Notes from the Principal... Hello Bartlett Families and Friends, The staff and I would like to extend our best wishes for a joyous and peaceful New Year. This new beginning is a wonderful time to review your child’s ac-complishments this far and make new goals. Reflect with your child on areas they have truly excelled in and help them set attainable goals for their learning at school for the rest of the year. We look forward to the many learning op-portunities that this part of the school year will bring! Additionally, to celebrate our staff that helps to provide so many of these wonderful learning opportunities, I am requesting nominations for teacher of the year. If you would like to nominate a Bartlett teacher for this honor, please write or email your nomination along with a few sentences explaining why you think that teacher is “Bartlett’s Teacher of the Year.” Please make sure nominations are submitted by January 15, 2016. Thank you for your time and thought! As always, if you have any questions or concerns please contact us at any time, 248-573-8300. Sincerely, Emily Testani Principal

Important Telephone Numbers

School Office: 248-573-8300

Attendance Line: 248-573-8280

Please call the 24 hour attendance line

for all absences.

Fax: 248-486-4090 School Closing Hot-

line: 248-573-8251

The Bartlett Beat January 2016

Bartlett School Mission Statement All members of the Bartlett School community are accountable for working as partners in a supportive environ-

ment to provide instruction that guides all students in acquiring skills and knowledge, while developing the inde-

pendence needed for continuous learning.

Calling all 3rd, 4th and 5th grade Bartlett girls!

Coach Burdick, Coach Forsyth, Coach Doppke, Coach Goodenow, Coach

Cardelli, Coach Frisk, Coach Anolick and Coach Rohrbach, would love it if you joined them

for the Spring 2016 Season! WHO: 3rd, 4th and 5th grade girls WHAT: Girls on the Run 2016 Season WHEN: March 7th-May 20th on Monday & Wednesday from 3:30-5:00. A 5k event on May 15, 2016! WHERE: Bartlett Elementary School WHY: GOTR uses running to inspire and motivate girls, encourage lifelong health and fitness, and build confidence through accomplishment. GOTR teaches life skills through dynamic, conversation-based lessons and running games. At the end of the season, our team will participate in a 5k event that gives the girls a tangible sense of achievement as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. COST: $150: Includes 10 week/20 lesson season, 5k entry fee, GOTR t-shirt, GOTR water bottle and a healthy snack at every GOTR practice. Scholarships are available on a first come, first serve basis to fami-lies in need! REGISTRATION: Early: December 7th-18th. General: December 19th-Februrary 15th. Late: February 16th-March 18th. QUESTIONS: Check out the GOTR website at http://www.girlsontherunsemi.org/ or contact Julie Burdick at burdickj@slcs.us

Congrats to our Bartlett BEAR winners for No-

vember and December! These student demon-

strated that they were Bartlett Bears by per-

sisting, managing their impulsivity, thinking

about their thinking, questioning, striving for

accuracy, and listening with empathy.

I had a wonderful time at lunch with the

following outstanding Bartlett BEARs on

December 16th!

I am looking forward to lunch with the following

Bartlett BEARs on January 14th!

Contingency Plans

Occasionally, school systems have to send students home early due to weather condi-tions, power outages, boiler failure and so on. Although we try to avoid sending students home early, there have been times in the past and there will, no doubt, be times in the future when this action is nec-essary. Please discuss this possibility with your children, and devise a plan for them to follow. Your plan might in-volve going straight home and calling a parent at work. It might involve going to the neighbor’s home, if the neighbor agrees. It might involve a high school child staying at home with the younger children. Whatever plan is decided upon, make sure your children know it and follow it, for their safety and your peace of mind. Whenever possible, students at the elementary level will not be released unless a contact has been made with a parent, guardian, or other individual listed on their

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day We will celebrate the life of Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr. during the month of Janu-

ary. Students in grades K-3 will be read-

ing different books about the life of Dr.

MLK Jr. K-3 students will then discuss

the Habits of Mind that Dr. King used in

his life. Students in 4th and 5th grade will

be viewing a clip on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They

will then discuss the meaning of Dr. King’s message and

participate in a written reflection connected to this mes-

sage. We look forward to celebrating and honoring Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. with students!

