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March 2012 [THE LARUE COUNTY BRIDGE]
March 2012 [THE LARUE COUNTY BRIDGE]
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Heather Cline Selected as 2012 ExCEL Winner
Heather Cline, a fourth grade teacher at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, is this year’s
LaRue County ExCEL winner. Cline, who previously taught at Magnolia Elementary, also taught
in Hancock and Hardin counties. She began her
teaching career in 1997 as a Title 1 math and
science teacher and returned to her native
LaRue County as an intermediate teacher in
2000.
Known for her work as a writing and reading
cadre leader, Cline has also served on the school
council and as a supervising teacher for several
student teachers. She is currently a candidate
for National Board Certification and is the mother of three children, Evan, Sydney, and Emmi
Cline.
WHAS and EON will recognize Mrs. Cline on March 21 with a ceremony at the school and
highlights of the ExCEL presentation will be televised later that night on WHAS News. Cline is
the eighth LaRue County ExCEL recipient and joins fellow teachers Summer Garris, Beverly
Heady, Peggy Newton, Susan Phelps, Rex Hanson, Martha Page, and Kathy Ross in the honor.
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Art Students Preparing for Exhibit
The advanced students in the LCHS Art Department are once again preparing for their spring art
exhibit, to be held at Woodland Gallery in Elizabethtown. The date for the upcoming exhibit
will be announced in late March. “9 Cups” by junior, Miranda Hornback, “White Tiger” by
Darren Brennan “Laith” by senior, Cedrick King are three of the pieces that will be available for
viewing at the upcoming exhibit.
Nook Color E-readers Available for Student Use
To promote reading at LaRue County High School, Amy Loyall, the library media specialist has
purchased 25 Nook Color
e-readers for student
use. With the popularity
of e-readers, Mrs. Loyall
wanted to expose LCHS
students to this
technology. The Nook
Colors are exclusively
used for reading along
with several educational
apps available for
student use. Students
will not be able to access
the internet with them
or make purchases of e-
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books with them. Students, along with their parents/guardian, must sign a permission form
before they can check-out a Nook Color and they cannot have any outstanding overdues or
fines with the LCHS Media Center. The students who have checked the Nooks out are very
excited about using them. Besides a selection of classic titles such as Jane Eyre and The Scarlet
Letter, the Nook Colors also contain many more titles popular with teens right now such as The
Hunger Games and The Help. Students can keep the Nook Colors for three weeks just as they
do library books.
Students Learn Valuable Cooking Skills
The students in Mrs. Heil’s
and Ms. Lewis’s special
education class participate in
a once a week cooking
program which involves not
only the food preparation but
also includes recipe
selections, ingredient
collections, and analysis of
nutritional values. Parents
have often assisted with
sending in some of the
required supplies. Students
prepare, enjoy, and clean up afterwards while learning valuable skills that will help them
become more self-sufficient in food preparation after they leave this program.
Hawk Quilting
LaRue County High School and the Art Department
are pleased to announce the formation of a new club,
“Hawk Quilting”. “I think it’s important to keep this
traditional art form alive. Human beings have been
sewing by hand since before we had a coherent
language. Every family has a quilt story, everyone
knows someone who quilts and every quilt tells a
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story”, said L.C.H.S art instructor Monique Hanna. The club will meet every Tuesday from 3:00-
4:00 in the art room.
“LaRue County is peppered with quilt designs on barns, signs and family homesteads. Teaching
the art of quilting is a natural extension of the awareness of this time honored tradition. In
order to avoid club dues, I am asking teachers and
the community at large to donate anything they
might not use anymore; things like fabric (print and
solids), thread (any color), needles, straight pins, pin
cushions. This afternoon, email was sent to all
Larue School District employees and the response
was overwhelming!”
“To all of you who have already promised donations
or pictures of quilts from family members, thank
you so much. The only money that students have to
spend will go towards the batting that is placed
between the front and back of the quilt- the stuff
that keeps you warm! One package of batting runs
about $8.00, and that would make 2-3 lap quilts, I
think we can do that”, said Hanna. “Wouldn’t a
quilt show in the spring be wonderful?”
“To date, we have 20 members and the current work includes quilts and pillows. I absolutely
love spending time with my girls. We meet every Thursday during club activity time and every
Tuesday after school”
Monique Hanna can be contacted at
Monique.hanna@larue.kyschools.us.
