Wildcat News
February 2024 Issue 34
Waldo Announces Second Quarter Honor Roll
Waldo middle school announces the honor roll for quarter two. Students on high honor roll earned a GPA of 3.75 or high and had all A’s and B’s. Students on regular honor roll earned a GPA of 3.0 to 3.74 and had no D’s or F’s. Great job, Wildcats. Keep up the good work. (Students in bold earned a perfect 4.0 GPA)
8th Grade High Honor Roll:
Isabella Arenas Miranda, Katherine Enriquez Gomez, Nayeli Flores, Nevaeh Heard, Dana Hernandez Castaneda, Tadeo Molina, Ximena Nunez, Adrian Perales
8th Grade Regular Honor Roll:
Esmeralda Ahuatl, Josue Alcantara, Denisse Alzati, Audencio Avalos, Alan Avila, Tristan Bahena Mata, Camila Barrera, Ashley Bello, Liliana Beto Tecaxco, Ruby Bolanos Carbajal, Michelle Calderon, Gabriela Camacho Torres, Isabel Carreon, Luis Celaya, Ashley Cepeda, Luis Cepeda, JaMya Collins, Jelena Coyomani, Taliyahh Davis, Missael Diaz Lopez, Zaira Dorantes, Genesis Flores Santos, Bryan Flores Vazquez, Daniel Gallegos Miranda, Bianca Gamino, Savannah Gonzales, Pablo Gonzalez Juarez, Madisyn Grady, Sol Guaman Vasconez, Jose Guzman, John Handley, Lila Hawkins, Alynna Holguin, Omar Jimenez, Erik Jimenez Estrada, Emely Lagos Duarte, Marissa Luciano, Samuel Machuca Vargas, Judith Martinez, Javion McGowan, Nevaeh McMorris, Amaree Meeks, Emiko Mejia, Erik Montes Prado, Scarleth Moran Yat, Valeria Nunez, Joseph Orozco Perez, Diego Perez, Emmanuel Pina Lopez, Eduardo Pineda-Colmenero, Marco Plascencia, Brandon Ramirez, Genesis Rascon, Dante Reaves, Kassandra Reyes, Julissa Rocha, Kassandra Rodriguez, Israel Rosillo, Jackeline Ruelas, Analy Sanchez, Kevin Sanchez, Ashanti Silva Espinosa, Aylyn Tecaxco, Ariana Terrazas, Alex Torres, Kendra Torres Pedroza, Ricardo Torres Rodriguez, Ximena Valencia, Samantha Vega, Jacqueline Velasquez-Favela, Jair Velazquez, Bradley Villa, Nevaeh Watkins, Teagan Wehling, Logan Weinstock, Guadalupe Xique Matamoros, Delilah Zinzer
7th Grade High Honor Roll:
Maria Gomez Carlos, Melissa Hernandez, Stephanie Huerta Franco, Rigoberto Leon, Dulce Magana Orozco, Veronica Mata, Ana Medina-Martinez, Angelica Oceguera Ceja, Keven Ochoa, Jordan Reyes Castrejon, Emily Rivera Contreras, Renee Rodriguez, Vivian Rodriguez, Ashley Ruvalcaba Alanis, Christopher Sanchez, Julian Sanchez, Lorena Sanchez Guzman, Rozlyn Santiago, Sofia Valenzuela Patino, Danna Vargas Garces, Saray Vargas Garces, Samuel Villota Reyes
7th Grade Regular Honor Roll:
Anthony Aguilar, Angeline Alegria, Lesly Aleman, Jacob Alvarez, Estrella Arias, Kaylee Avalos,
Lilyanna Avitia, Julian Baca, Aylin Balandr n Elizarraras, Payton Beck, Darwin Bell, Maria Booth,
Andreya Calderon, Yael Campos Cornejo, Alaiyna Carmona, Yumalay Castro Alarcon, Ilse Celaya, Alexander Cepeda, Lilybeth Chavez, Raimond Chubaka, Edgar Cisneros Vargas, Braedon Cole, Ariadne Coss Y Leon Velazquez, David Davis, Jayden Feliciano, Eva Fernandez, Santiago Flores Vega, Carmen Garcia Arreola, Angel Gonzalez, Chance Grady, Pablo Guillen Patino, Gianna Gutierrez, Isabella Hernandez, Marisol Hernandez Lopez, Cartrel Jackson, Marcel Jackson, Juno Lee, Aiden Lloyd, Leonel Lopez, Kenia Lopez Marquez, Kennedy Mancilla, Evan Martin, Denzel Martinez, Ramiro Medrano Fernandez, Julio Molina,
