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SEPTEMBER 2012 Save the Date! Brookwood Middle School Welcome Back! It is important to get students acclimated with being on time to school right away. Students need to be at school at 8:25 a.m. which means students need to be in the building before that time. We stress the importance of this for many reasons. 1. We try to avoid interruptions to class. 2. It gives students the time they need to get prepared for the start of the day. 3. Students won’t miss important morning messages from their teacher or from the principal. We do have a tardy policy that states: A detention will be issued to students after (3) tardies to school. Please reinforce this expectation and rule with your child. Principal’s Corner Welcome Back! I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to parents/guardians of whom I have not had the pleasure to meet. My name is Onquanette Nowels-Pierce and I am the Principal here at Brookwood Middle School. On behalf of the Middle School staff I would like to say we are very excited about this school year. Brookwood Middle School is jumping up and down about making AYP in Mathematics on ISAT this past spring. There was a 12% increase in our Math scores when compared to last year’s ISAT results. We are very excited to see the students back in the swing of things so quickly. Over the course of the year you will receive monthly newsletters with important information regarding upcoming events, community happenings, students acknowledgements, home-school connections for parents and much more. Our goal is to provide students with instruction that will enrich their minds and enable them to solve problems through higher order thinking. We want to prepare students for real world events that they can apply academic values to become productive citizens in their community and in their professions. With your help we can prepare our students for the future. Remember the old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child”. We here at Brookwood Middle School have our arms and hearts open to be the village that will partnership with you to prepare our students for a bright future. Looking forward to a productive year. Mrs. Pierce Grandparents/ Special Person Day School Pictures Monday, September 10, 2012 Open House Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Friday September 7, 2012 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Save the Date!
Brookwood Middle School
Welcome Back! It is important to get students acclimated with being on time to school right away. Students need to be at school at 8:25 a.m. which means students need to be in the building before that time. We stress the importance of this for many reasons.
1. We try to avoid interruptions to class.
2. It gives students the time they need to get prepared for the start of the day.
3. Students won’t miss important morning messages from their teacher or from the principal.
We do have a tardy policy that states: A detention will be issued to students after (3) tardies to school. Please reinforce this expectation and rule with your child.
Principal’s Corner Welcome Back! I would like to take this opportunity to
introduce myself to parents/guardians of whom I have not had the pleasure to meet. My name is Onquanette Nowels-Pierce and I am the Principal here at Brookwood Middle School. On behalf of the Middle School staff I would like to say we are very excited about this school year. Brookwood Middle School is jumping up and down about making AYP in Mathematics on ISAT this past spring. There was a 12% increase in our Math scores when compared to last year’s ISAT results. We are very excited to see the students back in the swing of things so quickly.
Over the course of the year you will receive monthly newsletters with important information regarding upcoming events, community happenings, students acknowledgements, home-school connections for parents and much more. Our goal is to provide students with instruction that will enrich their minds and enable them to solve problems through higher order thinking. We want to prepare students for real world events that they can apply academic values to become productive citizens in their community and in their professions. With your help we can prepare our students for the future. Remember the old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child”. We here at Brookwood Middle School have our arms and hearts open to be the village that will partnership with you to prepare our students for a bright future. Looking forward to a productive year.
Mrs. Pierce
Grandparents/ Special Person Day School Pictures
Monday, September 10,
2012
Open House Tuesday,
September 18, 2012
Friday September 7,
2012 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Open House Please join us for Open House on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 from 6-8 p.m. More information will be sent home soon. We are eager to meet you and tell you about our plans for the current school year. We are looking for 100% attendance. Parents that attend will be entered into our parent raffle.
Volunteers Needed We are always in need of volunteers for our school. If you can spare a few hours in the morning or afternoon, please call the office and let us know. We will make
sure we enter you for our District Volunteer Raffle.
After School Activities After school activities will begin in the next few weeks. Your child’s
club/activity sponsor will notify you of the start day. Stay tuned for the different types of activities
Reading Strategies Connecting is the reading strategy that we will focus on for September. After reading students will be able to connect text-to-text, text-to-self, or text-to-world. Students will learn a different reading strategy each month and they will be expected to use these strategies throughout the school year while reading in different subjects. Look for ways you can further assist your child with learning the Connecting strategy in our Home-School connections of this newsletter.