If you are a LaRue County District
employee, she will be happy to pick
up donations from any of the
schools. If you are not a district
employee, please bring your
donations to the high school. Make
sure that you contact Ms. Hanna to
let her know that you will be leaving
a donation.
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The Future Is So Bright for LCHS Speech
The LCHS speech team is off to a great start this semester as they prepare for their remaining
state and national qualifying tournaments. Assistant Coach Bill Thompson states, “Despite their
youth, this team has worked together and pushed each other to keep up the tradition of
success at LCHS in speech & debate. They have set high goals and consistently met them.”
The semester started with the team traveling to Louisville to compete against 25 other schools
in the Assumption High School Rocket Invitational. Taking home trophies for their placement in
finals were: James Reding 1st Extemp & 2nd Impromptu, Brian Anderson 2nd in Extemp & 3rd
Declamation, Curtis Milby 2nd Poetry, Elijah Thomas 4th Dramatic Interp, and Chelsea Blair 5th
Prose. The team placed 2nd in sweepstakes which is consistent with their performance at this
tournament last year, even with a young team.
The last weekend of January a small group of students traveled to Atlanta, GA to compete at
Emory University in the prestigious Barkley Forum. The tournament is a tournament students
must submit applications for in order to compete. The tournament is attended by over 100
schools from all over the country and representing nearly every state. Milby, a sophomore,
advanced to the semifinal round of Prose/Poetry. Advancing to the quarterfinal round in their
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events were: Alison Schurfeld/Elijah Thomas in Duo Interp, Maddie Lee in Prose/Poetry, and
Brian Anderson in Extemp. According to head coach Katy Cecil, “LCHS was given back its Chair
Membership (which the school first earned when her father was head coach in the 70’s).
Having a chair at the Barkley Forum is an acknowledgement that a speech program has a
history of success and is one of the best in the nation. It took LCHS only three years to earn it
back, and I am confident that we will continue to prove our worthiness in the coming years.”
Two weeks ago LCHS hosted the Louisville Regional tournament.
Congratulations to Blair and Reding for bringing home individual Regional Championships.
Congratulations also go to Blair, Milby, and Anderson for being Region Runners-up in four other
events. Also representing LCHS at the KHSSL state tournament later this year will be Lee,
Schurfeld and Thomas, as well as Zachary Thurman, Joey Gearon, Christian Pope, Sidney Cline,
Kaitlyn Burden, Sarah Mortensen, Misty England, Claudia King, and Kayla Rutledge.
This past weekend the team competed in the Kentucky Educational Speech & Drama
Association state invitational tournament in Lexington. “Several students had amazing
performances and worked hard to make sure LCHS remains one of the top teams in the state.
Brian Anderson was a standout for us this weekend, his individual point total was more than a
lot of team’s combined totals,” reported Eric Cecil, another assistant coach. Representing LCHS
speech in the state final round of competition were: Anderson 2nd in Impromptu and 6th in
Extemp, Reding 3rd in Congress and 5th in Improv Duo with Amarah Reed, and Christian Pope
6th in Declamation. Anderson also made the Final session of congressional debate but did not
place in the top 6. Semifinalists included: Anderson in Declamation, Milby in Poetry &
Storytelling, Burden in Poetry, Lee in Storytelling, & Blair in Oratory. Quarterfinalists included:
Reding in Impromptu, Misty England in Poetry, and Brian Anderson in Broadcasting. LCHS took
4th Overall. Cecil summed up the semester so far by saying, “I’m proud of my young team!”
The Stitchin’ Hawks Club
If you walked into Carla Preston’s
classroom on any typical club day, you would
see young ladies sitting around with needle and
thread in hand, working on their first cross-
stitch picture. They are learning the art of doing
needlework by hand, and this is just one of
several types of craft work that they’ll be
learning. Some of the other types of craft work
that we’ll be exploring will be quilting, knitting,
plastic canvas, and decoupage.
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Mrs. Preston began this club because, even with all the sports and academic clubs
available, some students just can’t find their own niche. She wanted to help them find an area
where they, too, could participate. She also feels that hand crafting isn’t passed down from
generation to generation like it used to be, so she
wants to bring back some of that valuable work.
