GMRS office hours will be 7:00 am – 2:50 pm, Monday thru Friday.

General Announcements

November 21st: We will be celebrating Thanksgiving in Bridge! If you would like to join us or donate to our festivities, please contact me at: [email protected]

Bridge Program Updates:

Time to Celebrate! Woo Hoo! We have several MORE students moving towards trying “out” classes, for Q2, based on positive data! Congratulations to our students. Currently we have 4 students who have transitions back to general ed. full time and 5 additional students who have added additional general ed. classes to their schedule!  Keep working hard- this is the goal of our program!

Phone Policy: TO BE COLLECTED during breakfast /TURNED OFF AND IN LOCKER/Backpack for the remainder of the day. **If you don’t have a lock or backpack, turn it in! The phones have been an issue, this policy is school wide and will hopefully eliminate further problems with cell phone usage during the school day. 

If you are seen with phone out of locker:

• No warning [THIS IS YOUR WARNING]
• FIRST TIME – give to teacher, no debate, can not put away at this point, must hand over.
• If you refuse to hand it over,  admin/ dean will be called to take it. It will stay in Deans office until the end of the day.
• Home will be contacted
• Repeated issues with phone will result in ISS/Parent having to come and pick up
• Can earn phone time from behavior bucks for lunch time.

Annual IEP meetings will begin at the end of this month. Please take some time and review the current plan with your student. This is a good opportunity to find out from their perspective what they feel is working, what they might need instead. Be on the look out for an email in regards to meeting. Questions? Please reach out! 

ACADEMICS

• Please check HAC (Home Access Center) grades are updated on Fridays for your child’s classes

As a reminder, Fridays have been designated for summative assessments and for the chance for students to show what they know!

• This week’s summative activities will focus on core content material. 7th grade students took a multiple choice test on the Revolution and 6/8 grade students will complete a One-Pager on Monday and Tuesday focusing on the Enlightenment, to show what they know. 
• Quarter 2 CSA will be given prior to December 7th. 
• Social Perspective Journals have been graded for a Summative Grade along with Station Rotations for Learning Strategies and Intensive Reading.

Social Perspectives

The focus of our program is to teach students alternative behaviors to replace challenging ones, helping students reach their academic and affective learning potential. The goal of the Bridge Program at GRMS is to gradually reintegrate students into the general education setting with minimal support.

Our social perspectives focus this week will be CHOICES! How to make good ones, especially when emotions are big and communicating with kindness is difficult. We will work on identifying strategies on how to manage these emptions, to communicate effectively to ensure good choices are made. 

Station Rotations

In Learning Strategies, we have implemented Station Rotations, which the students really seem to enjoy. This small group setting allows students to work with peers and adults to ensure they are getting the support they need. Students rotate through an IR station, a Learning Strats Station, a Novel Study Station and for our Kinesthetic Learners, a Get Up and Move Station.