We had an awesome last day of school celebrating our Wildflower community! As tradition goes, we had our annual end of school BBQ along with some water slides and fun outdoor activities! We also had an end of year attendance drawing, where five lucky winners won all day passes to Terrain Park Climbing. These students were recognized for their perfect attendance record over the past couple weeks! We greatly appreciate Terrain Park Climbing for giving our students this opportunity! It was a great end to another amazing school year!
Thank you to all the teachers, volunteers, staff, parents, and students who made this year so successful! We hope you have a wonderful summer!
Earlier this week, Wildflower celebrated our 8th graders on finishing up the school year and beginning their journey towards high school! We have loved watching these students grow over the years and cannot wait to see what they will accomplish next! Congratulations to this amazing group of students!
On Mondays and Fridays, Wildflower gets some pretty special visitors! Our students absolutely love when our furry friends over at Resolute Dog Training stop by to say hello! Seeing Marley, Winston, and Daisy is something that our students look forward to each week! Whether they’re stopping by to listen to our amazing readers, show off their tricks, or simply stopping by to greet students, our classrooms are always filled with joy when they visit! Thank you to our amazing friends over at Resolute Dog Training! We appreciate you and your time spent stopping by our classrooms!
All throughout the month of May, the wonderful Daycamp Coffee has been displaying our students' mixed media artwork all around their cafe! And yesterday, they hosted an art reception to celebrate our students' creativity and imagination! We had such a nice evening collaborating with Daycamp and seeing some Wildflower friends!
From TK through 8th grade, our students created artwork centered around a picnic theme! Our 4th and 5th graders created some berry sweet pies and our WOCAP 6th, 7th, and 8th graders created some sour citrus alongside our TK's marching ants! Our 2nd and 3rd graders created "Scooby-Doo" sandwiches using materials they found around campus and our Kinder and 1st grade students weaved some picnic baskets! Our students have loved exploring their classroom themes through art and sharing their creations with the Chico community!
Our students have been having a blast in our afterschool program all year! From arts and crafts to science projects to ice cream making and scavenger hunts, our afterschool staff have been hard at work making sure the fun never stops! At Wildflower, community and fun expand far beyond the classroom and our afterschool program shows us how it's done!
It was wonderful seeing so many familiar faces and meeting some new ones too! We had so much fun dancing to great music, eating some amazing food, and sharing so many memories together! Days like this truly show what our Wildflower community is all about!
And of course, our community wouldn't be what it is without the energy, time, and care of our parent and community volunteers! We wanted to give a huge shoutout to each and every one of our amazing volunteers that worked tirelessly to make sure our Wildflower Music Fest turned out to be the best day ever! We especially want to thank Colleen, Andy, and the entire Wildflower Music Festival committee for making this day so magical! It is truly because of your hard work and commitment to our school that our Music Fest is so successful and beautiful! We really can't thank you enough for everything you do for our school!
Our biggest fundraiser of the year is just around the corner! 🎶🌼
And we are so excited to celebrate our Wildflower community with festivities, music, and fun! The Wildflower Music Fest is back this Saturday, May 9th at 20th Street Park! Returning for the third time, we have The Brothers Comatose as our headliner! Also playing this year is Wolf Jett and T Sisters, with Wolfthump playing in between sets!
Alongside these talented musicians we have so many festivities! With a variety of over 30 vendors, a silent auction, plenty of activities for the kiddos, a photo booth, free bike parking, a wide variety of food vendors, and of course, refreshments from none other than Sierra Nevada, we promise you don't want to miss out!
As we gear up for this year's festival, we also wanted to take a moment to thank all out wonderful parent and community volunteers who have been working endlessly to make our music festival the best day! All their hard work comes directly back to support our school and classrooms!
Every ticket sold supports our school! When you attend our festival, you are supporting our students, classrooms, and community! So head on over to the website in our bio to grab your tickets today! With clear and sunny skies showing this weekend, we promise you don't want to miss out!
We absolutely cannot wait for Saturday! Our parent and community volunteers have been hard at work, making sure that our music festival is the best day of community, music, and fun! With the forecast showing beautiful sunny skies, we hope to see you there! Make sure to head on over to the website in our bio to grab your tickets today because they are selling fast! We promise you don't want to miss out!
Every year in spring, Wildflower Open Classroom puts together our Spring Performance! At our Spring Performances, each of our classes have had the opportunity to participate and perform for our Wildflower family and community! Every year, the performance is centered around a specific theme, and this year's theme was Nature!
This year, our Spring Performance started off with a pledge to the Earth. Then, every class had the chance to showcase what they have been learning in their classrooms through a song, haiku, or spoken word performance! And to finish off the performance, all of our students sang together for one final song! We love seeing these beautiful moments our students create together!
