April 4 - April 8, 2016

I hope everyone had a relaxing break.  We are excited to have you back and ready to get back to learning!  We would like to welcome Mr. Coyle to R.M. Bacon as our new principal!

Meet Mr. Coyle

I'm 38 years old, formerly vice principal at Lakeside where I also taught for 10 years.  I have a         wife named Kelsey and an almost 2 year old daughter named Adelyn.  Family time = #1!!

In my spare time I like to read, I play guitar, bass, piano, and my newest instrument is the drums. I play video games (I know, grow up right?),  I like the boardwalk and beach, diners, pizza, and I was at one time a trained weather spotter (I need to renew my certification). I also teach adult Sunday School at my church.  I like to hike when I get the chance, and my wife and I enjoy traveling and trying new things. 

Couldn't be happier to call Bacon my new home! I'll be laying out some of my guiding philosophies at the staff meeting on Thursday. 

Coach’s Corner by Mr. Hudson

Although the week before Spring Break was a short one, there were still exciting learning activities going on by the staff involving math, reading, STEM, and Easter. Ms. Montecino from the High School along with Mrs. Procopio brought over students that are in the National Honor Society to read to our K-2 students. Each class was greeted by the high school students and left with a bag of books for the classroom library. Bacon School students enjoyed the readings that were done by the high school students and were excited to see all of the new additions to their classroom library.

In addition to this, students in grades 3-5 completed a PARCC infrastructure trial.  This allowed for the students and teachers to see how the upcoming PARCC assessment will look and be implemented.  Overall, the entire process ran smooth with very few glitches.  Mrs. Spanbauer and I will continue to make sure the students and teachers are ready prior to testing beginning.  Mark your calendars as PARCC testing begins…..Monday, April 11^th for fifth grade, Friday, April 15^th for fourth, and Thursday, April 21^st for third grade.  Enjoy your week!!!

Weekly Overview

Monday - D Day - Welcome Mr. Coyle!

Tuesday - E Day - Another Awesome Day at Bacon

Wednesday - A Day - Wellness Wednesday, American Heart Association National Walking Day

Thursday - B Day - Staff Meeting 8:00am, Staff vs. Winner Hockey Game 2:15pm

Friday - C Day - NutriBullet Conclusion (4th Grade)

March 21 - March 25, 2016

This week is a shortened week.  I am sure there will be some exciting Spring activities happening on Thursday!  We will begin our Spring Break on Friday, March 25th.  Please have a safe, and healthy break.  We will see you again on Monday, April 4th.  

Coach’s Corner by Mr. Hudson

This week we had a special visitor for grades 3-5.  For two days Ms. Berry had her brother come to Bacon School and work with our students discussing STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics).  The students witnessed experiments with Peeps, feathers, and water temperature changes.  What made this special was that Mr. Berry drove all the way from Georgia Tech to be with us and pushed our students thinking.  During his presentation he provided the students with new vocabulary as well as allowed students to hypothesis what would happen with each experiment.  Overall, the students enjoyed themselves and are curious as to what next year will bring.  Mr. Berry is already planning to come back next year.  

The rest of my week was spent working with Mrs. Spanbauer on the upcoming PARCC assessment.  Together we organized the testing equipment, rosters, and prepared for our infrastructure test which will occur this week.  This practice run will allow grades 3-5 to get an idea of how everything will work/look and if any changes need to be made prior to testing.  The teachers have been really supportive of this process and are working extremely hard to prepare all students for this upcoming assessment. 

Pictures from around school

2016 Floor Hockey Champs

Moe's Night

STEM Day!

STEM Day!

Weekly Overview

Mrs. Harris will be our interim Principal until a replacement is made for Dr. Cook

Monday - E Day - Board Meeting 7:00 pm

Tuesday - A Day - Wild About the Bay - 4th Grade

Wednesday -B Day - Wellness Wednesday, Keepin' It Real - 4th Grade

Thursday - C Day - Kindergarten Swim, March Madness (Hoops for Bacon), HSA Fundraiser Due, BEAR Buck Store Only

Friday - SPRING BREAK - NO SCHOOL

SPRING BREAK - March 25 - April 3, 2016

School Resumes April 4th 

March 14 - March 18 2016

Remember March is Women's History Month.  Kid President gives a shout out to awesome girls from the past and to girls doing awesome things now!

