Brandywine Heights Elementary School -

Thank you to our custodians at BHASD! We appreciate you!

📸✨ Here’s the story… of some awesome principals! ✨📸

Happy #NationalPrincipalsMonth to our incredible leaders who keep the Brandywine Bunch connected and thriving everyday!

Join us in giving a big THANK YOU to our principals for their dedication, heart, and leadership. They make us #BulletProud!🍎

October Math Challenge!   We are excited to bring you another math challenge for October!! All students in Pre-K to Grade 3 are invited to participate! Students will be bringing home a math calendar. Throughout the month of October, we are challenging students to try to solve one math problem each day. Maybe they used the clock to tell the time, perhaps they counted how many plates they needed to set at the table for dinner, or maybe they compared the price of the same item at two different stores. Write the math problem that was solved on the calendar for that day. If 15 or more days are filled in for the month of October, then take the calendar to Potts’ Top Dog to receive a FREE HOT DOG AND ICE CREAM!!!!!   THANK YOU POTTS’ TOP DOG for supporting our students!!   If you have any questions, you can email Mrs. Farina (mailto:laufar@bhasd.org) or Mrs. Levengood (mailto:lynlev@bhasd.org).   

Second round of Fairytale Stem! This week Explore Class engineered a bed for little bear, houses out of consumable and non-consumable materials for the three little pigs, an escape for Rapunzel, and a cage to help Hansel and Gretel catch a witch!

Congratulations to our September Student of the Month winners! We are PROUD of you! 🎉

Congratulations to all students nominated for being Bullet PROUD! You are wonderful role models showing what it is like to be Prepared, Respectful, take Ownership, show Understanding, and Determined! Keep up the great work! 🎉

During Explore each month, students are given the opportunity to answer our Math Question of the Month related to the holiday we are celebrating. Then Mrs. Levengood and Mrs. Farina will choose two winners among the participants. Congratulations to this month’s winners!

Yay, yoga with Miss April! The children listened to a book about dinosaurs doing yoga, shared their own favorite dinosaur poses, and learned to breathe like baby dinosaurs. Thank you Miss April!

Congratulations to this week's Bucket Fillers! Keep up the amazing work! 🪣 🎉

🍏 First Grade Apple Day 🍎

Math Holiday of the Month!

Did you know that September 25th is Math Storytelling Day? Our students worked to solve some problems from Bedtime Math this month! If you haven’t checked it out before, the website and free app use fun and engaging stories to help students practice their math skills!

You can also check out DREME: Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education- https://dreme.stanford.edu/news/40-childrens-books-that-foster-a-love-of-math/ for a list of some great math picture books!

Bullet Academy Play and Learn - The children enjoyed listening to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Fall", exploring fall nature items with magnifying glasses, and free playtime. Thank you to all who attended.

Mrs. Lewis' second graders researched apples and wrote their very own informational paragraph about apples! Did you know there are over 7,500 apple varieties around the world? 🍎

Thank you to the VSP Vision Eyes of Hope Mobile Eye Care Clinic for volunteering their time and services in our district over the past two days.

Through their efforts, 67 individuals – including students, family members, and community members – received eye screenings, with 47 prescriptions for glasses provided. This generous support helps ensure our students and families have access to the resources they need to thrive.

Clear vision = brighter futures. We’re so grateful for this partnership!

#CommunityStrong #EyesOfHope

Picture day at the Elementary School is tomorrow. Please see the attached flyer for ordering information! 📸

In Explore, Third grade kicked off Fairy Tale STEM challenges. They had Jack and the Beanstalk! They planted seeds in the hydroponic planters and successfully built bean stalks for their castles to sit on top of!

Pre-K Price learned about the US Constitution on Constitution Day. We talked about why we have classroom rules, what we could do to be a good citizen and we used feather quills and ink to sign our names, just like the Founding Fathers did when they signed the Constitution.

Congratulations to this week's Bucket Fillers! Keep up the amazing work! 🪣 🎉

This week, our students began their reading and math target times. These parts of the day allow teachers to hone in on skills students need to continue to grow their skill sets. From the looks of it, students are having fun and working hard! Be sure to ask your child what they did during their target times today! 📖✏️🧠💪🏼