Thursday, September 11, 5:30 pm- Family Picnic

                                                            Al Lopez Park

 

Saturday, September 13, 8:30 am - Garden Work Day

                                                      (See Office Notes Below)

 

Friday, September 19 - Staff Planning Day

                                         School Closed

 

Tuesday, September 23 - Individual School Photos

 

Thurs-Fri, September 25-26 - Upper Elem/Middle School 

                                        Retreat at Cedarkirk Camp

                                        Lithia Springs

 

Tuesday, September 30 - Speech/Communication                                                            Screening

 

Thursday, October 2 - Primary Inside Field Trip

                                       Florida Aquarium

 

Pack 334 wants you... to support their popcorn sales! Order form in the school office They are also collecting toiletries and gently used washcloths and towels for a community project.

 

Al Lopez Park 

 

You may bring any dish or follow these suggestions:

 

Primary-

Salads/Side Dishes

 

Lower Elem - 

Desserts/Fruit

 

Upper Elem - 

Main Dishes

 

Middle School -

 Appetizers, Chips & Dip 

 

 

BPS will provide 

drinks, hot dogs 

and all paper goods

 

Follow the BPS signs to the picnic shelter. 

 

Thanks to all who will

help with set-up and clean-up.

 

Addison & Presley

I hope you all had a restful Labor Day! We have been busy here in Lower Elementary. We did more work with fractions and geometry. In grammar, the children learned about articles and how they help nouns. 

   

The 3rd graders are teaming up with the 6th graders to give us a special presentation of the Coming of the Universe. They are excited to give the presentation next week!

 

Art will start this next week on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The children will have art every Wednesday from 2-3. A parent volunteer is needed to walk with the children and teacher, so if you can help please let us know. Thank you in advance!

   

Third graders will be starting Wordly Wise next week to help them build their vocabulary. We have ordered a new spelling program that will be implemented soon. Anyone who would like to come in and see it is more than welcome. Just let me know so we can schedule a time.

 

We are also getting ready for the upcoming cultural day in October. The children are in the planning stages and are getting very excited! Make your plans to attend on Friday, October 24! 

Trez, Elena, Solange & Isa creating projects inspired by The Story of the World

This week students continue their weekly math, geometry, language and writing works. In addition, we introduced our cultural topic for the fall festival. This fall we are studying two continents, Europe and Oceania. Students discussed the fundamental needs of humans and came up with many wonderful ideas for their projects.

 

We are also gearing up for our presentation of the first great lesson, The Coming of the Universe. The 6th and 3rd grade students are presenting for the Upper and Lower Elementary students. Following this presentation, we will be working on our Timeline of Life play, which the Upper Elementary will present to the Lower Elementary. Students are also completing their projects on one 'Period' from the Timeline of Life lesson from the first week of school.

 

This week students will be working on the 3x tables. Please help support their memorization of the math facts at home with fun fact games. There are many resourses online. Here are a few:  Multiplication.com , MathIsFun.com (interactive on-line quiz), Educationworld.com and FunBrain.com

 

**We are also quickly approaching our trip to Cedarkirk, September 25-26.  All the kids are very excited. We will be staying the night, having a night hike and campfire, tree climbing and canoeing. Please, if you have not already filled out the waiver for your child and paid for the trip, do so at this time.

 

Finally, as you are aware, we now have a new class pet, a Ball (Royal) Python. His name is the Mississippi Pineapple King. The MPK, as some kids call him, needs to eat and be taken care of. We are asking families to sponsor MPK for either one month or two weeks during the year and over the summer. For September, I am sponsoring MPK. It is about $12.00 a month. We are creating a list of MPK's needs. Please contact me directly at greg@beachparkschool.org to sign up for a month or half month of sponsorship. Thank you. 

Maya paying for delivered pizza. Middle School operates the pizza program as an enterprise, including the ordering, banking and distribution to students.

