🌟 Let’s Rally for Mrs. Higgins! 🌟
Our very own Kerrie Higgins has been nominated for TC Palm Teacher of the Week, and we would love your help to make this happen! 💛💙
Mrs. Higgins is a truly fabulous teacher who pours her heart into her students every single day. This nomination is so well deserved, and with our JBE community behind her, we know we can show just how much she is appreciated.
🗳️ You can vote daily through noon on Friday, December 19.
👉 Vote here: https://tinyurl.com/2sevtrsn
Let’s come together and show our Viking pride by voting and sharing the link. We’ve got this! 💪💛💙
🏆 Congratulations to our 5th Grade JBE Spelling Bee Winners! 🏆
We are so proud of Carter Molineux, Layla Ivy, and Taylor Grand, who will go on to represent Jensen Beach Elementary at the Martin County Spelling Bee! These students showed incredible focus, perseverance, and confidence throughout the competition.
A big congratulations to all of our participants as well. Every student who took part demonstrated courage and hard work, and we are proud of each one of them.
Please join us in cheering on our winners as they take the stage to represent JBE! 💛💙
#WeAreJBE #VikingPride #SpellingBee
We are so proud of Carter Molineux, Layla Ivy, and Taylor Grand, who will go on to represent Jensen Beach Elementary at the Martin County Spelling Bee! These students showed incredible focus, perseverance, and confidence throughout the competition.
A big congratulations to all of our participants as well. Every student who took part demonstrated courage and hard work, and we are proud of each one of them.
Please join us in cheering on our winners as they take the stage to represent JBE! 💛💙
#WeAreJBE #VikingPride #SpellingBee
We are beyond proud to share some incredible news. 🎉
Mrs. Jill Ann Boudreau has been named Martin County’s Literacy Teacher of the Year! This is such a well-deserved honor and a true reflection of the passion, care, and expertise she brings to literacy instruction every single day.
Mrs. Boudreau will be representing Martin County and Jensen Beach Elementary at the Florida Literacy Association Conference, and she does an outstanding job showcasing the heart of great literacy instruction. Her commitment to helping children grow as confident readers and writers makes a lasting impact on our entire school community.
Congratulations, Mrs. Boudreau. We are so proud of you and grateful to have you as part of the JBE family. 💙📚
🍎HONORING AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR🍎
Please join us in celebrating Ms. Jill Ann Boudreau, Kindergarten teacher at Jensen Beach Elementary School, our 2025–2026 Literacy Teacher of the Year! 📚🎉
A Martin County educator since 1998, Ms. Boudreau is known for her purposeful, joy-filled approach to teaching reading. She blends evidence-based strategies with engaging, multisensory instruction that helps every child feel confident, capable, and excited to learn. Her students consistently exceed expectations, a reflection of her expertise and genuine connection with learners.
This year, she emerged as a standout leader in our district’s implementation of UFLI, quickly becoming a model classroom for her colleagues and supporting other schools as they adopted the framework.
We are grateful for Ms. Boudreau’s dedication to early literacy, her leadership, and her unwavering belief in the potential of every child. Congratulations! 💙📖
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
Please join us in celebrating Ms. Jill Ann Boudreau, Kindergarten teacher at Jensen Beach Elementary School, our 2025–2026 Literacy Teacher of the Year! 📚🎉
A Martin County educator since 1998, Ms. Boudreau is known for her purposeful, joy-filled approach to teaching reading. She blends evidence-based strategies with engaging, multisensory instruction that helps every child feel confident, capable, and excited to learn. Her students consistently exceed expectations, a reflection of her expertise and genuine connection with learners.
This year, she emerged as a standout leader in our district’s implementation of UFLI, quickly becoming a model classroom for her colleagues and supporting other schools as they adopted the framework.
We are grateful for Ms. Boudreau’s dedication to early literacy, her leadership, and her unwavering belief in the potential of every child. Congratulations! 💙📖
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
🌟UNSTOPPABLE TEAMMATE: LIFESAVER EDITION🌟
Some moments remind us exactly why the right people in the right place truly matter. At Jensen Beach Elementary School, one of those moments happened when Ms. Dina McFadden didn’t hesitate—she acted.
When a 5th-grader began choking on a water bottle cap, Ms. McFadden relied on her training, her calm, and her instincts. While others called 911, she immediately performed the Heimlich maneuver, helping him dislodge the cap and breathe again. His mom, a para on campus, rushed over—grateful beyond words that her child had an everyday hero by his side when it mattered most.
