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Hondo Anvil Herald • Thursday, March 14, 2013 • 5B
PHOTOS BY SULA COMBS
In the first story “Darius” has an adventure with a fish, his sister “Shell,” and her friend “Kim-
berlyn. Storyteller “Delmond” appeared in Medieval costume with helmet and chain mail.
Students become actors in a dramatic story
By Sula Combs
Castroville Anvil Staff
Sgt. at Arms “Delmond”
(the Transportation Depart-
ment’s Don Gaskill), appeared
before a group of third grade
students at Castroville Ele-
mentary dressed in real chain
mail and a metal helmet, and
a Medieval tunic, wielding a
sword and carrying a fishing
pole and two other swords.
He was there to tell the stu-
dents two stories, or rather, to
direct the students in acting
out the stories he was telling.
The first was based on a
true story from his own life
that happened when he was
still a boy.
One of his favorite pastimes
at that age was to go down to
his favorite spot on the bank
of the river and cast his line
out, pull it in, cast out and
pull it in, and so on.
The story he told the stu-
dents placed the action in
Medieval times and involved
a squire (someone training
to become a knight), named
Darius, who was standing on
the bank of the river casting
his line, when he noticed that
his sister, “Shell,” and a friend
of hers, “Kimberlyn,” had fol-
lowed him and were whisper-
ing and giggling and being
little girls.
He chose three students out
of the audience to play these
parts. As he told the story, he di-
rected the students to act it out.
The story he told: Darius,
not wanting to get angry at
his sister, went further down
the bank and ignored the girls
and continued to cast until
suddenly, he couldn’t pull the
line back in. It was stuck. His
sister teased him, “Na-de-
na-de-na-na!” He could not
swim but thought he could
reach his line from the oppo-
site bank of the river so went
downstream toward a bridge
to cross over. Suddenly his
sister screamed, “It’s a fish!”
He ran back and found Kim-
berlyn holding the pole with
a huge fish on the end of the
line. Darius is starting to get
angry by this time and starts
walking around her saying
“That’s my fish!” That’s my
fish!” She says, “No!” Darius
decides he’s gonna push her
in, but she moves and he falls
in and is choking and gasping
for air. She reaches the pole
out so he can grab it and pulls
him in. They look at each
other and smile and Darius
decides maybe girls aren’t so
bad after all.
For the second story he
chose different students to
act out the parts. This time
Darius is played by a student
named Darius. There are four
other students who play the
parts of Vikings. In this story
the fishing pole becomes a
long bow, which belongs to
Darius, who is now 19 and
one of the best hunters in all
the kingdom.
In this story Darius is walk-
ing through the forest. He dis-
covers there are Vikings in the
forest and they have come to
raid Darius’ village. There are
two to the right of him and
two to the left of him. Four
against one. Darius knew he
was in trouble. The only thing
that saved his life was that he
knew the country. He jumps in
the river to get away, but there
was a ledge there and he lands
on that and knocks a log into
the river. He fell back into a
bush and because his hair was
so long, he couldn’t get un-
tangled. However, the Vikings
heard the splash of the log and
thought he had drowned.
Darius quickly cut his hair
to get free and then followed a
shortcut he knew to get back
to his village. He warned ev-
eryone and when the Vikings
arrived, and roared at the vil-
lagers, everyone jumped out
of hiding, armed and ready,
and roared back at them. The
Vikings ran away.
“Delmond” told the stu-
dents about his costume. The
chain mail was real chain mail
he bought at a Renaissance
festival. “It weighs about 45
pounds.” It was designed to
protect against swords. He
compared it to armor and
said that if someone in armor
gets knocked over, he can’t get
up because it is too heavy. He
said that the nose piece was
there because “the nose is
one of the most tender spots
on the body.”
He explained that there was
a bear and a rose on his tunic
“which shows who you serve,
who your lord was.” It made it
possible for other fighters to
tell which side he was on, so
his own fellow soldiers would
not attack him. He told the stu-
dents that “The bear and the
rose is the emblem for Darius
and his wife Kimberlyn.”
PHOTO BY SULA COMBS
Two classes at a time had space to jump in the gym.
Jump Rope for Heart
By Sula Combs
Castroville Anvil Staff
A Jump Rope for Heart con-
test took place at Castroville
Elementary School on Friday,
March 8. It was the culmi-
nation of their campaign to
raise money for the American
Heart Association and one of
the school’s activities for Tex-
as Public Schools Week.
