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

Isabella and Ms. Marissa

A big thank you to the Shah family for their generous donation for us to purchase new classroom materials! 

Emily & Inara work with math materials

We had another great week here in Lower Elementary! The children were paired up and each pair chose the country they are going to research for the upcoming cultural day. They have really great ideas that they are excited to showcase. 

We had our first trip to the art studio this week and it was so much fun! The children designed and made their own coat of arms out of clay. They will be painting them next week after they are fired. 

It is wonderful to see the children eager to learn new lessons. They have been working on the first three parts of speech: noun, article and adjective. They have also been working more with fractions and clocks, as well as many other math lessons.

Information about the first book report will be going home today. Also look for a calendar for sharing. Whatever day has your child's name is his/her day to bring in something to share. If you have any questions about the book report or sharing, please let me know! 

Though it is just the fourth week of school, we already have a great flow going in our Upper Elementary classroom, especially for this point in the year. Students are working very hard on their weekly work and are coming into the classroom in the morning ready to make work choices, which is wonderful to see.   

We are also excited about our cultural projects and are planning our presentation of the first great lesson this week. We will begin practicing our timeline of life play next week, along with starting to present our timeline projects that we have been working on since the beginning of the year.  Along with our academic work, we started our weekly trips to art. This Friday, we will be going swimming to kick off our weekly off-campus trips. 

Can you find MPK in this photo?

This week students will be working on the 4x 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

**CedarKirk is just a short two weeks away now and there are still a few students who have not paid. Please, if you have not already filled out the waiver for your child and paid for the trip, do so at this time.

Thank you to those who have already offered to sponsor MPK this year. We have sponsorship through the end of November. If you haven't signed up yet, please do so by e-mailing me at greg@beachparkschool.org to sign up for a month or a half month of sponsorship. Thank you. 

Middle School learns the equipment at the YMCA

This week was great!

This week Middle School went to the YMCA and learned how to use the equipment there. We will be going there for PE and working out, swimming, playing racquetball and taking fitness classes.

We also have started learning about Southern Europe and Oceania. This week we had a quiz in spelling, Wordly Wise, Earth Science, Latin / Greek Roots and a Math test on negatives. 

-Nathan Hudgens

LOWER ELEMENTARY: Rhymes and rounds were the core of this week's lessons. Students enjoyed keeping the beat with the different rhymes as well as with the short poems we recited.

Our main review was about farm animals. We spiced this lesson with a game and song about a farmer. Classroom objects and family members were also part of our weekly vocabulary.

UPPER ELEMENTARY: We continue our quest for reading in Spanish. We added some more letters and their sounds. We practiced them in a dictation but mostly in Conversational Spanish. The words "who?", "what?", "when?", "where?" and "how many?" had a new dimension as they became key words for dialogues in oral and written format.

MIDDLE SCHOOL: We covered two main topics "Food and Drinks" and "Descriptions of Three Families". The first is about asking and answering questions about favorite foods and types of drinks. The latter is about family portraits by famous painters Goya, Picasso and Botero. It was very interesting to see how students used their words to "paint" yet another three different pictures. They then talked about the different techniques used by the artists to convey their message about the

Trees in Parque del Retiro, Madrid

social-economic levels of the three families. They also illustrated a portrait of a family and talked about it in Spanish.

TRIVIA FACT:  "Parque del Retiro" in Madrid is the most popular green space in the city. There is a boating lake in the middle of the park surrounded by well manicured grounds and flanked by stone columns and an equestrian statue. Locals flock to this park during all seasons and days of the week but Sundays are a popular day for Spanish families to enjoy their urban retreat.