AR Snowman Challenge ~ 1st & 2nd Grade Classes

Our first and second grade classes are having a challenge to see which class can read the most books and take AR tests to build a "Snowman".  Once a student has read a book and made an 80% or higher on the AR test, he/she is given a "snowball" to place on the snowman.  The student's name and book title are written on the snowball.  So far, these students have read over 300 books since Tuesday of this week.  Way to go students, and way to go teachers!  Keep up the good reading!!

JBE's Spelling Bee

Today, we had a Spelling Bee for our 4th and 5th graders. Each class conducted a classroom spelling bee to determine who would represent their class in the school spelling bee. All of the boys and girls did a great job! Keep up the good work!

Our 4th Grade Participants

Congratulations to Mya and Raven ~ Mya won 1st Place and Raven won 2nd Place!

Our 5th Grade Participants

Congratulations to Destiny & Sophia  ~ Destiny won 1st Place and Sophia won 2nd Place!

JBE's January News...

Our second 9 weeks AR party was held on Friday, January 15 in the cafeteria. We had 75 students in first through fifth grade to meet their individualized AR goal and maintain an 85% average or higher for the 2nd 9 weeks. These students were treated with a special cake, and they also received a goody bag with Snowman Soup, a bookmark, a Pizza Hut gift certificate, and candy. All of the students were entered into a drawing for a Walmart gift card...we had 10 lucky winners of the gift cards. The students seemed to really enjoy the celebration. Please remember to encourage your students to participate in AR and try to achieve their goals for the third 9 weeks.

Welcome Back

As we begin a new year and the second semester of school, I want to take this opportunity to thank all parents, students, teachers, and staff for a great first semester. Our staff continues to work very hard to make sure all our students are successful academically.
Parents please help by supporting your child and your child's teacher. Without your support it will be difficult for your child to experience success at Jordye Bacon. I want to remind parents that report cards go home January 12th and January 18th is a school holiday. Feel free to visit our school at anytime. We look forward to working with you the rest of the school year.

Thanksgiving Feast JBE Style

Our classes enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving meal today.  Many parents came to have lunch with their children and enjoyed the delicious meal as well.

Children's Book Week at JBE

Children's Book Week has gotten off to a great start this week.  We began the week with teachers and students decorating the back hallway and classroom doors centered around their favorite books.  The back hallway is centered around the book Where the Wild Things Are.  Here's a sneak peek of what it looks like...

Tuesday's theme was "Get Lost in a Good Book", and students were able to dress in camouflage.

Today's theme was "It's Not Tacky to be a Good Reader".  Students and teachers were dressed in their tacky clothes to show that they are proud to be bookworms.

Students have also been very busy reading and taking AR tests to reach the school's goal of 650 points for the week so that Dr. Johnson and Dr.Sukaratana will be able to dress up like two tacky tourists.  Keep up the good work and keep on reading!!

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

                                  ~Marilyn Jager Adams

Spending time reading is a very important part of the instructional process. We continually remind our students that in order to become better readers they must spend time reading. At school every teacher stops what they are doing at 2:15 everyday to give their students 15 minutes of reading time. In addition, we encourage our students to read at home every evening between 15 and 30 minutes. To further reinforce the importance of reading, we will be celebrating Children's Book Week beginning on November 16, 2009. We will have a series of fun, reading related activities that encourage children to read. Please read the information flier sent home with your child. You can get more information about the upcoming events by calling Mrs. Griffin in the media center.