Great Things Come to Those Who Wait......

Wow! We have waited all year to begin Jr. Achievement. This is a program that we (Mrs. Rowan and Mrs. Yadon) both think highly of. It encourages our students to think, plan, and solve real-world problems. In addition, it teaches teamwork, respect, and motivation!

Mr. Pritchard (our Jr. Achievement volunteer) came out today to get things started for us! We had a great time working in teams and starting a business!

We can't wait to dive into this new unit of study!

Healthy Items Needed for Our Classroom!

Please send in the following items:

Hand Sanitizer
1 Container of Disinfecting Wipes
Tissues

Classroom Supplies:

1 Ream of White Copy Paper
Chisel Tip Markers
Pencils

Thank You!

A Bloggy Break?- NOT! Just a lot of Fun Going ON!

Well, we have been absent a few days in the Blogger world! What have we been up to you ask? Well like our beloved Principal, Mrs. Kornblum, we have been sliding downhill fast just trying to hang on! Mrs. Rowan finished school on April 19th, and is waiting for her dissertation to move through IRB. There have been at least a million things going on! For starters we are at the end of the year.. and it gets a little crazy! Then throw in new patrol selection, current patrol act ivies, a carnival, American Grandstand, and other random activities and you have had 2 very busy teachers! Just when we thought we might have a normal day, Mrs. Yadon took off to the symphony with the chorus and Orf members for some spectacular music! The rest of us took rotations on the computers, worked on healthy posters, and had some sustained silent reading! Whew! Has it ever been busy! (Not to mention Patrol Appreciation Day last Saturday in which eleven of our patrols placed 2nd overall in the competition! We rocked it out!) Oh Yeah!
Enjoy some pictures from Friday, and I will try to catch up our Saturday and Monday pictures Tuesday!

Mrs. Kornblum kicks off the start of our carnival! The other side of this is a ROCK CLIMBING WALL! Yes she did it!

It was great to see the size of the mounted unites! Unbelievable! And that is our very own Jessica Smith (from Southside Business Men's Club) who organized all the police and fire displays! Bo and Thelma (JSO Bloodhounds) came out to enjoy the festivities!

A huge thanks to PTA for paying for the inflatables and for Patrols for assisting with them! Everyone was safe and had a blast!

It was a great time at the carnival with all the FREE games hosted by the different grade levels and teachers!

Mr. and Mrs. Ramaman enjoy a FREE night out! (Yes, that is an egg crate on her head!)

Stewie arrives for an afternoon of fun! His parents were not too far behind!

Briley and Angel enjoy some face painting! Thanks Ms. Robinson and Mrs. Schmidt

Boris enjoying a FREE snowcone and playing a FREE game. (Something about finding a worm in the ground... not being able to use your hands! Great game, Great FUN!

The cake walk was a HIT I tell YOU!!! We had well over 100 items donated and the kids kept coming! It was great! Thanks to our great parents and staff at Beauclerc! You guys just rocked it out BIG TIME!

Mrs. Fleming and Mr. Underkofler "slopping slaw and beans"

Believe it or not, it was after 7:00 in this picture! Can you believe it??? The sun was still shining on our grand 'ol time!

Oh my have we had a grand time lately! It has been crazy busy and hectic in Room 138. This time of the year in 5th grade goes by so fast! With just 28 days left in the school year it is hard to remember what we did 5 minutes ago! We have had many special activities going on in and around the school, so both of us have been extremely busy!

I think we are finally back on KILTER! Hang-on it is bound to be a thrilling finish in 5th grade!

San Jose Country Club & Classroom Happenings!

We were lucky to be asked to participate in the Southside Business Men's Youth Achiever Program (YAP) this year again! For our efforts out patrols were treated to a lunch of chicken fingers and french fries! They even had ice cream and brownies for dessert! Tonight both groups will work in conjunction to bring us the Chicken Dinners for our FREE family fun night!

