A recess picture taken last week.
It looks a little different out there today.
Mrs. Pendleton’s Kindergarten class made and then sent out gingerbreads to other kindergarten classrooms across the country! They will then receive some in return. Hawaii was the furthest one we sent!
AOS 93 Schools, Great Salt Bay, Nobleboro, Bristol & South Bristol will have a two hour delay this morning, Monday, December 4th due to weather.
Jefferson Village School will have a full remote day today due to weather conditions.
Time to look in all those little places you toss those coins and wrinkled bills because - IT'S BACK! The Coin Slam returns to BCS for the 11th time taking place Tuesday December 12th through Friday December 15th.
Coin Slam 2023 will have teams of grades. The teams are: PK/4, K/5, 1/6, 2/7, and 3/8. The jars will be in the gym lobby from 7:50-8:10 every morning.
Students put money (coins or currency) in "smiley face" jars to add points to their favorite teams. Placing money in "frowny face" jars subtracts points from those teams. Teams will have to strategize to take advantage of, yet to be announced, bonus opportunities.
The Coin Slam has raised over $9,000 in its 10 year run.
The collected money will benefit the New Harbor Food Pantry and the Caring for Kids program.
Parents and community members can make donations at the BCS office during the day.
South Bristol School is holding their Holiday Craft Fair, tomorrow, Saturday December 2nd from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the South Bristol School gym. Santa will be arriving at 11:00! There will be a fish chowder or hotdog lunch available!
For more information, please email Tenley Seiders at tenleywilder@yahoo.com.
This event is hosted by the SBS 8th grade class. We hope to see you there!
This week First Graders planned and performed Kindness skits. We have been talking about kindness and how we can spread it! - Mrs. Bradbury
Join us for A Holiday Music and Art Celebration.
Celebrate your students and their hard work in Music Class, Chorus, Band and Art Class!
Tuesday, December 5th at 5:30. Students should arrive at 5:15.
Kindergartners practice handwriting by tracing new letters on their friends' backs! Mrs. Pendleton and Mrs. Pafundi.
Students use problem-solving skills to complete challenges using indi robots. Indi uses a color sensor to recognize colors and perform tasks based on the color. Indi recognizes 8 colors. Green will make indi go. When indi sees a blue tile it will turn 90 degrees to the right. A purple tile causes indi to perform the very popular spin-o-rama! - Mr. Cough
Creative Flow Circle at the Merry Barn
On Sunday, December 3, from 2-3:30 p.m., join Morgan Mitchell and Stephanie Noyes McSherry for a Creative Flow Circle designed specially for kids. Creative Flow Circles are intentional and nonjudgmental spaces to explore creativity in community. Participants listen to instrumental music, moving color across a circle of easels, switching easels as the music changes. Each participant contributes to each piece, one after the other, producing a series of collective creations.
This process invites all into the moment, releasing perfectionism, and opening to imagination and possibility. Once everyone has painted on every easel, we will pause for a festive snack. Then we’ll dive back into the experience by writing or drawing in response to our creations.
Creative Flow Circles take place at the Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat, 417 River Road, Edgecomb, ME. Register at: www.creativeflowcircles.com.
Questions: stephaniemcsherry@merrybarn.com
Pre-K students enjoy being outside on a Forest Friday. - Mrs. Sawyer
After finishing a unit on creating cartoon characters, fifth graders have been learning about paint techniques. They made papers with multi-colored washes and used the wet-on-wet technique. When their papers dried, they added silhouettes or made items inspired by the paint blobs they made. - Mrs. Cough
"All hands on deck for morning announcements!" Thank you Mrs. Powell for your help covering the office!
Happy Thanksgiving from the BCS students and staff.
Retake Picture Day is Friday 12/01
Last Thursday was the perfect day to go up on the roof with Godo to fix the anemometer (an instrument that measures wind speed) on the BCS weather station. Check out the weather conditions at BCS - navigate to the BCS website at https://aos93.org/o/bcs and click on Menu. - Mr. Cough
Third grade has been learning about the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Today they were up for the challenge of creating their very own balloons and putting on their own parade. Enjoy the show! - Mrs. Waltz
Click the link below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cK17gy51TchD5dS2SyjA-Ei17ZUiv7nf/view?usp=sharing
This week, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, fifth graders wanted to recognize exceptional citizens in our community. Here is a glimpse of the organizations fifth graders chose to thank for their commitment to our town and its people. - Ms. Kinney
We were fortunate to be able to welcome the school based educator, Allison Fortin, from New Hope Midcoast last week for presentations in grades PreK - 8. Their messages center on building healthy relationships with all of the classrooms, but also include a focus on safe and kind choices with kindergarten, teamwork and acceptance with grades 1 & 2, being an upstander to unkind behavior in grades 3 & 4, healthy boundaries and communication in grades 5 & 6, and with 7th and 8th grade they examine how power and control can influence relationships, as well as sharing information and resources around domestic and dating violence. To learn more visit https://newhopemidcoast.org/ or contact our school counselor, Gretchen Brinkler by phone or at gbrinkler@aos93.org
