So What Are Bixby Tiles?

[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"] 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…

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Stones in the River

[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"] According to the frontier-life author, Willa Cather “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”…

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Block Play

[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"] What exactly is it that block play provides our youngest children with? Simply put...so much! As I spent my morning with the preschoolers…

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The Risks We Take

[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"] Think about the implications of a 2.5 year old child joining us and leaving us at age 11 to go to middle school!…

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Material Matters

[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"] “The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for…

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Garden to Table to Garden

[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"] What kids get excited over vegetables?? Bixby kids, of course. They are more willing to eat them after being part of planting, and…

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A Study of the Sun

[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"] Since summer students had already viewed the eclipse at Bixby, we began the new term with a study of the Sun, and it's…

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WORMS!

[et_pb_section bb_built="1" admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] What a pleasure it was to see our Bixby preschoolers mesmerized by these earth friendly creatures! In celebration of…

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Gathering STEAM at home!

[et_pb_section bb_built="1" admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] We all have a wonderful challenge: Our children are born as creators, scientists, thinkers, and makers! Yet, how do…

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Pancakes, Pancakes!

[et_pb_section bb_built="1" admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Pancakes, Pancakes!, written and illustrated by Eric Carle, is a favorite story for many. In a brief synopsis, it…

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Theme Work in Kindergarten

[et_pb_section bb_built="1" admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] I believe students are more likely to get excited about learning when it is relevant to them and connected…

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