RM Bacon Weekly: February 26

Bears,

It's been a fun-filled past few weeks at school. We recently had two great events - the Chinese New Year Celebration and Jump Rope for Heart. The pictures mostly speak for themselves, but a few thank-yous are in order.

First, a great big thanks to Mrs. Rohaly and Ms. Peck for organizing and pulling together the New Year's celebration. It was a true cross-curricular, multi-discipline event in which the entire school got to participate. Also, many thanks to all the classroom teachers who opened their rooms to our music and art teachers and helped get the students ready for the celebration. It was a fun event!

In addition, thanks to Mrs. Muhlbaier for organizing the Jump Rope for Heart and Ms. O'Neill and Mrs. Bingham for helping to pull everything together for the event. A number of Leader's Club members from Millville High School also helped out, and it was another fun whole-school event for our Bears to enjoy.

It's been an interesting few weeks for other reasons as well. The flu/cold/strep throat - you name it - has made the rounds at our school. While the number of student absences has been holding steady and actually gone down a little, our staff members have been going through the unpleasantness as well. I'd like to thank Mrs. McCafferty from Culver for helping to keep the office going while Mrs. Klaudi and Mrs. Polof were down and out. In addition, several staff members helped in the office to cover the phones and make sure everything was running smoothly. It took a team and a family to pull together to make sure we carried on, and people went above and beyond to keep our school moving. Thank you, all!!

This week, we have our PBIS assembly in which we'll do our usual recognitions, rewards, and game - but we'll also feature two students who acted as heroes recently. We are looking forward to honoring their good deed - stay tuned!

Before I close out this part of the blog, I offer you a thought for this week. We were given two eyes, two ears, and one mouth. Could it be that we should spend twice as much time paying attention to others and listening than we do speaking? Maybe some of us would do well if we talk less, listen more, and focus on what others are doing around us. I know I'm guilty of doing too much of one and not enough of the others. How much do we miss because we are too focused expressing our thoughts instead of trying to see the world as others see it? How much do we not hear because we're already focused on the words we are convinced we need to share? I think we were meant to be here for each other. How much can we do that if we have a hard time really seeing and really hearing what others are going through? Just a thought...

Everyone have a fantastic week!

The Week Ahead

Monday (2/26): B day - Lesson plans due, Read Across America Week Begins, FOX IN SOCKS (wear silly or mismatched socks)

Tuesday (2/27): C day - CAT IN THE HAT (wear favorite hat OR wear black and white)

Wednesday (2/28): D day - Workout Wednesday, WACKY WEDNESDAY (wear wacky and crazy hair OR wacky and crazy clothes, PBIS Respect the 29th assembly (2 pm)

Thursday (3/1): E day - GREEN EGGS AND HAM (wear green) staff meeting (8am in the library)

Friday (3/2): A day - MY BOOK ABOUT ME (dress as your favorite character from any book)

Upcoming Dates

3/6 - Progress reports go home

3/7 - NO SCHOOL, teacher professional development day

Chinese New Year Parade