For yet another time this year, HCK is #1 in the entire NATION in the American Reading Company's Action 100 program!!! Yay!!!! Yes, you heard that right, our very energetic students have exceeded expectations for this week and have out-read many other schools around the U.S.A. We are proud to be #1, but we need to continue READing, READing, READing in order to stay on top of the rest!!! We Can Do It!!! Yaaaaay!!!
Congratulations to our HCK Lady Tigers who got 3rd place in the state playoffs!!! They played wonderfully and left everything they had on the court. What an amazing year so far for our Athletics and we still have so much more coming up this year!! GO TIGERS!!!
WOOHOO!!!!
Our high school Lady Tigers, coached by Coach Kris Shields,
played hard and won Friday’s game
earning them a spot in the TCSAAL Divisional Playoffs!!!
Our Lady Tigers will go up against San Antonio CAN! Academy
tomorrow, January 31st at 7pm.
The playoff game will be held at the
Antioch Community Sports Complex,
located at 1001 North Walters, 78202.
COME OUT AND SUPPORT AND CHEER FOR
OUR LADY TIGERS!!
GO LADY TIGERS!!!!
Update on Tiger Arts and Athletics!
On the weekend of Jan. 21-22 the Texas Charter School Academic and Athletic League (TCSAAL) held an Arts and Choir competition in Austin. HCK's very own Jennifer Moreno, 6th grader from Ms. Rios class, placed 3rd in the Middle School Solo Competition signing, "Our Song" by Taylor Swift.
Three other HCK students participated: Madelyn Mata(5th grade), Ms. Nieves class, Natalie Ontiveros(5th grade), Mr. Maggio's class, and Valarie Garcia(7th grade), Ms. Crims class. All did wonderful and were coached before the competition by HCK music teacher Ms. Dulce Villarreal. Congratulations to all that participated.
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(pictured: The HCK girls who participated in the competion)
On a different note our Middle School boys lost their playoff game to East Austin Prep. School in Austin last night. It was a hard fought game but we fell short at the end.
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Our HS girls have an opportunity to make the playoffs with a win on Friday. They will play Creek View Charter from Killeen, in Killeen, Tx. They need all the support they can get from the school and staff. Go Tigers!!!
The next HCK Parent Meeting is March 29! Mark your calendars!
San Antonio Rampage hockey players recognize HCK 4th grader
On Thursday, January 12, a couple of San Antonio Rampage hockey players, (#1) Goalie Dov Grumet-Morris and (#8) Center Tim Kennedy showed up to the Higgs, Carter, King gym at 702 to preach to the middle schoolers the advantage of never giving up on your dreams. The appearance was in honor of 4th grader Joshua Ramos of Mrs. Bonillas' class who wrote one of the best responses to a Martin Luther King, Jr. 'I have a dream' contest sponsored by Spurs Sports and Entertainment, Inc. Joshua's response centered around a non-violent world where people could live in harmony, and was echoed by both of the hockey players.
After speaking for a few minutes to the middle schoolers, Grumet-Morris and Kennedy both participated in an activity inside Mrs. Bonillas' classroom where the class matched up descriptions of famous historical people to their picture. All-in-all it was a great time shared by everyone, and we are so proud of Joshua for winning this opportunity, but most of all, we hope that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream along with Joshua's is realized and attained in society for the betterment of the world.
Local tv station KENS5 was on hand as well taping a segment which will air Saturday morning Jan. 14 between 7:30-9am on their morning news program.
TONIGHT IS PARENT NIGHT!!!! LETS GET READY!!!
The Top Five (5) things YOU GET TO DO when you attend our 2012 Parent Night!
#1 You will get to visit with your child’s teachers.
#2 You will get to visit with your child’s teachers at your convenience anytime between 3pm – 6:30pm.
#3 You will get to eat all of the baked (healthy) chickent you want or
#4 You will get to eat all of the hamburgers, hotdogs, NACHOS, and popcorn you want!
#5 You will get to see your child’s classroom and experience the learning that happens everyday at HCK! Yea!
The Top Five (5) things YOU WILL LEAVE with your child’s teacher you attend our 2012 Parent Night!
#1) You will complete and leave your “survey” for our School Improvement Initiative! Yea!
#2) You will complete and leave your re-commitment form for each child for the 2012-2013 school year or you will leave your de-commitment form. You have until the end of the month but turning it in during parent night gets you an royal blue educational key chain or a multi-colored reusable grocery bag! Yea!
#3) You will leave your signed copy of your child’s progress report.
#4) You will leave your updated elective form if you have made changes ONLY!
#5) You will leave a completed emergency contact form if you have had changes in addresses, phone numbers and contact information! Yea!
The Top Ten things You Will TAKE with you when you participate in our 2012 Parent Night!
#1 You will take with you your child’s very own individual progress report! Yea!
#2 You will take with you your child’s very own ACTION 100 progress report! It is amazing to see the growth in each child’s progress in reading! Yea!
#3 You will get to sign up for next semester’s ELECTIVES if you want to make any changes from this semester! Yea! Next semester starts January 30th! Yea!
