The Weekly Growl
October 20-26, 2013
This Week
*Jeans All Week!*
- 4:00 - 6:00 Parent/Teacher Conferences
- 6:00 - 8:00 Parent Involvement Night - Lights On After School
- 6:30 PTA General Meeting
Tuesday, October 22
- 5:30/6:45 Football (7) vs. Deerpark
- 5:30/6:45 Football (8) vs. Deerpark @ McNeil HS
Wednesday, October 23
- 3:45 Committee Meetings
- 6:30 PTA Board Meeting
Thursday, October 24
- 4:00 Principal's Open Door
- 5:30/6:45 Volleyball (7) vs. Chisholm Trail
- 5:30/6:45 Volleyball (8) @ Chisholm Trail
Friday, October 25
- Wear Hernandez Staff Shirt
- 3:30 - 5:30 PTA Howl-o-ween Dance
- End of Third Week of 2nd Six Weeks
Next Week
Monday, October 28
- Have a great day!
Tuesday, October 29
- 5:30/6:45 Football (7) vs. Hopewell @ Dragon Stadium
- 5:30/6:45 Football (8) vs. Hopewell
Wednesday, October 30
- Dress to the Nines Day
- 1:30 Early Release
- 1:45 Grade Level Meetings
Thursday, October 31
- Progress Reports Go Home
- 4:00 Principal's Open Door
- 5:30/6:45 Volleyball (7) @ Hopewell
- 5:30/6:45 Volleyball (8) vs. Hopewell
Friday, November 1
- Wear Hernandez Staff Shirt
Upcoming Events
November 5 5:00 Site Based Meeting
November 6 3:45 Faculty MeetingNovember 7 Principal For a Day
November 7 4:00 Principal's Open Door
November 8 End of Second Six Weeks
November 9 Science Saturday Academy
November 11 Parent Involvement Night - Veterans Night
November 13 3:45 CLT Meeting
October
Maryadele Troxler 21
Kimberly Pollini 24
Tammyfern Reininger 28
Special thanks to Milton Perez and Sheryl Gilchrist for taking in some of my students who needed to work on an alternate assignment earlier in the week.... and on such short notice.
Hats off to Desiree Le for all that you've done to get our campus ready. I'm looking forward to growing the program under your direction.
Kudos to Kim Pollini for taking care of all of our kids. It's obvious you care for each of them. Thanks for all that you do.
Thanks to Suzy Clark for putting the finishing touches of the papel picado in our hallway.
Thanks to our admin. team, Dr. Brennan, Mr. Mutscher, and Ms. Gutierrez for your leadership and support. We are lucky to have you all leading our school.
- Larissa Ortiz
Our school TEAM - thanks for all efforts on the authorization visit - classroom visits, halls and walls, interviews - GREAT JOB!!
Desiree Le - What a fabulous job of getten' it done! WOW!
Cherri Urban - Tireless, wonderful! So many posters - so little time! Thank you!
- Deb Brennan
I have to compliment every person for helping create a global atmosphere. From the cone shapes poking out of the science walls to the menus in the 6th grade hallway to the colorful art that swags the Spanish hallway to the fabulous ceiling tiles in the mail hallway. Everybody in the school pitched in and as a single group, working together, we changed our environment - this is our area of interaction.
My students have commented on how great everything looks and they're right.
Thanks to Desiree for pulling everybody and everything together and making it happen!
- Anonymous
To Larissa Ortiz to pumping us up for the interviews this week!
To Mary Clark, Desiree and anyone else who helped put up the papel picado in the foreign language/theatre hallway!
- Jayson Sherman
To Mrs TammyFern Reininger her willingness to help out wherever there is a need is greatly appreciated, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO! .
- Evelyn Cubias_Nevarez
All the teachers for getting their MYP on in the most fabulous of ways. You are Rockstars!!
- Elaine Fowler
Kudos to CHERRI URBAN for all of her HARD WORK in helping us get our laminating demands met for our classrooms and hallways!! We love you and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for allowing us to be so demanding last minute..... You ROCK!!!!!!!
- Natalie Reale
Ms. Bloch and Mrs. Reale for their awesome Communist Car Factory Activity. It was great fun to watch the kiddos' natural competitiveness drive the level of production within the whole class.
Mr. Simpson and Mrs. Squires for their lab. It was exciting to the kiddos marveling at the temperature changes and separation of the liquid from the solid.
Mrs. Urban for being the poster making Queen of HeMS.
