Harrisonville Weekly
Vol. 7, No. 33
May 23, 2008

HHS names cheer squad for 2008-09
Twenty Harrisonville High School and Harrisonville Middle School students were named to the 2008-09 cheerleading squad.

Those selected to be team members included Kaylee Ayers, Kyleigh Black, Mikala Bollinger, Jessica Clemons, Makenzie Culver, Jessica Garrett, Rachel Griffith, Mallory Hoffman, Jessica Joseph, Destiny Lakin, Brittainy Lee, Kortney McKinnis, Taylor Morse, Courtney Needs, Sara Simmons, Jaclyn Sumner, Kelsey Sumner, Megan Wagner, Shalyn Wheeler, and Jessica Wray.

The cheerleaders cheer on the football and basketball teams and perform at school pep rallies and other events. The squad is under the direction of Emily Taylor.

Silver Sensations selected for next year
Ten Harrisonville High School and Harrisonville Middle School students were named to the 2008-09 Silver Sensations Dance Team.

Those selected to be team members included Sasha Gubina, Amanda Johnson, Sydney Kroenke, Samantha Lawson, Kaila Leipard, Kimmie Mollenhour, Alyssa Strong, Betsy Tracy, Emily Tracy, and Katie Tracy.

The Silver Sensations perform at home football and basketball games, as well as school pep rallies and other events. The team also participates in two competitions each year.

McEowen honors students at Accent on Achievement Night
McEowen Elementary School students were honored for their academic achievement at an end-of-the year ceremony on Monday, May 19.

The eleventh annual Accent on Achievement Program included recognition of Principal's Honor Roll, Presidential Scholars, as well as students honored for citizenship and reading achievement.

The event began with three speakers providing their “Perspective on Excellence.” The speakers included fifth grade student Jacob Murray, parent Rachael Murray, fifth grade teacher Marla Brown and art teacher Susan Lamb-Bearce.

Students who earn straight A's are named to the Principal's Honor Roll. Five third grade students were honored for being on the Principal's Honor Roll the entire school year. They were Hannah Clayton, Dillon Eisel, Suzzie Gaines, Keegan Hix, and Courtney Wesemann.

Forty-nine fourth graders were recognized for maintaining A's all year. They were Courtney Allen, Cassidy Anderson, Dylan Barge, Libby Black, Nicholas Blalock, Jessica Bloustine, Spencer Burton, Bailey Bylina, Chance Chamberlain, Tanner DeVore, Sydni Dilbeck, Sam Dooley, Ian Eddleman, Katy Eddleman, Micaela Edwards, Leeann Farren, Hunter Finner, Cassidy Fox, Henry Frees, Sarah Geier, Blaine Hanson, Ryan Hayworth, Reagan Holden, Alex Johnson, Lauren Kehoe, Kristin Kimbrell, Makiah Lemmer, Dylan Licht, Dakota Mathew, Katelyn McKinnis, Cody McMorris, Veronica Messer, Mikayla Olender, Madison Parker, Tucker Quinn, Olivia Ratcliff, Liam Redinger, David Reichert, Kati Riffle, Brooke Rogers, Wyatt Schenker, Kylee Strickland, Ben Styron, Elizabeth Thayer, Sarah Towakoli, Carmen Vogt, Matt Welhoff, Marissa Williams, Madde Wisner.

Fifth graders earning this recognition included Casey Ambrozi, Ronny Baker, Jordan Cornell, Laura Hamilton, Andy Laughlin, Reagan Osborn, MaKayla Russback, Ashton Taber, and Caitlin Welliver.

Fifth graders who earned A's throughout both their fourth and fifth grade year were named Presidential Scholars. Those students were Hannah Bennett, Sabrina Bollinger, Sarah Cass, Douglas Croy, Austen Cummins, Madi Dahn, Nate Dick, Jacob Erwin, Hagen Finner, Dalton Forester, Landon Hern, Alex Holden, Madi Killestad, John Kusmec, Aaron Laughlin, Austin Moreland, Blake Moreland, Austin Murray, Jacob Murray, Jordan Ours, Jessica Poisal, Trish Price, Ally Saffell, Ali Schmidt, Baileigh Selemaea, Ben Spencer, Christia Stein, Bethany Travis, Ashley Underwood, Lani Van Zyl, Melissa Watson, Cole Welhoff, Kai Wesemann, and Mark Williams.

McEowen Library Media Specialist Tonya Ours presented awards to over 130 students for meeting their Accelerated Reader goals for the year.

