Horn Highlights
"Don't mind us, we're just blowing our own horn..."

May 2008
2008 Spring Poetry Contest
Congratulations to the following students in Shirley Wright's Creative Writing class whose poems for the 2008 Spring Poetry Contest will be published by Creative Communication, Inc.
 Jacob Ammons  
Ian Arzt
Laura Carlisle
Charlotte Ehlers
Louie Emiliani
Madison Houston
Michelle Lin
Alexander Ling
Alison Newton
Madison Noon
Zoe Pham
Kiley Silva
Barry Waldman
Jeremy Williams
Matthew Wong
Megan Wu
Stacey Yard
Eric Zunker

Congratulations to our Chess Club!
Here are the results of the Spring 2008 Horn Chess Club. Tyler Owens took the First Place trophy over Jonathan Mills, who placed 2nd. Edward Bittner was third and Caleb Yen placed fourth. Trophies were awarded thru 4th place. The Best Beginner trophy was taken by Geoff Kryzkowsky. Awards for Most Improved, Best Sportsmanship, and Most Potential went to Nathan Rice, Anna McLaughlin and Caleb Yen, respectively.
Opportunities for summer classes were distributed to the parents of students who have shown interest and proper conduct.   Regular chess classes will resume in the fall.

On May 4, the 8th Annual SJ Chess School Invitational Tournament was held at Borders - Meyerland. Reuben Tang tied for 4th place with 2.5 points out of 5. Tyler Owens scored 2 points and Steven Jenkins tallied 1.5 points.  Sixteen players from Horn, Condit, Malev, Kolter, Mark Twain and Herod elementary schools participated in the invitational tourney run by Steve Jacobs. 

Name That Book Winners!
Congratulations to the Horn K-2 "Name that Book" team for winning 1st place in the district final round of the annual HISD reading competition. The team did a wonderful job representing our school in a very tough competition. This year's team members are Scott Williams-Team Captain, Jared Jong, Adam Haut, Jacob Bowen, Jared Clark, Isabella Hsu, and Justin Owens.

Ms. Fish Lights the Way!
Cindy Fish, second grade teacher, won an honorable mention in the Lands’ End Teachers Light the Way Awards contest. This was a national contest for nominations for teachers who “light the way” for their students and school. She was one of 45 winners out of almost 5000 entries. Congratulations to Ms. Fish!

Teacher of the Year – Ms. Ueckert
Liz Ueckert, second grade teacher, was voted Teacher of the Year for Horn. She was honored at the West Region Teacher of the Year luncheon this past week. Congratulations to Ms. Ueckert!

April 2008
Congratulations to the Horn Academy 3rd - 5th grade “Name that Book” team for representing the school so well in the H.I.S.D. Library Services annual reading competition on April 23rd . In an extremely close competition which came down to a tie-breaker, the Horn team came in second place in the preliminary round. Team members are Sophia Huang-Team Captain, Tanvi Varadhachary, Corrin McCullough, Ruben Tang, Ricky Feig, Abby Evans, and Christina Ru.

Congratulations to our Reading Rainbow Winners!
Congratulations to the following students (from Shirley Wright's Creative Writing class) for placing as Finalists in the 2008 Houston PBS Reading Rainbow Writer and Illustrators Contest.
Isabella Hsu - Kindergarten
Julia Griffin - 2nd Grade Author of "Adventures of a Balloon"
Stacey Yard-3rd Grade Author of "Camping in the Woods"
 
The Reading Rainbow Awards Celebration honoring Outstanding Authors will be Saturday, May 3, 2008, at The Children's Museum of Houston.

Congratulations Horn UIL Contestants!
Horn Academy placed 4th out of 13 schools in the First Annual UIL Elementary competition.  Over 180 students participated in the contest.  Special congratulations to the following students:
Julia Griffin                 1st Place - Creative Writing
Jason Gerlich              1st Place - Impromptu Speaking
Claire Coon                 1st Place - Spelling
Madison Houston         1st Place - Ready Writing
Sophia Huang             2nd Place - Ready Writing
Aishat Sadiq                Finalist - Oral Reading
Adam Gerlich              Finalist - Oral Reading
Eli Young                     Finalist - Creative Writing
Sarah Gerlich              Finalist - Impromptu Speaking

2008 Spring Essay Contest Winners
Congratulations to the following students (from Shirley Wright's Creative Writing class)whose essays for the 2008 Spring Essay Contest will be published by Creative Communication, Inc.