Today, Superintendent Maine, Executive Director of HR Jeff Raimann and his team, Principal Smith, Assistant Principal Law, the student, and his mom surprised Ms. McFadden with a special Unstoppable Teammate Award, celebrating her courage, care, and quick life-saving action.
Ms. McFadden, thank you for being extraordinary—and for showing what it truly means to go #ALLINMartin👊.
#PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
🎄 Candy Grams are here! 🎄
Our PBIS Team is spreading a little holiday cheer with Candy Grams, now on sale through Friday!
Each Candy Gram is just $1 and includes a candy cane. Students can send them to friends, classmates, teachers, or staff to brighten their week.
Sales started today, and will run through Friday the 12th. Thank you for supporting PBIS and helping us share a little extra joy this season! ❤️💚
🎁Looking for a gift this holiday season?🎁
Look no further! Purchase a tag created by one of our fifth-grade art students through Martin County Tax Collector, Ruth Pietruszewski's Office! Choose from plates created by students from one of our elementary schools. Proceeds from purchases go back to our classrooms!
Purchase tags from this year or previous years: https://martin-county-tag-art.myshopify.com/
🌟 Career Exploration Fair – Join the Fun! 🌟
A big thank you to all of our amazing community partners who have already signed up to share their careers with our students! 💙
There’s still plenty of time to join in! We’re inviting parents, guardians, family members, and friends to be part of our JA Career Exploration Fair® on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, from 8:00–10:30 a.m. at Jensen Beach Elementary.
Come inspire our Vikings by sharing what you do and helping them see the many possibilities for their future — from healthcare and construction to technology, education, and beyond.
👉 Interested in participating? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/wN1wuf2hz3qkuG9Y9
Let’s continue showing our students that every career journey begins with curiosity and hard work! 🌟
JBE Wavemakers, we need you! 🌊💙
Our school has the chance to earn a $10,000 Education Grant by submitting the most entries in the Future Wavemakers Competition. Students in grades K through 5 can enter with a video or an essay and photos. The top student entry also earns a $5,000 grant for future STEM learning!
Entries are due January 28, 2026.
Questions? Reach out to Mrs. Liberty at libertl@martinschools.org.
Let’s show what our Vikings can do! 🌟
Our school has the chance to earn a $10,000 Education Grant by submitting the most entries in the Future Wavemakers Competition. Students in grades K through 5 can enter with a video or an essay and photos. The top student entry also earns a $5,000 grant for future STEM learning!
Entries are due January 28, 2026.
Questions? Reach out to Mrs. Liberty at libertl@martinschools.org.
Let’s show what our Vikings can do! 🌟
Thank you to the Education Foundation of Martin County for funding our project Letters and Animals Alive! 🐾✨ Our kindergarten students can’t wait to dive into these new materials and bring their learning to life. We are so grateful for your continued support of JBE and our young learners! 💛📚💙
🎄🍪HOLIDAY SURPRISE🍪🎄
Did you know that tomorrow, December 4, is National Cookie Day?!
You know what that means...every student gets a FREE holiday cookie with their lunch purchase! 🎉
A little sweet treat to ring in the season and make their day even brighter! 🤩
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
Did you know that tomorrow, December 4, is National Cookie Day?!
You know what that means...every student gets a FREE holiday cookie with their lunch purchase! 🎉
A little sweet treat to ring in the season and make their day even brighter! 🤩
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
🎉CELEBRATING ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE🎉
Join us in celebrating the incredible students who excelled in this year’s AGLOA LinguiSHTIK competition and will go on to represent the Martin County School District at the state competition in March!
Congratulations to:
Elementary Division–
⭐️Hely Shah, Palm City Elementary School
⭐️Sam Rijal, Palm City Elementary School
⭐️Moksh Patel, Palm City Elementary School
⭐️Miya Chen, The Pinewood Elementary
⭐️Gabriel Borges, Jensen Beach Elementary School
Middle School Division–
⭐️Sonia Chen, Dr. David L. Anderson Middle School
⭐️Camden Ziegler, Hidden Oaks Middle School
LinguiSHTIK pushes students to flex their language arts skills through strategic word-building and vocabulary challenges—and they delivered.
Up next: Social Studies! Students will test their knowledge in three exciting trivia events: Presidents, Current Events (2025), and this year’s theme, Norse Mythology. All competitions and practices are virtual, and it’s not too late to sign up!
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
Join us in celebrating the incredible students who excelled in this year’s AGLOA LinguiSHTIK competition and will go on to represent the Martin County School District at the state competition in March!
