Congratulations to Mrs. Powell's 4th grade class who has held the Math 24 trophy for 6 weeks consecutively!!!!
Mrs. Powell's entire class also scored proficient or advanced on the 4th 4 sight test.
The Brain Bowl
Cheston Elementary
Third and fourth grade students participated in a Brain Bowl Wednesday, March 23 in preparation for the PSSAs. The event was held in a Jeopardy format with alternating reading and math questions for each grade.
Each classroom teacher chose five students to represent their classrooms. All members on the teams “put their heads together” to answer the questions. Each team chose an “answer writer” and a “noise maker”. The team that answered the question correctly in the least amount of time received a tally mark.
All the students participated by writing answers to the questions and cheering for their team. The winning classrooms received a Brain Bowl trophy and a new board game. Popcorn was enjoyed at the end of contest.
The competition was spirited, but at the end of the Brain Bowl Ms. Casella’s Third Grade Class and Mr. Yander’s Fourth Grade Class were the winners.
Cheston Update
Thursday, March 27, 2008 EAHS football senior players, Brandon, Keenan and Colin came back to Ada B. Cheston Elementary School where they attended as young boys. Keenan signed his letter of intent for Millersville University, which is his second grade teacher, Mrs. Fries’ alma mater. This was one of many proud moments for Mrs. Fries as a former EASD teacher. Mr. Shoemaker, the principal at Cheston during their time at the elementary school was in attendance along with family members and fourth & third grade students. Mrs. Fries, Mrs. Ritter, Mrs. Gaita and Ms. Montague, former teachers of the young men were also gathered to wish them well and share their pride. The assembly was lead by Assistant Principal, Mrs. Barnes. Mr. Bonstein, physical education teacher currently at Cheston and while the boy’s attended spoke to the crowd along with Mr. Shoemaker. All three boys plan to attend colleges to continue their education. The purpose of the assembly was to instill in the students the importance of their education and to show that athletics can be a part of their future if they study and work hard. As the saying goes – “Once a Cougar, Always a Cougar!”
EASTON AREA HIGH SCHOOL NEWS!
On March 31 – April 2, Twenty-four members of Future
Business Leaders of America (FBLA) traveled to Hershey,
PA to participate in the PA State Leadership Conference.
The students found themselves engaged in two and one-
half days of activities.
They attended various leadership workshops, watched
their classmates compete, and they themselves competed
in the many co-curricular events. They competed against
approximately 3,800 students from the across the entire
state in the PA State Leadership Conference. The best of
the best were there. Five outstanding students have qualified
to move onto Nationals in Atlanta, Georgia, which will be held in June.
1st place - Network Design - Qualified for Nationals!
•Zach
•Justin
•William
2nd Place - Database Design - Alyssa - Nationals!
4th Place - Networking Concepts - Bryan - Nationals!
5th Place - Emerging Business Issues - Mike and Cliff
6th Place - Networking Concepts - Greg
9th Place - Business Plan - Mike and Erik
9th Place – FBLA Policies and Procedure – Janell
We would like to thank all of their teachers and coaches for their support!
FBLA-PBL is the largest business career student organization in the world. The high school division has 215,000 members, while the postsecondary division reaches over 11,000 college students. The newest group, FBLA-Middle Level, is showing remarkable growth with nearly 15,000 student members. Finally, the Professional Division has reached over 3,000 members. Over 11,000 advisers round out the group. Exclusive membership and career recognition programs are designed for each division to provide additional personal and chapter development opportunities.
FBLA-PBL is recognized by the Association for Career and Technical Education, International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education, National Association of Parliamentarians, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Business Education Association, and the U.S. Department of Education.
FBLA-PBL's National Awards Program recognizes and rewards excellence in a broad range of business and career-related areas. Through state-based competition at the spring State Leadership Conferences, students compete in events testing their business knowledge and skills. Top state winners then are eligible to compete for honors at the National Leadership Conference each summer.
Submitted by Mrs. Bev Klein and Mr. Mike Tanczos, Co-Advisors
News from Shawnee Team 7-6
Miss Barber’s English classes prepared for the PSSA by reviewing writing techniques and literary concepts. They will be starting a cross-curricular research project next week.
Mr. Parrish’s classes will be completing case studies on individual African countries. Mrs. D’s classes are beginning a unit on plants next week. Mr. Pinto is beginning prime factorization in his math classes. Mrs. McColgan will be starting a reading unit with a WWII theme.
NEWS FROM TEAM 8-1
Students on Team 8-1 have been working very hard on their PSSA tests and have been enjoying the rewards for their effort. The dodgeball tournament was one of the highlights of the week, and we are proud to say that our team was the school champion. Congratulations to our players who helped take our team to victory!
Mrs. Ritter, Brandon, Ms. Montague, Keenan, Mrs. Fries, Colin, Mr. Shoemaker, Keanan’s siblings – Isis (current kindergarten student at Cheston) and Analya and Colin’s sister, another kindergarten student at Cheston, Dominique.
