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30 Students Competed in the 2012 Texas Future Problem Solving State Bowl April 13-15.

( See individual pages for results): The team of Joel Justice, Cy Tongate, Grady Benton, and Hunter Hull earned the State Champions GIPS Team Inter-mediate GOLD medal and the Intermediate Most Futuristic Solution Award! These boys will travel on June 7-10 to Bloomington, Indiana with Coach, Rhonda Howard to the INTERNATIONAL com-petition!

Counselor’s Corner:

May Testing:

Algebra 1 EOC- 5/8

Biology EOC – 5/9

W. Geo EOC – 5/10

Geometry EOC -5/11

Geometry-M EOC Field

Test – 5/11

These tests will be at

the Methodist Church:

AP Calc – 5/9

AP Engl. Lit. – 5/10

AP US. History – 5/11

AP Engl. Lang. – 5/16

AP W. History – 5/17

EARLY I .S .D . Word in the Herd

Save the Dates in May: 3rd– Talent Show 7:00 PM 6th– Choral Spring Concert 2:30 8th-Awards Assembly 6:00 PM 15th– Band Concert 7:00 PM 17th—FFA Banquet 6:00 PM 20th– Baccalaureate 8:00 EFBC 24th– Last Day of School 26th– Grad Rehearsal 9:00 AM 26th– Graduation 6:00 PM Coli-

Choir to Granbury! Success at Contest!

Students in grades 7-12 competed at the Spring UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Con-

test April 10th. On stage the choirs pre-formed 3 prepared pieces. In sight reading

the choirs preformed a piece they had never practiced. The Tenor/Bass choir

earned a sweepstakes on stage and Supe-rior in sight reading. The Treble choir

earned the rating of Excellent on stage and Superior in sight reading. The Mixed

choir earned the rating of Excellent on stage and Superior in sight reading.

Prom is May 5th at 8 PM at the Railroad Depot Museum

May 1, 2012

District 6-AA Track Meet Hosted By Bangs JV Girls Total Points 124 behind Bangs with 174

100 M Dash-Andee Jo Rose 1st place with time of 13.3 s.

200 M Dash-Taylor King 2nd place with time of 29.53 s. 800 M Run-Breana Cooney 5th place with time of 2:55.82. Mile Run-Sarah King 3rd place with time of 6:27.98. 2 Mile Run-Kyra Meader 1st place with time of 14:26.86, Sarah King 3rd place with time of 15:12.54, Jacey Guest 5th place with time of

15:46.16. 100 M Hurdles-Alexis Lohse 5th place with time of

19.31 s. 300 M Hurdles-Alexis Lohse 5th place with time of

56.81 s. Long Jump-Alexis Lohse 1st place with distance of 13’-7”, Meagan Sessler 2nd place with distance of 13’-2”, Alex-as Witt 4th place with distance of 12’-11 ½ “. Shot Put-Aly Wiggins 3rd place with distance of 26’-10 ¾ in, Sarah Senkirik

with distance of 25’-3”. Discus-Aly Wiggins 3rd place with

distance of 77’. 100 M Relay-Team of Meagan Sessler, Alexis Lohse, Andee Jo Rose, and Taylor King 1st place with time of

55.43. 200 M Relay-Team of Meagan Sessler, Andee Jo Rose, Taylor King, and Alexas Witt 1st place with time of 1:58.64.

See Elementary Page for Regional Track Information

Congratulations EHS Key Club! EHS Key Club has been ranked as one of the top 25 Key Clubs and earned a top 3 ranking for the EHS Key Club Website in the Texas– Oklahoma district! Also, congrats to Lindy Davis for being elected to the office of Dis-trict Editor for Texas-Oklahoma District and to Colten Meisner for receiving endorsement to run for Key Club International Vice Presi-dent in July. Pictured are Luke Broussard and Lindy Davis.

Basketball Honors Katie Isom was named to the Texas Girls Coaches Association All-State Team in Class 2A. 40 girls from each classification were named to this honor. Chase Riker: named to the District 6-2A All-District Team.

Congrats to Boys Regional Golf 6th place

www.earlyisd.com/EHS

Way to Go EHS Band!

On April 12, the EHS band went to Llano for their UIL contest . The band played three songs, that they had been working on, and also performed a sight-reading piece. They received 1’s from all three judges on every piece they played, earning them a sweepstakes (the first time since 2006)! Jason Jones and Robert Chapleau have been fantastic band directors! Great job!!

