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Hunter's Creek Middle School
21st Century Digital Learners
Florida 'A' Rated School
13400 Town Loop Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32837
(407) 858-4620
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Mr. Couret's music class doing the blowing the balloon breathing activity. | |
Hunter's Creek Middle School Community Brief Monday, October 21, 2024 | |
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Dear Mark,
As we have started the second nine-weeks, the instructional focus is at a peak, and our students are setting their academic goals for the year with the help of our amazing HCMS teachers and school counselors. Parents! This is the time to sit with your students and review with them their academic goals and keep them on task.
We had the first house meetings for the year on Friday, 10/4. These meetings were a HUGE success filled with community building, activities, and other fun! Please see photos below.
We continue to use the HERO program as the HCMS Positive Behavior Intervention Support system in order to recognize our students. Our teachers also award students HERO points for wearing their house color on House Spirit Days which take place every Wednesday. We invite our Eagle parents to register for your own HERO account, if you have not already done so, so we may keep the lines of communication between home and school open.
Parents! Absences and tardiness rob our students out of important instructional time. Thank you for making this a top priority in supporting your child's academic success.
In closing, I am sad to let you know that Ms. Harriett Coleman, previous HCMS principal, who opened Hunter’s Creek Middle School in 1994 has passed away on Monday, 9/23/2024.
Ms. Coleman was an educator who helped shape the lives of thousands of children. Our gym carries her name in dedication to her commitment to HCMS and the Hunter’s Creek Community within her ten years as principal for our school.
Have a great week Eagles!
In Eagle Pride,
Joumana Moukaddam
Proud Principal
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The OCPS 2024 Fall Stakeholder Survey window is now open, but will be closing on October 29. Your input is very valuable HCMS, so please answer 2 questions about your satisfaction with our school as well as providing your opinions on ThoughtExchange. The survey is available in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Portuguese.
Your personal responses will never be shared with anyone in the school, so please provide honest, thoughtful feedback. Your responses will only be reported in combination with other employees’ responses. The data will be used as we work to ensure our school aligns with our core values.
It can be completed using any electronic device with internet access by clicking on the anonymous link (bit.ly/ocps_families) or using the QR code below. You will receive reminder emails during the survey dates.
HCMS families with children at more than one school will see survey questions for each school. If you have multiple children at the same school, you should think about the experiences of your older child in that school.
Thank you for your time!
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Happy National Boss Day, Principal Moukaddam! | |
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Tuesday, October 22nd:
Performing Arts Group Photos
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Wednesday, October 23rd:
House Spirit Day!
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Don Quijote en USA for TWDL students 10am-12pm, Library | |
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Thursday, October 24th:
Report Cards posted to Skyward
OCPS Lights on After School 5-7pm at Pershing School
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Friday, October 25th:
Pajama Day!
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Monday, October 28th to Friday, November 1st:
Red Ribbon Week
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Monday, October 28th to Wednesday, October 30th:
Boo Grams on Sale!, Delivered on Halloween
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Monday, October 28th:
Fall Picture Make-ups (and retakes for anyone who purchased photos)
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Wednesday, October 30th:
House Spirit Day!
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Away Volleyball Game at Meadow Woods 5pm | |
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Thursday, October 31st:
Report Card 1 Posted to Skyward
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Friday, November 1st:
House Meeting
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7th Grade Students of the Week (announced 10/4) | |
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Lorenzo Odena Toledo for Exemplifying Perseverance: Lorenzo is nominated for student of the week for exemplifying perseverance in Algebra! He's shown growth this quarter and has been able to make the connections and understanding of the skills/concepts in Algebra! I'm proud of his hard work and dedication that he's shown so far! Way to go, Lorenzo! ❤ -Mrs. Lebron
Francisco Argueta Manzano for Soaring to Greatness: Francisco has become an amazing student. He is quickly learning the English Language and works hard every single class period. He participates and makes sure to always do his best. Francisco is often the first student to want to help out in any situation from passing out papers to lending a pencil. He is a true Eagle! -Ms. Drake
Joshua Mercado Medina for Soaring to Greatness: Josh is an amazing student who is the top participant in all of my classes. He is a kind, intelligent, and hardworking student who eagerly contributes every single day. I truly believe his presence helps all of the other students in the class. He is a leader, and has a very bright future ahead of him. -Mr. Onderick
Francisco Argueta Manzano for Exemplifying Perseverance: Francisco is an active participant in class and he is always asking for ways to improve his math skills. He is intuitive and respectful, and I appreciate his hard working efforts in my math class! -Ms. Bevard
Marcello Marquez Velasquez for Excellence: Marcello is a pleasure to teach and I appreciate having his positive attitude in my 1st period class every day! He is a hard worker, contributes during discussions, and has been staying on top of his work. Keep being excellent! -Ms. DeLuca :)
Sahasra Chamalla for Soaring to Greatness: Sahasra Chamalla exemplifies the EAGLE character trait, SOARING TO GREATNESS! As a new student to HCMS, Sahasra asks lots of great questions as she learns the HCMS way. She attends tutoring regularly so that she can get answers to questions that she has. She also makes test corrections and takes advantage of extra credit opportunities. I am so proud of Sahasra and I know she will have a great year!!! Keep up the good work! -Mrs. Daniel
Edie Mize and Maddie Moist for Leadership: Maddie and Edie come and help before school in the library, just to be nice and help, often, and it is such a sweet thing to do and truly shows their pride in being a Student Literacy Leader. -Ms. Moye
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Teacher of the Month
Congratulations to our September Teachers of the Month (it was a tie!): Mr. Onderick, 7th grade language arts, and Ms. Rokaw, 6th & 7th grade reading!
