DISTRICT UPDATE NOVEMBER 20, 2020 I HOPE EACH OF YOU WILL HAVE A BLESSED HOLIDAY. Please rest, relax, and take some time for yourself---and wash your hands, wear your mask, and social distance when possible. Happy birthday to: Chelsea West on November 24 Irma Medrano-Rios on November 27 DHS: “Every Day Is A Great Day To Be A Bearcat” Enrollment: 225 Weekly: 91.30 YTD: 96.79 What’s happening at DHS… ❖ Mrs. Dickson has a limited supply of face masks on sale for $10.00. All proceeds benefit the junior class. Send her an email if you would like to purchase one. ❖ Letter Jacket sizing originally scheduled for November 18th has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 8th. Order forms have been sent home with students. ❖ Juniors and Seniors have been completing necessary dual credit paperwork for the upcoming semester. Thank you Mrs. Quinn for taking care of our students!! ❖ Special thanks to our cafeteria staff! The Thanksgiving meal they served yesterday was delicious!! ❖ Today marks the end of the 2nd grading period. Report cards will be handed out when we return from Thanksgiving break. ❖ Last week on Veteran’s Day, our Student Council provided us with some powerful reminders during morning announcements, followed by a beautiful tribute as Mr. Miller played TAPS in the hallway. Outside of Mrs. Kellam’s classroom is a Wall of Heroes. All students were encouraged to stop by and place a star in honor of their loved ones. PERKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL: This Week’s Average Daily Attendance: 93.75 Average Daily Attendance: 95.67 Total Enrollment: 177 From The Principal’s Desk It’s always a great day to be a Cubcat. We are well into the star basketball season for the boys. Unfortunately, the girls have been unable to play yet but will upon return from the Thanksgiving break. On Monday, 11/16/20 we played Tolar. The mixed group and 7th grade teams won while the 8th boys lost a close one. On 11/11/20 we celebrated Veterans Day with a short video. Students were also reminded of the many sacrifices that our Veteran’s make in serving and protecting our country and to please be sure to thank any of our Veterans for their service. This week we held a canned food drive for our local food pantry. The winning class will receive a Coke Float party this afternoon. In the face of rising covid-19 infections around the country, luckily our number of infections continues to stay low. We feel very blessed about that. To anyone that might have a current Covid -19 condition, we wish you a speedy recovery. Lastly, I want to wish all of our students, their families, and all of our staff a very Happy Thanksgiving. Please stay safe and we look forward to seeing everyone on November 30th. In the Classroom From Mrs. Bryant: In 7th grade math we are ending the 2nd six-weeks by wrapping up our unit over proportional reasoning. The test grades were very promising and I'm looking forward to what that means for the STAAR test. Along with IXL, the students have been working in a program called get more math that allows for lots of practice and spiral review. We are really enjoying both programs and the attributes they offer. From Mrs. Stovall: ELAR-This week was the 2nd half of our poetry/drama unit. We read several plays, focusing on why stage directions are important and character traits. Students got to act out plays as well. They tested on Thursday. Friday, we read Cranberry Thanksgiving, while students used sticky notes to make inferences and relay character traits. When we finished, students summarized the theme and story on a turkey that they got to color. From Miss Kelleher: 7th and 8th grade students got ready for their latest unit tests with 8th graders playing Jeopardy and the 7th graders playing spoons. The 8th graders tested over Investigating Chemical Formulas while the 7th grade test was over Investigating Body Systems. From Mrs. McIlvain: IXL is a program we are using to monitor student growth and achievement. The following chart shows how hard our students have been working in math and ELA skills. Athletics Mixed team and 7th Boys defeated Tolar, 8th Boys lost to Tolar Future Events Thanksgiving Holidays Nov. 23-27 11/30/2020 7th/8th grade Girls vs Hico, 7th/8th grade Boys @ Hico De Leon Elementary On a Learning Adventure Attendance Student Enrollment: 341 students Weekly: HS/PK 90% K-5 95.95% Yearly: HS/PK 93.02% K-5 97.37% Pre-K/Head Start Pre-K and Head Start learned all about the first Thanksgiving. We have searched for matching letters in turkey corn, made