USAA Achievement Award Sarah Ringler received the USAA Achievement Award for Science based on academic performance, leadership and attitude. She was recommended by science teacher Mike Tumlinson.

EHS Welcomes New Principal The new EHS principal will be Jennifer Kent, Principal from Kingsville. She has also held the title of principal at Alex W. Spence High School in Dallas. David Hutton, the current high school principal, will finish the school year at Early.

Baccalaureate/ Graduation Schedule: see Elementary Page

UIL Medalist!

Jessica Zondag, a

junior, received fourth

place at the Regional

Meet for UIL , in LD

Debate, and is an

Alternate State

Qualifier! Great job!

Congratulations Nolan! Nolan Ethridge placed 3rd at the regional tennis meet.

Sports Banquet BWD Coliseum May 10

Congratulations to Kaulyn Reno! Kaulyn Reno was selected as a finalist for the Texas’ 32nd Annual Homecoming Queen Selection. As Early High School’s Homecoming Queen, she represented EHS at the Dallas-Fort Worth Marriott in Irving on April 15.

6AA District Boys Track Results: the following 11 boys will now be advancing to Re-gionals: 4x100 meter relay: Geron Gowdy, Matt Lewis, Tucker King, and Junior Sanchez placed 2nd with a time of 44.3. Pole Vault: Tim Wade came in 3rd with a height of 12’6. Discus: Brandon Kramer came in 2nd with a throw of 133’. 4x200 meter relay: Geron Gowdy, Matt Lewis, Tucker King, and Jake Fisher placed 3rd with a time of 1:33. 800 me-ter: Josh Sims came in 1st with a time of 2:04. 200 meter: Matt Lewis came in 3rd with a time of 22.3. 400 meter: Rowdy Happney came in 1st with a time of 51.6. Mile Relay: Payton Ashworth, Josh Sims, Grant Gowdy, and Rowdy Happney came in 2nd with a time of 3:30. Great job everyone!!!

Lady Horns Softball District Champs!

2012 Funder-burgh for the Future $1500 FPS Scholarship presented to Kaitlyn Levett .

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WORD IN THE HERD

From the Superintendent’s Office: Congratulations on an outstanding school year!

Thanks to everyone for the exemplary ways you have

represented Early I.S.D.! Kudos for many great suc-

cesses throughout the school year! We wish everyone

a safe, relaxing, rejuvenating summer! See you back

in Early I.S.D. in August for another stellar year!

STATE ROBOTICS RESULTS: Early Middle School sent two teams to the state ro-botics meet at Lady Bird Johnson Middle School in Irving, Texas. They com-peted against 57 other teams from across Texas of all district sizes and private schools. The “Robot Squad” of Asa Welker, Shelby Gifford, Dagan Whisenhunt, and Tara Glasscock placed 16th with an average score of 607. The team “Robo Ram-page” consisting of Hayden Barker, Lainey Speck, David Wiley and Kynadee Bannister placed 21st with an average score 592. These teams represent-ed Early in an outstanding manner. The competition was extremely tough this year. Early Middle School Robotics had a very successful year and is making plans for next year. Thank you very much for your support this year, Tami Hull, Middle School Robotics

FCCLA Members Awarded Medals at State LEOs (Leadership Enhancement Opportunities) are objective tests given to FCCLA members at fall leadership training, regional FCCLA meetings and at the state FCCLA meeting. The 13-15, six of the Early FCCLA members attended the state FCCLA meeting in Dallas. All med-aled. Casey Jessup-Gold/ Etiquette Caitlynd Henry-Gold/Culinary Scott Hurtado-Gold/Consumer Math Robert Orr– Gold/ Consumer Quiz Rachel Ditmore-Silver/Job Interview Peyton Carothers-Silver/Culinary

Texas Future Problem Solving State Bowl Results:

Creative Drama Grand Champion, Intermediate Division: David Morales, Holli Hullum, Patrick Murphy, Jack Donaho, Vernon Zier.

Top 10 Intermediate: Jack Donaho, Holli Hullum, David Mo-rales, and Patrick Murphy

Aim For Success will be at the high school at 1 PM on May 2.

EHS Spanish Students celebrate Cinco de Mayo May 3!