Connecting-September
New Staff to BMS and Grade Level and/or Name Changes
Lauren Brewster- New 6th Grade Teacher Rachel Massa moved from Title 1 Reading to 5th Grade Brittany Sharpe is now Mrs. Snyder and she is now our Title 1 Reading teacher. JoeAnn Nash- New 5th Grade Teacher Jessica Lyons-New Spanish/ELL Teacher Stephanie Nicks- New Paraprofessional Versetta Young- New Paraprofessional Paul Standberry- Night Time Custodian
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Picture Day is Monday, September 10th, 2012 Please remember to dress your best for picture day. Picture order forms went home Tuesday. Please remember to put your payment in the envelope and send it to school with your child on Monday.
Grandparents/Special Person Day Friday, September 7, 2012
9 a.m.-11 a.m. We welcome all grandparents or special people
to visit Brookwood Middle School. We will have coffee and donuts for refreshments. The teachers and students await your presence for the special
activities they have planned. Join Us!
What’s New at BMS? Spanish Class is new to BMS 5th and 6th Graders this school year. Students will be learning the basic language along with cultural and geographical history of the language. We invite our Hispanic parents to volunteer to come to the school to enrich our students with some stories, clothing, foods, arts and crafts, or even entertainment from the Hispanic Culture. We are planning activities for Hispanic Heritage month and would love to have suggestions or ideas. Please contact Mrs. Pierce (Principal) [email protected] or Ms. Lyons (Bilingual Spanish Teacher) [email protected] to assist.
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We took the first week of school to teach students how to be PAWSome as they rotated through our PAWS stations. PAWS stands for Positive Accountable Well-mannered Students. Each station taught students about school expectations, which are outlined in our Parent-Student handbook. Ms. Pederson (School Social Worker) went around to classrooms to teach Bullying Awareness. Anti-Bullying classroom discussions centered around what defines bullying, students' perceptions of what bullying is, brainstorming different ways to handle bullying when confronted with the situation as either a bystander or victim. Students' shared their experiences with bullying and what techniques have and have not worked for them in the past. Students also signed Anti-Bullying pledges that are displayed in the main hallway of BMS. Students pledged to: Not bully others, To help kids who are bullied, To include people who are left out, and To tell an adult when they see someone being bullied or are being bullied themselves. BMS students have 100% agreed to 'United We Stand, Divided We Fall'! Our theme this year is “UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL”. The BMS Timberwolves pledged to stand together against Bullying. Students participated in a poster contest showcasing this year’s theme. Although we seen many creative posters, one winner was chosen from 5th and 6th grade. Their posters are below. We also had a door-decorating contest showcasing the theme. Again, we saw many creative doors throughout the school. The winning classrooms were Ms. Belka’s 5th grade classroom and
Mrs. Hollimon’s 6th grade classroom. Pictures of the winning doors are featured on the next page.
6th Grade Winner: Jose
5th Grade Winner: Aniyah
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BMS continues to make gains!!!!
Ms. Belka’s 5th Grade Class Mrs. Hollimon’s 6th Grade Class
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5th Grade is working on the following Math concepts for the month of September:
• Place Value • Decimals- Place Value Decimals, Comparing and Ordering Decimals
• Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying Decimals • Rounding whole number and estimating
• Estimating Products and Quotients • Exponents
6th Grade is working on the following Math concepts for the month of
September: • Identifying Variables, numerical expressions, and variable expressions
• Compare integers and represent them on a number line • Identify and find opposites and absolute values
• Perform operations of Integers • Solving word problems
Our all school Reading Strategy for the Month is Connecting. • Here are some questions to ask your child as they read.
• How do you connect to the text? • What are the three main ways you can connect to a text?
Students should be able to determine two or more main ideas of text and explain how they are supported. You can help by using the attached graphic
organizer.
Students can visit www.Studyisland.com to practice these skills. Students have been given a username and password to log into the website.
Additional sites for Reading and Math:
www.internet4classrooms.com Click Grade Level
Click Language Art or Mathematics Click on the skill you want to practice
We appreciate your help and know that every little bit of assistance helps.
T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More)
