Bulldog Bulletin
March - April Edition
Superintendent's Corner
In addition to learning benchmarks being met and surpassed throughout the district, spring ushers in momentous events through which we recognize our student's efforts and achievements and celebrate their successful completion of the year. This spring we have had multiple successes with our athletic teams, our Robotics team competed successfully in their inaugural year, our Book Bowl teams performed well in competition, our students have been completing their Education Development Plans and we crowned our first ever "Mr. Bentley" - Matthew McCollum. I hope you have had time to enjoy some of these events, but rest assured, if you haven't, there are many many more exciting year-end events to come. To name a few:
NHS Blood Drive - May 5th
Prom - May 8th
Senior's Last Day of School - May 27th
Honors Night - June 2nd
Graduation - June 4th
Final Exams - Bentley HS June 4th, 5th, 8th
Barhitte - End of year celebration - June 8th
All Students (except seniors) - Last day of school, June 8th
This list only represents a few key events. There are many, many more happening over the course of the next several weeks. Please watch for announcements coming home with students and being posted on FB, Twitter and the District Web-page about concerts and several other special student celebrations.
This summer will bring numerous construction projects throughout the district. Because every school building will be under construction due to multiple bond projects, you will notice classrooms beginning to look a little more bare over the final days of the school year. In order to stick to the established project schedule to ensure occupancy of our buildings in time to start the 2015-16 school year, we will need to have the buildings prepped for abatement projects to begin right away after June 8th.
In closing, I want to share a video clip that clearly conveys our Learning Community's Beliefs about our Vision and Purpose. I urge you to watch the video clip and reflect on how far we have come in the last couple of years toward improving the learning environment for our students. Bentley Community School District needs to be able to honestly state that we are providing a learning experience that prepares our students to achieve greatness. We are striving to preserve Bentley Community Schools by honoring the past and evolving our system to meet the demands of the future. In all our decisions, whether they be programming-related, systems-related or personnel-related, we expect to put students first. I encourage you to be a part of your school's improvement team and/or the district's improvement team. Please ask your building principal when the next meeting is and commit to being a part of positive change. If we as a school system do not commit to evolving, but remain stagnant, we become obsolete. The education landscape is evolving at the speed of light and it is absolutely necessary our system evolve with it in order for us to be relevant; In order for us to be Great. I hope you will join our key stakeholders in "taking the lid off" our education system.
Everyone Has Greatness Within Them. It's Our Responsibility to Ensure Our Children's Discovery of Theirs.
Barhitte Elementary
2nd Grade Students Learn About Community Service
Second graders made May baskets and went on a walking field trip to deliver them to members of our community who live in the neighborhood near Barhitte. Several neighbors came out and expressed their gratitude to the students.
Students said that it made them feel good inside to make and give something to someone else to brighten their day.
2nd Graders Making Their Baskets
We're Proud of Our Service
Giving Back to the Community
Mrs. Williams' Class & Their Published Writing
Mrs. Williams' students have been working SO hard on writing. Mrs. Williams says, "We were able to publish a book as a whole class. We wrote opinion papers on "The Best Class Pet". My students were very convincing and we were able to get turtles as a class pet! I have included a picture of our whole class with our published book. Now we are working on informational writing. They have been choosing topics, researching, and even typing their papers on the computer."
Mrs. Munsey and Mrs. Anderson's Kindergarten Classes
Mrs. Munsey and Mrs. Anderson’s class combined for a special reading activity during March is Reading Month. They read Where the Wild Things Are, and then second graders partnered with kindergarteners to create their own wild things.
Kindergarten and 2nd Grade Students Making Wild Things
Mr. Wells Speaks to 2nd Grade Students About Local Government
Mr. Danny Wells Comes to Barhitte to Share Social Studies Lesson
Working Hard on Writing
Art students at Barhitte make connections between core curriculum and fine arts.
1st grade Students and Their Art Work
3rd and 4th Grade Art Work
5th Grade Cornerstone Assessment Work
5th grade cornerstone assessment work- students learned about ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the significance of the cartouche. Students studied the symbols used to create words and made their names ancient Egypt style. Students then created boxes from clay designed to hold symbols of things found in their favorite place to be.
2nd Grade Art Work for National Model Cornerstone Assessment Pilot
Mrs. Tucker's 2nd grade class was chosen by Mrs. Browning to participate in the National Model Cornerstone Assessment pilot for visual arts. Students learned about self portraiture and the proper way to draw the face in proportion. Students then created their self portraits and made frames with clay, adding symbols that represent things about them.
Mrs. Osmun's 5th Graders With Their Second Grade Buddies from Mrs. Tucker's Class
Second graders in Mrs. Tucker's class made special cards recognizing their hard work and congratulating Mrs. Osmun's fifth graders on completing the MSTEP. Way to go fifth grade!!
Middle and High School Students Using Hands-On Learning Methods
Mrs. Endicott's Class Use Hands-On Manipulatives
Mrs. Burke's Class Uses Algebra Tiles
Algebra Tiles
This algebra 1 class has been using algebra tiles to factor quadratic equations.
Quote From Mrs. McKay:
Mrs. Richardson's Students Use KaHoot
Romeo and Juliet - Interactive!
Earth Day
Mr. Bentley
Bentley Varsity Softball
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown the Musical
Bentley Community Schools
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