Hi, I am Lindsey. I like Project Jubilee A LOT. We have learned kumihimo, Jazz history, Optical Illusions, and many more! It is so much fun. We have done so many projects. Three years to go.

Hi my name is Chloe. Project Jubilee is so fun! I love my teacher and all of my friends in it too!

Hi my name is Justin. I go to Project Jubilee every Friday and every Friday, it’s the best.

Hi, I’m Rose , and I like when we learn about optical illusions because it is really cool were you get to look at things that are really  not what it seems.

PJ is awesoooome! I <3 it . Raise a glass to the BEST FRIDAY EVERRRR!!!!!

This is the last time I will be posting. The past three years have been great but nothing lasts forever. It is very sad that i have to go but it is also nice because the next advanced classes teacher i have met and is very nice. Although this is happy it is also sad. Two years with Mrs.Heald and one with Mrs.Heald and Mrs.Smith have been too good to be described in mear words or any form of communication. They have just been that great. The Temari, Roman and Myan numerals, Bridge building, FBI, China, Italy, and Latin/Greek words. All have just been amazing! I never thought that school could be just so fun. I only wish for one more year but it cannot be so.

Now I say Farewell! AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT, DAY, NAY, OR WHATEVER IT IS!!!    

On Friday, we went to visit the Black Education Museum (BEM). We took notes of everything we saw. We met a nice lady named Mrs. Agee. She showed us around the museum and told us about the history of the building -what  it was like when she was there, what each room used to be, etc. She was really interesting.  Also, Makayla D. (Who must know a lot about her relatives) was telling Mrs. Agee about her family. We went into a hall with a lot of  things hanging on the wall with the names of all the students who went there.  We looked for some of Makayla’s family and found some of them. Mrs. Agee told us that the reason some years they didn’t have many students was because the kids had to stay home and work and help with crops. She also told us that the school used to be called “The Baldwin County Training School.” She said it was the only school that allowed African Americans. Few even got to go to the small school.

 We visited many rooms. We went to a room that looked that like a bedroom they had back then.  On a cabinet in the room was a typewriter. It was really fun and everyone wanted to try it. Almost everyone typed something on it. It almost ran out of ink from us messing with it so much. We also went into a room with lots of tools that were donated there. We saw what their projectors were like and made most of us realize how lucky we are for having so much stuff. We also saw what kind of sports they did. They had Basketball, Baseball, Football, Tennis, Cheerleading, etc. We also went to the Home and Rec. room (I’m pretty sure that’s what it was called).  It looked like a big kitchen. Mrs. Agee said that she learned to cook and sew there. After visiting there she took us to an old classroom. She explained that if you were bad, or forgot how to spell your spelling words, you got spanked in the knuckles! We also got to see the principal’s  office. We looked at all the certificates on the wall and the big calculator that could only add. Mrs. Agee talked about the past principals and Mr. W.J. Carroll. We also saw, out in the hall near the office, a bunch of pictures of men that were veterans and that went to that school. (I think that’s what it was).  I found out that my bus driver (Mr. Longmire) was in one of those pictures! Another room we went in had stuff about their band. There was a song hung on the wall called “Hail Baldwin Training School.” We all started to sing it. When we were all done vocalizing, we looked around at the room. There were pictures of band members hung everywhere.  Some had clairnets! (Which, if you didn’t know, is what I play).   There was even an old trombone hanging from the wall. We had so much fun at BEM! Well, I guess that’s all I have to say, BYE!!!

                       Sincerely,

                                      Maddie  (Madison)

Last Friday on January 21, 2011, we took a field trip to the Black History Museum right behind our school. It used to be our school’s office, but when we got the new school, it became a museum. You may ask, ‘why here?’ Well, that’s because over 100 years ago, it was a school for black children called Baldwin County Training School.

 When we first got there we met Mrs.Agee (Believe it or not but she went to school there in second grade!). She showed us the Principal’s Office, the Agricultural Room, the dormitories, the Home Ec. Room, (which was where I put my hand in a desk, and there was gum in it! I actually touched it!!!) The Sports Room, the Band Room, and a classroom. My most favorite one of all was the dormitory! It had an old typewriter with a little bit of ink left on it!! That was my favorite part about the whole trip. I hope you enjoyed!

                                                      Sarah Fuller

  What I learned at the Black Memorial School was that W.J.Carroll himself was a principle there. The teaching ways for the students was actual work. Agricultural, cooking were fields that the student physicallydid. All the crude tools in the agricultural room were rusty. The rusty tools seemed overly used without repair. And the calculator in the principle’s office was as thick as my head! It was huge, I wonder if  it ever stopped right in the middle of  a problem. But he,( Mr. Carroll ) should know his multiplication facts. This is my conclusion of the Black Memorial School.

Last Friday, my half of the 6th grade Project Jubilee went on an on campus field trip to the Black Education Museum.  It was a very cool place to go to learn about the past.  Our tour guide, Mrs. Agee, remembers back when she was in fourth grade going to the exact same school!!!  In the first room, the lobby, that we went in there were pictures of all of the past schools that had been on the campus.  Seven in all but Mrs. Agee remembered 6 of them, dating back to around the 40’s and 50’s.  Later we went intoa very cool room full of old agricultural tools used in gardening and working the fields a long time ago.  Many of the things looked similar to today’s tools, such as the saw, gardening hoe, hand shovel, hammer, scizzors, and lawnmower.  My favorite room though, had the names of everyone who had ever attended the school.  Some people I recognized but just about everone else I didn’t.  Overall, I thought the trip was very cool and I learned many interesting facts about the old school and also about black education many years ago.