The Weekly Growl
May 18 - May 24, 2014
This Week
Monday, May 19
- Have a great day!
Tuesday, May 20
- Have a great day!
Wednesday, May 21
- Dress to the Nines Day
- 3:30 Grade Level Meetings
Thursday, May 22
- Have a great day!
Friday, May 23
- Wear Hernandez shirt
- Awards Ceremonies
- PTA Transition Dinner
- May Staff of the Month Nominations Due
Next Week
Monday, May 26
- Memorial Day Holiday
Tuesday, May 27
- 9:19 - 11:02 Fine Arts Awards Ceremony
- 1:44 - 3:30 Athletics Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, May 28
- Dress to the Nines Day
3:30 Committee Meetings
Thursday, May 29
- Have a great day!
Friday, May 30
- Wear Hernandez shirt
- End of 6th Six Weeks/End of Semester
- Last Day of School
Upcoming Events
June 1 1:00 PM End of Year Crawfish Boil @ Nicky Haulotte's house,
June 2, 3 Staff Workdays
June 5 Report Cards Mailed Home
June
Tony Degelia 3Travis Mutscher 10
Jett Walker 11
Irma Bauer 12
Heather Davis 13
Laura Terry 25
Caitlin Moore 25
Noemi Gamas 29
July
Susie Clark 5
Willie King 8
Jennifer Gregorcyk 11
Danielle Lacey 15
Ann Rosenkoetter 19
Evelyn Cubias 25
August
Lauren Esparza 2
Sofie Vastano 14
Pam Pritchard 16
Kathy Green 18
Hilda Castillo 28
Amber Loftis 29
Bob Ester 30
Kudos to Julia Ross for her excellent Google Forming and brilliant use of teacher portal. You make things better for all seventh grade!
Kudos to Briana Troxler Flores and Hernandez PTA for the 7th Grade Field Day!
Kudos to Admin for putting up with 7th Grade Field Day. ;)
- Sofie Vastano
Kudos to our fine office staff. They weather the storms of insufficient subs, questionable visitors to the school, angry or confused parents (and staff) with smiles and kindness. Thank you.
Kudos to all teachers, who have persevered through all of the year's challenges and now see the light at the end of the tunnel.
- Anna Carter
Kudos to Irma Bauer for helping me through my meltdowns over the color printers last week.
HUGE kudos to Danielle Lacey Jackson for teaching me how to mail merge names for certificates. I would still be working on them now if not for her.
Kudos to Wendy Tucker for patiently allowing me to work on awards certificates and picking up my library slack.
- Cherri Urban
To Jeff Strickland for helping me with advisory and being willing to let the students "Stump the Principal."
To our prayer groups and prayer partners on campus who hold us up when we're falling down (tired!)
To Stephanie Stoebe for being genuine and loving flowers as much as I.
- Lisa Smith
Thanks to all the wonderful ladies that helped me with the awards, programs, and everything else.
Cherri, you're the best! I could not have completed all these awards without you.
Kay, thanks for the help and advice.
Noemi and Marbel, thanks for getting all the lists to me as soon as I asked. You all are awesome. Hilda, thanks for everything.
I also want to thank all the amazing staff for volunteering and nominating students for all the awards. Thanks for not killing me for the million and one e-mails that I have sent out each day. You all are the best.
- Saby Espinoza
Kudos to Cherri Urban for doing the bazillion certificates required for the awards assemblies next week. If you nominated a student for an award, please thank her!!!! She rocks!!!
- Wendy Tucker
I would like to give a huge shout out to Mr. Cuero for volunteering all day and night to set-up and run my program.
Kudos to the PTA (Ms. Johns, Ms.Heath, Ms. Cuero) for working to size the girls and boys for the formal
Ms. Terry and all involved for organizing, decorating, and making the 8th grade formal special for our campus
Mama Troxler and Ms. Fowler for their tremendous help with RRISE stuff as well as building morale in general!
Mr. Jones, Ms. Hoeber, Ms. Barnhart, Ms. Ortiz, Ms. Gilchrist, & Ms. Vestano, Mr. LaFuente, Ms. Scales, and Ms Koch for being flexible with my students and supporting our choral program preparations!!!!
Mr. Mutscher for all around AWESOMENESS - you have it all!!! Thank you for your support and understanding throughout the year!
Ms. Johnson and Mr. Strickland for keeping our kids in line, for the toughest part of the year. Keep laying that hammer down - the students don't realize how much they need that structure and strict guidelines.
J'me Washburn, Coach Wells, Clarissa Lopez, and Amber Loftis for supporting me through a very difficult transition time for me.
Kudos to the ENTIRE BULL DOG pack - you are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Kim Pollini
Kudos to:
8th grade math for being an amazing team and wonderful to work with...great job this year!
Nicky Haulotte- for everything she does behind the scenes that most people know nothing about! She gives 110%!
Kristen Morgan- Thank you for letting the 8th grade Applied Math use your classroom all year. The kiddos thank you as well!
- Caitlin Moore
Oodles of Kudos to Ms. Fowler and Ms. Troxler for organizing folder parties for RRISE documentation for the LOTE department!!!
KUDOS to the library team for the Book Fair!
- Jayson Sherman
Kudos to Nicky Haulotte for being great at every task put in front of her. Not only is she a fabulous FOCUS lead, but she is also a great STAAR tests organizer, SPED department chair, and friend! Hernandez is a better place with her here! #WWPOW
- Laura Terry
Kudos to Mr. Bergeron for making it out to the band concert to support his students!
- Jett Walker
Please send out a huge "GRACIAS" to Irma Bauer, who has shown endless patience and knowledge in assisting the Spanish IB classes to produce short fashion show videos.
- Sheryl Gilchrist
I would like to thank Maryadele Troxler, Elaine Fowler, Alicia Selestino and Heather Davis for helping out & covering classes when we are short on subs. And we are short on subs just about everyday!
- Hilda Castillo