The third through fifth
grades had their contest at 9
a.m., followed by the Kinder
through second grade at 10.
Students gathered in the
gym by class and took turns
jumping, with two classes
having space to jump at the
same time. Many parents
came to watch and take pic-
tures of their kids.
Coach Bridget Bauml was
the leader for the event. She
called the two classes out onto
the floor with every student
having a jump rope. When all
were ready and spaced out
enough to jump without hit-
ting anyone else with their
rope, she gave the command
to “Jump.” They jumped until
they made a mistake or got too
tired to continue and then had
to sit on the floor. The jumping
went on until there was only
one jumper left in each class.
Then the winners for the
third grade and fourth grade
classes took the floor and
jumped until there was one
winner for each grade. Then
the fifth grade had their turn
until they had a winner.
Bauml presented the win-
ner from each grade with a
medal and a jump rope as
their classmates cheered for
them and proud parents took
pictures. Kaleigh Thayer from
Kara Groff’s third grade class
won for that grade. Orlando
Santos, from Melissa Gallego’s
class won for fourth grade; and
Emily Butler won from the fifth
grade class of Cynthia Vasquez.
PHOTO BY SULA COMBS
LA COSTE PARADE... During Texas Public Schools Week the Kinder students at LaCoste
Elementary dressed as fruit and vegetables and paraded through the school to let every-
one know how important it is to have five servings a day of these important foods.
Kinder students run, jump, and throw at Kinder Rodeo
By Sula Combs
Castroville Anvil Staff
The Kinder students of
Heather Ahr, Melissa Ho-
mann, Lynli Haby and Dar-
lene Haby took part in the
Kinder Rodeo on Thursday,
March 7, as part of Texas
Public Schools Week.
The students, dressed in
Western garb and each riding
a stick horse, came parading
onto the rodeo grounds with
the American flag in front
and the Texas flag bringing
up the rear. Ken Center, as
MC, led them in the pledges
to the flags and the rodeo
was underway!
There were four events:
a barrel race, a bucking
bronco ride, a roping tour-
nament, and a horseshoes
contest. All the students in
each class tried their skills
at one of the events and
then rotated until all the
classes had a chance to try
every event.
The audience was com-
posed of parents taking
pictures and cheering for
their kids. Everyone was a
winner and everyone had a
good time.
PHOTO BY SULA COMBS
Parents who came for the show had
as much fun as the students did.
PHOTOS BY SULA COMBS
Some of the displays were experiments that required students to perform some action to find
out what would happen.
Science Night at LaCoste Elementary
teaches and entertains
By Sula Combs
Castroville Anvil Staff
The sixth annual Science
Night at LaCoste Elemen-
tary took place during Tex-
as Public Schools Week on
Wednesday, March 6 in the
cafeteria.
Every grade had exhib-
its, games, experiments,
or things to create that
involved science or math-
ematics.
The Robotics Club also
had an exhibit of their prize
winning invention. Club
member Brianna Gonzales
explained that it was de-
signed to solve the prob-
lem of seniors forgetting to
turn off the stove when they
cook something. The stu-
dents built a robotic stove
that had a timer that could
be set to turn the burner off
and also a pressure sensor
that would automatically
turn off the burner one
minute after the pot had
been removed if the time
had not been set. The club
won first place with this in-
vention and will go on to
compete at the Henry B.
Gonzales Convention Cen-
ter on March 30 (see article
in Anvil for January 31,
2013). They also brought
examples of Lego figures
that were hooked up to
software that could be
used to program them to
do something. Club mem-
bers were on hand to help
students do this.
There were math games
that required solving
math problems to play the
games. There were exhibits
of magnifying glasses and
circuits. There were tan-
grams to put together.
There was an experiment
in static electricity involv-
ing a balloon and styrofoam
packing pieces. There were
experiments in predict-
ing, such as predicting how
many drops of water would
fit on a penny, whether
something would sink or
float, and if something was
magnetic or not magnetic.
There were mystery bags
where a student had to put
a hand in a paper bag and
try to figure out by touch
what was inside.
There were also opportu-
nities to put things togeth-
er, such as a shark model,
and an opportunity to cre-
ate by putting toothpicks
together with mini-marsh-
mallows.
There were also displays
on computers of space
facts, what the Hubble
Telescope can see, a His-
tory of Rockets, and infor-
mation about Astronauts.
It was a very interesting
evening for everyone.
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