Today: Ravioli, Corn, Banana, Breadstick & Milk
Breakfast Thursday: Breakfast Pizza, Cereal & Milk
Thursday Lunch: Pizza Dippers, Salad/Tomato, Carrots, Apple, Strawberry Chex & Milk
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1. All 7th and 8th grade girls who are planning to play basketball will need to report to the Upper Computer Lab during their recess time this Wednesday Oct. 11th, to meet with Coach Williams.
2. 7th and 8th grade boy's basketball players make sure you order from the team store by October 16th.
3. Cheerleading Clinic Information
TODAY and Thursday 3:15-5:00 p.m.: Cheer Try-Out Clinic and Mock Try-Outs
Cheer Try-Outs Friday October 13th, 3:15-until completed.
Clinic and Try-Outs will take place in Grimes Auditorium. You MUST attend all clinic days in order to try-out!
4. Art Club will meet this Thursday Oct. 12th. Mark your planner and remind your parents.
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WEDNESDAY VISION:
Is it RUDE? Is It MEAN? Is It BULLYING?
Rude = Unintentionally saying or doing something that hurts someone else. Rudeness might look more like burping in someone’s face, jumping ahead in line, or bragging about achieving the highest grade. On their own, any of these behaviors could appear as elements of bullying, but when looking at the particular situation, incidents of rudeness are usually spontaneous, unplanned inconsideration, based on thoughtlessness, or poor manners, but not meant to actually hurt someone.
Mean = Intentionally saying or doing something to hurt someone. The main distinction between “rude” and “mean” behavior has to do with intention. While rudeness is often unintentional, mean behavior very much aims to hurt someone. Kids are mean to each other when they criticize clothing, appearance, intelligence, coolness or just about anything else they can find to put others down. Meanness also sounds like words spoken in anger —sudden cruelty that is often regretted soon after. Very often, mean behavior in kids is motivated by angry feelings and/or the misguided goal of propping themselves up in comparison to the person they are putting down. Make no mistake; mean behaviors can wound deeply. Yet, meanness is different from bullying in important ways that should be understood.
Bullying = Intentional hurtfulness, repeated over time, that involves an imbalance of power.
Experts agree that bullying entails three key elements: an intent to harm, a power imbalance and repeated acts or threats of aggressive behavior. Kids who bully say or do something intentionally hurtful to others and they keep doing it, with no sense of regret or remorse — even when targets of bullying express their hurt or tell the aggressors to stop.
Bullying may be Physical, Verbal, Relational or Cyberbullying:
Physical bullying is physical aggression. Some examples include; hitting, kicking, spitting, slamming someone into a locker.
Verbal bullying is verbal aggression. Using words to harm someone. Some examples include: gossiping, insulting, name-calling.
Relational bullying is Relational Aggression. Using relationships to hurt someone. Examples include: Excluding, threatening to stop liking someone, spreading rumors, ignoring, lying about someone.
Cyberbullying is a specific form of bullying that involves technology. Cyberbullying is willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.
Here are some examples of students being rude, or mean or are bullying:
Scenario: Steve tells Chad that he can’t sit with him on the bus because he is saving the seat for Jack.
Answer: Steve is being rude. There is no evidence of intentional hurtfulness, repetitive behavior or a power imbalance.
Scenario: Eva and Barbara play on the same field hockey team and are normally best friends, but have been in an argument for three days. Eva called Barbara names after practice and Barbara yelled names back at Eva.
Answer: Eva and Barbara are being mean to each other. They are intending to hurt each other with their words. The girls are normally friends, though, and at this point, this appears to be an argument that both are contributing to rather than a repetitive pattern of one-sided cruelty.
Scenario: Tina makes plans to go to the football game with her new friend, Gwen. Melissa tells Tina that if she hangs out at the game with Gwen that everyone will think she is a total weirdo and no one will like her anymore. At lunch that day, Melissa convinces the other girls that it would be a really funny joke if all at the table laughed out loud when Tina approached.
Answer: Melissa is acting like a bully. She has created an unfair balance of power by getting all of the girls at the lunch table to laugh at Tina. She is also using words like “everyone” and “no one” to threaten Tina about how she will be excluded if she does not do what Melissa wants her to do.
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SPORTS: Congratulations to the 7th Grade Volleyball Girls and the 7th Grade Football Boys on their win last night.
Thursday: 5th/6th/7th/8th Cross Country: Meet at Mtn.Grove, start time-3:00 p.m. Dismiss students at 1:45 p.m. Bus Leaves at 2:00 p.m.
WEATHER: Wednesday Oct. 11th: Partly sunny with a high of 67 degrees and a low of 50.
