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Recently, several Athens Middle School band students competed for coveted spots in the All-Region band.
AMS students competed against students from close to 30 schools, with 23 students earning a seat in the band, and 11 students an alternate spot (which could still lead to a seat in the band).
Athens ISD press release
Nineteen Athens High School students earned a place on the All-Region Band at auditions held in Rusk this Saturday. Thirteen of those individuals were also selected to advance to the area round of competition, with a chance to continue to the all-state level.
All-Region members are Yuvia Leon, Allison Martinez, Emily Werner, Breonna Jackson, Vernice Williams, Jessica Yancey, Kelsey Torres, Brian Lookabaugh, Jacob Ickes, Ben van der Colff, Jonathan Bywaters, Gerardo Godinez, Bryce Bowman, Russell Ingram, Mollie Davies, Dakota Lindsey, Alan Platt, Kolemann Dooley and Maria Garcia.
Those advancing to area are Leon, Martinez, Werner, Jackson, Lookabaugh, Ickes, van der Colff, Bywaters, Godinez, Ingram, Davies, Lindsey and Dooley.
In addition, Ingram and Dooley earned a place in the Texas Music Educators Association All-Region Band. They will perform with the Honors Band in a Jan. 23 concert. All the honor band members will participate in a concert at Tyler Chapel Hill High School on Jan. 16. Congratulations, Pride of the Hornet Band.
Athens Middle School recently had an art contest for their “Christmas Around the World” display. A winning entry from each grade was selected. Pictured are AMS Principal Ginger Morrison, eighth-grader Richard Thong, seventh-graders Gabrielle Gapare and Morgan Gould, and sixth-grader Will Stelter. Congratulations, artists! (Toni Garrard Clay/AISD)
Bel Air Elementary third-graders entertained their schoolmates Thursday morning with the Christmas production “A Bugz Christmas.” Pictured are just a few of the performers, who are (front row, from left) the “very hungry” termites: Hunter Branch, Warren McCain, Jase Warren, Davin Perry, Emely Escobar and Isaac Pineda; and (back row, from left) queen bee Macy Shelton; ladybugs Kendall Svehlak and Camdyn Rodriguez; grasshoppers Alyson Martinez and Amy Moreno; and yellow jacket Justice Wells. (Toni Garrard Clay/AISD)
By Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Specialist
When Ryan Reeves came to Athens Middle School this year, he brought with him not only a passion for teaching math, but a history of being an athlete and coach. Those two influences have resulted in a new approach to math among seventh-graders. A math unit test is no longer called “test day” for them; it’s “game day.”
“There are 11 standardized unit tests before the STAAR test,” said Reeves. If you make each one exciting — have a special shirt they all wear, and promote a competitive, fun attitude — by the twelfth time (when the STAAR test is administered), it’s not such a big deal.”
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