Louey The Snake

Today we captured a vicious little critter outside Mrs. Hosch's classroom. The kids begged to see it, and I said NO! He was not very friendly! He was not taught manners at home. I told them I would post his pictures on the blog! If you know what kind of snake it is, let us know.



We started Crash today, and everyone seemed to be quite intrigued by Crash and Penn Webb. Jerry Spinelli rocks!

Progress Reports went home today, and are due back by Thursday. After Thursday, a $1 (Gibbo dollar) a day fine will be imposed.

Happy New Year!

Have a wonderful NEW YEAR to our Jewish brothers and sisters!

School Spirit Day

Wear RED WHITE and BLUE on Wednesday!

END OF MONTH LUNCHEON

Thanks to all those parents who came out to celebrate the end of September, and hear what we have been up to for the last month!

Room 71 Rocks!


Andy and his Mom sharing a bite to eat


Dylan explains the "sewer" story to his father


Welcome back Derek


Our STAR Student reads her awesome story


Octavia entertains our gusets


What do you do after a big meal? According to Trenton....take an AR TEST!


"I'm too tired to do anything but read"

The Ape Authors & STAR Student!

We presented our Scary Stories to the class today. Now some students know what it is like to be published. Mrs. Peck and I are very proud of the hard work that came from Rooms 71 and 73 over the last few weeks. Look for SCARY STORIES FROM ROOM 71 on bookshelves by the end of October. Great job APES!

We will finish Maniac Magee and Poppy on Friday. We thoroughly enjoyed both novels and will be counting them towards our 50 Book Count!
By now, your child should have read at least 4 books on their own. If they have not, they will be spending their End of Month Luncheon in another room! End of Month Luncheon is our chance to present to our parents, and to celebrate our accomplishments.


STAR Student Keke was afraid to sit with Rolando


Madison "Woody" poses with Rolando our mascot


AUTHORS IN THE SPOTLIGHT


Lauren reads her version of "Home Alone"


Matilda wrote about some vicious crabs at the beach


Dylan grosses us all out by diving into a sewer in his story!


Jennifer horrifies us with her story about Miss Vicky's house


Antonio told us about his fear of roaches with lots of dialogue


Chris tells us about his plane crash. Did this really happen?


Woody makes us all laugh at her Halloween scarecrow


Karson scares us all telling about her brother's bloody leg with 17 stitches.


Robbie presents his final piece to the class


Proud Authors Cristian, Cody, and Miss Keke


Jamie and Nick stand proudly by the board where their awesome work is presented!



One of our Homeroom Mothers, Mrs. Zinn, reads to her son Billy


LUNCH WITH THE APES

End of Month Luncheon

If you do not receive an invitation, it is because your child has not met his or her reading goal, and is not invited to the luncheon. Your child must have four books read by Friday.

We will be reviewing September's reading and writing, looking ahead to October's goals, as well as celebrating our STAR Students!

See you there! Please do not come unless you recieved an invitation.

VOLCANOES

Our story out of the textbook this week is about volcanoes. We had quite an interesting and lively discussion about the city of Pompeii and what happened there many many years ago. We also talked at length about Mount Saint Helen's in Washington State. here are some pictures of Mt. St. Helen's, Kilauea, and Mount Vesuvius. (Pompeii)

A Cross-section of a volcano


Mount Vesuvius in Italy (crater and cinders)


Mount Saint Helen (before and after eruption)


Kilauea in Hawaii (molten lava, eruption, magma)

Book Reviews

Want to read a great book? Beginning this week, look for our Book Review Section. In this section, students will give very brief summaries and reviews of books. They will tell whether they liked it or not and why. Our first reviews will be of Maniac Magee, Poppy, Smiles To Go, and a few others.

STAR STUDENTS

Congratulatons to our STAR Students. They have both worked hard and deserve this award! There are many many students in the Ape classrooms who are deserving of STAR Student, but we can only pick one from each homeroom.


Noah Wilson poses with Rolando


Edwin Ulysess poses with Rolando
Rolando's shirt was designed by former Gibbon Ape Savannah Mika (Charly)

There is a Spelling test on Monday, please study! Last week's spelling test grades went down quite a bit.

Our writing is up on the bulletin board! The Scary Stories are awesome! Octavia and Karson got to present theirs to the Vice-Principal!

A very special THANK YOU goes out to the Beauclerc faculty and PTA for looking out for our former student Darius Thompson. Darius was in our classroom last year! He passed away this past Friday morning.

