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Arlington School Night
With The Redbirds
HERE CHICKIE, CHICKIE
AES Second Graders Incubate Eggs to Learn
About Science
Arlington’s school
night at the Redbirds
game will be held on
May 15th. AES student
Rebecca Latimer will
sing the national anthem
and the AES juggling
team (below) will perform from 6-7 pm in
the plaza stadium. For additional information, contact Coach Halford at AES.
By Terry Louderback
AES Juggling Team
Farewell Ms. Fry
(Front Row) Dalton Harrison, Jackson
Biggs, Charmen Taylor, Braxton
Thompson, Michael Hammond, Carmen Taylor, (Back Row) Matthew
Dallas, Nathan Parimore, Michael
Dallas, Dylan Keith, Coach Halford,
Ridge Bowers, Connor McCaslin
Renowned Authors Visit
AES
AES was fortunate enough to enjoy an
author’s visit with Laurie Friedman. She
shared with our students that she writes
realistic fiction based on her own childhood life experiences and those of her
personal children too. She also shared
with us the importance of organizing her
thoughts before writing and even shared
her "writing basket" that she keeps for
ideas for characters and topics for future
stories. Our students thoroughly enjoyed
the visit with the author of the Mallory
McDonald series as well as many other
children's books.
Ms. Fry, AES music teacher, will be
retiring at the end of this year. She has
been teaching music for 31 years in 24
different schools. She started out as a
traveling music and strings teacher (going
to 2 different schools a day) before landing at AES as a permanent classroom
teacher. Ms. Fry stated that she will definitely miss composing vocal and instrument pieces for the students and getting to
hear them perform in a program. She has
enjoyed helping so many students to
discover music and making it a part of
their lives.
It gives her great joy to know that she
has inspired many of her students to continue to study music (band/orchestra)
beyond elementary. In her free time, she
plans to play the cello as much as possible
and get back together with friends and
play in a strings quartet. She will be
missed at AES and we wish her the best
of luck with her retirement.
For the tenth year, AES
teacher Ziggy Goodman’s
classroom is home to little
peeps—no, not her second
grade students, but a flock of
seven baby chicks.
“No screaming when they
poop,” Goodman admonishes
the students, who eagerly, yet
somewhat apprehensively, pick
up the tiny birds (and yes, there
was poop, and, yes, some
screams).
Over the 21 days that it
takes the eggs to hatch, the
students in Mrs. Goodman’s
and Mrs. Gallimore’s classes
(above) study the developing
embryos. Using a flashlight,
they carefully “candle” the
eggs to peer inside the shells.
Candling was student Ella
Martinez’s favorite parts. “We
could see the insides—the
veins and the eyeball,” she
commented.
The seven chicks represent
the second group of eggs that
Goodman’s class incubated
this year. An earlier effort
Muffins with Moms
3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students at AES
celebrated their moms at Muffins with
Mom.
AES also hosted non-fiction author
Heather L. Montgomery on Monday,
April 21 for all grades. Then, on May 14,
David Sargent, fiction picture book author, will be here with his dachshunds for
a visit with our kindergarten and 1st graders. It is our hope that each child will find
the gifted writer, which lives within each
of them.
Pacer Record Shattered
Congratulations
to Karson Yarbo
and Anne Marie
Braese. They both
currently hold the
Shelby
County
record for the 20meter pacer. They
are both 4th grade
students at AES.
Karson ran an
incredible score of 92 for the boys’ elementary record. Anne Marie (above, with
Coach Halford) beat the girls’ record with
an astounding 72.
Coach Halford helped out with an old
trick he learned while coaching middle
school basketball. He smashed and
smeared raisins on the gym floor. This
allows for the runners not to slip and slide
while turning around to run from one line
to another. Both runners were ecstatic to
know they hold not only the school, but
the SCS record as well.
All photos courtesy of AES., unless noted
Photo by Kizzy Barbee
Staff Photo
didn’t hatch, making this success even more special for
Janesia Anderson. “My favorite part was when they hatched
because last time we tried it,
they didn’t.”
Six chicks hatched while the
students were away from the
school. “It was hard to be
patient,” added Camryn Harrison, “but we got the see the
black one start hatching.”
And, not unsurprisingly, the
students quickly picked out
names for the chicks, although
there was some debate.
“The white one is Elsa,” the
girls told me, naming her after
the character from the movie
Frozen. The boys, were having none of that. “No, it’s Tiny
Timmy,” insisted Carter