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In BCS there is some kids in grades 3-8 and we asked some kids what they like about BCS. We asked some kids what their favorite subject was. We asked some kids if they like BCS. We asked some kids if they like the media center. We e-mailed some kids if they like running in the gym. We asked some kids if they like typing on the computer. We e-mailed some kids if they like Spanish. We asked some kids if they like to read at BCS. We went and asked some kids at BCS if they like to swim in the pool. We ran into some kids and we asked them if they like art at BCS. Most kids like cookies and deserts and Toy shop as a 3/4 choice hour. BCS is split up into three groups, third and fourth grade, fifth and sixth grade, and seventh and eighth grade. We have seven or eight teachers for each grade.
 * All About BCS **



Mr.Pugh is a Co-Principal at BCS. He has been teaching for 14 years. Mr. Pugh's favorite thing about BCS is all of the students, and how they value each other. He graduated from Michigan State. Mr. Pugh started teaching in 1994. He went to law school before teaching at BCS.
 * Mr. Pugh **

Mr. Pugh is a very kind and responsible Principal. He is very nice, but can be serious when necessary. Mr. Pugh is a Co. Principal with Mr. Heard. Mr. Pugh’s favorite subjects are science and social studies. Mr. Pugh’s favorite thing at BCS is the people. Mr. Pugh thinks BCS should work on me2we. Me2we mean`s help others and they will help you back. Mr. Pugh thinks that valuing each other is the most important Character Trait. Mr. Pugh thinks that every single grade is so different. He likes how excited the third and fourth graders are about school. He also likes how the 5/6 students are such good role models for our younger students. Also, the 7/8 students are amazing. They are so kind and responsible!  Mr. Heard is one of the co-principals at BCS. He has been at BCS for 4 years. He was a principal at a large high school before he came to BCS in 2008. Mr. Heard loves working with Mr. Pugh. Mr. Heard’s most important job to do is to take care of each and every person. Mr. Heard’s favorite part of being principal is in the morning, because he gets to see all the kids happy and ready for a new day. Mr. Heard ‘s favorite part about his job is watching all the kids learn. Mr. Heard does not like his job, HE LOVES IT!!!!! Mr.Heard is 6.5. Mr. Heard used to play basketball in college. The worst thing about Mr.Heard’s job is he is alone and has to much to do. He is the principal of BCS. He is a very tall man. He is fun he, even dresses up for Halloween! He has another co-principal that works with him Mr. Pugh. Mr. Heard comes to the class rooms. He makes all the kids laugh! He even helps the kids.
 * Mr. Heard **

Choice hour is very fun in BCS. It is a lot of kids' favorite part of the day. It is a thing that ends a long day. There are about 75 choice hours to choose from. It is it is 50 min. Some kids don't do it. There isn't any boring choice hours. A few choice hours are toy shop,arts/crafs and flag football. Choice Hour starts at 3:20pm and ends at 4:05pm.  
 * Choice Hour **

At BCS our athletic program is great for all kids. We even have a bunch of different sports teams such as basketball, track and field, swimming and volleyball. Most of these sports are for all boys and girls. In are BCS athletic program encourage everybody to participate in any activities or tests or sports teams. 7th/8th Boys soccer and girls basketball is in the fall those are some of the teams that play in the fall. As I said are athletic program at BCS is totally awsome. Mr. Heard does some of sports as co principal. He likes to teach sports. Mr. Johanson also teaches sports. He teaches swimming, and he likes it a lot. There`s also cheerleading. Mr.Bishop and Mr.Birdick have taught baseketball for 2 years.
 * Girls & Boys Sports **

