5th and 6th Grade Tournament - March 8

Participating Schools
Advent Episcopal School (Private) - 12 5th graders, 11 6th graders (23)
Berry Middle School (6A) - 12 6th graders (12)
Birmingham Youth Math Academy (6A) - 15 5th graders, 6 6th graders (20)
Bragg Middle School - (6A) 7 6th graders (7)
Clay Elementary School - 8 5th graders (8)
Cedar Ridge Middle School - 20 6th graders (20)
Columbia Elementary School (6A) - 5 5th graders, 8 6th graders (13)
East Elementary School (5A) - 18 5th graders, 26 6th graders (44)
East Franklin Junior High (2A) - 7 5th graders, 6 6th graders
Evans Elementary School (6A) - 12 5th graders, 12 6th graders (24)
Fairview Middle School (4A) - 15 5th graders, 15 6th graders (30)
Good Hope Middle School - (3A) 12 5th graders
Greystone Elementary (6A) - 8 5th graders (8)
Hanceville Middle School (3A) - 15 5th graders, 8 6th graders (23)
Harmony School (4A) - 6 5th graders, 7 6th graders (13)
Hartselle Intermediate School (5A) - 10 5th graders, 22 6th graders (32)
Hibbett Middle School (6A) - 17 5th  graders, 23 6th graders (40)
Holy Family School (Private) - 3 5th graders, 4 6th graders (7)
Horizon Elementary School (6A) - 4 5th graders, 12 6th graders (16)
Mill Creek Elementary (6A) - 10 5th graders, 13 6th graders (22)
Parkside Elementary School (4A) - 5 6th graders (5)
Rainbow Elementary School (6A) - 11 5th graders, 11 6th graders (22)
Rocky Ridge Elementary (6A) - 7 5th graders (7)
Sacred Heart School (Private) - 9 5th graders, 7 6th graders (16)
Simmons Middle School (6A) - 5 6th graders (5)
West Elementary School (5A) - 10 5th graders and 13 6th graders (23)
West Madison Elementary School (6A) - 12 5th graders, 10 6th graders (22)
West Point Middle School (5A) - 13 6th graders (13)
TOTAL -  28 schools and 502 participants (largest group ever)

Sponsorships
First Southern Financial
Michael and Julie Ray
Pepsi
Jay Conway and Jennifer Conway
The McAnally Family
Farmers Poultry Supply
Star Mobile Homes, LLC
Cullman Primary Care
Billy W. Jackson
Boozer Eyecare Associates
Traditions Bank
Hospital Discount Pharmacy West
First Community Bank
Downtown Grill
Peoples Bank of Alabama
Doug Doggett Jewelers
Dana and Cindy Byerley
Walkers Brothers LTD
Heritage Auction Service
Margo's Antiques and Gifts
Cullman City Parks and Recreation
Eastside Baptist Church
Cullman Veterinary Hospital
Eric and Debbie Lowery
Medical Arts Apothecary
The Baker Family
Rodney G's Hickory Grill
Wilson Springs Kennels
Perry Smith
Trent and Tracy Hartwig
Allen and Ashley Green
Cullman High School SGA
Byron and Kelly Vance
Walmart
Freddie Day

Tournament Helpers
Testing and Awards - S. Sellers. T Duke, Dr. Griffeth
Test monitors - B. Turner, M. Ray, L. Andrews, J. Conway, C. Baker, K. McAnally, L. Harbin,      D. Hempfling, B. Pruitt, E. Lowery, A Robinson
Registration in Gym - J. Hutson, J Burnham, D Lowery
Central Hub in Mrs. Gragg's office - Bryan and Melissa Messersmith
Ciphering - S. Sivley, J. Ray - 8th graders
Hospitality in library - D. Ratliff, A. Wilson, T. Easterwood, A. Wallace, J. Cottingham, T. Gipson
Send food for hospitality - J. Spradlin, S. Adkison, D. Ratliff, K. Johnson, D. Lowery, C. Byerley, S. Smith, J. Conway, L. Harbin, J. Burnham, T. Easterwood, Gable
Goody Bags - L. Harbin
Hospitality in teacher workroom - S. Adkison. T. Hunkeapillar. M Hunkeapillar
Scoring - R. Quick, S. Sellers. J Swindall, J Burrows
Student Refreshments - J. Hutson, D. Lowery, J. Burnham
Greeters - 7th and 8th graders
Door prizes - A. Green, J. Spradlin, K. Johnson, C. Byerley, T. Hunkeapillar, L. Andrews,  J. Conway, Messersmith, C. Baker, A. Wilson, K. , W. Craft, Gable
Traffic in front of gym - B. Vance, W. Pruitt
Gym Security
Will need 500 pencils if there is a business that could donate
Trophies - Lawrence Trophy (90 trophies)

Finale at Hoover

Congratulations to the 7th grade math team for placing 2nd at Hoover (by 3 points) and to the 8th grade for placing 3rd.

