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bach elementary school news JANUARY 28, 2015

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At Bach School we are dedicated to creating an environ-ment that inspires learning. We strive to challenge each student to achieve full academic potential and maintain consistent standards for socially responsible behavior. We believe education is a share responsibility of the staff, students, parents, and the community. We value children as unique individuals and recognize their ethnic diversity and various learning styles as strengths.

hello bach families,What an amazing first month of 2015. We are so proud of our students and staff for the daily dis-play of perseverance and grit. As we continue to support them, please think about how you can collaborate with them to increase productivity, performance and personal growth. Our commu-nity support is one factor that sets us above so many other schools. As you read and reflect on this newsletter, think about how you can make a difference.

New Faces at Bach

Please help me welcome our new day custodian Mrs. Laure’l McGee, and evening custodians Mr. Farazdaq Alelayawi and Ms. Roslyn Benion.

We are also very pleased to have Jacquelynn King (Social Worker), Ann Skonecki (Occupation-al Therapist) and Kelsey Forester (Media Spe-cialist) join the team.

NAAPID

On Monday, February 9th, for National African American Parent Involvement Day, ALL families are invited to spend all or some of the school day with their Bach student(s). The program/invitation is in this newsletter. Please use the following link to let us know who is coming: http://tinyurl.com/oll3zhu

Kindergarten Round Up

On Tuesday, February 24, from 6:00 – 7:30pm in the MPR, any student who will be 5 on or before September 1, 2015 may register for Kindergar-ten. Waiver’s are available for students turning 5 before December 1, 2015. Please share this information with families in our area so they can become a part of our school community. ALL potential K families should register with Kim Kauffman, at 734.994.1949. Thank you

Message of the Week

Contributing to the Bach community sounds like a BIG feat for a student. However, each student can make a BIG difference by being the best you each and every day. Do your best at school by speaking kindly to others, working hard, and having fun and you will see your contributions making a BIG difference.

Home and School Connection

How are we contributing to our children’s think-ing? Positively or Negatively.

Take a look at this article to gain tips on the im-portance and power of our words as we contin-ue to teach our children the benefits of positive thinking. http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-liv-ing/stress-management/in-depth/positive-think-ing/art-20043950?pg=1

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Arrival Time

As we review our safety plan for student arriv-als, please remember to drop students off after 8:30am each morning. All students and parents should wait outside the doors unless the weath-er is inclement. In addition, please remember to drive safely, park legally and always drive defensively around Bach. Thank you.

Math Week & Math Night

Math Night thursday, February 5th 6:30-8:00pm

Come one, come all to our 1st Annual Math Night @Bach. We are excited to join up with EMU students to bring you a night of math excitement.

Families and students should come together to experience the following program:

6:30-7:00 MPR, Live Wax Museum

7:00-8:00, Grade level Math Games and Activi-ties throughout the building.

Math Week February 2–6 at bach

Morning Announcements will include an Estima-nia question with a chance to win a prize at the end of each day.

» Classroom teachers will focus on a math con-cept and game each day.

» On Friday, February 6, Bach will have its first all school Math-Wear Day.

» Dress up with ANY Math symbol, numbers and/or concepts. Can’t wait to see the creativ-ity of our students.

» Look for a Mr. Park vs (Could Be You) game during the week.

Zero the Hero

Kinders, first and second graders will soon get a visit from a superhero...Zero the Hero! Zero will be visiting each classroom on the 100th day of school to see if everyone can count to 100. If they do, Zero will leave a gift for each student. In addition, Zero will read his favorite book to each class (Zero the Hero).

Lobby TV

Student: “You’re so lucky Mr. Park!”

Mr. Park: “Thanks but why am I lucky?”

Student: “Because you get to watch TV all day in the lobby!”

Mr. Park: ...

If you haven’t noticed already, the district has mounted a TV on the wall in the main lobby. Bach will soon be showcasing activities, events, news and more on our TV.

