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Celebrate our Artists! Open Studios is May 31st…

Join BCD’s teaching artists and K-9 students on Tuesday, May 31st from 3:30 – 5:30PM to celebrate artworks created during the spring trimester! Open Studios is a special opportunity for parents, families, and friends to view experimental and finished works of art in each of our three atelier spaces. Students and faculty will be present to talk about projects and experiences as they pull back the curtain on their ideas and processes. This term, our distinguished teaching artists included Tom O’Neil, Maggie Mailer, Ben Evans, and Max Spitzer. Come sip lemonade, view extraordinary works of art, and hear from the artists themselves!

By BCD Blog|2016-10-25T15:02:15-04:00May 26th, 2016|

Fifth Grade Book Drive!

Time for the annual Fifth Grade Book Drive!

In conjunction with Reader-to-Reader, a Springfield-based non-profit organization, the Fifth Grade is collecting books!

Reader-to-Reader serves children in rural and underserved communities in the US and around the world. We are excited to continue this community service project in 2016! Last year, Fifth Grade collected several hundred books for this important cause.

Please bring your gently used children’s books (through Grade 9) to the Fifth Grade homeroom in the next week. No textbooks, magazines, videos or reference materials, please!

Thanks for your support!

Grade Five

By BCD Blog|2016-05-16T20:08:32-04:00May 16th, 2016|

Reminder about Upcoming Music Concerts

Private Lesson Music Concert

Sunday, April 24th at 2 PM in Furey Hall

MS/US Music Concert

Friday, May 20th at 1:30 in Fitzpatrick

Lower School Music Concert

Friday, May 27th at 1:30 in Furey Hall

By BCD Blog|2016-03-30T09:09:11-04:00March 30th, 2016|

Kindergarten’s month of special events

This month has flown by! Why? Well, in addition to our regular curriculum, we’ve had the following special events: Pajama Day, Valentine’s Day, Alaska Day, the 100th Day of School, and a presentation by an award-winning photographer! Some of these were specific to our classroom (Valentine’s Day, 100th Day, and photo show) while others were shared with PK friends (Pajama Day) or the greater PK-Grade 3 world (Alaska Day). Most of these special days have curriculum pieces attached. In particular, the 100th Day of School is filled with Language Arts, math, and craft activities that make for a very fun day. At parent-teacher conferences next week, I’ll show you your student’s work. You’ll also get to see examples of our latest math unit, sorting by attributes using Venn diagrams. In the classroom we have all manner of things to use as sorting materials: collections of animals, dinosaurs, dogs, shapes, buttons, etc. The children are having lots of fun with this!

Next week we’re going to the Berkshire Museum to see the ArtZoo exhibit. Sally Eagle will meet us there and go through the exhibit with us. We’ll also spend time in the Spark Lab and we’ll have a presentation on reptiles. It should be a fun trip. Next week also brings a Lunch Bunch, courtesy of Neha’s family, as well as Parent-Teacher conferences. (The sign-up sheets are live now, so please make sure to reserve your time.)

Here are LOTS of photos. Enjoy!

Andrea