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January 7th

*School Resumes

*Beginning of 3rd 9 Weeks

January 8th

*Progress Reports

*FCA-Boy’s TVCC BB Game

January 9th

Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

January 10th

*UIL Permission slips due

*UIL BOOST Practice 3:30pm-7:00pm

January 13th

Academic UIL @ Brownsboro –4:00

January 15th

*A Honor Roll Luncheon

*A/B Honor Roll Reward

January 16th

Perfect Attendance Recognition

& Drawing

January 20th MLK-NO SCHOOL

January 23rd

Basketball Pep Rally @ 3:00pm

January 24th

STUCO Cocoa & Cookies

January 27th

UIL Participants Field Trip

January 28th

Dec/Jan KOC Luncheon

January 29th

Progress Reports

January 30th

7th Writing STAAR Benchmark

January

Edition

“Where Every Child Counts”

Thank you for your assistance in

helping your child have a successful

benchmark testing experience!

Why benchmark? It’s simple. At the JH, benchmark assessments are given once a school

year (during second semester) in order to measure students’ progress and provide teachers with

data on how to adjust instruction. It provides valid feedback in what students need in order to be

successful. It monitors student strengths and weaknesses. It helps us to move in the right direction

to meet the needs of ALL students.

Are they aligned? Yes, definitely. The benchmarks given are aligned with state standards.

What if my child doesn’t know everything on the test?

GREAT QUESTION! There may be a few questions on the test your child may not recognize

because there may be certain concepts teachers have not covered yet. There are concepts/skills/

TEKS that are still being taught right up to the last day of school! Benchmark assessments provide a

glimpse of what students know so teachers are able to adjust instruction accordingly to ensure

student mastery. We tell our kiddos, quote: “All we can ask of you is to do your VERY best.” We ask

our students to truly try and to work hard. We encourage our students to show text evidence, prove

answers, work out problems, use certain strategies that work for them, etc. in order to “think out”

their thought process and /or to check their work. We also inform our hard working students that we

look at EVERY SINGLE student’s test results and analyze all data to ensure student success for

ALL students.

Although this is just “practice” we want all students to give it their all and do their very best. The next

time we shut down and test will be for the REAL DEAL!! So with that being said, we ask that you

please make sure your child gets plenty of rest the night before and that he/she has a good break-

fast in the morning. Your child’s attendance on benchmarking days are very important so we advise

you to reschedule any doctor or dentist appointments to a later date. It is also crucial that your child

arrives at school on time so that they can get to their testing location as quickly as possible and

begin testing on time.

The STAAR Benchmark dates are as follows:

Thursday, January 30th 7th Writing

Wednesday, February 5th 8th Reading

Thursday, February 6th 7th Pre-Algebra & 8th Math

Tuesday, March 3rd 7th Math & 8th Science

Wednesday, March 4th 7th Reading & 8th Social Studies

Thursday, March 5th 8th Algebra I

MJH’s STAAR Benchmarks

Our MISD School Board Members are greatly appreciated! Thank you for the

hard work, commitment, and

sacrifices you make for our school.

Conrad’s Corner

7th Grade: Grayse Hale & Brenden Hoelscher

8th Grade: Elisa DeHaan & Julian James

Teacher: Annie Morales

-Theatre Arts

Para: Cindy Shelton - -Registrar

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3rd 9 Weeks Begins On Jan. 7th

The New Year brings new schedules for the 2nd semester. 8th graders will

switch their Keyboarding and Transition class on Tuesday the 7th.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

MLK Day

NO SCHOOL

1/20/20

MJH would like to give a great big

THANK YOU to Chief Rich, Officer

Hillhouse, Officer Goode, and

Dispatcher Rodriguez for all they do

for our students, school and our

community. Thank you for your

service and protection.

MJH is a safe place because of YOU!

-8th Grade Yearbook Tribute Ads- The deadline to purchase a Tribute ad in the 2020 edition of the MJH yearbook for your 8th grader is quickly approaching. The deadline to

order an ad is January 17, 2020. Order forms are available at the front office or online in your Family Access account. Parents and

grandparents may design an ad themselves or have our staff do it for you. For those interested, the same options are available online at

www.yearbookforever.com. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Mrs. Manning at 903-880-1670, ext. 7200. We also have a

limited number of yearbooks still available to reserve. You may make a down payment on these to reserve your copy or buy one online at

www.yearbookforever.com. Thank you for your continued support!

