No Bullying Week - Tuesday

Trying to keep everyone one step ahead of the game. Here are the activities for Tuesday:

Cyber Bullying pre-test
Think before you click DVD
Cyber Bullying post test and discussion

As everyone knows, technology is everywhere. Cyber bullying is an extremely difficult area to get a handle on and is a very important family discussion point. Please use this opportunity to discuss this subject with your child.

No Bullying Week - Monday

Here is the short version of what we are doing Monday. You have a GREAT opportunity to strike up some conversations with your child on these topics, what was said/done in school and how they feel about the topic. Please don't let this chance pass you by. Speaking from experience....as your kids get older, these opportunities are few and far between.

Students will be watching a video clips; “Umpire” and “Locker”
We be discussing SCMS's Definition of Bullying
Venn Diagram Activity; Bully, Bystander, Target, and What Bullying Isn’t Activity
Anti-Bullying Contract for students and parents. (Students receive a wristband when it is turned in to Social Studies Teacher by Friday.)

Please look for and ask for the Anti-Bullying Contract. Every student should be bringing it home to be signed by a parent. Take a few minutes to talk about the contract and what it means.

Thanks for your help.....this is going to be great

Facebook Users

As part of our effort to keep parents informed, our Anti-Bullying Committee has made a Facebook page to communicate with our community. In the future we will be posting helpful strategies that you can use at home to support some of our efforts at school with our Anti-Bullying campaign. For now, we are putting out a challenge to all SCMS community members to get other community members to "like" this site. To get to this page (and this is a tad out of my comfort zone....I'm not a huge Facebook person), type SCMS into the search bar. SCMS Antibc (which stands for anti-bullying committee....Facebook has all kinds of weird rules on what/how you can name things). Once you get there, select it and you're off to the races. Please pass our page on to your friends. This has a lot of possibilities that we are very excited about.

Studio 1219

For the past 5 years Studio 1219 in Port Huron has held an ECSD Student Solo Art Show that highlights and celebrates the uniquely talented and creative students in the East China School District. The event goes from January 18th through February 7th. The Gallery hours are Tuesday and Wednesday 10 am - 5 pm, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 am - 8 pm. Refreshments will be served on opening night, Tuesday January 18th from 4 - 6:30. SCMS will have approximately 40 students have their work on display. It's a great opportunity to see just how talented our kids are. Hope to see you there.

Anti-Bullying Week

Our SCMS Anti-Bullying Week is January 10th -14th and I could not be happier on how this is coming together. In a nutshell each day we will be spending time in our Social Studies classes talking about different aspects of bullying, why it happens, how we can avoid being part of the problem and how to handle it when it does happen. This is not a one week and done "thing". We'll be revisiting this very important topic throughout the year. This a GREAT opportunity to spark some very important discussions at home. I'll be posting more info on what each day's topic is as the week goes on so please check back.

This is going to be great.

Student Anti Bullying Committee

Boy it's good to be back. That was a long but great break. Before break we asked anyone interested in being part of the Anti-Bullying Committee to take home a permission slip to be signed and turned into the office. Thinking back you'll remember that we had a few snowdays right before the Holiday Break which threw a wrench into our deadline for the applications. Because of that, we have extended the deadline to this Thursday. I'll be making announcements over the next few days to remind those interested.

Operation Homework a Success

As I stated in an earlier post we tried sometime a little different in an attempt to get missing work turned in. After attendance I had every student with any missing assignments report to the cafeteria where they got to spend time with me until all their missing work was completed. The majority of students were back to class fairly quickly after finishing (finding) an assignment or two that hadn't been turned in yet. All in all we had over 400 missing assignments turned in by the end of the day. The down side is that the staff didn't get those assignments until the end of the day so I'm sure that they won't show up on Parent Connect as being turn in until we get back from break. Great Job to our students for getting caught up.

It was a good day....