The Pirate Treasure

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You have heard it once, but we will say it again: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 6th - 8th grade coaches and competitors! You make us proud! The 6th - 8th grade UIL team placed FIRST in their district meet at Hallsville Junior High with each grade level also taking first place. For individual results, please visit www.pinetreeuil.com.

Continuing the winning tradition, the Cross-Examination debaters (policy debate) teams of Travis Johnson and Aiden McQueary and Maranda Skinner and Faith Bishop garnered success at their district meet. Maranda and Faith placed 6th, and Travis and Aiden are the district champions! They will compete for the state championship in Austin next month.

This week Music Informances were presented with Mrs. Laura Johns, Primary Music teacher. Parents were able to come and join in on our music fun… singing, dancing, and playing instruments.

We are grateful to all the parents who took the time to come interact with their children.

It is hard to believe that we have been in school for 100 days! Some of the Kraus Krew’s favorite things are lunch, recess and specials. We sure do love our Primary Lunch Ladies that come out and dance with us, visit, and even arm wrestle, while eating a yummy lunch!

We are lucky that our Principal has made it a priority for us to have three recesses throughout our day! The Kraus Krew LOVES their outdoor brain breaks!

Here are the Coleman Cool Kidz! We have learned so many cool things this year! We have grown so much in our writing and reading. We love to share our writings with each other before we publish on Seesaw at the end of the week! We love having fun and learning everyday!

What's Happening at PT Primary

Pre-K Goes To the WOW museum

February 9

Carter, Wimberly, Hewitt

8:30-10:30

Malloy, Pearce, Dyer

11:30-1:30

February 14

Gonzalez, Bozarth, Storms 8:30-11:00

Abrams 11:00-2:00

Birch First's Greater Longview United Way Accelerated Reader Store opened last week for our students to have an opportunity to "spend" their Accelerated Reader points that they earned during the first semester.

Students chose to either purchase smaller prizes with those points OR wait until May to use all of the Accelerated Reader points they earn for the entire 2022-2023 school year to purchase a larger prize. We are very proud of our students' love for reading!

Our character trait for the month of February is Courage! These 3rd and 4th grade students have been selected by their teachers for showing courage to be kind to others and try new things. We are very proud of our Birch First leaders!

Family Night: On Monday, February 13th, families are invited to shop at the book fair from 4:00-5:30 p.m.

A GRAND Lunch Event: On February 14th, GRANDparents and other “GRAND” people are invited to eat lunch and shop at our book fair with their child. (Lunch will be $4.50 for visitors.)

“We Love Our Teachers” Wednesday: On February 15th, parents are invited to eat lunch with their child and shop with their students to purchase a book for their teacher’s classroom library. (Lunch will be $4.50 for visitors.)

Groundhog Day

Mrs. Fobell’s class had such an eventful day last week. Students made pillows. The entire class took a survey about Groundhog Day. Each student had the opportunity to predict if Punxsutawney Phil would see his shadow or not. From the class of 22 students, 12 predicted he would see his shadow. Welcome to 6 more weeks of winter!

February Pirates of the Month

1st grade- George Richards - Clay

2nd grade- Liam Olvera Castro - Rosen

3rd grade- Makenna Crockett - Morrow

4th grade- Winter Walker - Toal

100 Days of School

Our 100th day of school celebration was a success here at the Pack Ranch. Our amazing pack members dressed up, and geared up to be 100 years old. There were some amazing, adorable looking “old” students at the Pack. We cannot believe it has been 100 days here at Parkway. Our students are learning so much, and having a great time doing it.

Pine Tree Middle School sixth grade UIL team won first place in their district meet last weekend. Students placed first in almost every event. We won double the amount of points than any other school in the competition. Pine Tree UIL coaches are very proud of their teams.

Ms. Catherine Williams coached Dictionary Skills, and the team won first place. Mrs. Whitney Horne coached Maps, Graphs and Charts and and the team won first place. Mrs. Brandina Ednie coached three teams; Ready Writing, Editorial Writing and Listening Skills. In Listening, the team received 2nd place. Three students placed in Editorial Writing.

Mrs. Randall coached several teams and all of her teams scored first place. She coached Number Sense, Calculator, Math and Science. Mrs. Alisha Vidaurri coached Multiple Oral Reading teams and Spelling this year. She had a first place winner in prose, modern oratory and her spelling team won first place. Ms. Stacey Guillen coached our Social Studies team.

Congratulations, Pirates!

Art: 1st: (Tie) - Jadelynn Armas & Saray Hernandez,3rd place Averie McQueary, 4th Addilyn Grace

Calculator : 1st Aubrey Klein, 2nd Vianey Olvera, 3rd Juan Martinez.

Chess: 1st Giovanni Conde, 2nd Joey White, 3rd Trent Jackson, 5th Carlos Mata

Dictionary Skill: 2nd Braxton Bratton; 4th Sandra Fong, 6th Sherlyn Alanis.

Editorial Writing: 3rd Megan Danapas; 4th Eyonna Sanders; 6th Keyonna Smith.

Impromptu Speaking: 3rd Tucker Williams, 6th Morgan Eggerman.

Listening: 2nd Leah Gatlin

Maps, Graphs and Charts: 2nd Jackson Knight, 3rd Megan Danapas

Mathematics: 1st Aubrey Klein, 2nd Devlin Foster, 3rd Vianey Olvera, 4th Joey White

Modern Oratory: 1st Matthew Bates, 2nd Tori Buford, 3rd Jabriel Collins

Music Memory: 2nd James Barber, 5th Leah Lusk.

Number Sense: 1st Aubrey Klein, 2nd Devlin Foster, 3rd Joey White 4th Leah Gatlin.

