Community School Zone - December 2010

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December 2010 Education is Power Volume 3, Issue 17

Baldwin High School

Oak Hill Middle School

Blandy Hills Elementary

Creekside Elementary

Eagle Ridge Elementary

GMC Prep School

John Milledge Academy

Early Learning Center

Sinclair Christian Academy

Midway Elementary

During a lesson in math students in Ms. Amason's kinder-garten class at Creekside Elementary School were askedto use pattern blocks to make a design. Pictured at left:Brandon Cobb with a neat design he created. At right:

During a math lesson in Ms. Amason's Kindergarten classat Creekside elementary school, students were asked tocreate a design using pattern blocks. Shown is GageRochon with the design he created.

Creekside students have fun learning with blocks

Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Eubanks’ kindergarten class at Eagle Ridge Elementary School concluded a lesson on writ-ing letters with a letter to Santa. Pictured: Zykevion Battle, Ashton Smith, Naiyla Sessoms and Haleigh Batchelorshowing off their letters to Santa.

Eagle Ridge students write letters to Santa

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John Milledge AcademyFCAmembers organizea canned food drive

The JMA Middle School Fellowship ofChristian Athletes (FCA) sponsored a fooddrive during the month of November.Members were asked to bring in at leastfive cans of food to help those with need inBaldwin County. This is the third year the

FCA has participated in a food drive withthe food being donated to the Departmentof Family and Children Services. Studentswho helped deliver the cans were: (back)Hannah Miller, Hannah Barnes, (front)Kara Smith and Anna Beck.

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Oak Hill students create model roller coaster

Eagle Ridge students spread anti-drug message

Studying the Law of Conservation of Energy, Mrs.Clayton’s eighth grade physical science class build amodel roller coaster in order to study how potentialand kinetic energy is transferred throughout the sys-tem. The students also learn how to determine if theroller coaster is mathematically functional based onenergy and speed calculations in preparation for theirown model rollercoaster they will build themselves.

Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Eubanks’ kindergarten class at Eagle RidgeElementary enjoyed using the promethean board to discuss ordinal num-bers. Pictured: Haleigh Batchelor and Konyea Devereaux identifying thethird character in line. Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Eubanks’ kindergarten class atERE also recently wore their caps to “put a cap on drugs.”

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BHS names Students of Distinction

Baldwin High School recognized the following students as the first Students of Distinction for the 2010-2011 school year: Channing Juhan, Victoria Hood,Ashely Phillips, Kathy Kurtz (faculty member of distinction) and Kayla Croft.


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BHS hosts madrigal dinner

Madrigal dinners were popular in the Medieval and Renaissance period inhistory. The Baldwin High School Chorus presented a Madrigal DinnerThursday night, Nov. 18. One hundred twenty chorus students dressed intraditional costumes and entertained their guests with singing, dancing,juggling, comedy and more. There was a wonderful dinner catered byLaura Cummings. The event was sold out. Pictured: Elizabeth Logue andLandon Martin in costume for the madrigal dinner.

Creekside students use dominoesto learn their numeralsAt Creekside, Ty Simmons, Blair Seymour are working on dominoes tolearn numerals!

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Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Eubanks’ kindergarten class at Eagle Ridge Elementaryare shooting for stars in reading sight words. Pictured are students thathave successfully met the goal of reading 30 or more sight words in aminute (top row from left): Haleigh Batchelor, Evan Hitchcock, KonyeaDevereaux, Tami Mack; (bottom row from left): Tamia Watkins, MarkaylaPrimas and Jasmique Grissom.


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ER students shoot for the starsBHS Reality Check

Approximately 296 Baldwin High School juniors received a dose of real-ity via the Baldwin County Chamber of Commerce and their “RealityCheck.” Each student was given a job, a salary and in some cases a fam-ily. Each student was then sent into “reality.” The new Baldwin HighSchool fine arts lobby was filled will businesses from the communitywilling to provide these students with their services for a cost and witheach bill the student was obligated to pay with their set salary.Students soon realized the value of a dollar and had to learn to priori-tize luxury from necessity.


Storytime at CRE Creekside kindergartners

GMC students study science of Hovercrafts

Adrianna McCain and John Ashton Pickett enjoy stories at the listeningstation at Creekside.

The first days of school are tiring in kindergarten! Here are Iyana Wombleand Riley Barsby waiting to go home.

Maj. Clay McElheny Senior Physics Class recently studied the science ofHovercrafts. Hovercrafts use the physical sciences of lift, propulsion, and aero-dynamics. The students worked together in teams to design and build theirown hovercrafts. Leaf blowers were used to power their creations. Pictured:Cadet Chris Brown floats across the gym floor on his hovercraft.


