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Hutto Middle School
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News From
The Dolphin Team
Children have more need of
models than critics.
—-Carolyn Coats
Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn’t
Want To Hear
Our Dolphin students recently got to visit The Gulf
Specimen Marine Mobile Sea
Lab. This is an educational
traveling aquarium exhibit
that includes five touch tanks
with starfish, sea urchins,
conchs, crabs, sponges and a
variety of other interesting
and colorful sea life from the
Gulf of Mexico. It also contains seven aquariums filled
with octopus, stone crab, file
fish, gorgonians, shrimp, and
a variety of fish and invertebrates. Our students had a
great time being able to pick
up and handle the creatures in
the touch tanks. This was an
excellent hands-on experience to extend upon their
learning in science.
Volume 4 Issue 2
Mark Your
Calendar
 October 19-30
Spirit Links PTO
Fundraiser
 October 20
Tiger Night
 October 23
Flu Clinic
 October 29
BHS Homecoming
Parade
 October 30
BHS Homecoming
 November 10
Panther Team
Latinfest
 November 13
Early Release
 November 20
Bronco Latinfest
Spirit
Chains
Hutto PTO will be selling
Spirit Chains during lunch
October 19 - October
30. They will be sold in
bundles of 10 for $1.00.
The 5th grade class and
the 6th grade class that
displays the most spirit
chains will win a tailgate
party with BHS football
players and cheerleaders.
October 15, 2015
 November 23-27
Thanksgiving
Holidays
Approximately 200 Chorus students performed at the first
concert of the 2015-2016 school year. Featured soloists were
Tyneshia Galloway and Tamilyah Hicks.
 December 8
Chorus Concert
 December 10
Christmas Parade
 December 14
School-wide writing
test
 December 15
Band concert
 December 21January 6
Winter Break
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Tiger Eye News
Panthers are Hands-on Learners!
Fifth grade Panther Team students conducted research on Civil War areas of interest and
transformed cereal boxes into Civil War Gallery Walk exhibits which were used by other
students to answer questions related to the war.
(Picture: Emily Franke, Kaylee Dallas, Davayon Stroud, and Brian Pugh explore Kevin
Brooks’ and Jaquavious Wallace’s cereal boxes to learn more about famous leaders and battles!)
Fifth grade students have also been studying plant and animal cells. The students prepared wet
slides with onion skin and then viewed the slides under the microscopes.
(Pictured in foreground: Dax Willis, Lily Byrd, and Marleigh Johnson on the microscopes!)
McKinney Vinto Act
If your family lacks a fixed, regular and
adequate nighttime residence and is
forced to live in any of the following
situations:
 Sharing the housing of other persons
due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason ( example:
evicted from home, etc. ) .
 In a motel.
 In an emergency or transitional shelter.
 Have a primary nighttime residence
that is not designed for or ordinarily used
as a regular sleeping accommodation for
humans ( car, park, or campsite ) .
Then your children may have the right
to:
 Enroll in school without proof of residency, immunization, school records, or
other documents.
 Choose between their school of origin
or the school zoned for where you are
currently living, when feasible.
Notes from the
School Nurse
Please make sure your contact
information is up to date. It is important
that we have your most current address
and phone numbers on file in case we
need to contact you.
Remember to keep your child at home if
they have the following symptoms:
fever greater than 100.5, vomiting, or
diarrhea.
Yearbooks!
HMS Yearbooks will go on sale very
soon. This year
it will include
the entire school
year. The cost
of the yearbook
will be $30.
We will also
sell memory
pages beginning
in March. More
information will
be available in
the coming
weeks.
 Receive transportation to school.
Parent
Resource Room
The Parent Resource Room is open
from 7:30-4:00 daily. There is a
computer that can be used to check
the Parent Portal as well as find
resources that are available in our
community and school. You will
also find copies of our school action
plan and school improvement plan.
The Parent Resource Room is located across from the guidance
office in Room 107.
 Attend school and participate in
school programs with children who are
not homeless. Children cannot be separated from the regular school program
because they are homeless.
 Receive all the school services available to other students.
For more information you may contact
Debbie Jones at:
229-248-2200.
HMS
Spelling Bee
The Hutto Middle School Spelling
Bee will be held Tuesday, December
1, 2015 at 8:30 in the Tiger Bite Cafe.
Each team will select three students to
represent their team. The top two
spellers from Hutto will compete in
the county spelling bee to be held in
the Board Room at the Decatur
County Support Center Friday,
Jan. 29, 2016. Two students will be
selected to compete in the District
Spelling Bee to be held Saturday, February 27, 2016 at Bainbridge College.
Study lists will be sent home next
week.