turkey hats and had fun cooking up some sweet treats. Kindergarten Kindergarten had a busy week of learning! In ELAR, students worked on describing characters and identifying other story elements. In math, they are practicing writing, building and recognizing numbers 11 - 20, and in science, students observed and explored heat. In Social Studies, students learned about the First Thanksgiving. We celebrated the upcoming holiday through crafting turkeys, dressing up and having a feast eating our version of turkey legs! 1st Grade First grade has been learning about animals and how they meet their needs in their environment in science. We have spent several days working on food chains. The kids were able to draw and label their own food chain. In math we have been working on addition strategies. We used linking cubes to help us understand doubles plus one and the 9’s trick. First grade Enrichment has been learning about the first Thanksgiving this week. We ended the week by taking a virtual field trip to Plymouth Plantation. 2nd Grade This week in 2nd grade, students read the chapter book Thanksgiving on Thursday. They enjoyed learning about the first Thanksgiving through a fun historical fiction book. Students had many questions about pilgrim life that required some research as well! We were able to carry over our new knowledge into Language Arts and practice paragraph writing where students wrote about what life would be like if they were pilgrim children! They were shocked to learn about all the hard work this involved and that they had no indoor plumbing or electricity! In addition to writing, students learned how to make nouns plural. We continued practicing our two digit subtraction along with multi step word problems in Math. This is a challenging concept but students are progressing well! The second grade Enrichment class has been doing a research project over the first Thanksgiving. We ended the week by taking a virtual field trip to Plymouth Plantation. 3rd Grade Third grade used different food items to make the seven simple machines we have been learning in science. We used graham crackers, Twizzlers, orange slices, Life Savers, cookies, and straws to make simple machines. After we finished, we got to enjoy our snacks. In math we have been working on multiplication, dot plots, pictographs, and bar graphs. In reading we have been working on summarizing. Also, today is World Kindness Day so we wrote about different ways we can show kindness to each other. The third grade Enrichment class has been researching the first Thanksgiving. We ended our study by taking a virtual field trip to Plymouth Plantation. 4th Grade This week fourth graders have been working very hard to complete their essays before Thanksgiving break. Their prompt for this essay was: write about something you are thankful for and explain why. They had a lot of fun getting to type the final copy on the iPad rather than writing it on paper. Their turkeys have also brightened up the hallway. The fourth grade Enrichment class completed a web quest about the first Thanksgiving. We ended our study by taking a virtual field trip to Plymouth Plantation. 5th Grade This week, 5th grade students worked on food chains and food webs. They had to create a marble maze food web that featured the different levels of a web. They chose their biome and researched the producers and consumers that live there. Their mazes had to show various interlocking paths to represent how energy flows. The fifth grade Enrichment class completed a web quest about the first Thanksgiving. We ended our study by taking a virtual field trip to Plymouth Plantation. Students raised $1,142.20 and 1,700 cans of food. These awesome 5th grade students are helping to load it all up. De Leon Junior High & High School Extra-Curricular Cross Country Good luck to Daisy Otwell!! She will be representing DHS at the state meet on Tuesday in Round Rock. Lady Cat Hoops Games have been cancelled until after Thanksgiving break. We look forward to seeing the girls back in action very soon! Bearcat Basketball The Bearcats traveled to Glen Rose Tuesday afternoon. Both JV and Varsity fell short. They are scheduled to be back in action on Tuesday with JV tipping off at 5:00 against the Goldthwaite Eagles. We are looking forward to an exciting basketball season!! The Cubcats hosted Tolar Monday evening. Congrats to the combo and 7th grade teams!! They took the win while 8th grade came up short, but fought to the end. Combo 33-1 7th 36-14 8th 33-27 Way to go Cubcats!!! .