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Midway Elementary hosts breakfast

Third graders and their parents had fun one Friday morning at Midway Elementary! Parents came for breakfast and academic games from 7:30 to 8:30.After juice and doughnuts, parents went to their child’s classroom for games. Pictured: Shakerria Ford’s parents enjoying a game of multiplication tic-tac-toe with students in Mrs. Sills’ class. Pictured (left to right): Amariayah Hart, Shakerria Ford and Gabbriel McGee. Parents not only had fun withtheir children and the other students, but also learned ways to use items around the house to help their children practice math facts, sight words andother things their child is learning at school.

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BHS Competition Cheerleaders place third

The Baldwin High SchoolCompetition Cheerleadersrecently placed 3rd at the

Golden HawksInvitational in

Sandersville, Oct. 16. GoBraves! Pictured are (left

to right) first row:Chiquita Cleveland, Angel

Brown, Tericka Wilson,Myiesha Johnson; second

row: Elexis King,Alashawn Grigley,

MeChina Hill, TrenesiaFinney, Sameria Parks;

third row: Marisa Horne,Chaquita Brown, BrianaHartry, Chelsye Abrams,

Kyenasha Williams; forthrow: Yasheika Vasser,

Chelsee Thomas, MarlanaAbrams, Kija Moss and

Shanerica Adams.

Baldwin High Career, Technical,and Agriculture Education (CTAE)department held its fourth annualCareer Fair Oct. 26 and 27. Studentsfrom the school’s ninth and 10thgrades had an opportunity to learnabout career pathways and meetbusiness partners from the commu-nity who offer employment in thosepathways. More than 450 studentsparticipated.

The career fair changed dramati-cally from previous years. For thefirst time, ninth-graders were invitedto attend. Also, in order to emphasizenon-traditional careers, girls andboys attended separate sessions. Ineach session the gender of the busi-ness partner matched the gender ofthe students. For example, girlstalked about automotive and market-ing careers to encouraged girls topursue automotive and marketingcareers, while boys talked aboutnursing and culinary arts careers toencouraged boys pursue nursing andculinary arts.

Business representation camefrom Robins Federal, ExchangeBank, Chick-fil-A, Jiffy Lube, LightForce Family Chiropractic, theGeorgia College Department ofKinesiology, Better BusinessBureau, Georgia ForestryCommission, and GeorgiaDepartment of Labor. Students wereable to talk to business partners one-on-one and ask about their careersand how they could prepare them-selves for similar jobs.

Students were also provided infor-mation on Career Pathways offeredat Baldwin and were encouraged tochoose a Pathway that appealed tothem and take the three or four relat-ed Career Pathway courses thatwould enable them to achieveCareer Pathway Completer status.

“Each pathway has a minimum ofthree classes that are required,” stat-ed Laurie Wallace, Baldwin ECPcoordinator. “Many of our Career

Pathways have classes that articu-late with Central Georgia TechnicalCollege. That means that if a studenttakes a class at Baldwin that articu-lates, then they need only to take anexemption test at Central GeorgiaTech to get credit for the class there.Students enter CGTC with coursecredit already and can finish theirpostsecondary course of study soon-er and get out into the workingworld.”

Baldwin High offers career path-ways in business and computer sci-ence, marketing, healthcare science,family and consumer science, con-struction, automotive, cosmetologyand agriculture. Each program hasseveral pathways. Students areurged to choose a pathway early intheir high school career.

“By choosing early, students canbenefit from all a Career Pathwayhas to offer,” explained Dr. MarilynnSkinner, career fair coordinator. “If astudent chooses a Career Pathway inthe ninth grade and begins classesfor it in the 10th, then by the timethey are a senior they may be eligibleto participate in work-based learn-ing, leave school early, and partici-

pate in on-the-job training. Or, theymay be eligible to participate in dualor joint enrollment and get a jump-start on their postsecondary educa-tion. Early choice also gives studentsthe opportunity of taking advantageof leadership activities with Careerand Technical StudentOrganizations such as FBLA, FFA,DECA, HOSA, and Skills USA.”


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Baldwin High CTAE holds annual career fair

Above: Eric Mosley with the Georgia Forestry Commission talks to students about forestry careers. Below: LynnStanelle from the Georgia Department of Labor talks with Baldwin High Students about Hot Jobs for 2018.

The Baldwin HighSchool Positive BehaviorSupport (PBS) team recent-ly recognized students andteachers who made a posi-tive difference in October.

