A Community Update on Maysville Local Schools May 2015Panthers

Message from the Superintendent

Maysville has a lot to be proud of as the 2014-2015 school year closes. • On May 22, we graduated 146 seniors who will be continuing their educations, serving our country, or starting their careers. Once again, I offer congratulations to the Class of 2015 and wish each of you good luck in the future. • Our buildings and grounds staff has worked very hard throughout the year, keeping our campus in great condition. As we go into the summer they will be waxing, painting, and clean-ing to guarantee that our buildings shine when the students come back on the fi rst day of school. • The teaching staff has devoted endless hours of work to ensure that our students achieved during the school year; I‛m pleased to say that it looks as though all of that time and effort has paid off. Our students are achieving excellence in the classroom and in our community. • As a school leader, I am thrilled with the involvement of the community at various func-tions and events hosted by our schools. I want to thank everybody who contributed to the successes of the 2014-15 school year.

Even as summer break is just beginning for most of you, Maysville‛s administrative team is already planning ways to improve next year. With the combined efforts of this Maysville family, we CAN achieve this. I want to thank all of the stakeholders in the Maysville Local School District for their dedication to our students. Have a safe and restful summer. Looking forward to seeing you again in August! Mr. Bainter

Remember, if you move over the summeror change phone numbers please call yourchild’s school and update that information.

Summer Academic Loss – Don’tlet it Happen to Your Child!

It’s that time of year again… Summer! However, research shows that students forget a lot of what they have learned over the summer months. Although we are all ready for some fun and relaxation,

don’t forget about reading and writing this summer. Here are some ideas to keep your primary grade child’s mind sharp and ready to learn MORE:• Visit the library or go to www.muskingumlibrary.org and have the library “come to you!” You can borrow digital books for your children. Just click on ‘digital downloads’ then ‘download audio books/e-books’ then choose KIDS. You can choose books based on reading levels or interests. Make sure you have your library card number so you can download.• Keep a journal Writing is so crucial for academic development. If you can write it, you can read it! What a great keepsake for your child to write about his/her summer activities from the year 2015. • Magnetic letters What motivates a child to spell words? Using magnetic letters, of course! You have a sight word list from this year, so have fun taking “spelling tests!”

Whatever you choose to do this summer to “play school,” just remember to make it FUN!You will thank yourself when August rolls around again

and your child has improved academically instead of falling behind!

Persuasive Writing

Mrs. Novaria's Kindergarten class studied per-suasive writing and then wrote to their principal. Th e children persuaded Mrs. Church on why they thought they needed new Legos for the classroom. She was very proud of their hard work and good writing so she purchased new Legos. Th e chil-dren where so happy and thrilled to construct their new designs. Th e class sent her very heartfelt thank you letters.

Yard Sale to Support MHS and MMS Football Cheerleaders

Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th from 9 am – 3 pm Maysville Football Cheerleaders will be having a yard sale. Come out and support these young ladies. If you have items you would like to donate, please email Coach Merlo to make arrangements. amerlo@laca.org

Annual Cheerleader Car Wash

Th e football cheerleaders from the high school and middle school will be working hard to clean the cars of their supporters for a $5 donation.

Saturday, June 27th, 2015Advanced Auto Parts-Maysville Pike

10 am – 4 pm

Maysville Continues to Innovate

During the spring semester, Computer Graphics and adjunct Zane State College instructor Mr. Dreier, added a new Early College High School class in conjunction with Zane State called Introduction to Programming Logic. In cooperation with Columbia Broadcasting Systems (CBS In-teractive) a soft ware engineer volunteered time in the classroom nearly every day throughout the semester to help guide Maysville students, giving them valuable insight into industry-standard practices.

Th e class covered the basic concepts of program fl owcharting, pseudocode and design. Students gained an understanding of the fundamental concepts of the programming structures that are used in design-ing, testing, implementing a program. Students used JavaScript which is an object oriented language and is a universally accepted language for website development. It is a C based language which has direct application to C++, C#, Objective –C, PHP.

In addition to the Introduction to Programming Logic class Mr. Dreier also off ers 6 other Early College High School courses enabling Maysville students to earn college credit without ever leaving Maysville's campus. Courses include Intro to Micro Computers, Intro to Excel, Intro to Web Design, Video Editing and Production, Intro to 3D Modelling, and Intro to Graphic Design.