She’s hoping that the members will find at least
one type of craft that they enjoy and can do for the
rest of their lives.
Other staff members have been lending a
hand, through helping the members, bringing in
supplies, or teaching some themselves. Mrs. Caulk
and Mrs. Sandidge are involved, as well as Ms.
Shelton, who is a retired teacher coming back to
help our students.
Members of the club are 7th graders Catelin
Niemynski, Kristen Yarborough, Keely Duncan,
Madison Brinegar, and Madison Royalty. 8th grader
is Ashley Grimes.
Old Fashioned Geocaching
Earlier this year, students in sixth grade seminar class used map skills to find specific locations
on LaRue County Middle School’s campus. Students were organized in to groups of four. They
were asked to find a
specific location on
campus. Students
were then asked to
create a map of the
campus with X
marking the spot of
the chosen location.
Groups then
exchanged maps and
the hunt began.
Students had to rely
on their map legend
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and compass rose to find
the specific location. The
seminar class reinforces
socials studies skills.
Students were required to
create a usable map and use
a created map
demonstrating their
understanding of map
components.
Magnolia Bank Essay Winners
This past year, students on the LaRue County Middle School 6th grade Kids.Com team
participated in the fourth annual Magnolia Bank “Preparing for Success” essay contest. The
essay question asked students to answer in 250 words or less: what might make a great career
and how do you plan to achieve that career. Students completed the essay using the writing
process in
their home
room
reading
class. Nine
students
were
chosen as
winners
from the
team.
Winners received a t-shirt, a free pizza party at Mr. Gatti’s, and a $100 CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT
Dane Milby, Breea Kirkpatrick, Jessi O’Bryan, Mallory Williams
(Dakota Martin, unavailable for photo)
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ALES First Graders learn about Famous Americans
All of the 1st grade classrooms at ALES have been studying many famous Americans for the
month of February. After learning why people like Abe
Lincoln, Martin Luther
King Jr., Sally Ride,
Robero Clemente, or
Rosa Parks are famous,
the students then got
to pick one of their
favorites. Each student
dressed up as their chosen American and gave a presentation
to the class. The students enjoyed seeing each other dress up and hearing what their friends
had to say.
ALES Jr. Beta Students Attend State Convention
Seventeen Abraham Lincoln Elementary School students recently attended the Kentucky Jr.
Beta Convention held at the Galt House in Louisville. Those attending were: (front row) Jake
Walters, Tharon Blair, Jake Taylor; (second row)
Zack Duvall, Maddie Helm, Bridget Southwood,
Clair Keller, Jackie Rigdon, Chloe Childress;
(third row) Kaitlin Hack, Bailey Rogers, James
Akin, Clay Cecil, Hunter Howell, Rachel
Thompson, Parker Smith, Tyler Sullivan and
sponsor Allison McDowell.
Helm, Howell, Cecil and Akin participated in
the quiz bowl event while Walters entered the
math competition and Southwood competed in the social studies quiz. Rogers, Smith,
Southwood and Sullivan took part in the team poster competition.
Students in fifth grade through eighth grade are eligible for Jr. Beta in their local schools and
membership is determined in a screening process that includes grades, character and
leadership qualities.
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ALES Fifth Graders Honor Grandparents
Each year the students in Karlotta Cecil’s fifth grade class honor their grandparents by
entering the AARP/Kentucky Retired Teacher Association Grandparent Essay Contest and each
time Mrs. Cecil is touched by the students’ stories
and memories. This year the top three essays
were written by Haley McDowell who wrote
about her adventures with Grandmother Yvonne
McDowell, Chloe Childress who authored an
essay on grandmother Shirley Childress, and
Maddie Helm, the proud writer of a story on
Grandmother Zolon Helm.
Mrs. Cecil was recently notified that Chloe’s
essay will represent the Elizabethtown-Hardin-LaRue Retired Teachers’ Association at the
district level. Chloe, Mrs. Cecil, and her grandmother Shirley Childress will be recognized at the
next EHLRTA luncheon in March where Chloe will read her story and receive a medal and gift
certificate.
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Award Winner
LaRue County Board of Education
Superintendent - Sam Sanders
Board Members
Price Smith - Board Chairman
Dick Greenwell - Vice Chairman
Norbert Skees - Member
Ronnie Chelf - Member
Michael Hornback – Member
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