🎶❤️ What a wonderful way to conclude Hispanic Heritage Month! Birdwell’s Hispanic Heritage music program celebrated the rich cultures, traditions, and music that bring our community together. Our students filled the celebration with talent, joy, and pride! 🌎✨
Thank you to our students, Ms. Vargas, and families for making this such a special celebration. ¡Qué orgullo, Birdwell! 👏🎵
📚🛍️ Reading success is worth celebrating! Birdwell’s 2nd–8th graders enjoyed purchasing items at the AR Store set up by the library to recognize their achievements in Accelerated Reader! 🎉
We’re proud of our readers for their hard work and dedication. Keep turning those pages, Birdwell! 💙❤️📖
🔬📚 Science + Reading in Spanish = Learning in Action! 🇪🇸✨
Our 4th graders put their learning to the test with a hands-on experiment that brought Science and Spanish Reading together! Students explored Force and Motion (4.7A) while practicing Expository Text and Sequence of Events (4.11A).
They weren’t just reading about Science; they were following a sequence, experimenting, observing, and learning by doing! 🧪💡
A HUGE shout-out to Lowe’s and Birdwell for helping us get the materials needed to make this learning experience possible! 💙❤️ Your support helps bring classroom learning to life!
#Birdwell #4thGrade #DualLanguage #CrossCurricularLearning #Lowes
🍇👣 A grape time in Pre-K! Our little learners enjoyed the annual “pisado de la uva” (grape stomping), stepping on grapes with their bare feet and discovering how the juice is released. Plenty of giggles and squishy fun made this tradition a memorable experience! 💜
🎉 October is National Principals Month, and we’re celebrating Birdwell’s amazing leader, Ms. Mina Naranjo! 💙
Thank you for your dedication to our students, your support for our staff, and your commitment to our Birdwell families. Your leadership helps our dual language community learn, grow, and shine together! 🌟
History came to life at Birdwell! 🌎✨ On Wednesday, October 14, our Middle School Student Council hosted a special Living History event celebrating influential Hispanic figures. Members researched and dressed as their chosen figures, then visited elementary classrooms to share their stories and contributions.
We’re proud of our student leaders for bringing learning to life and inspiring our younger students! 📚👏 #Birdwell #LivingHistory #HispanicHeritage #StudentCouncil
🌹👑 A royal visit to Birdwell! Thank you to Texas Rose Festival Princess Brynn Ballard for reading to our 2nd grade girls and sharing the joy of books! 📚💕 Our library goose even dressed up for the special occasion—because a royal visit calls for your finest feathers! 🪿✨
Our teachers are simply POP-tastic! We treated our amazing staff to a spook-tacular “Que Boo-nito” Popcorn Bar to remind them just how much they are appreciated! Thank you for all the love, dedication, and magic you bring to Birdwell every day! We’re so lucky to have such a BOO-tiful team! 🧡🍿✨
Our Birdwell 8th graders took a trip to College Station to explore the beautiful campus of Texas A&M University! ❤️🤍
Students had the opportunity to tour the university, experience college life, and begin envisioning the exciting possibilities that await them after graduation! 🌟
At Birdwell, we believe it’s never too early to dream big, set goals, and start planning for a bright future! 🎓📚
Our Student Council had a great opportunity to attend a Blue Zones Project – Tyler event! Birdwell is proud to be an initial workplace partner working alongside the Health Foundation of East Texas and other community partners toward Blue Zones Worksite certification. 💪
Our littlest learners celebrated the season by exploring fall through their five senses! From colorful leaves and seasonal sounds to new textures, smells, and tastes, students had so much fun discovering all the wonderful things autumn has to offer. 🧡🍎🍃
Learning is even sweeter when we can see it, hear it, smell it, touch it, and taste it! 🍂✨
#PreKFun #FiveSenses #FallLearning #HandsOnLearning
Our students took a trip around Latin America without ever leaving campus! During Mesas Culturales, students learned about the beautiful cultures, traditions, history, and customs of 🇵🇦 Panama, 🇧🇴 Bolivia, 🇵🇾 Paraguay, 🇭🇳 Honduras, 🇻🇪Venezuela and 🇳🇮 Nicaragua.