January 30th

8:00-12:30

Students at MJH are recognized and rewarded

for doing honorable deeds! Every other month,

students will be recognized for good character.

Students will have a catered luncheon consisting

of pizza and desserts in The Social House.

A group picture of these “Kids of Character”

will be taken and displayed in our showcase and on

our webpage. I am very proud of each and every one

of these students for doing the right thing by

portraying good character traits. These students

are making Mabank Junior High a better place to be!

Thank you!

Renee Ford, Cayden Truelove, JJ Flores, Ayden Liles, Bryson Booker, Levi Luca, Mobe Hinkle, Kenzee Steele, Martha Valencia Howes, Melissa Jacobs, Ethan Turner, Emma Morris, Madisyn Hernandez, Colten Hollaway, Jacey Jones, Abigail Harris, Kali Williamson and Nadia Leos

MPSN “Mabank Panther Sports Network”

Girl’s Basketball: Dec. 9th Athens (away) - Dec. 10th and 11th Crandall Tournament (away) - Dec. 16th Van (away) - Dec. 23rd Canton (home) - Dec. 30th Wills Point (away) Boy’s Basketball: Dec. 9th Athens (home) - Dec. 11th Kaufman Tournament (away) - Dec. 16th Van (home) - Dec. 23rd Canton (away) - Dec. 30th Wills Point (home)

FCA will meet this month on the 9th, 16th, and 23rd.

They’ll be going to watch the Boy’s TVCC Basketball

game on Wednesday, January 8th. GO Cardinals!!!!!!!

-student sponsored club-

MJH BB Pep Rally

Jan. 23rd 3:00-3:30

Congratulations!

Landon was our grand

prize winner of the

$500.00 cash for selling

at least one fundraiser

item. He actually sold 16

items-WAY TO GO!

Thanks to all that helped

to make this year’s

annual fundraiser

a HUGE success!

Find yourself needing some extra

help? After school tutorial buses run

on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

You can get a form from the front

office or your child's teacher.

3:30-4:30

Jan. 29th

basketball pictures: 28th

Good Luck to all of our UIL

participants and coaches!!

We will be

rewarding all

UIL participants

with a field trip to

the movies (on us)

on January 27th.

THANK YOU!

@ Brownsboro

1/13/20

Leaving the

JH at

2:15pm

UIL BOOST Practice January 10th: 3:30pm-7:00pm

Choir: MJH Choir is gearing up for UIL. Can’t wait to see all of the hard work pay off!

Whoop! Whoop!

Band: JH band students will be attending the

All-Region Band Clinics and Performances on Janu-

ary 17th and 18th in Canton. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Color Guard: JH color guard has practice on

Monday, January 20th from 2:00-4:00pm @ MJH

The “Finer” Things

Our most outstanding and very talented UIL One Act Play students performed Peter/Wendy on Saturday, December

14th in Van. The entire company worked so hard and accomplished so much!!!! Mrs. Morales can’t say enough about how PROUD she is! I even received an email from

Van’s Contest Manager stating, “The rapport between teacher and student epitomized love, truth, discipline, and respect.” “The production was amazing bringing to life the Peter Pan

that is in all of us. These young students were true storytell-ers in every sense of the word .” “There was not an audience member who did not enter the fantasy of their story, and that is because those actors were disciplined and trained in the art

of storytelling.” What a compliment!! OUTSTANDING JOB!

Let’s all help in congratulating them for a job MORE THAN WELL DONE!!!!!

Honor Crew:

Hannah Williams

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-STAR CAST:

Molly McDowell & Clara Webb

All-Star Cast:

Abigail Harris

TREKKER Days

January: 7th, 16th, 21st, & 30th See Ms. Welch in The Social House for details!

Jan. 17th: Texas Two Step

Arlington/Kennedale Tournament

Jan. 24th: Scurry Rosser

Wildcat Invitational

January 28th and 29th:

NASP State Qualifier (in

house; during class)

MJH Student Council

will be selling fresh

baked cookies

& hot cocoa on

Friday, January 24th

STUCO

Cocoa-.75 Cookie– 1.00

Santa and his Hippie Helpers helped indeed! Toys collected were delivered to the Gun Barrel Family

Resource Center. Thanks for making some little boy’s or little girl’s Christmas wishes come true!!

Jr. Police Explorer

meeting at 3:45 @ HS

every Thursday!

Worth

Quoting...

“Tomorrow is the first blank

page of a 365 page book.

WRITE A GOOD ONE!”

-author unknown