**BASKETBALL GAME TODAY**
The Chargers will be in action today in the 3A Region 4 Tournament at Hatley High School. Tip-off is scheduled for 4:00. You must have a voucher to purchase a ticket at the gate for $7. Tickets are good for one game only.
How do you get kids to have fun with writing? Give them a fun topic.... Fourth Graders in Mrs. McCulloch’s class at Ackerman Elementary School are learning how to persuade. Would you eat a Chapuline (grasshopper)??? They sure did!
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Ackerman Elementary School 1st graders received Kindergarten graduation proofs today. Please send the order form and money to school by February 26th (make checks payable to Scrivners).
We are so glad our students will have photos to remember their Kindergarten year! #teamAES
Mrs. Turnipseed’s and Mrs. K. Tucks’s 1st graders are doing a great job on their work while having fun. This week they had a fun lesson where they worked on making predictions using candy hearts! #teamAES
5th graders at Ackerman Elementary School received rewards for hard work in their classes. These students are putting forth great effort on their assignments. #teamAES
Ackerman Elementary School would like to thank the Ackerman 20th Century Club for the donation of bingo games for students at the school. #teamAES
The Skills USA students are holding their annual strawberry sale. The last day to order is March 1. To place an order, please see a Construction or Culinary Arts student, call the CCCTC office at 662-285-4152, or contact Mr. Black at 662-285-7857.
FULL FLAT $25, Half Flat $15
Ms. Rachel, our awesome Music Teacher, is the winner of January's perfect attendance drawing! Congratulations!!!!!!
Ackerman Elementary School - A reminder today is early dismissal! #teamAES
STRAWBERRY SALE!! The Skills USA students are holding their annual strawberry sale. The last day to order is March 1. To place an order, please see a Construction or Culinary Arts student, call the CCCTC office at 662-285-4152, or contact Mr. Robert Black at 662-285-7857.
Several 5th graders at Ackerman Elementary School were Top Writers in Mrs. Miller’s class and received lunch from Weavers as a reward. #teamAES
Congratulations to Elly Kayt Conner who has mastered her multiplication facts in Mr. Richardson’s room! She received lunch from Weavers as a reward. #teamAES
Mrs. Catchot’s 4th graders at Ackerman Elementary School are having a great time learning about fractions. Chocolate bars were used to learn about parts of a whole and help students better understand fractions. #teamAES
Coach Smith has PE students at Ackerman Elementary School learning how to rock climb! #teamAES
The French Camp Elementary School 2020-2021 teacher of the year is Mrs. Tami McKnight. Mrs. McKnight began her school career in 1st grade at French Camp Elementary. She says that the influence of stellar teachers such as Polly Allen, Becky Rogers, and Terry Stacy firmly shaped her decision to become an educator. She joined the Choctaw County School District team in 2008 as a 2nd grade teacher at Ackerman Elementary School for one year. The next year she came to French Camp Elementary where she has taught 1st -5th grade ELA and self-contained
classrooms, 7th and 8th grade girls’ PE, 8th grade science and been the reading interventionist and a Beta Club sponsor. In her five years in 3rd grade, she has seen the implementation of the 3rd Grade Reading Gate test and shared in the success of her students with a nearly 100% pass rate. Mrs. McKnight is in her first year of teaching 1st grade at French Camp Elementary. She has successfully made the transition to 1st grade, and she is doing a phenomenal job closing the gap which was made after the students were out of school for five months due to Covid-19. Mrs. McKnight believes that reading is vital to student success in school and beyond, and she is passionately committed to ensuring the reading success of every student that she has the honor of teaching.
Mrs. McKnight says that each year she has been shaped and stretched as a teacher and a person by the students she has been privileged to spend the year with, and the 2015-2016 school year was no different. During that year, two DHS foster children came to be a part of the FCE family and were in her ELA classroom. She says that through the Lord’s leading and mountains of paperwork and red tape, she and her husband became foster parents to them in May of 2016. In December of 2017, their adoption was finalized and they became a family of nine. The process of working with DHS and children in the system has opened her eyes and heart in a whole new way to the unique needs and circumstances of the students in her care, and shaped her into an educator who genuinely treasures not only the minds of children, but their hearts as well. Mrs. McKnight says that being selected Teacher of the Year by her family at FCE is such an honor and the Lord has used being part of the Choctaw County School District to shape her life and the life of her family in ways she never would have imagined.
Pictured with Mrs. McKnight is Mr. Shane Burton, principal of French Camp Elementary School.
WES January Chargers In Charge Character Trait: Fairness
Congratulations to Keegan Goss! He was the Prodigy Star in 3rd grade last week and received chips and a drink as a reward! Great job Keegan! #teamAES
Congratulations to Kiyan Love and Jesse Fowler for mastering their multiplication facts! They received lunch from Weavers as a reward! Great job students! #teamAES
ARCHERY MATCHES THIS WEEK—
For matches on Tuesday and Thursday, Coach Young will be at Ty Cobb at 3:15 to pick up archers for their matches. If you would like to drive yourself or ride with parents to the match, you will need to be at the Weir Gym by 3:45 on these two days.
ARCHERY PRACTICE
Coach Young will be at Ty Cobb today at 3:15 if you would like to ride the bus to practice at Weir Gym. If you would like to drive yourself, please be at the Weir Gym by 3:30.