October 31st-November 4th

General Announcements:

• Please check the Homework Agenda and each teacher's page for due dates and test dates!

• The BGIS BOOK FAIR- October 31-November 4. All classes visited the book fair today. Students can continue to visit the book fair through Friday of this week! There are lots of great books for every student. Your book fair purchases are a great support to your child's reading habit while helping support our school library. Also, if you are available to volunteer with our book fair, please contact our media specialist, Mrs Stewart at 439-1642 or email her at rstewart@hoover.k12.al.us

• Your children have received information about a new fundraiser for Brock’s Gap.  It is so easy!  You just have to download the free app “Planet Fundraiser” to your phone.  There are several merchants who are participating.  You simply snap a picture of the receipt into the app, and Planet Fundraiser gives a portion of the proceeds back to the school. These are merchants (like Chick-Fil-A) that you probably use every week!   We encourage you to utilize this easy resource to raise money for Brock’s Gap!

• This year, Brock’s Gap is hosting our Veteran's Day program on Thursday, November 10th at 8:45 in the competition gym. All family members and friends of Brock’s Gap students, who have served or are currently serving our country, are invited.  If you will be able to attend, please fill out the Google Form-Veterans Day Google Form Link click here.

•  If you currently have a parent serving out of state or overseas, you are welcome to invite someone to stand in their place. Please have your student return the completed form to his/her homeroom teacher. Also, as part of our Veterans Day Program, we are planning to have a slide show including pictures of family members and friends of Brock’s Gap students who are serving or have served in the U.S. military.  Whether or not you would be able to attend the program, we would love to include your picture of military family and friends.  Please send your digital pictures to Christie Willis by Friday, November 4, 2016.  You can email your pictures to chwillis@hoover.k12.al.us.  If you have older pictures that are not in a digital format, you may bring those to Christie Willis, the Technology Teacher-Room 113, in a zip-locked bag with the necessary information:  the student’s name, their homeroom teacher, grade, and the relative’s name in the picture and what branch of military they have served/are serving.  Pictures will be scanned and returned back to the appropriate student in a timely manner.

• POP TABS FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE BGIS is collecting pop-tabs to help support The Ronald McDonald House. This charity service offers a place of comfort and support for families out of town while their children receive medical treatment at hospitals around the United States. By donating the small pop tabs on the top of your soda or your favorite canned drink, we can show our support in a small way.

• DRESS CODE REMINDER- Please remember students may not wear leggings with t-shirts.  In addition, please note that shorts must be beyond the tip of your middle finger when arms are outstretched.  Thank you for your help with this! Any student out of dress code will have to call home for a change of clothes.  Thank you!
• Please click on the link below for the latest BGIS eNewsletter: Click this Link for BGIS eNews

• Link to BGIS website- http://brocksintermediate.al.hci.schoolinsites.com 

Upcoming Holidays-

November 11th- Veterans Day (No School)

November 21-25-Thankgiving Holiday break (No School)

October 24-28, 2016

General Announcements:

• Please check the Homework Agenda and each teacher's page for due dates and test dates!

• RED RIBBON WEEK - October 24 - 28

MONDAY - Pledge Day

TUESDAY - Canned Food Day - Bring a canned good to donate to the Firehouse Shelter. "I CAN say no do drugs and bullies!"

WEDNESDAY - "Red Day" - Wear red

THURSDAY - "Sock it to Drugs" - Wear wacky, tacky socks

FRIDAY - "Pink Out Day" Wear pink to scare away drugs, bullying and cancer.

