About Hexter - Clubs & Extracarricular Activities

Clubs are organized and sponsored by the PTA. They meet on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. The cost is $20 per semester. Students who qualify for the free lunch program pay $10 a semester. Clubs are free for Explorers participants.

• Fun and Fitness Club
The Hexter Fun and Fitness Club gives children an opportunity to have fun while building cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility.

Hexter’s P.E. coach runs this Fun and Fitness Club. As in P.E., sportsmanship, rather than winning, is heavily emphasized.

First-graders through third-graders may participate in the Fun and Fitness Club.



• Running Club
In the Hexter Running Club, students learn the basics of distance running and racing. The club practices as a team once a week, and students have a program to follow on other days.

The club’s first goal of the 2007-2008 school year is to participate in the Hexter 5K or 1K race.

The club promotes physical fitness as it relates to students’ well-being, happiness, and academic performance and contributes to the school’s goal of having well-rounded students.

The club is for fourth- and fifth-graders.


• Chess Club
The Hexter Chess Club teaches Hexter students the rules and etiquette of chess. The club provides an atmosphere for fun, competitive play for children of all skill levels.

The Hexter Chess Team also competes in regional and state tournaments. For the 2006-2007 academic year, the Hexter Chess Team won the Dallas-Area-Chess-In-Schools (DACIS) Championship for the K-2 and 3-4 grade levels. Two students were named Individual Champion by DACIS for their grade level and awarded UTD Chess Camp Scholarships.

A third grade student also won the Texas Elementary School Chess Championship in his division last year at the Adams Mark Hotel in Dallas. He competed against a field of more than 100 students from schools across Texas. Hexter was proud to have another student finish second in that same event and division.

First-graders through fifth-graders may participate in the Chess Club.


• Art Club
The Art Club gives students from kindergarten through fifth grade the opportunity to work after school with Hexter’s full-time art teacher.

After-school art activities include drawing, every kind of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics.


• Drama Club
The goal of the Theatre program is to promote intrest and understanding of the theatre while giving students a chance to produce and perform. Students participate by writing, reading, and acting out short skits and literature connections. This year, our performances have been taped and shared as movie premiers! The program includes students in Kindergarten through Fifth grade and is led by Mr. Benavides, 2nd grade teacher


• Spanish Club
The Hexter Spanish Club is offered for students in the First through Third Grade. Ms. Loreto, our Kindergarten and First Grade Bilingual teacher, introduces children to basic conversational Spanish using games, songs, and poems. Students meet weekly and are encouraged to practice new skills while having fun!


• Math Club
Math Club is a competitive math team that meets weekly to engage students in advanced math activities. Students challenge themselves by competing throughout the metroplex in University Interscholastic League (UIL), Math Olympiad, and Texas Math and Science Coaches Association (TMSCA) competitions.

TMSCA is an organization for coaches of academic UIL teams in Texas, specifically those that compete in mathematics- and science-related tests. Tests are offered at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, focusing on the following content:

• Number Sense — A 10-minute, 80-question mental math test that allows for no scratch work or calculators (pens, preferably blue are used). Students work the problems in order as printed on the test. If a problem is skipped, then it is automatically wrong. The score is calculated based on the following rule: 5 points for each correct answer and -4 points for each wrong answer.

• Calculator Applications — A 30-minute test in which contestants evaluate mathematical expressions using scientific or graphing calculators

• General Math — A 40-minute multiple choice test that covers concepts from pre-algebra to calculus

• Science — A test that covers biology, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and physics