Happy Special Education Day Everyone,

On National Special Education Day, we honor the staff, parents, and students who make a difference in our lives every day! UCS Special Services Program is proud to provide services to over 3,000 students. Every child has the potential to learn, grow, and know they belong!

This week Beck Centennial was a busy place - learning, growing, giving and thinking of others! We've seen so many donations to our Giving Tree, Toys for Tots, and Mitten Tree, thanks to our generous Beck families! We will be collecting those things through next Thursday, December 8. Correction from last week: The Mitten Tree hats and mittens collected will be going to support, "Friends of Foster Kids" out of Macomb County. Toys for Tots supports the U.S. Marine efforts to supply every child a toy at Christmas. The Giving Tree supports children in foster care through the Macomb County Foster Care program.

Our 4th, 5th and 6th graders are stretching their leadership wings! The upper elementary students held their Student Council election this week. The winners will be announced by our school sponsor, Mrs. Boes, next week. Look for Student Council activities in our school very soon!

Finally, we were excited to welcome our school Superintendent, Mr. Robert Monroe, to Beck this morning. You can read that story below!

Enjoy your weekend!

Christine Wilson

All three of our first grade classrooms spent time with the naturalist, Lisa, from the Huron-Clinton Metro Park Mobile Learning Lab. The students learned about animal adaptations in winter. Some animals hibernate, some migrate, and some change colors! The students felt an actual bear pelt, saw a real hummingbird, and other artifacts Lisa brought with her to share with our first grade students.

Our very own UCS Superintendent, Mr. Robert Monroe, paid a special visit to our Beck morning show today. One of our Morning Show hosts, 6th grader Henry Sifton, interviewed Mr. Monroe for a special segment that will air later this year! We are looking forward to seeing it!

The Beck Family Volunteers are in need of more hands to help run the Elf Store next week. If you have a half day available, please log onto the Membership Toolkit Sign Up sheet (click link below), or call the Beck Office directly 586-797-3900 to sign up for when you are available!

Parents of 6th graders who elected "Band" for 2nd semester will want to attend the evening event scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 6. Marshall Music, and our music teacher, Mr. Andersen, will be here and assist students in selecting the best musical instrument for them, as well as provide information about the instruments. The event is scheduled, Dec. 6 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Beck Cafeteria.

This fall our school staff has been working with our district administration and security team to make sure we are prepared in the event of a school emergency - of any kind. School safety is everyone's priority - staff, students and parents. Our Beck staff have a bag always ready to take with them, should we ever need to leave their class, or our school. Parents, we need you to be ready, too. In the event that we need to contact parents, we would use PowerSchool to provide us with parent contact information. It is very important that those numbers you list are up to date, accurate, and reflect who you would trust with your child in the event we cannot reach you. Please take a moment and look at what emergency contacts you have listed for yourself, your spouse, and any others you name to pick up your child. You can easily go directly to PowerSchool by clicking the link below: