Ms. Emfinger's classroom has finished up all of their semester assessments and has spent part of this week getting prepared for our upcoming Literacy Night. Please come join us on January 15th in our Winter Wonderland at Beebe Middle School! Families will have a great time sipping hot cocoa, munching on cookies, listening to stories presented by students and teachers, ...
Students in Mrs. Crow’s Language Arts class have been reading the book When Lunch Fights Back. With this book about strange creatures with unusual defense mechanisms, we have been working on finding the main idea and supporting evidence from the text. In writing class, students have been researching debate topics and preparing for a debate the end of the week. Social...
Mr. Money's class started their Greek Mythology projects. Groups are researching a Greek god or goddess and preparing a presentation for the class.
In Mrs. Money's Social Studies class students learned about the history of Ancient China. One activity the students took part in was exploring all the trade that the Chinese conducted via the Silk Road. Stations were set up along the middle school walking trail to simulate the Silk Road. At each station, students learned more about the items that were traded among the ...
Students have been diligently working on trying to increase their fluency rates and reading levels while achieving their AR point goals for the quarter. Students have also been working hard on not only their writing skills,but also their endurance for writing.In Social Studies, we have been studying and discussing Ancient China and the Eastern River Valley, while worki...
This week in Mrs. Belew's math classes we started a new unit on ratios and rates! Students understood the language of ratios so well that they polled the class on a question that interested them and put the results as ratios and equivalent ratios! They loved creating posters to showcase their interests using ratios in the hallway. In science, both classes continued the...
Students in Mrs. Crow’s Reading class have started our first read aloud on the novel Stormbreaker, by Anthony Horowitz. They have been learning to write summaries in Alex’s point of view and answering some comprehension questions and citing where they found the evidence. In writing class, we have started our first personal narrative of the year. Students have been work...
Mrs. Rodgers mathematics class is creating and solving expressions this week using the distributive property. Students enjoyed a fun activity using dice to create equations before solving them with a partner. MATH IS FUN!!!
The students in Mr. Money's Pre-AP English class began their book study on the young adult spy novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. Students are exploring the language of the book to see how the author uses word choice in building description and setting the tone of the plot. They are also examining how a sentence, paragraph, and chapter contribute to the overall st...
Thursday, March 29, was debate night at the Beebe Middle School Media Center. Team members from each side gathered around their tables for last minute addendums to their opening and closing arguments.
The fifth grade students had been Reading History as their Informational Reading curriculum, and writing Informational essays in Writing. In the final Writing...
Students have been hard at work reviewing for the ACT Aspire testing. Scholars are now applying all of the skills that they have learned. Lots of group and independent work have been practiced. Weather is our big topic in Science after testing has been completed.
To end our unit on the water cycle, Mrs. Light's class did a project to show what they had learned. The students were given a choice board with project ideas that ranged from writing a journal of a raindrop to creating a bookmark, book cover, or a slideshow. The students enjoyed getting to choose the way they presented their project. They were able to represent thei...
In science, we have been learning about Earth’s four spheres and how they interact. Scholars researched a biome and described each of the four spheres in that biome. We ended the unit with some exciting labs and projects that show how humans impact ecosystems. We had some very creative upcycled plastic projects.
This week in Mrs. Money's class, we are finishing up the book I am Malala. Students are also writing an essay over another child advocate, Iqbal Masih.
There is a quote in my room by Rick Holland stating, " The world belongs to those who read." That is why, in my class, we spend 20 minutes a day reading in class. It might not look like much, but their minds are growing so one day they can take over the world!
Both Ms. Emfinger's and Mrs. Whitehead's homerooms have been researching common medical diagnoses among children, so that they can better understand things that their peers may have to go through. They will have some of their research and writing on display during parent teacher conferences next week.
Mr. Money's 6th Grade Pre-AP English class had the exciting opportunity to hear Ms. Elizabeth Eckford, of the historic Little Rock Nine, speak at ASU Beebe.
With the large amounts of rainfall we’ve received and flash flood warnings into effect, some roads will likely be impassable this afternoon and Thursday morning. Flood Routes may be found on the web page under the Transportation tab. They may also be viewed on Facebook and Twitter pages.
