Blach Falcons: It’s time to order your 2014-2015 Blach yearbook! The yearbook staff is hard at work creating the most spectacular yearbook Blach has ever seen, and you’ll want to make sure you have yours at the end of the school year, so order now! Order forms will be emailed home to parents today, and may be turned in starting tomorrow to the office or Mrs. Hickman’s room, D-2. Don’t delay- order your yearbook NOW!

Wallet found in the library last week near the copy machine. Please see Mrs. Andrews to claim it.

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Congratulations to the 7th grade girls volleyball team for clinching playoffs.
The next game will be versus Miller (at Miller) on Tuesday, December, 2nd.
There is no practice today, so please be at Miller no later than 4:30 on Tuesday, ready to play.
Good luck girls!

Today there will be another tennis social after school from 3:15-4:30 if the tennis courts are dry. Come with a racquet and tennis shoes – all levels welcome.

Girls basketball tryouts: Monday, Dec. 8th and Tuesday Dec. 9th after school until 4:30. You MUST attend both tryout days. 

All Giving Back and Leadership students who counted canned food at lunch this week, please meet for 5 minutes at brunch in Mrs. MacKenzie’s classroom.

Attention homeroom teachers. During third period today, please ask your students to bring all canned foods to Mrs. Waxman’s room (Andrews through Koren) or Mrs. MacKenzie’s room (Lewis to Waxman) so we can be sure to have enough time to count. Thank you so much for encouraging your homeroom students in this worthy endeavor!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to every Blach student and staff member who contributed to this year’s Blach Out Hunger campaign. We are feverishly counting your generous donations, and will announce winners and totals on the Monday that we return from Thanksgiving Break. Thank you for your compassion and
responsibility. TOGETHER we ARE making a difference!

All chorus clases will meet Friday in G2 the French room.

Congratulations to Ms. Hsuan and our after school Mural Club students on the completion and mounting of our latest school mural, The Singing Butler. Make sure to take a look in the main hallway and appreciate the amazing skills of out artsy Falcons!

Lost and Found: Today is the last day to look for any lost items. Please check the tables in the hallway near the front of the school. Everything that is left unclaimed will be donated.

FOUND: One wallet (yes, with money) found at the library copy machine. Please speak to the librarian to claim it.

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Blach’s wrestling team finished off the regular season by defeating
Egan 42-24.  Kyler, Seth, Nate, Aaron, Nick, Jarrod, Alex, Kirby,
Aidan and Dylan all won by pin or forfeit while Turlough won by
decision.  No wrestling practice next week.

Looking for a good story to read? Want to see some amazing illustrations? Well, you won’t need to look far. The creative writing class has published its fourth issue of Falcon Feed. Go to Blach’s website today and click on Falcon Feed Volume 2, Issue 4. Happy Reading!

We’re in the final two days of the food drive, and we’re all looking forward to
vacation. Please remember that hunger doesn’t take a vacation, and we ALL have the means to help. We all have the means to donate—don’t pass off your responsibility to someone else. Show your generosity this week. Give Thanks. Give FOOD!

Teachers — please deliver your classes’ donations at lunch time. Homerooms from Andrews to Koren to Mrs. Waxman’s classroom, and homerooms from Lewis to Waxman to Mrs. MacKenzie’s. Thank you for supporting this drive and encouraging your students to participate.

Lost and Found: Students, you have today and tomorrow to look for any lost items. Please check the tables in the hallway near the front of the school.

FOUND: One wallet (yes, with money) found at the library copy machine. Please speak to the librarian to claim it.

Noon League today will be weather permitting. The games today are: Honigman vs Ramirez and Greenbaum vs Maye.

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Looking for a good story to read? Want to see some amazing illustrations? Well, you won’t need to look far. The creative writing class has published its fourth issue of Falcon Feed. Go to Blach’s website today and click on Falcon Feed Volume 2, Issue 4. Happy Reading!

The week is flying by — just a few more days before Thanksgiving break and the anticipation of a great turkey and stuffing, mashed potato feast and the food coma that follows. Please help us provide a similar feast to the hungry children in our
area. Generously give to our food drive. If every person brings in 10 items, we can smash that 5000 donation record. Let’s show our community that Blach students know how to band together and take action. GIVE TODAY!!!

Lost and Found: Students, make your parents happy and check out the tables in the hallway and find that long lost item you have been looking for.

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Blach’s wresters defeated visiting Columbia 58-25 yesterday. Pins or forfeits were earned by Kyler W., Nate A., Trevor F., Aaron S., Nick K., Andrew K., Ethan N., Rushil A. and Sam H. Kirby G., Aidan K., and Alex B. won by decision. Practice after school today. 

Today is the first day of the Blach Out Food drive. Blach’s past donation record is around 5000 items. Let’s all pull together to reach or even exceed that record. Let NO child go hungry in Silicon Valley! Please give generously. It’s the right thing to
do. Turn in your donations to your homerooms, and please deliver those donations to Mrs. MacKenzie or Mrs. Waxman each day at noon. Thank you for helping the children of our area.
WIN MAJOR SUPERCLASS POINTS in the food drive. 1 pt awarded to each homeroom that donates. 2 pts awarded to homerooms in which 75% of the students donate. 5 pts. Awarded for homerooms with 100% participation. 25 pts awarded to the homeroom that donates the most per student. 20 pts awarded for second place, and 15 points awarded for third place. Together, we can make a difference.

