VETERANS DAY PROGRAM:
Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center is excited for our students to have the opportunity to thank our Veterans!! We are asking any student who has a family member that is a veteran or a current service member to invite that person to a Veterans Breakfast. On Monday, November 11th, beginning promptly at 9:30am ending at 10:30am, in the BUGC cafeteria we will host a breakfast honoring veterans. Students whose family members are present will be allowed to leave class and participate in the breakfast. Please RSVP by clicking on the link and completing the form before Wednesday, November 6th. This will allow us to know how many attendees we will have.
May God Bless All Who Have Served Our Country!!!!
Veterans Day Breakfast RSVP
BUGC HOMECOMING:
BUGC would like to invite ALL Alumni to our first Homecoming!! On Nov. 7th at 4:30 the Boys Basketball teams will have their first home game and all BUGC Alumni are welcome to attend. All entry tickets are only $1. Please plan on coming out to support the tigers and reconnect with your BUGC family.
This year Fab Lab added its first multi-filament/multi-color 3D printer. Jaeden is the first student to design and print a multi-color part at BUGC. His Patrick Star from Spongebob uses 5 different filaments, took over 12 hours to design (many of those hours were spent at home), and 15 hours to print.
Officer Dave Stukenborg, shares what it’s like to live in a wheelchair with BUGC students. Thank you, Mrs. Daub, for inviting him in to speak with our students.
This young lady has increased the number of books she has read from last year to now by more than 200%!! We are so proud of you, Emily!! #BUGCcreatinglifelongreaders
Every year our PE teachers put together the best obstacle course for our students. This year did not disappoint!! Mr. Arlis, Ms. Gamble and Mr. Dersien thank you keeping our students fit and engaged!!
Our 8th Grade Baseball Team was honored at The Village of Bourbonnais Board meeting tonight. The Tigers finished 3rd in the state this year!! So proud of our coaches and players!!!
Our Cross Country Team is running at the state competition right now. On Monday, there was no school. These guys showed up to have their own student led cross country practice!! You gotta love it!!
Please support the girls basketball fundraiser at Chicago Dough!!!
This is what I call getting your team of teachers on “the same page”! Mrs. Tupy and Mrs. Carlton of 7th Grade team black were twinning on Thursday.
Mrs. Buck and Mrs. Carlton challenges their students to match graphs, tables, equations and ordered pairs. Students were also creating graphs and tables by measuring how long it takes for water to fill a cylinder.
We are two weeks away from our 3rd Annual Fine Arts Fright Night. This is a fun event for all families and students of BESD 53. Please come out for a great night of music, shop at the book fair and partake in some spooky treats.
Thank you for supporting the BESD Fine Arts Department
Not sure we need any more reasons to boast about how much of a positive influence Officer Garcia is on our students!!! But here ya go!! These lucky students won a ride to school with SRO Garcia and even were treated to Dunkin’! This was part of raffle prizes at The PTA back to school bash.
Last week, Mrs. Lundmark’s 8th Grade Gold students carved pumpkins in a study of correlation. They measured the weight of the pumpkin, the circumference, and counted the seeds inside. The conclusion: larger pumpkins have more seeds, with a correlation coefficient of about 0.6. We had a great time! A big thanks to all the parents and Kroger for donating pumpkins!
Mr. Outsen and Ms. Papanicholas arranged for U.S. Representative Robin Kelly to visit BUGC and speak to our students about the life and responsibilities of a Congress woman.
Our PE Dept. asked a trained professional to teach our students CPR!! #keepingourschoolsafe
Mrs. Austiff and Ms. Alvis challenged their students to persevere by carrying 5 gallons of water around the track this week. The main character in their novel walked half a day or more to get water for her family each day. Students realized the hardships that many children their age face in Third World countries.
In Mrs. Lundmark’s class students demonstrated their knowledge of different types of correlation and correlation coefficient values using their Lucky Charms as points on a scatter plot. Then they used Desmos to determine the correlation between the total number of cereal pieces in their sample and how many marshmallows they had. They plotted the data, found an appropriate linear model, and determined the correlation coefficient. And of course they were able to eat their sample when the work was done! A big thanks to the parents who donated the boxes of cereal!
Last week Ms. Newsome took our 8th grade Spanish Students to the Mexican Fine Arts Museum!!
Our BUGC Tigers are going to State!!
