The 5th grade classes will be attending a bowling field trip to the Yukon
Bowling Alley on Friday, December 19, 2008 from 8:30 – 11:30 am.

The cost is $6.00 to bowl.  This includes two hours of bowling and rental
of bowling shoes.  Please send $6.00 and the signed permission slip back
to Mrs. Langston & Mrs. Buck by Tuesday, December 9th.

Students who have not brought back their permission slip with $6.00 on time
will be sent to study hall on the day of the field trip until our return.    

Parents are welcome to meet us at the bowling alley.  Bowling alley address:

                        
                  AMF Yukon Lanes..500 E. Main St…Yukon, OK

If you have any questions, please call Mrs. Langston or Mrs. Buck at
256-6466 ext 3404.  Thank you so much!!

Students at Centennial Elementary recently celebrated Red Ribbon Week.  One of the many traditions of this special week is for students to launch balloons that have special messages attached which encourages others to be DRUG FREE.  The balloon message also identifies the school and grade level along with their mailing address.  The students send the balloons with the hope that whoever finds them will write back and let them know that their message was received.  This year our first graders received a very special response. 

At a recent school assembly First Grade Teacher, Teresa Fletcher, read a letter that was received addressed to "Centennial Elementary First Graders."  It was from a 13 year old girl that lived in Melissa, Texas (a small town about 45 minutes from Dallas).  The sweet girl went on to describe her life as a 7th grader and how her school had celebrated Red Ribbon Week.  She said that the First Grader's balloons arrived in her backyard about 3:00am on Halloween.  She woke up to her dogs barking and went outside to find the balloons. She said the balloons traveled about 180 miles.
                    
                              "I was excited to find your message Saturday morning.
                      I feel lucky to be the one to have found it!  I support
                      being drug free.  I know drugs are bad and can mess up
                      your life.  I think what you did with the balloons and the
                      note was really cool!  I plan to tell my principal about your
                      great idea.  Study hard, read a lot, stay safe and stay
                      DRUG FREE!"

Teachers and students released the balloons towards the North.  Everyone was surprised and excited to find out that they had landed South of Oklahoma in a small town named Melissa, Texas.  How wonderful it was to receive such an encouraging response from this friendly teenage girl.  We are all very thankful she took the time to write to our First Graders to let them know she supported their DRUG FREE message!