Ruth Abramczyk                     Haley Abramson
Emma Anne Bennett               Brandon Binder
Hope Bonem                           Kristine Carmen
Mudit Chadha                         Ashleigh Coates
Emma Cohn                            Claire Coon
Ben Cooper                            Celeste Cortinas
Candace Cravey                     Sarah Cumming
Rebekah Davis                        Tristan Davis
Sierra Delgado                       Kassandra Diaz
David A. Falloure                    Kelly Finnerman
Adam Gerlich                          Jason Gerlich
Sarah Gerlich                          Elizabeth Golden
Max Gollomp                           Abby Govindan
Francesca Granato                 Zoey Gray
Cole Holan                              Amy Hopkins
Drew Kibbe                             Rebecca Klaff
Joanna Lee                             Christine Lin
Libby Lorenz                           Lily Martin
Galina Martin                          Sean McCormick
Jonathon Mills                         Morgan Mohr
Sarah Muschinske                   Angel Overton
Erin Parkin                              Yasmin Perez
Avavni Persaud                      Aishat Sadiq
Natasha Schepps                    Jake Sylvester
Lauren Szuhay                        Ruben Tang
Jakolbi Tyler                           Tanvi Varadhachary
Edward Wen                           Christina Whitehouse
Sydney Williams                     Martin Williams
Megan Yen                              Kathleen Young
Andre Zoldhelyi

March 2008
Congratulations to our UIL Winners!
Congratulations to our UIL winners in Public Speaking and Oral Interpretation.  Three of our six students made it to the Finals round – Maci Dismuke, Marlei Dismuke and Garrett Sucher!  Maci made it to the top three in Public Speaking  and won 2nd place in the Overall division.

The HISD UIL Competition was held at Scarborough High School on March 12, 2008.  All Horn students received trophies.  And thanks to our sponsor/coach – Ms. Evelyn Gates!

Public Speaking Division K-2
Maci Dismuke – Kinder           2nd Place
Justin Clark – 1st Grade         Excellent Participation
Anna St. Denis – 2nd Grade   Excellent Participation

Oral Interpretation Division K-2
Abhaya Chopra – 1st Grade    Excellent Participation
Marlei Dismuke – 2nd Grade  Finalist
Garrett Sucher – 2nd Grade   Finalist

January/February 2008
Clair Coon was Horn's representative in the Regional Spelling Bee. Abby Evans was the runner up.

Congratulations to Horn Elementary 5th grader David Falloure, Jr. on his awesome speech at HISD’s State of the Schools Luncheon. The theme of Dr. Saavedra’s message was “Aspire, Act, Attain.”  David was one of four students selected from the entire school district to present a student’s point of view on their achieving goals and aspirations. David successfully represented Horn Elementary and delivered a beautiful speech to 2000 of Houston’s community leaders and educators, including Mayor Bill White.

November 2007
Congratulations the winners from Horn Elementary from the First Annual Elementary UIL Competition of HISD. There were 230 student entries from 20 schools.

Spelling
2nd Place - Haley Abramson
4th Place- Natasha Schepps

Number Sense
2nd Place – Tanvi Varadhachary

Impromptu Speaking
3rd Place - Jake Sylvester

Creative Writing
2nd Grade
1st Place – Julia Griffin

3rd Grade
1st Place – Madison Houston

October 2007
Congratulations to UIL Public Speaking Winners!
Congratulations to all students who participated in the UIL Public Speaking and Oral Interpretation Contest on October 17, 2007. The winners are

Kindergarten, First & Second Grade Winners:
Public Speaking Division:  
lst Place  - Zoey Pham - (Connelly)
2nd Place - Jared Clark - (Reichstein)
3rd Place - Abraham Sadiq - (Wilson)

Oral Interpretation Contest: 
2nd Place - Parker Davidson - (McMahan)

Superior Participation:
Aidan Clark - (Clary)
Olivia Cohn - (Fish)
 
Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade Winners:
Public Speaking Division:    
2nd Place - Sam Bickel-Barlow  - (Stiles)
3rd Place - Jason Gerlich  - (Stiles)

Oral Interpretation Contest:  
2nd Place - Galina Martin  - (Lawless)

Superior Participation:
Sarah Gerlich - (Stiles)
Hannah Lykins - (Lawless)
Nicole Oduche - (Stiles)
 
All of these students received trophies. Horn is very proud of these students and their hard work. Ms. Gates and Mrs. Garner are looking forward to the next UIL Competition in November.

