Rockwall High School Stingerettes hosted a Holiday Dance Clinic on December 6th. The fun afternoon consisted of dance, games, crafts, refreshments and story time with Santa. The girls were also invited to perform their dance at the Stingerette Holiday Extravaganza the following week.
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Rockwall High School Stingerettes Holiday Dance Clinic
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12 Days of Math Facts Scavenger Hunt at Reinhardt Elementary
Students at Reinhardt Elementary have been busy over the past few days while participating in the 12 Days of Math Facts Challenges. Classes have completed one challenge each day focused on practicing basic math facts. Some of the challenges were to work in partners, use technology, sing songs, and partner with a Rockwall High School PAL to practice math facts. Classes have also completed surprise bonus challenges which included presenting a song about math facts or explaining how to solve math problems on the morning news show. The goal of the 12 Days of Math Facts Challenges is to encourage students to memorize basic math facts to help boost confidence in solving math problems as well as math test scores. Third grade teacher Danielle Ebeier said, “My students have been so engaged and excited about completing our challenge every day. They are beginning to see the benefits of memorizing basic math facts.”
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Cullins-Lake Pointe Elementary 5th Graders Make Life-sized Gingerbread House
Cullins Lake Pointe Elementary 5th Grade students make a sweet holiday treat for the residents of Senior Care At Lake Pointe Beacon Harbor Nursing Home. The students designed and built a life-sized gingerbread house loaded with holiday treats for the residents. The students will also visit the nursing home to carol and share cards as they visit with the residents.
Students pictured:
Front left to right: Allyson Verret, Logan Davis, Taiden Conner
Back left to right: Savannah Jordan, Lauren Dulac, Ryan Heath (in house), Preston Thomas
Kneeling left to right: Deyreck Dean, Sarah O’Neal,
Back left to right: Cobe Warren, Marcella Morel, Savannah Jones
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2014 Holiday Card Art Contest
Each year the district creates and distributes a holiday card showcasing the artistic talents of our very own Rockwall ISD students. This year’s card features artwork from our secondary campuses. Each art teacher worked with students to create holiday art to be submitted for review.
This year many creative entries were received, but only three were chosen for the 2014 card. The three winners and their art teachers were recognized on Monday, December 15 at the Board of Trustees meeting. Each student received a stack of the finished holiday cards, along with their framed original piece of artwork.
Congratulations to the following students:
Cover Art:
- Emily Maxwell – 9th Grade (Rockwall High School, Art Teacher: Michelle Pauken)
Interior Art:
- Muthoni Kamau – 7th Grade (Williams Middle School, Art Teacher: Pamela Griffin)
- Sarah Giles – 7th Grade (Cain Middle School, Art Teacher: Lauren Jonczak)
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Recital at Liberty Heights Retirement Center
Students from the Piano Lab classes at Rockwall High School and Rockwall-Heath High School performed at the Liberty Heights Retirement Center on Saturday, December 13th.
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Three Rockwall-Heath Choir Students Selected to ACDA National Honor Choir
Rockwall Heath High School Choir Students Micah Brooks, Audrey Maxson and Charlton Anthony earned chairs in the prestigious ACDA National Honor Choir. More then 5900 choir students from all over the country auditioned for the annual choral festival, and only four hundred were chosen. The ACDA National Honor Choir will perform with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah... Read more.
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Rockwall-Heath High School Students Help with Jack in the Toy Box Donations
Rockwall-Heath High School Chain Reaction Club students helped with donations for the Jack In The Toy Box toy collection. The toys were collected from staff and students all across the campus and delivered to parents of children who are sick with Cystic Fibrosis at Children’s Hospital. One of our own fellow Hawks, Jack Colbert, who is suffering from Cystic Fibrosis, helped start this toy drive in conjunction with the Blue Caboose.
Students in picture from left to right: Sage Wells, Sophia Huynh, Blessing Okwuolisa, Priya Amin, Suha Shalabi, Alexis Price, Caitlyn Lozano (back row), Maxine Okwah and Anthony Lamas (front row)
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Nebbie Williams Honor Choir Visits Rockwall ISD Administrative Office
Nebbie Williams Elementary Honor Choir visited the Rockwall ISD Administrative Office on December 17 to share holiday carols. Rockwall ISD staff was honored to have the students visit and send holiday cheer throughout the building.
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Happy Holidays from Rockwall ISD
Rockwall ISD Principals would like to wish the staff, students, parents and community members a beautiful holiday season and a new year of peace and happiness.
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Springer Elementary Musical Performance “The Reindeer Whisperer”
Fourth grade students at Springer Elementary participated in musical performance titled, “The Reindeer Whisperer.”
“It’s Christmas Eve Eve! Santa is preparing for a pre-Christmas Eve flight check! He is also making arrangements for a surprise trip to California for the reindeer to see Hoofin with the Stars. Unfortunately the elves are eaves dropping on the conversation and don’t listen long enough to get the whole story!!
Knowing that California is where reindeer go to “retire”, the elves think. Santa is replacing them! Spreading rumors and saying things that are unkind is the moral of this winter land holiday musical! However with the help of the Reindeer Whisperer, the dilemma is resolved, the elves learn their lesson and Christmas is saved!!” – Susan Schulter, music teacher.