Individual Winners
3rd place - Matthew Smith
5th place - Daniel Vance
7th place - Colton Smith
11th place - Blake Spradlin
13th place - Luke Andrews

Carley Byerley and Jordan Ray place for 8th grade.

Thanks to our wonderful parents for their support today and throughout the year.  Also, we appreciated the goody bags from the Mrs. Burnham, Mrs. Adkison and Mrs. Hutson, a nice treat on the way back to Cullman.

7th grade math team tryouts at East and West on Tuesday, April 11.  The top 30 come to CMS on April 15 for ciphering to determine the top 22 for the 2014-2015 seventh grade team.

The Finale at Hoover

Schedule for March 1 - Hoover High School Math Tournament

 

6:00 Meet in front of Cullman Middle to board bus

7:00  – 7:30 am Eat at Chick-fil-A on Walker’s Chapel Road

8:00   Registration

8:45 – 10:00  7^th Pre-Algebra (Practice Gym) and 8^th Algebra I Ciphering (Competition Gym)

10:00 – 10:30  Refreshments (cafeteria)

10:30 – 11:45  7^th and 8^th Grade Written Test

12:15 – 1:45  Lunch (STIX – Galleria Circle)  They are going to let the kids order from the kid's menu if they want.  I would send about $25 just to cover breakfast and lunch.  I have reserved 45 seats.  We should have about 34 students attending so there should be a few extra seats for parents. 

1:45 – Bus leaves from STIX

2:15 - Awards in competition gym.

Return to CMS at approximately 4:30 pm.

Cullman 7th Graders Shine at Pizitz

The seventh grade team had an OUTSTANDING day at Pizitz in many facets:

1.  1st Place Team. 3 more points and we would have been 2nd overall.  When you
     think about it that is just one more test problem or ciphering problem for someone. 
2.  Tied for 1st with Liberty Middle in Ciphering (64 Wow!) We almost meet our goal of 70. 
3.  Five individual places out of 10 (Colton 2nd, Matthew 3rd, Daniel 6th, Joseph 8th, Blake 10th)
4.  Everyone working hard and discussing problems during ciphering.  That is how you learn, by talking through and helping your teammates understand the problems. 
5.  Many had their highest score this year.
6.  Great sportsmanship during the awards.  I love to see you all cheer each other on. 
7.  Terrific support from our parents.  You will never know just how much it means to our team to have you in the stands and at ciphering.  It will mean so much to your kids later on when they remember you being there.

Also, congratulations to outstanding performances by Nik (great score of 78), Cameron and Eli for the 8th grade.  The team placed fourth, but these guys did very well on a difficult test.  One more week to reclaim first place at Hoover and finish the season STRONG!  Only one more week to represent Cullman as a CMS Math Teamer.  Give it your all.  Can't wait to see how you finish next week at Hoover.

I am attaching the 7th grade results so you can see just how stellar a performance the team had on Saturday.  It is hard to describe until you see the list of teams.

2014 Pizitz - 7th Grade Overall Results
Place	Name	Score
1	Discovery Middle School (Bob Jones)	398	First - Div. II
2	Simmons Middle School (Hoover)	357	Colton 2nd
3	Bumpus Middle School (Hoover)	356	Matthew 3rd
4	Cullman Middle School (1st Place Div II)	355	Daniel 6th
5	Berry Middle School (Hoover)	351	Joseph 8th
6	Liberty Middle School (Bob Jones)	351	Blake 10th
7	Homewood	314
8	Mountain Brook Jr. High	300	Ciphering
9	Jefferson Middle (TN)	299	Cullman 64
10	Chamblee (GA)	288	Liberty 64
11	Montford	252	Tied for 1st
12	Oak Mountain	247
13	Randolph (Private-Huntsville)	229
14	Briarwood (Private-Birmingham)	228
15	Muscle Shoals	226
16	Liberty Park (Vestavia Hills)	214
17	Altamont School	203
18	Cedar Ridge (Decatur)	195
19	Arab Junior High	190
20	North Jefferson	152
21	Elizabeth Cobb	147
22	Clay Chalkville	129
23	Eva Junior High	111
24	Highlands School	99
25	Covenant Christian Academy	86
26	Brookwood (Tuscaloosa)	52
27	Hewitt Trussville	46
28	Calera	38
29	Echols	38
30	Pleasant Grove	22
31	Thompson	16
32	Brighton	-11
Ciphering
1	Cullman Middle School	64	1st - Overall
2	Liberty Middle (Madison)	64	Colton
3	Homewood	51	Joseph
3	Discovery (Madison)	51	Daniel
			Blake

2014 ALA-LA-MISS Awards

Congratulations to our ALA-LA-MISS winners Matthew Smith (7th Grade) and Nik Hartwig (8th Grade).  The tri-state test was a 30 minute, 35 question test on various math concepts.  Proud of the effort put in on the test today.  Anytime you can take a timed test, it is good practice for the ACT and other college tests.  It is a good kind of pressure and good practice.

The ALA-LA-MISS school scores should be sent in the next few weeks so we know how we compared in the tri-state competition as well as our North Alabama region.

