LIVING MUSEUM, 8 BOOKS, AND THE GIBBO RELAYS

We spent today's Writer's Workshop working on our Living Musuem projects. Students have to give a 45-60 second speech, write a 1-2 report, and build a display explaining who their person of interest is. We are having a lot of fun!

Lillian works on her Walt Disney report.


Jasmine works on her Rosa Parks report.


Edwin learns about Thurgood Marshall.


Intrernet research on Dwayne Wade.


Kiet takes notes on Calvin Coolidge.


Kiet does Coolidge research on the internet.


CELEBRATING OUR 8 BOOKS.
Those students who have read their 8 books celebrated with icecream sundaes provided by Mrs. Whitelaw.

Three cheers to Octavia who has read over 30 books so far!


Does Lauren have an icecream headache?


Savanna and Natalee met their reading goal!


END OF THE 9 WEEKS!

THIS 9 WEEKS HAS BEEN FUN....BUT EXHAUSTING!


Honoring the Penn Relays & The Apes staying fit!

Matt attempts to be the pullup CHAMP in Room 71 & 73


Woody and Natalee never quit!


Karson sure can run! She won the girls race!


On your mark...Get set......


Matilda and Savanna don't give up!


Cristian and Robbie run to the finish line.


Is Bryan the fastest?


Or is it Rashod?


The Penn Webb Awards go to Karson and Bryan!


Maurice is the Pullup CHAMP!


Griffin, Matt, Chessa, and Trenton are researching to see if the stories about Vonkisha are true. They say the stories are NOT true, but you won't catch me going near there after dark!


Mrs. Zinn, please buy Dylan a pumpkin carver...these look scary!

REMINDERS & OTHER INFO!

*There is NO SCHOOL Friday!

*You must choose your LIVING MUSEUM person by Thursday morning.

*Has anyone seen Dylan's crazy odd looking personal desk jacko'lantern? Feel free to bring in your own!

*We finished CRASH, as part of our author study (which is required if fifth graders). About 25% chose it as their favorite book of all time, while about 50% still chose Maniac Magee.

*We will begin our Genre Study of World War II and the Holocaust on Monday, October 27th, as this is mandated by the state. It will last at least two months, and will be incorporated into the standard Duval County curriculum. Everyone is excited. We will begin learning about the causes of World War I, then to the Roaring Twenties, Depression, The New Deal, Pearl Harbor, the Nazification of Germany, The Systematic Annihilation of European Jewry, the ghettos, the camps, Extermination, The War in the Pacific, Hiroshima, and finally Liberation and the AFTERMATH which still effects us today. If you have any interesting artifacts or books you would like to share with us, it would be appreciated.
Nobody is more excited than Mr. Gibbons!

*Our next novel will be NUMBER THE STARS by Lois Lowry. We will begin this book in approximately two weeks. This is the story of two young girls are forced to be brave in the face of evil. This will be our second Newbery Award winning book.




*You must be at 9 books by the 30th of October. If you add in the ones we read together, it is 15 books. WOW! Can you believe it? We have read 9 books individually, and 6 novels as a class.

*We have P.E. on Fridays, please dress appropriately. Any children wearing heels will not be allowed to attend P.E. on Fridays, or recess daily. It is a safety issue.

*Special thanks to Mrs. Gaspard for all her help in Science, and to Mrs. Gay in Math!

*Due to the short week, there will be no STAR Student this week.


Former Gibbons Ape Ashley has become a middle school softball STAR! I wonder if she got any of her skills from APE softball?


EXTENDED DAY FUN WITH MRS. RUNYAN

SCENES FROM LAST WEEK

Noah (Dallas) shows us what scowl looks like. This could be a glare too.


Andrew also shows us his scowl.


Matilda got a hair cut.


Pink for Patty Day. Beauclerc showed its support for Breast Cancer Awareness.


What were you thinking Keke?


Is that J.T.'s medal? Or is it Mr. Gibbons award for best Dressed Teacher at Beauclerc?


Noah with his new friend.


Andy and Dylan show us what gaping looks like.


Would someone please tell Mrs. Whitelaw that those socks do not go with her outfit.


Edwin poses with the kindergarten students he works with every Thursday in Mrs. Watson's class.


Jennifer and her future fifth graders.


Grace rocks with her kindergarten pals.


Rashod and his kindergarten buddies.

Congratulations J.T.!

Where was J.T. on Friday? The picture explains it all! Congrats J.T.!

READING

Progress Report #3 goes home Monday! It is due back no later than Wednesday.

We are almost finished with Crash! Can you believe it? It seems like we just started this novel. We are starting to see another side of Crash Coogan. We also see how hard it can be at times to NOT give in to what everyone else is doing. We have practice quite a few of our reading strategies in this novel. It's amazing to see how many young people in Rooms 71 & 73 are being turned onto novels.



We are also well into the BOOK OF THE MONTH, and are finding it quite engaging. Bobby and Joey are quite a pair.


Scroll down to read Lauren Walker's review of Poppy by Avi. Great job LW!

STAR STUDENT

WOW! we are almost finished with Crash by Jerry Spinelli. We are starting to see a change in John Coogan. We are focusing on Fact vs. Opinion, and identifying dialogues change. We learned about Michelle Kwan this week, an incredible American skater.


Verbs have been our focus this week in grammar, and we are almost finished with our second writing project. I am so proud of the students in Rooms 71 and 73 for the amount of real reading they are doing! What does real reading look like?
It looks like this!




Mike Deluca stole Scooter's sailor cap, and wore it incorrectly. Who looks the most like Mike?

TEACHER 0F THE YEAR!

Congratulations to Ms. Sally Locy. She was selected by her peers to represent Beauclerc for Duval County. Ms. Locy has worked hard for many years at Beauclerc. She is a fluent speaker of Spanish and always has a smiling face to greet you in the hallway! We are proud of you Ms. Locy. If you see her in the hallway be sure to congratulate her.

TEACHER OF THE YEAR


Keke and Little Keke

The majority of us the class agreed, Mrs. Peck's handiwork reminded us a lot of Keke D.

STAR STUDENTS October 10, 2008

Savanna poses with Rolando.



Jasmine and Rolando in the rockers.

A SPECIAL VISITOR AND SCIENCE FUN

Science

Mrs. Whitelaw prepares mixtures....looks like artwork!


Preparing a Science work station


Mixture or solution?


We had a very special visitor on Thursday! Flossy Punkinette spent the day with us

Here Flossy sits on the couch for our mini-lesson


She partner reads CRASH with Matilda and Madison


Flossy hangs out with Bosco while we eat lunch in Room 71. (She insists they are just friends)


Three cheers for Flossy, she got a 90 on her AR test!


Flossy can't wait for the Rays Sox games this weekend!

PICTURE OF THE WEEK!
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!