Team Woolloomooloo Newsletter

Good afternoon Team Woolloomooloo!

Banneker High School will hold an open house tomorrow, Friday, January 21st from 12:00 to 3:00 PM.

Friday, January 17, 2025 12:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Tours – 12:10 – 2:40 P.M.

REGISTRATION: Required at provided QR code.

Banneker High School offers...

• Four-Year College Preparatory Program

• Advanced Placement and Honors Courses

• International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

• Community Laboratory Project

• Dual Enrollment Program

• Extended Day Activities

We hope our Deal 8th grade students will attend this great opportunity to learn about a strong high school option!

UPDATE! We have 12 hosting families [THANK YOU!] and our goal is 20 families – PLEASE JOIN US 😊

When: January 25th 6pm – 8pm

Families of Deal – You are invited to join International Night 2025, it is an evening of travelling around the world as you taste incredible savory and sweet samplings of foods made by our own Deal Families! Buy your tickets here: Deal International Night 2025

This event is a great community event, but more importantly – this event raises critical funds to support our Foreign Language Trip Scholar Fund. All money raised during International Night is turned into scholarships for our 8th grade students. Please help us reach our goal of $30,000. We can do this together! If you cannot join the event, please consider a donation here: Deal International Night 2025_Donation

We look forward to seeing you on January 25th and appreciate your support!

Questions: shannonharrisbehm@hotmail.com

Students should be well on their way to completing action at this point. Students have been working on their action plans for their projects. Action can take place anytime between now and 2/18 (at the latest).

Please do not hesitate to reach out to your students' advisor or Ms. Daniels (Caitlin.Daniels@k12.dc.gov) with questions.

Are you into adventure and mystery? Do you like graphic novels? Do you want a chance to talk about books with friends? OR are you looking to meet some new friends in 2025? Join us for the Battle of the Books interest meeting on Tuesday, January 21st in W105 from 3:30-4:00. Battle of the Books is a competition with other DC schools about newly-released books. Students of all grade levels are welcome! We hope to see you there. If you have any questions or are unable to attend the meeting, please see Ms. Byrns, Mr. Kirschenbaum, or Mr. Reichlen.

An extra snow day means more time for Blossom Kicks for Kids submissions!

As a reminder, the submission deadline has been extended to Monday, January 13 at 5 PM. Submit all designs through this submission link.

Want to learn more about what's going on in your student's language class? You can find the World Languages Newsletter here: https://secure.smore.com/u/patricia.balestra4

Most of our 8th graders will have the opportunity to be in art class this upcoming year, so please help our art teachers provide our students with all of the necessary supplies to get the most creative work from our talented young people!

Ms. Hargreaves: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/MUK8QEAEHHUO?ref_=wl_share

Mr. Cunningham: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/368Y16JA3GQ30?ref_=wl_share

Mr. Lowder: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/IRPKFUJ90BY?ref_=wl_share

If you're child is looking for a high school recommendation, please have them follow these steps:

1. Ask the teacher (in person) for a recommendation.
2. Fill out the form to help teachers best respond.

THANK YOU!! We can't thank you enough for donating supplies. We appreciate your thoughtfulness and dedication to helping and supporting our students!

With your donations, you are helping us reward our students with their Mooloo Mulah!

Click here to access our Amazon Wishlist.

Hello Woolloomooloo Families!

I hope you all enjoyed our lovely snow days this past week. It reminds me of the excitement of watching the white flakes fall from the sky as a kid and hope that school may be delay for us to enjoy the new landscape. I hope you all were able to enjoy the snow, making snowmen/people, sledding or just throwing a few snowballs at each other. Either way, fingers crossed for more to come this winter!

Term 2 is coming to a close soon. Please make sure that you are checking ASPEN, ensuring that assignments have been completed/turned in and having those conversations with your scholars about expectations from Term 3 and 4 and beyond! High School is right around the corner for our 8th graders!

Be sure to be on the lookout for announcements regarding Community Project! This is a requirement for all 8th grade students that attend an IB school and a great opportunity to give back to our Community. Whether it be the Deal Community, your local neighborhood, church, mosque or synagogue, or even Washington DC as a whole, start thinking about the needs of the community and providing solutions to help or give back. We've just completed Journal Entry #5, so be sure to ask your scholars what are they are doing.

Upcoming Assessments: I-Ready MOY – 1/22 during extended first period

Homework: Paper HW due WEDNESDAY 1/15. Passed I-Ready lesson due Sunday. (7 this advisory)

Unit 4 family resources:

• Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems
• Unidad 4 materiales para la familia Ecuaciones lineales y sistemas lineales

Algebra 1: This week in algebra 1 students learned about calculating interest payments compounded over different intervals of time. Next week in algebra 1, we will continue practicing and review for the unit 5 RCT that they will take on Wednesday.

Upcoming Assessments:

• RCT Unit 5 – Wednesday 1/15
• Middle of year MAP – Wednesday 1/22 during extended first period

Homework: Paper HW due WEDNESDAY 1/15. Deltamath assignment due next Sunday at 10PM.

Unit 5 family resources:

• Intro to Exponential Functions
• Unidad 5 en Espanol

IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENTS FROM THIS (SHORT!) WEEK

• Unit 3 Seminar (Formative B) - Canvas Cloud Assignment where students thought about things they feel the government needs to do or must protect the ability for people to do, if government is meeting those responsibilities based on evidence and if the Bill of Rights is applicable to their lives today! Seminar Prep worked on 2 and 3 January, seminar done 8-9 January as in-class discussion!
• Washington’s Farewell Address Activity – Paper assignment where students think about Washington’s parting advice to the nation as he left the presidency about foreign nations, political parties and being American. To be worked on in-class 10 January and homework due 12 January if not done before end of class time!

This week, we started examining through experimentation the factors that affect rate of a chemical reaction. We Completed the Mid-term MAP assessment.

Next week, we will complete factors that affect the rate of a chemical reaction. We will start endothermic and exothermic reactions.

Homework will be assigned on canvas.

If you are able, we need supplies for an experiment the week of 1/20 and would appreciate your donation:

• Vinegar

• Baking soda

• Calcium chloride

Hello everyone!

This week, we read the first story in 145th Street, Big Joe's Funeral and the poem Human Family by Maya Angelou. Students were asked to read each text and determine a theme.

Next week, we will be taking the Middle of the Year (MOY) Reading MAP Growth assessment.

Have a great weekend!

Happy New Year! Let's make 2025 a great year for reading and inquiry! Check out these great resources that the library is offering in January. Check out this month's Library Newsletter below:

https://secure.smore.com/n/veq7k

Library overdue emails were sent out in December and I have heard from several families about books overdue that are owed to different schools. Please disregard titles owed to other sites. At the end of the year, I will send another notice email. Notices will only include Deal items moving forward. Sorry about any confusion!

If you would like to contact us, please feel free to do so using the links below. Expect a response from teachers, during school hours, within 1 to 2 business days, of the time your communication was received.

Haller - Michael.Haller@k12.dc.gov

Beliveau - jacqueline.beliveau@k12.dc.gov

Selph - caleb.selph@k12.dc.gov

Mbanwie - Brunhilda.Mbanwie@k12.dc.gov

Turchetta - nicholas.turchetta@k12.dc.gov

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