AR Points

Our new leader board has been posted for AR POINTS!

Our current Top 5 are:
Ava P.
Erick B
Taylor S.
Kiersten M.
and Aidan B.
In order to make the list to the right you needed at least 50 points!

Our last day together in 2015

~We had an amazing last day together!  Our luncheon was awesome, our Holiday Sing-a-along was a blast, Pickle Swap was hilarious and our stockings were stuffed with goodies!  We have had an amazing year so far!  To see more pictures from our last day together click on Christmas in the sidebar!  Happy New Year everyone!

San Pablo Runners!

~Congratulations to all the runners from San Pablo who ran in the Patrons of the Heart 5K in Roverside to raise money for kids with birth defects!  Ethan, Asher, Brenden, Sydney, Adam, and Riley all placed in the top 5 of their age groups!  Ethan, Sydney and Brendan won their age groups!  Adam  and Riley ran their fastest 5k's EVER!

Another Novel!

~We finished another novel at school!  We are reading at a record pace!  Our goal at the beginning of the year was to read more books than any other fifth graders on Duval County!  We are on our way to meeting that goal! You will be happy to know that over 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust!  Ellen and her family made it safely to Sweden and would return when the war was over!  Sadly, Peter's work with the Resistance cost hm his life.  he was executed by the Nazis.  Even though Peter is a fictional character, Lows Lowry modeled him after Kim Malte Bruun, a real Danish Resistance fighter...he is pictured below.  Cannot wait to see what Milkweed brings us during our Guided reading groups!

Kim Malte Bruun

Gingerbread Houses with Mrs. Pickles!

~A big THANK YOU to Mrs. Peck (a.k.a Mrs. Pickles) for taking care of us in making gingerbread houses.  She did all the prep work to make this a fun event!  To see more pictures click on the GINGERBREAD tab in the QUICK links!

Running at the Beach!

~Congratulations to al the APES who ran in the San Pablo 3rd Annual Track Meet, and volunteered at registration!  There was great competition from all over Jacksonville!   The San Pablo 5k Club left with a boat laid of medals. 

Sports Century - Roberto Clemente

Spellig Bee

~Congratulations to all the participants in the Spelling Bee.  It took guts to get up there and try! The good news is that the top 5 Spellers were APES!!!!!!!!!!!!  The top three were:

Third place: Aden Leshyn

Second place: Kiersten Mordecai

FIRST PLACE: ERICK BOBADILLA

 Your winners!

Your host!

STAR STUDENTS 12-11-15

~Congratulations to Kiersten and Riley, this week's STAR Students!  Way to go girls!

Gingerbread Houses

~DO NOT forget to send in your supplies for Gingerbread Houses.  Please have all supplies in by

Monday!  We are going to have a blast!  Here are some pictures from last year!  Big thanks to Mrs. Pickles who purchased ALL the graham crackers for ALL the APes!  She also hot glued ALL  the milk cartons to ALL the platters for us!

Ellen Must Escape!

~Ellen has gone to Gilleleje with the Johansen's to escape across the Kattegat to Sweden!  How will she get there?  The APES are loving their Guided Reading groups!

Hi Riley!

Spelling Bee

~Congratulations to the Spelling Bee Winners from Rooms 11 & 13!  Good Luck to all the winners this Friday!  School wide Spelling Bee is Friday at 9:30 AM!

Achieve 3000

~The winner of the Achieve 3000 Contest for the entire school will be announced on Monday morning! Rumor has it that it was a class on our hallway!

Festival of Lights 5k

~Congratulations to Grace!  She finished the Festival of Lights 5k in a time of 21:58!  She finished 18th overall out of more than 1,300 women runners!   She placed 2nd in her age group and received a nice plaque!

Thanks to our PTA - Cultural Arts Day

~We had an awesome time last week learning about Native American culture and sports!  Big thanks to our PTA for creating a great day!

STAR STUDENT

~Congratulations to Kyleen and Jackson! Theya re this week's STAR Students! 

Happy Birthday Mrs. Hamilton-McBride

 ~The fifth grade surprised our Vice Principal with a birthday cake today.  One of our leaders had a Happy Birthday today!

Life Before Jackie!

~We are learning about the harsh and unfair beginning of the Jackie Robinson and his family.  We are then taking evidence from out text to support our thesis statements about life for "colored" people in America before Jackie Robinson became a professional athlete.  Did you now Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals for America, yet restaurants in the South would not serve him.  Joe Louis won the Heavy Weight Championship of the World yet he could not get a room in ahotel in most major American cities.

Thanksgiving Day Race

~Congratulations to Adam Fordenbacher.  He finished in 5th place out of 67 kids in his age group with a time of 32:24 in the Thanksgiving 6K Race in Mandarin early on Thanksgiving morning.  

~Congratulations to Ethan Runyan who placed 9th out of 63 runners with a time of 28:18.  Ethan was by far the youngest in his group and still finished in the top 10!

~Grace Bouchard finished 4th out of 46 in her age group with a time of 28:32! WOW!

Awesome Thanksgiving!

~Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate Thanksgiving with us!  The food was incredible!  Big thanks to Bono's on Merrill Road for cooking our meat and delivering it!  We had way way too much food.  The Mission Shelter on Shetter Ave was very grateful for our leftovers!

5K for Play T-shirt Contest

~Here are the entries from Room 11 for the 5K for Play Race T-shirt!  These look good!