The Cheatham Chatter March 8, 2011 Volume 1, Issue 26

Charger Events

Thurs. Mar. 10

School Picture Day & Cheatham Open House,

5:30-7 pm

Mar. 14-18 Spring Break

Tues. Mar. 22

Yogurtville Spirit Night,

4 pm

Thurs. Mar. 24 Kindergarten Roundup,

3:30-5:30 pm & Purple Cow Spirit Night,

4:30 pm

Sat. Mar. 26 Gifted & Talented Aptitude

Screening Test, 9 am See allenisd.org for details

Apr. 4 & 5

TAKS Testing No visitors in the school bldg.

Tues. Apr. 5

PTA Board Meeting, 6 pm

& PTA General Meeting, 7 pm

PTA Officer Elections & AIM Recognition Night

Apr. 11-15

Scholastic Book Fair Help buy books for our Cheatham library!

Tues. Apr. 12 Two Rows Spirit Night

Thurs. Apr. 14

1st Grade Hosts Chick-fil-A Spirit Night, 5-8 pm

Fri. Apr. 15

End of 5th 6

weeks

Beverly Cheatham Elementary School 1501 Hopewell Drive, Allen, TX 75013 Ph: (972) 396-3016 Fax: (972) 396-3035 Web: allenisd.org/cheathames Principal: George Junco Asst. Principal: Stephanie Logan Secretary: Carolyn Shipley PTA President: Alisa Peppers

Cheatham Students Earn 2nd Place, Headed to the DI State Tournament

Six teams from Cheatham Elementary attended the NeXT Regional Des-

tination ImagiNation Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 26 in Frisco. The Tournament consisted of 321 DI Teams, the largest DI Region in the

NATION! Each of Cheatham’s competitive teams placed in the tourna-ment and we have a 3rd/4th Grade team that is moving on to the State

Tournament!

Congratulations to

Cheatham’s 2nd PLACE, STATE BOUND team:

Team Leader: Leena Prabhu

Team Members:

Anita Prabhu Amulya Cherian

Neha Prathivadi Christine Jacob

Isha Kere (Boon)

The DI State Tournament will be held in Lubbock, Texas on April 1–2.

For anyone wishing to attend and cheer on our own Cheatham Chargers at the State Tournament, please contact LaShonna Sharp at

lashonna@gmail.com for details.

Check out page 2 of this newsletter, or the PTA website, for more infor-

mation about the other Cheatham DI teams!

Cheatham’s Family Day at Dr. Pepper Ballpark is Sun, May 15 at 2pm The RoughRiders are hosting the Corpus Christi Hooks Sunday, May 15 at 2pm and Cheatham Ele-mentary is invited. Bring the whole family out for America’s favorite pastime! This is a 6th grade fundraiser to help support their end-of-year party, but it is open to all Cheatham students and their families to attend. Ticket prices are only $20 each and include a great seat, a baseball cap and all-you-can eat food and Dr. Pepper products. Order forms were sent home with your student. Please send in your order form with your check (made payable to Cheatham PTA) to your child's teacher, or stop by our table at Open House (Thurs. March 10, from 5:30-7pm) to purchase your tickets. The deadline to order is Friday, April 1, so act now before all of the seats are gone!

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The 4th/5th Grade Team & 6th Grade Team

accepted DI’s Technical Challenge…Unidentified Moving Object. These teams were tasked with

creating and presenting a Sales Promotion that highlighted the equipment they were required to

DESIGN and BUILD to move objects from a tow-

ering height.

Congratulate our 4th PLACE winners from 4th/5th Grade:

Team Leader: Lori Keith Team Members:

Nathan Keith

Christian Hinton Natalie Bennett

Ashley Thompson Esha Kothapalli

William O’Neil Congratulate our 4th PLACE winners from 6th

Grade (middle-school level): Team Leader: Subha Velaga

Co-Leader: Jennifer Robinson Team Members:

Abhi Velaga

Mark Robinson Kevin Yang

Kevin Park Soham Shah

Clayton Bennett

One 3rd/4th Grade Team & One 3rd Grade

Team accepted DI’s Fine Arts Challenge…Triple Take Road Show. Each team was required to

create a Road Show that would travel and be

presented to three different audiences of their choosing. One show had to include a Special

Effect, or as DI calls it a Technical Spectacle!

Congratulate our 9th PLACE winners: Team Leader: LaShonna Sharp

Team Members:

Chloe McDonald Carly Noone

Priya Mandava Melanie Guillermo

Cole Latos (Anderson)

Jason Kacines (Boon) John Ross Williams (Boon)

Two 2nd Grade Teams participated in DI’s Ris-

ing Star (non-competitive) division, where they were challenged with solving “Big Bug’s Bad

Day”. Each team had to identify a character for each team member, write a script to identify

“Big Bug’s” problem and have the cast help

solve the issue, build their costumes and props and perform their play within an 8-minute time-

frame. GREAT JOB 2nd Graders!

