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Dickinson ISD E-News
 Week of January 10, 2011
Important Dates:
January 12
McAdams Girls Basketball vs. Pearland West
7-Home 8-Away

January 12
Calder Road
PTO Carnival Meeting, 6:00 p.m.

January 13
DHS Girls Varsity Soccer at Brenham Tournament
 
January 13
DHS Girls JV Soccer at Ball High Tournament

January 13
McAdams Boys Basketball vs. Pearland West
7-Home, 8-Away

January 13
Barber Drama Program, 6 p.m.

January 13
Calder Road Cici's Spirit Night

January 13
Calder Road Math Night, 6 p.m.

January 14
DHS Boys Basketball
vs. Clear Springs

January 14
DHS Band Region Clinic at Clear Springs High School

January 15
DHS Band Region Clinic and Concert at Clear Springs High School

January 17
Teacher/Student Holiday

January 17
Bay Colony Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night

January 18
Student Holiday/Teacher Work Day

January 18
Board of Trustees Meeting, 6:30 p.m.

January 18
DHS Boys Basketball at Clear Lake

January 18
DHS Girls Soccer vs. Angleton

January 19
Students return from two days off
Start of the Second Semester

January 19
McAdams Girls Basketball vs.
Berry Miller
7-Away, 8-Home

January 20
DHS Annual
Talent Show
Seven DISD student artists advance to Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Art Show

The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Art Judging Team visited the Dickinson ISD Art Show Jan. 6 to view the entries of 340 students. Three students received Best of Show honors, while four students earned Gold Medals. In addition to these seven awards, the School Art Committee awarded Dickinson ISD students with 21 Rainbow Finalist ribbons, 79 blue ribbons, 140 red ribbons and 93 white ribbons. Special recognition goes to the following seven students for advancing to the Houston show.

Elementary Category (grades K-4):
Best of Show: Ulysees Almanza, third grade, Silbernagel Elem.
Gold Medal: Jonathan Ortiz, first grade, K.E. Little Elem.
Art teachers are Gen Meador from Silbernagel and Kati Lussier from K.E. Little

Intermediate Category (grades 5-8):
Best of Show: Jose Chavez, seventh grade, McAdams J.H.
Gold Medal: Tori Miller, sixth grade, Dunbar Middle School
The McAdams Junior High art teachers are Holly Gottula, Pamela Presley and Hermann Hill. Charleen Watson teaches art at Dunbar.

High School Category (grades 9-12):
Best of Show: Ana Novak, freshman, Dickinson High School
Gold Medal: Lindsey Bieri, sophomore, Dickinson High School
Gold Medal: John D'Aigle, senior, Dickinson High School
The DHS art teachers are Colleen Steblein, Lydia Thompson, Jennifer Sumrall and Lindy Howell.

DCC celebrates Shakespeare in Action

Students at the Dickinson Continutation Center are learning the work of William Shakespeare by putting it into motion.
The Humanities classes from DCC reenacted two seperate scenes from his famous plays, All's Well that Ends Well, and Macbeth. Students were in charge of everything from the acting to the props. DCC Humanities is an interdisciplinary course in which students recognize writing as an art from.
MJHS Band students receive high honors

The McAdams Junior High Gator Band is celebrating after numerous students walked away from their regional band competition with honors. The competition was held at Friendswood High School back in November. All in all, McAdams had 51 students qualify for the Region or District Band. Way to go Gator Band!
  
DHS students master WordMasters Challenge
 
Several students from Dickinson High School are proving to be masters of prose and poetry. During this year's WordMasters Challenge, the students were asked to analyze essays and then asked questions about the literature. In the first meet, DHS sophomore Madison Gove made only two mistakes and placed among the 129 highest ranked tenth graders in the country. Freshmen Connor Ard, Anna Novak, Hannah Salas and Daniel Zermeno and juniors Christina Seifert and Hoai Huong Truong all earned honorable mention. More than 53,000 high schoolers from 46 different states and four foreign countries competed in the event. The students, along with their sponsor Donna Kautz, will attend three more meets this year.
MJHS Math Club by the numbers

 McAdams' Math Club is staying busy this year by learning and observing the interesting world of mathmatics. A representative from Amoco started out the year by teaching the students how to budget and use credit, checking and savings accounts. The club also took a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts and competed in a computerized academic trivia competition. In this new year, the math club isn't slowing down. Now the group is focused on identifying math in everyday life and will be attending two more competitions. 
DHS earns 2010 College Readiness
Award from Texas ACT Council

The Texas ACT Council is recognizing Dickinson High School facutly and staff for preparing their students for college. The 2010 College Readiness Award was given to the school for maintaining or increasing the number of students taking the ACT assessment over the past five years. During this time, the composite scores have also been increasing or at least maintained. Less than six percent of schools in the state of Texas were able to reach this level of accomplishment. Good job DHS!