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Gabriel Liam Ornano - Infant

Abigail Kiki Andrike - Toddler

Education has consequences. Profound consequences for our future. You’ll realize that the future is bright as you see the joy in the eyes of the children throughout these pages. Joy as they respond to their teacher, new and exciting curricula and the shared bond of learning with one another.

Hailey Houska - Preschool

We also welcome back LynnDe Funk as Managing Editor of Ekids with this issue. Her passion for the kids, the teachers and our schools shines brightly in our holiday edition of Ekids.

Frank Baker Managing Director of Eagle Marketing

Brayden Nunley - Early Elementary

Brooklyn Juel Smith - Middle School

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E-Kontents November 2012

19 Students Imitate Famous Artists 29 OERB “Energizes” Students

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LONGFELLOW Abby Mendoza learns to properly blow into her flute mouthpiece in 6thgrade band.

Fernando Martinez uses pencil colors on his Shapes Alive art project, where the same shape is repeated using an analogous color scheme and different styles of shading.

Right: Janald Johnson bumps the volleyball during pre-game practice.

Jebet Mote, left, and Lari John blow bubbles during a science experiment where groups made 3 qualitative and 3 quantitative observations before seeing which kind of gum could blow more bubbles in a given amount of time.

Below: From left, Banesa Orozco, Oscar Gonzalez and Marlen Hernandez read about students who committed suicide due to bullying during the Stand For The Silent program.

Timothy Johnathon beats Daniel Munoz to the bell to answer a question during a game of Family Feud reviewing possessive pronouns in Language Arts.

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Braylen Franklin, left, and Kevon Hurst want to support their answer during a game of Jeopardy on vocabulary and fact or opinion in review for a test.

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Ben Voss tucks the ball in and muscles his way to a first down.

Jayden Dillon answers tough questions in Bible class.

Zane Sletten learns to use a microscope in 7th-grade science.

Elise Hamann, right, and Sarah Reilly work as a team.

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From left, Caleb Todd, Kieran Jackson and Traber Smithson predict the amount of energy their pendulum will transfer.

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EMERSON Megan Ramay, left, after weighing individual items weighs a group of items while Malbina Peters is challenged by figuring the mass of an inflated balloon.

William Phillips leans to hit a ball during a game of foursquare.

Evan Weidman, left, and Dalton Johnson practice their violins during Orchestra.

Stormy Davis, left, and Levi Miller follow the story Doodling Appreciated as an Art Form in the Enid News and Eagle to doodle items that represent their lives in Character Ed class.

Shem Lain determines the mass of irregular shapes, 3 marbles, by adding them to a premeasured amount of liquid.

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Elizabeth Dillingham returns the volleyball as Waller student Eden Creech waits to assist.

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1. Karsten Robinett, right, steps forward to bump the volleyball while Braylee Stute, left and Grace Kirk stand by to help.

2 2. From left, Ryan Vance, Madilyn Buzzitta and Allison Huffmaster go over, as a group, the correct way to work the math problems on the exam.

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4. From left,Viviana Resendiz, Hayden Hamil and Mason Myers laugh as they hear pepper jump to the balloon due to static electricity proving that salt and pepper together can be separated and is a mixture rather than a compound.

5. From left, Jordan Berry, Ethan Renard, Mason Myers, Lyndi Fielder, Logan Hise and Colburn Riffel stride in rhythm while playing during marching band practice.

6. From left in red uniforms, Beaux Biggs (carrying the football), Connar Ellis and Brock Elmore during a game with OBA.

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7 7. Brexton Bland, left, and Lucy Raynor create their baby Reebop with its inherited traits from the Mom and Pop in their class. All baby siblings looked different depending on the traits inherited.

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From left, Makayla Hinderliter, Sydney Starks, Katy Lundy and Amanda Hunt follow teacher Michael Wright working on choreography with towels to “Be Our Guest� in show choir.

Waller Alex Valladares uses Microsoft Publisher in his 8th-grade Multi-Media class.

Carson Foster builds balloon animals in drama class.

Kaylee Huckins, left, and Constance Curren learn the principles of mass by using a 2-beam balance.

Price Dillingham works on his project in Teen Living class.

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Charlotte Mixon creates a geometric design for her portfolio in 7th-grade art class.

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Off to a Good Start Monroe - Cheila Armour read the book “The Kissing Hand” to her 4-year-old class about a mother raccoon kissing the hand of her son before he went to school his first day, that way he would have her with him and not miss her. Armour helps Jadrien Mojica put his handprint on the card to take home telling parents to do this as they brought their students to school. Jill Stuever kisses her son Logan’s hand before leaving him the 2nd day of school.