Zoe Molina, Jaylen Morton, Alexandra Nava, Jonathan Ordaz Lopez, Melanie Padilla, Karina Perez Campos, Yuviel Perez Soto, Emma Reyes, Mathiu Rodriguez, Camila Rodriguez Silva,
Neydelin Rodriguez Zelaya, Vianey Romero, Kobe Romero Davila, Eugene Russell, Camila Sandoval, Daylani Santellanes Ramirez, Celeste Tafolla, Jose Urquizo, Merci Uwikunze,
Natalie Valencia, Xavier Valle, Alexandra Vargas Espinosa, Elayah Whooper, Jennifer Yaxcal Caal, Jordan Young, Annabelle Yslas
6th Grade High Honor Roll:
Nora Avedoy, Victoria Dominguez, Sophia Dunn, Daniel Lopez, Amanda Martinez,
Rogelio Martinez-Pillado, Miracle Mayze, Allison Peralta Vargas, Sergio Zepeda
6th Grade Regular Honor Roll:
Ayleen Aguila, Lucero Aguilar, Ericson Aguilar Borjas, Emiliano Aguilera, Anwar Alanis,
Rodolfo Alegria, Murhaf Altaha Alhaj Ali, Mariana Avila Cortes, Brisa Barajas Coronel,
JuanDiego Barrera Lopez, William Bivins, Monserrat Bravo Gazga, Klaire Bronson,
Amarie Brownlee, Jaymon Bryant, Andriana Callaway, Ian Camacho, Leslie Cardenas,
Max Cazares-Caro, Cristofer Chub Toc, Andres Corral, Melvin Cu Coc, Chanel Davis,
Xiomara DeLaO, Karol Duran Garzon, Viridiana Escobedo, Faith Ferrer, Elaina Galarza,
Mariah Garcia, Mia Garcia, Anthony Garnica, Mayumi Gomez, Giovany Gonzalez,
Giovanni Gonzalez, Izabel Guerrero, Ava Guther, Jupree Hill, Carson Hodges,
Carlos Iribe Trujillo, Nathan Leon, Jacob Lopez, Alexander Lopez, Anaelsy Lopez Joya,
Maximiliano Magana, Dayanara Magana Magana, Dana Marin, Anthony Martinez Contreras,
Greykher Mateus Santaella, Wendy Morales, Cristofer Morales Perez, Daniel Morales-Flores,
Alexander Navarro Garcia, Alexa Nepomuceno, Hailie Oleson, Dayanne Orozco Perez,
Andrea Ortiz, Travis Parnell, Ximena Percastre Cerrato, Kendra Ramirez Fuentes,
Angel Ramirez-Chagolla, Michael Reichardt, Alondra Remigio, Yaretzi Reyes,
Arelynn Reyes-Garcia, Alexander Rivera, Nahiara Rivera, Jacob Rivera,
Angel Rivera Rodriguez, Dylan Rivera Sanchez, Brianna Rodriguez Hernandez,
Ana Romero, Elisandro Ruiz, Jayden Saldana, Yahiradolfo Sanchez Quintanilla,
Juhani Sixto, Miranda Soriano, Izza Araly Torres Pedroza, Byron Umana,
Elaine Velazquez Quintero, Briza Venegas, Jeremi Zaragoza Orozco
Middle School Reading Challenge Feb. 5 - Mar. 15
The Middle School reading challenge is a competition between the middle schools. The challenge will be for six weeks, starting February 5, 2024. To participate, students will need to read a book, magazine, or newspaper and then fill out the book challenge form. The middle school that reads the most books during this time will be presented with the traveling trophy. Last school year the winning school was Simmons.
Let's go, Wildcats, and bring the trophy to Waldo.
