RECENT NEWS

Throughout January
This month, STARBASE Florida continues to educate 5th grade students with a week long, comprehensive. on-site program that touches on almost 90% of what is tested on this years FCAT!  Throughout the course of the week, students will engage in a variety of activities including: conducting a number of experiements using the scientific method, learning the physics behind flight as they take control of a virtual aircraft, and building their own rockets to launch.  The Cathedral Arts Project continues their work at S.P. Livingston Elementary and Eugene Butler Middle school.  Students take part in afterschool arts programming taught by highly qualified professionals in the field twice per week.  Classes include strings, dance, and computer animation.  

Throughout December
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens continues with it's innovative Cummer at S.P. Livingston program.  Over the course of the school year, students at every grade level will be immersed in Cummer-led art activitiesboth in-school and at the Cummer museum. All of the activities are age appropriate and make many cross-curricular connections to the Sunshine State Standards and benchmarks for each grade level.  The program will culminate with a mini-Cummer exhibition taking place at the school where students will turn their hallways and classrooms into museum galleries with their works of art.  The Jacksonville Zoological Gardens also continues their work with 4th grade students at 11 schools located throughout Jacksonville's Northside. Their "Vertebrate Body Systems" program developed in conjunction with Duval Schools Science Curriculum team will take the zoo into the classroom.  This hands-on expereince will allow students to get up close and personal with the animals while zoo educators help them compare and contrast these animals body systems with our own human body system.


UPCOMING COUNCIL MEETINGS

S.P. Livingston Councils
I.C.A. Council: January 14, 3:45 p.m.
Council Dinner: 4:45 p.m.
Community Engagement Council: January 14, 5:45 p.m.

Eugene Butler Councils
I.C.A. Council: January 8, 4:45 p.m.
Council Dinner 5:45 p.m.
Community Engagement Council: January 8, 6:15 p.m.

All Council meeings take place at the school.