Damon ISD School News · Fourth Grade News Our A Team players are Brit-ney Kasmir, Brenda Angeles, Sara Martinez, Marissa Buchta, Kimber Halford, Courtney Burns, Carissa

Meet Our New Staff

It’s Back to the Books at Damon Elementary Upcoming Events

October 18 Board Meeting 7 pm

October 19 Football @ Brazosport

Christian 5 pm

October 20 A—Team Volleyball

Tournament @ Needville

October 22 Individual Pictures

Wear Crazy Socks

October 23 Bobcat Briefing 6 pm

Wear Red

October 24 Wear a Hat

October 25 Football Game @ First

Baptist in Pasadena

Wear Camouflage

October 26 Wear Sunglasses and Bright

Clothes

October 27 PTA Fall Festival

3-7 pm

October 30 Progress Reports

1st Six Weeks Events

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2007-2008 Issue

Damon ISD School News

3rd: Ms. Pitts

4th: Miss Fabrygel

5th—8th:

Mrs. Reddoch, Mrs. Mate-jka, Mrs. Blades, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Nawara and Mrs. Schneider

Band: Mr. Sanders

Music/PE: Mrs. Helton

Special Ed.: Mrs. Jones

Paraprofessionals: Mrs. Boaz, Mrs. Kent, & Mrs. Slacalek

Health Aide: Mrs. Buchta

Cafeteria: Mrs. McElveen & Mrs. Martinez

Cafeteria Mgr: Mrs. Rogge

Bus Drivers: Mrs. Helton, Mrs. Kutej, Ms. Stanley

Maintenance: Mr. Krause

Custodian: Ms. Mullenax

Office Staff: Mrs. Spearow & Ms. Elster

Superintendent/Principal: Mr. Haley

The staff is very excited about the 2007-2008 school year and are looking forward to being GREAT in ‘08!

On August 27, 2007, stu-dents were back to the books at Damon Elemen-tary. Prior to the start of school, students were able to meet their teachers at the annual Meet the Teacher. Along with meet-ing new teachers, students were also met with recog-nizable faces but at differ-ent grade levels.

The 2007-2008 staff in-cludes:

PK: Mrs. Hardee

K: Mrs. Moreno

1st: Ms. Kolosseus

2nd: Mrs. Brown

Ms. Mullenax Mr. Sanders Mrs. Miller Mr. Krause Mrs. Hardee Mrs. Nawara

Fourth Grade has been hard at work in Science learning

about the detailed parts of a plant. As part of the learning

process, students planted pumpkin seeds in the ground and

in cups. They are watching them grow both at school and at

home. They are hoping for a great pumpkin! Along with

Science, students are also learning about Texas in Social

Studies and working hard on Study Island. Together they

are reading the novel, This Sign of the Beaver and are hav-

ing fun exploring the Ft. Bend County Library Online.

The Damon Bobcat Football team, under the coaching of Coach Haley and Coach Helton, have poured their heart and soul into all 3 of their games that they have played. Al-though the scoreboard has not shown a victory yet, they are a win-ning group of team players. Repre-senting the 2007 Damon Bobcats are 8th graders Chance Schneider #55, Dusty Mikel #99, James Phillips #56, Dillon Jones # 4 , Zach Brautigam #45 and Eric Anzaldua #80.

7th grade players include Brandon

Irvin #11 Jonathan Russell #77 and Blake Rose #83. New to football this year are the 6th grade members of the team—Crystal Eversole #66, Jacob Hardee #7, Hunter Brumbelow #25, Stephen Heiman #18 and Jake Jimenez #8. Managers for the bobcats are Nicholas Meli, Colton Boaz, and Dylan Rogge.

We are extremely proud of this Bob-cat football team and their out-standing effort!

Fourth Grade News

Our A Team players are Brit-ney Kasmir, Brenda Angeles, Sara Martinez, Marissa Buchta, Kimber Halford, Courtney Burns, Carissa Munoz, and Jessica Colby. Our B Team consists of LeAnna Frazier, Angel Enriquez, Tiffany Miller, Brenna Helton, Danielle Baker, Katiana Chapa, and Sinthianna Solis.

By Britney Kasmir

The Lady Cats are off to a fan-tastic season. They have par-ticipated in 3 games and a tournament in East Bernard. Although they didn’t bring home a trophy, they brought home a great experience and had a great time.