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Rockwall-Heath High School Student Council Visits with Superintendent Jeff Bailey
On December 10th, Student Council Sponsor Leah Voth and the Student Council Officers of Rockwall-Heath High School met with RISD Superintendent Jeff Bailey. These five students took initiative to schedule the meeting to meet face-to-face with the district leader and to plan 5 proposed projects to share at the meeting. Each presented his or her idea and an open discussion was held of the merits and limitations, with expert input offered by Mr. Bailey. The 5 officers are: Mackenzie Long, President; Annabelle Baker, Vice-President; Kenzie Woessner, Social Chair; Aaron Stubbs, Secretary; and Bailey Varner, Public Relations. A follow-up meeting to begin implementing selected initiatives has been planned for January.
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Chris Mangum Visits Stevenson Elementary
The Stevenson Broadcast team received a visit from Chris Mangum, who is an expert in the field of broadcasting. Students learned more about the equipment they use and what skills are needed to work in the audio/visual world. Students were excited to hear about all the possibilities that there are if they continue to pursue their interests in broadcasting.
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Stevenson and Springer Elementary Place in the North Central Texas Region
5th Grade SAGE students from Stevenson Elementary placed 1st out of 73 teams in the North Central Texas Region for the 4th -5th grade category. Each student received a certificate and a check for 50.00.
Front Row: Left to Right- Ethan Phelps, Glenn Goodwin Second Row: Marqelle Fisher, Lorien Britt, Ethan Curtis Back Row: Dr. Steve Cobb from UNT, Mike Pitcher (Principal at Stevenson), and Julie Byrnes (SAGE teacher)
6th Grade SAGE students from Springer Elementary placed 2nd out of 122 teams in the North Central Texas Region in the 6th-8th grade category. Each student received a certificate and a check for $25.
Left to right: Dr. Cobb, Krista Searles, Courtney Thompson, Bria Phillips, Jenny Kaup (SAGE Teacher)
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Brooke From Pullen Elementary Presents Marine with Student Thank You Notes
Brooke, a very dedicated WRITER FOR FIGHTERS from Pullen Elementary, presented Marine Cpl. Michael Fox with a student-created box of “Welcome Home” and “Thank you for your service” notes written by thankful students. Cpl. Fox had given his legs in service to his country during his third tour in Afghanistan. Homes for our Troops built Cpl. Fox a specialized home and he was presented the keys at this amazing Key Ceremony where a large crowd gathered to welcome him home.
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Dobbs Elementary 3rd Graders Read to Kindergarten Buddies
Dobbs 3rd graders in Mrs. La Pier’s class shared the holiday spirit today by reading stories to their Kindergarten buddies. Mrs. Hartmeier’s class welcomed their 3rd grade buddies and students were able to show off their reading skills that they have worked on all semester as well as have a story read to them by their 3rd grade friends. Fun was had by all!
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Rockwall Quest Holiday Activities
Quest students visited the Rockwall Nursing Center singing Christmas Carols and passing out candy canes to residents. Also, Quest academy collected clothes and toys for a needy Rockwall ISD family! We wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Rockwall High School Students Donate to Helping Hands Toy Drive
Rockwall High School students donated to this year’s Helping Hands toy drive. The students were able to collect and donate approximately 400 toys to children. Helping Hands is thankful for the support and making this Holiday season a special one for so many children.
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Rockwall ISD Hour of Code
“Hour of Code” is a world-wide initiative that takes place the second week of December to show students that anyone can code. Learning how to code gives students an opportunity to learn computer science and fosters creativity, logic and problem-solving skills.
At every elementary school in Rockwall ISD, students participated in Hour of Code, learning the basics of computer programming and even getting certificates for their hard work! The students quickly adapted to the concept of drag and drop Object-Oriented-Programming by providing appropriate program sequences to navigate a maze, as well as debugging existing programs.
Students at Stevenson elementary used Scratch-programming language to control Finch robots and also participated in hands-on robot programming with Dr. Allan Selis, who volunteered to bring coding through Thymio robots.
Sixth graders at Reinhardt Elementary wrote computer code to play the games: Angry Birds, Flappy Bird, Frozen, Code Combat, and Light Bot. Some students even created their own games. By participating in this code challenge, the students are learning JavaScript and Python, the coding languages of the future. Many of them also discovered that writing computer code is fun and not as hard as they thought it would be.
Both Cain and Williams Middle School students also participated in Hour of Code, coming in before school, after school, and during their classes to learn the basics of coding using block format. They also explored the fundamentals of Java Script and HTML5 and created a one-page website using code.
Students were actively engaged throughout their coding experiences and many want to continue their computer science learning. The spark for programming is clearly ignited in Rockwall ISD!
You can find out more about Hour of Code by going to http://hourofcode.com/us.
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Stevenson Elementary Staff Donate Toys to Helping Hands
Stevenson Elementary staff donated toys to Helping Hands in lieu of a gift exchange amongst themselves. It is such an honor to be able to give back to our community! Bill and Billie Stevenson joined in our celebration of the season.
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Rockwall High School Culinary Arts on “Good Day”
On November 5, Cody’s Culinary students from Rockwall High School presented 3 kids’ meal creations to the Executive Chef from the Cotton Patch restaurant. The Executive Chef and others from the Cotton Patch selected one meal out of three to go on their kids’ menu. The meal is called the Gobble Gobble Turkey Slider. It was demoed today, by Brie Griffith and Marissa Bailey from Rockwall High School, on the Fox 4 program “Good Day”.
The other two meals were also presented and discussed by Marcus Moehler.There were a total of six Rockwall High School students who all worked together to create the meals in the kitchen and all six were featured on “Good Day”. The students are Kathryn Osteen, Brienna Griffith, Marissa Bailey, Marcus Moehler, Dulce Huesca, and Alyssa Brown.
Not only are these students getting great industry experience, but they are also making a huge impact towards the health of kids in Rockwall. Congratulations to these six Rockwall High School students!
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