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Book Advice March Beebe By Kylan Blake and Emma Gutierrez Expectation

By Grace Schuneman and Zachary Chiaramonte Are you looking for a book right now? Here are some good book recommendations for picture books. The Author of There are many ways to be respectful. This Click Clack Moo has written another awesome book, Diary of months expectation is Be Respectful. a Worm. Diary of a Worm is a very good book. Diary of a Here are some ways you can Be Respectful in school and at Worm talks about the life of this little worm. He also talks home. about how annoying his sister is and he talks about his friend Spider. There are two other books in the series to Diary of a Listen to your teachers Worm called Diary of a Fly and Diary of a Spider. Turn assignments in on time If you are looking for some good chapter books, here are Give others personal space some recommendations for you. One great book to read is I Respect the differences in your classmates Survived The Bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is about a boy Respect other people’s belongings named Danny who lived near Pearl Harbor. Danny wanted to Don’t talk over teachers and classmates move to New York when a bunch of planes came. Does Say things that are true Danny have what it takes to be a survivor? You will have to Say things that are not mean or inappropriate find out in I Survived The Bombing of Pearl Harbor by Lauren Kindly disagree Tarshis. Have you read Harry Potter The Order Of The Don’t talk bad about others Phoenix?. It is about when a new, mean teacher, Professor Doing these things will make Beebe a better place to learn! Umbridge comes to Hogwarts, Harry’s school. Lord Voldemort is on the loose. What will Harry do? Finally, Rain Reign is a story about Rose Howard. She is obsessed with homonyms. Rose loves following the rules. Not everyone understands her obsession with her rules. But then one day when a storm hits her small town, rivers overflow, roads are flooded, and her dog Rain goes missing. Rose has to find her dog which means leaving her rules and safe places to look for Rain. Go to your public or school library to look for some of these books. If you can't find them there, ask a teacher if they have any of the books. Get reading! Cubs vs Sox By Ben Reif and Sophia Valle

Two Chicago teams - One Chicago champion - who will win? Do you know how rare it is to have to teams in one city? Learn about what is different and the same about the two teams. Cubs The Cubs were originally called the White Stockings By Emma Gutierrez and Kylan Blake then to the Colts to the Cubs. One of the most famous Cubs’ stories is about the Billy Goat Curse. The Billy Goat Have you ever wondered what the three secretaries do in the Curse was when the security guards asked Vasili "Billy front office? Do you know why the candy bowl was made? Goat" Sianis to leave because his goat was bothering the Lastly,do you know what the secretaries names are? Find out other fans. Cubs’ fans say that is why the Cubs never won some cool facts about our secretaries. in a long period of time. A famous player was Three Fingers. Three Finger was a pitcher for the Cubs. He was a Mrs. Vetrovec good pitcher because the less fingers you use on a baseball the faster it goes. He only had three fingers so he could only Have you worked in another school? I worked at Ellsworth throw fastballs. School. Sox What is your favorite part of the day in school? I like the morning announcements. Did you know that the Sox and the Cubs had the same What do you like best about working in the office? What I like name from 1889 to the 1900's? The White Stockings was best is working with kids. their original name. Then, they changed to the Chicago White What do you do in the office? I assist Mrs. O'Neil and work Sox, but that is what most people called them anyway. The with subs . mascot of the Sox is called the Southpaw because they are What advantages do you have in being a secretary? I get to on the south side of Chicago. Also, they are named after left know what's going on in the building. handed pitchers. In 1906, the Sox beat the Cubs in the World Series. This is the only World Series game ever played Mrs. Johnson What is your favorite thing to do as secretary and what is your between the Crosstown teams.The White Sox were the first most important thing to do? My favorite thing to do in the team to put player’s last names on jerseys in 1960. A Sox fan office is greeting kids in the morning and the announcements wrote a song called “Lets Go, Go, Go White Sox”. and the most important thing to do is making sure the kids are Cubs and Sox enrolled at the beginning of the year. Do you have any kids? I have three boys and their names Not a lot of cities have two teams in one place and we are are Carlos,Talem, and the baby Adrianne. very lucky to have two teams in Chicago. The Cubs will play What do you like best about Beebe? I like to work with the the Sox on June 18 and 19 at Wrigley Field. They will play at students and the staff. Guaranteed Rate Field on July 6 and 7. How often do you see Mrs. O’Neil and Mr. Langes? I see Their rivalry is also called the Crosstown Classic. Root for Mrs O'Neil and Mr. Langes every day. your favorite Chicago team!!! Mrs. Fulsang