The FFA Banquet will be held in the

High School SAC at 6 PM on

May

17th.

The Choir’s Six

Flags Trip will

be Saturday,

May 12th.

REGIONAL ACADEMIC UIL CHAMPIONS AND STATE QUALIFIERS: Sarah Ringler, Brianna Childs, Kaitlyn Levett, and Dylan Jones competed at the Region 1AA UIL Meet at Odessa on April 21. Kaitlyn Levett won 4th Individ-ual and Sarah won 5th. The team won the championship with a total of 201 pts over 2nd Place Team Jim Ned with 200 to qualify for the State UIL Meet on the UT Campus in Austin on May 21-22.

Way to Go

Regional

Track

Qualifiers!

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E A R LY E L E M E N TA RY

E X E M P L A RY C A M P U S

District 6AA Track Meet JV Girls (from Pg 1) Total Points 124 behind Bangs with 174 100 M Dash-Andee Jo Rose 1st place with time of 13.3 s. 200 M Dash-Taylor King 2nd place with time of 29.53 s. 800 M Run-Breana Cooney 5th place with time of 2:55.82. Mile Run-Sarah King 3rd place with time of 6:27.98. 2 Mile Run-Kyra Meader 1st place with time of 14:26.86, Sarah King 3rd place with time of 15:12.54, Jacey Guest 5th place with time of 15:46.16. 100 M Hur-dles-Alexis Lohse 5th place with time of 19.31 s. 300 M Hurdles-Alexis Lohse 5th place with time of 56.81 s. Long Jump-Alexis Lohse 1st place with distance of 13’-7”, Meagan Sessler 2nd place with distance of 13’-2”, Alexas Witt 4th place with distance of 12’-11 ½ “. Shot Put-Aly Wiggins 3rd place with distance of 26’-10 ¾ in, Sarah Senkirik with distance of 25’-3”. Discus-Aly Wiggins 3rd place with distance of 77’. 100 M Relay-Team of Meagan Sessler, Alexis Lohse, Andee Jo Rose, and Taylor King 1st place with time of 55.43. 200 M Relay-Team of Meagan Sessler, Andee Jo Rose, Tay-lor King, and Alexas Witt 1st place with time of 1:58.64.

Word in the Herd

Elementary Save the Dates in May: 3rd- Talent Show @ High School- 7 p.m. 4th-3rd grade to Abilene Planetarium & Zoo 9th- Party @ Big Room for 100 AR Points (Morning) Hotdogs at Early City Park for 125 AR Points (Afternoon) 10th- Bowling, Park, & CiCi’s Pizza for 150 AR Points 11th- AR Fair 15th- 4th grade to Abilene Planetarium 18th- Field Day 21st- 3rd Grade Awards 22nd- 4th Grade Awards 3rd Grade Park & Pizza 23rd- 5th Grade Awards 4th Grade Park 24th- 5th Grade Talent Show Early Release @1:00 p.m.

FPS State Bowl Results: Top 10 Junior Team: Madison Bleth, Chloe Clowdus, Cameron Hill, and Ashtin Wade. State Champion GIPS Individu-als Junior Division: Sydney Neel. Sydney will travel on June 7-10 to Bloomington, Indiana with Coach, Lori Beck to the INTERNATIONAL com-

petition! Pic-tured: Sydney Neel (left) & Madison Bleth, Chloe Clowdus, Cameron, Hill, & Ashtin Wade. (bottom)

Winners for Mrs. Hagood’s Science Fair were recently announced. Judges had a tough job

choosing the winners, because every student did a wonderful job applying scientific method skills while using critical thinking and problem solving to implement their experimental investi-gations. Great job!

