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Christina School District Will
Continue Limited Full-Day
Kindergarten in 2009-2010 |
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School Choice Period Now Open,
2009-2010 School Feeder Patterns Now
Available |
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Leasure Elementary 4th Graders
Are On Top of the Stock Market |
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Shue-Medill PTA Sponsoring Flu
Busters Flu Shot Clinic |
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Kirk Middle School
7th Graders Participate in "What's
My Line?" |
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Recent Drop-Out
Prevention Summit Materials Now
Available |
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Christina Students participate
in Election Events |
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Kirk Seventh Grader
Will Attend Obama/Biden Inauguration |
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Downes Elementary
Hosts Dads for Doughnuts |
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Glasgow Football
Team Tackles Cancer |
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Phillies Spirit at
Douglass School |
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Keene Students Win 1st and 2nd
in Local Contest |
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Christiana High FFA Students
Medal at National Convention |
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Calendar Reminders... |
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Christina School District Will Continue Limited
Full-Day
Kindergarten in 2009-2010
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The Christina
School District will offer Full-Day Kindergarten
in nine locations for the 2009-2010 school year.
This continues the Full-Day Kindergarten program
at its eight existing locations, and adds one
more site, the new elementary school slated to
open in August
2009 at Route 40 and Porter Road in Bear.
In Wilmington, Bancroft,
Elbert-Palmer, Pulaski, and Stubbs
elementary schools will offer unlimited Full-Day
Kindergarten. Students who reside outside the
feeder patterns of these schools must complete a
Choice application
to attend. Wilmington Kindergarten students who
register for the 2009-2010 school year will be
assigned to Full-Day Kindergarten unless a
Half-Day session is specified by the parent or
guardian.
In the greater Newark area, five schools
will offer limited Full-Day Kindergarten, based
on available capacity. Each school will offer 44
seats of Full-Day Kindergarten. These schools
are Downes, Maclary, West Park
Place, Wilson, and the new elementary
school on Porter Road.
All students who wish to attend Full-Day
Kindergarten in one of these locations must
complete a
Choice application,
even if they reside in the school’s feeder
pattern. If more than 44 applications at each
school are received by the January 14 Choice
deadline, the current lottery process will go
into effect, which gives priority to students in
the school’s feeder pattern. All remaining
students will be assigned to Half-Day
Kindergarten.
School Choice applications are now and the
deadline for applying for Choice is January 14,
2009. Choice applications are available in all
schools, at the Christina administrative
offices, and online at the District website:
www.christina.k12.de.us.
For more
information, please call the Christina Choice
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School Choice Period Now Open
School Feeder Patterns for 2009-2010 Now
Available |
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For information about School Choice for the
2009-2010 school year,
click here
For information about School Feeder Patterns for
the
2009-2010 school year,
click here
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Leasure Elementary 4th Graders
Are
On Top of the Stock Market
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A team of
three fourth grade students from Leasure Elementary School have
been among the top in the state in picking stocks for the Stock
Market Game, and this has resulted in national press coverage by
the Wall Street Journal. Leasure Elementary School and Talent
Development teacher Timothy Werbrich were featured in a
front-page article in the Wall Street Journal on October 30. Leasure Elementary School has 32 teams participating in the
Stock Market Game, but the 4 grade team of Navjot
Kaur, Jennifer Delcampo, and Jamier Schaener were noted because
they have done an outstanding job of picking high-yield stocks.
The team’s biggest payoff has come from their “purchase” of
Exxon Mobil stock, which surged recently and placed the team at
the top of state rankings. That particular stock was chosen
because Kaur’s father owns several gas stations. The amount of
stock purchased was a happy accident.
"We meant
to buy 300 shares, but I accidently added an extra zero, and we
ended up buying 3,000 shares,” she said. This mistake worked in
the team’s favor, generating top “profits” for the team.
Mr. Werbrich said that the team’s earnings had "rocketed up"
mostly because the students bought the 3,000 shares of Exxon
Mobil before a temporary climb in early October. The stock gave
back some of its gains and in recent days, the team lost $38,000
before making back half that and then watching the stock fall
again. Mr. Werbrich has been giving his students pep talks. He
told them that "as bad as they were feeling about hypothetical
losses, real investors can lose their hair and get ulcers and
get seriously sick."
The Stock Market Game™
is a scholastic contest in which students from grades four
through 12 get a hypothetical $100,000 to invest in stocks,
bonds or mutual funds. The game is run by the Foundation for
Investor Education, and schools pay a small fee per team for a
curriculum that includes access to a computer system that
executes the simulated trades and ranks teams by states and age
group. At the end, the teams in each state with the best returns
take home bull-and-bear trophies, gift certificates or other
prizes.