May 2007
Name That Book, 3rd-5th Team
The Name That Book 3rd-5th Team placed first in the preliminaries on Thursday, May 3. They competed in the finals on Monday, May 7. The team placed 7 th out of all the elementary schools in HISD. Way to go!

Team members are Karl Ehlers, Hannah Lykins, Jonathan Mills, Hadley Rasmussen, Maggie Talley, Ruben Tang, Tanvi Varadhachary, Gabrielle Webb, and Joshua Yeh.

TAKS Results are in…
3rd grade Reading 100% passed
3rd grade Math 97% passed
4th grade Reading 98% passed
4th grade Math 100% passed
4th grade Writing 99% passed
5th grade Reading 98% passed
5th grade Math 95% passed
5th grade Science 97% passed

March 2007
Name That Book, K-2 came in first place in the preliminary round and second place in the overall finals. The team members are Ricky Feig, Stacey Yard, Christina Ru, Jared Jong, Scott Williams, Jared Clark, and Kristine Yang. Sherry Batke, our librarian, was the coach.

Odyssey of the Mind team placed 2nd at the Regional Competition on March 3. They will advance to the State level for competition on March 31.

January 2007
Another successful Family Science Night was held on the 18th. Families had a great time exploring the world of birds. Thanks to Acme Party & Tent for underwriting the Nature Discovery room and Access Sciences for printing the brochures. Our PTO paid for the other expenses including having live birds come from the Audubon Society.

October 2006
Haley Crandell placed 3rd in HISD's Oral Interpretation Contest.

September 2006
Ms. Talley's 3rd grade class had a special visitor. Rachael wrote an essay about "Why I Dairy Products and Why I Like the Texans." She was one of ten winning essays in the Houston area. See photos of the event.

May 2006
Ms. Shapiro's 3rd grade class received an American flag that was flown over the Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, Iraq. The flag was given to the school from the coalition force in Iraq that the class had sent Valentines and gifts to. Cub Scout Pack 130 presented a flag ceremony May 19, 2006. The whole school turned out to witness the flag raising. Thank you to Niki Noblett, 5th grade, for leading us in singing The Star Spangled Banner. David Falloure, pack leader, Ms. Linda Shapiro, teacher sponsor.

Seven Horn students competed in the Cultural Heritage Speech Contest. All seven made it to the finals on Friday night. The judges from both the Scarborough National Forensic Program and the University of Houston Forensic Society shared the fun and tremendous learning experience this contest produced for the 40 student participants! Teacher sponsors were Rosa Mendez and Betsy Garner. The students were:
Public Speaking [3-5 Division]
2nd Place    - Nikki Foreman
Finalist       - Briana Teague
Finalist       - Nicole Noblett
Finalist       - Hadley Rasmussen
Interpretation [K-2 Division]
2nd Place    - Jasmine Lee
Interpretation [3-5 Division]
Finalist      - Sarah Godwin
Finalist      - Mayesha Alam  

TAKS Results
5th Grade Science 96% passing
4th Grade Writing 99% passing
4th Grade Reading 92% passing
4th Grade Math 95% passing
3rd Grade Reading 100% passing
3rd Grade Math 100% passing

Congratulations to the talented Horn students whose poems were selected for inclusion in Creative Communication Inc.'s publication, A Celebration of Young Poets. The Horn poets are: Haley Abramson, Nazir Middleton, Andy Asano, Hijab Nomani, Hasan Bhujwala, Nicole Oduche, Lindsay Block, Tyler Owens, Shelby Brown, Midea Quintanilla, Jackie Marie Budde, Aishat Sadiq, Ben Cooper, Evan Savoie, Sarah Cumming, Natasha Schepps, Gabriela Diaz, Mackenzie Skoller, Kassandra Diaz, Austin St. Denis, David Falloure, Joan Stainton, Angela Fan, Brittany States, Jason Gerlich, Erin Szoeke, Sarah Gerlich, Devin Tebo, John Tyler Granato, Charlie Tellez, Wade Hill, Simone Trevas, Lauren A. Hoffman, Tanvi Varadhachary, Emily Koch, Mackenzie Ward, Jacob Larimore, Truett White, Joanne Lee, Martin Williams, Galina Martin, Brian Wilson, Harrison Matherne, and Megan Yen. Teacher sponsor is Ms. Shirley Wright.

