We have just about made it to the halfway point!. There has been so much progress these past few months, you all should be proud!

As we look to second semester, we would like to reiterate the following tips for success:

• Encourage your student to eliminate distractions; extra open tabs and browsers, cell phones, games, etc.

• Turning in something is better than nothing.

• Encourage them to use their time wisely.

• Join us in Canvas through as a Parent Observer where you can see and monitor your student's coursework, progress, and receive announcements. If you need help with this please let us know.

  • Please note, there is a delay in the sync between Canvas and Q. We recommend keeping track of both as much as possible.

Ms. Davis, Mrs. Duprow, Ms. Weingartner and Mrs. Moonan-Renschler

Canvas Parent Observer App Directions:

There is a parent app as well as a student app for Canvas. If you are interested in seeing what your student has as far as assignments on canvas, you can download the app from either the Google Play or iTunes store. The parent app is blue and the student app is red.

You will need a code from your students account in order to pair your account to theirs. You will find this by logging into their canvas account and following these steps:

○ click account

○ click settings

○ scroll to the bottom

○ click pair with observer

○ type the code into the parent account

If you run into problems doing this, let one of us know and we will try and help get you connected.

Video links: Canvas Student App Canvas Parent App

Greetings Team Revelation Families,

It's hard to believe it's almost the end of the first semester! We would just like to remind you to keep up to date with your student’s grades as the quarter ends December 16. It is important that students keep trying their best. We have found that sometimes during this time of year, students’ attention wanes. It is an expectation that when students are absent, they are checking Canvas for assignments. Given the technology that students have access to, they are not excused from assignments when they are absent.

We are enjoying this wonderful and capable group of young people, and we’d hate to see their grades slip!

As always, thanks for your support!

Team Revelation

MATH - Mr. Wimberger for Mr. Priest

This December, our Math 7 classes are going to be exploring and learning about unit prices, ratios, proportions, how to solve algebraic proportions. Our Pre-Algebra class is going to continue to work with adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions while solving algebraic expressions involving variables and fractions.

SCIENCE - Mrs. O’Connor

In science, we are finishing up biology and will be dissecting frogs the first week of December. Right before winter break, we will start computer coding. Make sure to check Q to see all grades! Have a wonderful winter break!

LANGUAGE ARTS - Mrs. Lake

Hello! It’s hard to believe we are almost halfway through the year! For Language Arts in December we will continue practicing grammar and analyzing myths and folklore. Please also know I will stop taking 2nd Q grades on the 10th, and the assignments we do the last week before break will go on to 3rd Q grades.

SOCIAL STUDIES - Mr. Petrash

We will be learning about North and South America as we wind down the First Semester. This will include a study of the United States geography, as well as an investigation of Alaska.

STRUCTURED LEARNING CLASSROOM - Ms. Robinson

For the month of December the SLC classroom will be working on conflict management in Social Skills class. Study Skills classes will focus on time & project management. We will also be focusing on note-taking and other skills to promote finding information in nonfiction texts.

Mr. Dyer

In Social Studies classes, we are moving into new units in all classes. 7th Grade World Geography is beginning the unit on North America, studying the human and physical geography of the United States and Canada. 8th Grade U.S. History is learning about the events that led to the American Revolution.

Ms. Knight

In Strategies for Success class, we’re currently working on learning how to work as a team through various classroom activities. We will be doing this for the remainder of this week in preparation for the final project, which will be a team effort. In Drama classes, we’re currently learning about backstage roles and processes when it comes to putting on a play. We will be moving into creating five-minute plays this week. In Language Arts 8 class, students are finishing up with Embedded Assessment 2 for Unit 1. For this assignment, students are writing a definition essay on what they think a hero is. We will start on Unit 2 next week, which will shift our focus from heroism towards dystopian literature.

Mr. McKenzie

In Geometry class we are finishing a unit on triangles and their segments. In 8th grade math, we are beginning a unit on solving linear equations. In 7th grade Math, we are working on a unit about positive and negative numbers.

Mr. Denney

All Language Arts classes will be doing the Winter MAP test during the week of December 6-10. Adv. Language Arts 8: students are finishing up our focus on real-life heroes and the writing of a definition essay. Language Arts 7: Pairs of students will collaborate to create an illustrated myth that explains a belief, custom, or natural phenomenon.

Drama class: students are working to finish writing and producing their own original one act plays.