Team Leader: Kimberly Hinton Team Members:

Sophie Hinton

Joshua Keith Abraham Cherian

Ashna Shah Raj Mehta

Kesav Giri

Aimen Ansari

Team Leader: LaShonna Sharp

Team Members: Drew Summers

Aryana Lynch

Pareeni Shah Chase Lee

Catherine O’Neil Christina Guillermo

Susanna Reigner

Thanks to the volunteer appraisers who spent

their entire day at the tournament: Gwen McNeil, Kathy Bowman, Adi Mehta, Karen Phillips

and Yinbao Yang.

Cheatham DI Teams Place at Regional Tournament

Mrs. Henderson is excited to announce that March is Youth Art Month

and in celebration, the following Cheatham artists had artwork cho-sen to be part of a display at the Allen Public Library. The display will

be up during the month of March, so next time you are at the library check out their artwork as well as artwork from all the elementary

schools in Allen.

Preston Barnes, Kindergarten Rishi Rajaraman, Kindergarten Taylor Murphy, Kindergarten Gabby Luo, Kindergarten Hanna James, 1st grade Pete Peabody, 1st grade Lucas Flowers, 2nd grade Matthew Chang, 2nd grade Audrey Swanson, 2nd grade Sophia Stanzo, 3rd grade Aurora Field, 3rd grade Nathan Varghese, 4th grade Christopher Li, 5th grade Ashley Molina, 5th grade Daniel Lim, 5th grade Hannah Alldredge, 5th grade Jenna Wilson, 6th grade Belle Ra, 6th grade Edgar Salgado-Guerrera, 6th grade Michelle Hong, 6th grade

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Congratulations Cheatham Artists

Cheatham Lost & Found is at capacity! All parents are encouraged to stop

by the Lost & Found rack at Cheatham in the front lobby by Friday, March

11 to look for missing coats, hats, mittens, scarves, water bottles, etc. All

items remaining on the Lost & Found rack by 3pm Friday, March 11 will be

donated to ACO during Spring Break. Thank you for your cooperation!

Missing Something? Check Lost & Found before it’s Gone for Good!

What’s coming in April? PTA General Meeting, Apr 5 at 7pm,

Scholastic Book Fair Apr 11-15, Spirit Nights and MORE!

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ACO items for

March:

Toothpaste &

Toothbrushes

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“Kindergarten Roundup” is Thurs., March 24 from 3:30-5:30pm at all

elementary campuses. The roundup begins the kindergarten registra-tion process for the 2011-2012 school year. Registration packets are

available at the elementary schools. Parents of current Cheatham students wishing to enroll an incoming Kindergarten sibling, may re-

turn completed packets to the Cheatham Office until March 23. They

will not need to attend the Roundup on March 24. Children enrolling in other grades may do so on or after March 25.

Kindergarten Roundup is March 24

Rachel's Challenge is a program based on Rachel Joy Scott's dream of

bringing KINDNESS and COMPASSION to the world. We are looking forward to our community-wide Rachel's Rally on Tuesday, May 10 at

7pm at the Allen Eagle Stadium. Rachel's father, Darrell Scott, will be here to celebrate the many acts of KINDNESS and COMPASSION

shown by AISD students. You and your child don't want to miss this

exciting event where we will display our chain links that we have been collecting all year! Would you like to help sponsor the Rally? The dead-

line to submit sponsor packages is March 11. Please make checks pay-able to: Green Elementary PTA. Sponsor packages can be picked up at

Denise Alvarez’s desk. Contact Mary Jane Barnes with any questions.

Rachel’s Challenge Rally is May 10

School Picture Day is Thursday, March 10, during school hours

Individual and class pictures will be taken at Cheatham on Thursday,

March 10, in the morning. Please mark your calendars and have every-one dressed up for their portraits on that day!

Lifetouch will be offering a FREE Photo Book from Shutterfly and Life-touch, only when you purchase online at mylifetouch.com! More info

will be coming from Lifetouch.

Cheatham Open House is Thursday, March 10 from 5:30-7pm

Book Fair

April 11-15

All Allen ISD elementary schools will be hosting open houses for par-

ents on Thursday, March 10. Cheatham’s open house is scheduled from 5:30-7pm. It’s a come-and-go event and all family members are

welcome. The open house allows teachers to share classroom programs with

parents. It’s a great opportunity for your student to show off their

work, introduce their friends and give you a tour of the building.

Wear your

shirts every

Tuesday!