocean has catastrophic effects.
A study published Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Australian nature research journal Scientific Reports found that even small bits of plastic can be lethal, with the risk of death increasing significantly for sea turtles that have ingested 14 pieces of plastic or more.
Larger pieces, like plastic bags or straws, can cause suffocation. ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018
Bell drinks from a metal straw each day, which is one example of how students, and adults, can reduce their plastic use.
“I always ask them to tell their parents, ‘Let’s pick up what we brought. Let’s leave only footprints in the sand,’ because this is their home, not our home,” Bell said.
And when her old students drop by to visit, the first question they ask her is, “Ms. Bell, how are the sea turtles?”
Shout Out from Western Alamance FFA Taylor Apple, Advisor
On Thursday Nov, 1 the Federation FFA truck and tractor driving contest was held at Western Alamance High School. Western Alamance, Southern Alamance and Southern Guilford had students competing. We are proud to announce that First Place in truck driving goes to Harris Moss and First Place in tractor driving goes to Preston Cole! These two students will be competing in the state contest on Jan 31 in Raleigh at the Southern Farm Show.
at left: WAHS FFA truck drivers Harris Moss and Taylor Slemenda
at right: WAHS FFA tractor drivers Harris Moss, Matt Woodruff, Preston Cole
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Mrs Apple’s horticulture class visited ACC and Iseley Farms. Students got to tour the ACC horticulture department to learn about offerings in their program. Students got to meet current students, visit their greenhouse, and talk about careers in horticulture.
Students also had a tour at Iseley Farm by wagon. Iseley farm is a great place to visit with friendly Sim Angus beef cattle, fun fall activities and pumpkins for everyone.
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Students also learned about predicting weather by the persimmon seed, we saw a spoon inside that means it’s going to be a snowy winter!
Mrs Apple horticulture students practiced grafting techniques and air layering on Twizzlers and pretzels.
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Shout Out from Broadview Middle
A big Shout Out to National Pawn of Burlington! ‘
On Thursday, November 1, Broadview Middle School students were excited to receive a donation of more than 100 instruments and a check for $2000 to support music education for the Bobcats.
Mr. Bob Moulton, owner of National Pawn shared his personal story about how important playing an instrument in his school’s band was to him during middle and high school. Check out the story in Times- News: http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20181101/burlingtons- broadview-middle-receives-free-musical-instruments
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Shout Out from Western Alamance High CTE Stephanie Mitchener, Career Development Coordinator
Western Alamance students in Amy Carter's Food Science Class are studying sugar crystallization in candy. Students made candied apples on Halloween.
Shout Out from Pleasant Grove Elementary Voting Counts!
Pleasant Grove Elementary held “early voting” this week to elect student council officers. Third through fifth graders listened to candidate speeches, then voted for their picks to lead their student government association. Check out the story in Times-News:
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20181101/at-pleasant-grove-elementary-politics-are-kind- and-honest
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Shout Out from B Everett Jordan Elementary Meredith Draughn, School Counselor The students at BEJ celebrated Red Ribbon Week in style with themed spirit days and a variety of activities to teach and explore safe and healthy behaviors. Our spirit days were:
Monday – “Be a ‘Jeanius,’ don’t do drugs!” Tuesday – “Stomp Out Drugs” Wednesday – “My Future’s Too Bright to Do Drugs!” Thursday – “Superheroes Stand Up to Drugs!” Friday – “Team Up Against Drugs!”
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We also had an amazing visit from the Southern Alamance High School DREAM Team. They led our students in many fun and engaging activities to show them how harmful substances can affect their abilities and how important it is to focus on their dreams and future goals!
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Shout Out for A-B Early College @ ACC Jodi Hofberg, Secondary Math Specialist Kevin Scharen from The Early College @ ACC was awarded the Alamance-Burlington School System's Outstanding Math Educator award for 2018-2019. Kevin was recognized at the NCCTM Awards Ceremony at Koury Convention Center on Thursday, November 1st.
Kevin is passionate about his work with students and their ability to understand and apply mathematics in the real world. His students create You Tube videos on various math concepts/skills that are available world-wide.
Congrats again to Kevin and for representing Alamance-Burlington at the NCCTM Conference!
Shout Out from Turrentine Middle Patti Perrou, Instructional Technology
Turrentine Middle School celebrated Spirit Week this week! Each day had a theme and students and staff had an awesome time coming together to show our school spirit and pride. Some of the highlights were the Pink Out on Monday that carried over to our home football game that afternoon.
Wacky Wednesday was also a big hit with a wide variety of wacky/tacky outfits on display.
Our fall sports teams were recognized at a pep rally on Thursday.
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102 Jamz radio station hosted the pep rally and our students and teachers enjoyed all of the crazy games and activities such as the doughnut-eating contest and hula-hoop challenge. It was a great week of spirit-filled activities that all of our Turrentine community enjoyed!
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Shout Out from Graham Middle Kerrie Ann Brown, School Social Worker
K-5 Grades were recognized at a Terrific Kids breakfast on Friday, November 2nd by school counselor, Randy Milton! Congratulations SGE students!
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Shout Out from E M Holt Angie Kutzer Students in all grades have been participating in The Global Read Aloud for 2018 from Oct.1 until Nov.16th. We have made connections with other students from all over the world from Africa to New Zealand as well as 48 of the 50 states who are all reading the same books!
During the program students (and Mrs. Kutzer!) have learned to use Flipgrid, Padlet, and Seesaw platforms to collaborate and discuss the books with others. We will be finishing up with a few Skype sessions and BreakoutEDU games to celebrate!
E.M. Holt just celebrated its annual Book Character Parade as a culminating activity for book projects completed during October. Listening to students talk about their reading and encouraging others to read their book selections was so refreshing....and the costumes were amazing!
To top it off, 1st grade teacher Brittney Moody arranged for a visit from very special volunteers from Universal Forest Products.
They come dressed and ready to read to our K-2 classrooms. A big THANK YOU to these community business partners!
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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018
Shout Out from ABSS
Click here for information about the ABSS bond referendum that is on the November 6 ballot: Facilities Facts About Bond Referendum You will find information about the 8 schools that are part of the bond project proposal, along with the proposed new high school.
Can you guess? What was the most popular song on the Billboard Top 100 the year the schools on the bond referendum were new?
Click on the links below to listen!
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel 1970 Cummings High Sugar Shack Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs 1963 Eastern & Western High Stranger On The Shore Mr. Acker Bilk 1962 Graham High & South Mebane Theme from "A Summer Place" Percy Faith 1960 Southern High Blue Tango Leroy Anderson 1952 Pleasant Grove Twelfth Street Rag Pee Wee Hunt & Orchestra 1948 Williams High