Julius Ables, Vanessa Cox, Max Eisen-

mann, Olivia Field, Camden Fox, Charles

Goans, Alexa Greenburg, Samatha Ioli,

Noah Kernazek, and Marisa Rakoski

The Special Education Department will host a parent meeting on January 13, 2016 @ 7:00

-8:30pm at Centennial Middle School Team Room. The topic will be Navigating

the IEP Paperwork.

Leah Bosworth, Charlie Carlson, Emily

Cook, Luciana DeAnda, Sarah Hare,

Jack Hendrie, Draven Lampinen, Bray-

den Lynn, Kaden Patterson, Geovanni

Penalver, Jack Robinson and Olivia Sams

Book Look: Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg Written by: Amy Forsyth, General Ed. Social Worker & Julie Burdick, Special Ed. So-

cial Worker

Beautiful Oops is a book that not only teaches that it’s okay to make mistakes, but that we should

celebrate mistakes and learn from them. The author does a wonderful job of demonstrating how

common mistakes (or “oops” as he calls them) can be transformed into something beautiful. For example, he turns

a torn piece of paper into the mouth of an alligator! This interactive book is great for teaching about having a

growth mindset. You may have noticed a bulletin board in the hallway by the cafeteria that says “Change your

words, change you mindset”; this bulletin board has a variety of examples of ways to

have a growth mindset! At Bartlett, we are teaching and supporting all students to

have a growth mindset!

Try this at home:

Give your child an “oops” piece of paper (a paper that has a smudge on it or is

ripped, etc). Ask your child to create something out of/on the paper. Pretend like you

don’t see the “oops” on the paper.

When your child is done, have him/her share the creation that he/she made. Ask questions such as:

What did you do to transform the “oops” into your creation?

Did you have to change the way you think about creating to complete this task?

Next, you could have a conversation with the following talking points:

Talk about how the “oops” on their paper can represent mistakes or challenges that they may face at school.

Talk about how the final creation, where they included the “oops”, can represent having a growth mindset;

trying something that was different or hard and continuing a task even if it does not go as planned.

Talk about how great their pictures look and how they turned something that looked like an “oops” into some-

thing amazing!

A Night on the Red Car-

pet!

Join us for a night out at Bakers of

Milford to raise money for Bartlett

Elementary. The Bartlett Elemen-

tary Silent Auction is February 5,

2016 at 6:30 pm.

Tickets for the event will be sold

this month! It is $25.00 per per-

son or you may reserve a table of 8

for $185.00. Dinner will be served

during the event.

We look forward to sharing this

evening with you!

Cultures of Thinking THINKING MADE VISIBLE THIS MONTH…

Fourth graders used the routine, Tug of War, to examine the book, Tiger Rising. Students first wrote in their thinking journals, then shared their perspective and rea-soning with their classmates. Together they used the information each student presented to build an argu-ment around a question prompted from their reading. Great discussions were had and students did an amazing job of listening and respond-ing to each other!

No cooking needed on January 18th! Stop into

Aubree’s for lunch or dinner on January 18th and

10% of the profits will be donated to Bartlett. Be

sure to bring a flyer (coming home soon) when

you dine. Enjoy great food and friends on this day

off school! Thank you for your continued support!

January 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 B2C2 Meeting

8 9

10 11 12 13 Special Educa-tion Dept. Par-

ent Mtg.

14 Running Club

15 16

17 18 No school

Aubree’s Dining Day

MLK Jr. Day!

19 20 Hungry

Howie’s Night

21 SIP Meeting

@ 7:30

22 23

24 25 26 27 28 Hand’s On Mu-seum Math & Science Night

6-8pm

29 No School-

Records Day

30

31

Remember to check Bartlett’s Google Calendar for additional upcoming dates. You can access

this by visiting our website at www.slcs.us. Click on schools and choose Bartlett. View the cal-

endar by clicking on the “School Calendar” icon.