Blue Ribbon School Visit

Thursday, April 12 Birch Meadow hosted a group of educators from across the state as part of Reading Public School's Blue Ribbon Conference. The visit provided Birch Meadow an opportunity to highlight the many wonderful qualities of our school. Thank you to the parent volunteers and student leaders who helped with this wonderful day. Pictures are below and on our Shutterfly site.

BIRCH MEADOW STAFF PRESENT TO SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Birch Meadow staff presented to the Reading School Committee this week. Staff highlighted many of the great accomplishments of our school. Along with great instructional strategies, the information highlighted our journey becoming a Blue Ribbon Lighthouse School. Thank you to the following staff members who presented. You can see the presentations as part of the April 9 Reading School Committee on RCTV.

Birch Meadow Cares

Birch Meadow students participated in Birch Meadow Cares community projects. Students partnered between grades and created projects together helping others in need. The projects supported such organizations as The Reading Food Pantry, Birthday Wishes, Jimmy Fund, and the Heifer Foundation. Thank you to the teachers and school council who helped coordinate this great event.
Many more pictures are available on our Shutterfly page.

Read Across America

Read Across America was a great success this year. Thank you to the many parents, students, and staff who supported the program. The conclusion on March 2 included a whole school flash mob. Click here to watch the video. A special thank you to Geoffrey Coram who created the two Read Across America videos.

In addition, students participated in a sneaker project based on books read in class together. You can see pictures of a few projects below and many more available on the Birch Meadow Shutterfly Page.

Grades 3-5 meet Author Steven Krasner

Students in grades 3-5 met Steven Krasner last week. Steven is a children's author and retired sports writer.
"He sparks the students' imaginations and skills while reinforcing the mission to teach the writing process through the collaborative creation of basic stories, mysteries, tall tales, video magazine scripts, myths and chapter books of cliff-hangers!"

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Thank you to the PTO who sponsored this great opportunity for our students.

Blue Ribbon Schools facebook includes Birch Meadow staff

Birch Meadow teachers can be seen on the Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence Facebook page. You can see Mr. Sprung and teachers presenting. We are currently beginning preperations to be a host site at the Blue Ribbon Conference in April.

Birch Meadow Character Program - Cooperation

As you know, Birch Meadow’s behavior program is focusing on 6 themes of character this year: Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Sportsmanship, Cooperation, and Caring.

Cooperation is the character trait we will be focusing on this month. A special thank you goes to our 1st graders and Mission of Deeds director, Bruce Murison, who talked about cooperation. Bruce highlighted the wonderful support the Mission of Deeds provides to the community with cooperation from Reading citizens. Teachers and staff will be rewarding students showing cooperation and we are encouraging parents to do the same at home. Your child will be bringing home a bear this week. Please reward your child when you see him/her showing cooperation by filling out the bear with your child’s name, room number and what they did to show cooperation. The bear will be added to the other bears in a container in the office and posted in the lobby. Mr. Sprung will read one bear from each grade level at our next assembly.

The bear will be returned to you at the end of the month. Thank you for your cooperation with this program, and we look forward to reading how your child has shown cooperation at home!

Thank you,

Eric Sprung