This is an excellent opportunity to donate a free book and read with your child at the same time! Some of the books are Accelerated Reader books so students can read and take a test on the book. Great chance to build those reading skills at home while spending quality time with your child. Sign up now!

This website is an excellent way to prepare your child for FCAT 2.0. The FCAT 2.0 Sample Questions and Answer Key Books are produced to prepare students to take the tests in mathematics (grades 3-8) and reading (grades 3-10). The Sample Question Books are designed to help students become familiar with FCAT 2.0 questions and to offer students practice answering questions in different formats. The Sample Answer Keys are designed to be used by teachers and parents to explain to students the answers and solutions to the questions in the Sample Question Books and to identify which Next Generation Sunshine State Standards benchmark is being tested by the question.

This website is filled with many educational activities for math, science, reading, social studies, and logic games.

This is an excellent new math website with exciting educational math games for you and your child to play. Take advantage of this website that encourages your child to learn while playing!

The Spanish version of FCAT Booklet for Parents

The FL PIRC (Parent Information Resource Center) has created a FCAT Booklet for Parents. You can visit the website at www.floridapirc.org.

Share your ideas and opinions in a national online survey. Join students, educators, and parents from around the country in speaking up to decision-makers about technology, science, and 21st century skills. Log on to http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2010 to share your ideas. The deadline is January 21, 2011.

The Department of Education has launched a new website designed with parents in mind. The new "Success Measures" website was crafted to help parents understand how changes to Flordia's standards and assessments in the months and years to come will impact their children. Please visit the website for further information.

What is the Florida PIRC at USF? The Florida Parental Information and Resource Center (PIRC ) at the University of South Florida (USF) is a center funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall goal of the PIRC is to help families and schools throughout the state work together effectively to increase parental involvement in education so children are: 1) better prepared to enter school and 2) their academic achievement increases.

It's Accelerated Reader time again! We are looking forward to a new and exciting school year helping your child gain a love for reading! BES has a updated verison of Accelerated Reader. Students have access to more book test than ever before. Also parents can now log in to the Home Connect website to view their child's reading record using their child's username and password.

The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) is part of Florida's overall plan to increase student achievement by implementing higher standards. The FCAT, administered to students in Grades 3-11, contains two basic components: criterion-referenced tests (CRT), measuring selected benchmarks in Mathematics, Reading, Science, and Writing from the Sunshine State Standards (SSS); and norm-referenced tests (NRT) in Reading and Mathematics, measuring individual student performance against national norms.

Click on the link to view the Blountstown Elementary School Parental Involvement Guide.

Click on the link to view the Blountstown Elementary School-Student-Parent Compact.