These change agents are ready to greet our Little Lancers at BCEL tomorrow!!!
We spent part of the afternoon planting succulents together. This year is all about "Rooting for Each Other" and making the 24/25 school year a "SUCC"ess!!!! BCEL is wishing everyone the very best school year!!
BCEL would like to give a big thank you to Remax for sharing your balloon with us today!!! What an awesome experience!!! We sure do love our community and the support they give to our students!!
Ms. Heider's very smart Young Five students enjoyed their math lesson outside today! The kids did an amazing job learning new material, practicing this new skill, and being respectful! I love that our teachers utilize our space throughout their day!
Mrs. Hedlund's BCEL Kindergarteners enjoyed a beautiful day at the Saginaw Children's Zoo yesterday!!! Lots of fun was had exploring all that the zoo has to offer!!!!
BCEL students worked really hard today helping Mrs. Pretzer spruce up our pollinator garden. Students also recorded all the living things they found as they were racking and pulling weeds. The kids did such a great job asking questions about the plants they were taking care of, the living things they found, why we needed to pull weeds, how the mulch was helping, and lots and lots of other questions and rich conversations! I am so proud of the ownership these kids have for our school and our nature spaces! Thank you to Mrs. Pretzer for organizing this day! It is looking beautiful!
Mrs. Williamson, our amazing ASD teacher, and Mrs. Pretzer, our equally fantastic district nature coordinator, worked really hard on a grant to support a peer-to-peer group here at BCEL! They were awarded this grant which allowed them to purchase things to create raised gardens out in our courtyard. During recess yesterday our first peer group got together to enjoy some planting time in the sun! Peers had a great time planting, talking, giggling, and interacting with each other! Thanks for all of your hard work kids! We love these special times together!
Ms. Heider's young five students at BCEL have spend the last several week trying to hatch chicks. Well....yesterday their patience paid off when they began hatch!!! The excitement in that room is off the charts!! Welcome to the world little chicks!
This has been such an amazing experience for these students to study how chickens hatch!
Some BCEL students enjoyed a special visit from a few staff members from the Center of the Arts today. These students were able to explore the steps of invention as they created, innovated, collaborated, and problem-solved through these amazing activities inspired by the stories of Andrea Beaty. Students explored the scientific process as they experimented like Ada Twist, engineered a flying machine like Rosie Revere, and worked as a team to construct a bridge just like Iggy Peck and his classmates!
What a fun and exciting way to make self to text connections and to connect with these experts from our community!
Ms. Heider's Young Five writers enjoyed this beautiful day at BCEL by taking their journals outside!!! The sunshine and warm temperatures inspired them to do their very best!!! Great job little authors!!!
Mrs. Woods' first graders were so excited to have parent readers help us begin March is reading month! Read alouds are great for improving vocabulary, comprehension, listening skills, and intriguing young minds!!
Our Friends, Derek and Mason, from Mrs. Williamson's room at BCEL had a ton of fun using ocean animals in blue Jello yesterday! Our head cook, Brailea, donated our leftover jello from lunch to our ASD room so they could experience some sensory fun!! Thank you, Brailea! What an awesome idea on how to use our leftover food!!
BCEL had so much fun with the Great Lake Loons and Lou E Loon today to help kick off March is Reading Month!!!! GO LOONS!!!!! Thanks for getting us pumped up and ready to read!!!
BCEL's very own Leona was chosen as the Loon's Reading Program bookmark winner! Kids all over MIdland County submitted entries! Great job, Leona! Very creative!! We are so proud of you and are excited to have your creation marking the progress in our reading books during March is Reading Month and beyond!!
BCEL's second grade students had the chance to do some public speaking this week through an authors share event! Parents were treated to the published works of their students as they bravely got up on stage to read their pieces! We are so incredibly proud of all the hard work that went into this event. Students planned, drafted, revised, and published their writing in order to be ready for authors share.
Thank you 2nd grade teachers for all the work put into this experience for our kids and our families!
This week BCEL was filled with so many events and activities! We were feeling the love of Valentine's Day!!
Ms. Terrill, one of our Young Fives teachers, organized a school-wide community service project. She, along with our other amazing classroom teachers, had BCEL students make Valentine's Day cards for the residents of Riverside. Ms. Terrill delivered our cards and art projects on Wednesday so that the residents could receive something special on a day filled with love!
We sure do love to spread the love :)
Thank you, Ms. Terrill, for organizing this project!
To end National Counselors Week BCEL wants to brag all over our very own superhero, Mrs. Clapp!! Mrs. Clapp not only supports our students and families but she adds positivity, spunk, and support to our staff and school culture!! BCEL would not be the same without the unwavering support of our Mrs. Clapp. The entire BCEL family wants to shout it from the rooftops: WE LOVE OUR MRS. CLAPP!!! Thank you for all that you do for us!!
Ms. Heider's Young Five readers were treated to an amazing experience today as they paired up with our 2nd-grade friends in Mrs. Napoli's class! These Little Lancers enjoyed reading books together, talking about the story they were enjoying, and learning from each other! We love it when classrooms collaborate to create lasting memories for our students! Thank you Ms. Heider and Mrs. Napoli for working together to provide this opportunity to your BCEL kids!
BCEL is so excited to meet all of our upcoming 24/25 Young Five and Kindergarten students tomorrow night at our open house/round-up event!
We will greet families from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Registration tables will be set up in the gym to get all of the paperwork you will need to register your student. We will also have buses here for a bus ride, an informational session with the principal, and a time to meet the teachers, and explore our campus! We can not wait to see you all tomorrow night at BCEL from 6-7 pm!
Mrs. Lombard's 1st grade class enjoyed some time on our new sledges with our nature para, Ms. Stacie!!! Winter time is so much fun!!
Mrs. Duhoski's 2nd-grade scientists are exploring the water cycle this week! Mrs. Dopp's 2nd-grade students are experimenting with the 3 states of matter and chemical reactions!
These little Lancers are so engaged in their learning promoting student-led learning, purposeful conversations, and students having opportunities to experience peer questioning! What an amazing way to learn!!