Left: Adams - Kira Taylor, right, receives a “missed you” hug and kiss from her lil’ cousin Aliyah Draper at the end of the first day of school.

Prairie View - Destiny Garza signs her name to her huge pile of books and workbooks for her fifth-grade year.

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Taft - Yareli Lopez is fascinated by the bubbles her sister Charissa Lopez blows at the PTA Back To School Party.

Garfield - From left, Debbie Evans, Chris Hayworth (Check Spelling)and Debbie Turner raise the flag the first day for the student body at the new school.

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LETTERMANIA Prairie View - Lily Fuller, left, and Kingsley Painter share a book in their 4-year-old class.

Coolidge - Staila Salazar fills boxes with letters that would make the word of the color of the animal on her card.

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Left - Jayden Urtiz glues marshmallows in the lower-case and upper-case letters m and M while learning the alphabet.

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Ivan Ceasar paints a sunset using techniques taught.

Students Imitate Famous Artists Meet the Masters seeks to cultivate a sustained awareness and interest in art by exposing children to selected art prints. It is an art history, art appreciation and art production program intended to acquaint children with the world of fine art.

Awareness of art is important for all children, not just a privileged few. For some children, this may be their only exposure to fine art, according to Creative Arts Enid, which provides the program to schools.

Meet the Masters is presented in grades 3-5. Students learn of five different artists and create five original pieces of art each year. “This year, we are studying five American Artists,” said Heidi Glasgow, instructor.

Each lesson lasts an hour during the school day and begins with the introduction of a “master” artist followed by a discussion that encourages students to observe and express what they ‘see’ using the language of art. Techniques and media are introduced to students for further exploration by creating their own original pieces of art in the same style as the master artist. Glasgow quotes a Chinese proverb: “Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I’ll remember, involve me and I will understand.”

Glasgow loves teaching the Meet the Masters program because students are so excited and ready to learn. She hears comments including, “thanks so much for coming and sharing this with us,” “oh, I understand now!” and praises like “this is so cool!” and “we can’t wait till you come back.”

Creative Arts Enid also offers Art for a Day, a program for grades K-2. Each class receives one art lesson for the school year, for example: color theory, watercolor, drawing, sculpting or oil pastels.

Meet The Masters is presently in four schools: Glenwood, McKinley, Monroe and Taft. The PTA/PTO of each school pays for and gathers the materials with Park Avenue Thrift paying for the instructor.

Others sponsors are needed.

The cost is $1,200 to $1,500 for the entire year of school instruction K-5. Creative Arts Enid is a non-profit corporation, so contributions are tax deductible.

“One of the most gratifying moments is when the whole room is quiet because the students are concentrating on their art projects,” Glasgow observed.

Heidi Glasgow helps Fredy Gonzalez while Baeleigh Henshall works on her project.

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Christopher Aguilar nails the wheels on his truck as he practices following instructions while making a fair entry.

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Learning & Sharing About Me Background: Monroe Alexia Powers’ class wore construction hardhats for the first day of school.

Classes share about themselves by forming items from dough. Left: Garfield - Carolain Zendejas forms a dog while Nicholas Baldwin makes a football.

Below:Taft - Tyler Anderson plans what he share with classmates about himself.

Reading can help children instill ideas for their future. Left: Monroe - Havanna Mackenzie wants to be happy. Below: Taft Jordynn Porter learns of family bonds.

Hayes - from left, Kelsey Martin, Chase Haworth and Ashlyn Christmas pat, pick up, turn over and pass cups to the beat of a chant to improve their teamwork skills.

Coolidge - 3rd-grader Armando Vega, right, learns of his ability to communicate with and help 4-year-old Abel Guzman string paper and straws while making a lanyard.

Adams - Hailie Gaede, right, and Anna Jorlang glue pictures onto a poster to show classmates what they want in their future.

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After dumping marshmallows on black paper, students had to connect them to design and name their constellation. Canon Skrimager, right, glues on the last “star” while Kamber Riffel sprinkles glitter to add small stars.

Jenna Marshall unravels jute on her torn paper project illustrating plants with fibrous roots and those with tap roots.

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Dakota Phares used a clothespin to collect (eat) popcorn in a bag (his stomach) as he and other students pretend to be grasshoppers. If other students acting as birds tagged them, they were “eaten” and gave up their bags. Some “birds” were eaten by a “hawk,” who took the bags from them as students learned about predators and the food chain in an ecosystem.