If your road is under water, the bus will not be able to travel down it and y...
Mrs. Rodgers sixth grade science class has been learning about Newton's Laws of Motion. Scholars observed inertia in some really cool ways, such as: balancing pennies on their elbows and catching them before gravity pulled them to the floor! AWESOME!!! They also had the opportunity to construct rocket balloons with Mrs. Belew's class to perform Newton's Third Law of Mo...
Science- We have been working with a sister class in Washington, trying to help them determine why fish are dying in the waters close to their school. This week we have been discussing acids and bases. We have talked about how they are helpful, but can be harmful at the same time. We will be testing some water samples from their area, trying to determine if the water...
Several of our BMS 4H members participated in the White County 4-H Dairy Recipe Contest. Two of our members placed! If you are interested in joining 4-H, see Mr. Belew. Upcoming events include a fashion/talent show and a talks and demonstrations contest.
The Helen Pouch Memorial Fund Classroom Grant has been one of the highlights of the 2017-2018 school year in our classrooms. As we enter our Reading History and Writing Opinion/Persuasive essays journey, the students now have specialized materials for research purchased with the funds of this DAR funding opportunity. In the past, during our American Revolution: Patrio...
Mrs. Kurck's class has been completing a book study on Titanic Sinks by Barry Denenberg. Students are learning to create journal entries from the perspective of a passenger that was aboard the Titanic. Students have been reviewing literary analysis; studying the author's craft and determining the "strong lead" sentences that authors use within their text to "hook" the ...
At BMS, art students get a taste of Japanese Culture through the work of Hayao Miyazaki, or “Japan’s Walt Disney.”
When discussions about the cultural elements of Miyazaki’s work are over, students explore the characteristics of Japanese cartoons, or “Anime.”
While Anime is known to exaggerate face and body proportions, students also discover aspects of realistic f...
In science, Ms. Davis's class enjoyed learning about food chains by playing card games. They also researched an animal and its role in a food chain and created animal bio poems.
In math, we also played games to practice multiplying and dividing multi-digit whole numbers.
As we ring in the New Year we begin math by introducing algebra. Variables and Patterns is the new unit that we are starting with. The students collected data from doing a two minute jumping jacks fitness test. Students then take their data and place on tables and graphs. They will also make observations and predictions from their graphs. Lots of energy was used d...
Parts of Speech Boot Camp Week in Mrs. Carter's class. Students engaged in hands-on learning dealing with the parts of speech. They loved hopscotch, Amazing Race, and our version of the Headbands game! They learned all about pronouns, verbs, nouns, prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives through movement!
Sixth period every day during enrichment rotation, you will find students working on a variety of activities in Mrs. Bledsoe’s classroom. When you walk into the room, students might be independently reading, or they might be working on a project of some sort - writing poetry, or working on a slide presentation, or they might be completing class work that they were una...
Something new at Beebe Middle School this year is the BMS 4-H Club. With the support of our teachers and volunteers, BMS Students will select from a menu of hands-on project ideas to complete. 4‑H programs are available for children ages 8-18. So once a student leaves BMS, they can continue their 4-H careers in one of the many community clubs here in White County.
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Yesterday, Beebe Middle School welcomed award winning Arkansas Author James Babb to our school. Mr. Babb, who was once a reluctant reader himself, engaged wonderfully with our scholars. He told them about his books and about his writing experience. Not only did he just talk about his books, he had props and real life stories about how he did his research for the book...
Mrs. Belew's Science classes have just started a new unit on Growth and Development and Plant/Animal Adaptations. After some background learning about how plants and animals must adapt to survive in certain environments, students got to research some unusual plant adaptations and create posters showcasing their research! Plants such as the Mojave Yucca have extremely w...
Mrs. Emfinger's literacy class is starting their unit on poetry. Students are analyzing example poems to determine how to make their own poetry. Be on the lookout for some incredible middle school writing!
Maiya Tounzen and Kendalyn Cargile reading aloud to each other to practice fluency in Ms. Woodard's Language Arts class. Students practice daily in class to reinforce and improve fluency skills.
The BMS Choir performed at the annual Veterans' Day Program on November 10, 2017. The choir really enjoyed honoring the veterans with songs like: The Star Spangled Banner, America of Thee I Sing, Fifty Nifty United States, and Song for the Unsung Hero.
Kamryn Vardaman and Lillyann Martin were selected as Beebe Middle School's Students of the Month for November. Kamryn and Lillyann are always polite, respectful, and try thier bests.
STEM- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. We incorporate all of these topics in our science classes. Earlier this semester, Mrs. Allgood borrowed Harding University's Lego's EV3 Mindstorm robotic kits. A few classes were able to build and program the robots during their science class. The classes that were not able to use the kits will be able to order the ...
In Mrs. Rodgers sixth grade science class, we are in our Life Science unit!! We have studied cells, levels of organization, and now we are learning about the human body! We are currently learning about the respiratory system, its organs, and function. Our students were able to measure their lung capacity as an introduction to the respiratory system. This week the schol...
October has been a fun and exciting month at Beebe Middle School. The most excitement came in the form of space camp. Close to two hundred fifth and sixth grade scholars attended space camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Scholars participated in a mission that involved problem solving and team work related to launching and landing a space...
Festive Fall Reading at Beebe Middle School. These 5th grade students in Mrs. Vaden and Mrs. Allgood's Literacy classes enjoyed a day of feasting on books and treats during the Fall Book Tasting. Students "tasted" books, recording genre and interest level of the books. Students could then take their "menu" of books to check out their favorites.
In Mrs. Crow's Literacy class, we just finished up writing our first personal reflective narrative. The topic was writing on a first experience. Last week while some students were at space camp, we did a research project regarding space topics. Students performed research and then chose to either make a poster or write a paper about their topic. These were presente...
Mrs. Pasley's Language Arts class has been focusing on vocabulary for a few weeks. Students helped each other in group work on difficult vocabulary words that came from the book "Saving Wonder."
Mrs. Kurck's class has been reviewing figurative language and implementing this into their narrative writing. We have also been completing literary analysis; studying the author's craft and determining the "strong lead" sentences that authors use within their text to "hook" the reader. Scholars then use these examples to create strong lead sentences within their own wr...
We have had a great 8 weeks in math and science. In math, we completed a unit on adding and subtracting fractions. We are now working with decimals and place value.
In science, we are completing our unit on matter. We have investigated properties of matter, and we explored the states of matter. Scholars participated in a mystery powder lab, and they mad...
The young engineers at Beebe Middle School have been very busy. We had the privilege of going to listen to Governor Hutchinson speak about engineering at our campus on the very first day of the class. He spoke about all of the new Computer Science jobs being created in Arkansas. There is a big push to get young women into Computer Science courses so that they will h...
Mrs. Carter's class has been focusing on vocabulary building and spelling this year. Scholars are learning through a read aloud that having a vast vocabulary is power. Mrs. Carter gives scholars a Word of the Week and different tasks to complete each day for this word. Here we see scholars collaborating to locate the definition of that week's word in the dictionary. Sc...
Math and Science classes have been very busy the past 6 weeks. Students have already had their first Edulastic test and are working hard. We have been doing an interactive notebook in Science.
Mrs. Bledsoe’s literacy class has been studying literary figurative language, determining their meanings and usage in narrative stories. Using a graphic organizer, students have collected definitions, examples and illustrations for similes, metaphors, onomatopoeias, idioms, hyperboles, alliterations, and oxymorons. These booklets will come in handy for our narrative ...
In Mrs. Redman’s classroom we are completing our lessons this week on dialogue. They created comic strips using dialogue in conversation. (Pictured behind the students) In reading, we have started our first read-aloud, Stormbreaker. They students are really enjoying this book and are begging for me to “keep reading” at the end of each period. After they listen to the c...
In science class we did a lab so see how many drops of water would fit on the face of a penny. Through this we learned lab procedures. Also, we got to see some of the amazing properties of water.
