Junior Class reps meeting with BVS 8th-Graders for the Big Slater/Little Slater Dance!
Reminder! Join us Wednesday night (January 15) from 6-8 PM as we explore real-time data from the youth in Slate Valley. Working together, we can break through barriers to help our youth thrive. Please bring a cell phone for audience participation. *Refreshments provided. *Childcare available at Castleton Village School. Castleton University (The Casella Theater, Fine Arts Building).
You’re Invited!
Join us as we explore real-time data from the youth in Slate Valley. Working together we can break through barriers to help our youth thrive.
Please bring a cell phone for audience participation.
*Refreshments provided
*Childcare available at Castleton Village School
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
6-8 PM, Castleton University (The Casella Theater, Fine Arts Building)
The sign-up for Slater Youth Wrestling Club (Boys and Girls, Grades K-6) is January 13th from 6-6:30PM.
Sign up form: https://5il.co/c64z
New carpet!!!!!!
More 🐻s using technology, building, creating, and stretching their minds!
STEAM @ BVS
https://5il.co/bte4
Link to BVS brochure!
Hour of Code at BVS
You're Invited!
Join us as we explore real-time data from the youth in Slate Valley. Working together we can break through barriers to help our youth thrive.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Castleton University
The Casella Theater, Fine Arts Building
Beading Club!!!!!!
A HUGE shout out to Sam Batholomew for getting information to the plow drivers! Thank you to Chris Cole Director of Operations @ SVUVT and Casey O'Meara Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment @ SVUVT, for driving to stuck buses and delivering kiddos safely home!!!!!!! Thank you Kris Benway Director of Special Education @ SVUVT for being the channel between the Central Office, Chris/Casey and the school! Thank you to Pam Arel Admin Asst. for staying late and manning the radios and phone! It takes a village and fortunately our village extends far and wide! I am hanging out with 3 🐻s back at the school until the roads clear and we are having a blast!!!!!
First and second-grade 🐻s are using differentiated workplace stations to practice addition and subtraction. They practiced teaching each other their games!
Our interactive literacy backpack collection is growing! Exploring, Holidays, New Baby, Dinosaurs!!! These are the hottest" item in the Library!
Beading Club!!!!!
Kinder bears used our green screen for the weather forcast they designed themselves!
Marble Maze!!!
PBIS Letter from the Secretary of Education
Reminder: You’re invited to join us for an informational building tour at FHUHS Tonight at 6:30 p.m. starting in the FHUHS Library.
Letter to Community Members: https://5il.co/b0t9
Parents of 6th-8th grade students:
You will be receiving a Letter and Sign-Up Form from your child’s school for the Life Time Activities (LTA) Program offered throughout our district. You may also view the letter (https://5il.co/bfpo) and form (https://5il.co/bfpn) online.
The LTA program is a curriculum based field trip for school students. We are asking for your help in allowing students to make a good selection of activities.
Basketball practices have started in the district, please check the Slate Valley App for updated practices and games.
Slate Valley District Wrestling will start Monday, November 18th 4:00-5:30 p.m. at FHUHS. Check the Slate Valley App for all practices. Meets will be updated as they are scheduled.
Reminder: Winter sports meeting for all Middle school athletics, November 18th, 6 p.m. at FHUHS cafeteria. Come meet coaches!
You’re invited to join us for an informational building tour at FHUHS on November 20th at 6:30 p.m. in the FHUHS Library:
•See Facilities Needs
•Learn about Slate Valley Innovation Project
•Ask Questions
There will be a Mandatory Winter Sports Meeting for all Parents, Coaches, Administration:
Monday, November 18th, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Fair Haven Union High School Cafeteria
We will be introducing Winter Coaches for Basketball and Wrestling, going over practice protocol, schedules (game and practice), uniforms, and Q/A.
Fire Safety with BVFD!
K-2 at the apple orchard!
