The Compass
"Unlock the Treasure in Every Child" - January 23, 2023
Grand-Persons' Day
Date: February 9, 2023
Check out the flyer coming home in this week's Tuesday Folder!
Grand-Persons are invited to join their favorite Buccaneers for lunch! You are invited to have lunch during their scheduled lunch time in the cafeteria. This will be a time to enjoy your new book from the book fair while you eat with your Buccaneer!
We kindly request that younger children not attend and limit to 2 Grand-Persons per student. Please list the names of the Grand-Persons on the slip below. You may bring your lunch or purchase in the cafeteria.
Adult Lunch (a la Carte Price): Entree $2.75 All sides $.75 each and milk $.75
Student Lunch $3.00
Menu for Feb 9th- Pepperoni Calzone or Spicy Chicken Gyro with Baby Carrots, Great Northern Beans, and Fresh Fruit
*Please note: menu selection is subject to change due to availability
Lunch times will be different than normal. Check out the flyer coming home in this week's Tuesday Folder for more information.
Save the Date - Grand-Persons' Day
A Grand-Person counts as anyone important or special. A Grandparent, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, or anyone special!
Book Fair!
Check out the latest books that will be at the Book Fair Feb 6 – 10 in the flier that comes home with the students this week. We will be taking pre-orders for the newest Dog Man book, Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea, at the Book Fair. We will get a shipment at the school on March 28, the day it is released, and get it to your student if you pre-order it at the Book Fair.
We always have the fun toys, pens, pointers, etc at the Book Fair. We plan to put these out for sale on Family night and Grand-Persons’ Day.
Make sure to check out eWallet, where the students can shop with the electronic funds at the Book Fair, so you don’t have to worry about lost cash, checks, or change.
https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/buckhorncreekelemschool
We can use your help! To sign up to help work the Book Fair, please use the link below:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090e4eadad2fa6f58-buckhorn3#/
Happy Reading!
Social Intelligence
This week our school community will be focusing on the character strength of Social Intelligence. Social intelligence means you are aware of other people’s thoughts and feelings. You understand why they do things.
Social intelligence refers to a person’s ability to understand and manage interpersonal relationships. It is distinct from a person’s IQ or “book smarts.” It includes an individual’s ability to understand, and act on, the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of other people. This type of intelligence can take place “in the moment” of face-to-face conversations but also appears during times of deliberate thinking. It involves emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
Social intelligence helps individuals build relationships -- and is important to numerous aspects of a person’s life. It allows an individual to form friendships and alliances. And it assists a person against being taken advantage of. People with social intelligence can “read” other people’s faces and know what motivates them. Social intelligence builds over time and as a person ages. In this sense, it is similar to the character strength of perspective.
To practice and encourage the character strength of social intelligence with your child, please visit the Positivity Project’s P2 for Families (password: P2), where together you will watch a video, read a quote, and talk about the answers to three questions.
Have a wonderful week!
Parent & Student Lunches!
Please only select ONE time period per family. This allows two families an option each day to have lunch with their children.
We are excited to offer the opportunity for parents and visitors to have lunch with students once again. Our goal is to create a process by the end of January that allows families the opportunity to sign up to eat lunch with their student.
However, in order to ensure safety, manage space limitations, and to ensure the process is successful we must maintain guidelines and expectations for logistics. Please read the expectations and logistics on the sign up.
Important Dates!
- Jan 26 - End of Q2
- Jan 27 - No School - Teacher Work Day
February
- Feb 3 - Spirit Day - Book Character
- Feb 6-10 - PTA Book Fair
- Feb 9 - Grand Persons' Day!
- Feb 13 - National Bus Driver Appreciation Week
- Feb 20 - No School - Presidents' Day
About Us.
Email: dsimons@wcpss.net
Website: www.wcpss.net/BuckhornCreekES
Location: 5651 Honeycutt Road, Holly Springs, NC, USA
Phone: (919) 694-8970
Twitter: @BuckhornCreekES