• SHOES FOR SUGARBELLE FOUNDATION - Our Earth Savers Science Club (ESC) is collecting new or gently worn shoes in the lobby each day throughout the month of October. ESC would love to beat our goal from last year.....300 pairs! Sugarbelle Foundation is a registered 501-c3, whose mission is to keep pets and people together. We accomplish this by providing financial assistance, to the best of our ability, to pet owners and Good Samaritans who have an animal in need, temporary fosters homes, food, and any other necessary items for pets and their people. All donated shoes are redistributed throughout the Funds2Orgs network of microenterprise partners in developing nations.  Funds2Orgs helps impoverished people start, maintain and grow businesses in countries such as Haiti, Honduras and other nations in Central America and Africa. Proceeds from the shoe sales are in turn to feed, clothe and house their families. Funds2Org believes the HAND UP is more beneficial than the HAND OUT, because it teaches people how to be self sufficient, which is also, what Sugarbelle Foundation strives to do when helping pets and their families. 
• This year, Brock’s Gap is hosting our Veterans Day Program on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 8:45 A.M.  All family members and friends of Brock’s Gap students, whohave served or are currently serving our country, are invited.  If you will be able to attend, please fill out the Google Form  HERE.  If you currently have a parent serving out of state or overseas, you are welcome to invite someone to stand in their place. Please have your student return the completed form to his/her homeroom teacher. Also, as part of our Veterans Day Program, we are planning to have a slide show including pictures of family members and friends of Brock’s Gap students who are serving or have served in the U.S. military.  Whether or not you would be able to attend the program, we would love to include your picture of military family and friends.  Please send your digital pictures to Christie Willis by Friday, November 4, 2016.  You can email your pictures to chwillis@hoover.k12.al.us.  If you have older pictures that are not in a digital format, you may bring those to Christie Willis, the Technology Teacher-Room 113, in a zip-locked bag with the necessary information:  the student’s name, their homeroom teacher, grade, and the relative’s name in the picture and what branch of military they have served/are serving.  Pictures will be scanned and returned back to the appropriate student in a timely manner.
• POP TABS FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE BGIS is collecting pop-tabs to help support The Ronald McDonald House. This charity service offers a place of comfort and support for families out of town while their children receive medical treatment at hospitals around the United States. By donating the small pop tabs on the top of your soda or your favorite canned drink, we can show our support in a small way.
• DRESS CODE REMINDER- Please remember students may not wear leggings with t-shirts.  In addition, please note that shorts must be beyond the tip of your middle finger when arms are outstretched.  Thank you for your help with this! Any student out of dress code will have to call home for a change of clothes.  Thank you!
• The BGIS BOOK FAIR will be the week of October 31-November 4. There will be lots of great books for every student. Visit our book fair and purchase some great books while helping support our school library. Also, if any parent would like to volunteer to help with our book fair, please contact our media specialist, Mrs Stewart at 439-1642 or email her at rstewart@hoover.k12.al.us.

• Please click on the link below for the latest BGIS eNewsletter: Click this Link for BGIS eNews

• Link to BGIS website- http://brocksintermediate.al.hci.schoolinsites.com 

Please see information below regarding Planet Fundraiser!


Planet Fundraiser lifted off today. Homeroom packets went out and should've been sent home today (or tomorrow).

Planet Fundraiser is offering the following prizes:

an ice cream party for the first homeroom with 40 downloads.

They are also offering a $30 gift card for classroom supplies to every homeroom in the grade that raises the most money in 5th or 6th grade for October.

For November, the single top homeroom bringing in the most money will get a $100 gift card for classroom supplies and an ice cream (or pizza) party.

Should be a fun start to this easy way to fundraiser!!!

October 17th-20th

General Announcements:

• Report cards came home last Wednesday! If you have not done so already, please return a signed copy.
• Please check agenda and each teacher's page for due dates and test dates!
• Shoes for the “Sugarbelle Foundation”- Our Earth Savers Science Club (ESC) is collecting new or gently worn shoes in the lobby each day throughout the month of October.
• Pop Tabs for Ronald McDonald House- BGIS is collecting pop-tabs to help support The Ronald McDonald House. This charity service offers a place of comfort and support for families out of town while their children receive medical treatment at hospitals around the United States. By donating the small pop tabs on the top of your soda or your favorite canned drink, we can show our support in a small way.
• The Earthsavers/Science Club is sponsoring Shoes for Sugarbelle.  Boxes are set up in the front lobby for collection October 1-31. So, if you have any unwanted shoes, please send them to us! ESC would love to beat our goal from last year.....300 pairs! :)

Sugarbelle Foundation is a registered 501-c3, whose mission is to keep pets and people together. We accomplish this by providing financial assistance, to the best of our ability, to pet owners and Good Samaritans who have an animal in need, temporary fosters homes, food, and any other necessary items for pets and their people.

