Blytheville Elementary School
September 2- 6
CHICKASAW P.R.I.D.E.
Chickasaw P.R.I.D.E.
Personal Responsibility, Respect, Integrity, Disciplined,
Engaged
VISION: Engage Everyone Everyday
MISSION: BES will educate the whole child through an engaging curriculum preparing them for the next level in their journey.
BES Faculty and Staff Handbook 2019-20
Website: https://www.blythevilleschools.com/o/bes
Location: 216 East Moultrie Drive, Blytheville, AR, United States
Phone: (870) 763 - 5924
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlythevilleElementary/
Sept 2: Labor Day- No School
Sept 3: Tenaris Afterschool Program begins, Attendance Awareness Campaign Kickoff, Dibels begins, Coin Wars begin
Sept 4: PBIS Store, Building Leadership Team Meeting 3:40, Coin Wars
Sept 5: PBIS Store
Sept 6: BES Grandparents Day, Core Team Meeting 10:00 AM
Upcoming Events:
Sept 9:
Sept 10:
Sept 11: PBIS Store, Building Leadership Team Meeting 3:40, Coin Wars
Sept 12:
Sept 13: Core Team Meeting 10:00 AM
Sept 18: Catapult Health Clinic
Reminder about Staff Dresscode
We must look like professionals at all time.
Lesson Plan Procedure Change
Items needed for the BES Backpack program
· Cheese or Peanut butter crackers
· Beef jerky
· Applesauce
· Pudding Cups
· Fruit cups
· Granola bars
· Cereal bars
· Single serving Chef-Boy-R-Dee items
· Ravioli/Spaghetti-O’s
· Single serving soups (with pull tab openings)
· Ramen noodles(in packages)
· Tomato juice
· Packaged nuts
· Pasta (any kind)
· Pasta Sauce
· Trail mix
· Fruit snacks
· Dried fruits
· Peanut butter
· Canned vegetables and fruit (with pull top openings)
· Macaroni and cheese
· Individually packaged chips/Pretzels/Goldfish
· Boxed juices
· Vienna sausages (with pull top lids)
· Pop tarts
· Individual packets of Oatmeal
· Bottled Waters
· Canned Tuna
· Bags of rice or beans
Any donations of these types of items would be greatly appreciated.
Anchor Charts - Info from Expeditionary Learning
What's the purpose?
- Anchor charts build a culture of literacy in the classroom, as teachers and students make thinking visible by recording content, strategies, processes, cues, and guidelines during the learning process.
- Posting anchor charts keeps relevant and current learning accessible to students to remind them of prior learning and to enable them to make connections as new learning happens.
- Students refer to the charts and use them as tools as they answer questions, expand ideas, or contribute to discussions and problem-solving in class.
Building Anchor Charts
- Teachers model building anchor charts as they work with students to debrief strategies modeled in a mini-lesson.
- Students add ideas to an anchor chart as they apply new learning, discover interesting ideas, or develop useful strategies for problem-solving or skill application.
- Teachers and students add to anchor charts as they debrief student work time, recording important facts, useful strategies, steps in a process, or quality criteria.
- Students create anchor charts during small group and independent work to share with the rest of the class.
A Note on Quality
- Anchor charts contain only the most relevant or important information so as not to confuse students.
- Post only those charts that reflect current learning and avoid distracting clutter—hang charts on clothes lines or set-up in distinct places of the room; rotate charts that are displayed to reflect most useful content.
- Charts should be neat and organized, with simple icons and graphics to enhance their usefulness (avoid distracting, irrelevant details and stray marks).
- Organization should support ease of understanding and be accordingly varied based on purpose.
- Charts are best in simple darker earth tones that are easily visible (dark blue, dark green, purple, black and brown—use lighter colors for accents only).
Descriptive Writing
Why teach descriptive writing?
- It will help your students' writing be more interesting and full of details
- It encourages students to use new vocabulary words
- It can help students clarify their understanding of new subject matter material
Characteristics of descriptive writing:
- Good descriptive writing includes many vivid sensory details that paint a picture and appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when appropriate. Descriptive writing may also paint pictures of the feelings the person, place or thing invokes in the writer. In the video section below, watch a teacher use a Five Senses Graphic Organizer as a planning strategy for descriptive writing.