Anyone who plans on participating in a sport for the upcoming school year needs to have a current physi-cal on fi le in the school offi ce. All physicals expire aft er one calendar year. Th e Ohio High School Ath-letic Association requires all par-ticipants to have a current physical prior to the start of the season. All fall participants must have a cur-rent physical by August 1st in or-der to practice with their respective sports.

A Look Ahead: 8th grade D.C. trip information

Th e Washington, D.C. trip will be April 23, 24 and 25, 2016.

Th e trip this year will cost $400.00. A $100.00 deposit will be due on October 1, 2015 with the fi nal payment being due on April 1, 2016.

If you have any questions you may contact the middle school offi ce, Mr. Winland or Mrs. Bridwell at 454-7999.

Th anks to the Learning is Wild grant and the 21st Century Aft erschool program, 44 middle school students had the opportunity to attend Th e Wilds free of charge on April 20th. Stu-dents who participated in the April session of the aft er school program were invited to at-

tend Th e Wilds as an enrichment activity. On the trip the students and staff received an engaging safari tour, watched an informative animal show, and visited the barn of the elusive rhinos. While visit-ing the rhino barn, students and staff had the rare opportu-

nity to pet a rhino. Th anks to Th e Wilds staff for the grant money and a great day learning about their animals. For more infor-mation on Th e Wilds visits their website and plan a trip today. www.thewilds.org

Learning is Wild

Maysville Archery had yet another Champion-ship year. MHS was led by Seniors Tyler Finley, Hayden Perry, Bailee Ray, Tommy Robison, and Travis Sidwell. Maysville went undefeated in the newly formed Muskingum Valley Archery League winning the League Championship and 11 of the top 20 individual awards. In the boys division James Bradley placed 10th, Bram Wakeley 8th, Vince Vaughn 6th, Austin Ireton 5th, Tyler Fin-ley 2nd, and Levi Gheen was the overall MVAL Champion. In the girls division Kai-tlyn Caw placed 7th, Storm Albert-son 6th, Kellie Carson 5th, Molly Lawrence 4th, and Rachel Hampp was the overall girls MVAL Cham-pion. Maysville H.S. participated in the State Tournament in March set-ting a new State Record with a score of 3438 and won the State NASP Championship in a dominating manner. Bram Wakeley placed 2nd

in the boys division, Molly Lawrence placed 4th, Brookly Weaver 3rd, and Rachel Hampp was the girls and overall NASP Ohio State Champion with a score of 294. Maysville Archery participated in the National NASP Tournament in Louisville, Kentucky placing 10th in the nation. Maysville H.S. Archery would like to thank all of the coach-es, parents, students, and sponsors for helping us achieve a great season!

Maysville High School Archery

Previously, our Peer Mediator Program was for fi ft h graders, but this year Maysville Elementary has added fourth graders to the program. Our mediators have gained valuable experiences and skills in dealing with confl ict while helping other students talk out their problems and come up with a win/win solution. In addition, being a peer me-diator teaches students how to deal with confl icts in their own life in a more constructive and cre-ative manner.

Our fourth grade mediators are Leandro Ramos, Olivia Heckel, Zailor Valentine, Karrah McCo-niha, Abby Hoover, Julie Ramsey, Matthew Jar-vis, Bryce Wilhite, Gracie Meredith, Kyrie Kepler, Tanner Greiner, Ashton Croston, Marlee Lawson, Kierstin Wayne, Casey Moore and Kamyn Walker. Th e fi ft h grade mediators are Christian Hillis, Ryan Gundlefi nger, Camryn Mercer, Kassie Greiner, Emma McPeek, Garrett LaFollette, Emma Wat-son, Karli Sidwell, Connor Rusnak, Tyler Factor, Mallori Bradley, Codah Bunting and Carin Parks. Students were rewarded for their dedication to the program with a pizza party at the end of the school year.

Mrs. Tina Ford and Mrs. Kim Hann were in charge of the fourth grade program this year. Mrs. Cindy

Branch worked with the fi ft h graders and Mrs. Th eresa Jacolenne provided the training for both grade levels.