Kaur,
Delcampo, and Schaener want to base their next stock pick on the
upcoming holiday season.
“We want
to sell some Exxon and buy some Wal-Mart stock, because the
commercials now are talking about Christmas,” Kaur said.
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Shue-Medill PTA Sponsoring Flu Busters Flu Shot
Clinic
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Shue-Medill PTA
is sponsoring a
Flu Busters Flu Shot
Clinic on
Tuesday,
December 2nd
from 12:30
to 2:30 pm
and from 6
pm to 8 pm.
The clinic will be
held in the Medill
Cafeteria at
Shue-Medill Middle
School, 1500 Capitol
Trail in Newark.
This is a community
flu shot clinic, 
all are welcome,
but you must
pre-register!
Just follow
these
simple instructions
to register for your
flu shot:
3. Select
Delaware as the
State
4. Shue-Medill's
clinic will pop
up on the
screen. Click "Sign
Up for a Shot"
in the time
range you
prefer. You
will then be
able to choose a
specific time
for your
appointment and
proceed to
checkout.
Vaccinations are
$30 each and you
can get a
receipt to
submit to your
insurance
company.
If you'd like
more information
about Flu
Busters,
please visit: https://www.flubusters.net
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Kirk Middle School 7th Graders Participate in
"What's My Line?" Career Exploratory Event
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On October 29, Kirk
Middle School 7th grade
students took part in a
career exploratory event
called "What's My
Line?" The
"What's My Line?" career
awareness program,
sponsored by the
Business, Industry,
Education (BIE)
Alliance, helps students
explore different
careers and let students
know what is expected of
them in the workplace.
As part of the program,
volunteers from the
business community visit
the school as "Mystery
Guests." Students
try to guess the
"Mystery Guests"
occupations by asking
yes and no questions.
Twelve presenters visit
each 7th grade
classroom. During
that time, each
classroom saw three
different presenters,
each one for 30 minutes.
The students stayed in
their classrooms while
the presenters rotated.
Special thanks to Kirk
Middle School's 12
community partners that
took part in this event:
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- David Arthur, Director of Community
Relations, Wilmington Blue Rocks
- Terry Clemente, Postal Clerk
- Martina DeJesus, Firefighter
- Michelle Hart, Histotechnologist
- Jan Gorecki, Occupational Therapist
- Jill Karlson, Curator of Education
- Marilyn Lett, Justice of the Peace Court
Judge
- Dale Lowe, Emergency Room Nurse
- Stacy McWhite, Pharmacy Technician
- Demetrius Pinder, Web Designer
- Dean Simpson, Electric Meter Technician
- Bob Wilkerson, Letter Carrier
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Recent Drop-Out Prevention Summit Materials
Now Available |
According to the
America’s Promise
Alliance, every 26
seconds, one American
high school student
drops out of school.
That adds up to more
than 1.1 million
students per year.
For those young people
who don’t graduate from
high school, their
future prospects are
dim. The Delaware
Department of Education
(DOE) has made the
video, agenda and
PowerPoint presentations
from its recent
America’s Promise Drop
Out Prevention Summit
available on the DOE
website. A direct link
to the material is
currently featured on
the DOE homepage under
spotlight:
http://www.doe.k12.de.us
The video segments
feature young people and
adults speaking candidly
about the reasons they
dropped out of school,
and offer insight into
the ways our schools and
communities can
effectively address this
dilemma.
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Christina Students Participate in Election
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On Friday, October 31 a student delegation from
the Christina School District attended the
Delaware Mock Election Convention in Dover.
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- Kirk Middle School - Portia Tyson
(teacher), Patrick Hudson (student teacher)
and
Matthias Ojo (student)
- Christiana High School - Mark
Mangual (teacher) and Kellan Turner
(student)
Shue-Medill Middle School social studies
teacher Bart Dryden was the District Coordinator
for the Mock Election program, which involved
students statewide. According to Dryden,
close to 5,000 Christina students (grades 4-12)
voted in the program. Also on October 31,
Christiana High School social studies teacher
Ruth Mayer took 24 Christiana students to the
Joe Biden Homecoming Rally at Memorial Hall on
the Green at the University of Delaware.