What is your favorite food? My favorite food is pizza. What is the candy bowl for in the front office and how did it start? It started when I was new to Beebe I wanted to get to know other people so I put up the candy bowl and then teachers came to my desk and got a candy and said hello. VS Do you help Mrs. O’Neil or Mr. Langes? I help Mr.Langes,Mrs.O'Neil, and other secretaries. Have you worked in another school? I worked at Elmwood for 2 years and I have worked at Beebe for 16 years. What do you do in the office? I help substitutes know were they go and kids also I help the nurse ,and greet everyone who comes into Beebe. Jefferson Spring Musical continued: When asked who the main characters are in Annie, here is what one actor in the musical answered “As sweet and sassy as Annie, to stern but caring Mr Warbucks, and kind and honest Grace, with the crazy Ms. Hannigan, and her sneaky brother Rooster, and his flashy girlfriend Lily, and many more that are all important with different personalities that make them unique and key to the story.” Jefferson Spring Musical The actors and stage crew must love being a part of the musical because over 60% do it every year! By Zach Chiaramonte, Grace Schuneman, and Kylan Blake The actors were asked what they had to do for their audition, one student answered, “For my Annie audition Life is different between being an orphan to living with a I had to learn the song and memorize the monologue. I billionaire. That is what happens in the Jefferson Spring then came to my audition and performed those two Musical. The Musical is named Annie Jr. Come see the things in front of the judges (just a panel of teachers play at Jefferson Junior High on April 11th and 12th at 7:30 nobody scary) and then I was done!” PM. Fifth grade will be going over to Jefferson April 10th. For them the play will start at 9:00 AM. The musical offers We hope that gave you a peak into life at the Jefferson free tickets, so come to the play with your family! The cast musical. ranges from fifty to one hundred cast members. And guess how many audience members can be seated, 500. For all Climbing Wall those cast members, you need directors. There are three directors; Mrs. Hernandez is the technical director, Mrs. By Sophia Valle and Ben Reif Ducommun is the assistant director, and Mr.Colbert is the stage director. They had auditions in January. The Get excited about climbing wall, reach new heights rehearsal days start everyday after school. The number of using your athletic skills, and reach the top to ring that cast members they have are about 70 cast members and bell! Climbing wall starts on April 12th and ens on 35 crew members. What inspired him was that the musical April 26th. Every class will get to climb two times, for has so many great roles, fun scenes, and songs. Also they one hour a day. Kindergarten through Second Grade had a lot of 6th graders with smaller heights, making them only climb to a certain point of the climbing wall. Third great for orphans. Mr.Colbert said yes it is hard to be a Grade through Fifth Grade climb to the top. director because there are so many things a director has to Mrs. Warren thinks climbing wall is a good working be in charge of. Mr.Colbert has been doing it for a while together activity and builds confidence and trust in and said it that has gotten easier. It is important to know students. It also is her favorite unit because kids that as he produces the show, which involves creating the challenge themselves and encourage others. vision, making sure the other directors know what needs to The rock wall was made by a company called Cliffs be done and communicating with all involved. These And Cables. Mrs. Warren, and Mr.Rick. A Beebe things only happen with help of the other directors. Mrs. retired art teacher, Mrs. Parks painted it. Ducommun and Mrs. Hernandez do so much to free up my Now stop standing around and get in the air and time for the cast. Ms. Walden helps with the dancing, Ms ring that bell! Braggs helps with the stage. We were so lucky for over half of cast members to respond to us, and check out the link below for fun facts about the cast and crew. Come and see Battle of the Books if the sun will come out tomorrow at Jefferson Jr. High’s By Grace Schuneman and Zach Chiaramonte show Annie. Time to get to know the cast and crew of Annie Jr.! Sshh, we are reading. It is Battle of the Books. Battle of H e re is what the students had to say when Mr. Colbert the Books meets on Tuesday mornings. A cool fact is that asked them some questions: they read 40 books total. With all that reading they do 6 of the students in the cast and crew went to Beebe competitions with other elementary school’s. The club’s (You could be in the musical when you go to competition is in April. The place they battle at is Kennedy Jefferson too!) Junior High. Battle of the Books is offered to 4th and 5th Some of the students have main roles, like Mrs. grade. This activity has two teams for 28 students. And Hannigan, or Annie but a lot have smaller (and just as only eight of them are on the book team. This is a club with important roles) like orphans and ensemble. kids who enjoy reading a lot! The leaders are Ms.Goff and Ms.Dexter. Somethings they do are Kahoot, Jeopardy, Continue reading at the top of the and Break Out! Wouldn’t you want to battle over books? next column.