Peer Mediators

AspirationsTh e Student Aspirations Team is a group of intermediate students whose main goal is to raise the

level of the voice of the students. Th ey meet and talk about ideas and suggestions that come from fellow students and they discuss these concerns and ideas with the adult staff leaders, Mrs. Hann and Mrs. Ford. Some of this year’s work included outdoor classroom cleanup, making posters for the lunchroom, donating chapter books to Bethel Community Center, and making appreciation cards for the offi ce staff , cooks and custodians. During the last meeting the students discussed concerns and ideas for the next school year.

OO**TAGS PreschoolTh e year has come to an end for the preschool-ers, but not without a lot of fun our last month of school. Our focus theme for the last month was about the beach and ocean. Th is may be very relatable for those who have beach vaca-tions planned this summer! Also, the beach was the theme for our end of the year program.

Th e preschool program would like to thank Modern Glass for donating paint to decorate the props, Creative Packaging for donating the

cardboard used to make all the cute beach props, and Mrs. Rossiter and the high school art department for creating the beach props for the program. Th e beach props really looked great up on stage with all the cute art work the pre-schoolers made. Th e preschoolers did a great job singing up on stage, and I hope you all enjoyed watching them!

Th e last week of school was celebrated with a variety of fun activities. All classrooms par-ticipated in a board game day, where the kid-dos were able to bring in their favorite game to play. We had a fi eld day with all water activi-ties. It was a little chilly that day, but that didn’t stop them from getting wet! For the last day of school we took a fi eld trip to the Dillon Dam Park. Th anks to Maysville PTO for providing lunch for all the students. Have a great summer!!!!

Senior Alec Shook received the Rotary's Phoenix Award this past month. Alec was nominated by staff and administrators at Maysville High School because of his courage, integrity and good citi-zenship. If you see Alec, be sure to congratulate him!

Shook Receives Award

Cathy and Braden are Maysville’s fi rst STEM (Science, Technology, En-gineering, and Math), students to receive college credit through Sinclair Community College. Cathy is taking Introduction to Engineering Design, while Braden is taking Principles of Engineering with Mr. Waite during their junior year.

Credit for this class has been 4 years in the making. Maysville has to be teaching four STEM classes at the high school level in order for students to receive col-lege credit. Students must maintain a B or above course grade as well as obtain a Stanine of 6 or above on the end of course exam.

Upon graduating high school, Cathy may attend Marietta College and major in Chemical Engineering. Braden on the other hand is planning on attending Wright State University majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

Congratulations Cathy Monroe & Braden Potts!

Th e Maysville LEOS just fi nished up their 10th year as a club. Th ey received their 10 year patch for their LEO banner in De-cember. Th e club was chartered December 4, 2004.

Th is year’s activities included: Farm Days making craft s, count-ing can food items brought in by elementa-ry students, fi lled three baskets for a needy Maysville family with Christmas dinner items and a $20.00 gift certifi -

cate to buy food, adopt-ed a Maysville student and bought Christmas gift s for them, picked up trash around the Maysville campus, Val-entine Messages at the

elementary building, went to Lion Conven-tion in Lancaster, fi lled 300 Easter eggs with candy and money for Easter egg hunt for latchkey students, and

painted patterns, num-bers, and letters on primary playground, ran concession stand for talent show, and helped sponsor the GOOD program. We also sold tickets for a gas card raffl e.

We will celebrate the end of another suc-cessful year by having a pizza party at Ador-

nettos.

LEO Luke Engle re-ceived a $250.00 schol-arship from Springfi eld Lions.

Maysville LEOs Celebrate 10 Years

Mrs. Dixon's class ended the year with a trip to the Co-lumbus Zoo. Th e students earned money this year by preparing lunch for the Ele-mentary Staff . Aft er purchas-ing IPads for the classroom, they were able to pay their way into the zoo, ride the zoo train, ride the carousel and

purchase supper on the way home! Th e children really appreciated all the staff support through out the year.

P.S. Mrs. Dixon's camel ride was "unplanned" but enjoyed by all!!

