2055 Hanging Rock Rd Boiling Springs SC 29316 bsisonline.com 578-2884			October 3, 2007 Volume 2 Issue 8 cheryl.roach@spartanburg2.k12.sc.us
	Counselor’s Corner	Off the Top
The 6^th grade reading department is excited to begin reading a nonfiction book about hurricanes. If you have anything you would like for your child to bring in as a visual please let the reading teacher know.0072 Mrs. Fowler’s English classes are writing to Lieutenant Brian in Iraq and planning care packages as well! Tiger Traits: Let actions do the talking. Secrets of Straight A Students Click here to see 6 common factors of Straight A students. Adam has won a contest that includes a chance to win money. A box is filled with $100, $50, $20 and $5 bills. Adam will be blindfolded and allowed to draw bills, one at a time till he has drawn 5 bills of the same denomination. What is the largest possible amount he can win?	Over the next two weeks, we will be reviewing the Life skills, Problem Solving – To seek solutions, and Resourcefulness – To respond to challenges in creative ways. Encourage your children to get “caught in the act” using good character qualities. We will be looking for “Shining Stars” and rewarding students with character awards bi-weekly. Congratulations to those students rewarded on September 27^th. Keep up the good work. Your Counselors: Tonya Stone 5^th grade Jessica Yates – 6^th grade	Tammy Greer Principal It is always encouraging seeing growth in all our lives. I have been so impressed with the growth our teachers are exhibiting this year as they stretch themselves with new technology, more labs, creative learning activities and teamwork, all with the purpose of better serving our children. Thanks for your part in motivating them to take advantage of the great things our school has to offer.	Clubs (of month) Beta Club - 1^st Wed (5^th and 6^th) Drama Club- Last Tues Running Club – 3^rd Wed Student Council -1^st Thurs (5^th & 6^th) Golf Club – last Wed FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) every Wed before school  Several 5th grade ELA classes had a great hands-on experience showing how pioneers affected the environment. Students went outside and observed the land before it was disturbed noticing grasses, flowers, animals and bugs. Then they moved and ran around picking up grass, flowers, disturbing bugs. Then they discussed how pioneers must have changed a once nearly uninhabited land by cutting down trees, digging sod, killing animals. They then responded in their journals with before and after illustrations of the prairie.
	PTO NOTES . . . If you have not already signed up to be a School Volunteer for the new school year, the PTO can surely use you! We would appreciate any amount of time you can spare – we even have things you can do at home! Please contact April Barnes at april.barnes@bcitelecom.com or 599-0054 ext 122 (day). WE APPRECIATE YOU!	The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming - Are you doing your part? Tip 2: Reusable water bottles – did you know 2.5 million water bottles are thrown away each hour! Take the time to be grateful for all the things around you, both large and small, and the beauty of life will be yours.
German, Czech, Polish Italian Heritage Month Crime Prevention Month UNICEF month Metric Week Fire Prevention Week Earth Science Week 10-8 Columbus Day 10-8 Canadian Thanksgiving 10-6 Spartanburg International Festival	BULLDOG YOUTH BASKETBALL LEAGUE The BYBL is for boys and girls in the 4^th -8^th grades. Cost is $70.00 to cover uniform insurance, and referees. Focus is on solid fundamental teaching of basketball, sportsmanship, and teamwork. Registration for 4^th-6th is Saturday, October 13 and for 7^th-8^th on Saturday, Nov. 3. You can register anytime between 12:00 – 2:00 in the BS High School gym. Players need to dress appropriately in order to be evaluated. If you cannot register at one of these times, please contact Coach Reese at 578-8465 (ext150) or glenn.reese@spartanburg2.k12.sc.us or Danny Thompson at 237-5824. Anyone interested in coaching must attend the coaching clinic.		There are three activities in the Kid’s Zone at the International Festival if any students would like to volunteer. If you would like to volunteer please come by room 500 at Boiling Springs Jr. High or email your name and times available!  Missy Ewing

Seven nurses A,B,C,D,E, F and G have one day off each Monday through Sunday week. No two of them have the same day off. A’s day is the day after C’s. D’s day is 3 days after the day before E’s. B’s day is 3 days before G’s. F’s day is halfway between B’s and C’s and is Thursday. Find each nurse’s day off. A = Sunday, B = Tuesday, C = Saturday, D = Wednesday, E = Monday F = Thursday and G = Friday

A certain number leaves a remainder of 1 when it is divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 but leaves no remainder when it is divided by 7. What is the smallest number it can be? 301

Entertainment Schedule top

Worldwide Showcase Stage (Zimmerli Amphitheater) 11:00 am – 11:30 am Kenyan Safari Acrobats 11:45 am - 12:30 pm Layali Layla Dance Company 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Albert Greiner Youth Symphony Orchestra 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm Parade of Nations 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm St. Nicholas Greek Dancers 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Rince na h’ Eireann Irish Dancers 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Gordon Owens Salsa 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Layali Layla Dance Company 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm Chinese Dancers

International Kids Zone Stage 11:30 am – 12:15 pm Magic by Chaz 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Suddenly Irish Dancers 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm Cross Cultural Institute 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Kenyan Safari Acrobats 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Parade of Nations 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Aztec Dance with John Jaramillo 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm Magic By Chaz 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm I-94 West & Central African Dance and Music 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Bantou Folklorique African Dancers 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Magic by Chaz

Global Review Stage (St. John St.) 11:15 am – 12:00 noon Flamenco with John Jaramillo 12:00 noon -12:45 pm Ambiance Belly Dancers 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Alma De Candela 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm Parade of Nations 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm Pipapelli Rockin Celtic Band 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Alma De Candela Salsa Band 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Arundas World Music

