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General Updates December 15, 2017 Boyne Falls Public School Logger Monthly Page 1 In This Issue Note from Ms. Pineda Student of the Week Santa Claus is Coming to Town Spelling Bee Food Corp News Eddie Essay Winter Recreation Grade School Basketball Logger Night School Alerts Community Christmas Holiday Spirit Week Accelerated Reading Goal Honor Roll Christmas Program Photos with Santa Helpline MSP Student Trooper Program Calendar December 1 st marks the end of our first trimester. This means that our first 12 weeks of school is in the books! I hope that your students are happy with how they performed in the first trimester of this school year. If he or she is not happy then the start of the new trimester is a good me to change habits, atudes, or simply vow to apply oneself a lile more. I hope that our students get off to a good start in the second trimester. As many of you know, good reading skills are crical to all of our success. Our students have an opportunity to work on their reading skills here at Boyne Falls each and every day. Their teachers challenge them to meet their accelerated reader goals during each trimester. For the first trimester, Mrs. Fenske offered some extra movaon by tempng our students with a trip to the movies to view the newly released film Wonder. This extra incenve appears to be enough to propel our students to reach or surpass their goals. At the final tally, 80% of our students reached their goal! Congratulaons to all of you and enjoy your hard earned reward! To all of our parents, we invite you to come celebrate all of our students’ successes from the first trimester during our honors/awards assembly being held on Wednesday, December 13 th at 10:00 A.M. This is typically a fairly short assembly so if you can get away from your work then we hope you will join us. Just a few accolades to pass along to our students and staff. During the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, our Student Council held a food drive which directly benefited our local Boyne Valley Food Pantry. Our students, teachers, and staff responded well to this drive so I want to thank everyone for doing your part. In addion, our kindergarten to 7 th grade students are helping out the Make A Wish foundaon by subming leers to Santa. During the Christmas season, Macy’s department store donates $1 for every “Dear Santa” leer dropped off at their department stores. Kudos to our students for doing their part in help- ing Make A Wish reach its $1 million goal. On behalf of the students, teachers, and staff here at Boyne Falls Public School, we wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Enjoy a safe holiday break. GO LOGGERS! Cindy Pineda
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General Updates
December 15, 2017
Boyne Falls Public School
Logger Monthly
Page 1
In This Issue
Note from Ms. Pineda
Student of the Week
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Spelling Bee
Food Corp News
Eddie Essay
Winter Recreation
Grade School Basketball
Logger Night
School Alerts
Community Christmas
Holiday Spirit Week
Accelerated Reading Goal
Honor Roll
Christmas Program
Photos with Santa
Helpline
MSP Student Trooper Program
Calendar
December 1st marks the end of our first trimester. This means that our first 12 weeks of school is in the books! I hope that your students are happy with how they performed in the first trimester of this school year. If he or she is not happy then the start of the new trimester is a good time to change habits, attitudes, or simply vow to apply oneself a little more. I hope that our students get off to a good start in the second trimester.
As many of you know, good reading skills are critical to all of our success. Our students have an opportunity to work on their reading skills here at Boyne Falls each and every day. Their teachers challenge them to meet their accelerated reader goals during each trimester. For the first trimester, Mrs. Fenske offered some extra motivation by tempting our students with a trip to the movies to view the newly released film Wonder. This extra incentive appears to be enough to propel our students to reach or surpass their goals. At the final tally, 80% of our students reached their goal! Congratulations to all of you and enjoy your hard earned reward!
To all of our parents, we invite you to come celebrate all of our students’ successes from the first trimester during our honors/awards assembly being held on Wednesday, December 13th at 10:00 A.M. This is typically a fairly short assembly so if you can get away from your work then we hope you will join us.
Just a few accolades to pass along to our students and staff. During the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, our Student Council held a food drive which directly benefited our local Boyne Valley Food Pantry. Our students, teachers, and staff responded well to this drive so I want to thank everyone for doing your part. In addition, our kindergarten to 7th grade students are helping out the Make A Wish foundation by submitting letters to Santa. During the Christmas season, Macy’s department store donates $1 for every “Dear Santa” letter dropped off at their department stores. Kudos to our students for doing their part in help-ing Make A Wish reach its $1 million goal.
On behalf of the students, teachers, and staff here at Boyne Falls Public School, we wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Enjoy a safe holiday break.
GO LOGGERS!
Cindy Pineda
October 2017
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Mackenzie Smith
October 11, 2017
Ashton Spang
October 4, 2017
Kaitlyn Hammerle
October 18, 2017
Alyssa Reynolds
October 25, 2017
November 2017
Daniel Powers November 1, 2017
Noah Sikora November 8, 2017
Dalton Dunlop
November 15, 2017
Riley Bumstead
November 29, 2017
Kentin LaCombe
November 22, 2017
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SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN!
Santa will be making a stop in Boyne Falls at the
Boyne Valley Township Fire Station
on Saturday, December 16, 2017
6:00—7:00 p.m.
All children are welcome to come visit Santa to give him a Christmas
wish list.
K OF C
SPELLING BEE Our Schoolwide K of C Spelling Bee was held on Friday, November 17.
Winners from grades 4-8 continued
on to the area wide Spelling Bee at
Boyne City High School auditorium
on November 21, 2017.
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Pictured above are the school wide spelling bee participants in 4th-8th grades.
BOYNE FALLS WINS!! 3 of the top 5 spellers at the area-wide spelling bee in 4th through 6th grade were from Boyne Falls Public School! Rylan McVannel, 2nd place winner; Aiden Grubaugh, 3rd place winner; and Isaiah Whennen, 4th place winner. All 3 will participate in the Diocesan-wide Spelling Bee in January.
In the 7th through 9th grade competition, Colton O’Neil took 1st place, Zofia Wasylewski, 3rd place and Kaitlyn Hammerle, 4th place. The three of them will participate in the Diocesan-wide bee in January.
The fall season was full of fun activities with Miss Lindsay, our FoodCorps service member! Kindergarten
and second grade harvested pumpkins from our pumpkin patch, cut them open and saved the seeds for
roasting. First grade learned about "eating the rainbow" and tasted a rainbow smoothie. Fourth grade
learned about composting with worms, and fifth grade practiced their chef skills to create and prepare
their own salsa recipes!
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First grade learned about "eating the rainbow"
and tasted a rainbow smoothie. Fifth grade
practiced their chef skills to create and prepare
their own salsa recipes with Food Corp worker,
Lindsay Hall!
Food Corps service member Miss Lindsay shared infor-
mation with fourth grade students about red worms and
how they are composters, eating our leftover food scraps
from the lunch room and turning it into healthy
soil. Students used microscopes and hand lenses to ob-
serve the worms.
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EDDIE ESSAY
WINNERS
The results are in for the 2017 Boyne Area Kiwanis Eddie Essay Contest, and the Boyne Falls Public School winner is Morriah Connin.
The Eddie Essay Contest is an essay competition open to all area 10th grade students, encouraging them to reflect upon service and volunteerism in the community. Participating students write to the following prompt: If you had one hundred dollars to give to your favorite charity, which charity would you give the con-tribution to and why? Morriah chose to write her essay on Northern Michigan Equine Therapy. Morriah and her family were invited to the Annual Boyne Area Kiwanis Club Eddie Award Breakfast. Congratulations, Morriah!
Pictured (L-R) English Teacher, Jeff Garver; Morriah Connin, Northern Michigan Equine Therapy owner, Courtney and J.L. Sumpter and their son.
Recreation Day Program
The Boyne Falls Ski Program starts on Thursday, January 18. Third through eighth graders will be participating in the program. We are looking forward to a great year out on the snow. Participate and choose one of the following activities as this is part of the scheduled curriculum:
Skiing Snowboarding (6th-8th AND 3rd-5th grades ONLY if they are already proficient snowboarders with their own snowboard Cross Country Skiing Snowshoeing/Outdoor Activities
Parents, please remind your child(ren) to dress appropriately for the cold while skiing. This means wearing proper layers, gloves, hats, coats, and ski pants. We are strongly suggesting that all children wear helmets because this has significantly improved the outcomes of head injuries. Children in 6th through 8th grades can snowboard, but helmets are required for this activity. Helmets can be rented at the mountain.
If you are a parent who would like to volunteer with the program, please contact Brittney Book as soon as possible at 231-622-1410 or [email protected].