Students Enjoy Zoo

Nicole Rossiter and Kurt Dreier's art and graphic arts classes recently attended the unveiling of Maysville High School graduate and current Zanesville Artist Alan Cottrill's sculpture of Th omas Edison that will be displayed in the Capital Building in Washington D.C. Th e sculpture is one of Ohio's two representa-tive sculptures among the 100 in the National Statu-ary Hall. Th e unveiling was held at the State House in Columbus. While there, State Senator Troy Balderson treated the students with a tour of Senate Chambers where the students got to sit at the Senator's desks and also got to stand at the podium of the President of the Senate. Students also had a brief stay at the Columbus College of Art and Design prior to the unveiling.

Art Classes Attend Unveiling

Special thanks to Mr. Bainter and Mr. Daniels for attending the last luncheon with Mrs. Dixon’s class for the year.

Project X-35Project X-35 is a NASA initiative with the goal of increasing interest in rocket science among middle school students. Each year the 8th graders participate in Project X-35 by building and launching a 2-liter water rocket. Th e students apply what they have learned about forces and motion as they attempt to create a rocket with the greatest hang time. Th is is an event that the students look for-ward to each year because it allows them to create, launch, modify, and re-launch a 2-liter water rocket.

Congratulations to this year’s champion Alex Wahl who set a new hang time re-cord of 36.2 seconds. Alex’s rocket performed to perfection and will be diffi cult to beat. If you are interested in building a rocket or launcher Google, Project X-35.

Please Pass the ScalpelTh is year 8th graders had the opportunity to dissect frogs with the goal of learning about internal body structures. Frog dissection is a tradition at the middle school and has occurred for the last 30 years. Th e students did an excellent job completing the lab and we had an accident free day. During the dissection students identifi ed and removed internal organs using a combination of scalpels, scissors, and dis-secting probes. Students also had the opportu-nity to identify muscles and tendons in the frog’s legs. Aft er dissecting the frogs several students expressed an interest in pursuing a career in the medical fi eld.

Musical Panthers Orff EnsembleTh e Musical Panthers Orff Ensemble had 34 members this year. Th e group per-formed at the Art Walk in March and at the school Talent Show in May. Th is Maysville Elementary group consists of students who received enrichment in music by per-forming on the instruments found in our general music classrooms. Th e students worked with xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels and unpitched percussion. Mrs. Davidson and Mrs. Sellers are the di-rectors of the group.

Th e Talented and Gift ed (TAG) program at Maysville Middle School provides a comfortable and structured learning envi-ronment for advanced students. Th e advanced middle school students meet in Mrs. Wahl’s classroom during homeroom.

Mrs.Wahl and Mrs. Tonneman off ered the students guidance as they completed their largest and most indepth project of the year: the WEP project. Th e Written Education Plan, or WEP project is specially designed to coordi-nate with each student’s inter-ests and gift ed area(s).Th is year, there were three broad projects that most students chose to make their own. Th ese includ-ed a fi nancial project, in which students explored the fi nancial aspects of a career of their inter-est, a career project (similar to the fi nancial) in which students explored a career of their choice extensively, and a travel proj-ect where the students imag-ined they were vacationing to a venue of their choice, and car-ried out many tasks regarding it. Th roughout the course of these projects, students were required to create computer generated pie charts, itineraries, brochures, es-says, and portfolios. However, the projects were not limited to these three options- some stu-dents decided to branch off and do more individualized Knowl-edge Quest projects. For exam-ple, some students chose to car-ry out service learning projects such as volunteering at the ani-mal shelter, and others (includ-ing the writer of this very entry!)

put together writing portfolios. Th e goal of the WEP project is to provide students with the freedom to choose something that interests them, but to off er them the guidance to keep them on track so that they may take something away from it. Th ese projects were displayed at the Arts and Academic Showcase at OUZ on May 19th with other WEP projects from all over the county!

Although students are given the majority of the school year to complete this project, activities in TAG are not limited solely to working on the WEP. Towards the beginning of the school year, the TAG students were invited to attend Connections. Connec-tions is an annual gathering of gift ed students from across the county who spend the day in a number of stations where they stretch their minds and meet other advanced individuals like themselves. Th roughout the school year, students take per-sonality quizzes that give them insight into their learning style

(which provides them with a set of study skills that are custom-ized to their particular learning style) as well as other benefi cial tests that provide information about appropriate career fi elds and areas of intelligence. Mon-days and Fridays are reserved for fun (although working is still optional) and during these days brain teasers and TED Talks are provided, as well as fi tness days with Mrs. Tonneman for those who are interested.