** Media Center ** The BCS media center is filled with interesting and educational books that can teach you many things. You can check out books, magazines, and audio books which you can listen to on iPods you can sign up to get if they call your name on the announcements. You can find the books by using the icon on the computer called Destiny. The way we organize the books is the Dewey Decimal system to organize the nonfiction. The fiction, audio books, magazines, etc. are organized by the first three letters of the author’s last name. Also, if you can’t check out a book you can grab one out from the shelves and read till it’s time to go. You can learn more if you ask Mrs. Truesdell the media specialist at BCS in the media center. Also here is a link to the BCS media center website if you want to learn more: [|http://www.digitalbcs.com/mc/] Here at BCS we have a Media Center. The Media Center is just like a library but also have lots of computers. There are 14 computers in the Media Center and one extra for Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith is the computer fixer guy. Whenever there is a computer problem he fixes it. Also there are books in other languages other than English, like Spanish. You are can check out two books at a time for two weeks. The media center has over 17,000 books. There is more added each year. There is only one librarian her name is Mrs. Truesdell but she gets help from Mr. Smith and parent volunteers. Parent volunteers can be moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas. You can also watch movies in the Media Center if your teacher brings you down there or on a rainy day you can use the big screen to watch the movie on. The Media Center is the best place to be. ** History of BCS ** BCS is 13 years old. Dale Truding was the first BCS principal.BCS is a 3-8 school. It starts at 3rd grade because 3rd graders are more independent then 2nd 1st and kindergarden and they know how to read and write. Covington was named after the street Covington Road. BCS was created to offer a choice for parents to let their children stay at a school for 6 whole years. Math ¾: At BCS math is an hour long and it is 9:50 to 11:00 and we have a 10 minute break before math to get our snacks and go to the bathroom. For some projects we split up into groups. In math we use tons of stuff like play money. media type="file" key="wallington.wmv"media type="file" key="harvath.wmv" ** 3/4 Social Studies ** In 3/4 Social Studies, the students learn a lot of things. This year there subject is regions of our country. Next year there subject will be our community and beyond. All of the 3/4 teachers write the lessons including some of the B.P.S. schools. The reason why we do social studies is because the state says so. It also teaches us about people. One teacher, Mrs. Davis, worked on the lessons for the whole summer!
 * 3rd gr math & 4th gr math **

Some of the projects the third grade and fourth grade this year does are sound, land and water, life cycles, electricity and magnetism//.// Last year third and fourth grade science was //Ecosystems// and //Land and Water.// At the end of each unit, we do extentions. In science students learn how the theme of patterns applies to each unit they study. The students try to answer the most important questions about patterns for each unit. All eight of the 3/4 teachers that teach, teach every science unit. Science class is 45 min and there are 27 kids in a class. ¾ science is amazing! You do lots of experiments in science. You get to do lots of experiments in ¾ science. You learn about sound in the unit #1. Even though there are no computers in the science lab your still learn lots of information in the lab. Mrs.Parkins answerers’ to some questions are the top.
 * 3/4 Science **

In 5/6 Social Studies the students have Social Studies in the morning at 10:20 and in the afternoon at 1:30, depending on the day. The students do a lot of work in class; their w ork is very challenging. The students have about 30 minutes, and their homework is very hard. In Social Studies the students learn about the Silk Road, the Eastern Hemisphere, the Middle East, and Africa. The students do not have different teachers, and it is both grades. The students have classes every day and sometimes two times a day. At BCS we have a really cool 5/6 science teacher named Mr. Bishop. He has very cool stuff that he uses to make experiments for his class in science. Sometime he makes the kids work in partners for the science experiments. Come to BCS in the 5/6 grade and you’ll have a great time in science with Mr. Bishop so come to BCS where the fun never stops! In 5/6 science we learn about minerals. Right now we are learning about micro invertebrates. The projects we’ve been doing so far are micro invertebrates. Science is really fun too. They also do crazy science projects. They also don’t grow plants but that’s still good anyway. Science class is 1 hour and 15 minutes because it’s really fun. They also make models of things which are really fun making. They also use a technology for projects.
 * 5/6 Social Studi **** es **
 * 5/6 Science **