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Here are some of the kind things students said about Mr. Onderick:
● Mr. Onderick deserves to be teacher of the month. He makes learning so much fun, that it doesn't even FEEL like we are actually learning! He uses captivating activities and really funny stories to help us learn Language Arts. Mr. Onderick also has a very friendly appearance, so if there is a new student in his class, that new student will immediately feel like they are in the right place! Thanks for being such a wonderful teacher Mr. Onderick!
● Mr. Onderick is an amazing teacher! He cares so much for his students and makes learning fun! I like that he gives us independent reading time in every class! :)
● Mr. O makes ELA so much fun to learn! He makes his lessons very interactive and fun for his students! Thank you for being such an amazing person and teacher Mr. O! :)
Also, we’re happy to announced that Mr. Onderick and his wife, Sarah, welcomed a healthy baby girl, Lily, on October 11th.
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Here are some of the kind things students said about Ms. Rokaw:
● Why I'm nominating Ms.Rokaw is because last year everytime I went to her class no matter what day it was I always felt so welcomed and she always has a way to make her class so much fun. I also love how she teaches like the way she teaches is really easy to understand the concept were learning about which is why I'm nominating Ms.Rokaw.💜
● Because she is always so patient with me and she's so relatable and makes class fun by incorporating so much stuff with class she never fails to put a smile on my face. So thank you Ms. Rokaw!!
● I choose Mrs. Rokaw because she really helps me on stuff that I get confused on and she is super kind, loving , caring and super fun and she always tries to make the class and I really appreciate Mrs. Rokaw and for what she does for me and everyone else.
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Support Faculty/Staff of the Month
Congratulations to our September Support Faculty/Staff of the Month: Ms. Moye, school librarian!
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Here are some of the kind things students said about Ms. Moye:
● I am nominating Ms. Moye for support person of the month because she is extremely hardworking. Ms. Moye is always looking out for the students, making sure things are in order, getting things done, and overall always making our school a much better place.
● Ms. Moye makes the library such a fun place to be! She's made me fall in love with reading even more than I did before. Thank you for everything Ms. Moye! :)
● She is a great librarian and just is a great person who makes our school a great place.
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HCMS Beanstack READATHON Fundraiser ENDS 10/31! | |
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Visit our HCMS Beanstack READATHON Fundraiser page (https://ocpshunterscreekmiddle.beanstack.com/fundraisers/673/community_donations) where you can help support our school’s literacy activities by donating to our "Read to Raise" challenge!
Beanstack is an app OCPS students use to track their reading and is already used regularly at HCMS. Our students will track their reading and share their progress with family & friends.
Your donation supports our reading program at HCMS, plus you'll inspire our students to read more. You can make a difference - every dollar raised, and minute spent reading, counts.
Students who collect donations and log minutes will earn prizes and Beanstack badges.
This fundraiser is also a House Competition. Currently, Europe has the most donations—can any other house catch up?!?!
Each student will also get their own personal link to share; they can access it through their Beanstack app.
The Readathon runs through October 31st; we hope you will consider supporting our students and their reading!
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"Super Saturday" is a career and college fair presented by Telemundo 31. It was on October 5th at the NBCUniversal building. It is part of their "El poder en ti" campaign.
At the event, an HCMS Eagle, Sebastian Mercado-Donadio, was one of the lucky winners of a new computer!
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8th Grade Science
All 8th grade science students visited the library to receive a lesson from Ms. Moye about evaluating resources and plagiarism in preparation for their science research paper. (Ms. Bullock’s class pictured here.)
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Ms. DeLuca
In Ms. DeLuca’s reading classes, students used word parts to break apart unknown words to determine their meaning.
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Ms. Febus
Students in Ms. Febus’s class took part in a cookie dig to pretend to be archaeologists and scavenged for chocolate chips. This was in preparation for the unit on archaeology. The activity was very fun and delicious.
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Alfred Antony was our 4,000th book checkout of the year, and his choice was Aphrodite by our 2024-25 visiting author, George O’Connor!! | |
Hispanic Heritage Month Spirit Week | |
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Our first house meetings were a HUGE success filled with community building, activities, and other fun!
Africa
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South America
For the 10/4 House Meeting, House South America students participated in a South America Facts trivia challenge. For two weeks prior to the meeting, daily factoids were posted in the Canvas Course Announcements. The students were divided into four groups, alphabetically, where they took the Kahoot quiz. Each group shared their top three scorers with House Leads, and they got a prize!
Pictured below are the winners: Ryan Lopez, Lorenzo Odena Toledo, Kai Pilapil, Isa Siddiqui, Jack Shockley, Daniel Carbonell Virla, Annarita Abraham, Miguel Baruque Quintero, Isabella Garcia, Daniel Diaz, Diego Rivas, Gabriel De Oliveira.
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Thank you, PTSA, for also supporting our House Meeting Days! | |
HCMS Vocabulary Initiative Update | |
Our HCMS Vocabulary Initiative is focusing on word parts aiming towards being able to break apart words to determine their meaning. Research shows that learning word parts is the most effective way to grow vocabulary in the secondary setting because one word part can help with determining the meaning of many words. | |
Here are the Word Parts that have been shared on Eagle Eye News so far this year: | |
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Oct. 21, 2024
On this episode of Mondays with Maria presented by Addition Financial, Dr. Vazquez previews this year's Superintendent Town Hall Community Meetings and how they're different from last year.
Listen to the extended conversation on the new Mondays with Maria Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Thank you for reading. Have a great week, Eagles!
Mrs. Moukaddam, Principal
Hunter's Creek Middle School
Monday, October 21, 2024
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Hunter's Creek Middle School Leadership Team | |
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