Ours also recognized third graders for reading all KC-3 nominated books. The KC-3 nominees are chosen each year by the Kansas City Metropolitan Librarians. Approximately 10 transitional chapter books make the list. Those McEowen third graders honored were Amber Barta, Kathryn Burr, Katlyn Byerley, Hannah Clayton, Eleanor Dick, Dillon Eisel, Kelsey Gaines, Elijah Hart, Keegan Hix, Emily Licht, Morgan Selemaea, Courtney Wesemann, Jazmyn Zielenski, and Jordan Zielenski

Thirty-six fourth and fifth graders completed all 20 books on the Mark Twain Readers list and were recognized for that accomplishment. They were Casey Ambrozi, Jordan Bostic, Kayley Brock, Heather Corcoran, Douglas Croy, Madi Dahn, Annie DeVenney, Tanner DeVore, Leeann Farren, Cassidy Fox, Henry Frees, Reagan Holden, Lauren Kehoe, John Kusmec, Aaron Laughlin, Mikaila Livingston, Dylan Long, Jacob Murray, Mikayla Olender, Jordan Ours, Franklin Patterson, Jessica Poisal, Gavin Robertson, Brooke Rogers, Ally Saffell, Ali Schmidt, Ben Spencer, Jessica Strodtman, Ben Styron, Andrew Tarter, Bethany Travis, Taylor Underwood, Ashley Underwood, Carmen Vogt, Melissa Watson, and Cole Welhoff.

The final awards of the night were presented by McEowen Principal Dan Erholtz. Erholtz recognized one student from each class at McEowen with the Citizenship Award. Those honored included Haley Alexander, Haley Brown, Samantha Burch, Quinton Cooper, Sydni Dilbeck, Tucker Foerschler, Sarah Geier, Landon Getz, Justin Hurst, Kaitlin Knoche, Caitlin Lewis, Madison Phillips, Makayla Russback, Shania Snell, Savannah Sunde, Logan Teal, Chelsea Wehmeyer, Sam Wilson, Molly Winningham, and Madde Wisner.

HMS honor students at annual awards night
Harrisonville Middle School honored student achievement at its third annual Awards Ceremony at the end of the school year.

Students in grades six, seven, and eight were honored for academic achievement including Honor Roll and Principal's Honor Roll.

Nearly 150 students were recognized for being on the Principal's Honor Roll all four quarters of the 2007-08 school year.

The top Accelerated Reader for each grade level was recognized. Those students included sixth grader Victoria Liera, seventh grader Audrey Marshall, and eighth grader Nicole Laurent.

Departmental awards were handed also handed out at the ceremony.

Business Technology honored students included seventh graders Courtney Lemmer and Matthew Baer and eighth graders Taylor Croy and Zach Murray.

Victoria Bostic, Mary Baer, McKenna Baumgartner, and Joseph Hunter were presented awards for Spanish.

Physical Education Awards went to Austin Chancellor, Kayla Dobson, Livia Dunham, Blake Millikin, and Brandon Perriman.

In the core areas of science, math, communication arts, and social studies, certificates were presented to those students who achieved at the highest levels in that particular area.

The Outstanding Science Achievement Award was presented to sixth graders Kenneth Baker, Luke Cooper, Mackenzie Eisel, Lee Hawkins, Brock Kliewer, and Dylan Young and eighth graders Kortney McKinnis, Landon Mickelberry, Blake Mullikin, Jennifer Newton, Brandon Perriman, Nick Porter, and Alyssa Strong.

Social studies awards went to sixth graders Kenneth Baker, Lee Hawkins, Claire Keil, and Mariem Towakoli and eighth graders Travis Britz, Matthew Dennison, Joey Esler, Ted Hilton, Anna Holden, Joseph Hunter, and Shelby Lavery.

In math, those recognized were sixth graders Zachary Davidson, Kayla Johnson, and Brianna Kendrick and eighth graders Thaddeus Messer, Kaytlyn Dahn, Jennifer Ralins, Emily Tracy, Cody Blentlinger, Samantha Hurst, and Lauren Mackay.

The Top Communication Arts Achievement Awards went to sith graders Luke Cooper and Mackenzie Eisel and eight graders Carlee Brown, Stephanee Davidson, Madison Kusmec, Taylor Morse, McKenna Baumgartner, Taylor Croy, and Ashley Knipp.

Top team awards were presented to seventh graders Anisa Alexander, Genevieve Allen, Madison Allen, Kaley Harkrader, Mitchell Haug, Emily Hix, Bryant Kanies, Lacey Needs, Lena Quinlin, David Roth, Taylor Spencer, Austin Welhoff, Amanda West, and Maryna Wooten. Eighth graders earning the Top Team Awards were Mary Baer, Victoria Bostic, Sasha Gubina, and Mckenzi Taylor.

