January 19, 2016

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Burlington High School received an anonymous Skype phone call this afternoon threatening the school.  The Emergency Response Team was immediately gathered, which includes school personnel and the Burlington Police Department.  After evaluating the situation, and due to the fact that many other schools in Massachusetts received this type of threat last Friday, and many more today, the police assessment was that this was a low level threat and most likely a hoax.

Students at the BECC were dismissed as a result of this threat (those students in our morning programs were already home).  All BECC employees did a fantastic job of keeping the children calm in this atypical situation.

At this time, school is scheduled to take place on Wednesday.  There will be an increased police presence in the all of the Burlington Schools tomorrow during both arrival and dismissal times, and we will update everyone if the situation changes.

Going forward, a reverse 911 call should go out to all families notifying them of any situation.  BECC staff will follow-up with phone calls to make sure that we make contact directly with you or another one of your child’s emergency contacts.

On Wednesday afternoon, please check your child’s backpack when he or she gets home as there will be a letter describing the specific BECC procedures in more detail.

If you have questions or concerns about this incident or your child’s safety, please do not hesitate to call me at 781-273-7632 or e-mail me atclark@burlington.bpsk12.org.

Sincerely,

Deborah Clark

Director, BECC

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Snow Week 3 & 4

Snow!

There is no school on Monday January 18th.

This week we are reading:

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
The Snowy Day
Good Night Baby Bear


Small Groups
Math - Adding 'ice cubes' to tens frame and counting how many there is.
Move the Polar Bear - Rolls the dice and move the polar bear on the paws
Making a book about snow gear

Choice Time:
Dress Up
Writing Center - Snow words
Painting Pictures of Polar Bears in water
Making a den for the Polar Bear
Insta snow in the sand table
Ipads
Easel - Snowflake stencils

Week of the 26th
We will have a special visit from the science center - We will get to meet animals that we will read about in the Mitten by Jan Bett

Stories
The Mitten

Small Groups
Decorating Matching Mittens
Coloring Animals from the The Mitten
Lacing mittens for the animals to stay
Comparing animals that are in The Mitten and not in The Mitten

Snow!

Snow!

The Lucky Ducks had a great time playing in the snow.  They all worked on putting on their own snow gear and had a blast!  We made snow angels - even though there is only a little bit of snow.  Even though we were out for a short time it was well worth the effort to play in the snow.

We will continue our snow unit.  Today we made paper snow globes.  Over the past few days we have been working on making groups of 3, drawing self portraits, and working on positional words.  

While we were reading Stella the Snow Queen, we read a silly sentence  about Polar Bears eating snowflakes.  This prompted many questions about Polar Bears.  So using two non-fiction books about Polar Bears we began to search.  Unfortunately, we did not find our answer and had to continue looking online.  

Some facts we learned about Polar Bears

• A baby Polar Bear is a cub
• They live in the arctic
• They live in dens
• Their fur is clear and looks white because of the reflection from the snow.
• Their skin is black underneath

Our big question of what do they eat was finally answered with seal and fish.

Enjoy the long weekend!