Check out these pictures of recent events at Baker-Butler!

Check out some of the exciting events and activities that have been happening at Baker-Butler over the past week!

Our partners at the UVA Sculpture department were here to discuss the sculpture in our back area with our students, and then every student in our school created an original clay artifact. These artifacts will be buried and then excavated over the coming 30 years as a part of an active archeological dig. Check out more about this project at this website.

We are excited about our continued partnership with QuickStart Tennis, which has been a wonderful program to introduce our students to tennis. One of our favorite parts of this program is when we have guest visitors from the UVA men's and women's tennis teams here to play with our students. Check out this site for more information about our partnership with QuickStart Tennis these past two years.

Check out Dustin Tayor, UVA Men's Tennis Assistant Coach, playing with our 2nd graders!

We recently launched some exciting Minecraft units with students in 3rd grade classrooms. They're exploring the book Poppy through their creations and explorations of a literature map in Minecraft. Here are some pictures of their first day launch of this exciting unit!

We recently hosted an exciting anti-bullying assembly about building positive character. The band Reverse Order, most recently featured on America's Got Talent, performed popular songs and spoke candidly of their stories of being bullied and how to overcome these challenges while being kinder to one another. It was a great message and the students loved their performance!

Finally, our 4th graders just performed Music of America, which featured popular songs about America.

What a great week it's been at Baker-Butler!

A wonderful trip to the movies

On Friday some of our students had the great opportunity to take a field trip to watch the movie Zootopia. Here's a picture of them outside of the Regal Stonefield theater!

Scenes from a winter walk around Baker-Butler.

Check out these photos that our 2nd grade classes took while they were on a winter walk around Baker-Butler last Friday.

Our tree is here!

Last week our friends at Grelen Nursery brought and installed our new donated white oak.

You can see our new tree in the exterior courtyard by the side soccer field. We are looking forward to watching our tree grow over the next few years.

You can read more about our students' trip to Grelen to learn about trees and to pick this one out in this blog post.


Here are some pictures of our new tree!

Our students wrote notes to the tree to be buried as it was planted

Our students' notes before they were buried with the tree

Baker-Butler in the snow!

Our school looks beautiful in the snow. Check out these pictures!

Our Building Services crews are plowing our parking lots

This is our front entrance and car circle

Front soccer field and playground

Interior courtyard and student gardens

Exterior courtyard and our new white oak tree in the center

Back playground and basketball courts

Back playground and our new UVA Sculpture in the hill

Back soccer field

Our fantastic custodians shoveling and working hard to get us ready for students!

A special beginning to our Hoops & Jump Rope for Heart

This past Friday we had a very special beginning to our Hoops & Jump Rope for Heart. These are our annual fundraisers for the American Heart Association.

We welcomed back a former Baker-Butler student, Hannah, who is currently a student at Albemarle High School. Hannah is a Heart Hero as she is a survivor of several open heart surgeries. She spoke movingly about her personal journey, the importance of medical research, and why the Hoops & Jump Rope for Heart fundraisers are especially meaningful to her.

We begin preparing for our Hoops and Jump Rope for Heart this coming week. Thanks to Hannah as well as our great PE teachers for such an amazing day for our entire school.

Fairy Tales Project

Brilliant Fairy Tales

All of our second grade students wrote original fairy tales as a culmination to their fairy tale genre study.   Fourth grade mentors helped the younger students add lights to their fairy tale illustrations using copper tape, button batteries and tiny LED stickers.  The stickers lit up when circuits were added to back of the pictures. 

On December 17^th, all second grade students had a chance to tour the five 2nd grade classrooms to read and view the illuminated stories of their peers. 

The materials for the ‘Brilliant Fairy Tales’ were funded by a K-12 Education Partnership grant from the Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dominion Resources.  Susan A. King, the Dominion Foundation External Affairs Representative for the Piedmont Region came to view and celebrate the projects with students.  

More information on circuit sticker projects and materials can be found at the Chibitronics site:  http://chibitronics.com/