Mckenzie Elementary News Today

Mesquite ISD recently celebrated its notable teachers, recognizing McKenzie Elementary Teacher Rebecca Smith and Wooley Middle School teacher Jeffrey Stone as district Teachers of the Year.

The McKenzie Elementary School PTA is seeking to build a new playground at the K-4 school with the goal of replacing the existing structure with a more ADA-compliant schoolyard play area.

The Hope Project donated several items on teachers’ wish lists to several schools.

Bayly is a long-time felter, an art form that involves poking a special type of barbed needle into a form of wool called raw wool roving to make shapes. She said the Sanders figure took about eight hours to make, and another one is in the works because of all the donations that have been coming in. Bayly also uses her felting to make animals with her students at James Bay Community School and McKenzie Elementary school. All sorts of memes involving the Democrats’ former U.S. presidential-...

The prizes for this year’s challenge include thousands of dollars in gift certificates for instruments or other audio products from Long & McQuade. Entrants could choose from a wide-ranging list of 22 popular Canadian songs, including Hand in My Pocket by Alanis Morissette, You’re Still the One by Shania Twain and Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. The junior choir from ­Victoria’s McKenzie Elementary went the medley route and won the primary vocal category for students from Kindergar...