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Dear ,

Thank you for attending the meeting on Monday. If you missed it, you can view the recording for updates about Wharton.

Please note that you can now select your preferred method of instruction for the fourth six-week cycle on HISD Parent Connect. You have until Monday, Jan. 18 to select whether you want in-person or virtual instruction for your student(s). Please make sure to fill out the form even if your method of instruction isn't changing. We would also like to ask you to inform your teacher of your selection.

As a reminder, there are no classes on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Enjoy the time off, continue to be safe, stay home, mask up, and wash hands.

We look forward to seeing our students back on Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Jennifer Day

Student Fall Individual Picture Day: Re-take 
Friday, Feb. 5
Save the date! Students will have a second opportunity to take school pictures. 

Super Bowl Sunshine Cart
Friday Feb. 5 
Help us celebrate Super Bowl weekend with some football friendly snacks and treats for our Wharton teachers & staff. We appreciate all our parents who are always supporting our appreciation events. Please sign up here!

Support Our Wharton Spirit Store: Wharton umbrellas are now available for sale in our school store! We will also be adding a new school t-shirt very soon. If you're interested in purchasing an umbrella, click here.

Yard Signs: We still a few yard signs ($20) in our store. We hope to deliver them during the Retake of Fall School pictures on Feb. 5. Purchase here.

Wharton Eagle Run: We're working on the details for this year's Eagle Run. Stay tuned ... 

Hello Wharton Eagles!

I put together some links for you to look at to keep you informed about how our area is doing.

• Texas Medical Center Coronavirus Key Takeaways 
• Harris County Public Health Coronavirus Dashboard- 20% positivity rate! Stay home this weekend. I also encourage you to get tested. 
• Dr. Paul Klotman's Video Message- The Baylor College of Medicine puts together a YouTube presentation weekly. It is fairly technical but very informative. Dr. Klotman did a presentation before the new year talking about 2020 in review. He talks about why children aren’t as susceptible to COVID 19.

Stay safe!

Nurse Dana

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Juntos fundraising campaign to continue Wharton's International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme. So far, we have 69 families who have donated a total of $31,010. We need another 40 families to donate to get us to our goal of $43,000.

Wharton's PTO funds this program in its entirety and the pandemic has prevented us from hosting our largest fundraisers. Will you donate to help us keep our IB program?

As Ms. Day outlined during the parent meeting, our Middle School teachers are requesting that all students turn on their video camera during class instruction. If the student doesn't turn on their video camera, they will be counted absent for the day.* Please help us by communicating this to your student and reminding them if needed. Thank you!

*If your student experiences technical difficulties or is logged into class but can't use the video feature, please ask them to notify their teachers of their situation.

Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy PTO

900 W Gray St

Houston TX 77019