Bethel the Beautiful

Thanks for another great week at BES!! We appreciate your support, patience, and understanding as we are working out kinks in bus routes, car line, and all the different routines we have in place to make BES the best! Thanks for all you do!

Here are our top sellers at the end of the first week
K-Hudson S.
1-Emmy R.
2-Asher Q, Jaxton H, and Karli-Jo H (3way tie)
3-Calvin B
4-Mila R
5-Titan M

Thanks again for your hard work in making this a successful fundraiser for our school! And thanks to PTO who work hours a day to keep up with all of the orders and the money coming in. We appreciate them as well!

Our school has paid for a subscription to BeanStack this year. BeanStack is a web and mobile app platform that schools use to track reading and run interactive reading challenges. Your child will primarily use it as an online reading tracker and timer, if your family chooses to use it from home. It is optional to add the Free mobile app to a personal device. Click HERE to view an informational flyer about BeanStack or HERE for instructions on how to log in from home.

Mrs. Haas painted this beautiful scene on her library windows of our school book, The Wild Robot! Students are enjoying seeing this as they come into the library! Parents, you can also email me pictures of your child reading or writing at home to put in the newsletter for our Literacy Picture of the Week...awatson@haywood.k12.nc.us We are doing a lot of reading at BES-- check out the information about Beanstack and how you can download it and use it at home!!

I hope your child is enjoying reading or listening to The Wild Robot as much as I am! This week we are reading Chapters 9-12. Roz is going to meet some animals this week and their reaction is interesting! Roz is experiencing lots of new things, just like many of our students at BES that are new. Hopefully they can relate to Roz and see how she adapts and changes!

We are excited about our annual Open House at BES!! Please notice the date change. We want everyone to support BMS and their Homecoming game on 9/17, so we changed our Open House to 9/24. Students will be showcasing their work and we will be giving away lots of prizes!! Hope you can come!

Due to a required CPR training for workers, afterschool will be closed on Wednesday, September 2nd. Mrs. Shelly, the director, will be sending out a Remind message soon as a reminder.

We will be hosting visitors from the Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) and their annual bike ride, the Tour des Trees, will be passing through Bethel on September 16th. During the Tour, they put together several outreach events where they talk to people about trees and tree care and one of their most popular presentations is done by one of their riders who travels all over the world to talk to kids about trees and goes by Professor Pricklethorn. (www.pricklethorn.com). It will be a neat event as our students learn about trees!

We are excited to begin Blue Paw after Labor Day on September 8th. Blue Paw is an incentive program to encourage our students to have good attendance and behavior. More information will be coming in next weeks' newsletter. Just a reminder that attendance part for Blue Paw will start from the attendance from the first day of school. We've had a lot of sickness already at the beginning of school and that can't be helped. Thanks for always making sure your child is at school and on time whenever they aren't sick. Thanks!

Tuesday, August 25th - Chocolate Fundraiser Begins

Monday, September 7 - No school - Labor Day

Wednesday, September 16 - Tour des Trees

Thursday, September 24- Open House 5:30-7:00 pm (see date change)

Monday, September 28- October 2nd- Fall Book Fair