Congratulations to the Horn 3rd-5th grade “Name that Book” team who competed against other HISD elementary schools at the HISD Library Services competition on May 4th. The team came in second place. The students did an excellent job representing Horn Elementary. The team members are Sarah Godwin, Parker White, Holly Reichart, Brian Brochstein, Emily Koch, Mayesha Alam, Carrie Jiang, and Hailey Haut. Ms. Gigi White and Ms. Sherry Batke, librarian, were the team sponsors.
The 2005-2006 Horn Yearbook will be distributed to students on May 23rd.  We are all looking forward to this artistic creation of picture collages done by our 5th graders in the Yearbook Club.  Also look for some new features our 5th graders added, such as "Where's Sarah?", a Silly Teachers & Staff  page, and a Congratulations Astros! page. Student yearbook members were Adam Kassem, Niki Noblett, Kristin Schulze, Rafael Trevino, Katherine Guzman, Korey Boone, Parker White, Brian Brochstein, Sarah Godwin, Riley McGann, Amber Robin, Ashley Yoder, Lindsey McCaleb, Megan Hollister, Grace Marion, Sara Mirza, Jesiah Zapata, Madison Slaughter, Holly Reichert, and Carrie Jiang. Sponsors were Ms. Erin Diaz, Ms. Susan Meeks, Ms. Dinah Godwin, Ms. Diane Sizemore, Ms. Pat Atkins, and Ms. Courtney Stiles, teacher sponsor.

West Region Science Fair: On May 3, Horn sent the winners of the school’s science fair to the West Region Science Fair. Congratulations to the winners at the Region level:
2nd, Botany Corrin McCullough (Talley)
3rd, Chemistry Aishat Sadiq (Shapiro)
HM, Physics Martin Williams (Talley)
1st, Math Adam, Jason, Sarah Gerlich (Jackson, Talley)
3rd, Chemistry Stephanie Yard (Tennyson)
1st, Botany Lee Lorenz & Hailey Haut (Burcham)
1st, BehaviorScience Kristin Schulze (Daugherty)
2nd, Botany Emma Atherton (Daugherty)
3rd, Physics Alex Rice (Daugherty)
1st, Botany Brian Brochstein & Zach Feig (Daugherty, Lambert)

Talent Shows to be held for students performing on Monday, May 15 at 8:15 am are: Garrett Sucher, Louie Emiliani, Madison Houston, Caitlyn Connelly, Miles Quincy, Anna Blome, Emery Washington, Elliott Cook, Jacob Arrington, Alison Daniel, Zoe Burch, Leah Potylchansky, Celine Patel, Sean McCormick, Emma Cohn, Stephanie Mangum, Dillon Utter, Kylie Stavinoha, Martin Cuadra, and Isabela Mayo.

Students performing Tuesday, May 16 at 8:15 am and 7 pm are: Jonathon Mills, Lucie Meeks, Charlotte Ehlers, Veronica Blum, Emily Koch, Shayna Brochstein, Cristina Ru, Alex Jin, Ashley Tom, Megan Wu, Mackenzie Ward, Jake Sylvester, Rikki Wilmingham, Hadley Rasmussen, Juliana Destefano, Riley McGAnn, Caroline Hinze, Sarah Godwin, Grace Marion, Matthew Lydick, Madison Gates, Beatrice Mayadas, Eric Chu, Stephanie Yard, Catherine Szuhay, Lauren Szuhay, Aishat Sadiq, Nicolas Aldape, Luke Stavinoha, Jeffrey Wang, Alexandra Kakadiaris, Julia Griffen, Kian EbrahimZadeh

Students performing Wednesday, May 17 at 8:15 am are: Nicholas Twyman, Natalie Twyman, Jackson, Twyman, Alex Rice, Emma Bennett, Haley Abramson, Sarah Gerlich, Rebecca Klaff, Kelly Finnerman, Natasha Schepps, Parker White, Nikki Noblett, Samantha Schepps, Kassandra Diaz, Brianna Teague, Kathryn Guzman, Alexandra Uri, Simone Rainey, Vanessa Bautista, Jessica Ruth, Sarah Cummins, Madison Slaughter, Francie Meyer, Jennifer Gonzalez, Artesia Luna, Amanda Taylor, Chelsea Cheramie, Andrew Hopkins, Allison Novelli, Emily Carpenter. Teacher sponsor is Ms. Grace Phillips.

