Nurturing Wild Readers and the 40 Book Challenge
Though we hope books travel with students wherever they may go, within and beyond the walls of Bixby, the literature classroom is our reading home for the year. Within these…
Bixby School’s 99 Ways To Play With Kids This Summer!
Now, set aside school, work and stress; it's time to focus on 99 ways to play with kids this summer! Build a toy car racetrack out of old boxes, paper…
Izze for Izzi
4th and 5th graders have a tradition in math every spring. After spring break, when spring fever is high, it can be difficult to keep students engaged, learning and having…
Science Assessments The Bixby Way
This time of year, end-of-year reports lead me to a careful examination of my own assessment practices. What have students learned, how do I know they learned it, and how…
The Interest Study
The interest study is a time-tested, time-honored Bixby writing tradition. Essentially research papers, interest studies give students the opportunity to dive deep into personally captivating topics. The process is more…
Nurturing A Bixby Community Across All Grades
One of the things I love about working with preschoolers is that I get to teach in a multi-age classroom with children from two and a half to five years…
The Tricky Month of May
I could make a case for how each month of the school year has its own particular and considerable challenges, but right now May and the approaching end of the…
Bixby School’s Field Day
Here at Bixby, we love to finish the year with a flourish - Field Day!! Formerly known as the All School Picnic, Field Day has morphed into an exciting non-competitive…
Bixby Portfolio Night
Portfolios are an integral part of the Bixby experience. In preschool, each child’s group time teacher spends countless hours collecting artwork, documenting developmental milestones, and capturing the uniqueness of each…
¡Nos vemos, hasta luego, adiós!
The year is coming to an end and it is time to say adiós. It has been an honor teaching Spanish to your children! To close, the fourth and fifth…
Earth Day, Everyday
Earth Day in the Preschool was yet another reason to get out and enjoy our amazing outdoor classroom that we value so highly. This year, Earth Day coincided with our…
The Fifth Grade Play
The Fifth Grade Play is an exhilarating Bixby tradition that’s existed as long as I can remember – literally. I remember watching the fifth graders perform it every May as…
Who Am I?
The second and third graders have enthusiastically immersed themselves in the Hero Study by independently reading biographies of interest and then dressing up as their heroes.…
It’s a Project!
As we approach the end of the school year, we look back on all the experiences we have had together exploring and mastering many skills and concepts. While we…
Preschool Art Show
“ What did you call it?” “It’s an animal!” “I love these patches.” “Those aren’t patches. Those are paper!” “How did you make that?” “We painted!” Such a great tradition;…
A Hundred!
In many schools “a hundred” is a reference to the 100th day of school project. This often translates into a less engaging project around displaying one hundred things in some…
Science Inside and Outside the Kindergarten Classroom
Nothing thrills a teacher more than hearing your kids get really excited about a project. Children absolutely love science! When children are engaged in science, there are no disruptions because…
Beautiful Moments From The 1st grade Geography Classroom
Dearest Bixby Community, A quick side note On Tuesday this week, there was a small alumni reunion that nourished my soul so deeply. I was inspired by the efforts of…
Who Is A Bixby Student?
The other day some of the parents and staff were trying to come up with the defining features of Bixby students. We thought by answering the central question of “who…
The Week of the Young Child
The preschool teachers are very excited to participate in The Week of the Young Child beginning April 11! The week is sponsored by the National Association for the Education of…