The Husky Store is Open!

     We have been earning blue tickets for a few years at Hiawatha, but this is the first year that the students can save them up and spend them at the Husky Store!  Every other week, students will be given an opportunity to "spend" their blue tickets on little prizes and items that range in different blue ticket values.  Students earn blue tickets for being ready, responsible, and respectful in class and around the building.  

     Has your child visited the Husky Store yet?  Ask them about their blue ticket earnings so far this year, and tell them how proud you are of them for taking their learning seriously. 

PBIS

PBIS has been off to a great start this year!!! We have spent time teaching and modeling our school-wide expectations and how to earn all the different tickets.  Our first cool tool... "how to be kind" was taught by 5-DEAV and those students did an awesome job modeling the tool for the school.  I am excited to see so many students earning tickets and showing Husky Pride.  The Husky Store is having their grand opening soon to allow students to redeem all their blue tickets. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK HUSKIES!!!!!

Why the Huskies?

     This is the first year that we are the Huskies at Hiawatha.   We officially changed our mascot at the May Board meeting last spring.  A group of our Accelerated Learning students were participating in OAV (Our American Voice) and were trying to complete a civic minded service learning project.  They decided to have a school wide vote on a new mascot for the following reasons:

     The possible candidates were the Firehawks, Huskies, Buffalo, Phoenix, and Wolves.  After the school wide vote, the Huskies were the winner!  Here are the videos for all the candidates:
https://sites.google.com/a/bsd100.org/new_hiawatha_mascot/

     Once the vote was final and the Hiawatha Huskies were created, the OAV students had a contest to design a new image for our mascot.  Here are pictures of the students at the May Board meeting proposing the mascot change to the South Berwyn Board of Education.

     Thank you, Danny, Naomi, Rebecca, Silas, Steve, Juan, Alice, Angela, Angel, Jose, Sebastian, Ivan, Juan and Martha for your part in creating a new path for Hiawatha.  A big Husky High Five to Ms. Sabri for leading the team.  

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