September 24, 2025

JBN Newsletter 9.19.25

Principal’s Message

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All JBN events are on the JBN Parent calendar 

JB Nelson Families,

Thank you for attending our Curriculum Night on Tuesday! It was so exciting to see all of you here supporting your children in launching their learning year.​​​​​​​

Our biggest fundraiser of the year is right around the corner! Each year the JBN PTO holds a Jaguar Jog. This year’s theme matches our Wishtree theme  and is “We are Stronger Together”. The Jaguar Jog will be held on Thursday, October 2nd from 4:30-6:00.  Our students had a chance to design the t-shirt and this year’s winner Elena was very excited when she was chosen. 

The way this fundraiser works is that families collect donations on behalf of their child and then all families are invited to the free event where students can run and participate in fun activities along the way. There will be a former JB parent as a DJ and JB staff will participate in a race while wearing inflatable costumes as the opening to the event!

Here is the link to the shirt store and donation page. 

https://jbnpto.membershiptoolkit.com/jaguar-jog-store

Here is the main Jaguar Jog link with all of the other information. 

https://jbnpto.membershiptoolkit.com/fundraiser/3096

ALL wishes from students in kindergarten through Fifth grade were hung on our Wishtree this week! Check out the post on the JBN IG account! We hope your family is enjoying the book!

We will see you all on Monday where we will continue our “Mindful Monday” series for the year and we will continue to focus on Skills for Self Management.

As always, please make sure your child charges their Chromebook so they are ready for learning!

Mrs. Prentiss

S.E.L. (Social Emotional Learning)

School-Home connections to help students grow their SEL skills!

BPS Strategic Plan Priority 2, Strategy 3-Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs

BPS Strategic Plan Priority 2, Strategy 4-Family & Community Partnerships

All students at JBN learn about social emotional skills in their daily classroom meetings.

All teachers follow the District’s Portrait of a Graduate sequence grades K-5.

For the months of August and September our focus will be on Self Management.  

Self-management is the ability to control your actions, emotions, and thoughts to make good choices. It means staying calm when frustrated, focusing on tasks, and practicing self-discipline. When you use self-management, you can set goals, make plans, and keep trying—even when things are difficult. This skill helps with schoolwork, friendships, and handling challenges. Learning to pause, take deep breaths, and think before acting is a powerful way to grow and succeed!

Students are learning about classroom regulation spots to help with regulating emotions and behaviors in the classroom.   All classrooms at JBN have a regulation spot for students to use tools to help them regulate!  A strategy they learn about in the regulation spot are different breathing techniques. 

JBN PTO

All JBN events are on our:

 JBN Parent calendar 

BPS Strategic Plan Priority 2, Strategy 4-Family & Community Partnerships

PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) website

ALL JBN parents are automatically a part of the JBN PTO. 

BPS Strategic Plan Priority 2, Strategy 4-Family & Community Partnerships

The PTO will meet in the LRC at 6:30PM on:

August 19th

September 2nd

October 7th

November 4th

December 2nd

January 13th

February 10th

March 10th

April 14th

May 12th (Off campus)

 Meetings are in the LRC and childcare is provided. 

The PTO plans ALL JBN family events for the school year.

 “Like” JBN PTO on JBN PTO Facebook and read the weekly PTO newsletter sent to you via email.  


Backpack Mail

BPS101 often receives requests from community organizations to distribute informational fliers to students in their backpacks. In an effort to be environmentally conscientious, we use an electronic format to deliver this information, which we call “Backpack Mail.”

View the latest edition of Backpack Mail

UPCOMING EVENTS


No School-Spring Break

Thursday, Apr 2nd 9:00am

No School-Spring Break

Friday, Apr 3rd 9:00am

Institute Day-No School for Students

Monday, Apr 6th 8:00am

J.B. Nelson School