A special thank you to our amazing parents who brought these countries to life through engaging presentations, authentic dress, music, and even dancing! 💃🕺❤️
Our Birdwell 5th graders had an unforgettable day at the fair! From exciting sights and fun experiences to plenty of laughs with friends, it was a day filled with smiles and memories. We love giving our students opportunities to learn, explore, and enjoy new adventures together!
Our Birdwell 4th graders had an exciting day learning, exploring, and making memories at the East Texas State Fair! From new experiences to plenty of smiles and fun with friends, it was a fantastic field trip! 🐄🎠🌟
We love giving our students opportunities to take learning beyond the classroom! 💙💛
#BirdwellDLIS #EastTexasStateFair #4thGradeAdventures #FieldTripFun #LearningBeyondTheClassroom
📚✨ Reading, creating, and celebrating culture in the library! Students enjoyed listening to "Pepe and the Parade: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage" and then put their creativity to work making colorful papel picado featuring their own names! 🎉🌺 What a fun way to combine literacy, art, and Hispanic heritage! ❤️📖✂️ #HispanicHeritageMonth #BirdwellDLIS #LibraryLearning #PapelPicado #LiteracyAndCulture
📚✨ This is how we learn in Kinder! Spanish literacy centers ✨📚
In our Kinder classroom, literacy time is full of hands-on learning. 🖍️ Students rotate through learning centers (stations) where they practice, in small groups and at their own pace, what they learn with their teacher.
🔤 Alphabet: connecting each letter with its sounds and pictures.
✏️ Writing: practicing accurate formation of uppercase and lowercase letters.
🔊 Initial sounds: identifying the beginning sound of words using tokens.
🎲 Vowel dice & word search: rolling, playing and finding words.
🧩 Word building: making words with magnetic letters.
📝 Dictation: writing grade-level words correctly.
🎶 Poem: putting the parts of a poem in order, building sequencing, rhythm and comprehension.
💻 Tablets with iReady Reading: practicing reading with digital activities that adapt to each student.
💡 Why do centers work? Each green bin displays an "I can…" learning goal, so students know what they're learning and why. They learn by playing, handling materials, talking and writing, building independence, teamwork and confidence. And they do it in their home language, the strongest foundation for becoming readers and writers! 💪
Thank you, families, for your support. We're so proud of our little readers and writers! ❤️
#Kinder #LearningCenters #BilingualEducation #SpanishLiteracy #iReady #ProudTeachers
Our students and staff showed off their western spirit for Vaquero Day! From cowboy hats and boots to bandanas and western wear, our campus was filled with vaqueros big and small. 🐎⭐
Our 3rd graders have had a rootin’ tootin’ good time! We kicked off the fun with the Rodeo Slack field trip, and today we kept the excitement going with Round Up Day!
Students rotated through four fun-filled activities where they:
👢 Decorated a western boot
🚙 Designed their dream ride
💃 Danced to some western tunes
🐎 Competed in a horse relay race
What a fun way to learn, create, move, and make memories together! Yeehaw, 3rd grade! 🤠❤️
Huge thank you to https://www.facebook.com/QUIKRETE/ and Mr. Aníbal Díaz. Today, our students became engineers as they investigated mixtures and solutions by making concrete. Using cement, sand, gravel, and water, they tested different combinations to answer an important scientific question:
Can materials keep their properties when mixed together?
Through experimentation and observation, students gathered evidence, compared results, and developed a deeper understanding of how mixtures work in the real world. Learning is always more exciting when science comes to life!
Learning has never been so sweet! Our students explored mixtures and solutions by creating homemade ice cream in a bag. Using milk, vanilla, and sugar, they observed how these ingredients combined to form a solution.
As scientists, students constructed and supported an argument using evidence from their observations to explain why the combination of milk, vanilla, and sugar is a solution. They discussed how the ingredients mixed evenly and worked together to create a delicious treat!
This hands-on experiment helped students connect science concepts to real-world experiences while practicing critical thinking, observation, and scientific reasoning.
🍨 Science + Learning + Fun = Success!
