Bethel the Beautiful

What a wonderful week it has been!! Your students have started off on the right foot and had a great week!! Super proud of our students and staff!! Here's to the 72nd year of Bethel Elementary, and the BEST YEAR YET!!

Our teachers have already been working hard on writing instruction for your students!! They had a workshop about writing before school started and students are writing up a storm! When students are better writers, they are better readers! We are excited about the writing that will be taking place this year and hope you will talk to your child about what they are currently writing about!! The pictures for this week are from the 4th and 5th grade!

Our beginning of year MClass (Reading) assessments will begin on Monday, August 24th. Students in grades 1st - 5th will be assessed this week and kindergarten (to allow them time to get settled into a routine) will begin the following week. This will give us a baseline to start the year and will help us determine what skills your child needs to work on. Our goal this year is that 95% of our students are on grade level! Please read with your child each night and encourage them to read throughout the week and weekends!! Reading is key!

If you would like to be a part of our parent advisory council, please fill out the survey below! I had several folks sign up last week and thought I would throw it out there one more week. We will meet monthly (or bimonthly in the winter) and talk about ideas and ways to improve BES. I ask for important feedback and we help each other problem solve...and we have fun! I hope you will consider being a part of the Parent Advisory Council!

We are excited to begin our 4th annual chocolate fundraiser!! A permission slip to participate will be sent home on Monday!! Please sign it and return it on Tuesday, so they can get a box to sell that day! Check out the permission slip with more information on Monday. Thanks for considering helping us with this amazing fundraiser opportunity!

Adaptability is being flexible and being able to work with others. We definitely want our students to be adaptable here at Bethel Elementary! Thanks for talking to your child about ways they can be adaptable!!

Our students have discovered that Roz the robot was ACTIVATED and the animals of the island are all very curious about this new machine. Ask your child their favorite part so far and what they think will happen next!!

We are excited about our annual Book of the Month program. In this program, Title One purchases a picture book for each classroom teacher. The students enjoy listening to the story read by the teacher and then the teacher will be sending the book home to the classroom of students to share with families. In the bag with the book is a sign in sheet. When the book of the month comes home, sign the sheet, read the book with your child and return the book at your earliest convenience so the next student and family can enjoy!

We are excited about our annual Open House!! We will meet in the gym at 5:30 to go over a few things, give away prizes, introduce staff and sing Bethel the Beautiful! You will then be invited to go to your child (children's) classroom(s) to see what they have done the first month of school! We love having our families with us and we hope everyone can make it! We will give away 3 Bethel Bypasses!! If you have a car rider, you won't want to miss out on the chance to skip car line and pick up your child on the bus loop!! Can't wait to see everyone there!

Tuesday, August 25th - Chocolate Fundraiser Begins

Monday, September 7 - No school - Labor Day

Thursday, September 17- Open House 5:30-7:00 pm

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