Coaches Corner by Mr. Hudson

This week teachers challenged students to think about the world differently.  As I went into each room, I saw teachers showing students different ways to solve math problems, summarize questions, and learn something that might stretch their thinking.  Overall, students were engaged in all of the learning going on. 

For starters, Mrs. Digiorgio’s class worked with a story that focused on, “The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin.”  The students were able to see how a small seed can grow into a large pumpkin over time.  The entire class was eager to learn more information as the story went on.  I think when fall comes around, the students will look at pumpkins a little differently.  The major takeaway I saw students have was when they found out that a pumpkin is a fruit.  

Another exciting activity I witnessed was in Mrs. Sinone’s class.  The students completed a study on braille.  The entire class was extremely engaged and were eager to see their names spelled out in braille.  To take it one step further, the class library had several books that were written in braille.  One of my favorites was “Humpty Dumpty.”  The students along with Mrs. Sinone created a secret message for me to decipher which I am still working on.  I shouldn’t have told them that I was fluent in braille!!! 

Pictures from around school

Birthday Selfie

3rd Grade Team Building Activity

Mrs. Fryling and Mrs. DeVita's classes practicing their shapes.

Taking Math Centers outside on a beautiful March day!

Mrs Sinone and Mrs. Binghams students reading to one another.

Mrs Sinone and Mrs. Binghams students reading to one another.

Weekly Overview

Mrs. Harris will be our interim Principal until a replacement is made for Dr. Cook

Monday - E Day - STEM Day part 1 (3-5)

Tuesday - A Day - STEM Day part 2 (3-5), HSA Meeting 7:00 pm

Wednesday -B Day - Wellness Wednesday, Keepin' It Real - 4th Grade, 3rd Grade Moe's Fundraiser 4-9 pm @ Millville Moe's

Thursday - C Day - Staff Meeting 8:00 am, Kindergarten Swim

Friday - D Day - Multicultural Month Art Show River Renaissance Center 6:30-8:00 pm

March 7, 2016 - March 11, 2016

 It was a Seusstastical Week!

On Tuesday, March 2nd we celebrated Read Across America in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday. Classrooms all around the country celebrate with a day filled of reading and activities.  Here at Bacon, we went all out!  Check out some of the pictures from around the school celebrating Read Across America Day!

Saying GoodBye to Dr. Cook

On Friday, March 4 we said good-bye to Dr. Cook.  Bacon School will miss him terribly, but we are always moving forward and growing!  Here is a farewell video to honor all the work that Dr. Cook did in his 5 years at Bacon School.  Good luck at Lakeside!

  Coaches Corner, by: Mr. Hudson

This week provided us an opportunity to leap into the future with fourth grade.  Mrs. Gandy and Mrs. Muhlbaier have been working with their students researching and writing to their dream college.  A few students wrote to Cumberland County College and received a special visit from the College President, Athletic Directors, Academic Advisor and a former Millville Alumni basketball player.  The college staff talked with both classes.  The message they sent was very clear, to keep working hard and pursuing their dreams of going to college.  Along with Cumberland County College, the fourth grade have received a lot of swag from other colleges along with letters.  The class of 2024 seems determined and focused.      

     

        

On Thursday, Mrs. Bingham’s class invited me in to read for Dr. Seuss’s Birthday.  Mrs. Bingham had spent the entire week teaching to the class about Dr. Seuss.  The class was able to share with me their favorite story that he has written and some of the fun activities they have done.  I read to them, “Hop on Pop.”  Mrs. Bingham’s students were really engaged with the whole theme of Dr. Seuss and dressed up as Thing 1 – 18.  

In preparation for St. Patrick’s Day, I was invited to work with Ms. Anton’s class during Math centers.  During the time, I was able to work with two groups on matching number cards to pictures that corresponded.  The other activity had students place cards in order from 1-20.  We added a one-minute timer for an extra challenge.  Overall, the two groups worked extremely hard and by the end of the centers seemed to have the concepts mastered.  Ms. Anton and Mrs. Banker also had students working with them.  Ms. Anton was working with students on recognizing pennies and quarters.  Mrs. Banker had students building numbers in the teens with tens and ones blocks.  Look out Bacon, the students in room 22 are becoming Mathematicians.        

Pictures from around the school

BEAR Buck incentive!  "Cooking with Candy"

Students made soup for the teachers! Mr. Lokey approved!