The students in Mr. Belew’s 5th grade math class are working diligently to unravel the mysteries of fractions and mixed numbers. Recently they constructed a multiplication chart to assist them in their efforts. The students discovered that not only is the multiplication chart a handy tool for some of those hard to remember multiplication facts, but that it can also b...
Fifth grade literacy students are very excited to start reading the novel Saving Wonder. This will be their first read aloud of the year, and each student will have his or her own copy to follow along in class! Student focus will be on increasing vocabulary and understanding how characters interact with one another (both of which are important life lessons for middle s...
The students in the Pre-AP English class began their book study on the novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. Students are exploring the language of the book to see how the author uses word choice in building description and setting the tone of the plot. They are also examining how a sentence, paragraph, and chapter contribute to the overall structure of the plot. Whe...
In social studies the students are finishing their study on Chapter 3: The English Colonies in North America. Students have recently expanded their vocabulary with words like democracy and cash crops. They have also been working on their map skills by creating a large scale map of North America, Europe, Africa, and South America on the classroom floor.
In literacy we ...
In science, we have been exploring many exciting topics. Scholars learned about simple machines, and then created their own invention using simple machines. Next, we studied ecosystems. Scholars played games to learn about food chains and carrying capacity. We are finishing up our rocks and minerals unit, and scholars did a great job on their rock cycle projects. W...
Mrs. Vaden's Social Studies students participated in Jr. Social Studies Investigator activities during our recent study of the Constitutional Convention. Students were provided with a scene from history, complete with primary and secondary sources from the period. Students used deductive reasoning and clues to determine the owner of this historical desk. Clearly, these...
The students of the week for the week of march 6th are: Peyton CornellElijah LuceroMadason MatthewsPreston JohnsonKortnee JonesGracie GregoryReid JacksonBradley GwathneyMalorie AblanNicholas CummingsLucas AtfieldKarson ConnerJoshlynn ClarkSophie DekerlegandBradly DunnJodie WadkinsHaley JonesHayden WyattMicha Jane KindallBriley ClevidenceCaleb MartinCaleb Sindle
Mrs. Crow’s Reading class has been doing a unit on the Titanic. We have read thebook Titanic Sinks together. Each student was given a name of either a Titanicpassenger or crew member. We did a journal as if they were the character. Thisweek, they are researching their character and creating a poster with events and atimeline. In writing class, we are brushing up o...
The next meeting of the Beebe Middle School 4-H Club is scheduled for Wednesday, March 8, after school. The meeting will be over by 4:15.At this meeting, we will elect the following club officers:PresidentVice PresidentSecretaryTreasurerReporterSong Leader/Recreation LeaderEach officer candidate should be prepared to give a one minute candidate speech. Only registered...
The following students were chosen as Students of the Week for the week of February 13!Lynsey Shepard, Hannah Pechoski, Josh Erman, Skyler McClure, Brianna Turner, Jacob Free, Ty Landers, Lane Ethridge, Kala Benefield, Landen McCullough, Dusti Dunn, Jayden Holiday, Savannah Howard, Montana Wallace, Ben Kimbrough, Taylor Binkley, Tidence Williams, Mason Kearney, Connor ...
This week in Mrs. Belew’s Science class students have been studying speed, velocity, acceleration, motion, etc. They have practiced finding the speed by dividing distance by time, and then they graphed their results. Students finally got to put their hard work to the test in two fun labs.First lab: Students got to chew gum in class (oh no!) while timing themselves. The...
Allgood Science- we are currently learning about the rock cycle and how igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks form. We are working on individual projects where we are writing a story as if we were a rock going through the rock cycle. They should be funny!Allgood Math- we are learning how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators. This is a slow pr...
Things are getting wild in Mr. Belew's Science Class. This semester the students are learning about ecosystems, climate, biomes, food chains and food webs. They are learning that the food webs here on our planet can be very fragile structures and that every living thing has an important roll to play. From the smallest living things to large mammals, everything plays...
We celebrated Martin Luther King Day by researching this civil rights icon and creating either posters, acrostic poems, poems, or biographies that detailed the life and times of this great man.