Mrs. Margie Brawnerwas recognized as the win-ner of the “Did YouKnow?” drawing for goingabove and beyond her dutyto make sure students suc-ceed. Brawner, a vocation-al secretary, is very specialto the students, faculty andstaff of Baldwin HighSchool. She is married andhas two wonderful chil-dren.

Students from eachgrade level were also rec-ognized for being“Students of Distinction”by their teachers.Freshman Rukia Jacksonwas nominated by Mrs.Eubanks for her positive

attitude and leadership inclass. Rukia is the daughterof Renate and PaulJackson. She is a cheerfulyoung lady with a penchantfor learning. Rukia enjoysdancing and she is a mem-ber of the Baldwin HighSchool brigade and NavyJunior ROTC. Her long-term goals include going tocollege and becoming apediatrician.

Sophomore KeashiaJackson was nominated byNavy Junior ROTC as aStudent of Distinction. Sheloves to sing. She is thedaughter of Jennie Barnesand Bobby Jackson. She isinvolved with BHS NavyJunior ROTC. She is con-sidering the Navy as acareer or she would like toattend Fort Valley StateUniversity.

Chelsea Warren, a junior

at BHS, was nominated byMr. Turner. She always hasa smile and contributespositively in class.Chelsea’s parents, Ollieand Luscious Warren, arevery proud of her. She playstennis, and likes to shopand text message. She alsolikes to help her dad withconstruction projects. Sheis a member of BaldwinHigh School HealthOccupations Students ofAmerica and hopes tobecome an obstetricianand gynecologist or apediatrician.

James Lee, is the seniorstudent of distinction forOctober. He is the son ofEdward and Donna Lee.He has an afterschool joband is a dedicatedemployee. He plans toattend college andbecome a nurse.


The BHS Science Club hosted a seminar on Wednesday, Dec. 1st, for threeGeorgia College students majoring in science to discuss their college experi-ences in various academic and collegiate endeavors. Environmental sciencemajors John Rigdon and Chad Hobson, both seniors, advised the high schoolmajors on a variety of subjects, including study habitats, potential careers,study abroad opportunities, etc. Graduate student Anthony Alexander pre-sented the results of an undergraduate research experiment he conductedwhile attending North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. His research,Comparison of Light Sources and Their Influence on Plant Growth andDevelopment, helped students understand the relationship between scientif-ic research and real-world applications. More than 30 students, from APBiology and Gifted Chemistry courses, attended the event.

BHS Science Club hosts seminar

PBS recognizes outstandingteacher and students at BHS

GMC eighth-graderscomplete cotillion class

The GMC Prep School eighth grade cotillion class recentlyparticipated in a three course lunch at Aubri Lane’s.During the lunch, students practiced proper dining eti-quette and table manners in preparation for the annualDining-In event that is held each spring. Pictured: ParkerWilliams and Montana Pippin.


Thanks to the John Milledge Academy family who showed up to sup-port the recent JMA Beta Night at Chick-fil-A. The Beta Club, with thecommunity’s help, raised $450 to put toward school improvements.Any remaining monies will help students attend convention in March.Pictured are Anna Avant, Kara Council and Lacy Tindal.

By LAURIE WALLACEBusiness and Computer Science Instructor

Did you know students can earncourse credit toward a program ofstudy at Central Georgia TechnicalCollege — while still at BaldwinHigh School? They can, throughEducation and CareerPartnerships. In April of last yearBaldwin High School’s Career,Technical and Agriculture (CTAE),mathematics and English languagearts faculty networked one-on-onewith CGTC faculty to align curricu-lum. Curriculum alignment allowsstudents meeting BHS CTAEcourse standards the opportunityto exempt a related course whenenrolling in a program of study atCGTC.

Baldwin currently has 31 coursesthat fall under a partnershipagreement with CGTC. Theyinclude:

Business and Computer Sciencecourses:� Advanced Web Design� Business Essentials� Business Procedures� Computing in the Modern

World

� Computer Applications I� Computer Applications II� Fundamentals of Web Design� Principles of Accounting I� Principles of Accounting IIArchitecture, Construction,

Communications & Transportationcourses:� Carpentry II� Chassis System and Design � Electrical I� Electrical II� Electrical/Electronic Systems

and Design� Foundations of Transportation

& Logistics� Occupational Safety and

FundamentalsEarly Childhood Education:� Health, Safety & Nutrition for

the Young Child� Introduction to Early

Childhood Care and Education� Marketing, Sales, & Services� Marketing PrinciplesHealthcare Science:� Application to Therapeutic

Services� Introduction to Healthcare

Science� Salon Services I

Earning technical college credit at BHS JMA Night held at Chick-fil-A

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