Library News
A BIG thank you to Audry Millican for all her hard work coming up with this year's contest ideas and the time and effort that goes into all of the CUTE decorations!
2023-2024
The middle school and high school participated in two October contests in the library.
Students had to guess the number of candy corns and also decipher a secret message.
Below are this month's winners.
Candy Corn Contest:
680 Candies
HS
Mrs. Purdom-622
Senior Garret Glenn-680
HS
Senior Kristan Martinez-680
HS
Senior Izzy Montez
Secret Message:
Some days Mrs. Millican has to put on her hat and remind us who they are dealing with!
HS
Junior Ruth Daway
Junior Antonio Alamo
HS
Junior Kaylen McDonald
HS
Junior Jacob Harrower-680
EMS-6th Grade
Kassidy Dabelstein-560
Brinley Boykin-560
Mrs. Jones-531
EMS
8th Grader Rhyse Rutledge
EMS-8th Grade
Myla Huffman
Emma Beasley
EMS
8th Grader Thalia Beltran
2022-2023
Lots of students were feeling lucky in March. Black pots were hidden around the library for each class to find and the lucky winners received a prize!
February was filled with lots of love and LOLLIPOPS! 80 to be exact! Valentine winners include Taryn Huffmann, Merisa Garcia, Braxton Brownlee and teacher Vikki Cunningham who all guessed 79!
In December, students guessed how many gumballs were in the gumball machine (500).
This months winners were Coach Lewis (486), Jr.-Garrett Glen (473), 7th-Hogan Doar (497), 6th-Brook Scott (433), 8th-Glyn McClesky (465).
November was celebrated with a contest to guess how many tootsie rolls were in a jar. Junior, Garrett Glenn was the HS winner with a guess of 345. The MS winner, 8th grader Brooklyn Bird, guessed 360 which was the exact number! Congratulations to our winners!
The secondary library celebrated October with hidden spiders, spooky riddles and a contest to guess how many marshmallows were in a jar.
The total was 750 and many students (and our vice principal) came very close.
James Henderson-Jr. & Mr. Odom
Both guessed: 749
6th Graders
Kate Johnson, Miki Daliege, Lakne Hobbs
Paxton Brown-8th
Marshmallow
Contest
Winners
Not pictured:
Michael Li-6th
Spell Riddles
Contest
Winners
Kylee Lindenmayes-Jr.
Micayla Henry-Sr.
Guess: 742
Cylea Carper-Sr., Ella Rodgers-7th, Marissa Garcia-Jr., Hana Hogan-Jr.
Joanna Justice-6th
2021-2022
Students and teachers participated in guessing how many marshmallows were in a jar. Winners are below along with the number they guessed. The actual number was 740 marshmallows.
MS Winners
6th Grade: Hagen McLean-711
7th Grade: Adam Casey-690
8th Grade: Andrew Beltran-678
MS Faculty: Nicole Purdom-650
HS Winners
Shylin Johnson-735
Teacher Susan Scott-732
Bulletin Board Designer
Lauren Miller was behind the design of February's bulletin board with the theme: Forget chocolate and roses-I just want a book!
December's Theme was
Don't Be a Grinch! Check Out a Book!
Congratulations to all the winners of the
Christmas Candy Ornament drawing.
6th Grade: Josue Martinez
7th Grade: Caleb Ballew
8th Grade: Trinity Hastings
HS: Alex Carver
November's theme was
Wattle On Over and Check Out Our Books!
October's Theme was
Books are Scary Good!
Congratulations to the participants of the pumpkin decorating contest by all the student Library Aides.
Top 3 Picks
Zane Brown, Triston Jarvis and Kevin Rubio
Left Pic: Zane Brown, Triston Jarvis, Kevin Rubio,
Cheyenne Smedley, Emily Oneida and Micayla Henry
Congratulations to the winners of the
candy guessing game.
Left Pic: 6th grade-Emma Jeter
Right Pic: 12th grade-Gracie Majors
2020-2021
April's theme was Reading with my Peeps.
Congratulations to these students who were drawn to win a jar of jelly beans! Happy Easter!