Students of the Week List January 16, 2017Mrs. Bledsoe – Adrianna GillMrs. Whitehead – Elijah LuceroMrs. Carter – Donavon WilsonMrs. Allgood – Heather SowellMrs. Emfinger – Garrette TomlinsonMrs. Light – Victoria MortonMrs. Vaden – Ciara BaileyMs. L. Davis – Drew HendersonMr. Money – Christian WillettMrs. Bramlett – Ali TaylorMrs. Kurck – Zoey BoyceMrs. H. Belew – Jace...
Team Davis/Vaden had a wonderful first quarter in science and math. Scholars participated in many exciting labs in science. They designed their own experiment and conducted a mystery powder lab.In math, scholars worked on place value, decimals, and multi-digit multiplication. Scholars played math games to reinforce concepts learned in class. During enrichment, Team ...
In these photos, my students are using candy corn and peanuts to figure out greatest common factor and least common multiple.
Congratulations to Jackson Gorham for being our Beebe Middle School National Geographic Bee Champion. After taking a qualifying test, he will advance to the State Bee at UCA, March 31st. Thank you to Centennial Bank of Beebe who sponsored the event with refreshments for the contestants and prize money at $10 for each contestant, $20 for 2nd place, and $50 for the w...
The students in Mrs. Pasely's Reading class are collecting Vocabulary words from the chapter book Saving Wonder. Once they collect many words as we read aloud, each student guesses the meaning of the word as well as the part of speech of the word. Next, the students complete a Mr. Stick Cartoon with the vocabulary words.
Mrs. Crow's and Mrs. Hall's classes have been very busy this nine weeks. They have been doing a Stormbreaker read aloud in Literacy and studying Ancient Egypt. In Math and Science they have been busy with life science and math activities.
ScienceAfter wrapping up our unit over physical and chemical changes in science, we have moved on to forces of motion and simple machines. We explored the world of magnetism when we usedmagnets to find out what items are attracted to them. Then we created foldables to explain how each of the six simple machines work.Hanaley Harris, and Ben Pickens create foldables for ...
Mr. Underwood’s classes took a virtual tour of Ancient Egypt. Our tour began by boarding an Egyptian sail boat called a Felucca. Our tour guide was able to teach us about some of Ancient Egypt’s most important monument s and pharaohs.We sailed down the Nile River until we reached The Great Pyramid at Giza. We learned that there are more than 2 million stones that we...
Team Belew/Underwood has been hard at work in both science and math! In science, scholars have just finished studying the muscular and skeletal body systems. They even created bones out of construction paper to test the weight and determine which shape of bone was the strongest. The activity/lab was followed by small group discussions about how our muscles and bones wo...
In Mrs. Carter's reading class, scholars are working on enhancing their vocabulary. Our vocabulary words come from Saving Wonder, the story we are reading aloud in class. Scholars receive a new word every chapter to write in their reading folders. They are vocabulary collectors just like the main character in the story! Scholars are eager each chapter to learn a new wo...
In reading, we have started our first book study; Storm Breaker by Anthony Horowitz while working on Point of View and working on the 7 Syllable Types along with our RED Word Weekly List. In writing class, we have developed several essays and are now analyzing them for organization as well as word choice. In our social studies, we have completed the rise of the Sumeria...
In Mr. Sawatsky’s math class, the student finished off the week be finding their “free-throw” percentage in “Trashketball.” This is a great game to get practice in find percents while keeping the students active and engaged. A couple of students shot 100%, do you have a guess for how they did it?The first student that shot 100% had… one attempt. Since they shot ...
The young scientists in Mr. Belew’s 5th grade science classes had the chance last Friday to explore the inner workings of our amazing planet Earth. Using a Milky Way candy bar as a model, the young explorers journeyed all the way to the center of the Earth discovering a layer of chocolate crust, caramel mantle and a nougat core. The solid inner core of our planet had...
Summer is over for our scholars, but that's alright because science is just beginning. Science seems to be a favorite for most of our scholars. Team Bledsoe/Whitehead are enjoying their time learning about the scientific method. They are using what they have learned to design and perform their own experiment. Some of our scholars are testing seeds to see if they will...