This year we had enough play-ers to divide up into 2 teams.

DJH Volleyball News

Football News

Damon Bobcat Football Team

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Run, walk, jog, sprint...students can do it any way they wish! The ultimate

goal is to complete as many miles as possible throughout the 2007-2008 school year. Students are recognized during morning announcements whenever they reach promi-nent mile markers. They are

also given “feet” tokens and mile markers to display their hard work and determination dur-ing their physical edu-cation classes. How many miles can they accumulate this year? We will have to wait and see how far their little feet can take them!

Hitting the Track

If you are interested in helping out with a game booth, in the serving line, baking items, set-ting up, cleaning up, or any other area, please contact PTA President Trisha DuBose at 979-793-7878 or the school office. Raffle tickets are on

The Damon PTA has been hard at work planning and or-ganizing the 2007 Fall Festival. Many exciting plans are in the works including a turkey and dressing dinner, raffle, square dancing, games, silent auction, and costume contest.

sale now and can be purchased from any DISD stu-dent or PTA officer.

PTA News-Fall Festival Scheduled for Oct. 27

Written By Carissa Munoz

Happy Birthday Bobcats! On September 24, the student council started to announce birthdays. We will help each child celebrate their birthday this year by announcing it at morning announcements and giving them a birthday card and pencil. Doing this has

Student Council Recognizes Birthdays

The first students recognized on their birthdays were Jake Jimenez, Josh Andel, Kasi

Schneider, Miles Buchta, and Esmeralda DeMateo

The students who reached their first mile who were recognized on 9/12

during announcements.

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brought smiles to the little children who had birth-days. Happy birthday to the children in the future!

Damon Band—By Mr. Sanders

First Grade has been hard at work learning as much as they can. In Science, students experimented with the gr owth of plants. To help them do this, they each planted be an seeds. It was interesting to see how some beans never took of f while others grew wild! Among other things that students are learn-ing are reading skills, addition and number order, spelling words with short and long vowels, and many other e xciting topics. One of the favorite games students love to play is “SPARKLE”.

First Grade — Learning About Plants

Learning in Action! Mrs. Moreno’s Kin-dergarten class made fresh squeezed lemonade as they were learning about the letter L. They have also learned about the letters O, G, H and T. Soon, they will add P, A, and N to the list of let-ters they know!

Kindergarten Makes Lemonade

Music is in the Air

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The NEW Bobcat Band is off to a rousing, enthusiastic beginning of the 2007 school year. The nineteen band members are working hard to learn something new every day. So far the instru-mentation includes two flutes, three clarinets, two alto saxo-phones, seven trumpets, three trombones, and two percussion players. ALL are doing an AWE-SOME job in learning to play their band instrument.

Damon ISD—home of the Damon Bobcats recently won an A+ for Energy grant in the amount of $10,000! DISD is excited about participating in the A+ for Energy Edu-cation Program and will be creating a local “BP” Project entitled “Bobcat Podcasts” (otherwise known as our BP Energy Project).

Damon ISD’s “BP” (Bobcat Podcast) Energy Project will incorporate the use of iPod media players and podcasting communication techniques to stimu-late interest, enhance learning and knowledge, and trigger the imaginative powers of our 8th grade students as they explore the dynamics of nuclear energy. Through a technology rich, internet based education network of apprentice teachers from The University of Texas in Austin, and junior high students from Eanes ISD near Austin, Damon 8th graders will create and upload podcasts fusing the research data, personal interviews, and digital imagery they will assemble focusing on nuclear energy.

Damon ISD Receives Grant

On September 7, 2007, the Damon Bobcat Cheerleaders had their first pep rally of the year. Pride and spirit filled the gymnasium as the Bobcat Cheerleaders worked hard to fill the Bobcat Football team with enthusiasm and fire! Each member of the football and volleyball team were introduced during the first pep rally.

Full of spirit and pride are this year’s Damon Bobcat Cheerleaders! Introducing from left to right Brenda Angeles, Katiana Chapa, Sara Martinez, Angel Enriquez, Carissa Munoz, and Tiffany Miller. The cheerleaders are coached by Mrs. Leslie Hardee

Introducing the Cheerleaders

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First Pep Rally

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