Hooper wins a bike for his essay

Ms. Bell’s fifth-grade class at Sunny Hill recently submitted essays for a regional writing competition sponsored by Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center Community Outreach Programs.

The students were required to write a one-page essay explaining how they keep their hearts happy and healthy. On November 4, Sunny Hill received news that Drake Hooper had won first place in the regional writing competition. Drake was later presented with a new bicycle and a certificate of achievement for this great honor. Drake is the son of Jason and Abby Hooper of Brownsville.

Congratulations, Drake!

Quilt teaches Civil War lessons


Pictured with the quilt and uniforms are Tietiyana Bailey, Christian Hooser, Jaleel Turner, and Cassidy Fry.

As an opener to the Civil War unit, students in Mrs. Phillips’ social studies classes made a quilt. Each student was given a square, and they each drew a symbol demonstrating a reminder of the war. The quilt was pieced together using masking tape to create a class quilt. Once they become familiar with the war, they made uniforms in blue for the Union and gray for the Confederacy with letters written from soldiers to home.

The fifth graders were so excited about the Civil War study that they brought items from home and used information from the Internet.
 

Sunny Hill Beta Club selects officers

Sunny Hill’s National Junior Beta Club elected new officers on November 17. New officers for the 2008-2009 school year are treasurer - Ragan Avant, reporter – Nathan Yoder, president - David Johnson, vice-president - Sara Rodriguez, secretary - Isiah Walker, and reporter - Clayton Converse.

 

Eubanks leads school in recycling project

Dannon Eubanks, sixth-grade student at Sunny Hill, is a student on a
mission. She noticed that Sunny Hill needed to recycle their plastic water bottles and wrote the school’s principal, Mrs. Dorothy Bond, a letter asking that the school begin recycling the plastic. Mrs. Bond approved the request, and Dannon began passing out plastic bags to classrooms to collect the water bottles.

She collected the bags on Friday. Soon, the Haywood County Solid Waste Department placed a container for collecting the bottles in the cafeteria.
Dannon said she wants in the future, her children to live in a clean, nice world like she does and not in a landfill.