As the school year came to a close and most WEP projects were completed, students divid-ed into groups and have begun to organize end of the year par-ties and summer service learn-ing projects for TAG students. Th ey planned a fi eld day and an ice cream day for those who have completed their WEP proj-ects. Because the students were in charge of planning it, they ob-tained organization and leader-ship skills. TAG members hope to take part in service learning projects this summer like they did last summer when students participated in community events such as volunteering at the animal shelter, helping serve at the Christ Table, taking part Tools for Schools, and perform-ing a clean up at the elementary school’s pond.

Although rising freshman will no longer be able to attend the TAG class along with the middle schoolers, many still strive to stay involved with the program (as leaders) and the opportuni-ties that come along with it.

TAG

Are you interested in a France and Spain Trip?

June of 2017 through WORLDSTRIDES INTERNATIONAL DISCOVERY PROGRAMS? For trip information visit id.educationaltravel.com/registerand sign up for our trip online using Trip ID # 122669

For more information, contact Lisa Wahl lwahl@laca.org or Lacey Hopkins lhopkins@laca.org

Induction Ceremony for National Honor Society

Th e Induction Ceremony for the Maysville Chapter of Nation-al Honor Society was held on Monday May 4, 2015 at 1:15 PM in the High School Auditeria. Opening music was provided by the MHS Music Department. President Luke Engle, Vice Pres-ident Callie Tatman, Secretary Paige Morrow, Treasurer Kori Sidwell, and Historian Jame-son Curry led the program for the induction of new members. NHS Advisor Barb Zirke intro-duced the speaker, Mrs. Jennifer

Stotts. A Maysville 6-12 Teach-er, dog breeder, and exhibitor, she spoke about her involvement with the Puppies behind Bars Program. Avonlea Emler was the featured soloist. Assistant Principal Adam Wickham made the closing remarks. A cake and punch reception was held in the Maysville media center follow-ing the ceremony.

Th e members of National Hon-or Society are: Ava Adornetto, Alexus Bell, Kaleigh Bennett,

Jenna Brooks, Sarah Butler, Ire-land Connors, Jameson Curry, Kristen Delong, Luke Engle, Donald Tyler Finley, Mariah Lewellen, Catherine Monroe, Zack Morris, Paige Morrow, Ri-ley Perone, Braden Potts, Mor-gan Savage, Kori Sidwell, Callie Tatman, Olivia Th ompson, Tay-lor Touvell, Reagan Wasileski, and Caleb Zinn.

Th e new inductees were Bailee Ray and Seth Grissett from the Class of 2015. Megan Frank and Amy Reed were inducted from the Class of 2016. Kylie Bell, Cammie Bunting, Aubrie Clarke, Preston Frick, Alexis Highman, Ashley Hina, Maky-la Lewellen, Matthew Pitcock, Bayley Reed, Kilie Rock, Riley Th ien, and Sheridan Wilson were from the Class of 2017. Th e honorary member was Pau-la Arroyo-Tejedor.

Maysville Administrative Center - 3715 Panther Drive - Zanesville, OH 43701

August 14 Staff Professional DayAugust 24 Staff Work DayAugust 25 First Day of School

Maysville Local Schools would like to thank all those who volunteered in our schools this year. We had over 60 persons give of their time and talent as trained PALS, donating nearly 3000 hours!

We are grateful for the many volunteers who have served on the Parent Aide League in the Maysville School District over the past 45 years or so. Your time and efforts are very much appreciated as you

help with a number of tasks which directly benefi t our children and staff. You make our schools better! Have a beautiful summer and we hope to see you again next year!

Latchkey students enjoyed a recent visit from Sammi Harper and her 4-H chickens and ducks. Th ey were excited to see them and learn facts about them.

Th ere will be a limited amount of Panther Passes availablein the high school offi ce this summer. Th e cost is $5.00

and they are good through March 31, 2016.