Congratulations to:
Elementary Division–
⭐️Hely Shah, Palm City Elementary School
⭐️Sam Rijal, Palm City Elementary School
⭐️Moksh Patel, Palm City Elementary School
⭐️Miya Chen, The Pinewood Elementary
⭐️Gabriel Borges, Jensen Beach Elementary School
Middle School Division–
⭐️Sonia Chen, Dr. David L. Anderson Middle School
⭐️Camden Ziegler, Hidden Oaks Middle School
LinguiSHTIK pushes students to flex their language arts skills through strategic word-building and vocabulary challenges—and they delivered.
Up next: Social Studies! Students will test their knowledge in three exciting trivia events: Presidents, Current Events (2025), and this year’s theme, Norse Mythology. All competitions and practices are virtual, and it’s not too late to sign up!
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
Our Viking Visionaries have been hard at work inspiring their classmates to show up, shine, and take charge of their learning. 🌟
They recently visited our kindergarten classes to share why coming to school every day matters. From making new friends to building strong habits to earning leadership opportunities as they get older, they helped our youngest Vikings see that showing up opens doors.
They’ve also been creating morning messages for WJBE to encourage all students to be here, be engaged, and be ready to learn. Attendance isn’t just a number. It’s a daily choice that helps every student grow.
We’re so proud of their leadership and the positive influence they’re bringing to our campus. Keep leading the way, Visionaries! 💙💛📚
Mrs. McConnell’s fifth graders were hard at work with Building Thinking Classrooms as they explored rules for input-output tables 🔢✨. Students collaborated, shared their reasoning, and tested their ideas as they worked through different number patterns.
It was great to see them talking math, thinking deeply, and supporting one another as they made sense of the relationships in each table. This kind of teamwork and problem solving is what Building Thinking Classrooms is all about, and they crushed it 👏💙.
We are so proud to share that Mrs. Jill Ann Boudreau, one of our incredible kindergarten teachers, is representing Jensen Beach Elementary as our Literacy Teacher of the Year 🎉📚.
She creates a joyful, engaging, and purposeful literacy environment where students grow, take risks, and fall in love with learning. Her passion for early literacy shines through in everything she does, and her students feel it every day.
We are grateful for her dedication and thrilled to celebrate her amazing work at JBE 💛👏.
Mrs. Licameli’s class took our SPIRE dictation steps and made them a little more interactive. Instead of jumping straight to pencil and paper, students worked together to break apart sounds, talk through spelling, and check their thinking as a team ✨. Once everyone agreed on the sounds and spelling, they wrote it on their dictation sheets. Their focus was the vowel team ou, and they did an awesome job applying what they’ve learned 📚👏!
Last week, our 2nd graders took their learning beyond the classroom with a fun and hands-on trip to the zoo! 🐾🦁
After spending the last few weeks studying habitats, animals, and their life cycles, they finally got to see it all up close. From watching animals in their natural-like habitats to spotting behaviors we talked about in class, the excitement was priceless! 🌿🐒🦋
Such a great day of learning, exploring, and connecting what we’ve studied to the real world. Proud of our curious kiddos! 💛📚
🦃🍁🍂HAPPY THANKSGIVING!🍂🍁🦃
Today, we’re grateful for our incredible students, dedicated educators, hardworking support staff, devoted families, and our entire community who make our A-rated District unstoppable. 🧡
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
Today, we’re grateful for our incredible students, dedicated educators, hardworking support staff, devoted families, and our entire community who make our A-rated District unstoppable. 🧡
#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925
Good morning, JBE family, and Happy Thanksgiving.
Today we’re pausing to appreciate the people who make our school such a special place.
We’re thankful for our students who bring joy, curiosity, and heart to our school every day. We’re thankful for our incredible teachers and staff who pour their passion into helping children learn and grow. And we’re thankful for our families, volunteers, and community partners whose support lifts our school in countless ways.
However you celebrate, we hope your holiday is filled with rest, connection, and moments that remind you of what matters most.
From our JBE family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving. 💙💛🦃
Our fourth graders are thriving in music with Mr. Skrobinski. He’s been guiding them through xylophone practice while helping them build a strong foundation in music theory, and their growth has been incredible to see.
Students are learning how to read, play, and connect music in meaningful ways, and their confidence is shining through. We’re grateful for the energy, patience, and joy Mr. Skrobinski brings to his classroom every day.
Way to go, fourth graders, and thank you, Mr. Skrobinski, for inspiring our musicians. 🎵💙💛