- Good descriptive writing often makes use of figurative language such as analogies, similes and metaphors to help paint the picture in the reader's mind.
- Good descriptive writing uses precise language. General adjectives, nouns, and passive verbs do not have a place in good descriptive writing. Use specific adjectives and nouns and strong action verbs to give life to the picture you are painting in the reader's mind.
- Good descriptive writing is organized. Some ways to organize descriptive writing include: chronological (time), spatial (location), and order of importance. When describing a person, you might begin with a physical description, followed by how that person thinks, feels and acts.
Start and End Time for All Staff
Classroom Walk-throughs
Look-fors during walkthrough:
Evidence of Lesson Plan (current and posted by the door)
Standards-Based Learning Objectives posted (current and in plain view)
Exemplary standards-based student work displayed (strive for authentic on task engagement!)
Student Engagement (lesson should be upbeat and not a drag)
Effective use of transition time (maximize down-time, not just busy work)
Model, guided, or independent/group work (more collaborative grouping)
DOK/Higher level questioning
Check for student understanding
Instructional materials used (prepared and ready to maximize instructional time)
Classroom Management (positive behavior is reinforced/negative behavior addressed through redirecting)
Classroom Culture (positive student-teacher relationships)
Rules and Procedures Posted
Substitute Folders
All teachers are expected to maintain a RED FOLDER on your desk throughout the year.This will be an emergency lesson plan folder that will be used in the event that you cannot get lesson plans here by 7:30. The RED FOLDERS should be used in emergencies only. Within this folder there should be a scripted lesson, which anyone could easily follow, for each subject you teach. Also, include the following:
class list
daily schedule including special class times and the time you and your partner teacher switch, as well as dismissal times
scheduled bathroom breaks
recess
lunch time
duty assignments (afternoon)
drill procedures
transportation list that shows how your students get home
list of students that check in with the nurse at designated times
times students are pulled from the regular classroom for interventions, special education services or speech
Operational - Doors Locked
Please talk to students about not opening doors for visitors. This is a safety issue.
Anti-Bullying Act
According to Act 1029 which amended the Anti-Bullying Act, “Bullying” means the intentional harassment, intimidation, humiliation, ridicule, defamation, or threat or incitement of violence by a student against another student or public school employee by a written, verbal, electronic, or physical act that may address an attribute of the other student, public school employee, or person with whom the other student or public school employee is associated and that causes or creates actual or reasonably foreseeable: Physical harm to a public school employee or student or damage to the public school employee's or student's property; Substantial interference with a student's education or with a public school employee's role in education; A hostile educational environment for one or more students or public school employees due to the severity, persistence, or pervasiveness of the act; or Substantial disruption of the orderly operation of the public school or educational environment; "Bullying" includes cyberbullying.” When referencing “bullying” make sure you understand the difference in students being mean and the actual act of “bullying”. Also, please remind your students that BES will not tolerate bullying and if students are bullying, an administrator or Mrs. Pierce must investigate the bullying, along with the involved teachers and students. Please see this pdf document for the full investigation report.
September Notes from the Nurse
Flu shot permission forms will be sent home with students towards the middle of this month to make sure we get them back in plenty of time! Permission slips must be signed in order for students to receive a flu shot! Our FREE flu shot clinic will be held in the Blytheville Elementary School library October 1, 2019 from 9:00-12:00. This clinic will be open to all staff members and their spouses! Staff will receive permission forms from Nurse Russell or may fill them out when they come to receive their vaccine.
Please use the Gym entrance to enter the Nurse's office instead of using the outside door.
News from the Librarian
This website is great for readalouds if you cannot get a particular book from Ms. Robinson in the school library but you want your students to experience it. This website features celebrities or authors reading books, they are very engaging and an awesome classroom treat. Students can go to the website on their own time and choose books to listen to as well! The best part is it's absolutely free!