Welcome to The Badger Team!
It's hard to believe that the 2019-2020 school year has begun! Badger teachers are happy to welcome your children, as well as a new science teacher, Mrs. Duval Buell, to our team! As I'm sure your students told you, we spent the first few days getting to know one another by participating in many team building activities and competitions, as part of our Growth Mindset learning/teaching model.
We watched the Disney movie Meet the Robinsons one morning, to illustrate that making mistakes and learning from them is one of the keys to learning. Keep moving forward is the motto in the movie, and it applies quite well to The Badger Team's overarching philosophy. Immediately after watching the movie, we adjourned to the gym, where groups were given paper bags filled with identical, common items. Students were asked to collaborate, and build a self sustaining tower. We observed were kids who worked beautifully together, communicated, and gracefully accepted failure every time their structure crumbled. There was one winning team, who built the tallest, most stable tower, but every team won, because they all accomplished the goal: to collaborate, fail, and keep moving forward! Every team built a tower! This is definitely what we hope to see all year long.
Your students are adjusting quite well to the Badger Lite program - not lugging huge, heavy backpacks to classes! We've provided each student with a large format copy of their individual schedule, as well as a small format copy which they were given time to tape to the inside of their lockers. The hope is that with structured time to return to lockers, they will become accustomed to planning to carry only what they need for two to three classes at a time. We've notice a majority of students are using a small string bag to keep only those materials they'll need in every class - their agenda, pencil case and their Passport. Please be sure to ask your student to share their Passport with you!
There remain a handful of students who did not have the opportunity to do back to school shopping for supplies, so we thought it would be helpful to remind you of our list:
- personal ear buds for standardized tests
- a 1" 3-ring binder with a set of five dividers, and loose leaf paper for English
- 160 3 x 5 inch flash cards with a flexible storage container for Literacy
- Literacy will share the 3 ring binder for English
- 2 spiral notebooks and a folder for Social Studies
- a 1/2" 3-ring binder for Science with loose leaf paper
- a composition book and a folder for Math
- a large supply of pencils and erasers
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