Mrs. Cubias-Nevarez for being an absolute RockStar.
- Anonymous
A big thanks to Desiree Le for her hard work and support in getting the staff ready for the MYP Site Team visit!
- William Russell
Kudos to all the staff, who were prepared for MYP interviews and dressed for success! Great job, Desiree!
- Anna Carter
Kudos to Clarissa Lopez and the Latin Ensemble!!!! I had to jump out of my seat and dance in my office!!!!
LOVE IT!!!!!
- Jodi Garza
BIG Thank you to Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Maynor for bringing all 7th grade students down to the Library on Tuesday for our State Mandated Hearing and Vision Screening. And a BIG thanks to Wendy, Cherri, and Hilda as well:). The screening team was impressed with how well our kids behaved and how smoothly overall the day went - great work Team!
- Nurse Ann Rosenkoetter
KUDOS TO Cherri who has helped brighten our walls with colorful posters !!!
MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!!
- Sheryl Gilchrist
A HUGE thank you to Mr. King for shelving a ton of non-fiction books for us on Monday.
Thank you to Irma Bauer for fixing an attachment so I could print posters from it. I never would have figured it out without her help.
- Cherri Urban
Thanks to Cherri for working diligently to get all the MYP posters printed, laminated and delivered to the teachers! YOU rock!
- Maryadele Troxler
MY FAMILY: Married and have an 18 year old and a 2 1/2 year old
I GREW UP IN: Tennessee
HS: -- HS COLLEGE: University of Memphis
FAVORITE MOVIE: -- FAVORITE TV SHOW: --
I CAN'T BELIEVE I WATCH: --
IF I HAD A DIFFERENT CAREER, IT WOULD BE: Archaeology/Linguist/Speech Pathology
IF I COULD LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE, IT WOULD BE: Central or South America
FAVORITE BOOK: News, ethnographies, teacher books and other boring stuff
FAVORITE MUSICAL ARTIST: --
DO YOU HAVE A HIDDEN TALENT? --
FONDEST MEMORY GROWING UP: Riding my bike as fast as I can w/wind blowing my hair
WHO DO YOU MOST ADMIRE? Humans and their ability to adapt
FAVORITE VACATION SPOT: Somewhere hot
FAVORITE HOME COOKED MEAL: My husband's Mexican breakfast
FAVORITE AUSTIN-AREA RESTAURANT/HANGOUT: Don't know yet
IN MY OFF TIME, I ENJOY: My family
WATCH TV OR READ A BOOK?: -- NIGHT OUT OR EVENING IN? --
WHAT CHORE DO YOU ABSOLUTELY HATE DOING? Dishes
IF YOU COULD HAVE DINNER WITH ANYONE, LIVING OR DEAD, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY? --
NAME: Lauren Esparza POSITION AT HeMS: Band director
MY FAMILY: One daughter and small Pomeranian dog
I GREW UP IN: Austin
HS: Bowie COLLEGE: Texas State
FAVORITE MOVIE: French Kiss FAVORITE TV SHOW: Downton Abbey
I CAN'T BELIEVE I WATCH: My Little Pony (with my daughter)
IF I HAD A DIFFERENT CAREER, IT WOULD BE: many things...event planner, photographer, shop owner
IF I COULD LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE, IT WOULD BE: Seattle, WA or Colorado
FAVORITE BOOK(S): The Glass Castle, Lovely Bones, HP
FAVORITE MUSICAL ARTIST: Muse, Incubus, Diana Krall, Chicago Symphony
DO YOU HAVE A HIDDEN TALENT? no
FONDEST MEMORY GROWING UP: --
WHO DO YOU MOST ADMIRE? --
FAVORITE VACATION SPOT: Anywhere cooler than Texas, next to water, or a place with strong drinks
FAVORITE HOME COOKED MEAL: Pot roast, tortillas/Mexican (grandmother's)
FAVORITE AUSTIN-AREA RESTAURANT/HANGOUT: Jack Allen's! Best brunch.
IN MY OFF TIME, I ENJOY: Being with my family and friends, spending too much time on Pinterest.
WATCH TV OR READ A BOOK?: Book NIGHT OUT OR EVENING IN? Depends
WHAT CHORE DO YOU ABSOLUTELY HATE DOING? Folding laundry
IF YOU COULD HAVE DINNER WITH ANYONE, LIVING OR DEAD, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY? ??
Thanks to everyone who has submitted their bio! If you haven't yet, there is still time. Extra forms are available in the library - just ask!