All 5/6 students have Engage. In Engage you build different things using teamwork skills. We have a site Called bishopcook.blogspot.com. But you do not read books in Engage. It is also REALLY FUN. All the teachers that teach Covington 5/6 Engage are Mr.Bishop, Mrs.Brown, Mrs.Roberts, and Mr.Mortan. Major projects Engage are egg drop, barge building, airplane building, building robots and use probes. Engage classes start at the beginning of the school year. At BCS there is two 7th grade/ 8th grade math teachers. One is named Mrs. Olmsted. The other math teacher is Mrs. Huff. They eat snacks in 7/8 math just like they do in all the other grades. Also you don’t need a special kind of pencil any pencil will do, but for the MEAP you need a number two pencil. The MEAP is a district wide test. They learn algebra and most of the time they learn something new each day. They have 20 questions a day usually. It is only hard if you don’t listen. They use rulers and calculators. Yes, they do use technology. It is fun. BCS is a special school. One of the reasons it is special is because of 7/8 engage. Engage is a class based on 21st century learning. This wonderful class is taught by BCS teachers Roy Mccloud and Mat Brown. With interactive hands on experiments, engage rocks. In order to be a great class, the 7/8 students meet 4 times a week. Engage is so advanced, they don’t even use a book! If you are in 5/6 and you really want to participate, don’t worry. Do 5/6 engage! It is just as good. Sorry if you’re in 3/4. You are not allowed to participate because Engage requires advanced computer and software skills before you are recommended to apply for engage. In conclusion, apply for engage if you are of age!
 * 5/6 Engage **
 * 7/8 math **
 * 7/8 Engage ** [[image:20081028_010.jpg width="234" height="117" align="left"]]

In the swimming pool Mr. Johanson teaches front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke, and elementary backstroke. The swimming teacher has been teaching for 7 years, bu t this is the first year he is teaching 3/4 graders in swimming. The only test they really take in swimming is the deep water test! In the deep water test, you test if you can swim in the deep water. There are kickboards, surfboards, noodles, balls, and much more. Kids switch from gym to swimming every 5 weeks. The locker rooms have fans, lockers, showers and more. In the gym there are so many games, including, jump rope, cat tail, hula hopes, soccer, basketball, football, and many more. Some tests are: mile run test, sit up test, shuttle run, sit and reach test, flex arm hang, right angle push up test, and much more. Mrs.Kelmigian is our teacher for gym! This is her first year teaching at Covington.
 * Gym /Swim **

At BCS there is a class called Eng Tech. Some of the projects the ¾ students do in Eng Tech is building a moving vehicle and you build with K’nex .You make a lot of fun stuff in Eng Tech. In 5/6 Eng Tech you make simple machin In Eng. Tech. (engineering technology) we do different things every two years. One year we do mass production, and one year we do structures. In the beginning we learn about the five simple machines. We build models out of K`NEX like elevators and fishing poles (etc). In mass production we vote on a model in 4 different classes. I  n the next semester we start too make the parts out of scratch from blocks of wood. Then when all of the pieces are made we assemble them to make the product. This is all done in an assembly line. When we make structures we make things like bridges, buildings and structures. We watch videos all about them. We make them out of K` Nex and legos. We have races on how fast and tall we can make them be. We have mini competitions on how long and sturdy they can be. The programs that the students use are PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Kid pix, wikis, Audacity, Inspiration, and digital cameras. The teachers provide each student with an e-mail address after they go over the Technology Acceptable Use policy and each student has signed the technology contract. The district also gives the students usernames. Each student’s password is unique. The Ed Tech teacher Miss Llewellyn has been teaching for 13 years. Ed Tech has been at this school for 10 years. In BCS there are 100 desk computers and 230 lap-tops. Each student’s username was created by the district. Their initials and numbers make up the username. The Ed Tech teacher’s names are Mrs. Truesdell and Miss Llewellyn. The brand of computers that BCS Ed tech is only tate in school. Ed tech is Fun because you lern loots of new things about computers. If you stare Ed tech, you will find that you want to tell People about Ed tech because you like it so much. When you are older you will find how Ed tech is a use your job or at home. If you are going to do something on the computer you will know how to do it because you did Ed tech. At Covington, or BCS, 4th graders have a regular Spanish  class two days a arn about the Spanish holidays, and study the words. They also play Spanish games. Here are some things student have to say. Christina 4th She is the greatest teacher ever.  week. The teachers name is Senora Geisler. In class, the students make projects, celebrate and le Daniel 4th She is  very relaxed, calm, nice, and she never yells. Rhys 4th She is a nice Spanish teacher. Ashley 4th She is spectacular! Tyler 4th She is the best spanish teacher ever! She learned Spanish when she was an adult. She loves her job.  BCS is one of the lucky schools that have morning announcements. Announcements start at 8:21. They come on every morning. The announcements take place In the Video Production Room. The announcements get on the T.V by a cord running from the VP Room to the Head End Room. Then, using a computer program, we make all the TVs in the school tune in to the announcements. It is a Choice Hour Monday through Friday. Announcements at BCS it is called BCS now. There are 8 people in on the announcements filmed by 2 cameras. The jobs in BCS now are Anchor//,// teleprompter, camera person, weather person, pledge and director. The people who run BCS NOW are, Mrs. Truesdell and Mr. Smith. Mrs. Truesdell is the Media Specialist and Mr. Smith is the technology person. Go to this site for more information http://digitalbcs.com/mc/pages/programs/bcs-now-news.php
 * E **** ngineering Technology **
 * Ed Tech **
 * Spanish **
 * BCS NOW **

