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Beacon Tree Elementary School
55885 Schoenherr Road, Shelby Twp., MI 48315-1049
(586) 797-7300 Attendance Line (586)797-7399
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May 2017
Inside this issue:
School Information 2-3
Honor Roll 4-5
BTV 6-7
Send Money To School 8
Dear Beacon Tree Families,
May is here, and hopefully that means that the good weather is here to stay too! There
are a lot of activities that go on during the month, so please make sure that you check
out the classroom calendars and the school calendar on the Beacon Tree website for all
of the activities that are planned!
M-Step has been moving forward very smoothly. Our 5th grade students have complet-
ed their assessments and the 3rd, 4th, and 6th graders are getting underway with theirs.
Please make sure that you check with your classroom teachers on when your child will
be testing. Each teacher has the schedule, and we want to make sure that all of our All
Stars are ready to put forth their best efforts on test dates. We are very proud of the
determination and resilience that your children show during the testing window. This
is just one of the many reasons that our students stand above the others, they are truly
“All Stars”.
May also will bring the final assessment window for NWEA. Students have already
been assessed twice this year to monitor growth, and later this month they will be as-
sessed one final time. We are looking to see some wonderful growth from all of our
students when the assessment window closes in early June.
Please know that classroom placements for the 2017 – 2018 school year begin to take
place during the later portion of the month. The teachers take into consideration a mul-
titude of different information when it comes to placing students. Like last year, please
refrain from letters of request. Our highly qualified staff takes pride in the placing of
students, and do their best to select the appropriate learning environment. The staff
and I appreciate your cooperation with this endeavor.
Finally… Thank you to everyone who participated in our Science and Art Fair! We had
a great showing of children and their families during our evening extravaganza! I
would like to say thank you to Mrs. Dobis, Mrs. Henion, and Mrs. Cusumano for their
efforts in organizing the evening, and guiding your children to great things in the Arts
and Sciences! Thank you also to Mrs. Tobey, Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Uitos, Mrs. Sapienza
and Mrs. Spasenovski for their help with all of the art work.
I hope that all of you have a fun and relaxing month of May!
Mr. Ellis Principal
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If you need to contact us… Main Office 797-7300 Absence Line 797-7399 Child Care 797-7314 Fax Machine 797-7301
School Hours Grades K-6 9:00-3:50 p.m. Children will not be allowed to enter the building until 8:50 a.m. each morning. Please help your children time their arrival accordingly. Children who must arrive earlier need to be enrolled in our Child Care program. Please contact the office for more information.
Absences To report your child’s absence, please call our
answering machine at 586-797-7399. When
you place your call please clearly state your
child’s name, teacher, reason for, and length of
absence. The answering machine will take at-
tendance calls 24 hours a day.
Career Focus Luncheon The 24
th Career Focus Luncheon for all district sixth
graders will be held on Wednesday and Thursday,
May 3 and May 4, 2017 at the Palazzo Grande in
Shelby Township. The annual event is sponsored
by the Utica Community Schools Foundation.
Parents are invited to sponsor a table and share
their career and college experience. For more in-
formation, please visit the Foundation’s website at
www.ucsfoundation.org or call 586.797.6953. The
UCS Foundation for Educational Excellent is an in-
dependent 501(c)(3) organization comprised of
community volunteers.
Lunch (11:30-1:25) Students may either bring their own lunch to
school or purchase a hot lunch.
Lunch w/ milk is $2.75. Stu-
dents may purchase just milk for
45 cents. Please review the
monthly hot lunch menu on Beacon
Tree’s new web page under Parents—
Food Service Menu with your child. It is
very important that students who wish to pur-
chase hot lunch order the day before. New
lunch schedule: Grades K-11:30-12:10, 2nd-
11:40-12:20, 5th-12:00-12:40, 1st-12:05-
12:45, 6th-12:25-1:05, 4th-12:30-1:10, 3rd-
12:50-1:30. All students will eat lunch for 20
minutes before going out to lunch recess for
20 minutes.
Nut Safe Rooms
Should your child be placed in a nut safe room,
there are a few simple things you
can do to help us to ensure a safe
environment for the student(s) with a
nut allergy. A letter will be sent
home the first day of school to outline those
items. Most importantly we must require no
homemade bake or commercially prepared
bakery treats to be brought to school.
Background Check
To protect students’ health, safety and welfare,
every volunteer must have a Criminal Back-
ground form on file well in advance of volun-
teering their assistance at school or school-
related events. UCS conducts criminal back-
ground checks on volunteers through the Mich-
igan State Police. The form, which asks for
basic information such as driver’s license num-
ber, is available through the office.
