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