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1 The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net Alex Stewart, Kindergarten, was a precious “Silverlicious”! Characters from every Grover Elemen- tary student’s favorite book paraded in the 8th annual Book Character Dress-up Parade March 1. Children decked out in colorful and unique costumes. Principal Janet Anthony and some parents joined in the fun and it was anyone’s guess who some of the children represented. The students had fuh and at the * Book Fair afterwards they took home read- ing material. “I really like “Duck Dynasty” and it was Dr.Janet Anthony, principal, was cute as a button with her ponytail from the hook, “Stephanie’s Ponytail” Photos by Beth Brock Wednesday, March 6, 2013" Speech, EC teachers and assistants were characters from “Duck Dynasty.” fun getting my costume together as Si Robertson,” said 4th grader Savannah Pos- ton. Nicole Poston, second grader, is collect- ing American Girl dolls and she dressed as her Christmas doll, “Kaya” from the Ameri- Savannah Poston, 4th Grade, was Si Robert- son from “Duck Dynasty.” can Girl series. Kindergartner Alexandra Stewart was dolled up in a princess outfit. : All the students paraded in celebration of “National Read Across America Week” and Nicole Poston, 2nd Grade, portrayed Kaya from the “American Girl” series. West students learn sign language (Photos by Bi BETH BROCK) Savannah demonstrating “monkey” in sign language. The students at West Ele- . mentary School have been studying people with disabil- ities. They have learned some simple sign language as well as having some sam- ples of Braille to learn. Thursday, Savannah Hag- wood, a senior Psychology major at Gardner-Webb Uni- versity, presented a program to the West students on being deaf. Savannah has been deaf since birth. - Accompanying Savannah were Cheryl Potter, Associ- ate Dean of the Noel Pro- gram for Students with Dis- abilities, and Cindy Potter, Assistant Dean of the Noel Program for Students with Disabilities at Gardner- Webb. They interpreted Sa- vannah’s signing to the students, and the students’ questions to Savannah. Savannah began her pro- gram with a PowerPoint presentation asking the chil- dren various question such as “Can a deaf person drive?” and “Can a deaf per- son use the phone?” The children were very attentive as they watched Savannah sign, and Cheryl interpret the SUrprising answers. The students replied ‘no’ to both questions and were surprised with the answers. Savannah told them that she was deaf, not blind, and she was able to drive, utilizing her three mirrors on the car. She explained that although she could not hear a siren, she could see the flashing warning lights. Savannah pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and explained that even though Students signing “I love you” with (back row I-r) Cindy Rochester, Savannah, Cheryl Potter, and Beth Lloyd, Guidance Counselor at West. she couldn’t hear, she could text. She also illustrated with her laptop how she could Skype with others who could sign back to her. Then the children were informed of the Telecommunications De- vice for the Deaf (TDD) op- erator who could interpret for Savannah when she made or received phone calls utilizing a teleprinter. Next on the PowerPoint program, Savannah had pho- tographs of wild and domes- ticated animals. As the children identified each ani- mal, Savannah illustrated the sign language for the animal. Then the students would try to sign the animals back to her. Savannah was asked if she could talk, and she ex- plained that she had been to speech therapy at an early age, but because she could not hear the sounds, she was unable to duplicate them. She said that she could make sounds but did not often do so, because she realized most people would not un- derstand what she was trying to say. She told the children that she could read lips as well as mouth words. Savannah told the group that her mother was deaf, and that she was born deaf, but that her father could hear. As the program came to a close, all the students signed “thank you” and “I love you” to Savannah. Each child was presented several strips of Braille with the alphabet on them, and a sheet with the al- phabet illustrated in sign lan- guage. Twenty-six KM students get perfect scores in Twenty-six Kings Moun- tain students were among the 92 students in grades 3-8 in the Cleveland County Schools who achieved per- fect scores in the End-of- Grade reading, mathematics or science tests last year. The Cleveland County Board of Education recog- nized students with perfect EOG scores in 2011-12 at the Feb. 25 meeting of the board held in the Shelby Middle School Theatre. Kings Mountain students recognized were: THIRD GRADE - Beth- ware, Austin Brown, math; East, Michael Bolin, math; Grover, Caleb Johnston, math; West, Daniel Carley, reading/math; Katherine Martin, math; Carter Wilbanks, reading/math; Abigail Henson, reading. FOURTH GRADE - East —Bryson McDaniel and Corey Parker, math; Grover- George Long, math; Simon West, reading; West - Sum- mer Campbell, and Lexie Wright, math; Maggie Lloyd, reading/math. FIFTH Grade KM Inter- mediate School: Joshua end-of-grade testing Lewis, reading; Sarah Dren- nan, Caleb Mayes and Robert Parker, math. SIXTH GRADE KM In- termediate School: Harrison Conner, Dale Hollifield and Tyler Withers, math. SEVENTH GRADE KM Middle School: Autumn Sheridan, reading; Abigail Morehouse, Kaitlyn Bolin, Ashton Withers and Ricky Zheng, math.
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