Prose Oral Reading: 1st Blair Schroder, 3rd Wednesday Warren, 4th Vanessa Amaya

Poetry Oral Reading: 2nd Nevaeh Amos Clugston

Science: 1st Devlin Foster, 2nd Landon Warner, 6th Aubrey Klein

Spelling: 1st Devlin Foster, 2nd Megan Danapas, 5th Douglas Palmer, 6th Maizy Northcutt

Our upcoming fifth grade Elementary UIL is February 24. Teams are practicing hard to keep the ‘first place team’ theme going.

On Monday, January 30th, the following Choir students earned a 1st rating on their ensembles and will receive a medal: Joy Hill, Anna Yoder, Payton Levoy, Allison Priddy, Zanya Sanchez, Chyna Thompson, Rhett Strandberg, Angelina McFadzean, Ramiyah Crump, Kate Costa, Jordyn Theus, Aleynah Gonzalez, Shaniya Roland, Connor Shaw, C'Errika Gator, Keren Vizueth, Aliya Anthony. The following students earned a 1st rating on their solo performances and will receive a medal: Kate Costa, Shaniya Roland, Connor Shaw, Keren Vizueth, Aliya Anthony, and Kaitlyn Wingfield. We congratulate those wonderful choir students.

Middle School fifth graders took a field trip to the Longview Symphony this week. They enjoyed many songs like, YMCA and the Star Wars theme songs, with the musicians.

We are proud of our UIL Academic 7th and 8th grade teams for earning 1st in district competition at Hallsville Junior High! All of our competitors represented Pine Tree Junior High with great sportsmanship, and we are so proud of all of you! See below a list of students who earned medals in their competitions.

Our very own Officer Bankston taught our health classes for a few days with a hands on “How To” with first aid!

Our Pirate Pride award winners this month feature a duo of excellent students! Congratulations to 7th grader Malaysia King and 8th grader Cinciir Deromea!! These students go above and beyond all over campus on a daily basis. Keep up the Pirate Pride!

Winter weather came to Pine Tree last week and brought some frigid temperatures on the outside, but inside things were warm as students, faculty and staff were extremely busy with classwork, competitions and projects.

Major projects, important classroom learning and demanding tasks are being accomplished all across the PTHS landscape, and students are actively engaging in the lessons being brought them by hard working faculty.

Students understand this is an important time of year, a time when the desire to work is low but the need to work is high. Students and teachers are doubling up on efforts to support each other and bring home lots of successes for the high school.

Competitions are also featuring many high school students. Approximately thirty students participated in competition this past week and all of them had work worthy of making the state meet in March. This is important since Pine Tree is recognized for its excellence in welding, construction, automotive and culinary.

Choir and band are busy with competitions as well. Band is also busy preparing for competitions as well as Color Guard. This group has really been successful the past two years and are hosting a meet on February 25 as well as attending important competitions in Dallas and other Texas cities over the next month.

UIL Academics is in the middle of a busy and hectic meet schedule with Hallsville’s Heart of Hearts Tournament. This tournament annually show's PT's strengths in UIL Academics, and it is a good barometer for how the team will do in district. As it stands this year, Pine Tree is one of the premier teams overall in UIL Academics; something the coaches have worked very hard to accomplish.

March 1 will see juniors taking the SAT test here at Pine Tree. This important exam allows students to be ready to apply to college and see what they can do or might need to do to be college ready.

Athletics are also ongoing. Basketball for boys and girls is reaching the end of seasons, with the boys still in the hunt for a playoff spot. Soccer is also in the middle of its schedule, with the girls undefeated heading into important games this week. Powerlifting has seen a lot of success so far this year, both boys and girls teams. That means they will showcase their talents in the state meet based on results thus far.

Baseball, tennis, golf and softball will begin spring sports schedules in the next week and will be active all the way to the end of school.

Finally, Precision is looking to score major points in a competition this weekend in Dallas. The girls swept an earlier meet in Tyler which is promising for Director Laycen Watson and her team to do the same against some major schools from Dallas and Houston.

As far as events, Leadership and the BUCS will have a car show on Saturday, March 4 at the stadium. The event will run from noon until 4 p.m. and feature classic and modern cars. Contact Caity Rutledge at crutledge@ptisd.org or Greg Collins at (903) 25-5031 ext 1171 to enter a car or request more information.

January 26, 2023 was a night full of proud students, families and staff as 12 fall graduates walked the stage at the Pine Tree High School theatre. Manuel Underhill and Juan Garcia were early graduates this year. The students donned with white ribbons were Globe Scholars and Kohl McKinley who donned a red, white and blue ribbon was recognized as a Globe Scholar with Merit. We wish each of these students continued success in their future endeavors.

Since the fall graduation, Raen Hammond has completed her coursework and will walk in the May graduation ceremony. Raen came to ExCEL from Ellensburg ISD in Washington when her mother relocated to Longview. She came to ExCEL not to graduate early but because of her shy nature she felt it would be ideal for her. Raen had missed a year and a half of school, but due to the nature of the Edgenuity program and the ability to work at a fast pace, she was able to get complete her courses and will graduate soon. In her free time, Raen likes to draw and watch movies.

Raen found it difficult to describe herself, but lead teacher Mrs. Jones had no problem describing her as quiet, determined, artistic and very self aware. While Raen doesn't know right now what she wants to do after graduation, based upon Mrs. Jones' description of her, she will no doubt do well. We wish her the best!

Below are January graduates left to right: Perla Madrid Reyes, Kyra Herrera, Rubi Madrid Reyes, Juan Garcia, Maria Vasquez, Jerusalem Briseno, Adrian Ibarra, Jeremiah Allen, Elizabeth Barron, Kohl McKinley, Manuel Underhill and Sophia Trnavsky.