Amy Northcutt, Principal John McCullough, Superintendent ...€¦ · Read Across the Bluff Coming on Tuesday—FCCLA students will once again literally be bringing to life the sights

BEAR TRACKS Sulphur Bluff School —Building Brighter Futures

Amy Northcutt, Principal John McCullough, Superintendent

Look! Menu For Week After Next

Daily Breakfast Option: Grab n Go: Cereal, Toast,

Fruit, Juice, Milk

Monday, Nov. 26

Breakfast—Chicken Patty, Biscuit, Fruit, Juice, Milk

Lunch—Pizza, Roasted Carrots, Green Beans, Fruit,

Milk

Alternate Entrée for 6-12 Only—McRib Sandwich

Tuesday, Nov. 27

Breakfast—French Toast, Sausage Link, Fruit,

Juice, Milk

Lunch—Chicken Fried Steak, Whipped Potatoes,

Broccoli, Fruit, Milk

Alternate Entrée for 6-12 Only—Popcorn Chicken

Wednesday, Nov. 28

Breakfast—Eggstravaganza, Tortilla, Fruit, Juice,

Milk

Lunch—Italian Pasta Bake, Whole Corn, Pinto

Beans, Fruit, Milk, Bread Stick

Alternate Entrée for 6-12 Only—Chicken Fillet

Thursday, Nov. 29

Breakfast—Biscuit, Sausage, Fruit, Juice, Milk

Lunch—Chicken Nuggets, Italian Vegetables, Gar-

den Salad, Fruit, Milk

Alternate Entrée for 6-12 Only—Steak Fingers

Friday, Nov. 30

Breakfast—Breakfast Pizza, Fruit, Juice, Milk

Lunch—Hamburger, Burger Fixings, Sweet Tater

Fries, Fruit, Raspberry Jello, Milk

Alternate Entrée for 6-12 Only—Hot Dog

November 16, 2012 Volume 15, Issue 12

Upcoming Events

Nov.16-17 Lady Bears in Miller Grove Tour-

nament; Bears in Campbell Tournament

Nov. 17 FFA Area LDE

Nov.19 JH Basketball vs. Saltillo Here BB,

AG, AB 5:00; FCCLA Canned Food Drive;

Beta Pizza Kit Sales Continue; VG vs. Boles

Here 8:00

Nov. 20 JVG, JVB, VG, VB @ Avery 4:00;

Read Across the Bluff

Nov. 21-23 Thanksgiving Holiday

Nov. 26 Beta Toys 4 Tots; JH vs. Yantis Here

AG, AB 5:00

Nov. 27 Lady Bears vs. Roxton Here VG 7:30

Nov. 28 Beta After School Meeting

Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Bland Tournament VG, VB

Nov. 30 Christmas Parade in Sulphur Springs

Look! Menu For Next Week

Daily Breakfast Option: Grab n Go: Cereal, Toast,

Fruit, Juice, Milk

Monday, Nov. 19

Breakfast—Biscuit, Sausage, Fruit, Juice, Milk

Lunch—Taco Soup, Cheese Stick, Carrot Sticks,

Crackers, Chilled Fruit, Milk

Alternate Entrée for 6-12 Only—None

Tuesday, Nov. 27

Breakfast—Breakfast Pizza, Fruit, Juice, Milk

Lunch—Hot Dogs, Ranch Beans, Tater Tots, Chilled

Fruit, Milk

Alternate Entrée for 6-12 Only—None

Casey Gore Takes 1st at District FFA Sen-

ior Creed Speaking—The creed is the heart

and soul of the FFA organization, as Casey

describes it. It outlines the tenets by which

the members and association abide. After

reciting the creed, a roundtable discussion

was held in which Casey was quizzed on the

relevance of the creed as it pertains to the

economy, government, and society in gen-

eral. The creed was written by E. M. Tiffany

and adopted at the 3rd National Convention

of the FFA in 1930.

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Check Out Our

Updated Website

at

www.sulphurbluffisd.net

Beta

Presents

Little

Caesar’s

Pizza Kits &

Desserts Nov. 12Nov. 12Nov. 12Nov. 12----29292929

Great to Have on Hand for the Holidays or Anytime!

