The Weekly Growl
November 7 - 11, 2016
This Week
Monday, November 7
- 6:00 Meet the Dawgs Parent Athletic Meeting
Tuesday, November 8
- Election Day
Wednesday, November 9
- 3:45 Faculty Meeting, Cafeteria
Thursday, November 10
- Picture Day
- Computer Refresh
Friday, November 11
- Wear Jeans With Hernandez Shirt
- Picture Day
- Veterans Day Assembly
- Computer refresh
- 6:00 Dinner, 7:00 Show, Folklorico Fiesta Americana @ CRHS
Next Week
Monday, November 14
- Girls Basketball 7B/7A @ Cedar Valley
- Girls Basketball 8B/8A vs. Cedar Valley
Tuesday, November 15
- Have a great day!
Wednesday, November 16
- 4:00 PLC Leads Meeting, Library
Thursday, November 17
- 12:00, 1:30 PD With Tea, Library
- Boys Basketball 7B/7A @ Cedar Valley
- Boys Basketball 8B/8A vs. Cedar Valley
- Orchestra Region Clinic and Concert
Friday, November 18
- Wear Jeans With Hernandez Shirt
- Orchestra Region Clinic and Concert
Saturday, November 19
- Orchestra Region Clinic and Concert
Upcoming Events
Nov. 21 - 25 Thanksgiving Holidays
Nov. 28 5:30 Girls Basketball 7B/7A vs. Ridgeview
Nov. 28 5:30 Girls Basketball 8B/8A @ Ridgeview
Nov. 30 5:30 Boys Basketball 7B/7A vs. Ridgeview
Nov. 30 5:30 Boys Basketball 8B/8a @ Ridgeview
Dec. 1 5:30 7/8 Girls Basketball B Team Tournament Game vs. Ridgeview
Dec. 2 Picture Retakes, All Grades
Dec. 2 3:30 Winter Dance
Dec. 3 Girls Basketball B Team Tourney
Dec. 5 5:30 Girls Basketball 7B/7A @Canyon Vista
Dec. 5 5:30 Girls Basketball 8B/8A vs. Canyon Vista
Dec. 6 6:30 Orchestra Winter Concert
Dec. 7 BLT Meeting, Library
Dec. 7 5:30 Boys Basketball 7B/7A @ Canyon Vista
Dec. 7 5:30 Boys Basketball 8B/8A vs. Canyon Vista
Dec. 8 6:30 Girls Basketball Tourney Game 8A @ Walsh
Dec. 9 7:30 IB Learner Profile Award Ceremony, Lecture Hall
Dec. 9 Choir to Elementary Schools for Caroling
Dec. 10 7/8 A Team Girls Basketball RRISD Tournament
Dec. 13 PD Grant Writing, Library
Dec. 14 Orchestra Beginner Library Performance, Caroling
Dec. 14 Faculty Meeting, Cafeteria
Dec. 15 12:00, 1:30 PD With Tea, Library
Dec. 16 Student Holiday, Staff Work Day
Dec. 19 - 30 Winter Holidays
Jan. 2 Student Holiday, Staff Development
Mrs. Schultz for all her support!! and The 8th grade science team, Schultz, Harmon and Flores for their awesome work in teaching our students and making gains on DCA scores!
- Allison Lee
Thank you to Mrs. Martinez, Mrs. Flores and Ms. Squires for all their hard work and assistance with the 2nd award ceremony! The 6th grade choir students did an excellent job!
Congratulations to Ms. Tucker for a successful and amazing 8th grade field trip to see Kwame Alexander (he was amazing/kids loved it)! #getbooked
Congratulations to the newlywed Mr. Smosna on his second Cities in Space Competition! The kids did an awesome presentation!
Special thanks to the 6th grade Math & Science team, Mrs. Winnek, Ms. Squires, Mr. Baeza & Mrs. Klepper on their interdisciplinary unit. They all did a fantastic job. The kids and our visitors from the Superintendent Snapshot were very impressed! #math&sciencecollide
Thank you to Ms. Squires, Mr. Smosna, Mr. Thompson, Ms. Eren Lopez and Ms. Scott for their help this last Saturday for assisting, registering and engaging our students along with Deerpark MS. The STEM event was brought to our campus by the Society of Women Engineers at UT! Students were able to engage one on one with a female or doctoral engineering students.
- Desiree Le
Thank you to all of the amazing 8th grade teachers for dealing with all the chaos of a grade level field trip!! The kids had a blast and you were awesome!! And a big thank you to Mr. Leo for staying behind !!
- Wendy Tucker
Anna Carter is amazing! She is open to new ideas and incredibly creative. If you need a strategy or even the plot of pretty much any YA book, she's your person!
- Danya Gardner
MRS. GAMAS! For holding down my fort when I was away! I found everything I needed and IN ORDER!! Thank you so much and sorry for any inconveniences this may have put on your work.
KINO!!! Not only did he make my Wednesday coffee GREAT this week BUT, he did for over a WEEK...... Gracias!
THE BEST LIBRARY TEAM!!!!! Mrs. Tucker & Mrs. Urban....LOVE these ladies. ALWAYS so helpful and they go above AND beyond. I ask for a book and I'm given a whole new adventure. Thank you, ladies.
- Marbel Donosso
November
J'me Washburn 8
Norma Anima 8
Ashley Harmon 14
Tru Rice 17
Jean Sarre 26
Alicia Ontiveros 26