— Hyeuo Park, Principal

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february

29 ramsey and iglewicz to uMMa 12:45–1:45pm

30 All School Assembly, mpR 3pm Trudell Retirement Recognition, mpR 4–6pm brrrr Fest at bach 6:30-8:30pm

2–6 bach Math Week

5 Bach math Night, mpR 6:30–8pm

9 NAApID For All parents author’s Visit 10–11am

11 student count day 5th grade to dia 9am–2pm

12 borgsdorf and smith to uMMa 12:45–1:45pm 4th Grade Day Concert, mpR 10:15–11:15 4th Grade Concert, mpR 7–8pm

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kindergarten round up 6pm-7:30pm

26 bach sit, Media center 4 –5pm pTO meeting, mpR 6:30–7:30pm

27 3rd grade Field trip to uMMa 10:30am–12:30pm Movie Night 6:15pm

14–22 Mid-Winter Break

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february 9, 2015 parent involvement day

National African American Parent Involvement Day is your opportunity to see what your child does each day at school. While parents are welcome at Bach School anytime, this is a special day focusing on the importance of your involvement in your child’s education.

We invite you to come and share part of the day with your child. You are welcome for five minutes or five hours!

Any adult who is important in your child’s life may attend. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends are all welcome.

Please plan on having your children arrive to school as they usually do. If they take the bus, please have them take the bus on this day as well.

pARkING will be extremely limited. If you live within reasonable walking distance, please walk. Carpooling is also a great idea!

pleASe RememBeR TO SIGN IN! Student greeters will be in the Jefferson St lobby.

Don’t forget to have your picture taken!

History of NAAPID

Joe Dulin, former principal of Roberto Clemente High School originated the idea of NAAPID. “The Million Man March challenged us to go back to our communities and promote a better quality of life...in accepting the challenge, this day was conceived to promote a higher standard of education for African American youngsters. Studies have shown that parental involvement is a positive force in the academic success of children.”

Although created as a call to action for African American parents, the day has been expanded to include all parents and significant others.

Bach students and staff invite you to attend National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID)

* Snow Date* Tuesday 2/10/15 morning only

schedule 8:45–9:15 Breakfast

Light breakfast supplied by PTO (adults only). Other refreshments will be provided for adults throughout the day.

8:48–lunch Attend Class

Parents are invited to attend class with their children

11:43–1:19 Lunch* and Recess 11:43 –12:07 Kinders & 2nd graders eat 12:07–12:31 4th graders eat 12:31–12:55 1st and 3rd graders eat 12:55–1:19 5th graders eat

*Complimentary lunch provided for adult guests. Please be sure to RSVP if you are planning on staying for lunch so we can be sure to have enough food! RSVP is being sent via email.

Afternoon Attend Class

Parents are invited to attend class with their children

3:00 All School Slide Show

3:42 Dismissal

Parents/Guardians may take their children home after the slide show.

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eveN ThOuGh we have only had one full week of school this month, the art room has been a very busy space lately: clay projects, stuffed crea-tures, paper mache figures, and many new lessons. Let me tell you more…

After I finish writing this entry, I will be attending Mrs. Smith’s kindergarten class art auction benefiting the Humane Soci-ety tonight. My students have worked so hard at creating all types of artwork to raise money for this fine cause. Each student has a piece to sell. Along with her class, all kindergarteners have worked on Snowy Day pictures, and Piet Mondrian inspired col-lages, along with painting and drawing projects inspired by Eric Carle.

First graders and third grad-ers have been creating and glazing clay projects – a stu-dent favorite medium! Both of these grades have had to miss precious art times due to snow days, holidays and teacher workdays. We will be working extra hard in the next couple of weeks to try and catch up.

Second graders have been making “snow angel” collag-es inspired after reading the book, A Perfect Day. These winter inspired artworks will hopefully be completed and hung in time for Brr Fest.

