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Thanks to everyone who came out for last week's 6th-grade Parent / Guardian Breakfast!

It was wonderful to meet everyone and kick off the year.

Our parents expressed some common challenges: managing assignments from multiple classes, changing friend dynamics, and screen time. They also shared common celebrations: greater independence, greater autonomy, greater responsibility.

The slides from our presentation are linked here and below.

What happens when you leave mac-and-cheese in 105 degree heat for days on end? Such experiments occur daily at OGMS. Jackets are already hung, ready to be reclaimed; water bottles seem to breed on the lost-and-found table.

Parents and guardians, please remember to label your child’s lunch box, water bottle, and all personal belongings with their name. This helps us return lost items quickly and keep things organized. Thank you!

At Orange Grove, we exist to empower students to seek out and tackle worthy challenges. And we want kids to be aware of and alive to all sorts of wonderful challenges that they can tackle. One of our strategies is to present students with "lunchtime" challenges - some academic, some not, with the hope that we can get as many students as possible trying something outside of their comfort zone.

Panthers are known for leaping, so it made sense that they'd be lining up to see who could jump the highest relative to their stature. The year's opening challenge was so popular it was extended over two days.

Many students went right back to the end of the line to see if they could top their recent performance. That's what we call a growth mindset! But the main reason we do it is because it's fun. Ms. Cordero-Muir had to try for herself, as did Mr. Rubin-Toles and Mama Snow.

Wait, what does that percentage mean? Percentages were calculated by measuring how far above a student's height they could reach with their highest jump: (Jump height - student height) / student height. It doesn't account for arm length differences - so your mileage may vary...

Aria Hafner (73%)

Jake Hull (73%)

Andrew Lundin (67%)

Nikolas Camp (77%)

Maeve Felix (72%)

Tiago Leal (71%)

Tyler Fischer (85%)

Audrey Teeple (73%)

Yusuf Campbell (70%)

Zane King-Burge (48%)

Miles Tkalsevic (62%)

Jack Barclay (54%)

Andrew Lundin (67%)

Ansel McLeod (61%)

Cameron Warfield (47%)

Aria Hafner (73%)

William Erman (51%)

Kobe Travis (48%)

Jacob Landau (49%)

Ethan Bek (51%)

Tara Mohankumar (50%)

Edgar Ortiz (56%)

Harley Rowlett (38%)

Logan Husted (58%)

Marcel Sabalos (51%)

Bodie Fitzpatrick (51%)

Jake Hull (73%)

Camden Palmour (60%)

Marcel Sabalos (53%)

Ivan LeRoy (49%)

Tran Nguyen (49%)

Selah Taylor (51%)

Emily Honecker (45%)

Phoenix Bruning (52%)

Octavian Radu (51%)

Lei'aloha Fraser (48%)

Breck Metzger (48%)

Alejandro Ackerman (45%)

Carter Espinoza (49%)

Bodie Fitzpatrick (49%)

Winston Wu (49%)

Hudson Garner (43%)

Connor Yau (49%)

Sawyer Jones (44%)

David Kleybort (53%)

Sanchit Samrat (48%)

Kate Schaibley (47%)

Elena Milo (48%)

Kezia Brown (31%)

Yates Hackett (54%)

Miles Tkalcevic (58%)

Ivan LeRoy (50%)

Zain Guima (50%)

William Romanoski (46%)

Ty Arrington (48%)

Logan Macdonald (53%)

Juan Pablo Calderon Sada (55%)

Lucien Calvert (48%)

Juan Karam Gonzalez (49%)

Vivienne Rosen (44%)

James Bramlette (45%)

Evan Posl (41%)

Quintin Collins (39%)

Levi Finkelstein (43%)

Taylor Serra (47%)

Liam Bains (47%)

David McBirnie (55%)

Cillian Walsh (45%)

Brendan Sult (39%)

Hunter Brannon (49%)

Bowen Andrews (51%)

London Emerson (37%)

Maeve McGovern (37%)

Penny Thu (45%)

Manuel Aregullin (53%)

Anthony Gradillas (49%)

Leopold McDonald (48%)

Sean Horrick (50%)

Adam Cohn (53%)

Nikolas Camp (77%)

Theo Reyerson (59%)

Connor Tumlinson (61%)

Sequoia Appadurai (52%)

