Our reading specialist, Mrs. Milner, organized BMS's participation in Renaissance Learning's Read the Most Coast to Coast initiative. The nationwide initiative is to take five million AR tests by in one day. BMS students, with support from their ELA teachers and the library, made a great showing. Between 7:55 and 11:30 Friday morning, BMS students had already taken over 350 AR tests. By 3:00 p.m., the total exceeded 645 tests. The final tally nationwide was 4,987,949 tests. Way to go, Bulldogs!
The week of Feb 10-14, 2014, Bandera Middle School students participated in Random Acts of Kindness Week. All teachers were issued five Kindness Bucks to be distributed to students who exemplify kindness during that week. The bucks were given to students in a spontaneous manner. Teachers gave the names of students who received the bucks to BMS Counselor, Mrs Anderson, who then put students' names on the school bulletin board. The students were able to cash in Kindness Bucks after lunch in the cafeteria for goodies provided by BMS PTO.
Random Acts of Kindness Week is part of the Rachel’s Challenge program which is a nonprofit organization lead by the parents of Rachel Scott who was killed during the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. Her parents established the Rachel’s Challenge to perpetuate their daughter’s example of paying it forward and how kindness can create a chain reaction of good. This was one of our No Place for Hate activities. Ms. Moseley's sixth grade students put their engineering skills to the test in Products in Motion. Groups of students were tasked with designing a machine that would move a small object three feet and deposit it into a cup. The object had to start at table level, and after an initial move, the students could not touch it; the machine had to do the work. The inventive engineers used pulleys, conveyor belts, catapults, and even a motorized car to accomplish their task. Way to go, sixth graders!
UTSA’s Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTec) is organizing an educational opportunity for fifty (50) Bandera Middle School students to visit the engineering department. Students in the 8th grade and students in the GT program are invited to apply to attend the trip. Applications are available in the BMS office. Completed applications should be turned into Mrs. Barta in the office.
Application deadline is 3:25 February 28, 2014. Congratulations to BMS One-Act Play for placing first at the district UIL competition. Additional awards include two members named to the Honorary All-Star Cast, two members named to the All-Star Cast, Best Tech award, and Best Actor award. Bulldog thespians took it all the way!
Congratulations to all the students who competed in UIL this month. BMS placed second in the meet and earned many medals and ribbons. Kudos to Miss Smallwood, our awesome UIL coordinator, and to all the UIL coaches! Bulldogs certainly took it to the next level. Stay tuned for pics of our UIL One-Act Play and their first place performance.
For two weeks in February, BMS is going to step back in time. On Tuesday, February 18, the U.S. Department of Interior will deliver a Civil War traveling trunk. 8th grade students will have the opportunity to connect their study of the causes and effects of the Civil War to daily life in the nineteenth-century as they explore the music, literature, and past times of a Civil War soldier. Teams will compete in a regimental marching competition and record choral readings of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. For two days, the BMS library will be turned into a Civil War museum where eighth graders will interact with artifacts and primary and secondary sources. Stay tuned for more info on the joint initiative sponsored by the social studies department, the ELA department, and the library.
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