In just 9 short days, our school welcomed 400 students and their families back to school with our annual Meet & Greet, opening day, Back to School Night, a PTO meeting, a magic show featuring Joe Romano, welcome back meetings with Mr. Meurer, International Dot Day fun, an award from Sustainable Jersey for Schools, a 1 Day - $1 - Makes a Difference fundraiser, our Ice Cream Fun Time, and so many awesome classroom activities!

It has been tons of fun starting the school year off, and this place is always the BEST because of the kids that come each day! Thank you for allowing us to work with your kids for this coming year!

If you could not make it to Back to School Night, check out Mr. Meurer's Principal's Address in the video below.

Come to school on Wed, Sep 20 with some $1 bills to donate to our 1 Day - $1 - Makes a Difference! campaign to help families and schools impacted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma! Let’s see what a difference we can make in just 1 day!

Click on the video link below to learn more!

At BF we strive to take care on the bus. Below is a picture of our bus expectations that we review with students each year. In the coming weeks, Mrs. Deak and Mr. Meurer will re-launch our Third Grade Bus Leaders program that provides leadership opportunities for our students while also promoting positive bus rides to and from school.

Ben Franklin is the proud recipient of a bronze medal from Sustainable Jersey for Schools!

Sustainable Jersey for Schools, a program for kindergarten through twelfth-grade public schools in New Jersey, is voluntary, but achieving certification is not easy. Each school that is certified must submit documentation to show it has completed a balanced portfolio of the program’s sustainability actions, attaining a minimum number of points. Over 2,700 sustainability actions were completed by schools and districts participating in the Sustainable Jersey for Schools program - from performing energy audits and boosting recycling efforts to integrating sustainability into student learning and promoting student and staff wellness.

At Ben Franklin, we talk a lot about taking care and include taking care of the Earth as part of that. Through sustainable school practices to classrooms lessons to grade level projects, Ben Franklin truly models what it means to take care!

All of our staff connect with families through newsletters, email, apps like Homeroom, and many other methods. Many of our staff also use Twitter both to show the wonderful things happening at BF as well as for professional learning. The school retweets many of these tweets and posts them to Facebook as well. Below is a list of some of our staff who use Twitter that you may want to follow as well:

BEN FRANKLIN TWITTER USERS

@bfes_ltps - Ben Franklin Elementary School

@williambjmeurer - Mr. Meurer, Principal

@MrsDeakBF - Mrs. Deak, House Leader

@CoryCounselor - Mrs. Rutt, School Counselor

@CimorelliPE - Mrs. Cimorelli, PE Teacher

@laflammemusic - Mrs. LaFlamme, Music Teacher

@Art_Rm_Skorupa - Mrs. Skorupa, Art Teacher

@MissSullivanBF - Miss Sullivan

@BloombergBundle - Miss Bloomberg

@MrsGutierrezBF - Mrs. Gutierrez

@Fun_In_1st - Miss Lundquist

@missyakesclass - Miss Yake

@Ms_P_BF102 - Ms. Paparella

@easeipp - Ms. Seipp

@jo_fredericks - Mrs. Fredericks

@miss_zimmer2 - Miss Zimmer

@angierotola - Miss Angie

@MissCoylesClass - Miss Coy

@Mr. RudesClass - Mr. Rude

@BormannBunch - Mr. Bormann

@tkrisak - Mrs. Krisak

@kpvinch - Mrs. Vinch

@dpescepreschool - Mrs. Pesce

@MuziLearningLab - Mrs. Muzi, G&T

@LindaAKMiller - Mrs. Miller, Technology

DISTRICT TWITTER USERS

@LPTS1 - Lawrence Township Public Schools

@DrCrystalEd - Crystal Edwards, Superintendent

@azuck1 - Andrew Zuckerman, Director of Curriculum and Instruction

@mhayes611 - Maureen Hayes, Supervisor of Humanities

@KBurke4242 - Kristin Burke, Supervisor of STEM

@lanacmnj - Lana Mueller, Operations Manager

Other district schools, administrators, and teachers are also on Twitter as well.

Website: http://www.ltps.org/BenFranklin.cfm?subpage=5920
Location: 2939 Princeton Pike, Lawrence Township, NJ, United States
Phone: 609-671-5540
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ben-Franklin-Elementary-School-1061038223946729/
Twitter: @bfes_ltps

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