History Alive – In social studies we have been studying how the first Americans adapted to their environment. There were eight main Indian cultures in North America, and their ability to live came from their being able to adapt to the land. Students completed graphic organizers with information on these eight Indian cultures, and created annotated diagrams of those v...
Team Money/Bramlett is working extremely hard in math and science. In science scholars are learning how to be good scientists. Scholars have learned safety rules and symbols, how to become good observers, and that being a good scientist requires scholars to become good questioners and researchers. Scholars are now in the process of learning the history of and how to ...
The beginning of the school year has been spent learning about each other and readying ourselves to become top notch Sixth Grade Scholars. We have discussed classroom procedures and assessed our knowledge in reading and writing. In reading class we are learning to apply the elements of fiction to analyze the books we are reading. In writing our focus has been to build ...
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The following students were chosen as the 6th grade Students of the Week for February 29 - March 4! Serenity Beard, Jacob Ploughe, Evan Everidge, Isaac Edgin, Bryan Martinez, Mattie Tapp, Brooklyn Brock, Gianna Kappa, Christian Cummings, Kinley Chapman, Juliana Joyner, and Ethan Brock.
The following students were chosen as the 5th grade Students of the Week for February 29 - March 4! Baily Jackson, Joshua Harris, Chloe Amburgey, Isabella Bogan, Chris Whittamore, Mason Callaway, Jackson Gorham, Cadence Ray, Gracie Allen, Devin Pearce, and Kaitlyn Johnson.
Wilbur D. Mills Coop Quiz Bowl Tournament CHAMPIONS!!Our Beebe Middle School Quiz Bowl Team competed against nine other schools and won the FIRST PLACE trophy with an undefeated streak! Way to go, team!
The following students were chosen as the 6th grade Students of the Week for February15-19! Mason Wells, James McIntyre, Bryson Edwards, Jaiden Oser, Kyndsey Russell, Kalyn Duke, Emily Bevill, Mya Bradley, Cody Marrs, Ashton Archer, Noah Kret, and Anastasia Tuttle.
The following 6th Grade Students were chosen as Students of the Week for February 8-12! Serenity Baxley, Gracey Lindsey, Spencer Ray, Reuben Price, Xury Angel, Cassidy Everright, Clayton Brooks, Brandon Henderson, Mason Wells, and Madison Rettig.
The following students were chosen as Students of the Week for February 8-12! Brandi Gregory, Kaitlyn Tipton, Kenneth McClellan, Alexis Lara, Brady McMullen, Jazz Conway, Angelina Maness, Makayla Sikes, Ava McClure, Haley Jones, Madison Davis, and Hayley Lavoie.
Shayna Wright, DAygen West, Jacob Price, Timothy Colbert, Henry Hundley, Malorie Ablan, Peyton Moss, Shirley Walford, Lily Wolfe, Thomas Hall, Ayden Hall, and Emma Burrows were chosen as the grade Students of the Week for February 1-5.
Gavyn Tunnell, Lauren Pierce, Evan Everidge, Grace Gevedon, Noah Hirscheider, Anden Fowler, Molly Matthews, Harley Walls, Grant Haller, Ryan Price, Halle Hardin, and Anastasia Tuttle were chosen as Students of the Week for February 1-5.
Savannah Howard, Gauge Clifton, Laylah Reese, Logan Garner, Nataleigh Lindsey, Lanie Brown, Karson Conner, Gus Smith, Devin Mullins, Ayden Hall, Samntha Johansen, and Katie Mason were chosen as Students of the Week for January 25-29.
Olivia McCormick, Conley Herekamp, Jimmy Hernandez, Braylon Felty, Payton Kling-Masters, Jayden Pryor, Tristan Smith, Dalton Davis, Katie Berner, Kinley Chapman, Emily Strayhorn, Mckenzie Neal, and Zachary Ezell were chosen as Students of the Week for January 25-29.
Adonna Wainwright, Matthew Balogh, Leon Looney, Dylan Kimbriel, Chloe Peterson, Shelby Ahne, Rose Henson, Riley Ceal, Max Curtis, Jimmy Hall, and Madison Davis were chosen as Students of the Week for January 11-15.