Beck Weekly Update
Parent Info for Friday, February 9, 2024
Beck Centennial Elementary
Beck Attendance Line: 586-797-3999
Email: officebeck@uticak12.org
Website: beck.uticak12.org
Location: 54600 Hayes Road, Macomb, MI, USA
Phone: 586-797-3900
Facebook: facebook.com/BeckElementarySchool
Twitter: @beckelementary
Numbers Dominate the Week at Beck Centennial!
Hello Beck Families!
We had many celebrations this week at Beck - Hundreds Day and Thousands Day!
Our Kindergarten, first and second graders celebrated "100 Day" - their hundredth day of school this year in all ways hundreds! See the great pics below of their fun.
For our 5th graders - it was "1,000 Day" - their one thousandth day of elementary school! They explored all the ways 1,000 can be looked at. They even created a 1,000 link chain - and on each link they wrote one thing they've learned during their 1,000 days of school! Our guest contributor, 5th grader Elisa, wrote about the event. You'll want to check her story out below!
Enjoy this crazy Michigan weather!
Christine Wilson
Principal
Hundreds Day
For 5th Graders: 1,000th Day of School!
By 5th Grader Elisa M.
February 8, 2024 was the fifth grader’s 1,000th day at school! Can you imagine? How did we celebrate? What did we do? For our 1,000’s day at school, we did special things for each subject. Science, Math, Writing, Social Studies, you name it!
In math class we started off with 1000 based questions. Multiplication, division, decimals, whatever floats your boat! Once we were done with the 1,000-math sheet, we went on to a Blooket. Blooket is a quiz game. We did the 1,000 quiz. We did a couple rounds, all the same quiz, but different winners!
Chemicals, Scientists, Chromatography! Can you guess which subject? Yep! Science. For science, we thought of inventions for 1,000 years from today. People were inventing items like teleporters of all sorts, time traveling devices, and items for personal issues! Everyone was trying their best to be creative for inventions from 1,000 years in the future. 1,000 years ago today. Kids didn’t have the gadgets we have today. In social studies we learned about a child’s life 1,000 years ago. 1024. Wow! We learned that kids didn’t have real toys like we do, they played simple games like tag, hide & seek, and sardines! If they wanted to go somewhere, they had to walk or ride a horse. THAT was what we learned life was like 1,000 years ago today! We also made some of those chained paper dolls. Our S.S. teacher said that’s what they would use as toys! We could choose between a boy or girl, and we colored them and everything!
For writing class, we had the option to write about if we won $1,000 in a contest, or what we think life would be like in 1,000 years! I chose the $1,000 contest writing piece, and wrote about me winning the contest, and what I would do with the money! Kids chose 1,000 years ago from today as well, however. They all wrote about how they think the world would be, and what they would do!
If you’re not in 5th grade yet, you have a lot to look forward to. It’s so much fun! It does get hard at times, but don’t dread it. It was so much fun to celebrate 1,000th day!
Congratulations to National Elementary Honor Society Inductees!
Club President Addresses Inductees
Inductees Taking Their NEHS Pledge
Congratulations New NEHS Members!
This week the Beck Centennial Elementary chapter of the National Elementary Honor Society inducted its newest members! Nine new students were admitted to Beck's NEHS in a ceremony centered on the four pillars of National Honor Society: scholarship, responsibility, service and leadership. These new members will join the previous 7 members. Their work this year has included kits for foster students and raising money for the Beck Graduating Senior Scholarship fund. We look forward to seeing their efforts in our school community! Congratulations to our new members!