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SCHOOL NEWS FOR
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2002
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Elementary School News |
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By Mary Nethaway and Max
Batchelor |
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Spring has sprung at MES. Things are busy as students
prepare for TCAP examinations April 2, 3, and 4.
Mrs. Wilcoxson is sponsoring the Scholastic Book Fair in
the library through April 1st.
Citizen of the month awards will be given this Thursday
at 8:10 AM in the gym.
Kindergarten parents should note that MES Kindergarten
students will not attend classes on April 12th due to
registration for next year's kindergartners.
In other news, Mrs. Marlene Kreuter's Kindergarten class
celebrated the arrival of spring by making flowers from
crushed eggshells. The learned that the short sound of E
is the sound found in the word egg. They used food
coloring to dye the eggshells red, blue, green, and
yellow. After they were dry, the students had fun
crushing the shells. They made beautiful flowers by
gluing the shells to form a flower. Each was placed in a
shadowbox and now decorate the hallway.
Mrs. Charlotte Verner's 3rd graders will be "Hopping
into Math" on March 28th. They will work in stations to
celebrate their preparation for TCAPs. Prizes will be
awarded.
Mrs. Carol Nanney's class has been reading Missing: One
Stuffed Rabbit. Each child brought a stuffed animal to
class. They pretended the animals were lost and designed
a "Missing" poster including a description of their
animal.
Fourth grade classes are preparing for their annual
parachute drop. Dates will be announced.
Finally, mark your calendars. There is no school Friday,
March 29, in celebration of Good Friday.
Until next time . . .
Compiled by Max Batchelor |
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Middle School News |
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Mrs. Jennifer Ognibene's classes participated in the
annual eighth grade science fair held March 5.
Forty-seven projects in three divisions were entered.
The overall winners came from the biology division. John
Kermit Laughrey, Craig Broadbent and Hunter Downing won
the cash prize donated by Southern Scientific with their
project, "The bacteria on which surface grows back
fastest: the sink, the water fountain or the stall door
handle?" Other winners in the biology division were
Elaine Haw and Courtni Esch in second and Frankie
Roberts, Bud Rogers, Kellett Hochreiter, Dana Melton and
Christy Dycus in third place. Winners from the physical
science division were Courtney Creasy, Kayla Taylor,
Rema Salameh in first place; Amanda Ferguson and Jessica
Maynard in second and Logan Mayo and Mark Bowlin in
third. Consumer science winners were Brice Priestley,
Caleb Owen and Marshall Smith in first place, Cody Brown
and Josh Wilkerson in second and Elizabeth Johnsonius,
Ashley Murrey, Greg Pruitt and Jake Brown in third.
Spring football practice concluded on March 8. There
were 27 seventh graders and 35 sixth graders who
participated in two weeks of after school instruction.
Coaches Ognibene, Kee and McCaleb were proud of the
efforts and enthusiasm shown by these middle school
athletes.
Our first middle school soccer season begins March 25
at Huntingdon. With soccer being one of the fastest
growing sports, we have scheduled several local schools.
The team has matches with Huntingdon, Palmersville,
Martin, Dyersburg, Lexington and Union City. Eighteen
seventh and eighth graders make up this year's roster.
They are Greg Pruitt, Mikie King, Jake Brown, Caleb
Owen, John Kermit Laughrey, Justin Wilson, Beau Brown,
Lee Barham, Holland Hames, Rema Salameh, Brooke Cole,
Courtney Wiggins, Glenn Smith, Alex Masullo, Chase
Mitchell, Samantha Doster, Britton McCann, and Carson
Rider. The team will be coached by Jason Driggers. |
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Notes from the High School |
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By McKenzie High School Principal, Terry Howell |
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Student Council officers for next year are as follows:
Ryan Lacy, president; Jay Taylor, vice-president;
Jasmine McMackin; secretary; John Craig Howell,
parliamentarian; Amber King, treasurer; and Matthew
Jones, reporter. These students attended the annual
Student Council Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, at
the David Lipscomb campus on March 21-23. Over 600
students and adult supervisors from across the state met
at this convention which is sponsored by the Tennessee
Association of Student Councils. The local Student
Council serves as the voice of the students and helps to
organize assembly programs, Homecoming activities, and
student intramurals. The state convention has as its
goals to foster and develop leadership skills among
young people and to allow students to share ideas about
student government and school climate. The 2002-03
officers were chaperoned by Student Council sponsor
Paula Doster and Sheila Ridley.
The Carroll County Arts Council sponsored its annual art
contest for Carroll County high school students.
McKenzie High School art students took two of the three
places in the contest with Kent Ozment winning first
place for a color pencil drawing. Christopher Hinton
earned third place for his acrylic painting work. Kent
and Christopher earned $100 and $50 respectively for
their winning entries. Ramon Padilla received honorable
mention for his submission. Art instructor Glynda Corbin
involves many of our students every year in contests
such as this, and our students always seem to do well.
Students taking art at McKenzie display their work
regularly on display racks outside the art room. They
add to the aesthetics of the building and instill in
students an artistic spirit and sense of accomplishment
when they complete the various projects of the class.
