Hello everyone, my name is Kristin Melcher. I am the new writer for the Carlé Chronicle.
Friday, Dec. 18 marked the half way point of the school year. Carlé uniquely has six grading periods, and the 18th was the end of our third.
Carlé has announced it’s gold and silver level students for that period. Two students achieved gold status, which goes at a pace quicker than the traditional high school. Congratulations to Maria Pineda and Kristin Melcher.
In addition, we had a lot of silver level students: Nicole Arlitt, Jason Arson, Nick Begins, Destiny Blevins, Emick Brown, Ali Burgos, Martin Ceja Granados, Eli Clark, Erik Fielden, Cain Hammond, Zack Humphrey, Brianna Legg, Sam Martinez, Robert McGraw, Elliott McKay, Riley Nielsen, Kedwin Russell, Candice Safreno, Daniel Salazar, Bessie Taylor and Isis Terrell. Great job guys, keep it up.
In between the last installment of the Chronicle and this one, Carlé announced four students of the week: Jason Arson, Kristin Melcher, Maria Pineda and Robert Chandler
Recently in Angie Siegel’s science class, students have been working on a project that will ultimately be part of their portfolios. It is called “Environmental Detectives,” and it is a problem solving unit. Students do a series of labs and then intensive research into what is killing the fish in the imaginary Gray Bay. At the end of the unit, students write and in-depth paper on what is most responsible for the fish die off. Something like the algae bloom we researched actually happened in Clear Lake. This unit has all the common core elements and Carlé has been doing it long before the common core was adopted.
Carlé would like to thank Totes for Teens for donating clothes and holiday items for students, even after everything they had went up in flames in the Valley fire. Their commitment to youth is impressive, and serves as great role models to our students and community.
The school would also like to give a big thank you to Dr. Barry Munitz for donating $5,000 to our school based enterprise. Dr. Munitz has donated $1,000 every year since 2005. Dr. Munitz was the chair of the state’s P-16 council, and met and formed a friendship with our teacher Alan Siegel, who was a member of that committee. Those funds have paid for all of our hand-made graduation plaques since the donations began. This year’s much larger donation allows us to give many more unique opportunities for students to sit down with other students to design and make rewards throughout the year. Due to his generosity we created “sustainability awards,” where students who hold or better their levels each grading period receive unique hand-made and usable items, very often using their own artwork. A tribute to our students is that often when they win these awards they spend the time designing and giving them as presents to other family members. Words cannot express how much we appreciate Dr. Munitz’s generosity. We have something else in mind; details in a later article.
We have two new birthday card makers, and we want to thank Sam Miller and Destiny Blevins for creating so many one of a kind cards so every student is thought of.
