Morgan County Schools' Science Fair scheduled for Saturday, January 6, 2024, is postponed to Saturday, January 20, 2024. The location is Berkeley Springs High School.
January's Capturing Kids Hearts them is RESPECT. Remember to share photos of your children demonstrating Respect to amguthrie@k12.wv.us or Facebook messenger and we can get them posted. Thank you!
What is Respect?
Respect is the willingness and ability to act professionally and thoughtfully with ourselves and others. Leaders can deal respectfully with opposition and provide space for both dignity and differences to coexist.
Why focus on Respect?
Respect contributes to a positive culture. People feel safe, supported, and engaged in the context of thoughtful social, emotional, civic, and intellectual interactions.
Respect decreases conflict. Respect helps us, and others, to be able to express ourselves without fear of being judged, humiliated, or discriminated against.
Respect encourages empathy. Respect helps us to understand each other and put ourselves in someone else shoes.
Respect in Action:
Teach students words have power. How we talk to others, and ourselves, can motivate or discourage, connect or destroy, hurt or heal. We should choose our words with care.
Create opportunities for group decision-making. Open dialogue engages students in a process where compromise is crucial to making decisions.
Vary protocols for classroom sharing. Frequently use open-ended questions, partner sharing, and small group activities to connect and promote understanding between students.
This is a reminder that there is a scheduled 2-hr early dismissal on Thursday, December 21 for Faculty Senate. There is no school for students from Friday, December 22 through Tuesday, January 2 for Winter Break. Tuesday, January 2 is a Professional Learning Day for Staff.
Updates Basketball Schedules
Morgan County Schools is excited to offer Paper Online Tutoring to all K-12 students! Paper offers personalized skill and homework support 24 hours a day/7 days a week. You can access this feature now on students' ClassLink dashboard. Sign up for a free family webinar to learn more.
This is a friendly reminder that there will be NO SCHOOL next week, from Monday, November 20th through Friday, November 24th, for Thanksgiving Break.
School will be back in session on Monday, November 27th. Have a fantastic break!
Morgan County Schools is excited to offer Paper Online Tutoring to all K-12 students! Paper offers personalized skill and homework support 24 hours a day/7 days a week. You can access this feature now on students' ClassLink dashboard. Sign up for a free family webinar to learn more.
Morgan County Schools is excited to offer Paper Online Tutoring to all K-12 students! Paper offers personalized skill and homework support 24 hours a day/7 days a week. You can access this feature now on students' ClassLink dashboard.
Important dates for November
The Capturing Kids Hearts monthly theme for November is Team Work.
What is Teamwork?
Teamwork is the ability to work in unity with others towards a common goal. For us to learn how to become team players, it is important that we learn to listen, encourage our peers, and allow and invite others to contribute their talents and skills.
Why focus on Teamwork?
Teamwork improves communication: Teamwork helps us improves our verbal and non-verbal communication skills, conveying that we care and a relevant message.
Teamwork builds interpersonal awareness: Growing a great team requires us to first build strong relationships through better understanding ourselves and others.
Teamwork celebrates diversity. Teamwork thrives from diverse ideas that come from a mixture of different genders, cultures, expertise, experience, and problem-solving approaches.
Teamwork in Action:
Call them a team, not a class or group. A group consists of many different people. A team, however, has a common purpose and a shared responsibility for success.
Require teams to set expectations for and manage their own behavior. Do not tell teams what type of behavior is expected -- let them decide for themselves with a Social Contract.
Teach and encourage affirmations. Giving affirmations helps connect the team and builds trust, promotes engagement, and boosts a positive culture.
Morgan County Schools is excited to offer Paper Online Tutoring to all K-12 students! Paper offers personalized skill and homework support 24 hours a day/7 days a week. You can access this feature now on students' ClassLink dashboard.
Seminar for families of K-5 students with Michael Powell School Psychologist.
When: November 16, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Where: Berkeley Springs High School Auditorium
RSVP: No later than November 9, 2023
Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/pfsaPcbRwM
The Paw Paw Schools Halloween Parade for grades K-6 will be on Oct. 31, starting at 1:00pm.
Red Ribbon Week is October 23 through the 27.
The theme for each day is as follows:
Monday- Pajama Day
Tuesday- Duo Day: Pick a friend and dress up as your favorite dynamic duo!
Wednesday-Color Grades:
K/1 and 7th- Wear White
2nd and 8th- Wear Orange
3rd and 9th- Wear Gray
4th- 10th- Wear Red
5th and 11th- Wear Black
6th and 12th- Wear Blue
Thursday-Country Western Day
Friday- Paw Paw Spirit! Wear your Paw Paw colors.
Check out our new Paw Paw Pirates School Store! You can order t-shirts, tanks, long sleeves, hoodies, hats, and more! The store will be open until Oct 15! https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpawpawschoolstore2023.itemorder.com%2Fshop%2Fhome%2F&data=05%7C01%7Camguthrie%40k12.wv.us%7C80772adafa81436af24b08dbc37a1bf4%7Ce019b04b330c467a8bae09fb17374d6a%7C0%7C0%7C638318701460024702%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KufbcCUos03j85pbuEoUujPgMUkUzwQ2ZVujLpNfrUI%3D&reserved=0
Paw Paw Schools is looking for examples of your students showing empathy to others. If you have a photo that you would like to share with the school, Mrs. Guthrie will post those to our school FB page to conclude our theme for the month. We will be asking for photos each month to highlight the exceptional students that we have and their outstanding actions. Next month’s theme is self-direction so be on the lookout for examples of students taking the initiative themselves to direct their behavior. Please send all pics to Mrs. Guthrie, amguthrie@k12.wv.us, and she will post those. Some examples have been provided below. Thank you.
Ms. Kasekamp
Examples of empathy in a photo:
Student showing happiness for someone else’s happiness
Student showing sadness for someone else’s sadness
Student consoling an upset person
Student helping someone who needs a listening ear
Examples of self-direction:
Student reading a book without being asked to do so that they self-selected
Student doing a household chore without being asked to do so
Student helping a younger sibling without being asked to do so
Student practicing their sport without being asked to do so
Today we celebrate West Virginia School Service Personnel Day!
School Service Personnel play a critical role in supporting the success of children in our school. Their efforts keep schools running smoothly, provide students with an education, nutritious food, clean and inviting spaces to learn, and safe transportation every day! Thank you!
Tuesday, September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! We will be adding a little extra Pirate to this day by using pirate-themed announcements, telling pirate jokes, using pirate phrases, and wearing an eyepatch or pirate hat. Here are a few pirate words you can practice with at home.
Attention parents and guardians:
U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Essay Contest
This year, the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will be harvested from West Virginia's own Monongahela National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service demonstrates how the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree was chosen in West Virginia in "Finding the People's Tree." As part of the holiday season festivities, Senator Joe Manchin has launched an essay contest exclusively for Grade 4 students. They are invited to submit a 500-word essay about their love for West Virginia's enchanting forests and public lands while incorporating the 2023 U.S. Capitol's Christmas Tree theme "Endlessly Wild and Wonderful." This unique contest not only celebrates the beauty of West Virginia but also encourages students to showcase the writing skills they have cultivated in our West Virginia classrooms. The winning student will receive a trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in the tree-lighting ceremony. Essays are due by September 26, 2023. Click link to learn more about the contest guidelines and to submit essays.
https://www.uscapitolchristmastree.com/essay/