Team Woolloomooloo Newsletter

Our Deal team made great progress this week as they work to receive official approval for our World Language Trips. Our trip to Taiwan received their final approval, and we anticipate the other trips will receive their final approval very soon.

For students taking Chinese, you should have received an email from Ms. Liang and Mr. Zhi this week with information about how to register for the trip to Taiwan. If you did not receive that email and would like the registration email, please reach out to yan.liang@k12.dc.gov, yanming.zhi@k12.dc.gov, and yanmingz@msn.com.

For all other trips, we will share registration information as soon as we receive final approval from DCPS. Please note: the registration deadline will approach quickly, so families will need to move quickly to sign up for the trip and submit all forms.

The number one thing families can do to prepare for this trip is ensure their student has a current passport (valid through November of 2025). If your student does not yet have a passport, we strongly recommend your family move quickly to obtain one.

All students requesting a recommendation for high school must complete the following steps:

1. Have a personal conversation with your teacher to request a recommendation.
2. Complete the recommendation request form (linked below by team).
3. Share your teachers' email on the school's application site.
4. Send the teacher an email to let them know you completed the form and thank them for their time.

As Deal teachers receive many recommendation requests, all requests should be submitted at least two weeks prior to the application school's deadline and will be completed in the order they are received. Recommendations are completed at the discretion of the teacher. Students are responsible for maintaining positive relationships with their teacher and meeting high academic expectations.

While completing this form, students are required to submit complete, thoughtful responses that reflect the time and energy they expect from their recommending teacher. Incomplete or insufficient responses may result in the teacher not submitting a recommendation.

Recommendation Request Links:

• Team Havana Recommendation Request Link

• Team Woolloomooloo Recommendation Request Link

• Team Izu Recommendation Request Link

• Team Kendrick Recommendation Request Link

• Off-Team Teacher Recommendation Request Link

If your student needs a recommendation from a teacher not on these form (including 7th grade teachers), please email that teacher directly.

Attention, all Deal scholars! The National Junior Honor Society has officially launched for the school year 2023-2024. This is a national academic organization that serves to foster and recognize excellence in academic scholarship and community service in our nation’s youth. Every spring, hundreds of our 7th and 8th grade students are inducted into Deal chapter of NJHS and it is amazing to see how hard they work and the profound impact that their service has on our community. In order to participate, students must successfully complete each of the action steps noted below by all due dates.

Nov. 8-Digital application to join NJHS is due. Link is in the newsletters and also below.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7kagKk6zM0qSt5md8rwKMg3E4iKM63JHqyuRN_j1E6lUQ1BLS0M2RzFaRTlVWFBPNEhTNlNQRDkzWC4u

Dec. 13-Students will be formally invited to register for NJHS via Canvas

May 20-All community service and extracurricular club forms are due. Link for community service form is below. Canvas course will close for processing and late submissions won’t be possible.

Fillable_Community_Service_Hours_Form.pdf

June 10-NJHS Induction and Recognition Ceremony at 6:30.

Seventh graders- In order to be inducted in June, you must complete a minimum of 15 community service hours and submit your forms/evidence in Canvas. You must also be on A/B Honor Roll or Principal’s Roll for terms 1-3. Finally, you must participate in at least one extracurricular club and submit your form/evidence of this in Canvas.

Eighth graders- In order to be recognized as an active NJHS member for SY24-25 in June, you must complete a new set of 15 community service hours and submit your forms/evidence in Canvas. You must also be on A/B Honor Roll or Principle’s Honor Roll for terms 1-3. Finally, you must participate in at least one extracurricular club this year and submit your form/evidence in Canvas.

If you have any additional questions, please reach out to me at stephanie.lienemann@k12.dc.gov via email.

Students who meet the grade criteria are invited to register for NJHS on Canvas.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at stephanie.lienemann@k12.dc.gov.

Deal will be hosting a virtual High School Night (HSN) Thursday, November 21, from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm. This is a great opportunity to hear from DCPS application high schools. Additionally, a DCPS Enrollment team representative will speak to families about the high school application process and how to navigate through myschooldc.org. More details will be shared in team newsletters as we get closer to this event.

Deal MS will have the opportunity to visit Duke Ellington School of the Arts during the school day on Friday, November 8th. If your student is seriously considering applying to DESA and is interested in the trip, please contact our wonderful 8th grade counselor, Ms. Travers, at Johnet.Travers@k12.dc.gov for more information. Space is limited, so please be aware that not all interested parties will be able to join.

If your student is not able to join this particular trip, please keep an eye on the DESA website for additional details about open houses.

Eighth grade Spanish 2 students have been reading a book about immigration this advisory and will end the unit participating in an immigration panel and having one-on-one conversations in Spanish with students from Cardozo International. We are looking for VOLUNTEERS to speak on our immigration panels on Friday November 15th from 8:45am-3:15pm.

We need: Spanish speakers who they themselves have immigrated or have families affected by immigration, or people who work in the field of immigration and would be comfortable sharing their knowledge/ experience with our students.