We have also been very busy with Math Investigations! Our Patterns of Change Unit allows the students to work with patterns. Some of them created quite the challenging pattern! Here are some of us presenting our patterns to the class.
Not only did you have to draw the pattern, you then had to show us (via the table) the formula with the table!
We also agreed on a new seating arrangement! We still have a lot of noise, but HEY, who has a quiet classroom anymore?

We love the Leap Frog Station! It has been popular as a center this year. Thanks Mrs. Plish for letting us use your books! We will be looking for replacements this summer!
And another thing we have really enjoyed this year is the newspaper! I hope you can talk your parents into getting a subscription at home!
Tyree is busy working on a leveled reader in Science! We are still working to increase our reading and comprehension skills!
Emily and Allison have set-up a worm experiment! It has been interesting to say the least! We had a few that escaped (and it was a terrible death for those worms!)
Today we realized we have 29 days left of meaningful instruction! It has been busy in here! We are wrapping up many things, and getting ready to start our International Vacation Project! Teams were set-up and countries will be picked today. Make sure you leave May 22nd open and join us for our International Vacation Pot Luck!

Get Ready - A F-R-E-E Night of Fun!

We are so excited that Friday is finally here! We have worked really hard with the Southside Business Men's Club, PTA, Patrols, and other teachers at Beauclerc to make Beauclerc Family Fun Night a FREE event for the parents and students at Beauclerc Elementary School!

We will even have some walk-up chicken dinners for sale!

So come on out and enjoy a beautiful Spring evening of fun!

The Busiest Time of the Year!

Wow! Is it already April 21st? My how time is flying by! In just 32 days we will end our time in fifth grade! But, we still have a lot of activities and scheduled events yet to come! We had a really sweet treat Friday, (Thanks Ms. Wynn!) It was Cinnamon's birthday! The ice cream and cup cakes were a big hit!


Lakia also had a birthday last week!
Happy Birthday Cinnamon!

Don't miss out on Beauclerc Family Fun Night Friday. We are looking forward to having a great time!

We have been busy with Science Fair in our classroom. Many students have had taste tests, and have various experiments set-up around our room. It is a fun time here! Lots of talking and movement!

We will list some events on the side so that you can plan for our end of the year festivities. We hope you are able to attend some of these events!

WELCOME!

We were excited to receive a new member of our class today! Ketari joins us from Alamacani Elementary!

Welcome KeKe!

Can you Taste the Difference?

In Room 138 we have LOTS going on with Science Fair! Yesterday we started our first taste test! Testers were selected to see if they could tell the difference between Coke, Dr. Pepper, and Root beer! Everyone had a great time being a tester!
Diaje' a willing blind taste tester!
This is Daniel's Science Fair Project, and Jason was his assistant!
Maddie, another willing blind taste tester!
We love our unit on Data! Yesterday we used the newspaper to figure out the percentage of newspaper ads!



We found out that the percentage of ads in our paper was about 42%!

Our Family Fun Night is next Friday.... Don't be left out! Order your chicken dinner today! That grill will smell so YUMMY and there will be no walk-up sales!

A Wild Wind Day!

I love these trees! I wish they grew in Jacksonville.... they smell good, they look good and they just SCREAM Spring!

Oh my... did we ever have some severe weather that came through our school today! It was so severe that we lost power about 10:00 this morning, and when we left at 4:30 we still had no POWER! There were some JEA trucks along Craven Road, so we are thinking we should have power in the morning! It looks like a couple of transformers blew this morning! There was even a small fire that several of our parents saw when they were either leaving or coming to the school!

Science Fair projects should be well under way! We have heard some really great stuff going on, and can't wait to see the finished products!

It was great to see you Morgan and Allison at CiCi's tonight! Mrs. Yadon and I enjoyed our dinner! And the dessert there is so yummy!

Don't forget to buy your chicken dinner tickets!

$7.00

They are not available for purchase the night of the Fair!