We released our butterflies today! FOSS Science Bedwell Elementary School

“P” day of our summer countdown today! Play doh word work! Bedwell Elementary School 🌞

Second graders are so lucky to have Mrs. Garth come in to talk about monarch butterflies! Bedwell Elementary School

Two detectives at work! These super sleuths are looking for missing punctuation in writer’s workshop today. Bedwell Elementary School

2nd grade writers leaning on their mentor texts and their partners for support. Bedwell Elementary School

Our “morning meeting greeting”...saying good morning and reviewing our continents/oceans Bedwell Elementary School

Today we started a new bend of our unit. Readers are working on meeting the challenges of longer books, by working in same book partnerships. Bedwell Elementary School

The tower challenge! Students are using their understanding of properties of solids to construct a tower in science! Bedwell Elementary School

Keeping track of longer books! Using this helpful folder to jot our predictions based on cover, back blurb and chapters; jotting notes about each chapter; and writing about the end. Bedwell Elementary School

Engineering extravaganza! Second graders were building more towers, reading about famous bridges, and making bridges of their own! Bedwell Elementary School

#summerselfiebingo Got some exercise on run with the kids through Loantaka Park! #bedwellsummerfun Bedwell Elementary School

On a boat with these cool kids 😎🇺🇸⚓️🛥🚤 Bedwell Elementary School #BedwellSummerFun #BedwellSummerSelfie

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸🎇 Bedwell Elementary School #SummerSelfieBingo #Bedwellsummerfun

Movie selfie! Watching Toy Story 4! #bedwellsummerfun #summerselfiebingo Bedwell Elementary School

#summerselfiebingo ice cream at The Boardwalk LBI and beach time! Bedwell Elementary School #BedwellSummerFun

This is great! If you have instagram, head over to instagram live starting at 11:00 to hear these talented authors reading their wonderful books.

Nothing better than a run down the shore 🏃🏼‍♀️ #summerselfiebingo #bedwellsummerfun Bedwell Elementary School

A beautiful sky in LBI! Bedwell Elementary School #bedwellsummerfun #summerselfiebingo.

Two for one...gardening IS my quarantine hobby! Good thing we ❤️ zucchini...we have a lot of it! #summerselfiebingo #bedwellsummerfun Bedwell Elementary School

While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last—because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.