Message from the Cafeteria: Balances & March Menu

We currently have 82 students with a negative balance. 

School Messenger was replaced with a system called Blackboard in December. The low balance notifications were changed over; HOWEVER, the balance was not accurate to include the current day's payments/transactions. This caused much confusion and frustration for parents.

We are encouraging parents/guardians to utilize the notification system in PayPams. We will soon be sending a phone bulletin of this feature in PayPams. For the record, there is no charge to create and monitor an account. The only fee is if a payment is made online. Notifications levels can be set up at the parents preference: $50.00, $20.00, $15.00, etc...

Check out our March lunch menu below.

 

 Note: March 23rd will be sack lunches for the 5K run.

Brock's Gap Happenings: HAT DAY THIS FRIDAY!

   

This Friday, March 2nd is Read Across America Day. (Dr. Seuss's B'day). With Reading Madness month going on we are definitely celebrating reading! To add to our celebration of reading we are going to have a HAT day this Friday!

Students can wear Dr. Seuss hats, baseball hats, or any hat that is not too distracting to the learning going on! (This is not crazy hat day ... just hat day!)  This is just another reminder that reading is fun and so important!

Let us know if you have any questions about this fun celebration.

READING IS WHERE IT'S HAT!!!

Brock's Gap Happenings: PINK SHIRT DAY THIS WEDNESDAY!

Wear your new CHOOSE KIND pink shirt or any pink shirt Wednesday, February 28th to celebrate the day!

Brock's Gap Happenings: This Week at BGIS (2/26-3/2)

• All Week - Be Kind Week
• All Week - Class/Team Pictures still on sale (myschoolfees.com)
• Tuesday (27th) - Instrument Ensemble Practice 3:00PM
• Tuesday (27th) - Girls, Goals, and Good Books (Gym) 3:00PM
• Tuesday (27th) - Pokemon Club (rm. 305) 3:00PM
• Tuesday (27th) - Show Choir Practice (choir room) 3:00PM
• Wednesday (28th) - BE KIND DAY- WEAR PINK 
• Wednesday (28th) - 1st Priority Club (Choir Room) 7:30AM
• Wednesday (28th) - Lego Robotics Club 3:00-4:30PM
• Wednesday (28th) - Star Wars Club (rm 113) 3:00-4:00PM
• Wednesday (28th) - Band Student Field Trip to observe Music Performance Assessment
• Thursday (1st) - Instrument Ensemble Practice 7:30AM
• Thursday (1st) - Hoover Elementary Music Festival - 10AM select 5th graders will be on this trip
• Thursday (1st) - Frisbee Club 3PM (gym)

TONIGHT IS SPIRIT NIGHT AT SKY ZONE!

Brock's Gap Happenings

• February 23rd - Spirit Night at Sky Zone

• February 28th - Pink Shirt Day

• Middle School Transition Night: All of our 5th and 6th graders at BGIS  will be able to visit and tour their newly rezoned middle school on 3/19/18. 

Reading Madness: Google Classroom (n6dtlg)

There is a Google Classroom for the entire BGIS month of Reading Madness. It will be awesome for you to join so you can discuss your book, take polls, and see videos/pictures relating to the books.
The code is n6dtlg. 

Reminders:
Stay away from posting anything inappropriate.
Stay away from book spoilers.

The teachers and staff monitoring the GC are able to see all posts and will remove any posts that are deemed inappropriate.

Brock's Gap Happenings

Middle School:
You will find "Middle School" info on our team blog.  As we continue to get information about each middle school we will keep you up to date by placing that information on our blog under the right hand tab. Click on "Middle Schools" and click on the middle school your child will be attending!

Parent Academy Night: 
Mark your calendars and make plans to attend Parent Academy night on February 6th at 6:00 p.m. See info below.

Please join us Tuesday, February 6th, 2018.

 PTO General Meeting at 6:00PM

 Parent session from 6:30-7:30 PM

*Childcare will be available in the cafeteria*

Sessions this year will include:

 Staying Current as a Parent in Today’s Digital Classroom  Social Media Trends  Student Transitions to Middle School  Middle School Math  Middle School Literacy  Taking Care of the Social and Emotional Needs of Your Child

Pink Shirt Day:
February 28th is Pink Shirt Day. Click HERE for more information.

If you're interested, you can place your t-shirt order for the $5.00 “Choose Kind” t-shirt through www.myschoolfees.com. You may also choose to wear your own pink shirt on this day.

Why PINK SHIRT DAY?
Here are two videos we watched at school explaining the history of the pink shirt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8wanOHnQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmf3I1_ZhU

Heartgrams:
Heartgrams are on sale February 5-9, 2018. They are $1.00 each and students must have dollar bills to purchase.

"SCA will be selling Valentinegrams at 7:30 a.m. in the cafeteria between February 6th - February 9th.  Send a Valentinegram to all of your friends and teachers. Valentinegrams will be given out on Valentine’s Day!  They are $1 each.  We are asking that you only pay with bills; no coins will be accepted for payment. 

Thank you!" 

Make-Up Snow Day:
February 19, 2018 has been added to the calendar as a make-up day for the December 8th missed school day.

Box Tops!
If students bring in a total of 10,000 Box Tops students will be able to duct tape Mr. Mitchell to the wall.  Students who bring in 50 box tops will be able to participate in the taping. Students who bring in 20 will have their name added to the bucket for a drawing for prizes!

Coming Soon: Middle School Tours

All of our 5th and 6th graders will be able to visit and tour their newly rezoned middle school on Monday, March 19, 2018.  All three middle schools will have BGIS students next year, so they should attend their new 2018-2019 rezoned school on this transition night.

Middle School Extra-Curricular Tryouts

The middle school administrators have agreed that students will try out for sports and activities based on current 2017-18 feeder zones. For BGIS students, that would be Bumpus. Students making a team or club at these tryouts would then make the team at the new school if they are rezoned for 2018-19.

Cheer and Dance Tryouts at Bumpus: 
Parent interest meeting will be February 5th at 6:30 PM in the Bumpus  library.

Tryout dates below:

• Cheer will be March 13-16
• Dance will be March 20-23

Cross Country:

Find information about a Bumpus cross country summer camp HERE.