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CHANDLER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS Sept. 5: Labor Day (no school) Sept. 30: First quarter ends BASHA HIGH SCHOOL Basha High School’s AMS-Accelerated Middle School program for sixth to eighth has exceeded our growth expectations. Growing by an impressive amount of roughly 90 students. “Our new students are raving about their specialized teachers at AMS, being challenged, and how easy it is to make friends that make them feel like they belong,” said department head Amanda Cook. “We are excited to see these junior high students grow and continue to succeed on the Basha High campus until they graduate as Basha Bears.” —Terri Anasagasti CTA FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The new CTA Freedom STEM preschool class found successful with its first experiment called Germ Science: Hand Washing Matters. In the experiment, preschoolers predicted
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how many days it would take before observable decomposition to bread appeared comparing touching bread with dirty hands, applying hand sanitizer to bread and finally, not touching the bread at all. Teacher Carol Brown reported that preschoolers are documenting each step of their experiment in their own science journals. —Amie P. Chombah WEINBERG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The school year has gotten off to a great start. The fourth-grade students are learning about the different counties in Arizona. They culminated their unit by making cookie maps, and munching on their creations to celebrate a successful unit. The fifth graders have started learning about finances in preparation for their upcoming visit to Biztown. The kindergarteners have been working on Thinking Maps, and are so brilliant that their circle maps were shown and displayed in the first staff meeting. —Heidi Huggins
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Kayla Glenn of Chandler was named to the University of Dallas Honor Roll for the spring 2016 semester for earning a semester GPA of 3.0-3.49. Glenn is majoring in biology. More than 400 University of Dallas students have been named to the Spring 2016 Dean’s List for earning a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Anne Fischer and Samuel Walterscheid of Chandler.
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