Holly Harshman Elementary held their annual Book Character Parade on Friday, November 13. The Book Character Parade, led by HHE Librarian Rose Tedder, began in Tedder’s second year at HHE, almost three decades ago. This year’s parade winners were:
Mrs. White’s Class: Lily Lange and Jaden Roberts
Ms. Ford’s Class: Braxton Bradley and Laney Gilchrist
Mrs. Scott’s Class: Rylie Bentley and Kinley Hall
Ms. Stroud’s Class: Bracee Lance and Dallas Castillo
Ms. Cox’s Class: Jolina Butterfield and Addison Thomas
Ms. Crawford’s Class: Dennison Reed and Myra Morris
Ms. Riley’s Class: Sophie Brewer and Cason Bowling
Ms. Wells’ Class: Amelia Betz and Devin Gorden
Ms. Clark’s Class: Jaxson Baber and Jancey Harris
Mrs. Graves’ Class: Gracie Fairless and Cody Hemphill
Ms. Curry’s Class: Hayden Copelin and Zoey Williams
Mrs. Posey’s Class: Layla Sessler and Silas McIntyre
Ms. Montgomery’s Class: Rebecca England and Beau Bledsoe
Mrs. Brevik’s Class: Cyzer Mellard and Charlie Mock
Ms. Wimberly’s Class: Alex Rocha and Saira Castillo
Mrs. Lynch’s Class: Brenden Heath and Eliza Mesko/Vivi Denton & Madison Howard
Ms. Smith’s Class: Jerrin Parson and Keira Hall
Holly Harshman also held poster and button contests. The winners in those categories were: Button Winners in 3rd grade: Jaden Roberts, Elizabeth Willis, Laney Gilchrist, Autumn Lockhart, and Gracie Nash.
Button Winners in 4th grade were: Sophie Brewer, Taylor Davis, Ethan Williams, Holiday Neufeld, and Claire Walston.
Button Winners in 5th grade were: Alyssa Thompson, Brooklyn Cummings, Brooklyn Pennington, Kendall Posey, and Layla Sessler.
Tie Day $10.00 Winners were: 3rd grade – Tyler Cooper; 4th grade – Rylee Wiles; 5th grade – Sarah Cannon.
The “Reading is Sweet” Guessing Jar was won by Nathan Philpot with a 359 guess and there were 363 in the jar.
Poster winners from 5th grade were: Avery Cannon and Ashley Titsworth, Dusty Davis, Paige Quinn and Jayden Felix, Alyssa Thompson, Huntleigh Beaty and Emily Maechler, Jamie Holt, and Addi Dollar.
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