VHEC Students Help School in Boosterthon Students at Vestavia Hills Elementary Central recently raised more than $50,000 for their school. The students raised $50,121.80 through the annual Boosterthon Fun Run, a nine-day program that raises money for schools while inspiring students to live healthy lives and have good character.
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This school year, Boosterthon’s character theme, Camp High Five, will challenge 700,000 students in 22 states to make new friends with a summer camp theme all about friendship. “Our team motivates students across the country to get excited about fitness, leadership and character,” said Chris Carneal, Boosterthon founder and president. “We love watching schools exceed their financial goals with our program, but what really fires us up is
developing leaders at the elementaryschool level.” The Camp High Five theme includes daily character lessons that teach the value of respecting others, not bullying, and showing sportsmanship. Each lesson is paired with a daily hand gesture that helps make it memorable. The message is also reinforced through a curriculum that includes interactive character videos, catchy songs and a brand-new children’s book.
Horizons Students Carve Pumpkins for Trail
Fifth-graders from Cherokee Bend Elementary School recently spent five days at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. From left: Hannah Kelley, Olivia Hunt, Grayson Scott, Noah Wyatt, Gardner Lee, Riley Brown, Braxton Wetzler, Anne Neal Moore, Pearson Bedingfield and Cody Hirsberg. Photo special to the Journal
Cherokee Bend Fifth-graders Travel to Tremont Fifth graders from Cherokee Bend Elementary School spent five days in October at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. They learned about life in the forest, looked for stream critters, used nature as inspiration for writing and hiked Cades Cove and an eight-mile trail. Each night, students participated in different activities, including listening to storytellers, learning folk dancing and a visit from the Knoxville Zoo’s Birds of Prey exhibit. The students each participated in their own solo hikes. ❖
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More than 40 Horizons School students who are members of Aktion Club, a leadership and service organization sponsored by the Homewood-Mountain Brook Kiwanis Club, worked to create faces and carve pumpkins for a special event for Ruffner Mountain. Members of the Kiwanis Club and the Horizons School Junior Board of Directors helped the students draw faces on the pumpkins, cut off the tops, and scoop out the seeds. The students and board members carved more than 35 pumpkins into funny and scary jacko’-lanterns. Kiwanis Club members delivered the pumkins to Ruffner Mountain to help light some of the trails there for a Halloween event. ❖
Shades Cahaba Celebrates Rivalry Week with Survey Students at Shades Cahaba Elementary School recently showed their team spirit and at the same time learned about predictions and presenting data. Third-graders in DeLaine Ragland’s class decided to celebrate Rivalry Week before the Alabama-Auburn football game by surveying the entire student body, faculty and board of education to get predictions for the 2013 Iron Bowl. Two students from Ragland’s class visited each classroom and office to gather the predictions. Then all the students in the class tallied and verified the votes, created graphs to represent the data and revealed the final results during afternoon announcements. After all the votes were counted, checked and double-checked, the winner was Alabama with 352 votes. Auburn garnered 242 votes, and 22 people surveyed said they had no opinion. On the last day before Thanksgiving break, the students and faculty at Shades Cahaba Elementary wore their team colors. ❖
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