E. E. Emerson Elementary announces the January Soft Seven Winners. Students spend the first few minutes of their time in the computer lab honing their math facts skills from addition in the first grade, subtraction in second grade to multiplication in the fourth grade. Students are rewarded with the soda of their choice and their picture in the newspaper.

Back row left to right: Fourth grade: Davis Grant; Third grade: Bayler Ward, Mason Ryan, and Weston Lackey; Second grade: Giovanni Cole and Zeb Tucker. Front row left to right: First grade: Chaizyn Ybarra, Harlie Hale, and Tessa Bolin; Second grade: Brystol Butler. Missing from photo: Jett Walkup, fourth grade.