MCAS Breakfast
Each day your child has MCAS, breakfast will be served in the cafeteria 8:00-8:30.
Attention BKS Grade 5 Families
Grade 5 Yearbook Club is putting together the BKS Yearbook and would appreciate any special photos of your child’s years at BKS that you would like to be included in the yearbook. If your photos are available digitally please attach your jpeg file to this link. Hard copies may be sent in with your child, attention Ms. Scales. Please be sure to place your name/your child’s name on the back so they can be returned to you. Thanks for your help!
Attach your jpeg file to this link.
The deadline date for sending pictures will be Thursday, May 21st.
What’s Happening!
Be sure to check your child’s backpack for a BKSPTO website magnet and Beechwood Knoll School - Parent Teacher Organization (BKS-PTO) nomination papers for the 2009/10 Election/Nomination for Executive Board, Citywide Representative and School Council
We had some great laughs! Some may have actually injured themselves laughing so hard. You know who you are! Thanks to everybody that participated and made the BKS Comedy Night such a success.
Thanks to Jay Davis for donating: A night at the Sheraton, 2 box seats at the Red Sox, and a $100 Gift Certificate to Ruth Chris' Steakhouse. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement begins in mid-March for grades K-3. Junior Achievement partners with schools to bring education to your child’s classroom and is a great way to participate in your child’s classroom. Junior Achievement is a non-profit organization funded by businesses; foundations and individuals committed to preparing young people for the workforce by educating them about economics and free enterprises. Junior Achievement is provided at no cost to schools and presented by a school parent/guardian volunteer. Each volunteer receives a kit packed with detailed lesson plans, exciting visual aids and engaging activities to teach interactive-hands on program. Junior Achievement is a five week program, once a week, for forty-five minutes during March and April.
Grade 5 D.A.R.E. program
Grade 5 D.A.R.E. program will begin in March 2009. More information will be sent home with your child. The drug education program known as D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is offered to all fifth grade students in the city of Quincy. The purpose of the D.A.R.E. program is to educate your child about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse and, by doing so, prevent them from ever getting involved with these harmful substances. The D.A.R.E. program focuses on many topics, such as, understanding consequences, peer pressure, ways to say “NO”, self-esteem, stress, alternatives to drug abuse, and making good decisions. Officer Don Sautter and Officer John Grazioso are the Quincy Police Department D.A.R.E. officers that will be presenting this program to the students.
Our Green Project
The second grade monitored, for one week, the amount of drink containers brought from home throughout the school.We consumed 914 containers!Our goal is to REDUCE that number by using reusable drink containers.The Green Machine (concept vehicle) was used by our Green Team to pick up the containers. It has solar powered lights, wheels that generate electricity as they turn, and a wind something on the front made from all recycled electronic parts.We will be sending home newsletterswith information and ways for you to be involved at home.Go Green!
New In The Photo Gallery!
Please check out some great photos of Chinese New Year and the "Green Machine" in our NEW Gallery. We hope to keep adding many more galleries of future events as they occur.