Week 4 of 37 weeks
Congratulate your Conquistador for completing their 1st 3 weeks of school. The first progress report will be available for your family to view on Thursday, August 24 through the Home Access Center. It is important to review this first Progress Report to make the necessary adjustments to continue to improve. We talk to our Conquistadores daily about elevating and getting 1% better every day. On Tuesday, August 29 will be our first Parent Teacher Conferences where you will be able to meet with staff on how to help your teen be successful in school.
Let's make the next three weeks successful for our Conquistadores!
One Family, One Destiny!
Big Bad Blue!
Be the One!
Elevate and Conquer!
Happening this week
August
Kindess in the Classroom: Kindness
Breakfast: 7:40 a.m. to 8:25 a.m.
First Bell Rings: 8:25 a.m.
Tary Bell: 8:30 a.m.
Student Dismissal: 4:00 p.m.
Monday, August 21
- Social Emotional Learning Student Survey continues
- Parents please complete your Social Emotional Survey
- All assignments must be turned in for 1st progress report
Tuesday, August 22
- We love our Conquistadores! Let's see you at school!
Wednesday, August 23
- Cross Country Meet @ East Montana 4:00 p.m.
- YISD Board Meeting 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 24
- Progress Report 1 available on HAC
Friday, August 25
- High Five Friday courtesy of Cross Country and Cheerleaders- morning greeting
Saturday, August 26
- Football: Del Valle Middle vs Hanks Middle @Hanks High School 9:00 a.m.
- Volleyball: Del Valle Middle vs Hanks Middle @ Hanks Middle 9:00 a.m.
Coming up
Parent Teacher Conferences on August 29 @ 4:30 p.m.
No Student Deliveries during the day
Deliveries for Students (during the day)
Deliveries for students during the day will not be allowed due to the high student population and limited staff to make the deliveries. We also do not want your child to miss valuable instruction. We also limit phone calls to classrooms during the day.
Please be sure to send your child to school with
- their needed school materials,
- band or athletic equipment,
- lunch,
- money
- chromebook
Prepare your student in the evenings to have all they need to be successful the next day.
Away for the Day: Cell phones, Ear buds and Electronic Devices
Cell phones, earbuds and other electronic devices may be used before and after school PRIOR to entering the building.
Once students enter the building, they MUST BE TURNED OFF.
Away for the day: All cell phones must be put away and not visible during instructional time, to include breakfast and lunch time.
Phones will be confiscated if students are using it without permission from a DVMS staff member.
Parents or a family member may pick up the phone after school after a $15 fine is paid.
The school will not be held liable for any lost, damaged, or stolen cell phone or electronic devices.
Outside beverages in the morning
If students enter the building at 8:30 a.m. (TARDY BELL) with a beverage they will be asked to drink quickly or dispose of the drink.
What is allowed in the classroom? Water bottles and closed containers containing water.
Reading Language Arts: What’s Happening in Middle School RLA?
Unit 2 begins on Wednesday, August 16 and will end on September 29.
The focus for this unit for all three grade levels will be writing a personal narrative while using multi-genre texts as mentors.
Math: What's happening in MIddle school Math?
What’s Happening in Middle School Math?
6th Grade: Unit 1: Equivalent Forms of Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (August 2-18) then Unit 2: Rational Numbers (August 21-September 8)
7th Grade: Unit 2 Proportional Reasoning, Ratios, and Rates (August 17-September 8)
8th Grade/7th ADV: Unit 2: One Variable Equations and Inequalities (August 11-30)
Science: What's Happening in Middle School Science?
Grade 6 Unit 1: Investigating Chemicals (August 3-23) then Unit 2: Properties of Matter (August 25-September 15)
Grade 7 Unit 1: Investigating Cell Structures and Functions (August 3-23) then Unit 2: Body Systems and Homeostasis (August 25-September 22)
Grade 8 Unit 1: Investigating Among Living Systems (August 3-23) then Unit 2: Forces that Change Earth (August 25-September 15)
Social Studies: What's Happening in Middle School Social Studies?
Grade 8
Era 1 Colonial America (August 9 - August 29)
Grade 7
Unit 2 Natural Texas and Its People (August 9 - 22)
Grade 6
Unit 1 Think Like A Historian: Family Connection (August 2 - 18)
Unit 2 United States and Canada (August 24 - September 22)
Conduct Expectations
OFOD Check:
Be Safe
Be Responsible
Be Respectful
Conquistadores are expected to:
- Follow classroom and school expectations.
- Follow the campus dress code at all times.
- Always show respect to others and yourself.
- Keep hands and feet to oneself and off the walls.
- Students must have a hall pass when out of class during the instructional day.
- All students are responsible for their school and personal items at all times.
- No words or actions give anyone the right to hurt another person.
- Fighting is never allowed at school.
- Rough play is never allowed.
- Use of profanity, ethnic slurs, and/or bullying will not be tolerated.
- Rock throwing, picking up rocks or the throwing of any object in a harmful way is not allowed.
- Students must use designated areas for activities. For example: no football or volleyball on the basketball courts. It is for your own safety and the safety of others.
- Food and drinks are only allowed in the cafeteria. Trash must be thrown away in the cafeteria trash can. No littering.
- Unless it is a part of an approved school fundraiser, students may not sell any items to other individuals at school.
- Students may not bring magnets, laser pointers or permanent markers to school.
Ms. Veronica Frias
Del Valle Middle School
915-434-3301
Email: vfrias@yisd.net
Location: 8674 North Loop Drive, El Paso, TX, USA
Phone: 915-434-3301
Twitter: @vronicasworld