DCE student recognized by Scholastic
Published by Meredith December 6th, 2006 in Schools.
Fourth grade students at Drew Central Elementary entered a writing contest that was featured in the October edition of the Storyworks magazine by Scholastic. To enter the contest the students read an article about “newsies” who went on strike in 1899 and then wrote a paragraph about whether being a “newsie” was a good job for a kid. Out of
Of all the students who entered the contest all across the United States, only ten paragraphs were chosen. Of these ten, David Crook’s paragraph was chosen based on the great job he did organizing his ideas and using information from the article in the magazine. For winning the contest, David was presented with a complimentary book Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti on which the article in the magazine was based. David is a student in Mary Hobbs’s fourth grade classroom at Drew Central Elementary.
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David, Congratulations!!! That is wonderful! I am so proud of you. Love, Ms. Jody
WOW!!!!David, :)
What great news!!!
Your old Second Grade teacher here is just thrilled as
can be and so very proud of you!!! I always knew you were special and now the whole country knows it too.
Continue to learn and grow and always know God loves you and so do we. You are a fine young man.
Letty Burton
David!!
I am so, so, so proud of you!! That makes me so excited!! I love you!