Nine Horn Academy graduates will head to Laguna Hills , California , to play in a College Soccer Showcase over the Memorial Day Weekend. Tori Fish, Murray Gray, Jana Hemann, Lisa Wojnar, Maegan Hinze, Ellen Ankney, Partricia Brackendorff, Chloe Tucker, and Kellie Rodekohr are members of the Bellaire Heat U16 Girls soccer team. The Heat, coached by Debbie Tucker, started as a neighborhood team when the girls were second graders at Horn. Since that time, the “Heat” has won the Eastern District Championship, the 2003 South Texas Super Two State Championship, and currently play Division I. After leaving Horn the “Heat” girls attended Pershing Middle School and won the HISD City Soccer Championship in 2004. Most recently 6 of the Horn/Heat girls played on the Bellaire High School Girls Varsity Soccer team finishing out the season undefeated and winning the 21-5A District Championship. Along with their sports talent, all the Heat/horn players are members of the National Honor Society. The Heat’s assistant coaches are Daived Tucker and Jim Fish, husband of Horn’s second grade teachers, Cindy Fish.

First grade teachers have brought the ocean's life to the classroom. Marine life from the Atlantic Ocean tidal pools has been shipped here for the students to get close up look at them and to be able to touch the animals and plants. Ms. Varga and Ms. McMahan's first graders will follow up with a visit to the Houston Museum of Natural Science's Malacology Hall to do a scavenger hunt for the different types of mollusks found in the hall.

The City of Bellaire proclaimed Horn's Odyssey of the Mind representatives of our school and city. We are extremely proud of the OM team because all the other teams from the West Region that are going to World are from Vanguard schools.

April 2006
Ms. Reta Daugherty, 5th grade science teacher, completed the MS 150 bike ride.

TAKS Scores (so far)
3rd Grade Reading - 100% passed
5th Grade Reading - 96% passed
5th Grade Math - 98% passed

Horn’s Odyssey of the Mind team took 3rd place in the State competition on Saturday, April 1 st. Besides getting 3rd place, they also received the Ranatra Fusca Award for Outstanding Creativity. This makes them eligible for competing in the World competition in late May. Team members are Yoseph Dance, Zach Feig, Hailey Haut, Alex Rice, Maggie Talley, and Dito Utomo. Mrs. Trina Feig is their parent coach and Mrs. Margaret Slutz, teacher, is spontaneous judge for the team.

Name That Book Team Places 3rd in Division
On April 11, 2006 , Horn Elementary participated in the HISD K-2 nd grade “Name that Book” competition. The Library Services department of HISD puts on this annual reading contest and allows one team of six members per school to compete against other HISD elementary schools. The Horn team did an excellent job representing the school, coming in third in their division. The team members are Anna Blome, Ricky Feig, Kaitlyn Jong, Jonathon Mills, Rachael Veldman, Stacey Yard, and Celeste Cortinas (alternate). Ms. Sherry Batke, librarian, teacher sponsor

March 2006
Congratulations to five fifth graders who went to the first HISD's Black History Oral Speech and Interpretation Contest Thursday, March 23rd at Scarborough High School They include Megan Hollister, Holly Reichert, Emily Koch, Madison Gates and Chelsea Facison. The participants recited poetry or an excerpt from a book. Holly Reichert, Emily Koch, and Madison Gates won in their division and went to the finals at the University of Houston on Friday night. Emily Koch won 3 rd place for her oral recitation of an excerpt from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Holly Reichert was a finalist for her speech that she wrote on what Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech meant to her. Madison Gates was a finalist for her poetry recitation. Ms. Betsy Garner, teacher sponsor

Horn's Odyssey of the Mind team placed 3rd in the regional meet. Team members are Yoseph Dance, Zach Feig, Hailey Haut, Alex Rice, Maggie Talley, and Dito Utomo. Mrs. Trina Feig is their parent coach and Mrs. Margaret Slutz, teacher, is spontaneous judge for the team.

