PAWS is all about amplifying the learning and engaging activities happening at our school. Picture this - a group of enthusiastic and creative students coming together with a common goal: to share “PAWSitive Prints" with our Helotes community! PAWS is not just any ordinary club, but a student public relations club that aims to spread the positive things happening at Helotes Elementary! PAWS will focus on making a real impact with students, staff, parents, and our community!
November: ClassDojo Island Dream School Challenge Finalists
Students from Ms. Bickley’s 4th grade class entered the ClassDojo #dojoislandsdreamschool Challenge!!! Their dream school included so many fun and engaging learning zones, including: a playground with a water park, Ms. Bickley’s classroom, a teacher’s lounge, a gym with a pool and hot tub, a gaming room for individual and team play, a student chill space, multimedia center, movie theater, AND a food court with a KFC, McDonald’s, and Chick-fil-A!!!
This challenge was right up their alley! They LOVE being creative and LOVE Dojo Island! They found the most challenging part was building the floors. Conlin said, “We wanted them to be really colorful and fun, but we found out that it took quite a bit of our time designing just the floors! Next time, we think we would go with solid color floors, so we would have more time to work on other details in our dream school.” Lily added, “We also thought building additional floors was really challenging. We were able to do it in a couple of our rooms, but it was tricky trying to balance on one block, so we kept falling off.” Finally, they figured out if you made a platform to build from that was bigger, it was much easier!
Ms. Bickley put the students into four different zones and they had 5-6 students working in each zone. It was easy to communicate with those groups, but when it came to BIGGER decisions like hallways, it was a bit more complicated. “We did figure it out, but we had some trial and error putting up walls and then having to take them down, add hallways, and build them back.” said Jack.
The winning class of the ClassDojo #dojoislandsdreamschool Challenge would get to meet with the designers of Dojo Island! Ms. Bickley’s students decided one thing they would have loved to ask the Dojo Island design team was if their islands could be BIGGER!!! They want more space to build. “We have so many more ideas for our school and a larger island would be AWESOME!” the class shared.
Ms. Bickley’s class did not win the overall challenge, BUT they were finalists in the ClassDojo Dream School Build Challenge!!!
That means they were 1 out of 8 out of 16,000 classrooms chosen as finalists!!!
By Dash Kessler and Ms. Bickley
"Kindergarten at Helotes" 1-19-2024
"Kindergarten at Helotes"
Hosts:
Ms. Bickley - PAWS Sponsor, 4th Grade Teacher
Ashleigh - PAWS Student
Ben - PAWS Student
Guests:
Mrs. Tracy - Kindergarten Teacher
Mrs. Murowski - Kindergarten Teacher
Jace - Student
Cici - Student
"Bulldogs ❤️ Making PAWsitive Prints" 1-30-2024
"Bulldogs ❤️ Making PAWsitive Prints"
Hosts: Ms. Bickley - PAWS Sponsor, 4th Grade Teacher
Lena - PAWS Student
Lyla - PAWS Student
Ashleigh - PAWS Student
Callen - PAWS Student
Avery - PAWS Student
Bulldogs ❤️ Reading 2-19-2024
Bulldogs ❤️ Reading
Hosts: Ms. Bickley - PAWS Sponsor, 4th Grade Teacher
Sarai - PAWS Student
Gabby - PAWS Student
Guest:
Mrs. Elizondo - Helotes Elementary School Librarian
KAMP at Helotes Elementary 5-3-2024
KAMP at Helotes Elementary
Hosts: Ms. Bickley - PAWS Sponsor, 4th Grade Teacher
Killian - PAWS Student
Lily - PAWS Student
Ben - PAWS Student
Guest:
Mrs. Williams - Helotes Elementary Gifted and Talented Teacher
Cafeteria Crew Chat 5-22-2024
Hosts:
Ms. Bickley - PAWS Sponsor, 4th Grade Teacher
Killian - PAWS Student
Dash - PAWS Student
Valentina - PAWS Student
Camilla - PAWS Student
Alyssa - PAWS Student
Guest:
Ms. Board - Helotes Elementary Cafeteria Manager
Ms. Jay - Cafeteria Crew
Ms. Amor - Cafeteria Crew
Mr. George - Cafeteria Crew (Mr. George was not able to join us for the recording, but we so appreciate everything he does as part of the cafeteria crew!)
Bulldog Custodial Babble
Hosts:
Ms. Bickley - PAWS Sponsor, 4th Grade Teacher
Avery - PAWS Student
Lyla - PAWS Student
Kayla - PAWS Student
Sarai - PAWS Student
Ashleigh - PAWS Student
Guest:
Mr. Kevin - Helotes Elementary Head Custodian
Ms. Noemi - Custodian
Ms. Blanca - Custodian
Mr. Oscar - Custodian
Mr. Tony - Custodian (Mr. Tony was not able to join us for the recording, but we so appreciate everything he does as part of the custodial crew!)
Welcome to the PAWS Podcast
11-07-24 "Welcome to the PAWS Podcast"
Hosts:
Ms. Bickley - PAWS Sponsor, 3rd Grade Teacher
Avery - PAWS Student
Dash - PAWS Student
Caleb - PAWS Student
Skylar - PAWS Student
Eva - PAWS Student