Mr. Oliver

In 7th grade Science classes, we are exploring cell structure and function; soon, we will learn about the cell cycle. In 8th grade Science and Advanced Science 8, we are studying astronomy and our Earth/Moon/Sun system.

Hello Hanshew Families,

PE Make Up Work

Believe it or not, we’re already nearing the end of the second quarter with less than three weeks remaining before the end of the second quarter/start of the winter break. This also means that students are running low on time to turn in their PE makeup work before the semester ends. To that end, we recommend that all PE students (and/or their guardians) log into Q to check for any absences related 0s and make sure to get them made up before grades become official at the end of the semester. Make up sheets can be picked up in class or found online on Canvas.

Fall/Winter Sports

Volleyball and Wrestling are up and running and with several events scheduled over the next few weeks, Hanshew students and families will have multiple chances to come out and cheer on their fellow Hawks.

It’s also not too early to start looking forward to the winter sports that will be offered early in the third quarter, just on the other side of the winter break. For those students interested in boys’ basketball or coed cross-country skiing, we recommend getting in your paperwork ASAP so that you’re all ready to go when we come back from break.

In Health this quarter, Hanshew 8^th graders have covered the skeletal, muscular, nervous, cardiovascular and respiratory systems. They have also completed physical activity, personal care and alcohol units. After six weeks of study, Cameron Anderson, Beatrice Anunciacion, Oliver Casurella, Cameron Hickman, Charles Case and Olivia Soderstrom have distinguished themselves academically in class. Congratulations Health Hawks!

At Hanshew, the Fine Arts Department strives to bring both academic and non-academic benefits to our students through the arts...encouraging them to be and do their best in every endeavor in life.

"The fine arts provides learners with non-academic benefits such as promoting self-esteem, motivation, aesthetic awareness, cultural exposure, creativity, improved emotional expression, as well as social harmony and appreciation of diversity. These are the very fibers of the fabric known as our American culture." (https://www.katyisd.org/dept/finearts/Pages/The-Importance-of-Fine-Arts-Education-.aspx)

*The winter band concert will be Thursday, December 9th at 6 PM! All are welcome to join us to hear the Hanshew Jazz Band and the Hanshew Combined Concert Band.

​*The Hanshew choir winter concert will be Tuesday, December 7th at 6 PM in the MPR! All are welcome to join us.

Latino Holiday Festivities In December

Santa Claus, reindeer, and jingle bells are great, but they’re hardly the be all, end all of Christmas celebrations for many Latinos.

While many people around the world gather on Dec. 25 to deck the halls and exchange gifts with family and friends, Latinos ’ celebrations begin well before Christmas day and sometimes last into the first week of January.

Latinos’ holiday celebrations are BIG, with families, friends and, at times, entire neighborhoods, coming together to eat, sing and dance, and depending on each family’s religious beliefs, some attend a special Midnight Mass.

Though Latinos’ holiday celebrations vary from country to country and from household to household, one thing holds true across the board: Latino holiday traditions and festivities are the gifts that keep on giving.

In Mr. Bushey's Computer Technology course we are wrapping up

our Cyber Security module and will soon be moving onto various multimedia projects along with looking at various careers that correspond with what we are currently learning.

In Mr. Bushey's PLTW: Innovators & Makers, we have finished

looking at various Input devices, such as pressure sensors, flex sensors, temperature sensors, and accelerometers. We are beginning our exploration into output devices which includes simple motors and gears.

Students in Mr. Korniczky’s 8th grade Applied Technology (AT) classes have been working on their first STEM project called the Tower Challenge. The objective is to build a Tower out of coffee stir sticks following criteria and constraints. The final outcome of the tower is to support the most weight and it also must be the most efficiently built. After building the tower, students will calculate the efficiency (which means using the least amount of material while supporting the maximum weight possible). Then, the results will be charted utilizing data of the entire class.

In 7th grade AT class, the students' STEM project is creating Air Skimmers. The objective is to build a rubber band powered vehicle that is shot along the ground with the goal of the farthest distance. Mr. Korniczky said his students' all-time record is 103 feet 9 inches. Presently, students are accomplishing a distance of 57 feet on a tiled floor and that is very good! Students will experiment after understanding some science concepts related to Newton’s Laws of Motion and understanding of how inertia affects the skimmers. Students were also given the opportunity to show their artistic skills by designing their skimmers and later, classes voted on the best designs.

Link to photos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x-bR_BwjyTOsjUcOpZm17cpzwbe7jEgffDm4gJ-e1wY/view