Breakfast Thursday: Breakfast Pizza, Cereal & Milk
Thursday Lunch: Pizza Dippers, Salad/Tomato, Carrots, Apple, Strawberry Chex & Milk
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1. All 7th and 8th grade girls who are planning to play basketball will need to report to the Upper Computer Lab during their recess time this Wednesday Oct. 11th, to meet with Coach Williams.
2. 7th and 8th grade boy's basketball players make sure you order from the team store by October 16th.
3. Cheerleading Clinic Information
TODAY and Thursday 3:15-5:00 p.m.: Cheer Try-Out Clinic and Mock Try-Outs
Cheer Try-Outs Friday October 13th, 3:15-until completed.
Clinic and Try-Outs will take place in Grimes Auditorium. You MUST attend all clinic days in order to try-out!
4. Art Club will meet this Thursday Oct. 12th. Mark your planner and remind your parents.
*******************************************************
WEDNESDAY VISION:
Is it RUDE? Is It MEAN? Is It BULLYING?
Rude = Unintentionally saying or doing something that hurts someone else. Rudeness might look more like burping in someone’s face, jumping ahead in line, or bragging about achieving the highest grade. On their own, any of these behaviors could appear as elements of bullying, but when looking at the particular situation, incidents of rudeness are usually spontaneous, unplanned inconsideration, based on thoughtlessness, or poor manners, but not meant to actually hurt someone.
Mean = Intentionally saying or doing something to hurt someone. The main distinction between “rude” and “mean” behavior has to do with intention. While rudeness is often unintentional, mean behavior very much aims to hurt someone. Kids are mean to each other when they criticize clothing, appearance, intelligence, coolness or just about anything else they can find to put others down. Meanness also sounds like words spoken in anger —sudden cruelty that is often regretted soon after. Very often, mean behavior in kids is motivated by angry feelings and/or the misguided goal of propping themselves up in comparison to the person they are putting down. Make no mistake; mean behaviors can wound deeply. Yet, meanness is different from bullying in important ways that should be understood.
Bullying = Intentional hurtfulness, repeated over time, that involves an imbalance of power.
Experts agree that bullying entails three key elements: an intent to harm, a power imbalance and repeated acts or threats of aggressive behavior. Kids who bully say or do something intentionally hurtful to others and they keep doing it, with no sense of regret or remorse — even when targets of bullying express their hurt or tell the aggressors to stop.
Bullying may be Physical, Verbal, Relational or Cyberbullying:
Physical bullying is physical aggression. Some examples include; hitting, kicking, spitting, slamming someone into a locker.
Verbal bullying is verbal aggression. Using words to harm someone. Some examples include: gossiping, insulting, name-calling.
Relational bullying is Relational Aggression. Using relationships to hurt someone. Examples include: Excluding, threatening to stop liking someone, spreading rumors, ignoring, lying about someone.
Cyberbullying is a specific form of bullying that involves technology. Cyberbullying is willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.
Here are some examples of students being rude, or mean or are bullying:
Scenario: Steve tells Chad that he can’t sit with him on the bus because he is saving the seat for Jack.
Answer: Steve is being rude. There is no evidence of intentional hurtfulness, repetitive behavior or a power imbalance.
Scenario: Eva and Barbara play on the same field hockey team and are normally best friends, but have been in an argument for three days. Eva called Barbara names after practice and Barbara yelled names back at Eva.
Answer: Eva and Barbara are being mean to each other. They are intending to hurt each other with their words. The girls are normally friends, though, and at this point, this appears to be an argument that both are contributing to rather than a repetitive pattern of one-sided cruelty.
Scenario: Tina makes plans to go to the football game with her new friend, Gwen. Melissa tells Tina that if she hangs out at the game with Gwen that everyone will think she is a total weirdo and no one will like her anymore. At lunch that day, Melissa convinces the other girls that it would be a really funny joke if all at the table laughed out loud when Tina approached.
Answer: Melissa is acting like a bully. She has created an unfair balance of power by getting all of the girls at the lunch table to laugh at Tina. She is also using words like “everyone” and “no one” to threaten Tina about how she will be excluded if she does not do what Melissa wants her to do.
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SPORTS: Congratulations to the 7th Grade Volleyball Girls and the 7th Grade Football Boys on their win last night.
Thursday: 5th/6th/7th/8th Cross Country: Meet at Mtn.Grove, start time-3:00 p.m. Dismiss students at 1:45 p.m. Bus Leaves at 2:00 p.m.
WEATHER: Wednesday Oct. 11th: Partly sunny with a high of 67 degrees and a low of 50.
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