The panels will take place in each period all day from 8:45am until 3:15pm, in 50-minute slots. You could come for one or stay for all five! If you are in a position to help or know someone who might be willing to, please let us know by signing up on this document or emailing Kathryn.wooten@k12.dc.gov and/or anna.henderson@k12.dc.gov . Feel free to reach out also with any questions you may have before committing.

Thank you for your consideration. In the past, our students have found this to be a very valuable experience in terms of understanding the themes of this unit and their growth as language learners. We are looking forward to it and appreciate your support!

All student immunization records are due to be updated by December 1st. If you received a letter stating your student's immunizations are not in compliance, please make sure the nurse receives their updated immunization records no later than December 1st. Please contact the school nurse with any questions or concerns.

Deal will be hosting a virtual High School Night (HSN) Thursday, November 21, from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm. This is a great opportunity to hear from DCPS application high schools. Additionally, a DCPS Enrollment team representative will speak to families about the high school application process and how to navigate through myschooldc.org. More details will be shared in team newsletters as we get closer to this event.

Instruction at Deal begins at 8:45 AM and ends at 3:15 PM. To ensure they have time to clear security, visit their lockers, and make it to class before the bell, students should plan to arrive at Deal no later than 8:20 AM. We appreciate your support to build good habits early in the year.

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.

High School Recommendation Form

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 your scholars are enjoying the four-day weekend! Our team is getting ready to finalize our grades for Advisory 1 and that means Report Cards will be coming out soon! Please be sure to check all aspects of the report card and asking those difficult questions with your children about their grades, tardies and how to improve next advisory. If everything is okay, then celebrate their hard work in Advisory 1!

Speaking of celebrating...we are looking forward to our Team Woolloomooloo Breakfast Celebration for the end of Advisory 1! Our team celebration will be held on 11/8/24 from 8:45 - 9:45 AM (First Period) and will be in the Cafeteria during that time. Please look for our SignUp Genius link below if you'd like to participate or bring in some delicious breakfast treats for our team to celebrate with. I am looking forward to seeing our team celebrate the end of Advisory 1 and looking forward to what Advisory 2 will bring us!

Signup Genius

Yesterday our team partcipated in the first Annual Fall Fiesta! We had fun activities that our 8th graders participated in like: potato sack race, 3 legged race, knockerball competition and hula-hoop ring toss. It was truly a fun and amazing time seeing our team celebrate and compete against the other 8th grade teams. Although our team did not win, we did enjoy seeing Mr. Selph and our other 8th graders participate in Fall Fiesta!

Math 8: This week in math 8 students reviewed proportional relationships from 7th grade and learned how to label and scale a graph in order to compare different relationships. Next week in math 8 I will be absent because I will be traveling out of the country. Mr. Haller will teach periods 4 & 7 and period 2 will be covered by another math teacher. Students will complete 2 online assignments and one paper assignment on proportional relationships and an introduction to slope. Please remind your student about proper behavior expectations when there is a substitute in the room.

Upcoming Assessments:

• Wednesday, November 13 - RCT unit 2

Homework: No Homework this week

Unit 3 family resources:

• Unit 3: Linear Relationships
• Unidad 3 materiales para la familia Relaciones lineales

Algebra 1: This week in algebra 1 students worked on interpreting and sketching graphs of functions and then took their unit 4 mid unit assessment. On Friday we began learning about domain and range. Next week in algebra 1 I will be absent because I will be traveling out of the country. Students will have an assignment each day that is either review or building on a skill we learned in this unit and work will be graded when I return. Please remind your student about proper behavior expectations when there is a substitute in the room.

Upcoming Assessments:

• None

Homework: No paper homework this week. Deltamath assignment due Sunday by 10pm.

Unit 4 family resources:

• Functions
• Unidad 4 en Espanol

IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENTS FOR TERM 2

• Life in the Colonies Reading Check – Canvas Assignment where students use a self-annotated resource about colonial life leading up to the Revolution to answer questions about life in the colonies before the war
• 7 Years War Work – Paper packet where students use a 7 Years War PPT in Canvas Modules, Unit 2 to answer questions about the war and its impact on the colonies and their relationship with Britain
• Causes of Revolution Check – Canvas Assignment where students use notes taken from jigsaw about 6 actions post-7 Years War to answer questions for understanding of each act and predict how colonists will feel about what is happening to them at this time.

• Homework was due on Thursday.

Next week, we will review and revise methods of heat transfer. In addition, we will complete the RCT assessment on heat transfer.

• There will be no homework for this week.

Hello everyone!

This week, we took ANET 1 and then we finished A Raisin in the Sun. As we read, students participated in a stop and jot activity, where they wrote down reactions and discussed with their classmates.

Next week, now that we have finished A Raisin in the Sun, we will work on activities that help students process major themes in the book, specifically the American dream.

We will begin reading our next book, 145th Street, in about a month. If you haven't already purchased it. It would be great if you could so the student can have their own copy for in book annotations and assignments for homework.

Have a great weekend!

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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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