BERTRAND’S HOMEROOM 1- Madison Blyth

2- Jonathan Morales 3- Sydney Neel 4- Emma Loven

5- Chloe Clowdus HUNTER’S HOMEROOM

1- Holly Hutton 2- Katie Satterlee 3- Jake Angerstein

4- Emily Jillson 5- Ryleigh Dalleh

GRIMES’ HOMEROOM 1- Alex Dobson 2- Derek Morris

3- Mary Kate Murphey 4- Hannah Jones

5- Zach Kelley HAGOOD’S HOMEROOM

1- Sydnee Shea 2- Keaton Carothers

3- Ben Johnson 4- Alaine Cooney 5- Kate Hoffman

TAYLOR’S HOMEROOM 1- Will Eddleman 2- Noah Shreves 3- Jenny Ringler

4- Alexis Brightman 5- London Chapman

Early Elementary is a proud supporter of our military. Each year students from 3rd grade adopt a soldier that is a prior graduate of Early High School. These students send letters and care packages during their deployment. One of these adopted soldiers is Specialist Cameron Coley, who graduated from Early High School in 2008. He is from the 173rd 1/503 Airborne Brigade Combat Team, stationed in Vicenza, Italy. Specialist Coley recently was in town for a visit and came to visit with the students. What a welcome he re-ceived when he walked into the school! The students were lined down the hallways, waving flags and clapping as he walked past them greeting his student as the song “Hero” was being played. EISD wants to give Specialist Coley along with all of our other military a

big THANK YOU! Specialist Coley, shared some of his hats that were worn during training with Marshall Stovall and 3rd grade teacher, Mar-cia Deen (top left). In the bottom right corner, Specialist Coley and Mrs. Deen’s 3rd grade class salute all soldiers for all that they do for

our country! Specialist Coley receiving a warm welcome as he comes to visit with the students at EES (bottom left).

High School Regional Track Qualifiers (from p. 1) We have 5 girls and 11 boys who have qualified to participate in the Regional Track Meet to be held in Odessa, Texas on April 27 and 28. These athletes have worked hard, sacrificed time, and been role models to their fellow-students. The extra time spent in their athletic activities meant many late nights at track meets, maintaining grades, and a pride in wanting to WIN, proving that with hard work, determination, sore muscles, and many nights of little sleep, these athletes have enjoyed success. They have run, jumped and thrown, faster and further than the competition to EARN this honor. Morgan Birrell, Aubrey Horton, Chelsea Johnston, Hannah McDaniel, Sarah Smithey, Payton Ashworth, Jake Fisher, Geron Gowdy, Grant Gowdy, Rowdy Happney, Tucker King, Bran-don Kramer, Matt Lewis, Josh Sims, Tim Wade and alternates, Charlie Tongate, and Phillip Whitley. We coaches have enjoyed working with each of you and wish you the best at the Regional Track Meet.- Sean Pahira, Darren Bailey, Mike Sharp, Mike Tumlin-son, Kristi Sandoval, Sue Wells

CONGRATS ROBOTICS TEAM! On Saturday, April 14, the robotics team from Early Elementary competed in the TCEA State Robotics Competition at Johnson Middle School in Irving, Texas. The “Early Beastly Bots” placed 6th with an average score of 663 among a field of 57 teams from all across Texas in grades 4 through 8. The members of this team are Tom-my Bowden, Ryleigh Dalleh, Sydney Shea, and David Lee Shields. Each team was required to run their robot in 3 rounds, and the scores from each round were averaged for the final placement. The teams had a prescribed task to do and have been programming their robots for months prior to the competition. Con-gratulation to the team for representing Early Elementary Robotics with such class at the competition. They all worked hard to achieve this honor for the school.

Dates for Bacc/Graduation Baccalaureate Rehearsal Friday, May 18 8:15 Early First Baptist Church Take roll at 8:15 AM at the church. School dress code please. You are in a church, so remember to be respectful of that fact. If you will stay focused and attend to business, we should be through by 10:00, and you will be dis-missed for Senior Skip Day. Baccalaureate: Sunday, May 20 at 8:00 PM in the Early First Baptist Church Seniors dressed and in the fellowship hall at 7:15 PM. Don’t forget all your cords. Graduation Rehearsal: Saturday, May 26 at 10:00 AM in the Brownwood Coliseum. This will take 1-2 hours—it depends on you! (Regular School Attire) Graduation: Saturday, May 26 at 6:00 PM Be in the holding room behind the stage FULLY DRESSED at 5:00 PM for Senior group pictures. Don’t forget your honor cords.

