The Warrior Weekly

Volume 3, Issue 32

April 28, 2011

In This Issue

Honoring Scholars

Lower School Celebrations

Old-Fashioned Fun

Medieval Merriment

Sports Snippets

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honoring Scholars Match and Language

Students Inducted in Math and Language Honor Societies

Three of Lakehill's student honor societies held their induction ceremonies on Wednesday, April 27 in the Charles Wyly, Jr. Auditorium. Mu Alpha Theta, Sociedad Honoraria Hisp�nica, and Soci�t� Honoraire de Fran�ais welcomed a total of 36 students into their illustrious ranks. The ceremony was led by faculty sponsors Susie Brigham, Joan Mayo, and Cassandra Leach.

French and Spanish honorees must complete at least three years of the language and maintain an average of 3.5 or higher. Membership in Mu Alpha Theta at Lakehill is reserved for juniors and seniors who have maintained a "B" average or better in all math classes. Members of these highly regarded academic circles wear honor cords at graduation and receive a special seal on their diploma.

This year's Sociedad Honoraria Hisp�nica inductees included Charles Burch, Katherine Crocker, Kara Gamboa, Aleyna Mason, Joseph Nall, Amanda Rasbury, Michaela Rollins, Christopher Smaby, Arden Stringer, Leia Unger, and Kaitlyn Wilson. Cally Pope was inducted into the Soci�t� Honoraire de Fran�ais.

Mu Alpha Theta honorees included Blake Bishop, Duc Lam, Whitney Beckwith, Amanda Boles, Davis Clark, Alexis Franklin, Ruth Godbey, Grant Hilbert, Brandon Kinard, Jimmy LaBrie, Hannah McCue, Kurt Norman, Austin Simpson, and Thomasz Wood.

Lower School Celebrations
Bunny Fun

It was impossible to contain the excitement of the kindergarten, first, and second grade students who ran across the playground last week, searching for their personalized goody bags filled with treats.

Once found, Lakehill's 11th grade students led their younger charges in a variety of fun games and activities. A special visit from the Bunny was the highlight of the day.

Celebrating Colonial Style

In colonial days, children had to work as hard as their parents in order for their colony to survive. But no matter how hard they worked, they always found time for games and recreation. After working hard on their study of colonial American life, Lakehill third graders celebrated by playing a few colonial games of their own.

Students worked in teams to research and prepare one of the colonial games. On Colonial Games Day, children rotated through the 13 student-led activity stations, enjoying a variety of activities including shooting marbles, making spoon and corn husk dolls, and paper quilling.

Caldecott Reading Contest

For more than 20 years, second graders at Lakehill have participated in The Caldecott Reading Contest. Caldecott winning books are selected each year based on their illustrations.

Students are required to read and pass tests over at least 25 of the 71 Caldecott books. Those who read and successfully pass tests over 50 books are recognized at the Lower School Awards ceremony and receive a hardback copy of that year's Caldecott-winning book.

Teachers applaud the success of the program as the children build vocabulary and comprehension skills. Parents are equally enthusiastic about the program. As one parent explained, "Thank you SO MUCH for helping our little guy along this long and challenging road. He has grown so much as a reader through this contest...I hope you'll never stop doing it!"

Students in Mrs. Brook's class celebrated their successful race to 50 with a Garfield cake.

Old-Fashioned Fun
Students Celebrate Mark Twain Day

Lakehill's eleventh annual Mark Twain Day celebrated the end of a fifth grade unit of study on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The event offered fourth through sixth grade students the chance to have fun the old-fashioned way: with sack races, bobbing for apples, and fence painting. Students competed against themselves and each other in a variety of good-natured contests, including watermelon seed spitting, pie-eating, and bragging.

Lakehill dad Bob Gillman added an air of authenticity to the event in his role as Mark Twain.

The students said they loved making the miniature rafts, dressing up as the characters, and playing games that kids played more than a hundred years ago. Phillip Jenevein had the most authentic costume with his Huck Finn get-up, and Gabrielle Gard took the top prize for the jury-evaluated rafts.

Medieval Merriment

Journey to the Past Brings History Alive

Seventh graders recently took a break from history class and their study of the medieval period to take a step back in time. This journey to the eleventh century included epic battles, jousting tournaments, royal feasts, and knights - all in the comfort of the Medieval Times castle.

From high above, castle royalty presided over their four-course feast (enjoyed without utensils, of course) as they witnessed the knights partake in tournament-style games in an authentic medieval tournament, complete with Hollywood-style special effects.

Sports Snippets