Girls on the Run is a running program for 3rd-5th grade girls, but it is also so much more! It is a program that develops community and helps girls become more confident and empowered! This program helps them find their bold heart, embrace their "I Can" power, and gives them the tools to navigate through life's challenges! The team meets twice a week with each practice consisting of running training paired with socio-emotional lessons. The season culminates in a 5K event as well as each team completing a community action project!
We greatly appreciate Coach Sammie and our amazing community members for volunteering their time to give these runners the most amazing and empowering experience! Your hard work truly makes our Wildflower community shine! Keep up the great teamwork girls!
With the Endangered Species Faire coming up, we wanted to take a moment and thank one person that truly makes this event possible!
Taking on many roles around our campus, Steve Tchudi is someone who continues to help keep our community running! Every year, Steve volunteers his time in helping our students create their puppets! For over 10 years, Steve has been teaching our students about the process of paper mache and the importance of recognizing endangered species!
In addition to being an Endangered Species liaison for our school, Steve also volunteers his time organizing other activities and events for our students! One that our students especially love is being invited onto Steve's Ecotopia show on KZFR, where they have had the opportunity to speak on a variety of environmental issues!
Steve also serves on our WOC Board of Directors as Director as Large and is often seen around campus reading with students and supporting our teachers in their classrooms! We greatly appreciate everything Steve has done and continues to do to ensure that our Wildflower community thrives!
Over the next couple of weeks, our students will be hard at work creating paper mache puppets out of recycled materials for the Faire! Every year, students have the opportunity to create a puppet showcasing an endangered animal of their choosing! Alongside crafting a puppet, students will also research their species, combing the subjects of art and science! And to show off all their hard work, our students will have the opportunity to carry their puppets in the parade at the Faire!
Between all the excitement at the Faire, be sure to keep an eye for our booth, where many of our puppets will be displayed alongside information about our school! Wildflower Open Classroom is also proud to say that we continue to be a sponsor for the Endangered Species Faire! As a sponsor, we hope to make sure that not only our students continue to experience the wonder of this event, but also the Butte County community!
Come join us at Cedar Grove in lower Bidwell Park on Saturday, May 2nd from 10-3! We hope to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones too!
It's almost that time of year again! 🌼🎶
Here at Wildflower, spring time means festival time! Every year, our amazing team of parent volunteers and community members put on our annual fundraiser, The Wildflower Music Fest! And this year, it's back on Saturday, May 9th at 20th Street Park! Get ready to mark your calendars because you don't want to miss out on this day of music and fun!
Returning for the third time this year as our headliner, The Brothers Comatose! Also playing at this year's festival, we welcome Wolf Jett and T Sisters, with Wolfthump playing in between sets!
Featured alongside these amazing musicians, is our silent auction, plenty of activities for the kiddos, a showcase of over 30 artisan vendors, a free photo booth, a wide variety of food vendors, free bike parking, and of course, refreshments from none other than Sierra Nevada!
Every ticket sold comes right back to our school! When you attend our festival, you are directly supporting our students, classrooms, and community! So head on over to the Wildflower Music Fest website to grab your tickets today! We promise you don't want to miss out on this day!
Or what we like to call math switch-er-roo! Oftentimes, our teachers will collaborate on lesson plans, giving our students the opportunity to work with a different teacher and learn in a new environment! Just the other week, our Fawn Lily and Monkey Flower classes did just that for math! Staying within their 2nd and 3rd grade groups, these classes simply traded places. During math switch-er-roo, students worked together based on grade level standards. Here, students are working together on fractions as Sammie leads a lesson using tile arrays. Collaboration truly leads to amazing results!
This year, Morgan is centering her lessons around the theme of Nature Camp and right now, our Dandelion class is learning all about insects! There is such a buzz of excitement as Morgan's class practices writing independently on their insect reports. With an insect of their choosing, these little learners are working in writing multiple sentences about the habitat, diet, survival, and life cycle of their insect. Alongside practicing their writing skills, our 1st graders are paired up with our Kindergartners to practice their reading skills. And of course they're reading all about bugs!
To go along with their learning, the classroom has been home to a variety of bugs, including praying-mantises, ladybugs, ants, and butterflies, that are Dandelion class get to study. And pretty soon, they will have the opportunity to create a puppet of their insect for the Endangered Species Faire coming up! Stay tuned to see what all the buzz is about!
Every year in Spring, Wildflower puts on what we like to call our Spring Mixer! This is where each class is divided up into different groups with members from other classes, giving our students the opportunity to work with peers they may not otherwise be able to collaborate with on a daily basis. Each group spent time rotating around the school and participating in varying activities led by our hardworking teachers! This year, each activity revolved around the theme of Earth's Biomes. Participating in activities in math, science, art, and movement, our students got the chance to learn all about the different ecosystems of our world while working in dynamic groups together! And at the end of the day, our school has a beautiful new mural that every single one of our students helped to create! We love to see all our students working together to create these beautiful moments!
