Trevista at Horace Mann
ECE - 8th Grade
4130 Navajo Street Denver, CO 80211-2534
Phone: (720) 423-9800 Fax: (720) 423-9850
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March NewsletterHorace Mann TigersNewsletter March 2008  From the Principal Dear parents and community, Thank you for your participation in our parent teacher conference night. We had a pretty good turn out and the spaghetti dinner, served by Sara Gunderson and crew of the Family to Family organization, was delicious! In the immediate future the students will be taking the CSAP test. The test will be given on March 4, 5, 6 and March 11, 12 and 13. There are daily prizes available to students who arrive on time and test the entire session. We will have a spring social to further reward students who had 100% attendance for the exam. I want to take this opportunity to recognize Denis Ruiz-Aries, Abigail Aragon and Eric Tellez who were elected by teacher vote to be our Mile High Scholar’s Award recipients. These students received recognition in a ceremony where they had an opportunity to meet the mayor. I am very proud of our students. Denis, Abigail and Eric, are great examples of students who will be successful in anything they choose to do. As always, Yours in education: John Ludwig, Principal Horace Mann Queridos padres y comunidad, Gracias por su participación nuestra noche de conferencia de profesor paternal. ¡Teníamos una vuelta bastante buena y la comida de espagueti servida por Sara Gunderson y el equipo de la Familia de Familia era delicioso! En el futuro inmediato los estudiantes tomarán la prueba de CSAP. La prueba será dada durante marzo 4,5,6 y marzo 11,12 y 13. Hay premios diarios disponibles a estudiantes que llegan a tiempo y prueban la sesión entera. Tendremos una primavera social para recompensar adelante al estudiante que tenía la asistencia del 100 % para el examen. Quiero tomar esta oportunidad de reconocer a Denis Ruiz-Aries, Abigail Aragon y Eric Tellez que fueron decididos por el voto de profesor para ser nuestra milla los recipientes de premio del erudito alto. Estos estudiantes recibieron el reconocimiento en una ceremonia donde ellos tenían una oportunidad de encontrar al Alcalde. Estoy muy orgulloso de nuestros estudiantes, Denis, Abigail y Eric, son grandes ejemplos de estudiantes que serán acertados en algo que ellos deciden hacer. Como siempre, el suyo en educacion. John Ludwig. Science Corner Science is always in the news, sometimes it is the most compelling news. Science students are keeping track of current events by reading one story each week and writing about the news in their science journal. You can look at what your child has been keeping up on by looking at their journal in the back of their notebook. A proficient journal will include a well written paragraph about each news event along with some scientific thinking from the student. Children can show they are thinking by asking a relevant question, offering a hypothesis or possible solution, or relating the news event to some other area of their life. Recently, we read one story about a meteorite that struck the earth making a crater near a small town in Peru. As the residents of Carancas came to look inside the 20 foot deep, 100 foot wide crater, they started to become ill. Villagers became dizzy and reported headaches, some walked away from the site vomiting. When scientists were called in to study the site they found there was no radiation in the crater but they were also sickened even though they were wearing protective masks. What do you wonder about this? How could we study this further? What is your hypothesis? Can you relate this to something in your life? George Pullis News From 110 Turtles We found out that the Olive Ridley turtles were going to be killed. We wrote letters to Mr. Tata in India and asked him not to build his port near where the turtles are laying their eggs and having their babies. We also did mailings for Global Response; Global Response is a watchdog group for the turtles and other animals in danger. We put address labels and stamps on letters telling people that they need to write to Mr. Tata, too. We listened to music as we worked to save the turtles. By Gumercindo Enriquez From the Library Harry Potter Quiz How much do you know about Harry Potter? Answer these questions and then come to the library to find the answers. 1. How old was Harry Potter on July 31, 2007? 2. What is Harry’s best subject at Hogwarts? 3. Where do the Dursleys tell everyone Harry goes to school? 4. What is Harry’s wand made of? 5. What is Harry’s middle name? 6. What home is Harry now the owner of? 7. Who was Harry’s date to the Yule Ball? Thou Art My Brother My skin, My skin I can’t help the body I am in why must my and your skin be an issue do you not know if you shed a tear, I would greet you with a tissue Why is your heart so hardened Do you not know when you weep, I weep the emotions you feel, when treated like a stain Please listen just once, we feel the same seeping pain I reach my hand out as a sign of respect yet, you pull back as if you’re scared to feel unity within my grip scared of what your heart might feel when it’s on the wheel many emotions within your soul, constantly running from what you don’t know I am afraid to, not know, what you know Can we as a people step outside our boxes that we call life Take a chance and learn no matter how fast or slow One step to the right or left can change a heart full of strife No more puppet masters No more puppeteers Just, you and I, finding common ground What a shame it would be not to share each others journey Can you see me? for I am looking right at you not at your skin or your faults you could have But the x-factor no one really wants to see The fact that your journey and life was and is not, unlike mine Yes, we are brothers many shades of skin Hating your brother is old, its past due, look at the times Is it not the beauty of all to know even at worst we fall But when my fellow man reaches down with a hand with different color skin, woe, do you know the contrast allows me to once again stand Who? art my brother to hate me? How, art my brother to love me? Where, art my brother to take a stand? When, art my brother to look into my eyes and greet me? -all the time- (to know is to live) short and snap judgements against myself and or my Neighbor, can and will cause a lifetime of pain written by: Loraine J. Sykes a Horace Mann parent
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