Red Bone Coon Hounds

~Have you wondered what Dan and Ann look like? These are great hunting dogs!

Red Fern, Roll of Thunder & Albert!

~We are well into Where the Red Fern Grows. With a little bit of extra work we will finish it before the year ends! Little Ann and Old Dan are quite a pair or Red Bone Coon Hounds!

~Almost finished with Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. We found out today that TJ was responsible for Mrs, Logan losing her job, and he is hanging out with the older, much older, Wallace boys...nothing good will come of this!

~Something has been going on next door for the last few days! Today Albert Einstein visited the Apes! Did you know he was German and Jewish? Did you now he left Germany the same year Hitler came to power? Makes me wonder how many potentially great human beings were lost in the Holocaust. Great job Pritch and all the other Apes!~

Sharecroppers

~As we are reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry we are coming across a lot of situations that seem unthinkable. In 1933 Mississippi, these situations were very real for almost all Black people, and a large amount of White people. I put some pictures below to help you make some connections.

~The picture below was a typical sharecropper's home. They were nothing more than shacks, and the sharecroppers had to pay rent which was taken out of their crop earning at the end of the year. If there was a flood, drought or something else that destroyed the crops, the tenants still had to pay for the seed and the rent, and many started the year owing money to the owner of the land. The Averys lived in a shack on Granger land similar to the one below.

~Another sharecropper shack is pictured below. This family is lucky enough to have a window on their shack.

~Sharecroppers are pictured below. Sharecropping was not that much better than slavery. At the end of the year, if the sharecroppers owed the landowner money, they could not leave.... if they left owing the landowner money they could be arrested, and often were.

~This is a picture of a sharecropping store similar to the Wallace store. Many sharecroppers were forced to buy their seed, clothing and other items from these stores or risk being kicked off the land. Note the signs! Do you see why the Logans were not allowed to enter the Wallace store?

Another Day in Paradise!

~Another day in Paradise...sounds sarcastic... but we really mean it!
~An end to another week! We are already 25% of the way through our final novel!
~We celebrated 5 Apes being recognized at UNF!
~STAR Students are Cheron and Mitch! Way to go boys!
~Have a great weekend!

Pickle reading!

STAR STUDENTS

Cheron, Rolando the Ape, and Mitch

RTI Charley Skedaddle group

Duval County's Top Five Percent

~Congratulations to Apes Mitchell, Robbie, Megan, Julia, and Connor! They were recognized Thursday night at the University of North Florida for their outstanding academic achievement! Based on their classroom grades, previous FCAT score, citizenship, and work ethic, these students were recognized as being in the top 5% of all students in Duval County! We are proud of you!

The ARTS at Beauclerc

~We had Music today with Mr. Gonzalez and Mrs. Shedd. We had a blast. Tonight was the Beauclerc Art Show! Ms. Robinson and Mrs. Schmidt did a great job!

Don't hit him Nick!

Follow the leader

dosido

Beauclerc's Art Teachers

Ms. Gay, Cody, and Mrs. Hollaway

Art on display

Mrs. Kephardt

former Ape Abrianna and Petra

Back to Normal!

~We started our FINAL novel today, Where the Red Firn Grows! It felt good to just sit on the rug or in the courtyard and read with our Guided Reading groups!

Sitting in the BIG chairs!

Alexis & Hope

Maggie May, Emmy Lou, Ahmed, & Pritch

Willie Mo

Jose and Franklin

reading in the shade..... life is good!

Holocaust Remembrance Day

~On Tuesday Alina Kentof came to the Ape classrooms and told us of her experiences as a child in Krakow, Poland during the Holocaust! This was a special way to end our unit of study on the Shoah, or Holocaust. She was amazing! We loved hearing her story about kicking the Nazi, trading jewels for food, being smuggled out of the ghetto, singing in a kibbutz, screaming in a jail, and countless other true tales. It was an honor to meet her, and it is our responsibility to not forget the stories of the Holocaust.

Mrs. Kentof presented an actual STAR with the word Jude written on it... it was actually worn by a Jewish person in Germany.

this show was from a small child at the Majdanek Death Camp

Mrs. Kentof shows us some artifacts

we all pledged to NEVER FORGET on the back of a placard with her name on it

Mrs. Kentof

Gilly is gone!

~We finished The great Gilly Hopkins! This novel was a blast to read. Gilly finally met her mother and is devastated when she finds out her grandmother Nonnie had to bribe her mother Courtney to come see her. She finally realizes that Trotter loved her, but it is too late..... Nonnie needs her more than Trotter.

73 Apes & Gilly

Ian liked it so much he changed it to his favorite book

The Apes Holocaust Remembrance Day!

~Make sure you are in school on Tuesday the 17th! Mr. and Mrs. Kentof will be visiting us and discussing their childhood experiences during World War 2 and the Holocaust.

Word Study test

Word Study test is Tuesday! If you forgot your words, here they are:

*bandit
*condolences
*dictator
*frantic
*notorious
*refugees
*rugged
*sombreros
*transformed
*urgently
*wounds

Sceince Fair Winners!

~Congratulations to Ian, Robbie, Willie, Nick and Bryce for winning ribbons in the Science Fair! Mrs. Goodman rocks for teaching them how to do a good project!