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Drew Central’s Gifted and Talented Program is excited to share their latest project.  They have started recycling at the Middle School. The GT students noticed how many students and faculty drink from a plastic bottle every day.  They decided to start recycling plastic bottles. (more…)

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Drew Central fourth graders, parents, and teachers met for a DC Family Movie day on Sunday, November 4th.  The movie was The Nutcracker and the Four Realms based on the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann.  The music in the movie,Tchaikovsky’s score, has become one of the most famous compositions.

Drew Central High School Honor Roll

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Drew Central High Schools FBLA was honored Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the District III Fall Leadership Conference in Pine Bluff for outstanding service to the Monticello area food pantry, Salvation Army Ringing of the Bell, Angel Tree Project, and Adopt a Family Christmas offering. Also, there was a special recognition for their Bucket Challenge for Healthy Babies project for March of Dimes.

Proud Pirates we are!!!!!

Drew Central fourth graders invited their grandparents to join them for lunch in honor of National Grandparents’ Day.  Students were treated to a Coretta Scott King Honor book read aloud titled When I Am Old with You authored by Angela Johnson.  The bond between grandparent and grandchild  transcends time, and sometimes transcends an adult’s sense of logic, reaching a deeper level of truth.

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Drew Central fourth graders had a special guest reader, Arkansas House of Representative for District 9, LeAnne Burch.  She read the New York Times Best Seller “Grace for President” by Kelly DiPucchio.

This book gave the fourth graders a fun introduction to the American electoral system but also taught them the value of hard work, courage, and independent thought- and offered an inspiring example of how to choose our leaders.

3rd Place Zae’vion Bullard, Ryland Harris 2nd Place, Joshua McMahon 1st Place

Drew Central fourth grade chess team held it’s end of the year tournament.  The students learned to play chess the second semester of school.

3rd Place Lexi Collier, 2nd Place Abby Barnett, 1st Place Rayne Veiga

Drew Central Fourth Graders held the annual Arkansas Words Spelling Bee during a study of Arkansas history.  Students had two weeks to study the words before the spelling bee.

Lt to Rt: Me’Unna Daniels & Ryli Birch

Drew Central fourth grade students learned that their are many challenges when reading a technical schematic diagram.  Students working with a partner were given the task to build a toy Bionicle.  None of the Bionicles were the same.  Students were required to build the toy Bionicle following a step process and were not given a picture of what was being built.  This project gave students the opportunity to practice critical thinking, team building, and perseverance skills.

Members of Drew Central Gearheads Robotics team won the coveted Excellence Award at State last Saturday.  They are now qualified for Nationals and Worlds!  Way to go DC Gearheads.

Drew Central Elementary and Middle Schools participated in the “Changing a Life” project for Heifer International by collecting pocket change to donate.

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Drew Central fourth graders read a moving modern classic written by R.J.Palacio.  The novel titled “Wonder” is about a boy named Auggie Pullman who was born with a facial difference that prevented him from going to mainstream school-until now.  Auggie is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary face.   (more…)

Drew Central fourth graders act out the trapping behavior of the Venus flytrap plant.  The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant- it’s a Meat Eater!  Students learned it catches its prey (insects and arachnids) with a trapping structure.  The structure is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces.

One student played the role of the plant while another student played the role of the food.  Students learned the trap only snaps shut after the second contact within twenty seconds.

Drew Central Elementary recently received 2,500 free books from an outreach program sponsored by the University of Arkansas – Arkansas Reads program. They provide gently used books to high poverty schools in Arkansas.

DCE will use these books to stock their Library, classroom libraries, and children’s home libraries.

WHO’S WHO PICTURES – Thursday

Who’s Who pictures will be taken after lunch on Thursday, March 16.

