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In addition to the MANY beautiful, bright red strawberries in the garden, we had lettuce, kale, radishes, herbs and flowers to harvest as well! Families enjoyed the first ever family fun day, featuring our own "Farm Stand" of freshly student-picked, Beechwood garden grown items as well as outdoor activities everyone can enjoy!  Many thanks to our volunteers for this bountiful experience.

We couldn't have had a better day, weather-wise, and Mr. Gormly outdid himself in planning patriotic-themed activity stations for the WHOLE school to participate at the same time! Thank you also to all the staff, PTO, and parent volunteers who helped to facilitate a safe and fun time for our Bears! They all got to put their athletic skills and even more importantly, their teamwork and spirit into the day. 

Mrs. Sterba did a beautiful job filling our hallways with her students' works of art.  Families walked through our gallery with their children proudly showing off their masterpieces.   What a wonderful way to showcase everyone's hard work and creative talents.

Thank you to Mr. Mikula for putting together great performances with our Beechwood Bears.  Each grade sang to a packed house, making us all proud to be a Bear in the process.  Great job!

The amazingly talented art club students from Deerfield came to Beechwood's garden to paint a spectacular mural along with some talented Beechwood Bears.  Thank you to Mrs. Sterba and other volunteers who brought this vision to life.  What a beautiful addition to the garden that can be enjoyed for years to come! 

From the giant Hoberman Sphere at the entrance to the 80 foot Touch Tunnel, Suspended Infinity Climber, interactive STEM stations and more, the field trip was a super fun and educational trip for our science-minded, curiosity filled 2nd graders!

Imagine That! has dozens of exhibits that allowed our Bears to have hands on, play-based learning experiences with real-world community places like a grocery store, fire station, construction zone, arts & crafts studio, a huge play structure and more! It was a perfect complement to learning about community helpers!

Our youngest students enjoyed an in-house "field trip" experience! There were sandboxes for "fossil" digging and about a dozen incredibly life-like dinosaurs for the students to interact with. As they explored, the presenters shared fun facts about each type of dinosaur. What an AMAZING experience we all enjoyed!

Who doesn't love art?  Young artists get creative and work together to make some beautiful masterpieces.

PEAK students carefully make a match, having fun while learning their letters.

Congratulations to these first graders who accepted their teacher's challenge to read 100 books through Reading Is Fundament's (RIF) Rally to Read campaign! The idea is to foster a joy of reading. What an accomplishment! We are so proud!

Our kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade Girl Scouts (Daisies & Brownies) celebrated the birthday of the Girl Scouts this week by leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance and our morning announcements! They did an outstanding (and completely adorable!) job!

Read Across America is an annual event created  to promote literacy and encourage a love of reading. In true Beechwood style, we celebrated with a themed spirit week to complement all the fun learning activities in our classrooms inspired by READING! We hosted special guest readers from around the district to join our classrooms and share a great book!!!

We are excited to announce the launch of our fundraising campaign to support the American Heart Association! This will be Beechwood's 5th consecutive year participating in the Kids Heart Challenge. Last year, we raised over $38,000!!! That is a high bar to top, but we are going to aim for $40,000! When we all pitch in to do a little, together, we can do A LOT! The Kids Heart Challenge is a nationwide program that teaches students about heart healthy habits, while raising funds for research and education.

Day 100 never gets old at Beechwood School.  Teachers and students joined in the fun celebration of this special day.