Creative Flow Circle at the Merry Barn
On Sunday, December 3, from 2-3:30 p.m., join Morgan Mitchell and Stephanie Noyes McSherry for a Creative Flow Circle designed specially for kids. Creative Flow Circles are intentional and nonjudgmental spaces to explore creativity in community. Participants listen to instrumental music, moving color across a circle of easels, switching easels as the music changes. Each participant contributes to each piece, one after the other, producing a series of collective creations.
This process invites all into the moment, releasing perfectionism, and opening to imagination and possibility. Once everyone has painted on every easel, we will pause for a festive snack. Then we’ll dive back into the experience by writing or drawing in response to our creations.
Creative Flow Circles take place at the Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat, 417 River Road, Edgecomb, ME. Register at: www.creativeflowcircles.com.
Questions: stephaniemcsherry@merrybarn.com
Pre-K students enjoy being outside on a Forest Friday. - Mrs. Sawyer
After finishing a unit on creating cartoon characters, fifth graders have been learning about paint techniques. They made papers with multi-colored washes and used the wet-on-wet technique. When their papers dried, they added silhouettes or made items inspired by the paint blobs they made. - Mrs. Cough
"All hands on deck for morning announcements!" Thank you Mrs. Powell for your help covering the office!
Happy Thanksgiving from the BCS students and staff.
Retake Picture Day is Friday 12/01
Last Thursday was the perfect day to go up on the roof with Godo to fix the anemometer (an instrument that measures wind speed) on the BCS weather station. Check out the weather conditions at BCS - navigate to the BCS website at https://aos93.org/o/bcs and click on Menu. - Mr. Cough
Third grade has been learning about the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Today they were up for the challenge of creating their very own balloons and putting on their own parade. Enjoy the show! - Mrs. Waltz
Click the link below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cK17gy51TchD5dS2SyjA-Ei17ZUiv7nf/view?usp=sharing
This week, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, fifth graders wanted to recognize exceptional citizens in our community. Here is a glimpse of the organizations fifth graders chose to thank for their commitment to our town and its people. - Ms. Kinney
We were fortunate to be able to welcome the school based educator, Allison Fortin, from New Hope Midcoast last week for presentations in grades PreK - 8. Their messages center on building healthy relationships with all of the classrooms, but also include a focus on safe and kind choices with kindergarten, teamwork and acceptance with grades 1 & 2, being an upstander to unkind behavior in grades 3 & 4, healthy boundaries and communication in grades 5 & 6, and with 7th and 8th grade they examine how power and control can influence relationships, as well as sharing information and resources around domestic and dating violence. To learn more visit https://newhopemidcoast.org/ or contact our school counselor, Gretchen Brinkler by phone or at gbrinkler@aos93.org
Team Shocki published their small moment stories and presented them to guests at our Writing Celebration. - Ms. Shocki
Representatives from the Bristol Historical Society joined second graders in exploring what schools looked like 50-100 years ago. They also figured out where they may have gone to school within the village that they live near. - Ms. Shocki
PTO Thanksgiving Food Drive
6th grade students participated in outdoor adventure programming with Hearty Roots (heartyroots.org). Students went animal tracking, did outside challenges such as untangling a human knot, painting “I Am” affirmations on rocks, and stick carving. - Mr. Crafts
Morning bus routes altered for Monday, November 6th. Pickup times may be earlier or later than usual. Thank you.
All of the hard work of the students and teachers made for a tight competition in this year’s BCS PTO pumpkin decorating contest. Coming in with a tie for first place with 35 votes each was Ms Leonard’s 2nd grade homeroom and the 8th grade and a close second place finish with 34 votes for the 3rd grade!
Reminder for 8th Grade Families: Lincoln Academy Open House
November 8th, 6:30-8:00
8th grade students have been spending time with students in PreK during Guidance classes. They’ve been learning about their emotions and focusing on strategies that help with challenging feelings. Our oldest and youngest students seem to enjoy working together to practice some ideas that might bring comfort and calm to how they’re feeling. - Mrs. Brinkler
Herring Gut Coastal Science Center has lots of local events and programming. Check them out here: https://herringgut.org/current-offerings
On Saturday, November 4, from 10:30-11:30 a.m, join us for our monthly Community Literacy Event, where we will have a special reading of Flowers for Sarajevo. This beautiful book tells a story of a brave boy who practices kindness during a time of conflict. Resonate for this moment, we are reminded of the power of beauty and kindness when the world is upside down. After the reading we’ll create Kindness Rocks to spread amid our community.
Free event, open to all.
Community Literacy Events take place at the Merry Barn Writers Retreat, 417 River Road, Edgecomb, ME. More information can be found at www.merrybarn.com
Questions welcome: merrybarnwritersretreat@gmail.com
