Panther Post
February 6th - 11th
Hello Lopez Families,
We have had a wonderful, but busy, week. Recently we had a team of students from our Family and Consumer Science class, with Mrs. Preiss, go to Corpus Christi to compete in the FCCLA competition. We had a couple of groups do extremely well. Anne Grace Michot, Gavin Jones and Kylee Smith won second place for their Entrepreneurship team and Amanda Kleifges and Peyton Richard won 1st place for their Innovative Foods Team. They competed against high school students of over 4,000 members. They now go on to State!
Our UIL academic team dominated the district last weekend winning the sweepstakes in overwhelming fashion and our 7th grade boys basketball team won district. It is nice to have a tradition of success in so many areas.
Don't forget, we will have early dismissal on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 7th and 8th.
I am ready for spring and all of the exciting things being at Lopez brings!
Sincerely,
Mr. Wernli
This Week's Activities
Mon Feb 6
All day Carnation Sales (PALS) - Cafeteria
7:45am – 8:10am FCCLA Officer Meeting - D-202
3:30pm – 4:30pm Fashion Club Meetings - D-202
3:35pm – 4:15pm Lighthouse Meeting - Library
3:45pm – 5:00pm Drama - Stage/Cafeteria
4:00pm – 5:00pm Tennis VS Bradley - BAC
4:30pm – 8:30pm G-BB VS Bradley - 8th Bradley 7th home
Tue Feb 7
All day Carnation Sales (PALS) - Cafeteria
10:48am – 12:56pm Tech Tuesday - Library
8:20am - 1:25pm Early Dismissal
1:30pm – 4:00pm Drama - Stage/Cafeteria
Wed Feb 8
All day Carnation Sales (PALS) - Cafeteria
8:20am - 1:25pm Early Dismissal
7:00am – 7:45am FCA Morning Meetings - Cafeteria
7:45am – 8:10am Lopez Ambassadors - D-202
7:45am – 8:10am Wednesday Walkers - Track
1:30pm – 4:00pm Drama - Stage/Cafeteria
2:30pm – 5:00pm TMEA Clinic Rehearsal - Gym
Thu Feb 9
All day Carnation Sales (PALS) - Cafeteria
All day EOS Girls BB - 8th grade Harris 7th grade Garner
All day Music Convention
7:30am – 8:10am Art Club/Art Honor Society Mtng. - Art 2
7:40am – 8:10am LEADS - Library
9:30am – 11:00am PTA Executive Board Mtg - A206
3:45pm – 5:00pm Drama - Stage/Cafeteria
Fri Feb 10
All day Carnation Sales (PALS) - Cafeteria
All day EOS Girls BB - 8th grade Harris 7th grade Garner
All day Music Convention
7:45am – 8:10am FCCLA - D-202
3:45pm – 5:00pm Drama - Stage/Cafeteria
Sat Feb 11
All day EOS Girls BB - 8th grade Harris 7th grade Garner
All day Music Convention
9:30am – 12:00pm Drama Costumes - Stage/Cafeteria
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Service Hours
Lopez families,
Lopez Panthers should be tracking their service hours. The hours should be tracked in their Leader in Me binder on the service hour log page. They may also track their hours for the PVSA awards website. This consists of time they spend in any type of volunteer role - at school or on their own. This will help them reach their personal goal and will help Lopez complete their school-wide important goal of 10,000 service hours this year.
Instructions on how to enter your service hours can be found at: https://snapguide.com/guides/log-presidents-volunteer-service-award-hours/.
The site for actually putting in your hours is: http://presidentialserviceawards.gov.
Send us a picture of your child in his/her service role and we will display it on a celebrations wall! mvolz@neisd.net or ftobac@neisd.net
We can't wait to see the great ways our Lopez Panthers Serve!
Local Fundraisers
Carnations for Valentines:
Sharpen the Saw: Give from the Heart. Purchase carnations from a Lopez PAL this week , pick up will be before school on Tuesday Feb. 14th. Carnations are being sold at all lunches before and after school. Carnations are only $1.00. Colors will be pink, red, yellow and peppermint. PALS have the goal of selling 600 carnations.
The win- win in the event is the net proceeds go to the Wounded Warriors Foundation as well as you making someone close to you feel special.