The Pine Street Wax Museum of American History was presented by third graders. Students read a book about a person in history, dressed a the character, and then wrote a short speech to say as visitors came by. Ms. Connie Dotan, teacher sponsor

Grace Phillips, our physical education teacher, is one of only two teachers chosen to represent the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance at a special program in Monterrey, Mexico .Phillips taught a physical education lesson to a group of students. This demonstration was done in conjunction with the Nuevo Leon's teacher of the year selection process that annually highlights the physical education program. The Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD) received a personal invitation from the director of sport and physical education for Nuevo Leon, Mexico to provide two physical education teachers to give a demonstration of quality physical education lessons to teachers attending the Nuevo Leon's physical education teacher of the year competition. Phillips was chosen from more than 100 teachers who applied for the honor of representing Texas physical education teachers. Officers of TAHPERD reviewed qualifications and experience of those applying and selected Phillips of Houston ISD and Janice Longino of Rockwall ISD.

Creative Communication Spring 2006 Accepted Student List 
The following students’ were accepted in a regional writing essay writing contest. James Adair, Mayesha Alam, Nicolas Aldape, Andrew Alvarado, Autumn Arnold, Sarah Atherton, Korey Grayson Boone, Brian Brochstein, Emily Carpenter, Madeline Cooper, Caitlin Crump, Yoseph Dance, Yannah Dumandan, Zach Feig, Nikki Foreman,  Sarah Goodwin, Katherine Guzman, Tucker Haydon, Caroline Hinze, Megan Hollister, Andrew Hopkins, Carrie Jiang,  Emily Koch, Chris Lydick, Naren Mehta, Alex Metzger,Francie Meyer, Niki Noblett, Walker Noon, Allison Novelli, Adrian Palmer, Hadley Rasmussen,  Holly Reichert, Stephanie Ruiz, Samantha Schepps, Kristen Schulze, Trevor St. Denis, Ashley Tom,Amy Tsang,Nicholas Twyman, Alexandra Uri,   Kaitlyn Vickery,  Beau Wells,  Ashley Yoder, and Jesiah Zapata. Ms. Shirley Wright, teacher sponsor

February 2006
Mrs. Carolyn Santamaria, science lab teacher, was voted Teacher of the Year for our school.

Students sent valentines to soldiers stationed in Iraq. Ms. Shapiro's class got emails and pictures back from the soldiers that received their valenetines. The class collected items to send to the soldiers and mailed four boxes to the soldiers.

Kindergartners presented a Black History Program. Ms. Evelyn Gates, teacher sponsor

January 2006
Spelling Bee winners are Matthew Szabian, first place, and Emily Koch, second place. Liz Ueckert, teacher sponsor

Lorraine Murchison has been selected to receive the Spirit of Service Award for the hard work and dedication she has given to the Food Service program.

Science Fair Winners: Carolyn Santamaria, teacher sponsor
3rd Grade Individual
1st Corrin McCullough
2nd Aishat Sadiq
3rd Martin Williams
HM John Meyer
HM Alec DaCosta-Vinson
HM Truett White
HM Drew Kibbe
HM Rebecca Klaff
HM Michael Atkins
HM Tyler Owens
HM Wade Hill
3rd Grade Group
1st Adam, Sarah, Jason Gerlich
2nd Miles Parris & Andy Asano
3rd Emma Bennett & Galina Martin
HM McKenzie Ward & Megan Yen
4th Grade Individual
1st Stephanie Yard
2nd Dakota Villarreal
3rd Brian Rhodes
HM Stewart Stricklin
4th Grade Group
1st Lee Lorenz & Hayley Haut
5th Grade Individual
1st Kristin Schulze
2nd Alex Rice
3rd Emma Atherton
HM Joseph Meyer
HM Nicole Noblett
HM Riley McGann
HM William Ball
HM Dito Utomo
HM Walker Noon
HM Madison Gates
HM Adam Kassem
HM Adam Wesley
HM Naren Mehta
HM Nichloas Twyman
5th Grade Group
1st Brian Brochstein & Zach Feig
2nd Holly Reichert & Emily Koch
HM Sam Gerlich & Brendan Abramson

Horn invited families to explore science at Family Science Night. Door prizes from the Houston Museum of Natural Science were donated by Ms. Betty Glass and Ms. Becky Clark, Sam and Matt’s mom. Dr. Billy Cohn, Robert’s dad, explained things for the “Blood and Guts” room. Parents and children learned much from Dr. Cohn. A volunteer from the George Observatory was present to help out even though the clouds had rolled in to hide the night sky.