Left Pic: 6th grade-Scarlet Messenger
7th grade-Braiden Williams
8th grade-Kesley Johnson
Right Pic: Joel Hernandez-10th grade
"It's Not Easy Being Green" is this month's theme. Mrs. Millican has hidden pictures of Kermit the frog in random books and under chairs. A student will be rewarded a mini candy bar when they find one. Happy St. Patty's Day to everyone!
Mrs. Millican created a game where she would give hints about a book and where it might be found. Mrs. Scott brought her freshman classes down to participate. As you can see from the pictures, they had a blast trying to be the first ones to find the book, while also learning where items are located in the library.
February's contest was to guess the correct number of chocolate kisses. This time the staff got to play along. The student winner was Colton Smedly guessing 503 out of 570. The staff winner was Megan Anauo who guessed the EXACT amount of 580!
2021 has arrived and we are kicking off the new year featuring books that have been made into movies! Come by and check them out!
We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!
November 2020 contest was guessing how many turkey toes were in the jar. Ly'Anna Hernandez guessing 700 and the total was 734. Congratulations! Happy Thanksgiving!
Get Tangled in the Web of a Book
October was busy in the EHS library. Hidden Secrets were placed all over the library for the students to discover. A contest was also held to guess the number of tootsie rolls in each pumpkin. Our winners were 8th grader Ana Cunningham who guessed 389 and senior Wriley Ainsworth who guessed 400. Each pumpkin had 404 candies.
2019-2020
GOLDEN TICKETS cont.
In March the GOLDEN TICKET search continues. There are also some "null" tickets hidden. Those students receive a mini candy bar. More winners will be posted soon.
March winners of the GOLDEN TICKETS
GOLDEN TICKETS
In February, "golden tickets" were hidden in books all over the library. If a student found one, they received a chocolate bar. There are still some hidden out there so this will roll over to our March contest.
February winners of the GOLDEN TICKETS
EMS Students: William Ainsworth , Brooke Ainsworth ,Jayda Henson ,Venesa Herrera EHS Student: Briley Elrod
To kick off 2020, our contest was to look at several quotes pulled from popular books and identify the titles. Our winners are Thomas Phillips from 7th grade and Briley Elrod, a junior. Each received a coupon for a free yogurt graciously donated by Love Oak Pharmacy.
Come check out the Halloween Coffin of Terror display and enter the annual candy contest.
Whoever guesses the closest number of candies, takes home the goodies!
2018-2019
April Book Theme Wall: The Wizard of Oz
by Kaylah Samona & Jimena Hernandez
The MS and HS students had the opportunity to participate in a Book Theme Wall bulletin board contest. All entries received a prize and the monthly winners will decorate the library. The March winner was Teagan Wharton with "Mystery in March." The library looked fantastic with spyglasses, question marks and detective hats hanging from the ceiling. She also placed "clues" in books throughout the library. The April winners are Kaylah Samona & Jimena Hernandez with a Wizard of Oz theme. The May winners are Olivia Keller, Annaliss Hicks and Dominic Mason. Their theme is Little House on the Prairie. (Pictures to follow each month.) Thank you to all who participated and for all the hard work the winners are putting into decorating.
March Winner: Teagan Wharton
Mystery in March
Entry Participants
Back row: Olivia Keller, Kaylah Samora, Ashley Heath, Claudia Alaniz, Maria Alaniz, Sayde Sharp
Middle Row: Taylor Fullen, Yozelyn Ojeda, Teagan Wharton, Chase Clark, Paul Standridge
Front Row: Jayton Wesley, Dionisio Vogt, Brady Bramlett, Dominic Mason
Not pictured: Hunter Boswell, Laike Kennedy, Paul Standridge, Jason Zamora, and Adam Mercer
Contest Winners
L-R: Kaylah Samora , Teagan Wharton, Olivia Keller, Adam Mercer
Kailey Vickers designed and created February's Theme Wall, "Love is an Open Book!"
In October, the library theme was Scare Your Pants Off featuring Halloween books. A contest was held to see who could guess the closest amount of tootsie rolls in the jar without going over and the winner would take home the candy. The correct number was 242. Our two winners for this month's contest are Taylor Hodges and Ayden Sanchez, both guessing 240.
EMS Winner left:
Landri Foster
EHS Winner right:
Rhyne Skinner
