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Award Winning Patriots

WAY TO GO!

Apison wins BIG! Four of Apison 5^th grade students competed Thursday night in the 4-H Clover Bowl Competition, held among area schools.Serena Lowry, Taylor Mahoney, Justin Ford, and Armando Ramirez won 1^st place in the competition and will compete in Knoxville on May 15^th. We wish them the best of luck. GUNG HO APISON!

On April 29, students took part in a speech contest sponsored by Modern Woodmen of America, a national provider of fraternal financial services and programs.Students competing in the contest, which was held at Apison Elementary shared their presentations on this year’s topic, An American Landmark.
The winners were Karina Lyashevskaya, first place; Ashley Avalos, second place; and Clark Legac, third place. Each of them received a trophy and a gold award pin, and their names will be engraved on the school’s speech contest plaque. Gold award pins were also given to the next nine ranking finalists: Krista Cherivtch, Courtlyn Ison, Alesya Malashiy, Christian Bishop, Andrew Choy, Logan Ellis, Samantha Mulligan, Kaitlin Burton, and Tanner Wade. All participants received certificates of participation for their hard work.

Seth Hubbs recently competed in the AAU Wrestling State Championship. He was awarded the State Champion honor in his class.

Krista Cherivtch made the Ooltewah Middle School Cheerleading Squad.

Young Southern Writers Poetry Contest:

THIS IS A BIG accomplishment for our students.

There were 3, 568 entries in the 2008 Young Southern Student Writers Contest.

Apison had the following winners:

Gaines Tallent – 3^rd grade
Kayla Sebring – 5^th grade
Andrew Choy – 5^th grade
Bryce Knickerbocker – 5^th grade (moved to Florida)

4-H County wide Speech Contest

Tori Simpson came in 3rd place. The other participants from 5th grade were Serena Lowry, Karina Lyashevskiy, Andre Karnuch, Cassie Heck, and Victoria Neal. We are very proud of our representation at the County level!

2008 Valentine Poetry Contest winners:

Winner for grades 1-2 is Trent Roeser in Ms. Emery's class. Winner in grades 3-5 is Haley Cain in Mrs. Parker's class. Congrats!

4-H County wide Speech Contest

Click here to see the 2008 Spelling Bee winners

PTA Fundraiser:

2 Top Fundraisers:

Shawn Murphy
Graham Kelley

Top Fundraisers per grade:

Kindergarten – Carson Lowrie – Mrs. Peltz
1^st grade – Riley Belitz – Mrs. Devaney
2^nd grade – Alexander Clifford – Mrs. Day
3^rd grade – Sarah McKeethran – Mrs. Compton and Autumn Lowrie - Mrs. Sadre
4^th grade – Casey McNabb – Mrs. Tucker
5^th grade – Brady Crews – Mrs. Owens

Classes that raised over $100.00

Mrs. Peltz
Mrs. Sheffer
Mrs. Walker
Mrs. Osborn
Mrs. Devaney
Mrs. Day
Mrs. Ellis
Mrs. Johns
Mrs. Sadre
Mrs. Dempsey
Mrs. Compton
Mrs. Munro
Mrs. Tucker
Mrs. Thomason
Mrs. Owens

Congratulations to Alexandra Deguia. Alexandra is in Mrs. Green’s first grade class. She won a gift card to Toys R Us for $100 for the work she did in the Fire Prevention Contest. Way to go Alexandra!

Top sellers of Coupon Books:

By Classroom:

1st Place - Tucker (180 books) 2nd Place - McEachern (142 books) 3rd Place - Chamberlain (138 books)

By Student:

1st Place - Christian Bout - 51 books (Schexnaildre's class)

2nd Place - Cade Gregory - 45 books (DeVaney's class)

3rd Place - Nathan Chamberlain - 38 books (McEachern's class)

Congratulations to Savannah Owens for being selected as a member of the Chattanooga Girl's Choir!

Congratulations to the following students who completed the Reading Roundup Summer Reading Program at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library. Each of these students read at least 10 books to earn a certificate and a Summer Reading Program lapel pin.

Trvor Belcher, Christian Bout, Paris Bryant, Alec Coffman, Ashleigh Cox, Kyle Cox, Noah Dew, Annagail Grant, Camden Green, Cade Gregory, Trent Hadacek, Eve Higdon, Joanie Hollifield, Jon Hollifield, Shawn Murphy, Ulises Ramirez, Isabelle Rowan, Robert Rowan, Mason Satterfield, Jake Soens, Luke Soens, Gaines Tallent, Sydnee Tallent, TJ Thomas,Courtney Grant

Accelerated Reader Program

Top Reader from the school: Kate Stamper 590 points (Mrs. Owens class)

Top Readers from each grade level:

1st grade: Taylor Young - 57.4 points (Mrs. Green's class)
2nd grade: Isabelle Rowan - 292.8 points (Mrs. Thompson's class)
3rd grade: Nicholas Langely - 321 points (Mrs. Sadre's class)
4th grade: Tori Simpson - 474.1 points (Mrs. Schexnaildre's class)
5th grade: Logan Turner - 488.7 points (Mr. Bell's class)

Top Selling for Cookie Dough received a Limousine Ride:

Brandon Wilhoit
Taylor Young
Josh Gallant
Kimberlie Lafitte
Reese McDonald
Madison Schwarty
Chantell Smith
Garret Gregory
Jay Hill
Lindsey Clark
Brittany Wade

Computer Fundraiser Results to date:

Leading classes by grade contributions: Leading classes by grade (most dollar amounts)

K- Mrs. Hight K- Mrs. Hight
1 - Mrs. Carpenter 1 - Mrs. Carpenter
2 - Mrs. Massey and Mrs. Ellis (tie) 2 - Mrs. Ellis
3 - Mrs. McEachern 3 - Mrs. Sadre
4 - Mrs. Parker 4 - Mrs. Parker
5 - Mrs. Owens 5 - Mr. Bell

Leading grades by contributions: (most in dollar amounts)

1st place - 2nd grade
2nd place - Kindergarten
3rd place - 1st grade
4th place - 5th grade
5th place - 3rd grade
6th place - 4th grade

Congratulations to Mrs. Owen's class who had the most contributions to Goodwill. Their class won the Goodwill Smiles Party!

We are proud of the following 4th grade honor students who have been chosen to help with 5th grade graduation:

Shalah Bouaravong (Mrs. Parker)

Andrey Karnauch (Mrs. Tucker)

Tori Simpson (Mrs. Schexnaildre)

Hunter Smith (Mrs. Munro)

Congrats to Brandee Adams and Taylor Massey who made Cheerleaders at Ooltewah Middle School and Hunter Middle School
to Casey McNabb in Mrs. Sadre’s 3rd grade class. Her entry in the Poetry division has been named a winner in the 2007 Young Southern Writers Contest.