Celina Buzzitta reads sentences to decide what order they happened in the story.

Shayde McFarland sorts tiles by shape and color.

Jayli Downard, right, and Andrew Do plants bean seeds in four directions to learn about tropism and which directions plants and roots will grow.

Brody Hammons, left, and Carlos Vallejo lay out tiles to help figure the different factors that can divide into 24.

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Hillsdale Christian School Lanie Klein, left, and Brooklyn Osburn hang upside down to talk on the playground on a sunny day.

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Bryson Koehn glues smoke coming out of the chimney of his log cabin he made while studying about President Lincoln.

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OERB “Energizes” Students Student projects focus on oil, gas industry topics

Nearly 150 Enid teachers could count gummy fish, jump ropes, dirt and cherry cola among their favorite school supplies. Those are just a few of the items teachers use to involve their students in science and energy projects provided by the Oklahoma Energy Chloe Palmer, left, and Jordan Lee, students at Hayes, listen for the length Resources Board.

The OERB is in its 16th year of offering these projects. Teachers of time the tone resinates after tapping the stone with a spoon attached to a string held to their ears. This is similar to the way geologists tell the attend workshops to enhance their understanding of the petroleum kind of rock underground and whether it might store oil or gas. industry and receive training to teach the OERB’s hands-on curricula in their classroom. The OERB provides a Little Bits program for kindergarten through second grades, Fossils to Fuel programs for elementary students, and a Petro Active program for middle schools students.

After each class completes the curriculum, OERB gives students a trip to one of eight museums with energy exhibits.

“It is just a fabulous program,” said Kelli Kappus, counselor at Prairie View Elementary School. “Teachers attend the workshop completely free and leave with tons of supplies for their classroom. After learning the curriculum, the students are then able to take a field trip to area museums completely free.”

Garfield Elementary teacher Darci Felder praised Fossils to Fuels as “a way to give the students hands-on activities that deal with the oil and natural gas industry.”

“A lot of my students have had relatives that work in the field and students love to talk about it. These activities give students a better knowledge of the big part Oklahoma plays in the oil and natural gas industry,” she said.

“My students enjoy creating gas in a bottle, bread casts and oil derricks,” Felder said. “These activities help students see the importance of the oil and natural gas industry and the importance of being responsible with our resources.

Experiencing science, not just reading about it, helps the students understand and remember the content much better, she said.

“We brought teachers and petroleum industry professionals together to write these curricula because we wanted to make sure we were providing Oklahoma students with in-depth information that is not provided in any other textbooks, “ said OERB Education Director Carla Schaeperkoetter. “Our workshops allow teachers to perform the experiments in the curriculum, then leave with a teacher’s guide and all the materials they need to teach these programs in their classrooms.”

Mrs. Kappus also teaches the Fossils to Fuels program to other teachers.

“As a master teacher, I get to meet teachers from all over the state. I love sharing ideas with other teachers on how to use the OERB curriculum in their classrooms,” she said.

The OERB also provides a safety video to warn children of the dangers of playing around well sites. The Duh-DuhDangerous campaign targets elementary and middle school students. Teachers can also request a Petro Pro – an industry professional who volunteers to give an in-class presentation about their job and the industry.

“Our programs meet all requirements set by the state education standards, so teachers know they’re leaving with valuable tools they can use in their classrooms,” Schaeperkoetter said. “Teachers tell us often how grateful they are for the curricula and free supplies that their schools might not be able to afford otherwise.”

These programs, funded voluntarily by Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas producers and royalty owners, have been instrumental in educating more than 1.5 million students across the state about the oil and natural gas industry.

Nearly 12,000 Oklahoma teachers have trained to teach the OERB curricula in 95% of Oklahoma school districts.

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From left, Hannah Perkins, Hailey Holmes and David Ramirez build a derrick to support weight with straws and tape.

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McKinley - Mary Ann Keener adds in her head as she plays Addition Bingo.

Coolidge - Alexis Martinez draws an octagon shape in shaving cream as his teacher calls geometric shapes out.

Taft - From left, Alex Camarena, Zane Poslick and Michael Canchola play Math Money Monster to work on math skills.

Prairie View - Below: Mrs. Misner helps Emma Lambert find the day of the week on the Smart Board calendar.

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Zach Schovanec finds the location of a specific latitude and longitude on the Smart Board.

Gavin Baldwin, left, pours cinnamon on his bread while Madison Dorrell butters her’s as they make toast or the letter “T” week.