Thank you to the teachers and staff who donated their time to put on the event: Ms. M. Bendiksen, Ms. R. Daugherty, Ms. K. Davis, Ms. S. Harrington, Ms. G. Garcia, Ms. J. Lambert, Ms. C. McCleskey, Ms. N. McDonald, Ms. S. McMahan, Ms. M. Mendez, Ms. C. Parker, Ms. M. Slutz, Ms. C. Santamaria, Ms. L. Shapiro, Ms. S. Talley, Ms. L. Ueckert and Ms. D. Varga.

November 2005
Horn Students raised $1,826 for Jump Rope for Heart. Ms. Grace Phillips, teacher sponsor

October 2005
Ninety students were accepted for publication for the Creative Communication Spring 2005 Poetry. Ms. Shirley Wright, teacher sponsor
Jimmy Adair, Julian Advani, Mayesha Alam, Chanell Alfred,Fareeha Ansari, Sarah Atherton, Dylan Barnes, Will Bennett, Bryan Binder, Khrystian Blazier, Lauren Block, Jonathan Bonem, Harrison Bowe, Ross Bussey, Haley Christians, Ray Clarage, Anna Clarke, Emma Coles, Anastasia Cook, Connor Cox, Haley Crandell, Denver Daniel, Victoria Dinh, Blair Dishon, Yannah Dumandan, Kailyn Evans, Tamarah Farchy, Douglas Ferrell,Rebecca Fogarty, Rachel Fogarty, Nikki Forman, Rebecca Forman, Jonathan Galo, Erin Garza, Meg Gross, Meghan Hager, Hailey Haut, Shaughnesy Hearn, Ethan Heller, Walt Hill, Zachary Ho, Jacob Hooks, Danielle Howard, Michelle Huang, Marcela Jaramillo, Annabelle Johnson, Grace Kelm, Amber Khan, Eric Larson, Timothy Lee, Lowell Levo, Chiara Lombardi, Zachary Lopez, Dever Lorenz, Artezia Luna, Phianh Ma, Lorena Malavet, Annie Marion, Sarah Masters, Francie Meyer, Brittany Miller, Julian More, Horace Nam, Thalia Persaud, Wesley Phillips, John Plattenburg, Drew Ramsey, Hadley Rasmussen, Sabeen Rauf, Katy Razaz, Carina Rosales, Jason Rossiter, Colleen Sanchez, Julius Sanchez, Kimberly Shi, Celeste Smith, Paul Su, Dana Tomsen, Emily Times, Natalie Twyman, Alexandra Ur, Kristen Vingoe, Sam Weidig, John Wesley, Jack William, Daphne Wu, Stephanie Yard, Allie Ying, Brittany Zepeda, and Kathy Zhu

Twenty students were accepted for the essay they wrote on "What is Important to Me?" Shirley Wright,teacher sponsor
Beau Wells, Autumn Arnold,Symone Rainey, Kristen Schulze, Zachary Feig, Katherine Guzman, Amanda Taylor, Megan Hollister,Yoseph Dance, Matthew Szabian, Brianna Teague, Samantha Schepps, Sarah Godwin, Emily Koch, Grace Marion, Alex Metzger, Caroline Hinze, Mariah Maverick, Aloysius Utomo, and Demetrius Phillips

Fire Prevention Poster Contest Winners: Penny Howell, teacher sponsor
Jared Jong (Gates) $50 U.S. Savings bond
Stacey Yard (McMahan) $50.00 US Savings bond
Shayna Brochstein (Ueckert) $50 U.S. Savings Bond
Hannah Lykins (Shapiro) $50.00 U.S. Savings bond
Stephanie Yard (Tennyson) $50.00 US Savings bond
Symone Rainey (Stiles) $50.00 U.S. Savings bond
Derek Adrion (Gates)  Honorable Mention
Charlotte Ehlers (Gates) Honorable Mention
Kalyani Persaud (Reichstein) Honorable Mention
Christina Ru (McMahan) Honorable Mention
Max Roberson (Ueckert) Honorable Mention
Priscilla Trevino (Ueckert) Honorable Mention
Cassandra Diaz (Shapiro) Honorable Mention
Jessyca Cotton (Mendez) Honorable Mention

August 2005
Guadelupe (Lupy) Garcia, our school secretary, has been named HISD Employee of the Month.