See A Beta Member to Place Your Order.

FFA District Leadership Events—FFA students, pictured above, participated in leadership events for FFA at Northeast

Texas Community College last Friday. They represented Sulphur Bluff in Greenhand Quiz as well as Senior Quiz. Casey

Gore did senior creed speaking, and Cody Vance did Greenhand creed speaking. Pictured L-R are FFA members Lacey

Calhoun, Hudson Northcut, Cody Vance, Erin Zeringue, Casey Gore, Taylor Self, Shelby Williams, and Meagan Cober-

ley.


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First Grade Hatches Exotic Silky Chickens—First graders got

to see 16 baby chicks hatch this week because Casey Gore, an

11th grade student aide for 1st grade teacher Mrs. Jenkins,

brought his incubator into the classroom a few weeks ago. The

first grade class has been eagerly anticipating when they would

get to see the babies. They hatched over two days. As each chick

hatched, it was put into a box prepared with food and water and

a heat lamp. Each tiny chick’s beak had to be urged into the wa-

ter immediately after being put into the box. Casey Gore shows

this breed of chickens at livestock shows, and he will show these

this year. Pictured above L-R are Casey Gore, first graders Da-

kota Klemptner and Alyssa Short, and Mrs. Jenkins, first grade

teacher. Inset shows the first chick that hatched. Alyssa Short

says, “The chicks are really cute.” She says that someday maybe

she would like to raise chickens. “Right now at home I have a big guard dog named Foxy and a miniature wienie dog named Levi.

We drew little pictures about the chickens in class.” The pictures showed the life cycle. Dakota Klemptner says, “They are cute. My

favorite part of having the baby chicks in the classroom was the hatching. It was cool. I had never seen baby chicks hatch like that

before. I have a horse and a cow at home. I would someday like to show a horse at a livestock show. My horse’s name is Bolt, and he

likes to eat out of my hand. Usually I feed him an apple.”


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Read Across the Bluff Coming on Tuesday—FCCLA students will

once again literally be bringing to life the sights and sounds of children’s

favorite storybooks when they present Read Across the Bluff to students

in PK-3rd grades on Tuesday. Mrs. Vandiver says that the students have

been working hard and are excited to transform classrooms into enchant-

ing worlds. This year the students will have the chance to travel to Winter

Wonderland, take a walk in Thanksgiving Plaza, go Camping Out, enter a

Buggy World and go Under the Sea. This FCCLA project seeks to en-

courage reading skills in young students.

Pictured Yesenia Castillo, Victoria Street,

Chasen Beaver, Mrs. Vandiver, Edie Lambe;

bottom pic Sierra Swanson, Yesenia, Victo-

ria, Edie.

FCCLA Canned Food FCCLA Canned Food FCCLA Canned Food FCCLA Canned Food

Drive Drive Drive Drive

Make Sure Your Class

Brings the Most Cans

To Benefit Local Families


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Basketball Schedule Changes

On November 19, in addition to the

junior high games, there will be a var-

sity girls’ game at 8:00 at home versus

Boles.

Blue Santa Barrel

Awaits Your Donations of New Toys

Title I Meeting Scheduled for

Dec. 5 Before PTO Meeting

A Title I meeting will be held Wednesday, December 5, at 3:30 in

the cafeteria. It will be immediately followed by a PTO meeting.

We have a school-wide Title I program. Everyone is welcome to

attend the meeting.

Sulphur Bluff Bears

Glow in the Dark Bracelets

$2.00 Contact an FCCLA Officer for your purchase!

Junior Class Asks for Donations of

Wrapping Paper, Bows,

Ribbon, Tape, Tags, and

Boxes Please

bring do-

nations to

Pre-K

room next

week.

Gift Wrapping Booth

Our Gift Wrapping Booth is dur-

ing the home games of Dec. 4 &

18 in the gym foyer. See our ad

on back page.

For

our


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FFA Validation Deadlines

Approach

Students who will be showing pigs are in the process of purchas-

ing those. It appears that we will have approximately 6 to 8 head

of pigs on feed. Swine validation is on the 26th and broiler orders

must be turned in on December the 1st. Ft. Worth entries are due

by the 15th of November and all other major entries are due by

Dec 1.