Fourth graders have finished up their zany James Rizzi inspired cities, and they also created artist inspired snow-men. Each student drew from a hat the name of an artist. After doing research on their artist, they created a snowmen decorated in the style of the artist. They have just started the process of creating a pa-per mache action figure. This involves a rather ooey, goo-ey mess that some students absolutely love while others – not so much!

Fifth graders are finishing up sewing their fabulous stuffed creations. Most students had never sewn before and they really seemed to enjoy the process. Many made several if they had time, and told me they want to continue sewing at home. They had to create a pattern, cut it out, sew, dec-orate, and stuff. They turned out absolutely adorable!

Along with all the fabulous artwork my students have been creating in this New Year, all my classes are reviewing, practicing, and fine–tuning our art classroom expectations. For everyone to be successful I have 3 main behavior expec-tations for all my students: listening, being respectful, and working quietly. And as always, I am extremely proud of my creative, hard working, and resourceful students.

Artfully yours,

Kim Furey

art room“CReATIvITy IS INveNTING, expeRImeNTING, GROwING, TAkING RISkS, BReAkING RuleS, mAkING mISTAkeS, AND hAvING FuN.” — Mary Lou Cook

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Spotlight on Second GradeIn Vocal Music Humanities our second graders have been studying the Science of Musical Sound. This unit follows the classroom Science of Sound study. There are wonderful opportunities for the children to review, extend and solidify their sci-entific understandings of sound. Please ask your child the 3 Laws of Pitch. Do they remember? 1. Pitch is the high and low of sound. 2. Pitch match-es size. 3. Small is high and large is low.

Can they give you examples of size’s impact on pitch? They are also learning about the organi-zation of pitch in scale. In Vocal Music they will have the opportunity to sing the 8 note scale with solfege syllables (Do, Re, Mi, ...) and use the Curw-en hand syllables. Ask them about the Bear Hunt!

Spotlight on Fourth GradeIn Vocal Music our fourth graders are busily preparing their musical to be performed Feb. 12. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters is a popular story book that has skillfully been turned into a musical. We are thrilled with the kids’ initial enthusiasm and creativity!

Spotlight on KindergartenKindergartners have been developing beautiful singing voices! They have a long list of repertoire and can readily demonstrate steady beat. We love to act out stories to music, move the way the mu-sic moves, and even play instruments! Please feel free to visit your child’s music class. They’d love it!

— Kristi Bishop

music room

last box top drive of the year!It’s Box Tops submission time! Box tops are a great way to help earn money for bach school with very little effort required. If each stu-dent in the school brought in 25 Box Tops, we would earn $1000!

please watch your child’s back-pack for a box top collection Sheet. This year we’d like to create a friendly competition and see which classroom can bring in the most box tops by Friday , February 13.

tape or glue box tops on a collec-tion sheet or simply send in a bag uncounted. we’ll do the work!

the winning classroom will decide with their teacher on a reward whether it be extra recess minutes or a pj day!

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earth-friendly help needed!help our composting efforts The Bach School students and staff do a fantastic job collecting compost every day, and minimizing our waste by putting compostables in a separate compost area.

We are in desperate need of a parent to take over the task of turning the compost, adding the necessary ingredients, and helping to make the compost ready to put in our gardens.

We thank Mark Lee for doing this job for quite some time, and are looking for someone to take it over. If you are interested in taking on this won-derful earth-friendly task, please contact Robin Gleason or Tina Ezekiel.

CANNED FOOD DRIVE

WE NEED YOUR DONATIONS

bach school is participating in a canned food drive for Food Gatherers until January 29. please helps fill our boxes by bringing in the following: (no glass please!)

Canned Food | Dry Goods (pasta, powdered milk, rice) | Toothpaste | Soap/Shampoo | Diapers

please drop off in the drop box by the Jefferson Street Doors.

