[et_pb_section bb_built="1"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.0.71" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" border_style="solid"] Has your preschooler ever come home talking about speckled frogs? Or maybe you’re wondering what a ran sam sam or a bottle pop…
The other day I came across a scene on the soccer field while picking my kids up from the after-school program that was so “Bixby” I had to sit and…
“Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” This quote attributed to Plato describes something that we all understand: Play keeps us working toward something longer…
This week we made necklaces out of Fruit Loops so the first graders could learn the colors in Spanish. They learned the words for red, green, blue, yellow and orange.…
Last Friday, the children were outside in t-shirts, throwing leaves into the air, and asking for spooky stories. On Monday the children were outside in snow pants, snow boots,…
If you haven’t had a chance to play with the Bixby Tiles used in math classrooms around the elementary school, you’re really missing out. They are simple in design, but…
According to the frontier-life author, Willa Cather “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.” Add to that, most authors write using…
Building a Kindergarten community at the beginning of the year is extremely important. So how do we do this? For the first 6 weeks of school, as a class…
What exactly is it that block play provides our youngest children with? Simply put...so much! As I spent my morning with the preschoolers in the block area, I was able…
Think about the implications of a 2.5 year old child joining us and leaving us at age 11 to go to middle school! What happens in this part of early…
Have you had a chance to talk to your kiddos about eating the rainbow? This is the idea that we should be choosing a variety of different-colored whole foods throughout…
“The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.” -- Caroline Pratt, progressive…
Forming positive responsive relationships with children and families is my primary goal at the start of every school year. I find that this happens quite naturally when you just spend…
It’s an hour before back to school night. I’m in my classroom, cleaning my board as best as I can, even though some expo marker just refuses to come off.…
What kids get excited over vegetables?? Bixby kids, of course. They are more willing to eat them after being part of planting, and watering around the school. One of…
Since summer students had already viewed the eclipse at Bixby, we began the new term with a study of the Sun, and it's significant connections to our own world. Starting…
I so appreciate that Anna talked about the rubrics for student growth last week, and how she spoke about learning more about the practice of teaching through filling them out.…
We all have a wonderful challenge: Our children are born as creators, scientists, thinkers, and makers! Yet, how do we nurture and foster their natural curiosity at home? How do…
As we head into the last weeks of the school year the Preschool classroom is abuzz with preparations for the end of the school year. This week we hosted the…
As rubric season comes to a close at Bixby, I’ve been reflecting on the experience of writing these reports. For many years the rubric has been a Bixby hallmark. It…
