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January 21, 2005
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School News Elsinore Middle School
Students enrolled in Elsinore Middle School, especially in GEMS programs, are reminded that Open Enrollment for intra-district transfers started on Friday, January 10, and runs through, Friday, February 10. Applications for the transfers should be available at the district office at 545 Chaney Street in Lake Elsinore. Because of rapid growth in the district, officials point out it may not be possible to approve some transfers and several schools are now closed to any new transfer requests.
Parents should make certain that all the required paperwork has been done within the January 10 to February 10 window of time.
For the GEMS applications for 2005-06 year, those applications will be available starting March 1.
March 3 the school will hold its annual Science Fair and winners will advance to the District Science Fair scheduled for March 10 at David A. Brown Middle School in Wildomar. Several of the winners from Elsinore have not only won at the district level, but have advanced to both the county and state competitions.
It is also time for Elsinore Middle School students to make certain they have purchased yearbooks. Cost for the yearbooks is $35 until Tuesday, January 28, and after that date, the cost rises to $40.
It is still possible to have a 25-word message put in the year to a favorite person or friend for a $10 cost; for $30 a local business card ad may be places in the yearbook and for $30, a picture and 25-word message can be purchased. For Canyon Lake businesses, parents or students wishing to participated in the yearbook program, call Erica Matthies at 674-2118, ext. 5105.
Several Canyon Lake families who speak English as a Second Language can take advantage of the ELAC meetings. ELAC (English Learner Advisory Committee) is meeting at 6 p.m. on the following Mondays: February 7, March 7, April 11, May 2 and June 6.
The school’s newly formed debate team placed in the top 30 teams after its second tournament. Members of the team will receive special recognition by the Middle School Debate league. The team is composed of Aimee Golden, Josh Hampshire and Bryana Bradley.
The annual Districtwide Spelling Bee is scheduled at Withrow Elementary on Wednesday, January 27, at 7 p.m. School winners Eric Waisanen and Alivia Wolford with represent the school.
Canyon Lake Middle School
On Saturday, February 26, Canyon Lake Middle School in Canyon Hills will host the Inland Valley Debate League competition. Last year, instructor Diane Parker and the Canyon Lake Cougars team introduced many of the students to how debating works.
As part of that program, a new international debate exchange program has been announced by the Claremont Colleges National Debate Outreach program. The program director, Kate Shuster announces the new partnership will be with the English-Speaking Union’s London Debate Challenge. the partnership will join the world’s two largest middle school debate outreach programs to facilitate international, cultural and educational exchange between teachers and students in Southern California and their counterparts in London.
Claremont’s program, is the the largest in the United States in middle schools, and serves more than 5,000 in 100 schools across Southern California. According to Kate, this next year the Inland Valley Debate league and the LDC will exchange students and teachers for seven to 10 day stays, both here and in London. It is hoped the first exchange can be held at the end of June, 2005 with two or three teams and three to five adults would travel from Southern California to London to participate in the LDC’s final championship tournament. Then the London counterparts would begin visiting schools and homes around the end of October and beginning of November, 2005 in Southern California.
For more information about this exchange, contact Diane Parker at Canyon Lake Middle School or Kate Shuster at kate.shuster@claremontmckenna.edu.
When the Canyon Lake Cougars participated in the 3rd “Coyote Classic” tournament on Thursday, December 4, at Canyon Hills, 209 students from 14 middle schools participated.
Awards for individual performance when to Alyssa Ivancich and Fabian Liendo. This is the second year for Canyon Lake Middle School students to be part of this exciting program.
Many students may also recall that during the leadership conference held in early September, 2004, a teacher from England, Marilyn Strevens, was one of the guest speakers. Marilyn teaches middle school students in Bristol, England.
Some of the debate topics for upcoming events include the following: middle schools should have lockers, the United States should amend the Constitution to allow foreign born citizens to serve as President, California high school should expand vocational training, schools should end the practice of giving awards.
Cottonwood Canyon Elementary
The following students were recognized as Students of the Month for November and December:
Kindergarten: Jessica Baxter, Stevie Sandy, Trevin Gilles, Taylor Eden, Alina Marroquin, Christina Mardock, Hayley Hust, Alexys Covington, Justin Savre and Lionel Sepulveda.
1st Grade: Samantha Marshall, Chase Millare, Travis Willis, Kassidy Hooton, Trevor Nunez, Elianna Olmos, Brianna DeSoto, Karlee Sandy, Brandon Tingey, Samantha Venti, Christian Moyers and Jenalyn Slosar.
2nd Grade: Danielle Knip, Houston O’Malley, Kory Zimmerman, Kali Campbell, Chris Klint, Keanna Oeland, Baylee Barckley, Bailey Borchardt, Kol Zheng and Sun Choi.
3rd Grade: Lauren Jones, Michael Barackman, Matthew Brownell, Aubrie Coley, Jorge Rojas, Jenny Gomez, Unique Alva, Jessica Bunn, Tyler Tingey, Isabel Gibbons, and Zachary Stewart.
4th Grade: Emerald Haskell, James Lewis, Elizabeth Gibbons, Alyssa DeMoraes, Christopher Vecchione, Giovanni Galvez, Trevor Sigloch, Cody Cook, Marin Mihoc and Taylor Jones.
5th Grade: Celine Cortes, Steven Brookman, Emma Williams, Sara Burt, Trysten Dorvall, Brianna Olmos, Jacob Finn and Devyn Garcia.
SDC: Rachel Olivar, Aspen Ewing, Amanda Wyza and Melanie Zettlemoyer.
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