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Blake Wilson & Mariah Jenkins

Drew Central fourth graders eagerly took on the Christmas STEM Challenge “Candy Cane Calamity”.  STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.  Students worked in teams and designed and built a way to safely “mail” two candy canes in one paper bag package without breakage.  Students were required to follow criteria and constraints. Once the packages were complete, students weighed them in grams and used a grams to ounces converter website.  Next, they used Chromebooks and researched FedEx, USPS, etc. rates to mail their packages to Santa at the North Pole aka Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole.   (more…)

Michael James, James Insurance Agency

Drew Central fourth graders have kicked-offed another year of “Leaders as Readers”!  This is a partnership between the students and Monticello Rotary Club members.  Each week a members read to the three classes of fourth graders.  Members share their life experiences including education and what they did to become a leader in the community.  

This partnership started sixteen years ago with a goal of teacher Eva Arrington to help students understand that their community cares about them.

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McKenzye Hogg, Juan Lucas, Bailey Chapman, Shelby Dillard
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Monticello Rotary Club members

Drew Central fourth graders were given dictionaries by Monticello Rotary Club members.

Drew Central fourth graders were Disney bound as part of a multi-digit multiplication project.  This real-world scenario asked students to make choices and plan a seven day family trip to the most magical place on Earth, Disney World in Orlando, Florida!   (more…)

Drew Central fourth graders researched different counties in Arkansas as part of a study of Arkansas History.  Using the information gathered,  students created floats out of shoe boxes and held the 3rd annual Arkansas float parade for the elementary students.

Float winners in pic:
1st Place-Daniel Chang
2nd Place-Blaine Caldwell
3rd-Graci Norris

On January, 16, 2016 the first year Drew Central 21st CCLC Robotics Team competed in the Collierville, TN Dragon VEX competition and placed 2nd. When the team arrived they were ranked 21 out of 21. During the 37 qualifications rounds, teams play as an “alliance”.

Each alliance consists of two teams randomly chosen and put together to show teamwork and to see how the alliance could work together and make their robots complement one another. Drew Central played 7 qualifying rounds and won each. At the end of the qualification match, DC Gearheads had advanced to 2nd place overall.

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Drew Central fourth graders participated in the 2015 One Hour of Code which is a one-hour activity designed for students of all ages.  

The largest learning event in history kicks off during Computer Science Education Week, December 7-13.  The goal was to have a global movement with millions of students from around the world learning about coding at the same time. Students can choose from a variety of self-guided tutorials, for kindergarten and up.  Once students see what they create right before their eyes, they’re empowered to keep going.  Why computer science?  Every 21st-century student should have the opportunity to take part in creating technology that’s changing the world.  The basics help nurture creativity and problem-solving skills, and prepare students for any future career.  By exposing both girls and boys to fundamental computing concepts on a level playing field, we can inspire today’s generation of students to build technology. (more…)

On September 8th, the Drew Central Parent Center in conjunction with the SEARK Reading council, the ARA and ILA sponsored BREAKFAST AROUND THE WORLD in honor of International Literacy Day.

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Drew Central High School Choir Boosters announce the Themed Basket Winners.
Congratulations to the winners of our basket drawing:

Rebecca Groeteke – Ladies Night Out.
Ashley Wright – Music.
Chris Booker – Tailgate Basket.

Ladies’ Night Out Basket Value: $252

Music Basket Value: $ 500

Tailgate Basket Value: $85

Hunting Basket Value: $150
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Drew Central School District today announces its policy for providing free and reduced price meals for children served under the National School Lunch Program, Afterschool Snack Program, and School Breakfast Program. Each school and/or the central office has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by any interested party. The price charged for a paid student lunch is $1.75.

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Drew Central Jr. Band performed at the Arkansas Association of Middle Level Education Annual Professional Development Conference at the Hot Springs Convention Center. Under the direction of John Kloap.

Drew Central fourth grade students in Eva Arrington’s class learned about “Cephalopods: The Jet Set.” Students learned to classify by kingdom, phylum, and class. They worked with their lab partner and researched the four main types of cephalopods: octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus. Cephalopod means head and feet. Cephalopods do not have a torso.

The Distance Learning program at Drew Central Elementary in conjunction with the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward, Alaska guided students on dissecting squid. Students discovered the ink sac which squids use to confuse their enemies. They located the eyes, mouth, two tentacles, pen, etc. Students looked for the reproductive system to determine if their squid was a male or female. Another discovery was that squids have bilateral symmetry.