Enrichment at Birch Meadow is...
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Field trips to educational destinations.
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Academic and social-emotional all-school presentations.
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Visiting presenters for grade-specific programs.
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Carefully chosen by our Birch teachers and principal.
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Complementary to teacher-guided learning and MA curriculum frameworks.
Through Enrichment, grades 1-5 go on at least one field trip per year. Every grade including Kindergarten is provided with many wonderful in-school, curriculum-related programs and all-school assemblies and activities.
Enrichment is paid for…
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Mostly by parents! $16,000 of the $17,000 PTO direct donation goal for the 2019-20 school year is allocated for Enrichment.
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With grants whenever possible.
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Also thanks to the generosity of some free or discounted presenters, such as the Friends of Parker Tavern and Zoo New England.
And is organized by...
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The wonderful Birch Meadow parent volunteers on our PTO Enrichment Committee!
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New committee members are always welcome to join us to coordinate with teachers and Principal Hendrix.
- To become involved, share ideas, or find out more, please contact PTO Enrichment Chair Melissa Henri at birchmeadowenrichment@gmail.com.
Enrichment programs in 2019-20 are...
All-school
- Poet-in-Residence Regie Gibson
- Understanding Disabilities programs
- Author days with Sarah Lynne Reul
Kindergarten
- Tufts Traveling Treasure Trunk
- Curious Creatures
- “The Secret of Kindness” by Brett Outchcunis
- Explore the Ocean World Biologist
- Discovery Museum’s Bubbles Workshop
First Grade
- Drumlin Farm’s “Adaptable Animals”
- “The Secret of Kindness” by Brett Outchcunis
- Field trip to Drumlin Farm
Second Grade
- "All About Bats" by PEM’s Jane Winchell
- Perkins Diversity Speaker Jaimi Lard
- Bugworks
- “The Secret of Kindness” by Brett Outchcunis
- Field trip to Museum of Science
Third Grade
- Electromagnetism program from MOS
- Meteorologist Barry Burbank
- Reading & writing assembly with author Jessie Janowitz
- Field trip to Parker Tavern
- Field trip to Lowell Mills for “Change in the Making”
Fourth Grade
- Wind Energy Workshop from MOS
- Reading & writing assembly with author Jessie Janowitz
- Field trip to Stone Zoo
- Field trip to Lowell Mills for “Yankees and Immigration”
Fifth Grade
- Wingmasters’ Birds of Prey
- Reading & writing assembly with author Jessie Janowitz
- MOS Starlab
- Field trip TBD
(all subject to change during the year)