Parking Lot Safety The area along the curb in front of the school is
a bus drop-off area and is also a fire route. For
the safety of our children and all our community,
do not park or leave your car standing in this no
parking area, even during after-school and
evening activities.
When picking up your child at the end of the day,
please arrange a meeting place by
the school entrance, then provide a
safe escort to your car. With heavy
pedestrian, bus, and car traffic, it is
crucial that children remain next to
adults while in the parking lot, and
that cars and vans always look twice, then a third
time before backing out of a space.
Automated Telephone
Alert System in Place for UCS Parents The Utica Community Schools is taking ad-
vantage of technology innovations by using an
automated telephone notification system for
staff and parents. The system is used to an-
nounce emergency school closings such as
those related to weather. Individual buildings
also use it for periodic school-specific updates
and reminders.
Please make sure that your child’s emergency
contact information is up-to-date to assure you
receive these important updates. The district will continue to utilize local media,
UCS-TV cable stations 15/22 and the district
website, www.uticak12.org to keep parents ap-prised of closings.
In addition, Mr. Ellis will use the automated sys-
tem to inform the community of Beacon Tree
events.
Administration of Medication
Students sometimes need to take medication.
Parents should administer medica-
tion to their children at home. In
the event that is not possible, the
school may administer either pre-
scription or non-prescription medi-
cine – but only when authorized by
the students parent/guardian and the child’s phy-
sician. Requests must be made by completing
an Authorization for Medication form, available
from the school office. The form must be signed
by the child’s physician.
Top Ten Reasons to Keep Your
Child Home from School
Fever over 99.0 F in the last 24 hours
Vomiting in the last 24 hours
Diarrhea in the last 24 hours
Unexplained rash following a fever
Open and draining lesion that is un-treated
Head lice and/or nits
Uncontrolled cough
Drainage from eyes
Earache or discharge from ears
Weekends and holidays!
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Raymond Abi Younes
Boban Acovski
Gino Addelia
William Addelia
Giovanna Agnello
Sammy Agnello
Vanessa Agnello
Vanessa Aiuto
Steven Akers
Jackson Akey
Milan Aksovski
Georgia Alexopoulos
Kristina Andriolo
Salvo Andriolo
Calvin Ankawi
Colin Arce
Diego Arce
Evan Asmar
Keira Auito
Daniela Avara
Martina Avara
Skylar Bakun
Emily Barber
Ethan Barber
Olivia Barel
Jack Barrette
Stamatia Bastounis
Sevanna Beh
Lauren Belcoure
Madison Belisle
Presley Bell
Hailey Bennett
Josh Bennett
Olivia Bennett
Luke Bernardi
Denver Billy
Joshua Binkley
Isabella Blanchett
Preston Blotsky
Ryan Boardman
Louis Boby
Sherin Boby
Ava Boiani
John Boiani
Andrew Boice
Kara Boice
Ava Borngesser
Ivona Boskovic
Stefan Boskovic
Brandon Bourgeois
Tallulah Boyette
Harrison Brown
Nicholas Brundirks
Evan Bruss
Jason Bruss
Katie Bruzdewicz
Gabriel Bugnariu
Ava Burman
Isabella Camaj
Chloe Cantin
Jack Carpenter
Sam Carpenter
Gabriella Carriere
Jonathan Carter
Brooklyn Cattaneo
Audrey Cetnar
Ava Ciarkowski
Justin Ciarkowski
Gabrielle Cicchitti
Cameron Cihone
