November 16, 2015
Dear 1st Period,
I am thankful for you! Both collectively and individually, you are a caring group of young people. I love seeing you work together to help each other and me. For example, you were eager to lend a hand when all those stuffed animals for Y-Club needed to be inspected and boxed up to be shipped overseas…all 327 of them! You are also nice and respectful to each other, which is a breath of fresh air as I witness this day in and day out during class.
I know each of you will be successful in life! I’m thanking God for you this Thanksgiving.
Blessings,
Mrs. McBrayer
How well do you interact with others? For the past week in the BMS Career Center, 8th graders have been learning all about how demonstrating good interpersonal skills will help them be successful not only now as a student, but in the future as an employee as well.
Students’ culminating activity was producing a t-shirt with a catchy slogan and design that markets, or advertises, the interpersonal skills they have learned about. Here are the winning t-shirts from 2nd and 5th periods!….
Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Way to go to these 2nd quarter 7th grade Career Discovery students for winning the House Cup trophy for best presentation of our Acceptable and Unacceptable Attitudes’ and Behaviors’ Challenge. Do you have acceptable attitudes and behaviors? Your success in the future depends upon it!
This week, all grade levels have been working on meeting the Georgia Bridge Act requirements. Sixth grade students complete an interest inventory, 7th grade students choose career clusters and complete the Reality Check activity, and 8th grade students decide on occupation(s) they might be interested in pursuing in the future.
The earlier students figure out what they want to do with their lives, the better!
#TheFutureMatters #Careers
To be successful you have to work HARD, but there are other traits successful people have in common:
Sixth graders are learning all about work ethic this week, while 7th and 8th graders are reviewing work ethic and then moving on to 8 To Be Great. When they catch on, the sky will be the limit! 
I love my students! They truly do lift me up out of the doldrums when I’m having a bad day!
8th grade 5th period! 🙂
8th grade 2nd period! 🙂
#MyStudentsAreTheBest
Our BMS Service Club (formerly known as Y-Club) met this morning at the track to spruce up the old blue bleachers. Doughnuts, paint, and middle schoolers = a winning combination for FUN! 🙂
#JoinNextYear #SeeMrsMcBrayer
Now that our 4th quarter student blogs are up and running, students of the BMS Career Center will be writing about their 2015 Spring Break Adventures. Whether walking on the sands of a beautiful beach, experiencing the fun of Walt Disney World, or just relaxing at home, it doesn’t matter!… It’s all about the creativity of telling their story!
So let the fun begin! We will have 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners, as well as honorable mentions with candy and prizes up for grabs! Pics will be posted of our winners as well.
Good luck to all! 🙂
#SpringBreak2015 #WritingSpectacular
The votes are in, and I’m very excited to announce the winners of our 2015 BMS Career Center 3rd Quarter Best Blog award:
1st Place: Robert M
2nd Place: Aaron S
3rd Place: Anna Grace M
It’s nice to be recognized by your peers for your hard work and dedication! Way to go kiddos! 🙂
#BlogStars
Question: What do students take away from learning how to manage a family budget when you only bring home $10 an hour?
Answer: That it’s hard to make ends meet! 🙁
Congratulations to these 6th graders for winning the Class Cup trophy for best family budgeting! Great job!
Family Budgeting Champs!
#StandardOfLiving
How can you solve a conflict without making others mad? Is that even possible?
That’s what 8th graders have just recently learned about in Career Management class. What better way to learn than to put your newly acquired skills to the test through the Conflict Resolution Challenge! Students were split into groups of 3 or 4 and given 3 different scenarios, or conflicts, to solve using both common sense and conflict management strategies they learned in class.
And now for our winners….drum roll please!!!!
#ConflictManagement #LearningIsFun
Students are working diligently on their blogs learning all the ends and outs of how to set things up and all the verbiage that goes with it… plugins, widgets and the like. I’m very impressed with what my students are producing and can’t wait to press the publish button! The unveiling for student blogs will be no later that Friday, January 16, so please check back soon. You will be impressed!
#HardWorkPaysOff