The issuance of report cards last week allows us to
recognize those students who have performed well
academically. The McKenzie Banner has always supported
us in our attempt to recognize individuals with the
various honor rolls, and this announcement will probably
appear in another part of the paper. We do have three
types of honor rolls. The High Honor Roll includes all
students who earn grades of 95 or above. Thirty-nine
students qualified for this high distinction. Those
students named to the Honor Roll had an A average with
no grade below an 89. We had 38 students who earned this
accolade. The Merit Roll recognizes students with a B
average and no grade below 85. We had 87 students to
achieve this status. In all 164 students performed well
enough to be included on one of the three honor roll
groups. As I mentioned last week, teachers of students
who failed a class or had an 80 or below average for the
first nine weeks of the semester will receive a
telephone call from the teacher of the class.
The physics and Biology II classes under the direction
of Jennifer Champion and Kevin Gallimore had its annual
Science Fair on Friday, March 22. Students competed in
the physical science and biological science division. In
the physical science division, the project chosen as the
best was submitted by Ryan Lacey with the title of "What
It All Boyles Down To: A Demonstration of Boyle's Law."
In her project Ryan created an apparatus with a giant
syringe and weights to show the inverse relationship of
volume and pressure if the temperature remains constant.
The second place project by Catherine Clark was entitled
"Static Electricity: Can It Be Generated Using Household
Products?" In this project, Catherine also created an
apparatus using a small laundry detergent bottle, wire
coat hanger, PVC pipe, and lumber for a box to create a
small generator of electricity. Both projects had the
necessary data, procedures, hypothesis necessary for
scientific inquiry. In the biological division, Taylor
Holland and Robyn Winkler won first place with
"Mealworms: Gone Wild on Caffeine." Taylor and Robyn
used three groups of mealworms -- one with high levels
of caffeine, one with a lesser amount of caffeine, and
one group as a control. The charts and graphs
convincingly showed the positive relationship between
increased caffeine and reproductivity. The second place
project in the biological division was submitted by
Sarah Ozment for her work entitled "What Do You Mean
Relax?" Sarah's project explored different relaxation
techniques -- aromatherapy, massage therapy, etc. and
showed through observation and the collection of data
what technique contributed to relaxation to the greatest
extent. Approximately 20 projects were submitted to the
Science Fair with several of those projects having two
people jointing submitting a project.
The softball team played in extremely cold weather last
Thursday at home against the Martin Westview Lady
Chargers. The Lady Rebels continued their successful
season by winning 11-4 to raise their record to 3-1. All
other games were cancelled because of rain. We do
appreciate Parks Director Ricky French and his crew for
getting the field ready for the game we played Thursday.
They do an outstanding job in helping our teams during
the spring season. This week the softball team plays at
home on Monday (March 25) against South Fulton, at home
on Wednesday against Lexington, at Milan on Thursday,
and at Waverly on Friday and Saturday in the annual
Waverly Tournament.
I have announced at school several times that U.T.
Martin will sponsor the Tennessee Youth Leadership
Summit on April 12-14. Students who have demonstrated
leadership skills may get an application and send it to
U.T. Martin prior to the April 1 deadline. Registration
for the summit is $75.00. This amount includes meals,
lodging, a T-shirt, and workshop materials.
The Carroll County Sports Hall of Fame will have its
initial banquet and induction on Tuesday, April 16, at
the Carroll County Civic Center. The cost of the tickets
is $20.00 for adults and $10.00 for children under 12.
Special guest speaker will be Phillip Fulmer, head
football coach of the University of Tennessee
Volunteers. We have 50 tickets at the high school for
those interested in purchasing one.
The baseball team played two games on Saturday in the
Jackson Sports Plus Tournament. They played the
always-competitive Jackson South Side Hawks losing by a
4-1 margin. In the second game, they lost to Trinity
Christian Academy 8-6. This week they play at home
against Riverside on Thursday and at Milan on Friday at
1:00. The Rebels currently sport a 2-2 record as they
enter into district play this week.
The Balfour representative will be here on Monday, April
1, to do a presentation for our sophomores in ordering
class rings. The representative will meet with all
sophomores on April 1 at 11:00 A.M. in the Theater to
discuss the various style and packages for class rings
along with payment options. Students will receive a
packet of information and order sheet for parents to
review and approve. On Thursday, he will return to
accept orders during the students' lunch break. A $60.00
deposit will be required to place an order. Checks
should be payable to Scholastic Products and Awards.
The high school hosted its annual Miss McKenzie Beauty
Pageant last Saturday with great assistance from the
McKenzie Band Boosters. Twenty-eight students vied for
the crown of Miss McKenzie and the opportunity to
represent our school in the various parades and in the
Strawberry Festival Pageant. The court chosen was
Jessica Johnson, queen; Savanna Cooper, first maid;
Brandi Burke, second maid; Becky Toombs, third maid; and
Sonya Gonzalez, fourth maid. Congratulations to these
students.
School will not be in session on Friday, March 29. |
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Phone (731) 352-3323 or
Fax (731) 352-3322
washburn@mckenziebanner.com
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