** Art ** In art you get to do fun projects like making clay pots, drawing a snowy landscape, and making a wooden bird! They also have materials such as saws, drills, and all sorts of drawing materials. The teacher is Mr. Melton. He is very nice! You can also come in at lunch to do other fun activities if you like! He also has a choice hour called toy shop.  Lunch at BCS starts at 11:00 for the 3/4 grades, 11:55 for 5/6 grades, and 12:45 for 7/8 grades. Lunch last 40 minutes for all grades. The students can bring or buy lunch. The students can buy pizza every day in the lunch line. BCS serves a variety of things that includes burritos, bosco sticks, pasta, salads, french fries, and many more things. At lunch recess the students get to play on the playground and play games. Usually at recess the lunch aids and teachers are in charge of the kids. Graders go eat and go outside. Mr.Seley watches us. Mr. Goe, Mr. Joe, Mr. P and Mrs. Geisler also watch us. We eat in the cafeteria. Lunch at BCS starts at 11:00-11:40 for the 3/4 grades, 11:55 for 5/6 grades, and 12:45 for 7/8 grades. Lunch lasts 40 minutes for all ¾ grades. The students can bring or buy lunch. The students can buy pizza every day in the lunch line. BCS serves a variety of things that includes burritos, bosco sticks, pasta, salads, French fries, and many more things. At lunch recess the students get to play on the playground and play games. Usually at recess the lunch aids and teachers are in charge of the kids. We play: four square, swings, monkey bars, basketball, soccer and baseball. There are other things if you like to play in groups including ball tag. It is one of the best games to play if you like large group games. We have a playground outside at recess. We have a big cafeteria. We have a lot of fun games at recess. You can talk to your friends at recess. There are a lot of food in the cafeteria like bosco and pizza! Every day they have something new for lunch. To go out for recess you need to raise your hand and a lunch aid will say if you can go if your table is clean. After recess you have to go back to your classroom. Lunch at BCS starts at 11:00 for the 3/4 grades, 11:55 for 5/6 grades, and for 7/8 grades. Lunch last 40 minutes for all grades. The students can bring or buy lunch. The students can buy pizza every day in the lunch line. BCS serves a variety of things that includes burritos, bosco sticks, pasta, salads, french fries, and many more things. At lunch recess the students get to play on the playground and play games. Usually at recess the lunch aids and teachers are in charge of the kids. Lunch and recess are when the 3rd & 4th graders go eat and go outsid  e. Mr.Seley watches us. Mr. Goe, Mr. Joe, Mr. P and Mrs. Geisler also watch us. We eat in the cafeteria. The students can bring or buy lunch. The students can buy pizza every day in the lunch line. At lunch recess the students get to play on the playgro und and play games. Usually at recess the lunch aids and teachers are in charge of the kids. We play: four square, swings, monkey bars, basketball, soccer and baseball. There are other things if you like to play in groups including ball tag. It is one of the best games to play if you like large group games. 4-8 graders give a 2nd grader a tour at bcs. They tell them what they do at bcs. Ambassadors have to go there it is on Sunday November 9th .Do you get to eat food? You will get to eat food if you want to. You should wear nice clothes you give a 2nd grader the tour with his/her parents. You only give them a tour where 3/4 students go every day. Sometimes there is water fruit and cookies sometimes there is cider and donuts. BCS ambassadors are students in grades 4-8 who teachers pick to be trained to give tours of BCS. At the BCS Open House each ambassador is put with a family coming in the door to see BCS and together they take a tour of the sch  ool. We use kids as ambassadors because visitors like to talk to kids and to learn from them. Also, our students have the best understanding of what it is like to be a student there. That is the information families are interested in. There are lots of things in displ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> ay there and you will find them in the hallways, on tables, and on the walls. Grade 3-4 teachers pick 5 of their 4th graders each year. The ambassadors usually don’t miss work because their training is during lunch and the Open House is on a Sunday. Ambassadors only train before the Open House. This year ambassadors are meeting during lunch with Mrs. Frishman…four times for 4th graders and 3 times for older students. There are about 45 4th graders, about 50 5th graders and about 40 7th and 8th graders this year that are ambassadors. Ambassadors and Open House are important to BCS because it give <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 48pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Cambria;"> s more information to visitors and the important things about BCS. Ambassadors give the tours of BCS on the day of open house and sometimes after the BCS now in the in the morning. Open House started 13 years ago whe <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> n the school first opened. The ambassadors are picked from grades 4-8th to be ambassadors on Open House. Open House is an opportunity for BCS to showcase how we learn and how the teachers teach. On the day of open house the whole staff and Mr. Pugh, Mr. Heard, Mrs. Reepmeryer, and Mrs. Frishman help with Open House. For open house the students are told to wear a white top and black pants or skirt. There are many people involved from 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th. The 2008 Open House was on Sunday, November 9, 2008. Wacky Recess / Blast The counselors deal with a lot of pro <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> blems here at bcs and all of them is solved within a week because the counselors are so good. Did you know that? The counselors do more child work than paperwork. And our counselor Mr. Flatter teaches a choice hour called E3 squad it’s when you learn about the school compass and you think of things to help the environment so if you want your child to go here you should look at that choice hour also if someone’s picking on you I think you should go see a counselor because here your problems will be solved as soon as they can get to you. media type="file" key="custodians.wmv" <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> Our secretaries at BCS take care of parents, students and staff .The people who are in charge of the secretaries of this school are Mr.Heard and Mr.Pugh. Mrs.Best and Mrs.Battle work in the office in BCS. At BCS there are many secretaries involved. In fact Mrs.Best was absent last week and we had a substitute .Secretaries are usually in some type of office but our secretaries most of the time are running around the school for things like locker jams. Our secretary Mrs. Battle works from 7:00 am-4:00 pm .And that’s what I know about BCS secretaries .And they do a lot of paper work. And that’s what I know about secretaries. BCS secretaries enjoy helping people when they are sick or hurt. Secretaries work with all sorts of people. They work with parents, students, staff, and the visitors in the school. Secretaries solve all sorts of problems. Locker jams which are is always common. Sometimes students come to BCS secretaries just to chill out. They take care of medical problems and tell the parents if it is a serious one. They also h elp the staff when needed. They also help locate students during the school d <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> ay. They also make sure all students have something to eat during lunch. Secretaries are at their desk but are mostly in other parts of the building. They see the principals many times a day. They do a lot of paper work. BCS secretaries enjoy working at BCS. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;">
 * Lunch and Recess **
 * Open House / Ambassadors **
 * Counselors **
 * Custodians**
 * The Secretaries **