Reminder! Online registration is open through November 8 for Slate Valley Middle School Winter Sports (Basketball & Wrestling). Register online at: https://bit.ly/2B0TSAC
Online registration is open from October 11 through November 8 for Slate Valley Middle School Winter Sports (Basketball & Wrestling). Register online at: https://bit.ly/2B0TSAC
Stay up-to-date with "Girls on the Run - Vermont" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/153805061340162/posts/2418123071575005?sfns=mo
Middle School trip to archaeological dig site in West Haven.
The Incredible Shrinking Carrot - 5th grade students weighing carrots for Numbers Corner.
Middle School BEARS learning coding in STEAM class.
Middle school Bears learning how to weave in World Studies.
This 1/2 math lesson was inspired by all that Mrs. Sturtevant has been learning at the Vermont Mathematics Initiative. Students practiced turning and talking to engage in mathematical discourse. We looked at "how many" we could find on a picture, and then counted objects in different ways.
Kinders learning to copy and extend patterns.
PreK 🐻s!
Happy Pre-K students!
Go coyotes!
Thank you to all of the families and staff that participated in the BVS Open House last night! Scholastic Book Fair runs through this morning!
Reminder - Picture Day is 9/26
BVS is proud to be a part of Gear Up! Our middle school students will be going to see Jared Campbell on the 9/25 at FHGS! (http://jaredcampbell.com/)
Reminder - Open House tomorrow 9/18, 6-7pm! Scholastic Book Fair, Boy & Girl Scout sign-up!
First and second grade science students went outside to observe clouds and how they change over time!
Artwork!
Reminder! BVS K-8 Open House 9/18 @ 6-7pm! Book fair happening as well!
More 🐻s conquer Mt. Jungle Gym!
The first Kinder Guest Reader! Thank you for sharing your time with us!
Our kinder 🐻s are practicing following text from top to bottom and left to right!
Elementary and middle school, beginning of the year activities.
Kinders working on letter formation and math work places <3 (continued)
Kinders working on letter formation and math work places <3
Our middle school students building the Benson State Building! <3 these 🐻s!
Kinders working on writing standards! Go 🐻s!
Look at these amazing Middle School Coat of Arms!
Our Kinder 🐻s exploring math manipulatives! Mrs. Thurston, a Vermont Mathematics Initiative Masters student, fosters students' natural curiosity and guides the development of math understanding through the use of 3D and 2D representations of kinder math thinking & strategizing.
More from our Middle School Students
Our Middle School Students worked on the following and then sorted by the response, our Middle School Team is spending these first days building bridges with their students to best serve their social, emotional, and educational needs! GO BEARS! 🐻💕
Bulletin Boards around BVS!
Everyone in the Slate Valley is back and gearing up for an exciting school year! This morning during our district-wide gathering, we recognized some of the many outstanding members of our Slate Valley community. Congratulations to all of our 2019 District Award recipients!
Thank you BEARS staff for welcoming our families back this evening! Nothing shows the passion you have for teaching more than the hugs and smiles of students and parents! I am honored to be a part of the BVS team! 🐻💕
A HUGE thank you to all the families that attended our soft back to school night! It was wonderful to see everyone and we are even more excited to get this school year going!!!! Enjoy the remaining days of vacation!!!! 🐻
Being on-the-go doesn’t mean you can’t stay connected with your child’s school. Our new app has everything you need to be an active participant in your child’s education Features include: Live Feed, News, Events, Athletics, Documents, Notifications and more.
Throwback Thursday: One of our BEARS enjoying some downhilling @KillingtonMtn while teachers were in class!
Thank you to our awesome 8th graders for coming out to sell calendars, their 1st DC Trip fundraiser! Thank you to Ms. Moyer and Mr. Muller for being there to support! Fantastic to be a part of the Benson Burdock and Family Day festivities!
New student registration packets are at the Slate Valley Central Office located at Fair Haven Union High School. We are happy to help with any of the information or forms so please don't hesitate to give us a call 537-2491.
Join host Dan Warnecke as he talks with Melissa Hoyer (and a student helper!) about the Snack Sack program: https://youtu.be/tFywZN5CYv4
Community members are welcome to attend to tell stories, learn, provide support, and share in a vision for a hate-free Vermont. FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/400176637372124
