Bullock Creek Elementary

On June 2nd from 5-7:30, BCEL/Pine River PTo is putting on our biggest event of the year...COLOR THE CREEK!! This is always such a fun event to end our school year with. This year Color the Creek is getting even more special. Mrs. Bredt will be representing the organization Riding for Ryan. Along with her family, she will be handing out free bicycle flags to anyone and everyone who would like one. These free flags make kids so much more visible as they enjoy riding their bikes! Please, visit their website for more information on the organization or to donate to their cause.https://www.ridingforryan.org/about/our-story-purpose. We can't wait to see everyone at BCEL on June 2nd from 5-730. Make sure to stop by the Riding for Ryan booth before you leave for your free bike flag!!

Yesterday BCEL was treated to a NED assembly! Students learned about Never giving up, Encouraging others, and always Doing their best all while being entertained by an amazing Yo-Yo'ist/magician! She kept the kids amazed while delivering these important messages!! We LOVED NED and all the cool yo-yo tricks!!!

Mrs. Lombard's 1st-grade explorers had their final visit, for the year, from their CNC naturalist. This last visit included some very special guests!!

Three of our BCEL 2nd grade students, Emelyn Temple, Louis Oswald, and McKenna Blackhurst, received the C.A.R.E award last night! This award is given out to students, by the Rotary Club of Midland Morning, to students who have worked hard to make significant progress in reading. These students were nominated by their very proud teachers! We are so so proud of how hard these students have worked to grow as readers!

BCEL's April Leaping Lancer award winners continue to amaze us with their growth!! We are so proud of our students and their continued efforts!! Well done little ones!!!

You know its been a good day out at nature when you have a sidewalk full of wet boots and kids covered in mud!!!! We love our nature program so so much!!!

Today we celebrated our beloved Mrs. Fleming! Not only was it administrator assistant day but it kicked off our celebration of her retirement. All day Little Lancers showered her with cards, songs, hugs, and gifts! We even arranged for her to have lunch with her old "Lunch Bunch". We love you, Mrs. Fleming!!! Thank you for all you do for us every single day!

Ms. Traci was rocking out at BCEL this morning reminding our families to get those pledges in for the Color Run!!! What a fun way to start our day!! Our drop off line was thoroughly entertained!!!

Mrs. Hedlund's kindergarten scientists at BCEL held worm races today for scientific purposes :) What a fun way to explore these wiggly creatures!

Yesterday was the first of our visits with our student-athletes from the high school. Mr. Freeland, our athletic director, arranged for some of our athletes to visit classrooms to read books on sportsmanship or assist in an activity. Our BCEL students loved their time with them. They were total superheroes in the eyes of our Little Lancers!! Thank you, Mr. Freeland and our BCHS athletes for visiting us!! We loved having you here!!

Mr. Beeck was kind enough to volunteer to deliver the Junior Achievement program to all 4 1st grade classrooms at BCEL. The JA program introduces students to entrepreneurship, families, neighborhoods, money, and needs and wants.

The naturalist visited Mrs. Woods' first grade class today at BCEL. They learned about native birds in Michigan and their amazing beaks. Students had a great time using pretend beaks to pick up seeds, fruit, and insects!!

Our friend, Derek, from Mrs. Williamson's ASD room and Mrs. Reid's kindergarten room helped us with the pledge yesterday! He used his communication device to help communicate the words! We are so proud of you, Derek!! You did an amazing job!!

Mrs. Hedlund's Kindergarteners, at BCEL, came across a visitor out in our track this afternoon! They were able to observe this amazing creature, talk about him, and ask questions. What a great experience!!!

For Autism Acceptance month BCEL has been using the morning announcements to bring all the things we all have in common to the forefront. Whether you have Autism or not we all want to play, be accepted, be included, make friends, and be able to communicate! We want our Little Lancers to hear the different ways communication can occur. Last week our friend, Jonathon, used his communication device to help us with the pledge. This morning Ben used words with pictures to read the pledge to get our day started! Both helpers did an amazing job!!!

Mrs. Lombard's 1st graders at BCEL engaged in a fun activity yesterday: What's in my Egg? Students had to try to stump the class giving only 3 clues as to what was inside! What a great way to practice writing, asking questions, and following directions! Great job 1st graders!! How fun!!

An amazing organization, Just For Kids, came and presented some of our outstanding Little Lancers with a bike today! We want to congratulate these kids for their outstanding citizenship, display of kindness, hard work, and amazing attitude! We appreciate this organization for these donations and the presentation of these prizes to our kiddos! Congratulations to our winners: Ivylynn Owens, Bence Tomas, Ben Vercher, Hayslee Frasle, James Ellsworth, Amelia Dopp, Clara Widenmier, and Dean Keyes.

Jacob Wendorf and the big bird Mr. Lou E. Loon paid a visit to BCEL this afternoon to promote the Loons Reading Program all of our kids are participating in!! The Loons partnered with BCEL to help spread the love of literacy! We loved the story Jacob read and all the interaction Lou E. had with our Little Lancers!!! Thank you Great Lakes Loons for caring about our kids!! Play Ball!!!!!

Mrs. Woods’ class 1st grade class at BCEL had guest readers yesterday for March is reading month. We were so excited to hear parents read and we were so engaged! What a great way to increase our listening comprehension skills!

Mrs. Chappel's 1st grade readers shared their character stories with Ms. Heider's Young Fivers today! Students enjoyed a story and drew the characters in the book. What a fun way to share some reading fun! Young readers learn so much from watching and listening to older readers!! Thanks for working together Mrs. Chappel and Ms. Heider! You guys are rockstars!!