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Early Primary Exemplary Campus

Word

in the Herd

Hunter Hull Grady Ben- Joel Justice Cy Tongate Crystal Ochoa Katie Brown Amanda Harris

E D I T O R S

DATES TO KNOW:

May 4- FUN DAY at Longhorn Stadium May 10- AR Points & Clubs cutoff May 7-11- K-2 Benchmark Testing May 11- All library books due 100 Club Party Rachel’s Challenge End of Year Celebration May 14- AR Store (spend points) May 15- 200 Club 1st Grade to Coggin Park @ 11-1 PM May 16- 200 Club 2nd Grade to Coggin Park @ 11-1 PM May 17- 300 Club to Seal’s Gym (2nd Grade 9- 11, 1st Grade 12:30-2:30) May 18- 400 Club to Academy Lanes 9:00-11:00 May 18- 500 Club eat lunch with Principal May 21- 600 Club Principal of the Hour May 21- 700 Club to Radio Station May 21- Kindergarten Awards, 12-1 PM in Primary Gym May 22- 1st Grade Awards, 12-1 PM in Primary Gym May 23- 2nd Grade Awards, 12-1 PM in Primary Gym May 24- Last Day of School, Early Release…Kindergarten @12:15, others at 1 PM

AR Point Rewards!

Accelerated Reader (AR) points and clubs will cut off at the end of the day, May 10. Our students who have accumulated Accelerated Reader (AR) points will be spending their points on May 14 in the AR Store. We will be having Accelerated Reader (AR) club parties for students who have attained the various club levels based upon the number of books they have read and passed on tests this year: * Ice cream sundae party for all students who have read 100 plus books. *Students who have read 200 plus books will have a picnic lunch and playtime at Coggin Park. *Students who have read 300 plus books will be going to Seal’s Gym for two hours of fun. *Our students who have read 400 plus books will be going bowling. *Students who have read 500 plus books will get to go eat lunch with the principal. *Our students who have read 600 plus books will have the opportunity to help the principal as “Principal for an Hour.” *And students who read 700 plus books will be interviewed by Brian Wade, at Newstalk KXYL 102.3. The interview will be recorded and then broadcast the next morning. It will be played over the school PA system so all their friends can hear them on the radio.

Biographies & Autobiographies Mrs. Jacobson’s class studied biographies & autobiographies this spring. After read-ing several biographies of famous Ameri-cans like Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington, & Abraham Lincoln, the stu-dents then wrote their own life stories. Pictured: students with their published autobiographies.

Counselor’s Corner

In May, the Core Essential quality that we will be looking for in the students here at Primary is RESPONSIBILITY. Students will receive a free child’s meal at Chick-Fil-A when they demonstrate responsibility. I want to give a special THANK YOU to our local Chic -Fil- A for making it possible for our school to participate. It is very special to our students and it gives them proof that demonstrating these values is important. ALSO: There are local businesses that help us celebrate the students who have good classroom conduct. A special THANK-YOU !! to each of them: ACADEMY LANES, CHICK-FIL-A, COUSINS, DAZZLING DIVA’S, DOC’S DRUG STORE OF EARLY, EARLY BLOOMS AND THINGS, FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, FORGET-ME-NOT FLORIST, HUMPHREY PETE’S, JER-RY’S BURGER, MILLS CO.STATE BANK, PRIME TIME LUBE EXPRESS, QUALITY BODY WORKS, PRUDENTIAL ROSS REAL ESTATE, SONIC, AND UNDERWOOD’S.

Perfect Attendance Zeda Berry won the 5th Six Weeks bike. She is a student of Mrs. Teston’s kindergar-ten class. The last bicycle for perfect attendance will be given on the last day of school.

Library Books

All library books are to be turned into the library

by 11:30 on Friday, May 11.

and clubs will cut off at the end of the day, May 10.

Fun Day The EPS students are getting excited

about our annual Fun Day at Longhorn Stadium on May 4th. EHS PALS will help

with the event.

Benchmark

Tests

All EPS students will be taking end of year

Benchmark tests the week of May

7-11.

School is

Out!

Last Day of School is May 24. There will be an early release at 1:00 PM — (12:15 for Kindergarten)

End of year awards for: Kindergarten- May 21 @ 12-1 PM 1st Grade- May 22 @ 12-1 PM 2nd Grade- May 23 @ 12-1 PM

Dustin Titus gives Michael Morales an egg; Mrs. Kingston's First Grade

Class's Easter Egg Hunt.

Hadley Perkins & Marcus Salazar; Mrs. Kinston's 1st Grade Easter Egg Hunt.

Look Out, Eggs, Here They Come! Mrs. Koch's First Grade Class.