Wilson's Weekly
BPS...where books come alive!
November 27 - December 1, 2017
Core Beliefs, Vision, and Mission
We believe all students can learn:
- Learning must have a clear purpose.
- All learners deserve a safe, respectful, and structured environment.
- Learners grow with mutual support, responsibility, and compassion.
- All learners have the ability to grow.
Shaping the future one child at a time
Mission
Blytheville Primary School fosters a safe and positive learning community. We educate students to be innovative thinkers today and productive leaders of tomorrow.
Behavior Expectations
We are...
- responsible.
- respectful.
- safe.
- positive.
- motivated.
Strategic Plan
Our school plan can be found here.
Week at a Glance
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I will be in the primary office. Tuesday and Thursday I will be in the kindergarten office.
This WEEK
- Monday - Kindergarten Curriculum Half Day
- Tuesday - First Grade Curriculum Half Day
- Wednesday - Wilson at BLI until 1:30; Building Leadership Team Meeting 2:30
- Thursday - Wilson in Little Rock for State Department Meeting; 2nd Grade Curriculum Half Day
- Friday - ABC Training (Hampton, Wilson, McDonald, Abbott); Hepler and Jenkins out 1-3 pm for IF meeting
Next WEEK
- Monday - NED Assembly 1:30
- Tuesday - Crafty Christmas 5:30-7:00
- Wednesday - Building Leadership Team Meeting 2:30
- Thursday - Birthday Lunches; Christmas Parade
- Friday -
Upcoming Events
The school calendar can be found HERE.
IMPORTANT FOR ALL: Extended Curriculum Days
This week classroom teachers will be having half days (12:30-4:30) to work on the curriculum. Kindergarten will start in the collaboration room. First grade will begin in Michelle's room. Second grade will begin in Diane's room.
- Monday, November 27 - Kindergarten (math team only)
- Tuesday, November 28 - First Grade
- Thursday, November 30 - Second Grade
- Monday, December 4 - Kindergarten (literacy team only)
The following people will be covering the classes during this time. Please have sufficient work to engage the students in review of what they have been working on this quarter. Also, double check your dismissal notes. The sub will need to know which students are car riders and the specific bus each bus rider needs to get on in the afternoon. This does mean that afternoon interventions will not be meeting as normal during these times. Morning schedules will stay the same and interventions should continue.
Changes to personal lunch times and coverage of recess duty:
- Ms. Cade will cover Ms. Gaston's recess duty at 12:30 on Tuesday and Thursday.
- Ms. Carter will eat lunch at 11:00 instead 12:30.
- Ms. Dawkins will be eat lunch at 10:50 instead of 12:10 on Tuesday and Thursday.
- Ms. Davenport will eat lunch at 11:50 instead of 12:10.
- Ms. Myers will eat lunch at 11:10 instead of 12:10.
Kindergarten (November 27)
- Newsom - Carter
- Aldridge - Myers (join bus duty when late bus riders called)
- M. Rogers - Engle
- Thomas - Davenport (join Mathis at bus duty when late bus riders called)
- Sawyer - Sharpe
Kindergarten (December 4)
- Foster - Riggs
- E. Rogers - Davenport (join bus duty when late bus riders called)
- Lampe - Carter
- Orr - Myers (join bus duty when late bus riders called)
- Hartgen - Engle
First Grade
- Gardner - Mathis (at 2:40 Dodd will take over for Mathis)
- Jaques - Carter
- Hood - Myers (at 2:40 take your kids to Duff's room)
- Duff - Sharpe
- Jones - Davenport (at 2:40 take your kids to Hopkins' room)
- Pugh - Engle
- Sims - Dawkins
- Hopkins - Riggs
- McDowell - Echols
- Jackson - Gaston (at 2:40 take kids to Pugh's room)
- Evans - None (work with your car rider partners to get your spot covered by one of them)
- Galbraith - Moore
- Shepard - Weaver and Dodd (at 2:40 Dodd will go Gardner's room)
Second Grade
- Mosbey - Sharpe
- Fulling - Myers (at 2:40 take kids to Mosbey's room)
- Ward - Davenport (at 2:40 take kids to Bennett's room)
- Bennett - Dawkins
- Murphy - Carter
- Thomas - Mathis (at 2:40 Dodd will take over for Mathis)
- Treat - Gaston (at 2:40 take kids to Wright's room)
- Wright - Riggs
- Watson - Engle
- Poole - Echols
Reminders and Announcements
- Kindergarten - Aldridge - 2 lbs. 8 oz.
- 1st grade - Hopkins - 15 oz.
- 2nd grade - Poole - 13 oz.
- Special - Shepard - 1 lb. 2 oz.
- TOTAL so far = 77 lbs. 2 oz.
2. Box Tops for Education - We are collecting box tops to help pay for our PBIS store. Please turn them into Ms. Newsom in kindergarten or put them in the box in the office.
3. We will have our second annual Christmas Door Decorating Contest. There will be a $40 prize for the winning door in each group. There will be four groups.