Riley Cihone
Alyssa Clark
Colin Clark
Audrey Clor
Connor Clor
Emmerson Clor
Kellen Condon
Kylie Condon
Lauren Conley
Emily Cook
Jason Corbin
Leah Corbin
Luke Cottingham
Kendall Culpert
Brendan Danko
Daniella Danko
Kendall Danko
Xander Danko
Nikolas David
Jaren Davis
Michael Davis
Xander Davis
Izabella deCardenas
Rickel Decker
Samantha Decker
Grace DeJong
Jack DeLaudurantaye
Matthew DeLaudurantaye
Griffin DeMasse
Jackson DeMasse
Mia DeMasse
Nadya DeRosa
Kylie Dex
Anabella Dicicco
Cosimo Dicicco
Gabi DiCosmo
Olivia Dimitrijevski
Carlo DiNello
Cvetan Djelovski
Jack Dobbie
Sophia Dobbie
Everett Dubay
Keaton Duda
Elizabeth Dunn
Austin Duong
Thuong Duong
Luke Durecki
Rachel Durecki
Liliana Dushaj
Michael Dziadula
Matthew Elechion
Donovan Erfourth
Aiden Evans
Andrew Ewald
Gina Fedrigo
Rocco Fedrigo
Leo Finazzo
Elisha Finitzer
Sarah Finitzer
Amelia Fisk
Gavin Frandle
Natalie Frazier
Nicholas Frazier
Madeleine Frechette
Brendan Froberger
Brayden Gabriel
Trevin Gabriel
Matteo Galui
Jackson Gano
Christopher Gay
Liliana Gegovic
Lydia Gerdes
Dominic Geric
Nina Geric
Braylen Germann
Ella Giacalone
Anthony Gogo
Ava Gojcaj
Gabriella Gojcaj
Jaiden Goldsmith
Jasmyn Goldsmith
Sydney Gower
Alexis Graye
Kaitlyn Graye
Ashley Greenwood
Timothy Gregory
Brady Grimes
Daniel Grishaj
Kaitlyn Grishaj
Nathan Guty
Evan Haines
Ryan Hall
Juliana Hebeka
Makayla Henderson
Alora Hogsten
Michael Holness
Austin Howell
Eddie Howell
Presley Howitt
Melanija Ilijevski
Giovanna Ioco
Gabriella Irvin
Caitlin Ivey
Josephine Irvin
Nathan Jackson
Joshua Jacobs
Carmela Jakaj
Sydney Jaron
Layla Jerinic
Lilliana Jerinic
Sophia Jirjis
Stephan Jirjis
Gabby Johnson
Brady Johnston
Andriana Jucaj
Fiona Juncaj
Selina Juncaj
Angjelina Kalaj
Jozef Kalaj
Mario Kalaj
Olivia Kaltz
Ella Kane
Emmett Kane
Julia Kass
Mekhi Kattula
Angelina Kempf
Bettina Kildani
Raegan King
Olivia Kirk
Isabella Koljcevic
Camryn Konczalski
Carson Konczalski
Costa Koupparis
Daniel Kraemer
Giana Krstovski
Jacob Kuzera
Giana Lafata
Jaren Lamb
Olivia Larente
Faith Lee
Austin LeMerise
Brianna LeMerise
Brooklyn LeMerise
Avery Lemley
Brayden Lemley
Michael Leone
Philip Leone
Alex Lesperance
Jacob Lewis
Jake Longo
Landon Loose
Ava Lovell
Noah Lucaj
Megan Lucas
Isabella Lulgjuraj
Anthony Mancani
Gabby Mancani
Ernest Mangiapane
Sofia Manzella
Gianluca Manzo
Alek Markovski
Kelvin Marku
Aubrey Marshall
Maria Marques
Cash Marzorati
Eva Matoski
Alex Mattia
Jonathan McCamley
Jackson McHale
Aidan McPeek
Maria Mikhail
Mia Militello
Jack Miller
Jackson Miller
Boban Milovanovski
Danica Milovanovski
Lauren Moffatt
Addison Mondoux
Elizabeth Moodie
Megahn Moore
Patrick Moss
Alisa Muirhead
Greg Munn
Ethan Mychajluk
Sydney Nguyen
Lila Niespolo
Domanik Nikolovski
Matthew Nizio
DeMya Noble
Rachel Nugent
Alana O’Brien
Evan O’Brien
Emma O’Connor
Jacob O’Connor
Emilio Oddo
Gwendolyn Olson
Gabriella Opoka
Nicholas Opperman
Kaden Orlando
Scarlett Page
Vito Palazzolo
Devin Palczewski
Christopher Palm
Kyla Palzewski
Neyha Panicker
Riya Panicker
Alexander Parker
Joshua Pauline
Dhilan Pawa
Blake Peardon
Luke Peardon
Marena Peraino
Marissa Peraino
Katelynn Perry
Joshua Pesch
Sean Pesch
Liz Petrella
Aimee Pilat
Gigi Platevoet
Alexis Pokley
Ryan Polisei
William Polisei
Claire Ponzio
Gisella Prohm
Riley Quirk
Wyatt Rathka
Autumn Reed
Luke Richter
Ava Romano
Luke Rowoldt
Zachary Rude
Brody Rundell
Dawson Russell
