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Dear ,

As we embark on the return to face-to-face instruction on Monday, Oct. 19, our school is committed to providing quality education for every student we serve — whether our families choose to have instruction delivered virtually or in person.

Students, teachers, principals, and administrators have responded together with strength, flexibility, and innovation – that is the HISD Way.

Please be patient with us next week as we adjust to a new routine for the second six weeks of classes. With your support, we are certain that we can give all our students the best learning experience. 

Face-to-face families: Please read the following letter, which contains an important safety update. 

Sincerely,

Jennifer Day 

PS: Please help us reach a 100-percent response rate on the district's socioeconomic form. Go to HISD Connect's Parent Portal, click on Forms, and submit your responses. Thank you!

October is National Principals Month
Join us in honoring and thanking our school principal, Ms. Day! Show your appreciation by downloading one of these custom e-cards and sending them to us with a personalized note via email or Facebook.

Socioeconomic Form for 2020-2021
Oct. 19, 2020
Please fill out this form that is available on theHISD Connect Parent Portalunder Forms. While you're there, please check to make you have completed all other listed forms. Thank you for helping us ensure we receive needed funding! Visit ourTitle 1 webpageto learn more.

Multilingual Parent Leadership Conference
Oct. 24, 2020
The HISD Multilingual Department invites all parents of English Learners to their annual Parent Leadership Conference. The conference will be held on Saturday, October 24 from 9 AM to 12:15 PM. Register at: bit.ly/MLplconf

"Virtual" Sunshine Cart: Thank you to all our parents who were key in making our first virtual Sunshine Cart a success! A special thanks to our parents who brought in Breakfast Tacos and Jason's Deli lunch for our teachers and staff. Here are some pictures fromMonday andFriday! Hope you support us again next month.

Game Night: We finished celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with our first ever "Noche de Juegos". Thank you to our PTO Heritage group for sponsoring this fun event for our Wharton families. We hope you learned new vocabulary words!  We hope to have more in the future.  Here are a few pictures!

Fall Photo Sessions: Thank you to everyone who booked a Fall photo session! We've booked all our available slots. If you're interested in being placed on a waiting list for additional dates, please email Holly Navarro. 

Fall Festival
Oct. 25-30, 2020
Join us for a week of fun, socially distanced Fall Festival activities!

🎃 Pumpkin Decorating Contest - Send a picture of your masterpiece by Oct. 25. Vote for your favorites from Oct. 26-30. One winner per grade level. Winners will receive an Amazon e-gift card.

👻 Do the Monster Mash - Send us a video of you or your family dancing to the Monster Mash in your best Halloween costume. Deadline: Oct. 25.

🍁 Fall Festival Drive-Thru Trunk-or-Treat - Decorate your trunk and display it for Wharton families to see during our Drive-Thru Trunk-or-Treat on Friday, Oct. 30. Or just come by and enjoy the trunks displayed from the safety of your car. 

Full details here.

Our school is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school thanks to the generous contributions of parents over the years. The IB program is funded entirely by Wharton's PTO, and each year we need to raise $43,000 to cover its costs. Since we can't hold our largest fundraisers this year, we need your help more than ever! 

We will test all kindergarten and 5th-grade students who are not already identified as GT during the testing window of November 9 - 20. 

Kindergarten parents: please email Ms. Patricia Selin to let her know if your child was already tested and identified as GT. 

Parents in 1st - 4th & 6th - 8th grades may request testing by completing this GT Application and sending it to Ms. Selin. You only need to complete page 1 of the application. Please be sure to check the box for your choice of testing language – English or Spanish – on the form. The deadline to apply is Friday, November 6.

School Choice applications for the 2021-2022 school year opened on Sep. 19, 2020. Wharton is hosting Virtual Magnet Thursdays at 9 a.m. via Microsoft Teams on:

• Thursday, Oct. 22
• Thursday, Oct. 29
• Thursday, Nov. 5

Virtual Middle School Dance: Parents if you would like to help organize a our first virtual dance, please send us an email today. We are hoping to bring back our "Dia de los Muertos" theme for early November.

8th Grade PSAT:  The PSAT is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 27th, 8:30-11:30 a.m.  ALL 8th grade Wharton students should come to campus this day to take the exam, this includes students who are attending classes virtually.  The exam will take place in the gym. Students will be placed at least 6 feet apart and are required to wear masks.

Students should arrive at 8:15, as the exam will begin at 8:30 a.m. virtual students should be picked up at 11:30 a.m. (parents of virtual students who finish early may be contacted for earlier pick up).

Please be sure your student is here for this important date!

If you would like to join our Heritage PTO group to help promote Spanish in our Wharton community, please send us an email. ¡Muchas Gracias!

Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy PTO

900 W Gray St

Houston TX 77019