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Tweet By Finn Bullers With school ending today, Corinth Elementary third-grade students in Prairie Village are jumping into summer prepared to wheel and deal at their neighborhood lemonade stands. As part of a fourth-quarter economics lesson, each of the school’s three third-grade classes created a “mini society,” complete with their own name, laws, flag and [...]
Tweet The unseasonably chilly weather discouraged some of the hearty (this fella included…) from taking to the starting line Saturday for Corinth’s tenth annual Dragon Dash, but it didn’t deter two young runners from putting in winning efforts. Fifteen year old Leawood resident Jack Trouve, who attends Rockhurst High School, had the overall best time [...]
Tweet Mother nature may not be providing the perfect backdrop, but the 10th Annual Dragon Dash is slated to go off tomorrow rain or shine. The race, which raises funds for the Corinth Education Foundation, starts at 7:45 a.m. Organizers say that only lightning would cause them to cancel the race — so find that dragon [...]
Tweet More than 160 Corinth Elementary students took the bus to school yesterday — using their feet. The school kicked off its spring “Walk/Bike School Bus” program Wednesday, encouraging the elementary schoolers to meet up with their peers to get to school together without cars. “It’s a way to teach the kids about healthy lifestyles, [...]
Tweet One of Corinth Elementary’s biggest fundraisers of the year is getting a new look for 2012. This weekend, Corinth’s PTA will put on its annual holiday gifts and clothing sale —but instead of the Jolly Dragon Mart event held in the school’s gymnasium since 2009, the PTA will be putting on a “Corinth Market” [...]
Tweet Two Corinth Elementary students got pretty close to an Olympic gymnastics dream last week. Cousins Ashley Garverick, 8, and Jilli Foley, 9, were part of a group that appeared on the floor of the Sprint Center Oct. 18 with members of the US Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team. Gabby Douglas, Allie Reisman, Jordan Wieber and [...]
Tweet After further investigation into the incident near Corinth Elementary School Wednesday, local police have determined that the initial “person of interest” they contacted was not the man who asked three local boys if they wanted a ride in his maroon Corvette. “After looking into the incident and talking with the man we IDed as [...]
Tweet After a suspicious incident last week, members of the Corinth Elementary community are spending a little extra time this week emphasizing the “don’t talk to strangers” message to students. Prairie Village Police Captain Wes Lovett confirmed that the Leawood Police Department had completed an information report on a white male who was driving a [...]
Tweet Patrons at the First Fridays gathering in the Crossroads district earlier this month may have noticed a young energy to the art displayed at Centric Projects. Owners Courntey Kounkel, Steve Swanson and Richard Wetzel opened up their space to host a real-life art show for 40 young art students from Prairie and Corinth. With [...]
Tweet Nearly 900 people hit the course around Corinth Elementary Saturday morning for the 9th annual Dragon Dash 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run. A warmer-than-average May morning made that last mile plenty challenging for the novice runners on the course (myself included), but it didn’t slow down 27 year old Joffroi Holcombe, who put in [...]
Tweet In art, so often, the advice is to work with a subject you know. So it’s no surprise that the 35 entrants in Corinth Elementary’s recent Lego Contest produced a range of impressive — and creative — takes on a subject they know all too well: their school The school announced its winners in the contest [...]
Tweet You might not guess it from looking at them, but like their plentiful peers the hippo and the bear, dragons are actually quite good runners. So to celebrate their mascot’s unsung abilities on the track — and raise funds for the school’s foundation, Corinth Elementary is gearing up for its annual Dragon Dash. The ninth [...]
Tweet Corinth kids and families have a new source for information about what’s going on in their school community — and they can be sure that it comes from people with inside knowledge. The first issue of the school’s first ever student newspaper, The Corinth Times, will hit desks today. “Every bit of content is tied [...]
Tweet So, we’re a little late getting the word out about this, but we’d been holding out for an exclusive interview with the hero of this story. Alas, we weren’t able to connect…but that isn’t going to stop us from giving a huge shout out to Corinth Elementary’s Madeline Stinson for winning the Kansas title [...]
Tweet Once a dragon, always a dragon. Whitney Kerr developed a love of art as a student at Corinth Elementary. Now a graduate of SM East, he’s found a creative way to give back to his elementary school Kerr spent the month of May designing and painting a mural of of the Corinth mascot in [...]
Tweet If at all possible today, to try arrange it so: just after lunch, you become extremely thirsty for lemonade and hungry for baked goods. and, about the time these insatiable desires strike, you’re in the vicinity of Corinth Elementary. Corinth Elementary third graders have decided to close out the 2010-2011 school year with a [...]
