School Notebook highlights ECISD weekly events
Carver Early Education Center hosts no school Monday and a 7 p.m. Peanut of the Month. Blackshear Elementary plans 100th Day events Friday and a drug awareness T shirt day. Various activities at Blanton Cavazos Dowling and more through the week including Girl Scout meetings, art museum visits, and symphony performances for multiple grades.
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Blanton Elementary
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Ellen Noel
Permian Basin
Midland//Odessa
Fly Elementary
Midland Odessa Symphony
Bonham Junior High
KFLY
Gale Pond-Alamo
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Midland/Odessa Symphony Orchestra
Alamo
Owensboro student who stood up to lunchroom fight
Kristina Pettigrew, a senior at Owensboro High School, stepped between fighting girls in the lunchroom and was punched. Speaking at a Green River Teen Leadership Program lecture, she says she would help again but fears weapons. Speaker Jessie McGowan urged violence prevention and noted gang-era scars while warning about today’s violent society.
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Kristina Pettigrew
Owensboro High School
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Green River
Mount Saint Joseph’s Retreat Center
Maple Mount Ky
River Valley Behavioral Health
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Kentucky
McGowan
Union County
Cavazos Student Recalls I Have A Dream Speech Project
Tamara Smart, a Cavazos Elementary School sixth grader, works on a classroom project recalling Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream speech. The activity highlights King's message and encourages student reflection on equality and justice.
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Tamara Smart
Cavazos Elementary
Martin Luther King Jr
Cavazos
Jennifer McClure
Treva Birkhead
Hollie Gardner
Harmony lessons honor King life with songs and art at Milam
Local students spent last week remembering Martin Luther King Jr with songs dances poems and art projects. Milam Elementary fourth grader Holly Stallcup created a timeline of key events while teachers note students’ curiosity about King’s peaceful fight for equality and the sacrifices he made.
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Holly Stallcup
Milam
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Jessi Smith
Sheila Stevenson
Permian High School
Trouble and the Talking Skunk Tale
Trouble, the town talker, learns from a talking skunk that he talks too much. His stories spread chaos until the skunk reveals the truth, forcing a pause in the bustle as the town looks to hear clearly again. The tale ends with a moral about restraint and honest speaking.
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Mary
Bobby
Joseph
Jimmy
Susie
Sally
Martha
Skunk
John
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