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Friday, August 15th, 2025
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8th Grade Washington DC Trip
Dear Parent or guardian,
Washington D.C. registration is still ACTIVE and we are looking for more students to join our trip planned for the Spring of 2026. We are encouraging all current 8th grade students to a attend this trip, as there are educational activities being planned alongside the trip.
Since we are hopeful to get the majority (if not all) of the students on this trip, we have been setting up different fundraising opportunities to make the trip more affordable for all families. In addition, ONE parent/guardian is allowed to accompany a student on this trip, but will be expected to pay the same amount as their child to attend the trip. If you would like to attend this trip or still need to register your child, you will need to go the hemisphere website to register and pay a deposit or fill out the paper forms and send cash/check deposit into the school to be given to Mrs. Seibert.
If you were to have any questions during the registration process, please contact Mrs. Seibert at allison.seibert@uc.k12.in.us
Ms. Severance, Language Arts
Severance Class Update
Miss Severance:
HALA 7, ELA 8, ELA 9 -- This week, students learned more about our class expectations and set up their composition notebooks in preparation for bellringers. In addition, 8th graders all worked on some vocabulary to prepare for our first story next week, and 7th grade HALA read their first story today -- "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. We will be going more with this same story next week where we dive deeper.
Reporting Student Absences (Number To Call For An Absence 765-458-7438) All absences must be reported by the parent or guardian. Absences may be reported by phone, voice mail, electronic transmission, or written note. If a phone call or voice mail or e-mail report is not received by 9:00 a.m., when possible an attempt will be made by the school to contact the home of the missing student to verify their absence. E-mails may be sent to Ms. Dare @ emily.dare@uc.k12.in.us. Should the school have to make this contact because the parent did not call, the absence will be considered unexcused. An absence reported by phone or voice mail needs to include a specific explanation for the reason for the absence. Any absence reported by electronic transmission or written note should be received by school personnel no later than the date the student returns from the absence and is also expected to include a specific explanation for the reason for the absence.
