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Weekly Highlights

Look What We're Up To

Monday 02/01

	7th Boys Basketball @ Canyon Vista
	8th Boys Basketball vs. Canyon Vista

Tuesday 02/02

	New Directions Field Trip
	Writing Extravaganza in Language Arts
	Incoming 6th Grade Parent Night 6:30 Cafeteria

Wednesday 02/03

Early Release (No Late Bus)

Thursday 02/04

	7th Girls Basketball @ Walsh
	8th Girls Basketball vs. Walsh
	Robotics Club Meeting
	Spring Pictures

Friday 02/05

Valentine's Dance 6:30PM

Teacher and Paraprofessional
of the Year

Congratulations is in order for Sean Roach, 6th grade World Cultures teacher for receiving Teacher of the Year for Deerpark Middle School. Shirley Lopez received paraprofessional of the year for the 2009-2010 school year!

From the Principal

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As we move into February and six more weeks of winter (thanks Punxsutawney Phil,) it is hard to believe that we are already planning for the 2010-11 school year. Our counselors are diligently working to complete student choice sheets and meet with all the students to advise them with their course selections. As students reflect on the electives that they wish to take next year, it is my hope that they consider taking a course that truly interests them. We have many wonderful electives, and middle school should be the opportunity for students to explore art, languages, music, theater, and business. I encourage you to discuss with your student all the available options and help them make the best selection based on their interest.

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Experiencing Space

Over the course of the year, the Deerpark Middle School 8th grade science teachers have been partnering with the Austin Nature and Science Center in Zilker Park to provide meaningful science experiences for some of our 8th grade students on campus. The last fieldtrip involved visiting a portable planetarium, learning about how stars are created, doing a moon phase lab, and creating scale models of our solar system. By the end, students were able to find specific stars in the planetarium using a star map and were able to name all of the moon phases.

Ms. Stultz and Ms. DeLaGarza applied for and received funding from Partners in Education to provide these experiences for our students!
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