Acacia, Oak and Cedar classrooms hold annual Speech Meet
Mountain Lake Christian (MLC) Elementary students in the Acacia (Grades 1-2), Oak (Grades 3-4) and Cedar (Grades 5-6) held their annual Elementary Speech Meet on Friday afternoon, March 6, in their individual classrooms.
MLC High School Speech Team members served as judges for the contest. Judging in Acacia were Danica Dick and Katelyn Fast, in Oak, Caitlyn Smith and Elijah Stoesz and in Cedar, Melissa Lohrenz and Josh Raabe.
Participating students included –
* Acacia – Zach Klassen, Daniel Smith, Bailey Meyer, Isaiah Rete, Ethan Schroeder, Jacey Klassen, Grayson Schlabach, Fairlane Penner, Sam Petersen, William Berg and Lexi Nickel.
* Oak – Aiden Penner, Luke Klassen, Tiegan Meyer, Meghan Johnson, Lydia Rete, Lydia Cavanaugh, Jordan Linscheid and Tyler Dick.
* Cedar – Riley Schroeder, Ian Penner, Seth Klassen, Eli Johnson, Zoey Smith, Elizabeth Linscheid, Mark Quiring, Sara Quiring, Jack Lepp, Miriam Rete, Drayton Klassen and Kate Janzen.
ACACIA STUDENT ZACH Klassen presents the poem, “The Gingerbread Man.”
DANIEL SMITH, RIGHT, of Rachel Knutson’s and Brenda Adrian’s Acacia classroom, receives some last minute tie and suit jacket adjustments from Kim Friesen, left, MLC Lead Teacher, MLC High School English instructor – and High School Speech Team Coach – right before he makes his poetry presentation, “The Halfway Step.”
ACACIA’S LEXI NICKEL expresses her interest in cats with the poem, “‘Cat’alogue.”
NORDIS OLSON’S OAK classroom students made sure to note the Friday special event – the MLC Speech Meet – with a white board sign.
OAK CLASSROOM’S LYDIA Cavanaugh expressively shares the Shel Silverstein poem, “Sick.”
JORDAN LINSCHEID, ALSO of the Oak classroom, presents his rendition of the Aesop’s Fable, “The Old Hound.”
JUDGES FOR THE speech competition in the Oak classroom are MLC seniors and Speech Team Members, Caitlyn Smith, left and Elijah Stoesz, right.
ELI JOHNSON – AND the poem’s author, Shel Silverstein – both pose the question, “What’s in the Sack?” Johnson is in the Cedar classroom of Karin Stoesz.
CEDAR’S SARA QUIRING presents “The Ant and the Cricket” for her speech selection.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S “The Gettysburg Address” is the text for Zoey Smith’s elementary speech meet’s choice for presentation. Zoey is in the Cedar classroom.
ELIZABETH LINSCHEID COMPARES the lives of “The Country Mouse and the City Mouse,” in her speech selection. Elizabeth is also a member of the Cedar classroom.
CEDAR’S MARK QUIRING physically and vocally becomes the “dragon” in his speech selection, “I Chased a Dragon Through the Woods.” Jack Prelutsky is the author of the poem.