KIDS' Camp
It's Presidents Day and the kids are out of school! Drop them off with us and allow them to enjoy a one-day camp full of adventures to kick off the new year. View our Flyer!
Camp Location: Piper Bass Student Center, 12002 Jones Maltsberger Road, 78205
Camp Hours: 7:30am-6:30pm
Camp Date: Monday, February 20, 2017
Cost: $50.00 with a $5.00 non-refundable registration fee.
- 15% sibling discount applicable prior to payment, please contact 210-407-0149
Online registration/payment is due February 15, 2017 in order to attend/secure a spot at camp.
First time campers must submit student permission form via email to mlozan23@neisd.net or via fax to 210-657-8612. Campers will need to bring a sack lunch. A morning/afternoon snack will be provided as well as a field trip to Altitude Trampoline Park. For all other information please contact Dolores Lozano at 210-407-0149.
Community Education Classes – Reagan Cluster
NEISD Community Education is coming to a school near you! Whether you are interested in painting or money management, we have a class for you. We have placed a variety of classes around the district so you can conveniently fit them into your schedule. Rather than driving across town, here are the classes offered at your nearest surrounding schools. Looking for something that isn’t offered in your area?
Visit https://communityed.neisd.net—our online catalog contains a full listing of our classes.
Monday, Feb 20, 2017, 07:30 AM
Piper Bass Student Center, 12002 Jones Maltsberger Road, 78205
Ian's Cup Soccer Clinic
Foundation Information
8th Annual Ian's Cup
Leader In Me Newsletter by Sean Covey
January 2017—Life in Crescendo
Happy New Year. My father, Stephen R. Covey, used to teach that we should live our
lives in crescendo and hold on to the belief that our greatest work is always ahead of
us. When he passed away four years ago, he was actually working on a book with this
very title: Life in Crescendo. My sister is currently finishing up this book, which will be
released in the next year or two.
“Crescendo” is a musical term that means to play music with a gradual increase in
energy and volume. The opposite is “diminuendo,” which means a gradual decrease in
energy and volume in a piece of music. This concept can be transferred to our lives.
Are we living our lives in crescendo or diminuendo? Are we growing or diminishing?
There seem to be four distinct fork-in-the-road situations in which we can choose to
either increase or decrease:
1. Midlife crisis. Life may not be turning out the way we wanted it to. Do we get
discouraged and start our decline, or use this as an inflection point to make the
changes we need?
2. Major setback. Loss of a loved one, a divorce, a serious illness, etc. Are we able
to regain our emotional traction after a serious setback, or do we allow a
setback to weaken us or define us?
3. Major victory. Financial windfall, big promotion, we reach our prime, etc. Do we
believe it will never get any better and that we will never have as much influence
as we now do?
4. Retirement. Do we believe that our greatest work is behind us and that we can
now relax and coast, or do we see even greater contributions ahead?
People would often ask my dad, “Will you ever write anything as powerful as The 7
Habits?” His response was always, “Yes, my greatest work is ahead of me.” Life in
crescendo isn’t just a nice idea, it is a true concept. Here are some quick examples:
•Harland “Colonel” Sanders had a relatively successful restaurant and motel in
Kentucky. But when Interstate 75 opened, his business suffered greatly. In
midlife, he began to franchise his restaurant. Today his restaurants operate in
over 18,000 locations around the world.
• Craig Sager was a well-known sports reporter and inductee into the Sports
Broadcasting Hall of Fame who recently passed away. His biggest impact was
the determination and grace he showed during his battle with leukemia.
• Bill Gates has had tremendous financial success and could sit back and enjoy it.
Instead, he uses his influence and wealth to try and solve some of the toughest
problems in the world through his foundation. He believes his greatest impact is
ahead of him.
• Laura Ingalls Wilder could have been content in her 60s, yet it was then that she
set out to write the Little House on the Prairie series.
If you live life with this paradigm, you will never run out of work that excites you. As we
begin a new year, I challenge you to live this year in crescendo. Whatever has
happened in your past, your greatest work is ahead of you!
Warm regards,
Sean Covey
FranklinCovey Education
Leadership Quote:
“You have relationships to build, a community to serve, a family to strengthen,
problems to solve, knowledge to gain, and great works to create.”
- Dr. Stephen R. Covey