- Group 1 - Second grade hallway
- Group 2 - Williams, Taylor, Clay, Whitaker, Mattingly, Office, Nurse, Cade, Pitts, Quearry, Plunkett, Clark
- Group 3 - 1st grade hallway
- Group 4 - Kindergarten building (not the the nurse)
4. We will have a catered lunch on December 11 from 12:30-1:30 (like we did last year) to celebrate Christmas. Each teacher will have a volunteer come to their room to watch their students during the lunch. We need volunteers! If you have parents in classroom that you know would volunteer to help out, please contact them. If they are able to volunteer on December 11 please send their information, so I can forward it to Mrs. Clay (our PTO president). I know not everyone has a parent who can help, so if you have multiple, please contact them and ask them to help other teachers out. If you know of any community organizations that would be willing to volunteer, please, let me know as well. THANK YOU!
PBIS Behavior Matrix Focus
NOTES
- EVERYONE: Revisit your kindness chains (from October 16 newsletter) and review with students what has been added to the chain so far. Hang chains outside of your door and continue to add to the chain.
- 1st and 2nd grade teachers: The underlined italized parts are your responsibility. The beginning of the lesson (non-underlined) will be taught during morning meeting.
- EVERYONE: Each classroom should create a display to showcase what they are learning about kindness. Examples can be found here, here, here, here, and here, but do not have to be elaborate (it could be something as simple as a co-create anchor chart). You can come together as a grade level to create something as well. You can use some of your curriculum half day to discuss if you would like.
- Resources: Here are some kindness posters you can print to hang in your classroom. Link to Behavior Matrix.
LESSONS
- Monday - Show the behavior matrix and point to "We are positive." Explain to students that we will be focusing on kindness this week as we learn how to be positive. Show the video read aloud for What Does it Mean to be Kind by Rana DiOrio. Explain a way that you are kind to those around you. Have students share with a shoulder partner two ways he/she plans to be kind to someone that day.
- Tuesday - Display the behavior matrix and point to "We are positive." Remind students we are focusing on kindness this week. Show the Color Your World with Kindness video. Discuss the connection between the kind acts and the color. Display the Kindness Pledge. Echo read the pledge with the students. Discuss with students the video and ask them: Why do you think the video was titled “Color Your World with Kindness”? When color was added to the video, what feelings were conveyed? Write the pledge on chart paper. Have students repeat the pledge and sign at the bottom. Display in the classroom. Repeat the pledge each day.
- Wednesday - Show the video read aloud of The Jelly Donut Difference by Maria Dismondy. Discuss how the Leah and Dexter showed kindness to Ms. Marvis. Brainstorm with the students ways that they can show kindness to others. Create a class anchor chart or create the jelly donut and have students write on the sprinkles the ways they brainstormed along with their names (see example).
- Thursday - Show this video of a 10 year girl explaining "three things in human life that are important" (hint: to be kind). Show the behavior matrix and make connections between the video and "We are positive." Put students in groups of four. Give each group a tube of toothpaste, a toothpick for every person, and a paper plate (supplies will be provided to each classroom). Have one member of the group squeeze some of the toothpaste onto the plate. Then have each member try to put the toothpaste back into the tube. (They are not going to be able to get it all back in. Have them stop after a couple of minutes.) Talk about the importance of words - how you can say something, but once it’s heard the bad effects have already started to take place. Talk about what kind words look like and how they make us feel. Talk about how mean words might make us feel. (By talking about how how they would feel, we can get to their hearts rather than just their behavior.) Make connections to the toothpaste activity.
- Friday - Watch the video Kindness Through their Eyes. Review everything that they have learned about kindness this week and make a connection the behavior matrix "We are positive." Finish your class display that showcases what students have learned about kindness this week.
Picture Book Recommendation of the Week
We're All Wonders by R.J. Palacio
Over 5 million people have fallen in love with Wonder and have joined the movement to Choose Kind. Now younger readers can meet Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, and his beloved dog, Daisy.
Countless fans have asked R. J. Palacio to write a book for younger readers. With We’re All Wonders, she makes her picture-book debut as both author and artist, with a spare, powerful text and striking, richly imagined illustrations. Palacio shows readers what it’s like to live in Auggie’s world—a world in which he feels like any other kid, but he’s not always seen that way.
We’re All Wonders may be Auggie’s story, but it taps into every child’s longing to belong, and to be seen for who they truly are. It’s the perfect way for families and educators to talk about empathy and kindness with young children.
Motivational Quote of the Week
Kindness matters because we are all in this together; we are on a journey together. While our journeys may not be the same, we have one thing in common: we struggle, face hardships, endure challenges. How can we help each other? Be kind. Through our acts of kindness, we can inspire kindness in others, which will make life just a little better, one smile at a time. Kindness is one of those rare things, which has something for the giver and the receiver. Kindness is that little bit of extra love for a child, a smile to that someone who looks lonely, the silent company to a friend who needs peace. Kindness is the light that keeps our inner fires burning, the spirit that tell us to hold on and endure - to hope. Instill this same hope in others by being kind. Even if you don't know it, at the same, you will be instilling this hope within yourself too.
What the Principal is Reading
The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins
Got Data? Now What? by Laura Lipton, Bruce Wellman
For We Are Many (Bobiverse #2) by Dennis E. Taylor
Bob left Earth anticipating a life of exploration and blissful solitude. Instead he’s a sky god to a primitive native species, the only hope for getting humanity to a new home, and possibly the only thing that can prevent every species in the local sphere ending up as dinner.
About the Principal
Email: jwilson@blythevilleschools.net
Website: http://www.blythevilleschools.com/o/bps
Location: 1103 Byrum Road, Blytheville, AR, United States
Phone: 870-763-6916
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Twitter: @cimeronejana