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Dear Wharton Families,

It was great to see so many of you during this week's Open Houses. I hope you had the opportunity to better get to know your teacher and learn more about your child's classroom. If you haven't already, please take a moment to review our elementary school handbook.

We have received a lot of questions about when our students can wear Wharton spirit t-shirts. Students may wear Wharton spirit tees with uniform bottoms from Monday to Thursday. On Fridays, they may wear Wharton or college spirit tees with jeans. 

This week's newsletter is packed with information. Please make sure you go through it and mark your calendars with important dates.

I hope to see you at Coffee with the Principal on Wednesday, Sep. 14 at 8:45 AM in the cafeteria.

Enjoy the weekend!

Jennifer Day
Principal

September 10 at 6 PM
Dad's Club Social
Come meet other Wharton Dads at Slick Willie's (1200 Westheimer Rd., 77006).

September 12 at 6 PM
Fall Festival Planning Meeting
Join us to learn how you can help Wharton PTO make this year's Fall Festival a success. The meeting will take place in the community room. Questions? Email fallfestival@whartonpto.org.

September 14, 8:45 AM
Coffee with the Principal
Join Principal Day, Wharton's leadership team, and Wharton PTO in the Wharton cafeteria for the latest school updates.

September 17 at 8 AM
Dad's Club Fall Festival Work Day at WDLA
Help us dust off and repair our Fall Festival games. We will need trucks to transport the games from storage to the school. 

September 21, Times To Be Announced
Grandparents Day at Wharton
Save the date! Join your grandchild on this special occasion. HISD will offer a special “Grandparent’s luncheon” for $6 per plate (cash only). Plates may be purchased when you arrive at Wharton. Grandparents are also welcome to bring their lunch from home. 

An altered lunch schedule for this special event will be released next week. Stay tuned! We need lunch monitor volunteers to help us during the event. Please sign up here >>

September 27, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Hispanic Heritage Loteria & Potluck
Save the date for this special event organized by Wharton PTO's Heritage Committee! Join us for a family-friendly night of loteria and snacks from around Latin America. More details and sign-up information coming soon.

Thank you to the parents and guardians who supported our Back to School Sunshine Cart with Traveling Tom’s Coffee. We could not have done it without your help! A shout out to Wharton families: Benjamin-Wardle, Monsalve-Ramos, Hess-Young, Lindenberg, Kennedy, Kehr, Hanohano, Luiz, Rouault, Silva, Thomas, Edmonds-Wiggins, Hanford, Moorhead, Miles, Jaime-Espitia, Brennan, Beebe, LeFevre, Ramirez, Gallego, Zambrano-Welch, Amin, Oramas, Rivera, Peterson, Matute, Yzquierdo, Castromán, and Pérez. 


And a special big shout out to Gonzales Daycare in The Heights for sponsoring pan dulce to go with the yummy drinks.

We are excited to announce that Wharton will begin its EAGLE Enrichment CLUBS after school for the Fall semester! Enrollment in these EAGLE Clubs is open to all Wharton students. 

Fall Registration will open Friday, September 16, and close Friday, September 23. Be on the lookout for emails coming soon with additional details, enrollment information, and costs.

Safety Captain's Corner
Thank you for your patience with drop-off and dismissal. We have appreciated the parent support in the mornings. If you would like to volunteer in the PK/K area (blue zone), please introduce yourself in the morning to one of our staff members. It takes about 15 minutes to assist the students out of the cars. Sign up to volunteer >>

• Please help us by having your children get out on the right side of the car for everyone’s safety.
• Please have them unbuckled before you get to the staff member, so the process will go much smoother.
• Please be courteous to the staff, they are doing their best to deliver your child in the safest way possible.
• The doors open at 8:20 am. We do not have enough staff to monitor the children when you drop them off early.
• Dismissal starts at 3:50 p.m. Please do not come to get your child from the office between 3:20 p.m. and 3:50 p.m. The front office staff is very busy at that time.

It was a pleasure meeting you at the open house, please feel free to call or email me with any questions or concerns.

Nurse Dana

Congratulations to our 2022-2023 Middle School Student Council!

• President - Mila V.
• Vice President - Gabriella R.
• Treasurer - Leila M. & Patrick T.
• Secretary - Mariana W., Taylor B., and Eduardo V.
• Publicist/Campus Representative - Tiana C., & Daniela R.

Donate to Wharton’s IB Program
Our IB program is funded by parent contributions to the PTO through ¡Juntos!, and we need your help to fund this $50,000 program.

🍦Ice Cream Party! Donate to ¡Juntos! by October 15, and the classrooms with the most families donating will earn an ice cream party.

On September 25, Houston Grand Opera will hold auditions for child actors to cast five speaking (non-singing) roles in a production of the holiday opera EL MILAGRO DEL RECUERDO by Javier Martínez and Leonard Foglia. Auditioning children should be fluent Spanish speakers and have some previous stage experience. Please see the flyer for more details >>

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Houston TX 77019