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Event |
Sponsoring
Organization |
Description |
Timeline |
EIS Staff
Contact
Person |
Young
Authors
Conference |
Tulsa County
Reading
Conference |
This event
encourages student writing. Each school may
send about 10% of their students to a
Saturday conference where students share
their stories, & meet real
authors/illustrators. There are
opportunities for pictures with the visiting
author(s), books to buy (signed by authors)
and event T-shirts may be purchased.
Participating students are required to write
and illustrate a story of their own to share
at the conference. Teachers select students
for participation. |
Every other
year in the spring. Exact date varies, but
is usually on a
Saturday. (April 24th, 2003) |
Barbara
McCrary |
Read
Across
America |
National
Education
Association |
Nationwide
program to celebrate reading. Celebrity
readers will visit Eisenhower. Celebrated on
the 100th birthday of Dr. Suess. |
3/03 |
Barbara
McCrary |
Summer
Reading
Program |
Eisenhower
International
School |
Students are
encouraged to read books throughout the
summer, recording the titles on a form that
is turned in at the beginning of the school
year. Students receive recognition in the
form of a certificate, and many students
enjoy an ice cream party to celebrate the
volume of the books they read during the
summer. |
Every summer.
Recognition
occurs in the
fall of each
year, usually
within the first
month of
school. |
Barbara
McCrary |
Speech Arts
Contest |
Tulsa Public
Schools |
Students in
grades K-5 prepare entries for a
competition.
There are four categories:
· Expository speech
· Retold stories
· Poetry
· Prose (grades 3-5 only) |
The school
level
competition is
in February,
followed by the
District
competition in
March. Exact
dates vary from
year to year. |
Clark
Frayser |
Spelling
Bee |
Tulsa Public
Schools, in
partnership
with the
Tulsa World
and Scripps-
Howard |
Students in
grades 3-5 compete in this traditional
spelling bee competition. Two students per
class are selected in a class 'bee.' The
school winner goes on to compete in a city
bee, and resulting in a state-level
participate. The state winner represents
Oklahoma in the national Scripps-Howard
spelling bee. |
Every year,
usually in
January.
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Classroom
teachers in
grades 3-5 |
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