Mr. Abner says that he hopes to be purchasing a gasoline-

powered portable miller welder with grant money that is received

from the Perkin’s grant. This will allow the students to work

outside more easily and work on projects for people in the com-

munity that need to be done on-site, i.e. pens, corrals, signs etc.

In the classroom we have been covering the different breeds of

animals, started covering hand tools with the freshman class,

practicing our shop skills, and learning how to properly prepare

outlines and speeches.

FFA members did a trash pick-up on Monday afternoon. Pictured

are Erin Zeringue and Dylan Foster, above; L-R Judy Brown, Kenda Jock, Shelby Williams, Shelbi Hurley, Meagan Coberley,

Brenden Greer, Cody Vance, Ryan Vance, Justin Goldsmith, Hudson Northcutt, Taylor Self.

FFA

Fruit Sales

Begin

Next Week

Recycle your old, used printer and toner car-

tridges. Proceeds will be used to buy needed

classroom materials. See Mrs. Weeks for dona-

tions or questions.

Help Sulphur Bluff Go Green


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News

TOYS 4 TOTS DRIVE: The holidays are right around the corner and it is time to start making your shopping list. Please add on

your list that from Nov.26th-Dec.14th we will be taking donations for our TOYS 4 TOTS program that helps local children from SB.

If your family or a family you know needs help this holiday season, please contact Tressie South at [email protected]

or you can call Mrs. South or Mrs. Cox at 945-2460 for more info. Last year we were happy little elves to 17 of our own students

and we greatly appreciate ANY donation that you may be able to provide to this great Beta service project!

FUNDRAISER: Beta will be selling kits from Little Caesar’s Pizza and Dessert fundraiser program from Nov.12-29th! They are

delicious and great to have on hand.

Beta Taking Donations For

TOYS 4 TOTS TOYS 4 TOTS TOYS 4 TOTS TOYS 4 TOTS To Benefit Local Children

We Appreciate ANY Donations

Bring your donation to the office

to Mrs. Cox or contact Beta at

903-945-2460


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Meagan

Coberley

Maycee

Potts

Skylar Evans

Shelby Williams

Kaci Powers

Cheyenne Bryant


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Tournament Play

Continues This Weekend

for Lady Bears, Bears

The Lady Bears are in tournament play in

Miller Grove this weekend.

The Bears are in tournament play this week-

end in Campbell. On Thursday they lost the

game against Mount Zion in double over-

time by 1 point.

Lacey Calhoun


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Veterans’ Day Assembly—Sulphur Bluff ISD recognized

several veterans on Friday morning. The veterans present

were L-R Jim Guilkey, grandfather of Mikey and Sophia;

Bruce Fielden, great-uncle of Jack Phillips and Lydia Drum-

mond; Gaylon Hume, grandfather of Kaylon and Blake

Hume and Tyler Cannon; Tommy Holcomb, grandfather of

Mardi Fite; and Ed Gentry, grand-

father of Landon, Tori and Anne

Dorner and Lydia Drummond.

Miss McCarty

and Dustin

Foster


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Billy Emerson Retires from School Board—At last night’s board meeting, Billy Emerson was honored for

his years of service to the students and staff of Sulphur Bluff ISD when he was presented a clock plaque com-

memorating his time on the school board of 2008-2012. Mr. Emerson served as an officer on the board. He

also served the school for many years as an employee when he was transportation director here at The Bluff

for over 20 years. Mr. McCullough, superintendent, says, “I would like to thank Billy for his service and com-

mitment to the students of Sulphur Bluff ISD. Any time we discussed purchasing something for the district, his

main focus was on doing what was best for the students. If it was something that helped students succeed, he

supported it. We appreciate his time on the board and wish him the best. Pictured above are Mr. Emerson, left,

and Mr. McCullough.


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Gift Wrapping Booth at

Dec. 4 and Dec. 18 Games

In Foyer of Gym

$1.00/Box if you bring your own paper, etc.

$2.00/Box if you use our paper, etc.

Junior Class Fundraiser

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Amy Northcutt, Principal John McCullough, Superintendent ...€¦ · Read Across the Bluff Coming on Tuesday—FCCLA students will once again literally be bringing to life the sights