We want to thank all of our Veterans for their service and sacrifice! We truly appreciate your commitment to our great nation and we recognize our many freedoms are because of your bravery!

There is no school on Monday, November 11th in observance of the Veterans Day holiday.

How exciting that Bethel Middle School is bringing back the Bethel Bazaar! I can remember when I first moved to Bethel 26 years ago and one of my favorite things at Christmastime was visiting the bazaar and looking at all the arts and crafts. BMS invited BES to participate in the bazaar by making ornaments and selling them. We will have a booth set up to sell the ornaments and all of the money the ornaments earn will be coming back to BES and going to our families that need help due to Hurricane Helene. Check out how you can help with ornament making and the Bazaar below!

Students will be making ornaments during their library specials next week. Check out our school website to sign-up and make donations. Here is the link: https://bes.haywood.k12.nc.us/

Donation bins in the Lobby and Library - (Donations of craft materials don't have to be new. Empty out your supplies closet and give us your open bags, let over pieces, ribbons, remnants, etc.) Here is what we are looking for:

• Twine, hemp cord, or string for hanging ornaments
• Buttons -any type
• Ribbon-all widths and colors
• Remnants of cotton fabric (holiday colors or prints)
• Cinnamon sticks
• Cardboard tubes (Paper towel, toilet paper rolls)
• Felt or felt scraps
• Mini-jenga blocks (dollar tree)
• Spray glitter or metallic spray paint or white spray paint
• Scrapbooking paper (holiday colors and prints)
• Hot glue sticks (large and small)
• Embellishments (sequins, beads, brads or small shapes of wood, felt, foam)
• Bamboo skewers
• Plastic tablecloths
• Any other cute little holiday-themed ornament-making supplies

Parents can sign-up to help on sign-up genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C44AEAE22ABF8CE9-52971294-christmas#/

Grades 3-5 will have NC Check In practice tests from Tuesday, November 12- Friday, November 15. Please encourage your child to have free school breakfast or breakfast from home. Thanks for the great attendance on these days!

The online order code is YB31293. If you go online to www.strawbridge.net you can order a yearbook and get it personalized. Online ordering is the only way to personalize a yearbook with your child's name this year.

Our Thanksgiving lunch is quickly approaching! If your child is in grades Kindergarten, 2nd or 4th and you turned in your form to eat, you will pay at the front door once you enter the building on the car line side. The cost of each meal visiting is $6.00. Please bring cash. We look forward to seeing everyone again next week for this yummy, annual event! We also look forward to seeing our 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade families in December for our Christmas meal. Date is yet to be determined.

Jonathan Valley Elementary is having their annual Fall Festival on November 15th. All of the proceeds from the festival will be going to Hurricane Helene victims with the most need. It's a wonderful event and I'm so glad they shared this with us!

Our rescheduled Picture Day is coming up!! Wednesday, November 20th was the earliest date we could be on our photographer's schedule. We look forward to seeing all those smiles!!

November 11- Veteran's Day Holiday-- No school

November 12-15- Check In Testing for 3rd-5th Grades

November 12-15 Ornament Making in the Library - see sign up above

November 14- Thanksgiving Lunch for Kindergarten, 2nd, and 4th

November 14- Bible Club begins

November 16- Christmas Bazaar at BMS

November 18- 3rd Grade CoGat testing

November 19- Lockdown Drill

November 20- Fall Picture Day

November 22- 1st Grade Music Program @ 1:30 pm

November 24- Jack the Dipper Bethel Day

November 27-29- Thanksgiving Holiday- No school

November 28- Happy Thanksgiving

December 2- Progress Reports go home

December 3- Mrs. Arty Pants after school

December 11-13- Santa's Workshop

December 23-January 6 - Christmas break