BESTeam Tidbits
May 25, 2017
Enjoy your time with family and friends this week! Looking forward to a wonderful last week of the 2016-2017 school year with each of you and our terrific Texan students!
Celebrations!
CHHS Graduation Walk
Colleyville Public Library
Thank you Al for writing a grant, ordering materials, gathering volunteers, and constructing 9 square for our Texans! Great addition to our recess options!
Twitter challenge for jeans = sharing the great work our students and staff do daily!!!! Keep on those tweets flying!
Choir earned a Superior Plus at NRH2O!
Our volunteers flipped over breakfast today!
Thank you to everyone for contributing the the volunteer breakfast this morning!
Fabulous Career Day! Thank you Abbey!
KC Club end of the year celebration!
Great EOY and GT RtI meetings!
Abbey does great restorative chats!
- Four day weekend!
Picnic Wednesday
- A list of students who ordered food along with their tickets will be in your boxes on Wednesday morning.
- Parents who bought tickets will get them as they check into the office on Wednesday.
- Any student who did not purchase a ticket can get a sack lunch from the cafeteria or a lunch from home.
- If the weather is nice, let's eat outside and enjoy the picnic. Fourth grade is encouraging their students to bring beach towels to sit on outside.
- The cafeteria is an option, working around celebration ceremonies.
- The schedule will be slightly altered because of the number of tickets sold. Please not the adjusted lunch schedule.
- 10:45 ~ PK & Kinder
- 11:00 ~ 1st
- 11:15 ~ 2nd
- 11:35 ~ 3rd
- 11:50 ~ 4th
- 12:05 ~ 5th
To do...
- Google Community: Thank you for joining the Google Community sent two weeks ago. This will be used heavily in the coming weeks to assist in decision making.
- Please Complete: https://docs.google.com/a/gcisd.net/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFADwLsc3fqfl8iR5hpnfrwQn2vg6ith63A3GpDsu7HNYHLQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
- Texan Time Survey: https://docs.google.com/a/gcisd.net/forms/d/1DRR02GexTObb-8EC4CZSJHSHWR_w8dfcvzD-_YHn3hA/edit
- Pink and Blue Cards: Please complete pink and blue cards and turn into Jamie by Friday, June 2. Thank you for considering the best groupings for all students!
- Emergency Bag Inventory: Please complete this inventory for the bag in your CURRENT room. Thank you! https://docs.google.com/a/gcisd.net/forms/d/100tYfI-rnpj0pNfw0Q8z1tsHE6mLRY3O3uu7XBl_uqc/viewform?edit_requested=true
Tweets for Jeans
Thank you for communicating the wonderful work going on at BES!
Report Card Grades
The window for entering grades opens THIS Friday. The window closes on Tuesday, May 30th at noon. Shelly will post and print on Tuesday afternoon and give you the hard copies for cum folders before she leaves at 3:00 p.m.
Summer Learning Opportunities
For the first time this summer, we have decided to approach professional learning a bit differently. In the absence of the annual Humanities Institute, we instead have organized a self-paced learning opportunity for our Humanities teachers - The Humanities Summer Reading Race. We have curated a list of professional books - oldies/goodies along with NEW titles - for teachers to read and enjoy during the summer weeks. There will be face to face, Google Classroom, and Twitter chat formatted book discussions during the summer in order to deepen learning and build networks across the district.
Our kick-off celebration will be a come and go event at the Admin building on May 24th from 3:30-5:00 in the Alamo room (sign-up in Eduphoria so we'll know who to expect!). We'll have FOOD and a chance for everyone to flip through the pages of each book you may want to read over the summer.
Please join us and please help us spread the word to all of your Humanities friends!
CPR Classes
GT Updates
2016-2017 Information
Dates to Know
***Please check the BES master calendar on Google for updates***
- Career Day: May 24
- EOY Celebrations
- Staff breakfast: June 2 at 8:15 a.m.
Week at a Glance
Monday School Holiday Tuesday 1st grade awards 8:15 am Pre-K EOY Celebration 1:45 pm Wednesday BES School Wide Picnic Garden Club 7:00 am 4th grade awards 8:15 am 2nd grade awards 10:00 am 3rd grade awards 1:45 pm LPAC meetings @ 3:00 Thursday Kindergarten awards 8:15 am Early Release 11:45 am Last Day of School Menchies Spirit Day 12:00 pm to 3 pm Friday Staff Breakfast at 8:15 a.m. Work Day
2017-2018 Information
Staffing Updates
- PE: Welcome Kate Applequist to the the BES staff!
- Music: We are waiting on reference checks and hopefully have news soon!
- Grade-Level Teachers: We are moving from four second grade teachers to three second grade teachers and from three fourth grade teachers to four fourth grade teachers. This will require a shift in staffing. Additionally, we are losing one teacher. Tonya and Jamie will meet with staff members individually this week to discuss placements for next year. Once current staff members are set, we will begin the interview process for a new grade-level teacher.
- Back to School Fair, Saturday, August 5, 2017. If you are interested in volunteering, please use this link to sign up: BTSF Volunteer Sign Up or if you would like more information, please contact Emberly Hill at emberly.hill@gcisd.net.
Jamie Halliburton
Email: jamie.halliburton@gcisd.net
Phone: 806-441-6518
Twitter: @BESHalliburton