We had much to do this week. Tuesday morning we had our first Wordly Wise test. In Algebra, we went over the test that we had last week and did corrections. We had a lesson on Tuesday about the Fundamental Needs of Humans. We also picked our countries in Europe that we will individually learn about for our first Cultural Day, and discussed ideas about how to present them.

 

Wednesday we had a Latin vocabulary test in the morning.  Our Mentor Managers, Pamela and Avery, helped in LE and in Ms. Lisa's class.  In Earth Science we went over our homework and talked about minerals.

 

Thursday we turned in are Wordy Wise and did our corrections. We are continuing to read The Story of the World and The Maze Runner in class.

 

Friday we had a spelling test on homophones e,f,g. Then we had Reading-Writing Workshop with the 6th graders  and went over  homework which was on tone and character. We are starting art at Hubert Craft Studio next week with the sixth graders.

-Lauren Robinson

LOWER ELEMENTARY:  We took advantage of the Montessori materials to review some basic geometric shapes in Spanish.  A short story was read to the class and the illustrations in it emphasized triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles among others. We also made our own song incorporating shapes and movements; we had a jumping triangle, a rectangle charged with electricity, a dancing circle, and a bouncing square. This was a fun activity that we all enjoyed thoroughly.

 

UPPER ELEMENTARY: "Household Items" was the core of this week's vocabulary.  We practiced our list of 20 words by reading them aloud and via word search in the written form. We are in the process of learning how to read Spanish by combining different words and paying close attention to their sounds.  This group is participating enthusiastically.

 

MIDDLE SCHOOL:  Dialogues galore was the focus for our lessons this week. The girls decided to choose "Pets" as their dialogue topic and the boys opted for "Sports" and "Television". I am very pleased with their cooperation and dedication to the Spanish lessons.  We are using a textbook; Paso a Paso #1 and #2 for cultural notes and reading.  

 

TRIVIA FACT: The Museum of Italian Art in Peru was a gift to this South American country donated by the Italian community in Peru to commemorate the country's 100th anniversary of separation from Spain.

 

One unique feature of this museum is its offering of guided visits for the blind. This service allows the blind patrons to wear special gloves and touch the marble and bronze statues to appreciate the beauty of the works.

Calling all gardeners and those who are handy with carpentry, too!  There will be a work day in the school garden on Saturday, September 13 starting at 8:30 am.

Parent Beverly Addison is heading up the garden this year and would like to start by cleaning up the garden area, cleaning out the planting beds and building the beds higher.  That's where those with carpentry skills are needed.  

The garden could also use some soil.  If you would like to donate a bag or two, it would be a valuable contribution.  Preference is for organic manure or mushroom compost, both available at Lowe's.

All garden contributions and help will be appreciated!  

Ms. Misty is offering to teach private piano lessons after school at Beach Park.  The 30 minute lessons will be $20 per lesson.  If you are interested contact Ms. Misty by email. 

 

BPS Activities for the year were the topics at the PTA meeting on Thursday evening.  Those in attendance signed up for the activities they where they would like to help, such as set-up and clean-up for Cultural Celebrations, the Family Picnic and Art Show.  The annual Spring Auction has many volunteer opportunities.  

If you did not attend the meeting and would like to sign up to help with any activities, you are welcome to stop in the office at any time.  The sign-up sheets are on the front desk.  You will be contacted in advance of the event(s) you choose when it is time to help.

Mulch crew

A small but tenacious crew of parents worked last Saturday morning to spread the mulch on the school playground. Thanks to Kim, Ted and Douglas Delaney, Ramitha Veettil, Corey Cheers and Carmen Gonzalez.

Cub Scout Pack 334 members and parents worked in the driveway this morning to give BPS families an opportunity to order popcorn for their fall fundraiser. If you would like to support the pack by ordering, stop in the school office where the pack's order form will be available for the rest of the month.  Popcorn will be delivered the week of November 10th.