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Dear 3rd Period
November 17, 2015
Dear 3rd Period,
I am thankful for you! I love the fact that you come in eager to learn every day and love to participate in our fun, and sometimes corny, activities. Each one of you bless me more than you’ll ever know because you are just you – bright, cheerful, and thoughtful – which are some of the adjectives that come to my mind when I think about you. Thank you so much for being such a good bunch of 6th graders to teach!
I know all of you will be successful in life. God bless you this Thanksgiving…I hope it’s the best one ever!
Sincerely,
Mrs. McBrayer
Dear 6th Period
November 17, 2015
Dear 6th Period,
I am thankful for you! Do you know what I love about your class? You truly are the BEST 6th period class I have ever had the privilege to teach! You are well behaved (the best behaving 6th period class I have ever taught!), respectful, eager to learn, energetic, and the list goes on. Both individually and collectively, you are just a sweet bunch of kids! You even seem to enjoy my goofiness. (Lol and thanks!) Above all, you demonstrate day in and day out all we have learned about work ethic. That’s icing on the cake for this teacher!
All of you are going to be successful. I have no doubts about it! I’m praying for God to bless you richly now and always.
Sincerely,
Mrs. McBrayer
Dear 4th Period
November 17, 2015
Dear 4th Period,
I am thankful for you! Do you know what stands out the most about your class and each one of you individually?…That you are HAPPY! As a matter of fact, you are the happiest bunch of youngsters I believe I have ever taught! At the same time though, you know when to settle down and get to business, and for that I am truly thankful! I also love the fact that you encourage and stand by each other. Those are 2 qualities that will help you be successful in life.
I pray God blesses each one of you richly this Thanksgiving.
Sincerely,
Mrs. McBrayer
Dear 1st Period
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
Marketing Interpersonal Skills
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!….
It’s Inspiration Time!
Every quarter in the BMS Career Center, each grade level class watches a motivational movie to inspire them on to greatness in life. For 6th graders, it’s Facing the Giants, for 7th graders, it’s Gifted Hands, and for 8th graders, it’s To Save a Life. My students absolutely love these movies and are so pumped up after watching them. Hopefully, they will take that energy and change the world!
Yep! It’s another good week in the BMS Career Center! 🙂
#Inspired
Building a Bridge to the Future
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
Student Therapy
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
Mind Map Masters!
Do you know what S T U D Y stands for? If not, ask a 6th grade BMS Career Center student! 🙂
Congratulations to Elise and Jessica – Mind Map Masters for STUDY Skills!
Blue Bleachers, Painting Fun!
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
Fourth Quarter Family Budgeting Experts Show Off Their Skills!
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!
3rd Period Family Budgeting Champs!
6th Period Family Budgeting Champs!
#StandardOfLiving
SB 2015 Writing Spectacular Top 3 Posts!
Recipe for Success
Here we are! It’s that time of year when we begin our standardized testing. I have full confidence that BMS students will shine like the sun when all is said and done! I am also really happy that afterwards we will begin our mini-unit entitled 8 To Be Great. So shine on BMS students… you are going to do great, and you will be successful!
#You’veGotThis #GeorgiaMilestones #Success
The 2015 Spring Break Writing Spectacular!
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
And the Award for the Best Blog Goes To!……..
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
Family Budgeting Experts Show Off Their Skills!
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
Conflict Resolution Champions!
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
What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up???
This is the question of the week students in the BMS Career Center are addressing. You would think it would be too daunting to answer, but for most students it’s not!
I love the fact that students really like to talk to each other about what they are going to do with their lives after they graduate high school. They love looking down the long – but actually short! – road envisioning what their futures might be like. (IT’S AWESOME TO BE THEIR TEACHER AND SEE THIS TAKING PLACE! I TRULY DO HAVE AN AWESOME JOB!)
How do students go about accomplishing this task? We break it down in different ways. When you read a 6th grader’s blog post on this subject, they are simply brainstorming prior knowledge they have acquired about what they want to be when they grow up, telling why they want to do it, and what they think it will take to get them there. On the other hand, 7th graders are learning about the 17 Georgia Career Clusters and have to approach the question from that angle. What’s your plan A, plan B, plan C? Eighth graders do all of that and then take it a step further by identifying the pathway they have to take to attain the career of their dreams.
Good things are happening in the BMS Career Center! #SuccessStoriesInTheMaking
#MysterySkype
We are very excited to have our first #MysterySkype tomorrow! Second period 8th grade students will be meeting our Future Friday speaker, Mr. Jimmy Bishop, via #Skype and will try to figure out where he lives on planet Earth. After that, he will be talking about his career. #SkypeClassroom invited us to post pics on their website of our #MysterSkype session! We will be posting them at education.skype.com/stories as well as on our blog.
Here are some of the questions students have submitted for our quest to pinpoint where he is:
- Is it an Island? Braeden
- What is the dominate language? Will & Anna Grace
- Is it a larger country than the US? Mariah
- Are there (m)any deadly animals where you live? Dani
- What time zone are you in? Katie & Olivia
- What religion is most common in your country? Austin, Alivia, & Corrina
- What’s the population of the country? John
- What is it like outside? Are there a lot of trees around you? Gracie
- What hemisphere do you live in? Bailey
- What kind of food do you eat? Jessie
- What’s the weather like? Robert
- What continent are you on? Wyatt
- What is the currency there? Alayna
- What do you like most about where you live? Mrs. McBrayer