**Minds In Motion** At BCS there something called Minds in motion. Here some things about it. The day is May 14, 2009 but the day may change. Grades are 5-8 are involved. The types of movies variety from documentaries to music video. The month is May. Its location is in the Seaholm Little Theater. It is a Student video and animation festival. The kind of movie characters is Student video and animation festival. The kinds of characters used have to be Anything that is school appropriate. Also groups & families are encouraged. The amount of time for a movie is 5 minutes. The time it begins is at 7pm. They pick the winner with a panel of judges. The BCS band has been at BCS for the past 13 years. There are exactly 18 different band instruments. Some of the band instruments are oboe, clarinet, trumpet, flute and trombone. The Birmingham Covington School’s band <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 48pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Cambria;"> only performs at Covington school. The difference between band and orchestra is in band you blow into the instruments but in orchestra you strum them. The most popular instrument is the trumpet. The band is separated into 4 groups: 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade. The band classes meet on Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday the students might take home their instruments and practice and bring them back on Thursday. Some will leave them at school overnight. You sign up for band by enrolling at through the counseling office. The majority of the kids love BCS band. The beginning <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> class has a record sign up of 72 people. The band room cannot hold more than 75 people. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> Our group found out about kids club. We found out about kids club by giving them a letter. We found out your child will watch G rated movies. There are good snacks and lemonade. The kid’s club hours are 4 -6pm. Kids club is definitely a good place to be! <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri;">
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 * Kids Club **