AGOURA HILLS PUPILS FIND REWARDS OF READING, WRITING : CAMPUS TO HONOR KIDS IN AWARD CEREMONY.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Back when she was in second grade, 10-year-old Kaley McMahon started writing poems about a girl who complains to her teacher about any number of things - and now she composes poetry whenever she can. And Beth Ann Finders, 8, will sometimes tell her mother to let her alone so that she can enjoy a good book - that is, when she isn't asking mom (1) (Messaging-Oriented Middleware) See messaging middleware. (2) (Microsoft Operations Manager) Software that monitors and captures system and application events throughout the network. to read with her. That's why the two Yerba Buena yerba buena (yĕr`bə bwā`nə), trailing evergreen perennial (Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatae (mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to woodland areas along the Pacific coast. Elementary School elementary school: see school. pupils were among the 170 first- through fifth-graders scheduled to be honored Thursday night at the ``Fuel Your Mind'' ceremony recognizing their accomplishments in reading and writing. ``I feel proud - it's from a little series of rhyming rhyme also rime n. 1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 2. a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. b. poems all the way to this award,'' said Kaley, a fifth-grader. Beth Ann said she is also proud to be recognized for developing her reading skills. ``My teacher thinks I've been really interested in reading and I'm focusing on the book all the time and getting into it,'' the third-grader said. The ceremony was the first of four the school expects to hold each year, recognizing pupils' reading and writing achievements, Principal Sandra Argast said. Thursday's ceremony, sponsored by Reyes Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. Mobil Oil, will serve as an incentive for pupils to keep cracking cracking - cracker open their books and putting pen to paper. ``They've always been good readers and we want them to be better,'' she said. The school's teachers came up with their own set of goals for their pupils, and each picked eight to 10 youngsters who best met those goals. The school has about 490 pupils in grades one through five. Fifth-grade teacher Sandy Fleishman said her students composed plays, poems and stories. Some were lengthy mysteries, others just descriptive paragraphs. The youngsters even created their own newspaper. She did not choose winners for any one assignment but for their accumulated ac·cu·mu·late v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing, ac·cu·mu·lates v.tr. To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather. v.intr. To mount up; increase. body of work. Teachers worked closely throughout with parents, who have volunteered to work in small groups with the pupils. About 113 parents regularly came to the school every week, Argast said. ``It's unbelievable how many signed up,'' Argast said. Debbie Neshek, who coordinated the parent volunteers, said that parents helped youngsters with writing, phonics phonics Method of reading instruction that breaks language down into its simplest components. Children learn the sounds of individual letters first, then the sounds of letters in combination and in simple words. , reading and other word lessons. ``(The pupils) get more of a lesson when there's more one-to-one contact,'' Neshek said. ``We use the parent volunteers because we do not have enough aides in every classroom.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Beth Ann Finders, 8, left, and Kaley McMahon, 10, are among 170 kids singled out for excellence at Yerba Buena Elementary. |
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