Going up in all homerooms today is a poster containing the picture links to our last 2 school dances. Write down the link and check yourself out. This link will also be posted on the Leadership Website and on our Facebook page.

Holiday Faire participants remember to attend tomorrow's mandatory meeting! If you are unable to attend, please contact Mrs Haggart. Attendance will be taken!

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Girls volleyball play at Columbia today and wrestling at home verses Columbia. 

Child hunger is devastating. Hungry kids are more likely to experience serious short and long term health issues. They tend to have trouble learning and are more prone to behavioral and emotional issues. YOU can help a child in our area. Please join Blach Leadership and the Giving Back club in a food drive this week to Blach Out Hunger. We are so fortunate to live in a community that has so much. Let’s show our generosity of spirit giving food to the many children in our local area who are hungry every day. Homeroom teachers will give you the details of the drive. Put Blach on the map as a group of students willing to help less fortunate students. Provide the feast this holiday season and give generously.

To all holiday faire participants... Mandatory meeting on Wednesday at 8:30 am in the multi!

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Girls volleyball practice today after school.

Blach took five wrestlers to the Mustang Classic tournament at Miller junior high school on Saturday. Congratulations to Aaron S. and Jared K. who where champions of their divisions. Also congrats to Nick K. for taking 2nd and Alex B. and Aiden K. who both finished third. Practice after school today. 

8th graders: Bus lists have been posted. Please make sure you know your bus number, cabin roommates and trail group number for Monday’s departure. Get ready for the time of your life!!

If you took all the kids in America that struggle with hunger, you would be able to fill up 845 basketball arenas. The good news is that we can all help to change this statistic. Please bring in unopened, nonperishable food items to your Falcon Time homeroom the week of November 17 – November 21. Let’s have a homeroom competition to make a dent in local hunger this season and provide the Thanksgiving feast for needy families.

Do you know what you missed last night? A wonderful performance from Mrs. Harris's Drama class! A self-centered princess found out that helping others was actually a nice thing to do while a bunch of "hill folk" fooled a famous movie producer. The cast and crew were fantastic so please congratulate Mrs. Harris and her Drama class!

The Drama class and Mrs. Harris would like to publicly thank Dr Moerner for her continued support of our Drama performances. She has an infectious laugh. We hope that’s not too cheesy!!

Chorus will meet in G2 the French room today Friday and Monday. CLUBS TODAY:

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Blach wrestlers split in the matches wrestled against Graham yesterday. Aaron and Jarred won by pin, Nate and Aidan won by major decisions, and Kirby, Jackson, Sam and Seth won by minor decisions. Practice for any wrestlers not going to Yosemite next week on Mon, Weds, and Fri.

The 7th grade girls volleyball team came back to win yesterday versus Graham, after being down 2-1.
A great show of teamwork and energy led to to closing out the fifth, and final, game. Great job, girls! 

Did you know that one in five children face hunger on a daily basis. That’s 16.5 million children every day. 50 million Americans struggle to put food on the table every day. Join the Giving Back club and Blach Leadership in a canned food drive November 18-21 to BLACH OUT HUNGER!

Tomorrow is the day! The CHICKEN LAUNCH is back tomorrow at lunch. Sign up tomorrow at the beginning of lunch at the table next to the stage so you can be the next record breaker.

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Blach takes on Graham today in wresting and volleyball. The boys are at home while the girls travel. Wrestlers be sure to weigh in. 

The next LAYC Dance is Friday, November 7 at 7:30 PM. You must have a membership in order to attend- no individual dance tickets are sold. Let’s keep the Halloween celebration rolling and wear a costume to the dance. Remember to follow your schools dress code at LAYC Dances too! Also, bring canned food to be donated just before the holidays. RSVP by the day of the dance at 6 PM. If you don’t have a membership, come to the Hillview Recreation office to purchase.

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Blach’s wrestlers took on visiting Miller yesterday and split wins in the number of matches wrestled. Pins and forfeits were earned by Kirby, Alex, Aaron, Jared, Rushil and Sam. Nate won by major decision. Wrestling practice today. 

The next LAYC Dance is Friday, November 7 at 7:30 PM. You must have a membership in order to attend- no individual dance tickets are sold. Let’s keep the Halloween celebration rolling and wear a costume to the dance. Remember to follow your schools dress code at LAYC Dances too! Also, bring canned food to be donated just before the holidays. This is a great dance for our community. RSVP by the day of the dance at 6 PM. And again you must have a membership and all guests must be registered before the dance. If you don’t have a membership, come to the Hillview Recreation office to purchase. See you there!

The new Basketball Noon League will begin today on center court with Honigman vs Wade The game will begin at 1:00 and all members of each team to be present.

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The 7th grade girls play Miller at Miller today. The 8th grade girls play Miller at Blach.

Blach wrestlers lost to a bigger Kennedy yesterday. Pins and forfeits were won by Jared, Kyler, Nick and Rushil while decisions were won by Aaron, and Nate. Next up is Miller at home today. Wrestlers need to weigh in by brunch.