Mr. Barry sits down before the break to talk with Leatha & Carson.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Washington Students Deliver Again!
The students at Washington Intermediate collected, organized and delivered nearly 600 food items to the local food pantry the week before break. It was quite a group effort as every class collected over 30 food items and one class, Ms. Linn's, collected nearly 200 food items on their own! The November and December Student Advisory groups helped load the food items into Mr. Barry and Mr. Maurer's vehicles. Then, the 5th grade Student Advisory students helped take the items to the food pantry near the Square and unload all the items. Mr. Barry is extremely PROUD of each and every student at Washington Intermediate for taking part in this program. It is a very CARING act of kindness before the holidays.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Red Ribbon Week Poster Winners
On Friday, December 7th an assembly was held at Washington Intermediate School in Red Oak to honor the winners of the 2007 Elks Drug Awareness Poster Contest. In the annual contest, 4th and 5th grade students create posters about the year's theme. In 2007, the theme was "Because I'm Drug Free, I Can ....".
Red Oak Elks Lodge #1304 selected Alyssa Wilkins as the 4th grade winner and Nick Carlson as the 5th grade winner. Each received $25 in Red Oak Chamber Bucks. In addition, both students won District Competition and will receive a $50 US Savings Bond. Alyssa also was selected as the State Winner and will receive a $100 US Savings Bond. In addition, her poster will be forwarded to the National Elks Drug Awareness Program for consideration to be placed in the Elks Drug Awareness Coloring Book.
The Elks are one of the nation's premiere social fraternities with one million members. Elks are extremely active in their communities with several youth programs including Scholarship, Hoop Shoot, Soccer Shoot, Americanism, and Drug Awareness. Annually, the Elks give out more than 3 million dollars in scholarship and are the leading nongovernmental distributor of drug awareness materials.
Here are a couple of links to the Elk's programs we received from Dave Fields:
http://elks.org/drugs/default.cfm This is the drug awareness section.
http://elks.org/marvel.cfm This has a digital version of our drug awareness comic book and the Teacher's guide
http://elks.org/default.cfm Finally, this is our home page, which lists all of our programs.
Red Oak Elks Lodge #1304 selected Alyssa Wilkins as the 4th grade winner and Nick Carlson as the 5th grade winner. Each received $25 in Red Oak Chamber Bucks. In addition, both students won District Competition and will receive a $50 US Savings Bond. Alyssa also was selected as the State Winner and will receive a $100 US Savings Bond. In addition, her poster will be forwarded to the National Elks Drug Awareness Program for consideration to be placed in the Elks Drug Awareness Coloring Book.
The Elks are one of the nation's premiere social fraternities with one million members. Elks are extremely active in their communities with several youth programs including Scholarship, Hoop Shoot, Soccer Shoot, Americanism, and Drug Awareness. Annually, the Elks give out more than 3 million dollars in scholarship and are the leading nongovernmental distributor of drug awareness materials.
Here are a couple of links to the Elk's programs we received from Dave Fields:
http://elks.org/drugs/default.cfm This is the drug awareness section.
http://elks.org/marvel.cfm This has a digital version of our drug awareness comic book and the Teacher's guide
http://elks.org/default.cfm Finally, this is our home page, which lists all of our programs.
We are very proud of Alyssa, Nick and every student at Washington who participated in the contest.
Good luck, Alyssa! We will keep everyone posted.
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