Dr. Cooking eating lunch with kindergarten Golden BEAR Buck winners!

3rd Grade Enrichment Club

Weekly Overview

Mrs. Harris will be our interim Principal until a replacement is made for Dr. Cook

Monday - E Day - Another Amazing Day at Bacon, Board of Education Meeting at 7:00pm

Tuesday - A Day - Totally Awesome Day at Bacon

Wednesday -B Day - Wellness Wednesday, Keepin' It Real - 4th Grade

Thursday - C Day - Enrichment Club Follow-Up meeting 8:00am, Kindergarten Swim, Grades 3-5 Math Benchmark #5 Due

Friday - D Day - Reading Street Unit 4 Benchmark Due

Don't forget daylights saving is this Sunday! Spring forward and turn your clocks up!

February 29 - March 4, 2016

Bacon Bears,

This was a tough RM Bacon Weekly to write. It just hit me that this is my last RM Bacon Weekly as Principal of RM Bacon School. What started out 4 years ago as an idea, has turned into so much more. We were able to create the RM Bacon Weekly as a forum to connect students, parents, staff and the community. We were able to accomplish that in a short amount of time.

RM Bacon Weekly by the numbers:

• First post (January 23, 2012) 
• 223 posts
• Over 70,000 visitors from over 50 countries
• Thousands of pictures
• Hundreds of videos 

The RM Bacon was (and will be) the hub for our school to tell OUR STORY. I am so happy that it will be continuing. Prior to the new Principal, Mrs. Devita has agreed to keep it going! 

I am usually not at a loss for words, but I want everyone to know I am so grateful that I was a part of the RM Bacon community for the past 5 years! I have learned so much from the students, parents, teachers, staff and community. I am excited about going to Lakeside Middle School, but I will truly miss the Bacon Bears! 

Video of the Week - In case you missed the Daily Journal's video tribute

Check out the Daily Journal article on Dr. Cook's Lakeside appointment

Pictures from around the school

Research on travel in 4th grade 

Research on travel in 4th grade 

RM Bacon All City Band backstage 

RM Bacon All City Band backstage 

Yummy smoothies 

Great shirt 

Elephant tusk challenge for PBIS

Elephant tusk challenge for PBIS

Birthday Selfies 

Birthday Selfies 

Birthday Selfies 

Birthday Selfies 

Classroom Makeover... Mrs. Benson's Bunch 

Classroom Makeover... Mrs. Benson's Bunch 

Pizza Bingo

Pizza Bingo 

Pizza Bingo 

Pizza Bingo 

Pizza Bingo 

Pizza Bingo 

Pizza Bingo 

Pizza Bingo 

Tim Williams visits RM Bacon for a smoothie 

Coaches Corner - by Mr. Hudson

This week I had the opportunity to read to Mrs. Munzenmayer’s Kindergarten class.  It was exciting to see how eager the class was to have a story read to them.  The story I read was called “My Teacher’s Secret Life.”

The students laughed after each page as we talked about the night life of the teacher in the story.  Many students wondered if Mrs. Munzenmayer slept at the school with a blow up mattress just like the teacher in the story.  My favorite part of the experience was having the class as a follow up talk with Mrs. Munzenmayer about the things she did after school.

The students learned that she likes to take care of her dog, work in her garden, and read books.  I think the students were able to see that Mrs. Munzenmayer is just like some of their parents.

Mrs. Taylor and Ms. Hess's writers 

Another exciting part to the week was witnessing Mrs. Taylor and Ms. Hess work with their class on writing.  Each student was working on a story this week that was to be published and read to the class on Friday.

During my visit on Friday, I was able to see just how hard the students had worked on their stories this week while completing the final edits.  One by one, each student came to the front of the room and shared their story with the class.

It was nice to see the other students being supportive of their classmates by clapping and complimenting one another.  Overall, the students writing was detailed and showcased that the future writers of the world are being molded at Bacon School.      

Weekly Overview

Monday - E Day - Respect the 29th Assembly, 2:00 PM, gym

Tuesday - A Day - Mid Marking Period 

Wednesday -B Day - Wellness Wednesday; RAC transition meeting, 9:00 AM

Thursday - C Day - Staff Meeting, 8:00 AM; Kindergarten Swim 

Friday - D Day - Dr. Cook's last day at RM Bacon; RTI PLC, 1:00 PM, Culver; Progress Reports Distributed