Charger Chronicle
December 2016
Students Merging Technology into Instruction
Operation Hope Banking on our Future
Bunche Middle School seventh grade students participated in the HOPE Business in a Box Program. The purpose of this program is to inspire more entrepreneurs by educating students about the basic components of a business plan. Students were engaged in the process of writing and creating a pitch for their product for 5 weeks. Each of the four participants pitched their product to an audience of their peers and entrepreneurs currently operating in Atlanta.
Charger SHOUT OUT to the following participants:
Aniya Bennett: Baskets
Amani Bedwa: Wireless Phone Charger
Ashely Redhead: Sun Case Solar Phone Charging Case
Soutna Toure: Books & Braids
A Science Excursion
The Science Department has plans to take a group of sixth grade students on what is sure to be an exciting visit to the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. The trip is being organized by Mrs. Hendon, the Science Department Chair, and we all look forward to her efforts materializing into a fun learning opportunity for our students. According to it's website, the museum is a 120,000 square foot hands-on science museum and as someone who has had the pleasure of visiting the museum on several occasions, it can also be described as a state of the art facility with staff skilled at engaging students in science education. Visiting the museum will allow students to participate in meaningful activities related to geology and paleontology in particular. While at the museum, students will have an opportunity to participate in a fossil dig in which they will be allowed to keep the fossils they find. They will also attend a planetarium show that is sure to take their breaths away. Overall, this trip will provide students with an amazing opportunity to venture outside of the classroom to apply what they know and to make connections between what they learn in the classroom and the world around them. Field trips are in important part of the educational experience and it will be a delight to see how much the students benefit from this experience.
Math Curriculum Night
Last month parents, teachers and students gathered at Bunche Middle from 6 to 7 for the 7th Grade Math Curriculum Night. Our outstanding veteran Math teacher Ms. Clark Wheeler lead students and parents through a hands on activity that demonstrated the types of project based learning that takes in Bunche Middle School’s Math Department. As well as exposing the parents to the type of Academic Vocabulary that students need in order to comprehend the type of problems they will encounter on the Georgia Milestones.
Parents were also given an opportunity to ask additional questions about the Georgia Milestones that takes place in April of 2017 and Math curriculum that is taught at Bunche.
Great job Ms. Clark-Wheeler for leading our parents and students through this hands on experience and representing the Bunche Math Team!
IB News
Please join me in commending Madame Nakou. Madame Nakou’s Language Acquisition students were utilizing technology to describing people and ideas in French in an effort to increase their fluency and comprehension in French!
Our IB Learner Profile Focus for the month of November was Communicators:
Communicators:
We express ourselves confidently and creatively in more than one language and in many ways. We collaborate effectively, listening carefully to the perspectives of other individuals and groups.
Our December focus for the month is Principled:
Principled:
We act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness and justice, and with respect for the dignity and rights of people everywhere. We take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.
If you have planned unique and engaging activities with your students to help them obtain or utilize our Learner Profile attributes, I would love to capture the moment and celebrate student engagement in the learning process!
All Aboard the Freedom Train
The 7th grade ELA classes have been involved in a quarter long, unit study on Learning from the Past. Students have been reading the blockbuster graphic novel/ memoir MARCH: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Ayden. The March trilogy chronicles the life of civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman Johns Lewis, as well as tells the story of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement from his perspective.
As a classroom extension activity to this wonderful unit of study, 80 of our students were afforded the opportunity to participate in a symposium with original Freedom Rider, Mr. Charles Person on November 30. Mr. Person spoke in depth about his experience of being a young Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement. His story offered the students a window into that time period that allowed them to identify more closely with the sacrifice and courage needed to ensure that all Americans had equal rights. Finally, Mr. Person encouraged the students to read more, respect each other, and most of all- be a leader.
Counselor's Corner
Community Outreach Highlights
- Hewlett-Packard employees volunteered their time to support Bunche's Hour of Code Day
- Parents will be creating holiday letters of encouragement to give to their students
- Our band and orchestra students will be performing December 8th at 7:00 PM in the Bunche Auditorium...the best music in town!
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Contact Us
Principal
Email: mwatkins@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Website: www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/bunche
Location: 1925 Niskey Lake Road Southwest, Atlanta, GA, 30331
Phone: 404.802.6700
Twitter: @bunche_chargers