Thank you to everyone for all of your hard work during the first 3 quarters of the year, our preliminary state assessment scores are looking good!

 

A special thanks to everyone who presented, provided student work for, or helped set up the National EL conference. We have received more compliments than I could count.

Absolutely Outstanding Work!

 

Have a fantastic and Safe Spring Break, and enjoy some phenomenal science pictures and facts just for fun!

Dr. Bob

The mysterious moving stones of the packed-mud desert of Death Valley have been a center of scientific controversy for decades. Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time. Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements. However, this theory does not explain evidence of different rocks starting side by side and moving at different rates and in disparate directions. Moreover, the physics calculations do not fully support this theory as wind speeds of hundreds of miles per hour would be needed to move some of the stones. Click here to see all 7 Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World!

Ever wonder the truth about UFOs? Avoided by traditional pilots but loved by sailplane aviators, lenticular clouds are masses of cloud with strong internal uplift that can drive a motorless flyer to high elevations. Their shape is quite often mistaken for a mysterious flying object or the artificial cover for one. Generally, lenticular clouds are formed as wind speeds up while moving around a large land object such as a mountain. For 7 (More!) Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World, click here!

Just a reminder Daylight Saving Time begins this Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 2 a.m.! Kick off your SPRING BREAK with springing FORWARD this Sunday morning!

Many of you know Nancy Johnson - she was our Foundation Director and also worked for the City of Bonner. Last week Nancy had a brain hemorrhage and has subsequently passed away. There will be a celebration of life service this Saturday, the 13^th at Lake Forest from 2:00 - 5:00.

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Attention Spring cleaners!  As you go through your children's toys, games, and DVD's please remember the District childcare.  We would appreciate any donations. 

Thanks, Childcare staff

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    Kaos Football

 

Kansas Kaos Football is a part of the World Football League and plays all their home games at BSHS.  They have 4 different teams, 8 to 10 year olds, 11 & 12 year olds, 13 & 14 year olds, and an adult team. My son, Caden Henley, is playing on the 8 to 10 year old team and is selling season passes.

 

He is required to sell 12 passes which will cover the cost of all the equipment needed for him to play. The season passes are good for all home and away games and cost $50.00 per pass. The cost of individual games is $12.00 per person. Ages 10 and under are free.

 

If you would be interested in purchasing a pass please let me know, money is due March 14, 2010.

 

Thank you,

Lynn Wendt

wendtl@usd204.net

913-645-9994

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Teachers - Free Tax Preparation March 1st - 14th!
(Note: only new customers to Libery Tax Service are eligible)

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This FREE competition is now open to Kansas middle & high school students.  The challenge is a great way to   generate excitement for classroom fi­nance materials while rewarding students for their hard work.  No finance course required.

·   Test categories include Money Management & Income, Spending, Credit, Saving and Investing .

·   Teachers can register teams online now.  A team is comprised of 3 - 5 students. Teachers may register multiple teams.

·   The Preliminary round is an individual online quiz of 30 questions (see rules online) . Top online teams will advance to the State competition. 

·   T-shirts, lunch & prize drawings will be provided at the in-person competition. Travel stipends may be awarded based on budgetary needs.

·   Separate divisions for middle & high school.

·   Top team from high school division in-person com­petition will go to Nationals  at the Federal Reserve Bank in KC.  Hotel & travel provided.

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BSHS Spring Mower Cleanup is coming up!
This includes: Oil change, Cleaning of Spark plug, Clean air filter, Sharpen blade and scrap the deck. Mowers will be accepted by appointment, owners to drop off and pick up. If anything would need to be replaced, such as plug, filter, etc we will call with additional cost.

Seeing the School Psychologist: What Does it Mean?
Julie Williams, education.com 

Though a school's main function is to teach academic skills, the reality is that kids don't turn off their emotions when they get to school. Sometimes issues come up in the classroom and on the playground that affect a child's ability to learn. As a result, schools need highly trained and educated staff members to help students excel. Enter the school psychologist.

Read more...  

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eSchool News 

Teachers share their views on how to improve education
Multiple measures of student performance, more school innovation among their suggestions

In one of the largest national surveys of public school teachers, thousands of educators agreed that today's students aren't college-ready when they graduate from high school. Teachers' suggestions for solving this problem include clear, common standards; multiple measures of student performance; and greater innovation, including differentiated instruction and more use of digital resources.

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U.S. moves closer to common standards
eSchool News 

Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform-and more rigorous-standards March 10 as a revised draft of new national guidelines was released. But the move toward common standards still faces several hurdles, including a debate over what the standards should look like and the significant cost of revising each state's standards and curriculum materials.

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phantasmagoria \fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh\, noun:

1. A shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined, as in a dream.
2. Any constantly changing scene.

The significant items in the ensuing phantasmagoria soon appear, however -- a dry well, a house abandoned because of a series of tragedies, a so-called alley blocked at both ends, the statue of a bird looking sadly unable to fly, and the unidentified wind-up bird that creaks invisibly in a nearby tree.
-- Phoebe-Lou Adams, review of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, The Atlantic, November 1997

The new writings more and more take the form of apocalypses -- that is, of supernatural visions which reveal past, present and future under the guise of a phantasmagoria of symbolic persons and animals, divine and diabolical beings, celestial and infernal phenomena.
-- Edmund Wilson, The Dead Sea Scrolls: 1947-1969

David Nixon created this version of the fairy tale -- a phantasmagoria of grim goblins, dancing cushions, flying fish and magical mirrors -- for his former company, BalletMet Columbus, in 1997.
-- Stephanie Ferguson, "Beauty and the Beast", The Guardian, January 6, 2003

Phantasmagoria is from French phantasmagorie, from phantasme, "phantasm" (from Greek, from phantazein, "to make visible," from phantos, "visible," from phainein, "to show") + -agorie, perhaps from Greek agora, "assembly."