Thank you! help us FIll OuR BuCkeT (of food)

DON'T  MISS  THE  “BRRR”  FEST  CARNIVAL!  Friday  evening  at  Bach!                                                                          January  30,  6:30-­‐8:30  PM                                                                    We're  taking  over  the  school,  and  inviQng  you  to  get  out  of  the  cold  for  a  fun  -­‐  and  free  -­‐  family  night  of  indoor  acQviQes.      Join  us  for  food  from  around  the  world,    arts  &  craWs,  human  foosball,    obstacles  courses,  games,  and    dancing  (with  a  live  DJ)!    DON'T  MISS  THE  “BRRR”  FEST  CARNIVAL!  Friday  evening  at  Bach!                                                                          January  30,  6:30-­‐8:30  PM                                                                    We're  taking  over  the  school,  and  inviQng  you  to  get  out  of  the  cold  for  a  fun  -­‐  and  free  -­‐  family  night  of  indoor  acQviQes.      Join  us  for  food  from  around  the  world,    arts  &  craWs,  human  foosball,    obstacles  courses,  games,  and    dancing  (with  a  live  DJ)!    

VOLUNTEER! Please consider committing

to a fun, easy, 45-minute shift run-ning a game, supervising crafts, or

other assignment at this free, all-school event by visiting our

Sign-Up on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/EfGrEd

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grocery scrip spotlight DO DO yOu ShOp AT kROGeR? If so, you can support PTO! Each year Bach families raise approximately $10,000 by partic-

ipating in our grocery Scrip program and purchas-ing the things they normally would buy from their favorite supermarkets.

It’s easy to do. Simply, get a Kroger Plus Shopper’s Card from the customer service desk or any register

at your local Kroger store. Then link your Kroger Plus Shopper’s Card to Bach PTO by doing the

1. 1. Go to www.krogercommunityrewards.com. Scroll down the page and click “Enroll now” under the “Michigan” ban-ner.

2. 2. If you already have a Kroger.com account, sign in. On the Kroger Community Rewards page, under “Find your orga-nization,” enter Bach’s NPO number: 82780. Click “Search.” Click the circle to the left of “Bach Elementary School PTO.” Click “Save Changes.” You are now enrolled in the program.

3. 3. If you do not have a Kroger.com account, sign up for one by clicking on “Get started. Sign up today!” in the right-hand column. Follow the prompts to create an account. After you complete the registration process, you will re-ceive an email from Kroger.com. Click on the activation link provided in that email and log in to your newly created account. Under “Account Settings,” click on “Community Rewards.” Click “Edit Kroger Community Rewards Informa-tion.” On the Kroger Community Rewards page, under “Find your organization,” enter Bach’s NPO number: 82780.

Click “Search.” Click the circle to the left of “Bach Elementary School PTO.” Click “Save Changes.” You are now enrolled in the program.

In order for Bach PTO to get credit for your purchases, you must use your Kroger Plus Shopper’s Card at check-out on each shopping trip. If you have any questions about Kroger’s Scrip program or any other grocery Scrip program, please contact the Bach School Scrip Coordinator at scrip@bachpto.org. Thanks for your support!

do you shop on amazon?You can support the Bach PTO while shopping on Amazon at no extra cost to you!

When you shop at smile.amazon.com you’ll find the same prices and selection, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a percentage of your purchase to the Bach PTO!

Here’s how to set it up in 5 minutes! 

1. Go to smile.amazon.com.

2. Select Bach PTO as your non-profit of choice

3. Shop as you normally would! It’s that easy!

This is an easy way to raise money for our children!

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PTO  Scrip  Store  hours  Wednesdays    8:45  -­‐  9:15am  

(main  lobby)  Fri,  January  30th  @  BRRR  Fest!  

   

 

Thank you for allowing us to do your shopping for you, and for helping the Bach School community at the same time!

Holiday gift card sales earned $800! Our total for the year is $1600! Conveniently, we have cards IN STOCK for many of our popular stores. At no cost to you, there is no easer way to support Bach PTO! Questions? Email: scrip@bachpto.org or go to http://bachpto.org/scrip/