8th Grade Awards
Nik Hartwig - 28
Jordan Ray - 27
Mallory Johnson - 27
Julien Chalkley - 27
Madison Hunkeapillar - 27
Eli Wilhite - 27
Cameron Cottingham - 26

Team Score - 136 (top 5 students)

7th Grade Awards
Matthew Smith - 28
Blake Spradlin - 27
Daniel Vance - 26
Jozi Jackson - 25
Lauren NcAnally - 25 
Jennifer Jester - 24
Joseph Harbin - 24

Team score - 131 (top 5 students)

Pizitz Math Tournament - Feb. 22

Pizitz Schedule:

6:00 Meet in front of Cullman Middle to board bus

7:00  – 7:30 am Eat at Chick-fil-A on Walker’s Chapel Road

8:00   Registration

8:30 – 9:45 8^th Grade Written Exam – 7^th Ciphering in Gym

9:45– 10:15  Refreshments (cafeteria)

10:15 – 11:30  7^th Grade Written Exam – 8^th Grade Ciphering in Gym

11:30 – 1:50 Lunch (Brookwood Mall)

1:50 – Bus leaves from Brookwood Mall  (Be on time)

2:30 - Awards in Gym. (Hope to see all our parents there for awards.  We love our parents!)

Return to CMS at approximately 4:30 pm.

Our competition at Piztiz will be tough (Muscle Shoals, Chamblee, Jefferson Middle, Briarwood, etc).  Study more than ever these next two to three weeks.  We need you at your BEST for the team to be at their BEST.  Let's finish STRONG!

Look over ALL THINGS PIZITZ and HOOVER HIGHLIGHTS and TTK Sheets often.

Amazing Day at Albertville!

Today was definitely our best TEAM effort: FIRST place in both 7th and 8th grades, winning the ciphering competition, Blake gets 22 of 25 ciphering points, taking home 16 of 20 individual awards, our parents there to cheer us on, four placing for the first time, breakfast at Jack's, eating a nice lunch together, snacks at Jet-Pep and a great bus ride home.  So proud of every single math teamer today.  It was a FUN day of math and spending time with good friends.

Also, congrats to all the CHS teams for placing first.  It was good to see our former math teamers doing so well. 

Click here for  2014 Albertville Results

8th Grade
1st Cullman 195
2nd West Point 146
3rd Albertville 84
4th Fairview 44
5th West Point 10
6th Boaz 9
7th Priceville 6

Individual Awards
1st Jordan Ray
4th Carley Byerley
5th Sam Lowery
6th Trevor Richards
7th Tucker Adkison
8th Mallory Johnson
9th Julien Chalkley
10th Cameron Cottingham
11th Ian Messersmith
11th Nik Hartwig
15th Madison Hunkeapillar
16th Colby Hutson
18th Conner Burnham
27th Clay Conway



7th Grade
1st Cullman 362
2nd West Point 245
3rd Albertville 167
4th Fairview 163

Individual Awards
1st Daniel Vance
2nd Colton Smith
3rd Matthew Smith
4th Blake Spradlin
6th Jakob Easterwood
8th Joseph Harbin
9th Dylon Wallace
10th Avery Barnett
11th Curt Wilson
12th Sam Ratliff
14th Jozi Jackson
16th Luke Andrews
18th Coco Eddleman
20th Lauren McAnally
22nd Piper Hempfling
37th Michael Brown
39th Lukas Gipson
40th Seth Gable
Sam, Jennifer, Sy



Upcoming Tournaments:  Pizitz Feb. 22 and Hoover March 1
Feb. 18 - ALA-LA-MISS Test in class
April 1 - 6th Grade Math Contest at East and West
April 1 - Math Team Celebration at Stonebridge Farms
April 15 - 6th Grade Ciphering at CMS (top 30 competing for top 22 for 2014-2015 7th grade math)

ALA-LA-MISS Test

The ALA-LA-MISS Test will be given on February 18 in class.  We will not only be competing in the tri-state match but also among our North Alabama region schools.  The sixth graders at East, West, Sacred Heart and St. Pauls will also be taking the test as part of our sixth grade math team tryouts.  I will be giving students old ALA-LA-MISS tests for practice beginning in Feb. 

Congratulations to our AMC Winners!

On Nov. 18, the 7th and 8th grade math teams competed in the American Mathematics Competition by taking a 40 minute 25 question test that was given internationally.  I am proud to announce the top 10 scorers from CMS.

First place - Eli Wilhite and Matthew Smith (17) GOLD
Third Place - Colton Smith (16) SILVER
Fourth Place - Julien Chalkley and Jordan Ray (15) BRONZE
Sixth Place - Mallory Johnson and Carley Byerley (14)
Eighth Place - Cameron Cottingham, Sam Lowery and Blake Spradlin (13)

The average score for 8th grade was 12 and the 7th grade average score was 10. 

Congratulations to all that took the test.  It is a difficult test and I am proud of your efforts.

Mrs. Sellers