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Welcome back and Happy New Year!
The year "Back to the Future" foretold we would have hover skateboards! We'll not yet...
But... if you go to this site you will see we are getting close!
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Did you know?
We have around 1800 parents in our Brownell Community, but less than 0.5% attend the Parent Club
meetings? I know we can do better than that! The Parents who do participate at the
meetings work very diligently to see that fundraisers are organized and funds
are raised to see that students and teachers have the resources they need to
help all students learn. The next Meeting is
January 14th at 7:00pm in the Library.
Did you know?
In order for an 8th grade
student to participate in the Promotion Ceremony, 8th grade
promotion dance and field trip, they must pass each class with a D average or
better for the year. The yearly
grade is the average of 1st semester and 2nd semester
grades in each of their classes, including Physical Education and electives. Also,
if any 8th grade student is suspended for even one day in the 4th
quarter they will lose their privileges.
One semester is complete and we now begin semester 2. We have after school tutoring, and lunch time bear den time to keep up on school work.
Other news! 8th Grade
Gilroy High School and Christopher High School will be
having Information Nights Monday February 2, 2015. You should be hearing from them soon. But there is more!
Brownell activities include:
- · The "College: Making It Happen" in-class presentations which will occur in ELA classes on 1/27/15 and 1/29/15
- · The distribution of high school registration materials which will occur in Science classes on 1/28/15
- · And…after the high school information nights on the 2nd…
- · The actual high school registration day with HS Academic Coordinators which will take place with Math classes in Room #25/computer lab, on 2/4/15!
Honor Roll Breakfasts for 1st Semester!
We will be having our annual
Honor Roll Breakfasts on:
- January 20th—6th grade,
- 21st—7th grade and...
- 22nd –8th grade.
The event(s) will be from 7:30 to 8:30 am. We will be giving out Principal Awards (4.0
GPA), Honor Roll (3.0 GPA) and awards for Perfect Attendance. Teachers will be working on grades on
January 5th and Report Cards will be sent out by the following week.
All families of awarded students will be notified!
“How’s my driving?”
Before the winter break we
placed customer service comment cards on our front desk in the Main office
along with a nice box to put them in.
These are the same cards that are used by all other schools in the
district. We invite you to fill one out
whether you have a complaint, concern or praise on how we are doing in the
customer service department. We know we
have work to do and we are making customer service a priority. Please fill one out the next time you visit
the campus. All cards are sent to the
District office for their information. –Thank
you!
WoW word of the week!
var·y
ˈverē/
verb
1. differ
in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general
class.
"The properties vary in price."
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synonyms:
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2.
change from one
condition, form, or state to another.
"Your skin's moisture content
varies according to climatic conditions."
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synonyms:
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"Rates of interest can vary
over time."
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3.
introduce
modifications or changes into (something) so as to make it different or less
uniform.
"He tried to vary his diet."
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synonyms:
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That is all for now and
Welcome Back to the Future!
Mr. CL