At Brader Elementary School, 20 fourth
and fifth grade enrichment students worked for
several weeks studying every aspect of the
election and entered the Delaware Project from
the University of Delaware "Predict the
Electoral Votes Contest." The individual
students assessed several current polls and the
election history of every state for the last
three elections, and predicted how they believed
each state's electoral votes would be cast in
this election. "They can hold a
conversation with anyone about the issues of
this election and the election process in our
country," said enrichment teacher Diane
D'Angelo. |
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Kirk Seventh Grader Will Attend Obama/Biden
Inauguration |
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Brianna Holmes
Phillips, a 7th
grader at Kirk
Middle School, has
been invited to
attend the Junior
Presidential Youth
Inaugural Conference
exclusively as an
alumna of the
National Young
Scholars Program.
On January 20, 2009
Brianna will be
there to witness
President-elect
Barack Obama and
Vice President-elect
Joseph Biden take
their oaths of
office. In
addition, Brianna
will view the
inaugural parade at
the historic Marriot
Wardman Park Hotel,
as the President and
Vice President,
along with their
families, proceed to
the U.S. Capitol
building. In
conclusion to her
five days in
Washington, DC, she
will attend a Gala
Inaugural Ball.
Held every four
years in January
following the
presidential
election, the Junior
Presidential Youth
Inaugural Conference
(JrPYIC) provides
inaugural scholars
with a unique
experience as they
take part in and
share firsthand in
the excitement and
ceremony of the
inauguration of the
President and Vice
President of the
United States.
Alumni of the
Congressional Youth
Leadership Council
and National Young
Scholars Program are
exclusively invited
to attend private
Inaugural Conference
events and
activities such as
roundtable
discussions with
national
journalists,
meetings with
congressional staff,
and
 point/counter
point debates with
leading political
experts, as well as
special events with
VIP's.
Inaugural Scholars
also take part in
the traditional
ceremony of the
inauguration itself,
as they witness the
official swearing-in
of the President of
the United States,
and view the
inaugural parade as
the President, Vice
President and their
families make their
way from the U.S.
Capitol to the White
House.
Click here
to learn more about
the Junior
Presidential Youth
Inaugural
Conference.
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Downes Elementary Hosts Dads for Doughnuts
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Downes' Elementary
School PTA sponsored its
annual Dads For
Doughnuts on October
30. All who were
present (dads,
grandfathers, and
friends) enjoyed a
breakfast together
featuring fruit, drinks,
bagels, and doughnuts.
The Downes community
thanks the PTA moms for
sponsoring this event.
The school will host its
annual Moms for
Muffins event in the
spring.
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Glasgow Football Team Tackles Cancer |
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Friday, October 10th the
mighty Dragons Football team
joined the fight against breast
cancer. Inspired by a spirited
group of coaches who have
committed the team to being
involved in community efforts,
the team rallied to tackle
breast
cancer by donating
a portion of their concession
stand money to Delaware Breast
Cancer Coalition, wearing pink
wristbands to bring attention to
the cause, and providing
 information
to fans so that everyone can
walk out of the stadium with a
raised awareness about breast
cancer. Glasgow's band also
participated by wearing pink
ribbons on their uniforms and
the cheerleaders work pink hair
ribbons.
Glasgow's football program
is committed to excellence
in the
classroom and in the
community. Team members
volunteer in DelDOT's
Adopt-A-Highway Program,
cleaning Old Newark Road
three times a
year, volunteering at A. I.
DuPont Children's Hospital,
and playing a major
volunteer role in Glasgow's
annual Campus Beautification
Day.
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Phillies Spirit at Douglass School |
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Students and staff at
Douglass School showed their
Phillies spirit by wearing
spirit gear or red to
celebrate the Phillies World
Series success.
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Keene Students Win 1st & 2nd in Local Contest
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Two Keene Elementary School
2nd graders won 1st and 2nd
place in a contest sponsored
by the News Journal entitled
"Sign On To Literacy."
The topic was "Understanding
what I read is important
because..." The first
place winner was Aaron
Martin, who won a $100
Savings Bond and the second
place winner was
Gabrielle Smith who won
a $50 Savings Bond.
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Calendar Reminders... |
Tuesday, November 18 |
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Wednesday, November 19 |
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Thursday, November 20 |
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Monday, November 24 |
- PK-12 Parent Conferences -
SCHOOLS CLOSED
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Tuesday, November 25 |
- PK-8 Parent Conference -
SCHOOLS CLOSED
- High School Professional
Development - SCHOOLS CLOSED
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Wednesday, November 26 |
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Thursday, November 27 |
- Thanksgiving Holiday -
SCHOOLS & OFFICES CLOSED
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Friday, November 28 |
- Thanksgiving Holiday -
SCHOOLS & OFFICES CLOSED
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