All donated shoes are redistributed throughout the Funds2Orgs network of microenterprise partners in developing nations.  Funds2Orgs helps impoverished people start, maintain and grow businesses in countries such as Haiti, Honduras and other nations in Central America and Africa. Proceeds from the shoe sales are in turn to feed, clothe and house their families. Funds2Org believes the HAND UP is more beneficial than the HAND OUT, because it teaches people how to be self sufficient, which is also, what Sugarbelle Foundation strives to do when helping pets and their families. 

• DRESS CODE REMINDER- Please remember students may not wear leggings with t-shirts.  In addition, please note that shorts must be beyond the tip of your middle finger when arms are outstretched.  Thank you for your help with this! Any student out of dress code will have to call home for a change of clothes.  Thank you!
• Link to BGIS website- http://brocksintermediate.al.hci.schoolinsites.com 
• The BGIS book fair will be the week of October 31-November 4.

     The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.......B.B. King

October 11th-14th

General Announcements:

• TONIGHT, Tuesday, October 11th, 4:00-8:00 PM is Brock’s Gap Spirit Night at Firehouse Subs in Patton Creek.  20% of the proceeds will go to Brock’s Gap Intermediate!  This is a win/win!  You don’t have to cook, and you support our school!  
• REMINDER: Bus schedules for many students changed TODAY.  If you have questions, please refer to the email from Mr. Mitchell regarding this.
• REPORT CARDS come home tomorrow, Wednesday, October 12th.
• THANK YOU for your support of the BGIS Magazine fundraiser! Our school had a successful sale :-)
• Shoes for the “Sugarbelle Foundation”- Our Earth Savers Science Club (ESC) is collecting new or gently worn shoes in the lobby each day throughout the month of October.
• School picture orders are due back THIS Friday, October 14th.
• Pop Tabs for Ronald McDonald House- BGIS is collecting pop-tabs to help support The Ronald McDonald House. This charity service offers a place of comfort and support for families out of town while their children receive medical treatment at hospitals around the United States. By donating the small pop tabs on the top of your soda or your favorite canned drink, we can show our support in a small way.
• DRESS CODE REMINDER- Please remember students may not wear leggings with t-shirts.  In addition, please note that shorts must be beyond the tip of your middle finger when arms are outstretched.  Thank you for your help with this! Any student out of dress code will need to call home for a change of clothes.  Thank you!

• Link to BGIS website-http://brocksintermediate.al.hci.schoolinsites.com/

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless."

Mother Teresa

October 3-7

Welcome to the First Week of October!

       This is the last week of the first nine weeks and we will be very busy. :)  Please read the announcements below, and don't forget to check each teacher's tab on the home page to see what your child will be studying this week as well as find important due dates and upcoming test dates.

• Spirit Week this week. Please see previous post for dress-up days (just scroll down! ) :)
• Picture orders are due this Friday.
• Make-up Fall Pictures will be this Wednesday, October 5th.
• We are collecting Box Tops. This is an awesome way for us to raise money for our classrooms! Please save box tops as you get them and send them in!
• There will be no school next Monday, October 10th.
• BGIS Spirit Night at Firehouse Subs next Tuesday, October 11 from 4-8 (Patton Creek location). Twenty percent of sales will be donated to our school! Please go enjoy a sub!
• Remember to be checking your child’s grades in iNow.
• Wednesday, October 12th, report cards will be coming home.
• Earthsavers Science club is collecting gently used shoes throughout the month of October. Send in any shoes you would like to donate.
• See the note from Nurse Tyra below regarding medications sent to Camp McDowell.

Parents:

You must pick up any medication you sent to camp by this Friday October 7, 2016 or they will be thrown out per state law.  An adult has to pick the medications up from the health room; they cannot be sent home with students.  Thanks for your cooperation.  

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

~Thornton Wilder