Jonathan Russell
Keira Russell
Olivia Russo
Nadia Ruvolo
Gabriella Sadowski
Summer Samolej
Eileen Santana
Marco Santana
Giuseppe Sapienza
Rosalinda Sapienza
Kelly Sargee
Lexi Scholten
Maya Scholten
Luke Schulte
Lauren Schwarz
Madilyn Sengstock
Noah Sheridan
Rylie Sheridan
Kayla Siladke
Dominick Silveri
Ella Smith
Katryna Smith
Silas Smith
Violet Smith
Ashleigh Sondey
Jonathan Sondey
Riley Spevacek
Kristian Srbinovski
Kaitlyn Stafford
Adrianna Stamevski
Abigayle Steele
Alexander Steele
Antonio Sterjoski
Jelena Stojanoski
Isabella Stojanovski
Sanya Stojanovski
Tony Stojanovski
Davis Studer
Paul Summers
Grayson Sutherland
Lauren Tabbi
Noah Taveggia
Benjamin Taylor
Connor Tedford
McKenna Timm
Zachary Tobey
Nathan Tocco
Preston Toutant
Ava Tow
Alexa Tozzi
Ava Tragle
Connor Tran
Lila Trexler
Alex Tur
Jacob Tur
Larsen Uitos
Makeah Uitos
Alexis Urbano
Joshua Urbano
Cesare Valenti
Davide Valenti
Sam Valenti
Liliana Valenza
Katie Van De Winkle
Luca Vano
Ava VanWambeke
Antonio Ventimiglia
Jerry Ventimiglia
Stamatios Vlahos
Stefanos Vlahos
Haley Wallace
Abryana Walleman
Kieryn Walleman
Kendra Walsh
Carson Walters
Jacob Walters
Reegan Wardzinski
Michael Waring
Calvin Warner
Ethan Warren
Daniel Waterstradt
Aaron White
Brian White II
Joshua White
Elizabeth Wieczorek
Melanie Williams
Tyler Wisniewski
Karoline Woch
Skyler Wolfe
Kylie Wozniak
Molly Yeske
Nate Yestrepsky
Alanna Yousif
Brady Zawierucha
Milana Zdravkovic
Zoe Zeiser
BT3 Recognition for
the month of
March
Kindergarten:
Mrs. Frazier - William Durecki
Mrs. Froberger - Ava Bugnariu
Mrs. Hamerink – Tanner Losinski
Mrs. Speshock - Mila Sibinovic
First Grade:
Ms. Alderman - Ava Khami
Mrs. Hansen - Madyson Smith
Mrs. Kleinschmit - Avery Prebay
Mrs. Marnon - Lia Fedrigo
Second Grade:
Mrs. Cusumano - Nathan Sheridan
Mrs. Dex - Lyna Nguyen
Mrs. Evans - Adriana Avara
Mrs. Orlando - Melina Pham
Third Grade:
Mrs. Allen - Rylie Sheridan
Mrs. Greenwood - Josie Irvin
Mrs. Henion - Michael Leone
Mrs. Palmer - Emmerson Clor
Fourth Grade:
Mrs. Bourgeois - Gavin Frandle
Mrs. Lovell - Riley Quirk
Mr. Scholten - Anthony Mancani
Mrs. Vincler - Raegan King
Fifth Grade:
Mrs. Buczak - Gabriella Opoka
Mrs. Gower - Eileen Santana
Mrs. Nebel - Rosalinda Sapienza
Mrs. Pierfelice - Aiden Evans
Sixth Grade:
Mrs. Allington - Alexis Graye
Mrs. Blomme - Stamatia Bastounis
Mr. Nebel - Ava Gojcaj
Mrs. Ouellette - Riley Cihone
BT3 Recognition for
the month of
April
Kindergarten:
Mrs. Frazier - Grace Jozefiak
Mrs. Froberger - Sophia Decker
Mrs. Hamerink – Kaylie Brunson
Mrs. Speshock - Harrison Pytel
First Grade:
Ms. Alderman - Roshan Sounder
Mrs. Hansen - Dylan Bruss
Mrs. Kleinschmit - Lucas Woodcox
Mrs. Marnon - Alyssa Jakimovski
Second Grade:
Mrs. Cusumano - Maya Fuca
Mrs. Dex - Gavin Licavoli
Mrs. Evans - Brady Carpenter
Mrs. Orlando - Isabella Khami
Third Grade:
Mrs. Allen - Zoki Tomoski
Mrs. Greenwood - Kaitlyn Stafford
Mrs. Henion - Rachel Dureki
Mrs. Palmer - Andrew Boice
Fourth Grade:
Mrs. Bourgeois - Sydney Nguyen
Mrs. Lovell - Stephan Jirjis
Mr. Scholten - Maria Marques
Mrs. Vincler - Conner Tran
Fifth Grade:
Mrs. Buczak - Nicholas Opperman
Mrs. Gower - Ethan Warren
Mrs. Nebel - Matthew DeLadurantaye
Mrs. Pierfelice - Daniella Danko
Sixth Grade:
Mrs. Allington - Alexa Tozzi
Mrs. Blomme - Martina Avara
Mr. Nebel - Michael Waring
Mrs. Ouellette - Kristina Andriolo