First Day As a Beacon

On behalf of the entire Beacon Team, we would like to extend a warm welcome to all of our new Beacon students, parents, and guardians.  We are excited to have the opportunity to work with your children this year.  On our first day, we introduced your children to our team and briefly discussed what we would be doing over the course of this year.  After this initial meeting, we ran a series of breakout sessions during which students discussed the following topics.

• Growth Mindset with Mr. Rothemich: This is our overarching team philosophy, and it is the concept behind everything we do, both as a team and in our individual classrooms.

• Multiple Intelligence with Mrs. Kuhn: This theory which was created by Howard Gardner describes the different ways that people can learn best.

• "Get Your Learn On" with Mrs. Marino: This session focused on encouraging and empowering students to understand what they are capable of and to realize that everyone is both a student and a teacher.

• Being Part of the Team with Mrs. LaPerriere: Students brainstormed and shared ways to create a positive learning environment and why procedures and discipline policies help all students to achieve.  

• Student Survey with Ms. Hudson & Ms. Carter: Students were given the opportunity to respond and reflect upon several prompts related to their learning strengths and challenges.  

After listening to the music video below, students did one final reflection activity using the prompt below.

In a two- to- three paragraph letter to yourself, please answer the following questions.  You will receive this letter back on your last day of school.

• What are you looking forward to this year?
• What are your thoughts on Growth Mindset?
• What is one goal that you hope to achieve this year, and how will you achieve it?