Abrielle Stevens (47%)

Zari Cannon (48%)

Teagan Thibault (62%)

Lilian Moraff (53%)

Tiago Leal (71%)

Elliott Bennett (53%)

Weston Gabriel (47%)

Bennett Vogelei (56%)

Leopold McDonald (56%)

David McBirnie (62%)

Joshua Seamans (48%)

Hunter Brannon (51%)

Theo Reyerson (57%)

Leopold McDonald (57%)

Callan Wamper (55%)

Katherine Weigel (45%)

Benham Rowley (51%)

Lucy Velasco (52%)

Aubrie Dubois (49%)

Hadley Kester (58%)

Lyra Fuentes (45%)

Presley Turbett (47%)

Holden Nighswander (51%)

Emmeline Jacobsen (34%)

Alicia Lu (42%)

Lillian Frank (68%)

Emerson Murphy (54%)

Adelie Fidel (57%)

Maeve Felix (72%)

Rowan McGraw (57%)

James Dely-Jones (59%)

Maggie Hager (53%)

Miles Goodrich (49%)

Collin Tumlinson (55%)

Casey Casper (57%)

Ryan Moore (37%)

Aidan Bazua (62%)

Addison Appel (66%)

Charlie Grandner (47%)

Alethea Pierson (51%)

Amaya Manuelito (44%)

Camille Johnson (60%)

Charlotte Baker (49%)

Teresa Tran (57%)

Emilio Melendez (57%)

Collin Tumlinson (65%)

Preston Cardenas (57%)

Tyler Fischer (85%)

Abram Tang (64%)

Steven Ofori (47%)

Casey Casper (40%)

Ryan Moore (37%)

Hunter Hashim (57%)

Eleanor Fellrath (54%)

Aiden Bazua (62%)

August LeRoy (51%)

Jack Gurski (49%)

Emilio Melendez (59%)

Charlie Grandner (50%)

Soren Sandeen (54%)

Maggie Hager (54%)

Casey Casper (55%)

Ryan Moore (63%)

Yusuf Campbell (70%)

Bowen Klimke (30%)

Yahia Alkhayat (61%)

Madison Richner (37%)

Alayna Picard (62%)

James Baum (58%)

Matteo Martinez (61%)

Audrey Teeple (73%)

Dahlia Pawa (43%)

Leland White (55%)

Kaden Storey (64%)

Laila Travis (50%)

Ivanitski Aleksander (55%)

Mama Snow (49%)

Mark Rubin-Toles (57%)

Kelsey Cordero-Muir (44%)

Ms. Cordero gets in on the action, making a heroic leap for the markers.

The governing board considers the adoption of core and supplemental materials/resources at a board meeting following a 60-day preview. The materials are available for public review from August 13 to October 12, 2025.

Amy Krauss, President

Eileen Jackson, Vice President

 

Jacquelyn Davoli, Board Member

Tom Logue, Board Member

Gina Mehmert, Board Member

Dr. Denise Bartlett, Superintendent

(please check www.azleg.gov for contact information)

 

Representative Nancy Gutierrez

Representative Chris Mathis

Senator Priya Sundareshan

Ms. Alvarez and students play a round of a game that involved counting and exchanging phone numbers.

Some languages have something called the imperative mood - used when giving directions such as, "Añade dos cucharadas" - add two spoonfuls. Students in Ms. Robles' class are learning commands because soon they will be Food Network stars and have to prepare a meal and give instructions, and recommendations. 

This day, students watched a video on how to prepare a tres leches cake and were working on making sure the instructions on how to prepare the cake were given using commands to address a group of people. 

How do you know which websites to trust? Will Wikipedia ever lead you astray? Dr. Deane's social studies students learn to look at online sources with critical eyes. Are results backed up by data, or are claims made without evidence? Who do you trust more - a politician's website, or a database of how they have voted on the issues? With solid guidance, students learn what to look for.

Students in Mama Snow's room deliberate and select constants, dependent variables, and independent variables as they work in groups to investigate how to increase the potential energy of an object.

Students read texts differentiated to fit their level, with images and optional read-alouds by native speakers to scaffold their learning.

In Ms. Cordero's class, a student who forgets a pencil "checks out" one of the class pencils, all of whom are named; students have done a great job of caring for them - and tracking them down if they wander outside of class.