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Spicewood Elementary Annual Science Fair

Spicewood's 2019-2020 science fair was a huge success! Our students registered over 350 science projects and they did a phenomenal job. Thanks to all the parents for working with them too! Congratulations to the 4th and 5th-grade students who will represent Spicewood at the Regional Science Fair.

5th Grade: Ali A., Ellen L., Elly R., Emily X., EnYao Z., Jackie S., Jordan L., Romita S., Samantha J., Yonny Y.

4th Grade: Andy S., Jasper H., Josh K., Misha B., Reett A., Sameer R.

Spicewood places 2nd at RRISD Division 5 UIL A+ Academic Competition

It was an exciting morning of competition on January 25th, when RRISD Elementary students from Anderson Mill, Caraway, Canyon Creek, Laurel Mountain, Purple Sage and Spicewood Elementary Schools competed in UIL A+ events.

This University Interscholastic League A+ Academic event consisted of Art, Chess Puzzles, Creative Writing, Music Memory, Number Sense, Oral Reading, Ready Writing and Spelling contests. These events are designed to develop various student skills such as listening, paying attention to and remembering details, oration, art history, music analysis and problem solving. Kudos to Ms. Mikolay who coordinated the entire event, and a huge shout out to all our coaches, proctors, graders, PTA and student council volunteers. We are so proud of our Panthers! The 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each category will advance to the District Meet in Feb 2020

Art 4th Grade
Rifdah Momin (3rd Place), Priya Senthil Kumar (6th Place)

Art 5th Grade
Joan Amalraj (1st Place), Anoushka Basu (2nd Place)

Creative Writing 2nd Grade:
Alexandrea Shaddock (2nd Place)

Music Memory 3rd Grade:
Arnav Saraf (5th Place)

Music Memory 5th Grade:
Anoushka Basu (2nd Place), Tristan Guy (6th Place)

Number Sense 4th Grade:
Jiya Guleria (1st Place), Aanya Pathak (5th Place)

Number Sense 5th Grade:
Aria Mitra (1st Place), Darryl Tang (3rd Place), Chloe Nanda (6th Place)

Oral Reading 5th Grade:
Yonnie Yang (5th Place)

Spelling 3rd Grade:
Isaac Zhang (3rd Place)

Spelling 4th Grade:
Jiya Guleria (1st Place)

Ready Writing 3rd Grade:
Emma Walker (3rd Place), Ruozhen Ma (5th Place), Divya Nagaraj (6th Place)

Ready Writing 4th Grade:
Sahana Jelakara (2nd Place), Alice Zhang (3rd Place), Sailee Chitari (5th Place)

Ready Writing 5th Grade:
Deetya Shah (1st Place), Aria Mitra (4th Place), Rounav Sur (5th Place)

Story Telling 2nd Grade:
Tiffany Teoh (1st Place), AJ Washburn (4th Place)

Story Telling 3rd Grade:
Lasya Nugala (2nd Place), Charlotte Dean (3rd Place), Neel Menon (6th Place)

Chess Games:
4th Grade: Akshay Vandanapu (1st Place), Tanner Dean (4th Place), Sean Teoh (5th Place)
3rd Grade: Ravi Vichare (3rd Grade)
2nd Grade: Aesha Tripathi (4th Place), Roma Anand (5th Place)

Spicewood Campus Spelling Bee Results

Around 30 Spicewood students put their considerable spelling talents on display in the campus Spelling Bee on January 14th. The competition lasted for 24 rounds over 3 hours, and excitement ramped up as there were several chances for the championship word. Srikar Bandreddy spelled 'Arugula' correctly to win the 2019-2020 Spicewood Spelling Bee, and Anoushka Basu finished as the first runner up. Congratulations to them both!

Special thanks go out to our Spelling Bee Chair Herschal Trivedi, who worked incredibly hard getting the program together, Ellen Tuthill, who did a fabulous job as the pronouncer, and our judges Lakshmi and Rebecca. Also a big thank you to our parent volunteers, as well as our Spicewood staff, Ms. Cruz and Mr. Catuogno, who all gave generously of their time in helping us conduct the competition.

One World, One Night

Would you like a chance to travel the world without buying a plane ticket? What would be better than to give our students and their families a passport to cultures around the world? Please join us for OneWorld One Night on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm at Spicewood Elementary.

At the festival you will find tables hosted by fellow Spicewood parents sharing their cultures by exhibiting artifacts and traditional clothing, teaching crafts and games and providing culinary samples. Last Spring the event featured Korea, China, Israel, Ethiopia, Philippines, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Italy, Peru, France, Bahamas, India, China, Ethiopia, Korea, Iran and more. Each year the number of countries grow and we encourage all cultures at Spicewood Elementary to consider participating in this “One World One Night” Festival. It is a great way to introduce our students to cultures from around the world and embrace the IB education.

We have something new at OWON this year - we will have short cultural dance performances by dance groups from various countries during the event. Students will get to see and enjoy dance forms from all around the world.

This event can not be possible without your participation, if you would like further information or are interested in participating in this event, please do not hesitate to email us at Spicewoodoneworldonenight@gmail.com

Congratulations to Reflection Creativity Contest Winners

Congratulations to 8 Spicewood students that advanced to the Council level and will be recognized, in the following categories at the RRISD Reflections Showcase Ceremony:

Literature:

Ayaan Moledina, The Boy Who Showed Me

Yonnie Yang, Trash To Treasure

Photography:

Anoushka Basu, What Makes Me "ME"

Joan Amalraj, The Reflection Of The Glass

Visual Arts:

Avani Gautam, The Earth

Diya Shakkottai, Looking Away

Yunseo Choi, My Shadow Of The Future

Dance Choreography:

Joan Amalraj, Girl In The Mirror

Music Composition:

Arnav Saraf, Lost Homes

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR STEAM DAY

We will be hosting our PTA sponsored event, STEAM Day, on Friday, March 6th. This unique day gives our students opportunity to explore the areas of STEAM- Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math with hands on activities, career exploration and outside vendor presentations. Our students will be thinkers, risk takers and open-minded as they solve engineering design challenges, code drones to fly, and take a trip to the stars with our pop up planetarium, BUT we need your help to make this day a success!!

If you work or have experience in any of those fields - please sign up to share some of your expertise with our students! We thank you in advance for your time and support for this great program.

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR SPICEWOOD GARDEN

We can't have the garden if our members don't sign up to help with it.

Help us remove weeds, prepare beds for planting, and start new seeds for the teaching garden! Bring gloves and shoes that can get dirty.

Please sign up HERE.

Birthday Celebrations for our Teachers and Staff

We will be celebrating the fourth birthday celebration event on April 1, 2020.

These celebrations are held on Wednesday afternoons and coincide with faculty meetings. We ask 10 volunteers to bake sweet treats (cookies, cakes, bread, pies, brownies..whatever you love to make) or make savory treats and bring in and deliver to the office before 2:00pm on the day of the celebration.

Thank you for considering loving Spicewood in this way! Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

For more information, please contact lorraine@oehlschlaeger.org

Our future dates for celebration are: May 6