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Above: Middle School girls at the Renaissance Festival
Important Dates
This Evening at 6;30 pm - Please stop by and see the
BPS After School Photo Exhibit at
Coffee Evi, 4020 W. Kennedy Blvd, #104
Thursday, April 4 - Middle School Field Trip
Florida Orchestra, Mahaffey Theater
Saturday, April 6, 6:30 - 10 pm
"A Sunshine State of Mind"
12th Annual Spring Auction ~ St. Mary's Hall
See Office Notes below for Auction Update
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Live auction student art from last year's auction.
Students are working now on this
year's one-of-a-kind masterpieces.
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Thanks,
Auction Sponsors !
Alligator Wrassler $2,500
Mike & Rachelle Bedke
Ben & Emy Wacksman
Maria Appel & Kathryn Kepes
Hurricane Hunter $1,500
Gordy & Barb Babbitt
Railroad Magnate $1,000
Falkowitz Family
Cattle Rancher $500
Center For Guided Montessori Studies/
Kitty Bravo & Marc & Tim Seldin
Shane & Katie Perkey
Citrus Grower $250
Patrick & Crissy Delaney
Maria A. Upshaw, DMD, PA
Please join these families and be a sponsor!
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PreK/Kindergarten
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 We are welcoming spring this week with lessons on the seasons and springtime holidays. The children enjoyed sharing stories about their spring break and all the fun they had. We talked about St. Patrick's Day and the traditions of wearing green which represents the "Emerald Island" and the beautiful green countryside of Ireland. We read several legends about St. Patrick and the children made flags of Ireland, shamrocks, rainbows and harps.
Zoe Zoppi's parents, Rick and Amy, shared the book "Green Wilma" and brought Lucky Charms cereal to share with the children to graph and eat. Thank you!
The Spanish vocabulary words related to spring that we are practicing are: primavera - spring, mariposa - butterfly, conejo - rabbit, pajaro - bird, huevo - egg, flor - flower. In the photo above, Garrett and Nicholas are drawing primavera items.
Zoe Garruto is a big sister! Congratulations to the Garruto family on the newest addition to their family, baby Noah!
We are working on our projects for the Spring Auction. Each class will have a beautiful, framed work of art for parents to bid on.
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Lower Elementary
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Julian enjoys a book
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This week we started our study of entomology. We learned that this word comes from the Greek word, entomos, "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented." Thus the word entomology is the scientific study of insects.
At the moment, we are studying butterflies and moths. The book we are following along with is Butterflies and Moths by George Fichter. Did you know that there are more than one million kinds of insects in the world? Actually there are more insects in the world than any other kind of animal.
The children were amazed to learn that the Pygmy Blue butterfly is one of the smallest butterflies. It has a wingspan of about half an inch. It is tiny! The smallest moth is the Solitary Oak Leaf Miner Moth. It measures in at less than a quarter of an inch. That is amazing!
3rd grade parents: Please note that our annual over-night trip will be taking place April 26-27th. We will be traveling to St. Augustine. One parent must accompany each child. Please look for more information to follow.
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Upper Elementary
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Pamela, Gabe & Owen work on the design for a stepping stone
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Everyone returned from Spring Break ready to go back to work. This week has passed with students getting back into the routine.
Next week we'll begin a unit on Biology and classification. We will learn about the Five Kingdoms and then get into a classification of the animal kingdom. We will do an earthworm observation activity and, as we progress, we have plans to do a virtual frog dissection. The virtual dissection will be followed by working in pairs to dissect a frog. Students can learn a great deal about human anatomy and systems from the dissection of a frog.
Our final class project will be developing an "Imaginary Island." This is a complex project integrating many subject areas including use of Technology. There will be an at home component to the project. More details will come home by the first part of April.
Students have worked in art on their live auction piece as well as on designing garden stepping stones. This year's stepping stones will incorporate some of the values we studied in our rights and responsibilities unit. The students' artwork is always beautiful and unique.
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Middle School
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This week we have been working on Justice Teaching, and Professor Smith brought in two of her college students to talk to us about the trial. They helped both the defense and the prosecution teams prepare for our trial about the Titanic.
We also have been working on our note taking skills and compare and contrast paper. We get to chose which religions we want to compare, and will be writing a paper using MLA formatting. All of us are trying to finish up the yearbook as well.
We finished planning our end of the year trip to Destin, Florida, and we're all very excited Today our class went to the Renaissance Festival. We had so much fun!
Allison Young & Berkeley Kittredge
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Spanish
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LOWER ELEMENTARY: Welcome back students, and welcome Spring! We had a busy week learning about words related to spring including an outdoor lesson to look for "signs of spring". We also found spider eggs, birds' nests, caterpillars, budding flowers, and leaves. We encountered many pleasant surprises from "Mother Nature" and students and teacher enjoyed the cool Florida weather. We also played "The Bird In the Nest"; very appropriately for this season!
UPPER ELEMENTARY: We reviewed/learned the name of 15 flowers in Spanish and wrote sentences using them. We visited the garden and wrote individual lists of the different objects and "literally" smelled the flowers. We then talked about the meaning of spring in different cultures.
MIDDLE SCHOOL: This week found us writing descriptive paragraphs or independent sentences  about the beginning of spring. We explored the origin of this beautiful season and learned about the legend of the sunflower as told by South American Natives.
TRIVIA FACT: Lake Nicaragua is the second largest lake in Latin America. It is home of the only freshwater sharks in the world. The sharks are BULL SHARKS (see right) that swam upstream chasing food and then eventually stayed in the lake and evolved to live in freshwater.
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Office Notes
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Auction Update
Auction items have been arriving all week for the 12th Annual Spring Auction. Some of them include:
Summer camps for kids
Tickets & Passes to favorite destinations: Busch Gardens, Disney,
Museums, Silver Springs & More
Rays & Bucs tickets
Theme gift baskets for kids and gift baskets for adults
Framed Art
Restaurant gift certificates
Professional Services: Allergy Testing, Reading Evaluation,
Dental Services, Hair Removal
Fun Fixed Price Events for Kids - Parties & Sleepovers & Outings
Plus fun items are coming in for the exciting Class Baskets &
wine for the Instant Wine Cellar.
Next week, we'll give you a preview of the dinner menu being created by Jim Rice of A La Carte Pavilion and parent of BPS students, Maddie and Julian.
It's going to be another GREAT party! Please RSVP if you haven't, invite some friends if you haven't, book that babysitter if you haven't and find something to wear if you haven't.
We still need more auction items, so please keep in mind as you get haircuts, massages, manicures and pedicures, or do business with restaurants or shop at favorite stores that they may be happy to reach more BPS families through an auction donation.
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4200 W. North A Street · Tampa, FL 33609 · Ph: 813-289-3747 · Fax: 813-286-7307
admin@beachparkschool.org
Beach Park School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin.
Accredited by Florida Council of Independent Schools and Florida Kindergarten Council
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