"Spectrum Santa" Arrives on Campus!

Thank you to Spectrum for delivering presents to make this year's Holiday Season a little brighter for some of our Bobcat families.

A caravan of Spectrum Cable vans arrived last week with gifts for some of our Bobcat families

Thank you Spectrum for your kindness and generosity this Holiday Season!

Professional Development

BWMS' teachers engage in continuous training throughout the year

Ms. Lind led a training on "Un-Packing the Standards" with the science department

this past week

Rigor in the Classroom

World History with Mrs. Madison

 

The above is a snapshot of Mrs. Madison's "Common Board Configuration" for her World History class from this past Friday, December 15th. The learning goal for that day: "Students will be able to analyze and explain life in Egypt and early rulers' contributions and achievements." This goal supports FLDOE social studies standard 6.W.2.5. On this date she also administered a test and requested that for homework, the students bring all missing assignments current with the second quarter fast coming to a close (Thursday, December 21).

Parent volunteers assisted with the poinsettia Band fundraiser this fall. We would like to thank them for their hard work and dedication on this very important initiative.

Monday's Motivational Moment

FINDING HAPPINESS

Once a group of 50 college students was attending a seminar held by a well known professor.

Suddenly the professor stopped and started giving every student a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

Now these college students were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.

Everyone was frantically searching for their name, pushing, colliding with each other, and there was utter chaos.

At the end of 5 minutes, no one could find their own balloon.

Now each one was asked to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.

The professor began: This is exactly happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is. Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness and you will get your own happiness.

The lesson for our Bobcats? Helping others without any expectations makes our lives comfortable, easy and happy. So . . .  it's not finding happiness, it's a way of creating happiness.

Sunday, December 17, 2017