January 25, 2018 Barton Creek Elementary
Blue Jay Bulletin
MESSAGE FROM PRINCIPAL PHELPS
BCE Families,
It's hard to believe that we're almost to the end of January and this is our first FULL week of school. Heads-up though...we have an early release on January 30th. Students will be released at 12:50 and lunch will be served.
There are a few features of the BCE Bulletin that I'd like to take a moment to point out.
- Counselor Corner- Be sure to check out these occasional posts for information related to our latest SEL focus.
- Staff Spotlight- Thanks to Mrs. Pampe and our 4th Grade Social Media Team, we will now highlight a BCE staff member each week. The Social Media Team will select a staff member of their choosing, create their own interview questions to ask, type the responses, and include a photograph. We hope you enjoy this student-driven spotlight.
- Suggestion Box- If you have an idea for the BCE Bulletin, simply click on the box below. We would love to hear ideas from you so we can increase the readership of this newsletter.
- Shout Outs- Please keep them coming! I take your exact words and enter them into a fun template. It's such a fun surprise for the teachers to find when they check their mail boxes.
Mark your calendars for FAMILY MATH NIGHT on February 5th from 6:30-8:00 pm in the BCE Cafeteria. More information can be found in the flyer below.
Finally, as Nurse Sansom wrote about last week (Note from the Nurse), the flu season is definitely upon us and our custodial crew is working diligently to disinfect and clean our school. They are using a school approved, hospital grade disinfectant on all common surface areas. Our restrooms and hand washing areas are kept stocked with soap and paper towels and our trash is removed daily. In addition to these measures, our BCE Booster Club has generously provided each classroom with Clorox wipes.
Thank you,
Tiffany Phelps
Congratulations to the BCE Spelling Bee Champions:
Grace (4th Grade) and Aman (5th Grade)!
COUNSELOR'S CORNER
The District's SEL Focus for the third 9 weeks is Social Awareness and Empathy. At BCE we are reinforcing the development of social awareness and empathy through our Skills of the Week: Showing Concern for Another, Sharing, Offering Help and Giving/ Accepting Compliments)classroom lessons. Additionally, your counselors are visiting classrooms to do lessons on empathy and building emotion identification. Students are learning to take the perspective of others by deciding how the person might be feeling and to show care and concern.
One of our greatest tools for teaching empathy as educators and parents is to model empathy ourselves. Other tips for teaching empathy at home are included below. For more in depth information, take a look at these articles from Harvard and Parenting Science.
- Use literature, tv, movies and role play as an opportunity to practice empathizing and discuss how one might feel in a given situation.
- Improve & practice face reading skills and have student practice making faces, too.
- Help kids to see what they have in common with others.
- Help your child to develop self-regulation and emotion management skills.
BCE STAFF SPOTLIGHT
SEND A STAFF MEMBER A SHOUT OUT!
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NEW THIS WEEK
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ACTION ITEMS
MARK THESE ITEMS OFF YOUR LIST:
Book Spring Read-A-Thon!
January 22nd-February 4th
The money raised stays in the Austin area to purchase books for students who don't have books at their homes.
Just contributing $3.00, buys one book for an Austin child.
In past years, BCE, all of Eanes schools, and most Austin-area schools have participated
The Read-a-thon is encouraged but students choose to be involved
Students earn prizes given by Book Spring, and examples of the prizes will be displayed in Library classes.
The highest fund raising class is awarded a pizza party!
Please encourage your students to participate in this worthwhile cause.
BCE students can make a difference!
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SAVE THE DATE
COMMUNITY
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Calling All Blue Jays!
Come sing and swing with the BCE Show Choirs! Does your child like to sing, dance, act, speak, and wear amazing costumes? If so, then choir is just for you!
Each of our choirs will be performing a fun and exciting musical this spring semester for our school and families!
All choirs will start in two weeks so make sure to get signed up through the Eanes Community Education website. Sign up at Eanes Community Education
eanes.augusoft.net or call 512-732-9022
We hope to see you there! It's sure going to be a blast!
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BARTON CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1314 Patterson Road, Austin, Texas 78746
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