Welcome Back Panthers "2007-2008"

Welcome back Panthers to the 2007-2008 school year at Howard D. McMillan. Ms. Dressler has planned many enriching and innovating activities for you this year. Hope you had a restful summer and are ready to give it your all!!!! We start off the school year with Special Olympics Bowling on August 29, 2007. Looking forward to another wonderful year with the best students in MDCPS.....................

Ms. Dressler

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Mayor Carlos Alvarez visits Howard D. McMillan

Ms. Dressler's class was so proud on the day they were part of receiving the Proclamation naming Howard D. McMillan Middle Day and Dr. Winston Whyte Day. Each student was honored by shaking the hand of the mayor and giving him their names. If only every teacher could be so proud as I was on this day. This truly was the closing of a very fulfilling and innovative school year......Our first year at McMillan was truly GROOVY (as Beatriz Jimenez says)!!!!!!!!!!!! Looking forward to next year!!

HAVE A RESTFUL SUMMER WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!

MS. DRESSLER

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CAREER DAY 2007

Ms. Dressler's class was invited to participate in pizza making with Papa John's General Manager, Ms. Brown. Baby Panthers now know where the pizza comes from and how it is made. They learned a bit about the ingredients and even got to eat some great pizza.....our general ed friends joined us as well....we have Ms. Ellis to thank for the invite....WOW that was delicious!!!!

THE MCMILLAN RAINFOREST.....BY MS. DRESSLER'S CLASS

Ms. Dressler's students experienced what it would be like to live in a rainforest. They actually obtained the plants from a rainforest that was made my Mr. Greene's class on the school grounds........Each layer is filled with plants and animals that you would find in an actual rainforest. Each layer is labeled and the students are capble of giving a little information on each layer. This unit lasted for 2 weeks and our students really enjoyed this adventure. They will go on a field trip to Fair child Tropical Gardens to broaden their horizons at a later date..... Nice project for the Spring!

Our Little Panthers go on to High School

Ms. Dressler is so proud of her three 8th graders who will be moving on to Felix Varela Senior High School. They have made leaps and bounds throughout the years and we are wishing them the very best with their future endeavors. We love You!!!! Our little panthers..............

Our visit to Tropical Park

Going to the park where there are beautiful birds, ducks and lakes is always a joy for our students. We go on nature walks and end it with a most delightful barbeque. We all ate until we couldn't any longer. This trip was very special for a couple of reasons, we have a new student who enjoyed his first CBI trip. The second reason was because Mr. Cardenas taught the kids how to fish......they loved it. Everyone was well behaved and got a long just great!! We have barbeques every nine weeks in order to celebrate the end/beginning of a new quarter.