Navigators Team Newsletter
September 25-29, 2017
- This is a long and full newsletter with a great deal of information! Thank you for taking the time to read all of this important news.
- Camp McDowell
- Please read through this list of Important Camp Reminders. A hard copy will be sent home with your child on Monday.
- Please fill out this Camp Dismissal Form to let us know how your child will be going home after we get back from camp on Friday.
- We have created a tab on our Blog called “Camp McDowell.” All camp forms as well as additional links can be found on our blog under this tab.
- ALL CAMP MCDOWELL MONEY ($180 for students and $77.50 for chaperones) WAS DUE BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH. If you have been unable to pay, please contact your homeroom teacher to work on payment options.
- Thank you for supporting our magazine fundraiser this year!
- Thursdays are Spirit Days at BGIS. Wear a BGIS shirt or Hoover Bucs shirt to celebrate school spirit! BGIS shirts are still available for purchase on www.myschoolfees.com.
- Books, Boys, and Basketball
When: Tuesday, September 19th from 3:00 to 4:00 (every other week)
Location: in the gym
Bring: a book that you are reading
Who: BOYS
Sponsors: Mr. Williams, Coach A and Mrs. Leahey
Students are responsible for a ride home at 4:00.
- Please remember that our hall is a NUT-FREE HALL!!! We have several serious nut allergies on our hall. Due to this, we ask students to not bring any nut products for snack or lunch. If peanut butter is brought for lunch, we will have to ask your child to go to the health room with a friend to eat their lunch. This would need to be an occasional occurrence. We thank you so much for your cooperation with this policy to keep all of our students safe.
- Box Tops: If you have any Box Tops, please send those in a baggie to help contribute to our classrooms!
- FROM THE CAFETERIA
We would love to help with Birthday Celebrations. If a parent would like to send money to purchase their student's homeroom ice cream they can do so. I will be making tickets for the Birthday student to hand out to their class and when they come to the register we will collect the tickets and charge the Birthday student. The cost is .75 cents per ice cream. The students who receive a ticket must purchase the ice cream the day the tickets are handed out.
- FROM THE SCHOOL NURSE
Parents, Students are not allowed to carry medication on their person while at school. Please make sure you contact the school nurse with any need for your child to have medication at school. A prescriber/parent authorization form must be presented to the nurse along with the medication before any student is allowed to have medication at school. An adult needs to bring the medication along with the signed paperwork to the nurse. If you have any questions, please call Tyra Walker, RN at 439-1630
CAMP MEDICATION
There is a camp nurse at Camp McDowell, and she is there overnight also. NO medications will be sent to camp from the health room. If your child needs medications at camp please follow these steps.
- All prescription medications must be in pharmacy bottle with label on the bottle. Please don't put loose pills in a ziplock bag. You have to have the attached Medication Authorization Form completed by the MD for all prescription medications.
- Over the counter medications need to be in the correct container and the Medication Authorization Form has to be signed by a parent only (a copy of this form can be found on our Navigators blog under the Camp McDowell tab).
- Please make sure you write clear instructions for the camp nurse as to when medications should be given.
- Put all medications in a ziplock bag with your child's name on it and bring in the MORNING of camp to your child's classroom hall. I will be waiting there to take them from you. ONLY an Adult can bring in the medications. Please do NOT send them with your child and I CAN'T accept them an earlier than the morning your child leaves to camp.
- FROM THE COUNSELORS: Mrs. Bruno and Mrs. Robichaux:
At Brock's Gap the school counseling services are addressed through the three major domains of the American School Counselor Association- Academic, Career, and Personal/Social. We're asking parents, teachers, and students to complete a short needs assessment in order to help us provide services through our counseling program. Thank you for your time and input. We look forward to working and collaborating with you this year!
- This year at Brock’s Gap Intermediate School we are going to be doing career spotlights throughout the year. WE NEED YOU! We want our parents to be our spotlights. We are asking that you video yourself answering a few questions and the video will be shared in our broadcast announcements.
We are looking for a variety of people interested in telling our students about their career. Many of our students are unaware of the career opportunities available to them and this is a fantastic way to provide them with first hand knowledge of potential career paths. This is also a great way for you to get involved in BGIS and make an impact on the students’ futures.
If you are interested in recording a short 2 minute video telling the students about a “day in the life” of your job, please complete the following link. http://bit.ly/2vDNqdu
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. The information is also on the Guidance & Counseling page on the Brock’s Gap website.
Catherine Bruno Coley Robichaux
5th Grade Counselor 6th Grade Counselor
205-439-1624 205-439-1634
Important Weekly Dates
Tuesday, Sept. 26: Cold Read Assessment in Language Arts (see below)
Wednesday, Sept. 27-Friday, Sept. 29: Navigator Hall to Camp McDowell
Upcoming Important Dates
Monday, October 9: Columbus Day: No School
Tuesday, October 10: Social Studies “Explorers” project due
Wednesday, October 11: End of the 1st 9 weeks
Wednesday, October 18: Report Cards
Curriculum News
Language Arts:
We finished our character study this week with our fiction passages. We began working on writing summaries this week and will wrap that up on Monday. On Tuesday, students will take their first “Cold-Read Assessment.” This means we will assess students on the skills we have worked hard on throughout our first unit. Students will read a passage they have never read before and will answer questions about the passage. We are looking for mastery of the skills they have learned, thus far. When we get back from camp, we will have a week-long study of Narrative Writing and then switch to Non-fiction texts.
Math:
This week will be a short week in Math due to our Camp McDowell field trip. We will be reviewing how to solve multiplication problems using two main strategies: the Area Model and the US Traditional Algorithm. Students will also continue to practice getting a magnitude estimate before solving multi-digit multiplication problems. We will not have a Cumulative Review for homework this week. We will also not have any tests or quizzes.
Science:
We have been continuing our unit on Ecosystems. The students have begun building their group eco-columns that are made up of an aquarium and a terrarium. This is an exciting unit for students! They will get to work with living creatures, become investigative experimenters, and draw parallels between the events occurring inside their model eco-columns and those that occur every day all over the world. We will continue our look at ecosystems next week!
Social Studies:
We are learning about European explorers who explored the Americas. Don’t forget about the Explorers’ project. Here are the requirements. It will be due on Tuesday, October 10th. A test is coming up as well. Students have been given their study guides and can begin filling them out. Continue to reinforce staying organized!
We hope you have a wonderful week!
