
Busbee's 12 Days 'Til Winter Break is going on now! Tomorrow (Friday) is Santa's Helpers day--dress like an elf or in stripes!


Join us at Busbee for our Holiday Music Specials on Friday, December 13! 🎶🎤
2nd/3rd grade-8:30-9:00 am
5k/1st grade- 9:30-10:00 am
4th/5th grade-10:30-11:00 am
4k's celebration is December 19.


Busbee's 12 days 'Til Winter Break starts tomorrow! Remember to wear red or green!


Mark your calendars for Thursday, December 12!
That's our Busbee Literacy Night, PTO night, and Fall Blood Drive. Literacy Night and PTO will be from 5-7 pm with pizza being served, and Shepeard will be here for the Blood Drive from 2-7 pm. Make plans to join us!


Just a reminder that Lions Club Vision Screening is at Busbee tomorrow. This is a free service that uses photo-screening technology to detect potential vision problems. If you do not want your child screened, simply send a note in tomorrow with your student or send a message to your child's teacher via Thrillshare.

A few things for this upcoming week:
-Lions Club will be at Busbee for free vision screenings on Tuesday, December 3. They use a photo-screening instrument to take a picture of your child's eyes to screen for risk factors or vision problems. This is a great service and we are thankful for the Lions Club providing it to our students! If you do NOT want your child to be screened, please send in a note with your student or call the school tomorrow at (839) 846-7008 if you have any questions.
-MAP testing will begin this week .Please make sure students are on-time and well-rested!
-Our 12 Days 'Til Winter Break begins Thursday, December 5 with Red and Green Day! Go ahead and save the image on this post so you'll have all of the days easily accessible!
We hope everyone had plenty of turkey, and we can't wait to see you tomorrow!




This morning we are #ThankfulAtBusbee for the opportunity to have students serve on the Superintendent's Advisory Council!
This year we are represented by Elynn and Ethan Ewing who are 3rd graders here at Busbee. This is a great opportunity for our students to show leadership skills, meet other students in the district, and share their ideas with district leaders! 🐾💙💚


Next up for our #ThankfulAtBusbee is our sponsors of the Golden Harvest Spooky to Be Hungry barrel decorating competition!
Each year we like to have a little fun for the adults to see which team can decorate the best barrels. This year, 2nd grade was a hands-down winner with their Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch barrels. They won lunch, provided by Jordan Blackwell, owner of JH Photography and Ben Blackwell, owner of Compton's Construction!
We are so thankful for the 2nd grade team's hard work and our sponsors!









We are also #ThankfulAtBusbee for our Principal, Mr. Matthews. Mr. Matthews makes us laugh everyday and always has a positive outlook for us to consider. We are so blessed to have him at Busbee 🐾💙










We are also #ThankfulAtBusbee for our Teaching and Learning Committee who sponsored a writing competition this month. The prompt asked students to write about the greatest gift they ever received. Here's the winners from each grade with their certificate and gift card to Nona and Pops! 5k: Solomon, 1st Grade: Linkin, 2nd Grade: Elizabeth, 3rd: Khatari, 4th Grade: Brandon, 5th Grade: Patricia Way to go Bulldogs! 🐾💙🌟





We hope all our Busbee families are enjoying your Thanksgiving! Here's a few "turkey projects" that our 4k-1st grade students worked on this year! #ThankfulAtBusbee 🐾💙🦃











Next for #ThankfulAtBusbee is our PTO who does so much for us!
This week they provided our soup/grilled cheese lunch and all the fixings. They also worked with Ms. Jackie Busbee to sponsor the pies. 🥧🍴
Last week, they sponsored and worked the ice cream party for all of our students as a reward for meeting our goal for the Spooky to Be Hungry Food Drive 🍦🥫
Big hugs to our Busbee PTO! We are thankful for you!











We at Busbee have some catching up to do on our posting, and Thanksgiving Break is the perfect time for that! We are going to try to post 24 things (since it's 2024) we are thankful for over the break!
Be sure to look for #ThankfulAtBusbee posts over the next five days 💙🐾

We will start our #ThankfulAtBusbee posts with our 5 nominees for Teacher of the Year! These teachers are SUPERSTARS of Busbee, and we are thankful for all they do for our students and community! Join us in celebrating our teachers Amber Payne (5k), Jennifer Starnes (2nd), Julie Corbett (2nd), Lynn Sawyer (5k), and Tammy Swartz (4th) 🌟🐾💙🌟






Next up for our #ThankfulAtBusbee is our 6 nominees for the Giving Even More Employee of the Year! A school takes a village of people to run smoothly, and these staff members are the backbone of our school! Without them we would probably fall apart 🫠
Please join us in celebrating our excellent staff: Briana Leach (SPED), Shelly Leach (Interventionist), Helen Ware (Food Service), Edith Walker-Reed (Front Office), not pictured: Caitlin Poole (Nurse) and Stefanie Douglas (Bookkeeper). 🌟🐾💙🌟





Our Busbee pledge leaders this week and next are Khatari, HJ, and Dallis Kate. These third graders were recognized by the teachers for always doing a great job saying the pledges! 🐾❤️🇺🇸💙


Take a behind-the-scenes look at acGATEWAY in these videos created with last summer's students, get your application in, and get ready to audition for an experience unlike any other. Middle and High School acGATEWAY Student Video: https://youtu.be/qVQxpUwGcCk Elementary acGATEWAY Student Video: https://youtu.be/m1w8D-ScAX8 Applications for new and returning students are due by December 9. https://www.acpsd.net/page/gateway


Take a behind-the-scenes look at acGATEWAY in these videos created with last summer's students, get your application in, and get ready to audition for an experience unlike any other.
Middle and High School acGATEWAY Student Video: https://youtu.be/qVQxpUwGcCk
Elementary acGATEWAY Student Video: https://youtu.be/m1w8D-ScAX8
Applications for new and returning students are due by December 9. https://www.acpsd.net/o/district/page/summer-acagateway-program


This week's pledge leaders were Bryson, Kylee, and Chaunce. They were wonderful!! They said the pledges slowly and deliberately, and the entire school was able to keep up! Great job Bulldogs! 🐾💙🇺🇸


AC Gateway Summer Program Deadline is December 9. 2024.