the Best of Birch

 With the end of the school year quickly approaching your teachers have been thinking about all of the amazing things our Birch students have discovered throughout the year.  We have focused on so many interests.  They have woven into one another so seamlessly that it is hard to even remember where one merged into the next.  

For the remainder of the weeks we have decided to bring back the "Best of Birch" with the invitations that sparked so much joy.

From the beginning of the year our friends showed us their deep love for color and paint.  We have painted with different tools, with different paint, and on different types of canvases.

One of our friend's favorite invitations was painting to music.

How does your brush move?

How does your body move?

How does this music make you feel?

These are all questions we explored throughout our study of the language of paint.

Our passion for colors led to monochromatic building.

We built with blocks, legos, plus plus blocks, and magnets

Magnets of different sizes and shapes work together in unique ways.

How can all of these different magnets work together to create something amazing?

"It's a playground!" CG

"It's an Amazing house!" EM

From scribbles to marks

From lines to circles

From circles to letters

From letters to words!

Our Birch friends have gone through an amazing transformation.

Rolling and writing letters

Writing their own names

Writing the names of friends

Writing words

Writing JUICY words!

We love to write!

We have come to a place of deep discovery.  We are able to zoom in and look deeply in wonder at the world around us.  We are able to ask questions and answer them.

We notice

We investigate

We see

We grow!

These photos from our time in the forest sparked moments of deep thinking for some friends today.

What is the difference?

I heard words like

bumpy and smooth

slimy and hard

dots and swirls

long and short

antennae and no antennae

We noticed differences in 

pattern

size

color

movement

 

We noted many differences, but, are there any similarities?

"They both like the dirt." MT

They sure do.  They both live in the same environment.

"When this one comes out he is slimy like that one." CG

You are noticing differences about the "creature"

As we continue to look back, we simultaneously look forward and continue to grow a bit more, a bit deeper each day.

We are the Best of Birch!