Pre-K teacher Shirley Campbell helps Maddie Tomoskovic add thumbprint apples to her tree.

Top to bottom, Hayven Justus, Ryan Cunningham, Jackson Morgan and Alyssa Fischer work on a mural while learning about artist Mary Cassett’s mural at the World’s Fair.

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Jackson Stewart keeps rhythm while playing the xylophone during music class.

Parents help first grade students take Accelerated Reader Tests.

JoDee Moore, front, chooses answers that Trinity Sletten points to.

Behind,Travis Moore smiles as Paige Wadley figures his score, while Sophia Groendyke waits her turn.

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ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN SCHOOL

Above: Hunter Beliele draws the state of Oklahoma on his chalkboard while his class spent the day at Turkey Creek School.

Left: Jelani King removes apple seeds prior to cutting the apple in pieces while making applesauce.

Abigail Hinrichs, left, and ington match the color of the Wash Izaiah them cupcake with frosting cutouts with the color words on during language centers.

From left, Alison Collums, Carter McClish and Macy Courter paint the elevation heights on the island they created matching the colors on the contour map on the side of the box. They also created resource and climate maps.

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Students Dig Into Newspapers

By Bridget Nash

Newspapers are everywhere.

They are spread open beside Grandpa’s plate of bacon and eggs. They are scattered across tables in workplace break rooms. They are neatly rolled up and faithfully lying in driveways and on doorsteps every morning. Parts of them are snipped, clipped and tacked to cork boards, stuck to refrigerators and sent through the mail.

We see newspapers around us and we often forget how much we actually use them.

Teachers involved with the Newspapers in Education program aren’t among those who take newspapers for granted. These teachers are very conscious of how many ways a newspaper can be used.

Newspapers in Education is an alliance between newspapers and schools that allows teachers access to newspapers, which become valuable teaching resources at any grade level.

“I’m very dependent upon (the newspapers),” said Sharon Garrett, teacher at Emerson Middle School. Garrett teaches speech, drama and school newspaper.

Newspapers can be tools for teaching much more than current events. Even the advertisements and coupons can be part of valuable lessons.

“I love using newspapers in my classroom,” said Mary Stambaugh, teacher at Garfield Elementary School.

“My class gets the paper on Wednesday – we like to share. I chose to get papers on Wednesday because the grocery store ads are a fun way to teach the students to become wise shoppers. Through the ads, students learn how to plan, make lists and

Garfield students working on math using grocery ads.

budget money while working on their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. They have also learned the differences between needs and wants.”

Evaluating needs versus wants is just one of the life lessons taken from newspapers.

Garrett says she uses newspaper stories to teach her students to be “street smart.”

Garrett’s students recently read a news story about a teenage girl who disappeared and is believed to have been sold into human trafficking. Garrett was able to draw parallels between today’s human trafficking and the historical slavery of black Americans.

“Now there is no racial divide (in slavery),” Garrett said. “That’s what is reality for these kids. We don’t go into graphic detail ... I teach them ways to be street smart.”

Garrett said she was able to use that story to help kids understand the importance of being wary of strangers.

“They see the photos of these predators.

They don’t look like monsters. They look like nice, ordinary people.”

Garrett also encourages children to talk with their parents about the things they read and learn.

“I tell them to go home and share these stories with their parents,” Garrett said.

“This is just great because I’m also the speech teacher and I think communication is the greatest thing.”

Garrett often has students ask to take newspapers home to show their parents the things they have read.

While students read about government in their school books, reading current events stories really helps to bring home the workings of government.

“The newspaper has allowed us to get to know our community better. Students have learned about our city government,” Stambaugh said.

“Newspapers are a great way to teach just about any subject,” she said.

Garrett’s students are older than Stambaugh’s, so they are able to really dig into the issues.

“My kids were so appalled when Syria had that massacre,” Garrett said. Through that story she allowed her students to explore the role of government in foreign affairs. “We had debates.”

The students are very interested in following news events as they unfold, but

Davion Walls, left, and Preston Burgess check out the day’s Enid News and Eagle during Character Education at Emerson Middle School.

Garrett strives to find lessons in every part of the paper. She said her students were eager to read about Felix Baumgartner’s 24-mile-high skydive, love to work the Sudoku puzzles and even disagree with advice columnists, coming up with their own advice.

Students are able to increase their vocabulary by reading newspapers and also learn about the art of photojournalism.

“Most of them don’t think the AP photos are as interesting as the local photos,” Garrett said. She uses the photos and the newspaper’s layout to teach the students to lay out their own school newspaper and take interesting photos for it. The school newspaper students recently decided to start their own advice column.