Shining Stars back

6^th Grade Winners -Heather Bagwell -Brittney Heatherington -Emily Pye -Amber Gardner -Tysean Edmondson -Adrianna Shumar -Clifton Brown -Lindsey Morris -Caleb Morris -Daniel Moser -Savannah McKelvey

-Kip Medley - Reid Jackson -Taylor Satterfield -Allison White -Dee Dee Thomas -Marvin Rot -Olivia Resendiz -Kevin Wade -Kayla McGill -Dylan Ellis -Beth Kimsey

5^th Grade Winners Nathan Kimbrell Brooke Mims Andrey Kaplun Bradley Swofford Savanah Lowe Jake Moore Sarah Turner Breanna Chester Nathan Mok Weatherly Joyce Meredith Pheffer

Chase Patterson Kameron Gonick Zac Brown Ethan Slaughter Julia Tubb Miranda Henderson Katherine Wojcik Drew Sprouse Jantira Lem Patrick Jackson Mackie Gosnell Nate Bishop

Secrets of Straight-A Studentstop

Education experts and students reveal the secrets of maintaining high grades.

By Edwin Kiester, Jr., and Sally Valente Kiester

From Reader's Digest

September 1992

You Can Be A Super-Achiever

Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV sitcoms and in movies like Revenge of the Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull grinds, their noses always stuck in a book. They're klutzes at sports and dweebs when it comes to the opposite sex.

How, then, do we account for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres?

Roman is on the tennis team at Fairmont (W.Va.) Senior High School. She also sings in the choral ensemble, serves on the student council and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has maintained a 4.0 grade-point average (GPA), meaning A's in every subject.

Melendres, now a freshman at the University of New Mexico, was student-body president at Valley High School in Albuquerque. He played varsity soccer and junior- varsity basketball, exhibited at the science fair, was chosen for the National Honor Society and National Association of Student Councils and did student commentaries on a local television station. Valedictorian of his class, he achieved a GPA of 4.4 -- straight A's in his regular classes, plus bonus points for A's in two college-level honors courses.

How do super-achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains aren't the only answer. "Top grades don't always go to the brightest students," declares Herbert Walberg, professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted major studies of super-achieving students. "Knowing how to make the most of your innate abilities counts for more. Infinitely more."

In fact, Walberg says, students with high I.Q.s sometimes don't do as well as classmates with lower I.Q.s. For them, learning comes too easily and they never find out how to buckle down.

Hard work isn't the whole story, either. "It's not how long you sit there with the books open," said one of the many A students we interviewed. "It's what you do while you're sitting." Indeed, some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates.

The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn. Here, according to education experts and students themselves, are the secrets of straight-A students.

Set priorities. Top students brook no intrusions on study time. Once the books are open or the computer is booted up, phone calls go unanswered, TV shows unwatched, snacks ignored. Study is business; business comes before recreation.

Study anywhere -- or everywhere. Claude Olney, an Arizona State University business professor assigned to tutor failing college athletes, recalls a cross-country runner who worked out every day. Olney persuaded him to use the time to memorize biology terms. Another student posted a vocabulary list by the medicine cabinet. He learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth.

Among the students we interviewed, study times were strictly a matter of personal preference. Some worked late at night when the house was quiet. Others awoke early. Still others studied as soon as they came home from school when the work was fresh in their minds. All agreed, however, on the need for consistency. "Whatever I was doing, I maintained a slot every day for studying," says Ian McCray, a Middlebury College student from New Jersey.

Get organized. In high school, McCray ran track, played rugby and was in the band and orchestra. "I was so busy, I couldn't waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything right where I could put my hands on it," he says.

Paul Melendres maintains two folders -- one for the day's assignments, another for papers completed and graded. Traci Tsuchiguchi, a top student at Clovis West High School in Fresno, Calif., has another system. She immediately files the day's papers in color-coded folders by subject so they'll be available for review at exam time.

Even students who don't have a private study area remain organized. A backpack or drawer keeps essential supplies together and cuts down on time-wasting searches.

Learn how to read. "The best class I ever took," says Christopher Campbell, who graduated from Moore (Okla.) High School last spring, "was speed-reading. I not only increased my words per minute but also learned to look at a book's table of contents, graphs and pictures first. Then, when I began to read, I had a sense of the material, and I retained a lot more."

In his book Getting Straight A's, Gordon W. Green, Jr., says the secret of good reading is to be "an active reader -- one who continually asks questions that lead to a full understanding of the author's message."

Schedule your time. When a teacher assigns a long paper, Domenica Roman draws up a timetable, dividing the project into small pieces so it isn't so overwhelming.

"It's like eating a steak," she says. "You chew it one bite at a time."

Melendres researches and outlines a report first, then tries to complete the writing in one long push over a weekend. "I like to get it down on paper early, so I have time to polish and review."

Of course, even the best students procrastinate sometimes. But when that happens, they face up to it. "Sometimes it comes down to late nights," admits Christi Anderson, an athlete, student-council member and top student at Lyman High School in Presho, S.D. "Still, if you want A's, you make sure to hit the deadline."

Take good notes -- and use them. "Reading the textbook is important," says Melendres, "but the teacher is going to test you on what he or she emphasized. That's what you find in your notes."

The top students also take notes while reading the text assignment. In fact, David Cieri of Holy Cross High School in Delran, N.J., uses "my homemade" system in which he draws a line down the center of a notebook, writes notes from the text on one side and those from the teacher's lecture on the other. Then he is able to review both aspects of the assignment at once.

Just before the bell rings, most students close their books, put away papers, whisper to friends and get ready to rush out. Anderson uses those few minutes to write a two- or three-sentence summary of the lesson's principal points, which she scans before the next day's class.