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I am happy to introduce this blog that hopefully will help you to get a better picture of day to day happenings at Bel Aire Park.  With our new theme of communication and media, I wanted to stretch my own learning using a communication tool that is new to me.  My hope is to capture meaningful moments during our days at school that will give parents and community members a taste of the wonderful things our students are doing and saying as they learn and discover their world.

Our theme this year is Find your voice; Tell your story so I will attempt to give voice to our students' stories.  One of my favorite poets is Langston Hughes and I will share his poem again that I shared at Back to School Night: 

Final Curve

 When you turn the corner
And run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left.

I think that to really become who we are meant to be, we have to keep turning new corners and finding new things to discover.  This is my goal for our learning this year.  More to come....

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