8 minutes??? WHAT??? Beebe Readers were eight minutes shy of reading 1,000 minutes THIS WEEK! This brings our TOTAL reading minutes this summer to a massive 4,439. GOOD JOB, READERS! WATCH OUT Beebe Elementary and Beebe Middle Schools...Beebe Early Childhood is coming from behind! Our top classes this week are: Ms. Simpson, Ms. Zeigler and Ms. Wallace from Early Childhood; Ms. Simpson, Ms. Davis and Ms. Shuttleworth from Beebe Elementary; and Ms. Davis (with a HUGE lead) from Beebe Middle School. SHOUT OUT to Ms. Davis' class at Beebe Middle School...they've read 1,075 minutes by themselves! You are blowing us away, readers, keep up the terrific reading!
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The Beebe Badger Bookmobile will not run on Monday, July 4th. Everyone have a safe and happy 4th!
Mr. Hal Crisco's last day after 43 years at BSD. We are losing a fine educator! Happy retirement, Hal!
Drum roll, please! Beebe Readers have logged 3,487 reading minutes SO FAR this summer! That is over 58 HOURS of reading! WAY TO GO Beebe Readers! May I present a CHALLENGE to you? How about we try for 5,000 minutes before July 4??? Beebe Elementary logged 1,814 minutes...top three leader classes are: Ms. S. Davis (594), Ms. C. Simpson (520) and Ms. A. Shuttleworth (185). Beebe Middle School logged 1,028 minutes...top three leader classes are: Ms. L. Davis (705), Mr. Money (258) and Ms. Allgood (50). Beebe Early Childhood logged 645 minutes (over 400 of those minutes THIS week...way to pick up the pace Beebe EC)...top three leaders classes are: Ms. Simpson (182), Ms. Stinnett (135) and Ms. Zeigler (125). We are so proud of our Beebe Summer Readers!
We are ALSO proud of our Beebe Literacy Leader Teachers and Community Leaders! Teachers have volunteered their summer time to read at Camp Beebe every single week this summer! Our readers this week were Meredith Howard, Ms. S. Owens and Ms. F. Stinnett. Thank you for being reading role models for our students!
Check out SHARK WEEK on the Beebe Badger Bookmobile Blog! http://beebebadgerbookmobile.weebly.com/blog
Mrs. Nona Richey joined us at Camp Beebe last week to read aloud to our younger students. THANK YOU, Ms. Richey! All of our students enjoyed their special guest reader. Ms. Richey will also be joining us on the bookmobile on Thursday, June 30. Come out and join us as we continue to learn together this summer!
Exciting things are happening on the Badger Bookmobile! Read more about it in our blog: http://beebebadgerbookmobile.weebly.com/blog
566??? Those are the minutes read and logged from JUST this week...which brings our GRAND TOTAL to 2,200 MINUTES! We have a little friendly competition going on at Beebe Early Childhood...Mrs. Stinnett's class edged into FIRST PLACE this week with 75 minutes logged. At Beebe Elementary, Mrs. Sheryl Davis' class remains the leader of the pack with 594 minutes logged! At Beebe Middle School, Ms. Davis' class also remains in the lead with 530 minutes logged. Beebe Elementary is still in FIRST PLACE, overall, with 1,129 total minutes read. KEEP UP THE TERRIFIC READING, Beebe Students!
It is time, once again, for our weekly Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge Minute count! Drum roll please...BEEBE STUDENTS came within a VERY few minutes of DOUBLING the reading minutes from last week...the GRAND TOTAL is 1,634 minutes read!!! WAY TO GO BEEBE STUDENTS! Here is the breakdown for our competitive readers: Beebe Elementary remains in the lead with 895 minutes read. Beebe Middle School is quickly gaining ground with 596 minutes read. Beebe Early Childhood logged an impressive 143 minutes. How about cheering for the following classes, from each school, which have logged the MOST summer reading minutes (so far)...Ms. Zeigler's Class, Ms. S. Davis' Class and Ms. L. Davis' class! Keep up the good work and HAPPY READING!
REMINDER: Here is the link to the website for logging your minutes: http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2016
Find out what's going on with the Badeer Bookmobile! http://beebebadgerbookmobile.weebly.com/blog
Check out the Badger Bookmobile Blog! http://beebebadgerbookmobile.weebly.com/blog/archives/06-2016
Week 2 Update on Beebe Readers! Beebe students (grades Pre-K-6) have logged 826 reading minutes during the first two weeks of summer in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge! WAY TO GO Beebe Readers! Beebe Elementary remains in the lead with 590 minutes read, but Beebe Middle is picking up speed this week with 176 minutes read. KEEP READING! Each student received a unique username and password to login during the last week of school. The website to log your reading minutes is: http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2016
How are Beebe students starting their summer??? READING! In the first week out of school, Beebe students have logged 425 minutes in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge!!! Keep up the good work students and families! Let's make this a good-hearted competition, to encourage MORE readers...as of today...BEEBE ELEMENTARY is in the lead with 390 minutes read! YAY, BEEBE ELEMENTARY! We'll be watching minutes read for BEEBE EARLY CHILDHOOD and BEEBE MIDDLE SCHOOL to see if they can challenge BEEBE ELEMENTARY! Happy READING!
Have an AWESOME summer!!!
The Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (AR-GLR) was launched in 2011 by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation to move the needle on education outcomes in Arkansas by focusing on third grade reading proficiency. AR-GLR is managed in partnership with Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, the Arkansas Community Foundation, and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. AR-GLR is part of a growing movement led 4 FULL SPEED AHEAD: MOVING THE NEEDLE ON GRADE-LEVEL READING IN ARKANSAS by the national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading that includes over 200 communities in 42 states.
AR-GLR is a collaborative effort of over 25 organizations that believe the only way we can make progress on grade-level reading is to work collectively and in partnership with families, educators, policymakers, and business leaders around the state.
Beebe Schools is doing its part with a new Summer Reading Program which includes the Beebe Bookmobile. Be watching for more information and links to the Beebe Summer Reading Program throughout the summer.
Parents and families, here are some things you can do:
• Talk, read, and sing to your children from birth, building on what we know about early brain development and helping them develop strong vocabularies
• Bring more books into your home by enrolling your children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Make sure children are in school every day, except when they are sick, even in pre-k and kindergarten, when the foundations of reading are being taught
• Access free and affordable resources such as public library summer reading programs to keep children reading over the summer – AND the Badger Bookmobile!
Following is a link to the Badger Bookmobile schedule. Let’s keep our students reading over the summer! http://bit.ly/1Wd3FJL
Free physicals tonight from 5-8 pm in the 11-12 cafeteria. Students should have received a form, if not, you can pick one up in the school office.
Students entering the 7th & 8th grade - 5:00 p.m.
Students entering the 9th & 10th grades - 5:30 p.m.
Students entering the 11th - 12th grades - 6:00 p.m.
Mrs. Clevenger’s 4th grade class helped pilot a new Education program with NASA. NASA set up a portable studio, and through google hangout, her class was given a complimentary “beta testing” session. The lesson was called “Asteroid Disasteroid.” Mrs. Clevenger also had the lab set up in her class, so the students could experience it live. It addressed 4th grade standards related to speed and collision. Mrs. Clevenger's class was the very first to experience the session.
Congratulations to Dr. Kay Calvert, Arkansas Reading Association Educator of the Year!!!