Thursday, October 24

Messages and Reminders:
Field trip forms went home today for our Tuesday, November 26 field trip to see the play of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Forms and payment must be returned by Friday, November 22. The Halloween dance is tonight. An adult must be present with students at the dance. Tomorrow morning we will be participating in a program by Junior Achievement. Book orders are due by Tuesday. Swimming forms and payment are due by Friday, November 8. Our poetry anthology is due Tuesday, November 5, and we will have more class time to work on it next week. Please remember to check Mr. Shackelton and Mr. Mueller's blogs for details on our social studies and science projects.

Morning recap:
This morning after ignite, we wrote our basic facts quiz. We didn't have time to peer mark, so Ms. Winston marked them and we will see our marks on Monday. We saw our buddies today since we have a special program (Junior Achievement) all morning tomorrow. This year, in addition to the four constant pillars, BHS has a monthly pillar too. Since October's monthly pillar is respect, we did some respect activities with our buddies. We wrote words or drew pictures of ways to show respect at home, in class, and on the playground. We also wrote acrostic poems for respect. When we got back to class, we talked about the next rotating pillar of care. The teachers decided on the first two (belonging and respect) but this month it was turned over to the students. We went through the same process as the teachers: a group brainstorm about potential pillar ideas, table group discussions to choose the best idea, and then a whole class vote on the ideas from each group. The pillar that room 20 will be suggesting is loyalty/trust. Tomorrow at the staff meeting, teachers will each submit their students' ideas and we will determine the November pillar to be announced at next week's pillars of care assembly. We ended the morning with gym and library.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, October 24 - parent council Halloween dance - 6:00pm-8:00pm
Tuesday, October 29 - book orders due

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Tuesday, November 5 - poetry anthology due
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip