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MMMM 26 September

9/26/2016

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General announcements

Contract #3
New Dogs - last week of skills! SS and English Skills this week
- Next week is a week of make-up - if you aren’t done by the end of next week, out of school sabbatical is a possibility
BV Strong Dinner is tonight at 5:45 (tables 147, 148, 149). Come join in!
Windy with Family and Youth Initiative
- Inspire Grant: getting youth engaged in outdoor activities - initiate a project in Chaffee County
  - looking for about 10 students to participate in a focus group this morning during elective (there are prizes!)
October 5 is Count Day (with wiggle window a week before and after)
- all school BBQ! community members are invited

Teacher info

English
- AM: English Skills! (webpage: English Skills)
  - Try to finish up this week so you can jump into modules next week
- PM: Short Story writing (webpage: Short Story Writing)
- Word of the week: palpable
  - “The sense of community is palpable during the BV Strong dinner each year.”
- Western State Poetry Slam workshop and college visit October 18
  - Sign-up sheet is on Christine’s door (12 spots)
Math
- AM: Aleks
- PM: More Aleks
Science
- AM: Geology (in conjunction with mining)
  - part of CMC class, but anyone can take it
- PM: Chemistry of Cooking
  - combined with
- Next week: Mission Wolf overnight in Westcliffe
Social Studies
- AM: History of Mining in Colorado
  - Field Trip Thursday - National Mining Museum in Leadville, Matchless Mine
- PM: Social Studies Skills
Electives
- Mindfulness/DBT during Elective Tuesday
- Cory - Art or Futurama
- Christine - off
- Graff - PE
- Rachel - Board Games

Juli Info

Thanks to trip leaders for helping out with Little Annie Overnight
New Dogs - get Disco signed off!
- Also finish masks so we can hang them up
NOT will start this week - Thursday during Elective
EQ (Emotional Quotient) meetings will be starting up - Juli will pull students aside to do that

Karen info

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Community Service/Service Learning

Interested in doing community service at the Preschool? (1 hr a week) - talk to Jeannette
- Training this week sometime
Wednesday: Computer Recycling (Adv/Elective)
Thursday: Food Backpacks (Adv/Elective)
Friday: Mini Blessings (1:00 p.m.)

Credit Celebration

Dillon - Social Studies
Dillon - English: Fiction Studies
Dillon - Earth Science
Dillon - Language Arts
Jacque - US History 2
Logan - English: 21st Century Analysis
Tyler - English: Reading Skills Review
Chase - Social Studies 2

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MMMM 19 September

9/19/2016

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General announcements

The parking lot is getting trashed - please be more conscious about our space!
Please keep the kitchen clean!
Book club is starting October 12 through the Chaffee County Mentors: Girl Sent Away
- See flyer on the bulletin board… possible opportunity for English points (Ind R&W)
Next Monday - Windy from Family Youth Initiatives will come to talk
- Inspire Grant - looking for ideas for service learning-type projects to do with students. Windy needs a youth advisory board to help her come up with projects to get teens outside. Snow shoes? sleeping bags? ski passes? etc.
Little Annie overnight this Thurs-Fri. Information and packing list will be emailed to parents and students
- Thursday will work as Friday schedule – close contracts on Thursday before noon
- New Dogs leave in the morning
- Old Dogs - teachers will pick up at 3:00
- If you need gear, talk to Juli
  - Bring warm layers! more than just a sweatshirt. It’ll get cold at night
  - Flashlight/headlamp
  - Sleeping bag and pad, tent
Thanks to all students for taking the NWEA testing last week! there are just a couple more to finish up

Teacher info

English
- AM: This I Believe (webpage: This I Believe)
  - Independent R&W also available for students finishing up
- PM: no module - sitting in on disco
- Word of the week: spinebash
  - “This Thursday, we’ll tromp up to Little Annie to spinebash around a campfire with s’mores!”
- Book talk: The Prisoner of Cell 25 (a Michael Vey story) (500L + 326 pages = 15 reading points)
  - Adventure science fiction story about a kid in high school who is a bit of a dork but discovers he has a superpower - ability to shoot electricity. Ends up teaming with other kids with similar powers and battling bad guys… and it’s part of a series! Start reading!
- Creative Writing workshop this Saturday at Watershed, 9:30-12:00 - earn 20 points for English
- Western State Poetry Slam workshop and college visit October 18
  - Sign-up sheet is on Christine’s door (12 spots)
Math
- AM: Math Skills
- PM: Aleks
Science
- AM: Environmental Science class and River Ecology
  - part of CMC class, but anyone can take it
- PM: Colorado Eco Systems - includes outdoor field trip this week
- Next week - Chemistry of Baking and CCHS bakery start-up
Social Studies
- AM: Create your own module based on a history book
  - Read part of a book, create follow-up activities
- PM: Lewis and Clark
- Next week - mining in Colorado (Leadville Mining Museum field trip Tuesday) tied with Geology module for Science
Electives
- Mindfulness/DBT during Elective Tuesday
- Cory - PE (disc golf)
- Christine - hike (today only)
- Graff - Board Games
- Rachel - Art, decorative window frame and/or coloring

Reba

Here every afternoon at 2:00 to sub for Cory
This week: Photography for Tech credit - if you’re done with work from your regular module

Juli Info

Last week of Disco!
- Wednesday - masks and Little Annie gear prep
Little Annie overnight
- Josh, Erin, Dom - New Dog trip leaders - organizing Thurs dinner prep and Fri breakfast dish clean-up
- Jewel and Jennifer - Old Dog trip leaders - organizing Thurs dish clean-up and Fri breakfast prep
Safe School survey is coming up - very helpful feedback for us
DBT Tuesdays: please give Juli any feedback you have
- Juli needs to sign off on contract

Community Service/Service Learning

Interested in doing community service at the Preschool? (1 hr a week) - talk to Jeannette
- Training will be next week
Wednesday: Computer Recycling (Adv/Elective)
Thursday: Food Backpacks (Adv/Elective)
Friday: Mini Blessings (1:00 p.m.)
After school program with middle school starts this week - extra help appreciated (Tuesdays and Thursdays)

Credit Celebration

Chase - English: Contemporary Issues
Stephenie - Algebra

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MMMM 12 September

9/12/2016

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General announcements

NWEA testing this week during the mornings - Rachel will lead
- normed against other alternative schools around the country
- if you pass the 11th grade scoring, you get 50 points in that subject the first time you get the cut score
  - after earning the initial cut score, each time your score increases 4 points, you earn 25 points toward that subject
New Dogs: Disco in the morning (Cory’s room), Science Skills in the afternoon
Wednesday: ropes course field trip at Trails West
- wear closed toed shoes, no short skirts
Change to schedule: Little Annie overnight will be just Thursday night
- New Dogs will leave early; Old Dogs will come up after school
Please log in by 9:00 in the AM and 1:00 in the PM
Lost and Found - white basket between Graff’s and Rachel’s room
Kitchen: please clean your own dishes!
- The kitchen is currently closed because the mess got out of hand. No using dishes, stove, or microwave
Driver’s Ed class October 26 - December 12 (Mon and Wed evenings at BVHS)
- must be 14.5 by the end of the class
- cost: $250, includes 30 hours of class time, permit test, and 6 hours behind the wheel
Scott McFarland and Shay Ellis: procedures for going to APES to get lunch
- no hats or sunglasses in the building
- no earbuds in your ears - turn music off
- be kind to lunch staff and teachers
- don’t cut in line
- if you’re having a bad day, don’t come in
- no wandering or using the bathrooms
- pull up your pants
- breakfast is available 8:10-8:25
Computers - if you enter your password incorrectly three times, you’ll be locked out for 15 minutes
This is Homecoming week
- Dance is Saturday - if you want to go, talk to Karen to get paperwork

Teacher info

English
- AM: Independent Reading and Writing (webpage: Ind R&W)
- PM: Heracles vs. Hercules - Who Wore it Best? (webpage: Heracles vs. Hercules)
- Word of the week: leery
  - “I’m leery of any statement that begins, ‘I was watching The Bachelor the other day...'”
Math
- AM: no module - helping with Disco
- PM: Aleks
  - Assessments need to be taken in the Math classroom, not independently in the Commons
  - Cory has calculators in the Math room - no need to use phones
Science
- AM: NWEA in the morning
  - If you really need Science points, talk to Rachel about taking independent Science (Natural Disasters)
- PM: Science Skills
Social Studies
- AM: Crime in America
  - Canon City museum Friday
- PM: Causes of the American Revolution
Electives
- Mindfulness/DBT during Elective Tuesday
- Cory - Art and Futurama
- Christine - Study Hall
- Graff - PE (ball games)
- Rachel - Board Games

Juli Info

NOT will start in two weeks - Thursday during elective

Karen info

October 5: student count day, BBQ at school and school photos
No paperwork in? talk to Karen
Make sure you have money in your account before you get lunch from APES
- If you qualify for free lunch, it’ll be in the computer - no need to add money to your account

Community Service/Service Learning

Interested in doing community service at the Preschool? talk to Jeannette
Ideas for other community service projects?
Thursday: Food Backpacks
Friday: Mini Blessings

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'M'MMM 6 September

9/6/2016

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General announcements

Second week of first contract
Today: elective, but no other advisory
Senior meeting next week
Students shouldn’t be going out the back door
- If you leave out the back door without communicating, that could be grounds for dismissal for the day
Computers: our laptops are actually good - please take care of them!
- The first time you log on to one of the computers here, it’ll take a while because it’s loading your profile. Be patient.
We were pretty lenient with school expectations last week because it was the first week of school - that was last week!
- It’s important to stick to our expectations with tardiness, language, behavior, etc.
- Don’t be mean muggin’! Work hard. Be nice.
The third BV Strong dinner is September 26. We are getting tables for the school. Come join us!
Mike will be out on Friday
Cory teaches one class at BVHS every afternoon. We’ll have a sub every day at 2:00 (Reba)

Teacher info

English
- AM: English Skills! (module webpage: English Skills)
- PM: Independent Reading and Writing (webpage: Ind R&W)
- Word of the week: incommodious
  - “The New Dogs are being patient with CCHS’s small classrooms, which fit 5 comfortably but are a smidge incommodious for 14 students.”
- Book talks:
  - My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George (810L, 177 pages)
    - Boy runs away from the city to live in the mountains - great adventure/survival story
  - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver (1160L, 352 pages)
    - Nonfiction book about living for a year on food grown locally - really interesting experiment, well written, new perspectives
- Watershed BV upcoming events
  - Photo and poetry exhibit/reading September 10 (10 points for going)
    - postcard freewrite to prompt - 3 pts per card (talk to Christine for more info)
  - Creative writing session - September 24 (10 points for going)
- Western State poetry slam workshop - October 18
  - sign-up on Christine’s door
Math
- AM: Co-teaching with Rachel: topo maps
  - backpacking trip Wednesday, back Thursday
- PM: Aleks
Science
- AM and PM: Topo Maps and Backpacking trip
  - earn Math and Science points
Social Studies
- AM: Colonization
- PM: no module - helping with Disco
Electives
- Mindfulness/DBT during Elective Tuesday
- Cory - board games
- Christine - art
- Graff and Rachel - PE

Juli Info

DBT theme for the week: Analyzing Behavior
Next Wednesday - ropes course day (Trails West)
Little Annie overnight trip - Wed, Sept 21 for New Dogs, then all students Thurs, Sept 22
Seniors - Juli needs two students to plan the college trip week of Oct 17
- October 20-21: senior college trip
Students who took CMAS last year: Juli is giving results back (will pull students out to see)
EQ survey is this week during Advisory
CMC classes: registration closes today
- Great opportunity to get free college credit!
- If you are taking a CMC class, we need a check to hold in the event you drop the class (we don’t deposit if you pass)

Karen info

If you are interested in receiving a Food Backpack, talk to Karen
Enrollment paperwork - bring stuff back to Karen!

Community Service/Service Learning

Wednesday: Computer Recycling (9:30)
Thursday: Food Backpacks
Friday: Mini Blessings

Credit Celebration

Stephenie - Government
Stephenie - Fiction Studies
Chase - Economics

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