Hello Parents and Happy Labor Day Weekend

If you want to get your 7th grader talking Texas with you, ask them about land features. They should be able to tell you all about the Edwards Aquifer and the Balcones Escarpment, after our week of study on Texas land features.

#thankyou #thankyou #thankyou

So the classroom donations from our Amazon Wishlist have been rolling in and we are so excited and grateful. Thank you so much for the books, craft materials for leather crafting, gear for our rock tumbler, expo markers to jazz up our white boards, and stickers. Lots of stickers. We really got into those stickers this week and pro tip - your kids will do back flips for an avocado sticker with a mustache. Lol! We'll be getting those thank you notes out soon, but please know how much we appreciate it. We are really trying to make Texas History fun, creative and hands on this year. So your contributions will go a long way towards that goal. We still have quite a bit of items on the list, if you would like to pitch in and help.

#deadlaptops #chargingcables

We had a significant number of students this week that struggled to do their Canvas assignment on Thursday because their laptops were not charged. Lots of missing charging cables! Please check with your 7th grader and make sure they have a charging cable compatible with their school issued Chromebook. If they need a replacement cable, you can order one for $10 using this link and it will be delivered to them at school when it arrives.

You may notice on the Amazon Wishlist above that we are hoping to get a special table and extra charging cables for each of our Texas History classrooms to serve as a "charging station". Kids often need to fortify their batteries for a few minutes as the day wears on.

#skyward #checkthosegrades

We have started putting grades in Skyward. Ms. Oricchio and Mr. Young both recommend that parents check Skyward 1-2 times a week. Remember minor grades average 40% of your child's grade and major grades average 60% per district policy. 

#911WhatsYourEmergency #KidsWithColds #NeedTissueDonations

If you are able to throw in an extra box for your kiddo's TX History class in your grocery cart this weekend, much appreciated! We're asking parents to send in one box so we can get through our first runny nose season and stockpile for the year. 

Major grades, so far..

✅Last Friday's govt/citizenship quiz. Students had the opportunity to take this multiple times for the highest graded

✅"Texas Land Features" (This was the Canvas lesson this week in two parts.. it will likely get posted by early next week, if you don't see it yet.)

#Nextweek #NoSchoolOnMonday #Agenda #FourRegionsOfTexas

• Tuesday - Mountains and Basins of Texas
• Wednesday - Great Plains of Texas
• Thursday - North Central Plains of Texas
• Friday - Coastal Region of Texas

Have a fabulous three day weekend and enjoy your last blast of summer with the kids!

Ms. Oricchio & Mr. Young

P.S. Look at these awesome books and goodies below. Thanks again, parents for supporting our kids!