Newspapers in Education “is absolutely the cheapest, best thing the school system has,” Garrett said.

Through Newspapers in Education, the Enid News & Eagle delivers papers to 30 schools in 17 towns – a total of 140 classrooms.

The program also helps newspapers grow life-long newspaper readers and increase circulation and readership.

Teachers who wish to participate in the Newspapers in Education program may call the News & Eagle circulation department. Teachers may choose to receive the newspaper on specific days or every day of the week. Sponsors purchase the subscriptions, so there is no cost to teachers who participate.

The News & Eagle provides a booklet with ideas for using the newspaper in the classroom. Other suggestions are available online.

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From left, Isaak Runnels, Brett Russel and Bobby Gray learn how to hit with their feet moving in football.

From right, Andrew Wheeler, Makayla Arrington, Kelsie Brinson and Mary Keithly enjoy P.E. at the pool on a warm, late summer day.

Kindergartener Tori Rhodes colors her numbers and pictures with pretty stripes before cutting and gluing her number-line together.

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Eisenhower - from left, Mari Morrison, Adrian Garcia and Michael Woodley paint American flags.

Hoover - Adrianna Doyle uses Play Dough to form the earth, the equator, prime meridian and the tropics of cancer and capricorn. The class discussed the latitude and longitude of Enid.

Right: Garfield - Ingells’ 4th grade class, lying on the Oklahoma map on their new hallway floor, design Oklahoma travel brochures using maps and research from computers.

Right: Adams - Kaipo Carreira, left, and Cody Smith learn to fold the American flag. Their class will take the flags down at school at the end of the day.

Right: McKinley - Lauren Dillon, left, and Skye Maldonado put America in first while assembling a world puzzle.

Monroe - Vanessa Resendiz, right, holds the American flag as Tanica Alujin holds the Oklahoma flag during the morning flag salute.

Monroe - Tom Morphew, far left, and Preston Ware, far right, play instruments from pioneer days in America while students left to right Tanessa Fitzpatrick, Ruston Bookout, Mykell Woolsey, Aaron Shelton, Blake Carden, Aaron Dillard, Carlos Rivera, Salestricst Bryant and Jaycee Robinson assist or watch.

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‘Trunk treasures’ bring history to life Go up in the attic, back in the corner, and open the dustcovered trunk of Grandma’s keepsakes. Who knows what historic hidden treasures you’ll find.

That’s the concept behind the Discovery Trunk Program, an elementary education program offered by the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center. Hundreds of Enid students have learned history through this unique presentation using historic tools, toys or keepsakes and a costumed interpreter telling a tale about the items used more than a century ago.

“It was completely different from what the class had experienced before,” said Ashton Shire, third-grade teacher at Glenwood. The “hands-on” history included hearing about and handling the objects described by Cody Jolliff, education director at the Heritage Center, who dressed and acted in character of the historic era.

“The students loved it and hope Cody can come back again,” Shire said.

The trunk program helps students in grades 3 through 8 explore the history of Northwest Oklahoma using three topics: the Chisholm trail cowboy, surveying for the 1893 Cherokee Outlet Land Run, and the women’s suffrage movement in Oklahoma. A fourth program, Northwest Oklahoma energy, includes a miniature wind farm and targets students in sixth grade through high school.

Cody Joliff, from right, dresses Jaxon Grimm for the rain as a cowboy while Alec Hamm and Hailey Firth watch at Glenwood School.

Each classroom appearance is a little different for Jolliff, the costumed history interpreter, who takes questions based on what objects or topics capture students’ attention.

More information is available from Jolliff at (580) 2371907 or at www.csrhc.org/education.

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Alex Nguyen, left, and Dyllan Reddick learn to cut apple slices as they practice following instructions making fruit salad.

Cross-bearer Wyatt Brooks leads Gracie Nunez, right, and Sandra Hernandez followed by Father Rajesh into Mass.

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Gabriel Ward leads his class as he prepares to kick the ball toward the soccer goal.

Below: Raymond Gonzalez sorts the variety of product symbols collected by St Joseph school to receive school supplies as a school service project.

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Right: McKinley At the beginning of each school year, all students are weighed and measured. Kim Choate gets on her knees to measure 4-yearold Iziah Michael and stands on her tiptoes for 5thgrader Shayla Coy showing the great change students’ bodies will go through during their elementary school years.

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Prairie View - From left, Zerek slater, Briona Morrison and April Byrd use their class sign for staying quiet while passing in the halls.

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