Parent Permission Forms will be sent home soon.
Recreation Day VOLUNTEERS Wanted
The Boyne Falls Recreation Day/Ski Program starts on Thursday, January 18. Third through eighth graders will be participating in the program.
We are in need of parent volunteers. Areas to volunteer include:
Student monitoring and attendance. This requires staying in or around the civic center in case any problems or needs arise.
Ski/snowboard/cross‐country ski supervision with a group.
If you are a parent who would like to volunteer for the program, please contact Brittney Book as soon as possible at 231‐622‐1410 or [email protected]. Thank you!
GRADE SCHOOL
BASKETBALL Students in grades 3-6 are invited to join grade school basketball on
Saturday mornings 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
beginning Saturday, December 9, 2017.
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LOGGER NIGHT
LEO’s Logger Night was a huge success. Thank you to all that
donated, attended, or worked
the event. We were able to
raise over $12,000 from the
event at Sommerset Pointe!
We look forward to the next
one in November of 2018!
School Closings
Boyne Falls School will be using the following methods/organizations to notify parents of SCHOOL CLOSINGS:
TV 7 & 4 –Traverse City
TV 9 & 10 – Cadillac
Scholl Messenger-
-Instructions to sign up at right
The Bear
Rock 105
Big Country
Big Country Gold
News – Talk 1240
Lite 96
WKHQ
WMKT – The Talk Station
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DON’ WE NOW OUR UGLY SWEATERS
Everyone is invited to participate in the LEO sponsored Ugly Sweater Contest on
Friday, December 22, 2017.
Wear your ugliest, most creative, holiday attire!
Students and Staff who participate will be eligible to win great prizes!
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HOLIDAY SPIRIT WEEK
December 18-22, 2017
Monday: White Out/Snow Day
Tuesday: Holiday Character Day
Wednesday: Red and Green Day
Thursday: Holiday PJ Day
Friday: Ugly Sweater Day
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS
Boyne Area Community Christmas is currently collecting information of the families in
need of assistance with Christmas this year. Forms are available in the office if you have
not received one. Be sure to return your forms to school by Friday, December 15th.
CANDY CANE
SALE December 11-19, 2017
Send a Holiday Wish to anyone
within the school.
Deliveries will be made on Friday, December 22, 2017
$1.00 per candy cane
Forms were sent home or will be available outside the office.
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Elementary
Christmas Program
This year’s Holiday Program will be presented on De-cember 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the gymnasium. Children may go to their classrooms at 6:15 p.m. Please plan to dress your children in their holiday best. The stu-dents are very excited and are looking forward to this evening. The students in the Strings Program will perform at the beginning of the program fol-lowed by each class, Kindergarten through fifth grade performing a selection of songs. If we have a snow day on December 14, the program will be presented on Thursday, December 15 at 6:30 p.m. We’ll see you then!
Photos with Santa
The LEO group is offering photos with Santa at the Christmas Program. Stop by the annex and have your picture taken with Santa, commencing at 5:45 p.m., before and after the program. LEO will also be offering a reception after the program for all to enjoy. Please join us after the program in the cafeteria.
Holiday Break
School will be dismissed at 11:00 am on
Friday, December 22, 2017 and will
resume on Tuesday, January 2, 2018!
Enjoy the break!
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Calendar
Dec 2017/Jan 2018
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
10 11
12 13 Honors
Assembly 10:00 am
Christmas
Program 6:30 pm
14 15
Varsity
Bball
@ Wolverine
6:00 pm
16
Grade School
Basketball 9:30-11:30
17 18
Board of Ed
Meeting 6:30 pm
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20
Pre-K Luncheon 11:30-1:30
Grade School
Basketball 3:15 –4:45
p.m. Varsity
Bball Home
6:00 pm
21
22 1/2 Day
Dismissal
11:00 a.m.
CHRISTMAS
BREAK
BEGINS
23
24 25
CHRISTMAS
BREAK
26
CHRISTMAS BREAK
27
CHRISTMAS BREAK
28
CHRISTMAS BREAK
29
CHRISTMAS BREAK
30
31 1
CHRISTMAS
BREAK
2
3
4
5
Varsity
Bball
Harbor Light
Home
6:00 pm
6
Grade
School
Basketball
9:30-11:30
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