5Essentials Survey 2024
Up until March 29, 2024, EASD 131 parents, students in 4th-12th grade, and teachers are invited to complete the 5Essentials Survey to help provide valuable information about our EASD 131 learning community and help guide our ongoing improvement efforts. Students will take the survey at school with their teachers. Parents can use the tab above to start the survey now!
Your identity and survey responses will be kept completely confidential and will never be connected to you or your child. The state will provide survey results for individual schools only if a school has at least 20 percent of parents take the survey.
Survey notes:
You do not have to enter your email if you choose not to. The only purpose of it is to provide you a confirmation that the survey was received.
District 131 is located in Kane County, so please enter “Kane” in the “County” field.
If a parent has children attending more than one school, please complete a survey for each school.
The History of St. Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate love and friendship and the joy of having other people in your life. It’s a day of flowers, candy and cards decorated with hearts. This special day’s origin, though, is not so rosy.
There are many theories on how Valentine’s Day began, but the most noted one begins in Rome in the year 268. Emperor Claudius II wanted a fierce team of young men to fight in his armies. He found that when young men are in love or sharing their lives with a wife and children, they tended to be more cautious.
To insure large numbers of soldiers for his armies, Claudius outlawed marriage for those young men.
Claudius may have outlawed love, but he could not stop it. Young men and women still fell in love and wanted to become couples in the eyes of the church. A brave—and obviously romantic—priest named Valentine thought the law was horribly unjust.
Putting his life in danger, Valentine continued performing marriage ceremonies, doing so in secret and hidden from the eyes of authorities.
Still, word of Valentine’s secret ceremonies made its way back to Claudius. The priest was found and put to death on, as some versions state, on February 14th. Centuries later, the Catholic Church made that kindly priest a saint, one of three saints named “Valentine.”
No one knows exactly when St. Valentine’s Day was first celebrated, but there is a poem in existence that is considered to be the first ever written Valentine’s Day card. It was sent from a prisoner in the Tower of London to his wife in the year 1415.
My very gentle Valentine,
Since for me you were born too soon,
And I for you was born too late.
God forgives him who has estranged
Me from you for the whole year.
I am already sick of love,
My very gentle Valentine.
Today, greeting card companies estimate that over a billion cards of love and affection are sent each St. Valentine’s Day.
While Valentine is a Catholic Christian saint, his death and the tradition of love that he created is celebrated world-wide by people of all religions. People send cards, flowers and candy in counties many countries around the world.
Some countries have banned St. Valentine’s Day, but people in love show the courage of the doomed priest by celebrating the occasion. Repressive governments may confiscate all of the red roses available in the country. Still, no one can ever halt the flow of love and affection.
Today’s click-and-post culture is tossing aside many old traditions and rules. Still, the history of Valentine’s Day lives on annually every February 14th in a worldwide celebration of love.
Happy St. Valentine’s Day. Tell everyone in your heart how much they mean to you. And remember when you sign those cards how love and friendship lives on, even in the face of adversity.
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"Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien
"No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers." -Wolfgang Riebe
A Message from Mrs. Boyce
Please bring your laptops and chargers to school every day. Make sure you put your name on both your laptop and charger. Please do not leave your laptop unattended in your classrooms. If you need to leave your classroom, please ask your teacher to watch your device or take it with you.
If you have any problems with your device, please get a pass and come to my office in the MPR. You need to take care of your device, do not carry it by the screen, do not walk around with it open, and make sure to have a firm grip on it in the hall. Treat these devices as if you paid for them yourself.
If your device is broken, damaged, or missing, come see me right away. I cannot help you if I do not know there is a problem.
All students and staff need to work together to make sure our devices are taken care of and stay in good condition. I appreciated all of you that are using the devices properly and treating them with respect.
February, March, and April Events
Feb. 16th - Midterm Q3
Feb. 19th - No School
March
Mar. 1st - No school
Mar. 7th - P/T Conferences
Mar. 8th - Half Day
Mar. 22nd - End Q3
Mar. 25th to 29th - Spring Break
April
April 1st - No School
April 24th - Half Day
Wildcat Newspaper Staff
Mrs. Boyce - Editor in Chief
Email: sboyce@d131.org
Website: https://waldo.d131.org/
Location: 56 Jackson Street, Aurora, IL, USA
Phone: 630-299-8400