ART CLUB

Any student interested in trying out for the Art Club needs to go to Mrs. Robinson's room on Friday at 1:25.

KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

Kindergarten teacher Laura Thompson was recently profiled in the FLorida Times Union. She is the Spanish teacher, along with Mary Long in our unique kindergarten program.

Progress Reports

Our first progress report went home on Friday. They are due back no later that Tuesday the 16th. Any student who does not have it back by Tuesday will be assessed a $1.00 a day fee. (that's Gibbo Dollars)

We had our first STORE day on Friday, and many students got to spend some of their money on treats. Any student who came to school with his or her Read & Respond form unsigned was not allowed to shop. A few students chose to save all their money. Some have chosen to deposit their cash into the Gibbo Bank....wise choice!


We had our first Selection Test on the story Earthquake Terror this past Friday. We did awesome, the average score was in the 80's. The lowest score was a 65, and 10 students scored a 100%.

We are well on our way to finishing our first writing project "Scary Stories". They will be posted on the bulletin board outside Room 71 and 73 over the next few weeks, as well as on the Gibbon/Whitelaw Writing blog, thewritingapes.blogspot.com.

STAR STUDENT

Thanks to all who came to the Read and Feed and the Book Fair. Matt DaSilva and Grace Lewis are this week's STAR Students!

September 11th, 2001

Remember those who were lost on this day 7 years ago.

Maniac Magee

We are about two thirds of the way through Maniac and we are enjoying it immensely. Today we learned what polka music sounds like. We also learned how to do the polka. This is Earl Grayson's favorite music. Who is Earl Grayson you ask? Ask your child about Earl. They know.

The music playing is polka music! It is the traditional folk music of Poland.

Here the Peck Polka is practiced


Rashod gets his groove on


Reading is RELAXING!


Matilda and Woody modeling good Partner Reading


Dylan and Savanna bathing in good literature


Who knew that READING could be so much fun!

We began our Guided Reading groups this week. We will be working in these groups 3-4 times a week to strenghten weaknesess and and improve our strong points. Here Mrs. Peck works on using context clues to figure out the meaning of words.


Mr. Liberty was overcome with emotion at the turn of events in Maniac Magee


Thanks for taking the pictures Mrs. P! You are #2! You rock!

Baby Ruth

For Your Information:
The Baby Ruth Candy bar was named after the daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt. Most people believe it was named after Babe Ruth. Congratulations to those students who got it right.

Ruth Cleveland, known to the public as "Baby Ruth", died of diphtheria at age 12. She was adored by the media and the public.

Ruth Cleveland 1891-1904

Whatever happened to the Mars Bar? Ask your child! We had Mars Bars in class. You can't buy a Mars bar anymore......but they are still available! Ask a Whitelaw Ape or Gibbon Ape student how you can get one!

Read & Feed

The Book Fair is here!
Beauclerc's annual Read & Feed is scheduled for Thursday! Please turn in all dinner orders by the end of the day on Tuesday. This is a great opportunity for families to sit down and eat together and shop for some books at the Book Fair! Most of the proceeds are pumped back into the school. While shopping at the Book Fair, you may also donate a book to Room 71 or 73!

WE ROCK!
Also, The Room 71 Gibbon Apes won a pizza party from the incredibly awesome Beauclerc P.T.A. We sold the most Entertainment books in the school. Thanks to all of you who bought them or sold them. It was for a good cause. Winning that pizza party is a testanet tomwhat incredible parents we have in room 71 nad 73! I also think we have 100% P.T.A. memebership, thanks to those folks who bought more than one memebership! If you haven't joined please do it soon!

Have a great weekend!

Congratulatins to Karson Lewis and Cristian Torres! They are the Star Students for The Gibbons and Whitelaw Apes. They have both worked hard all week, and set a good example for their classmates.

We were well represented at Skate Station. We had the most students in fifth grade show up to support the PTA, and the second most in the school. We rock! We have also sold the most Entertainment coupon books in the school. This is a testament to the incredible parents of Room 71 and 73.

We started our "Scary Stories" writing project today, and I can't wait to see the finished projects in a week or two.

This week we were also introduced to Earl Grayson, a character in Maniac Magee. He is an incredbly naive but good hearted man. Hopefully, your children will learn something from him. We have been reading a lot in Rooms 71 & 73! We are well on our way to 50 Books! Why are we reading 50 books? Because we can!

We are glad to have Derek and Lauren back. We missed you!

Don't forget: Speling Test on Monday!

It's that time again! Go Jags & Pats!