#4 You will get your first FIVE (5) Birdies for Charities pledges to begin our one and ONLY FUNDRAISER with the Valero Texas Open! Yea!
#5 You will get your next HCK bag – You know that we like you to have a bag to carry everything in! YEA! Get your choice of pink, orange or grey! Yea!
#6) You will get t-shirts in your child’s size! Yea!
#7) You will get (if you bring your $9) your child’s group picture! Yea! (If you already paid, your teacher will have the picture) Yea!
#8) Returning parents – YOUR Ben Carson DVD is in and your teachers have it! Yea!
#9) NEW parents – Your Ben Carson book is in and your teachers have it! Yea!
#10) You will get your first opportunity to re-commit to Higgs, Carter, King for the 2012-2013 school year! Yea!
HCK Special Recognition!!! Time to RECOGNIZE!!
HCK student Marcus Rivers was just awarded with a scholarship to St. Mary's University in San Antonio. We are all very proud of him, and in response to this great accomplishment, his mother wanted to make a special recognition to HCK teacher Roberto Alfaro for his tireless effort in transforming Marcus into the man he has become. It is things like this, a teacher not giving up on a student, that makes our HCK community so proud to do what we do day in and day out. We praise Marcus for attaining this scholarship and wish him the best as he enters into his college life. We expect great things out of Mr. Rivers in the future, but Mr. Alfaro will continue to set strong examples this year and next on the campus of HCK and we are excited to see who will be next in line to get college scholarships from HCK!!!
HCK student wins Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a Dream" writing contest sponsered by Spurs Sports and Entertainment, Inc.
Joshua Ramos, a Fourth grader in Mrs. Bonillas' class wrote a very good response for the contest and in turn won a visit next week by a San Antonio Rampage hockey player!! We are all very proud of this accomplishment and are excited by the visit next week. Stay tuned for pictures!
Read Joshua's response here:
joshua's_dream_001.pdf
BREAKFAST BUCKS FOR BOOKS HAS STARTED!
We had soooo much fun last year at Half Price Book Stores and we are ready to do it again this year. Remember, being at school everyday and eating breakfast everyday is the key towards earning bucks to spend on books! Yea! Keep up the great work!
And we are still competing for that national #1 spot with Action 100, so we need all of our students to continue excelling at reading all their books everyday! We can do it!!!
Welcome to the website of the #1 school in the U.S.A. in the American Reading Company's Action 100 Reading Program!!! We have the best READERS in the country!!! Congratulations to all of our students for this prestigious honor and we hope we can maintain this level of reading throughout the entire year! We Can Do It!!!!!
Our Pre-Kinder students are excelling each and every day!! In Ms. Tammy Villanueva's class, the kids love to write their letters and numbers, and are exceeding their teachers expectations to one day be the smartest students they can be. At Higgs, Carter, King we strive to mold our students to be the best that they can be!!! We Can Do It!!!
Each day our teachers train, prepare, plan and organize for 90 minutes to add rigor to every lesson so that all students can reach their full potential! This is the first year we have been able to schedule time for daily collaborative planning time for all of our kinder through 12th grade teachers. Listen to what they have to say after three weeks of school. "The past three (3) weeks have gone well!" "I am doing well! It's very hard work and time consuming work! My students are interested in learning!" "Each day gets a bit easier - the routine seems to be falling in to place. The children are eager to learn and there is a lot of work to do, but I feel pretty good about it!" "Parents have been very supportive!" "Parents are great!" "Kids are turning in homework!" "Kids know procedures!" "Binders are working great!" "I have learned so much over the last three (3) weeks...so much!" "Teaching my lessons has improved greatly!" "I like my progress in classroom management!" "It's a pursuit of happiness!" "I feel we have had a great start to the year... The challenge is getting the students back into the school mode." "I anticipate great things from my students this year!" "My parents are awesome this year very supportive! My students are open for learning and full of energy! They keep me on my toes! My time so far is wonderfully over-whelming and full of fun!" "We're working, working, and working!" We are expecting great learning to take place everyday in every classroom so that our students can perform their best and be ready for the SAT tests and for college! Hip, hip, hooray!
An UNFORGETTABLE TEACHER strives to... #1) Be Present in the Moment; #2) Listen attentively and completely; #3) Share Yourself; #4) Focus on student strengths and talents; #5) Admits mistakes and makes amends; #6) Hold high expectations for students and yourself; #7) Show interest in and for students and last but not least #8) Imagines with students what the future holds for them.
Higgs, Carter, King mentioned in Forbes Magazine!
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- When Principal Claudette Yarbrough decided to implement ACTION 100 at Higgs, Carter, King Charter School, she pledged to make the entire school community accountable for results. In partnership with American Reading Company, administrators and teachers will undergo 30 days of professional development training to master research-based teaching methods aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the new Common Core Standards. Already, more than 300 parents have attended mandatory parent workshops.
"At our ACTION 100 kickoff event, staff brought in community leaders to establish expectations," says Yarbrough. "San Antonio Police Chief McManus gave a rousing speech to students about how reading can take them to college, and he had all the students shouting, 'I will go to college' and 'I love to read!'
HCK was also mentioned in the Houston Biz Journal as well as the Dallas Biz Journal
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