February 28th- March 8th: Read Across America

March 2nd- BPS Annual Spring Fling

March 5th-Spring Pictures

March 14th- 2nd Grade Lunch and Learn

March 21st: LSGT Meeting

March 21st: Catoosa County Collaborative Meeting

March 27th: April Fast Pass Drawing

March 28th: PBIS Cub Club Celebration

March 28th: Egg Hunt

March 29th-April 5th- Spring Break

The Parent Teacher Organization at BPS is actively seeking dedicated individuals to join the PTO Board. We are looking for family members, business representatives, and BPS teachers and staff with fresh perspectives and enthusiasm to help lead our school community towards excellence.

Elections will be held in April, (Date TBD) for the 2024-2025 school year, to fill vacant seats. An Officer interest meeting will be hosted by the current PTO Board members prior to elections for those interested; to ask questions and submit candidacy. More information will be sent home in the following weeks and you can send questions to pto.bps@gmail.com

Looking for ideas and strategies to share with your own children or other parents? GeorgiaStandards.Org (GSO) is here to help!

GeorgiaStandards.Org allows parents easy access to information about the state’s standards. This web site also offers a variety of free resources to help you motivate and support your child’s curriculum at home while reinforcing the standards your child is working on in the classroom.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)

On February 19, 2015, the State Board of Education (SBOE) voted to rename the ELA and Mathematics standards to the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE). The recently revised and SBOE approved ELA and Mathematics standards for implementation beginning for the 2015-2016 school year will be called the ELA and Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE).

Georgia Performance Standards

The Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) give clear guidelines for teaching the subjects, testing what students are learning, and the work students are doing. They explain the level of work (rigor) that allows a teacher to know "how good is good enough."

Frameworks

Frameworks are the teaching and learning activities that help promote student success as it relates to the Georgia Performance Standards. They may include tasks (activities), rubrics (guides used to score lessons), and resources for the units.

Testing Resources

Testing Resources are available to help parents understand and students get ready for standardized tests. Choose to view explanations of the different assessment programs administered at the various grade levels as well as resources to help your students prepare. For general assessment program information, including currently scheduled test administration dates, you may also visit the Testing/Assessment Division website.

The Lexile Framework for Reading

The Lexile® Framework is an educational tool that links text complexity and readers’ ability on a common scale metric known as the Lexile. A student receives a Lexile reader measure as a score from a reading test; the Lexile describes the student’s reading ability. Books and other texts also have a Lexile measure associated with them, and this Lexile describes the book's reading demand or difficulty. When used together, these measures can help match a reader with reading material that is at an appropriate difficulty level, or help give an idea of how well a reader will comprehend a text.

In Georgia students will receive a Lexile measure when they receive a scale score on the Georgia Milestones End of Grade or End of Course English Language Arts (ELA) assessment. This Lexile is based on the reading portion of the ELA test.

Lexile information can be a resource for parents and educators that focuses on improving reading skills and increasing adolescent literacy. A student’s Lexile measure can be used to monitor his or her growth in reading ability over time.

The National PTA has developed four-page parent guides that provide an overview of what your child will learn by the end of each school year in mathematics and English Language Arts/literacy.

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• We have lots of volunteer opportunities this month, check out the list on sign-up genius.
• The Resource Room at BPS has tools and resources for you! A parent library , translation services, and information on other community resources for you and your family. Adult bathrooms, a changing station, and play corner for young children is available for those parents who come by to visit or volunteer.
• You can apply for Free and Reduced Lunches at any time. Applying and/or qualifying can help your school!
• Read Across America continues until March 8th. Parents can come in to read with your student's classroom in the Library. You can contact our Media Center Specialist, Mrs. Romans for more details.