Each quarter the school honors the Students of the Quarter. This year's honorees were sixth graders Kenneth Baker, Jena Branstine, Taylor Chancellor, Randy Eidson, Morgan Farrimond, Lee Hawkins, Kayla Johnson, Victoria Liera, Sarah McCaslin, Blake Nichols, Sullivan Parris, Evan Robertson, Dylan Southard, Olivia Styron, Hunter Wilson, and Dylan Young; seventh graders Levi Anderson, Matthew Baer, Dakota Finner, Grace Hamilton, Kaley Harkrader, Mitchell Haug, Emily Hix, Bryant Kanies, Jameson Knox, Lena Quinlin, Taylor Spencer, Amanda West, Drew Williams, Maryna Wooten, Jackson Rudell, and Cheyenne Cox; and eighth graders Mary Baer, Cody Blentlinger, Victoria Bostic, Cody Brill, Carlee Brown, Stephanee Davidson, Tyler Friedrich, Joseph Hunter, Madison Kusmec, Nicole Laurent, Lauren Mackay, Thaddeus Messer, Landon Mickelberry, Brandon Perriman, Julie Stewart, and Alyssa Strong.

Students who achieved Perfect Attendance received certificates as well. Those students were sixth graders Mitchell Bomberger, Samantha Bowers, Kaitlin Fifer, Robert Kidd, and Haley Parker; seventh graders Genevieve Allen, Madison Allen, Courtney Bomberger, Tanner Foerschler, Grace Hamilton, Henry Rose, and Elizabeth Semler; and eighth grader Sasha Gubina.

The HMS Awards Ceremony was held in the HHS Performing Arts Center on May 20.

7th graders present check to Children's Mercy
Harrisonville Middle School seventh graders on the Flying Monkeys team presented Children's Mercy Hospital a check for $1,000. The team raised the money by sponsoring dances and mixers and recycling aluminum cans. Earlier in the year, the team presented a pack-n-play to enable the nurses to get the children out of their rooms and play with them while they continue to do paperwork at the nurses' station.

Elementary students honored for reading achievement
Students at Harrisonville Elementary School and McEowen Elementary School were recently recognized for their reading achievement.  Second grade students were challenged to read 50 Caldecott award nominees, third graders had to read all KC-3 nominated books, and fourth and fifth graders were honored for reading at least ten Mark Twain books.

Twenty-one second graders met the challenge and received a hard cover copy of the 2008 Caldecott Award book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Twenty-three third graders completed the KC-3 nominees and received hard cover copies of KC-3 books of their choice. Thirty-six Mark Twain readers received a prize pack which included a 2008-09 Mark Twain nominee and miscellaneous prizes.

Caldecott readers included Susanna Tracy, Lanie Carl, Audrey Welhoff, Kurt Poisal, Gabi Keil, Nicholas Laughlin, Taylor Anderson, Griselda Rodriguez, Alexa Kehoe, Kaitlyn Cummings, Bethany Nichols, Zoe Masden, Bethany Cox, Savannah Licht, Brooke Leeper, Cari Bachman, Danielle Fox, Nick McCleave, Kelsi Knoche, Kaylee Tieman, Cameron Wilson, and Kayla Stewart.

KC-3 readers included Harrisonville Elementary students Nathan Overbay, Kayla Brizendine, Sidney Keeney, Kaden Wilson, Sophia Brauer, Baylee Streit, Connor Adams, Delaney Getty, and Katlyn Borland and McEowen Elementary students Kathryn Burr, Jazmyn Zielenski, Emily Licht, Courtney Wesemann, Hannah Clayton, Morgan Selemaea, Dillon Eisel, Keegan Hix, Eleanor Dick, Kelsey Gaines, Amber Barta, Jordan Zielenski, Katlyn Byerly, and Elijah Hart.

Those completing the Mark Twain challenge (reading all 20 books) included Mikaila Livingston, Lauren Kehoe, Reagan Holden, Dylan Long, Annie DeVenney, Madi Dahn, Ali Schmidt, Bethany Travis, Jessica Poisal, Brooke Rogers, Cassidy Fox, Jessica Strodtman, Heather Corcoran, Casey Ambrozi, Carmen Vogt, Jordan Ours, Mikayla Olender, Henry Frees, Ben Styron, Jacob Murray, Taylor Underwood, Jordan Bostic, Melissa Watson, Andrew Tarter, Leeann Farren, Kayley Brock, Ally Saffell, Aaron Laughlin, Tanner DeVore, Franklin Patterson, John Kusmec, Douglas Croy, Gavin Robertson, Cole Welhoff, Ben Spencer, and Ashley Underwood.

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

The KC-3 nominees are chosen each year by the Kansas City Metropolitan Librarians.  Approximately 10 transitional chapter books make the list and third grade students at HES who read all the nominees have the opportunity to vote for their favorite.

Twenty Mark Twain nominees are chosen each year by the Missouri Association of School Librarians.  McEowen fourth and fifth grader who read all 20 nominees are named Mark Twain readers. Students who choose to read at least ten nominees are eligible to receive prizes.  Students who read at least four of the twenty nominees have the opportunity to vote for their favorite.