From the desk of Shawn Rhoads, Director of Residence Life: The Boarding Students had another jam packed weekend!  You won’t believe all that we fit into three days. Here is what the students could have done last weekend.  On Friday night students had three options:  1) they could have gone to Fresh with Mrs. Albea, […]

Every week during chapel, students and staff sing during the praise and worship portion of chapel. But, why do we sing? This is the question that Mr. Pierce, our Lower School music teacher, answered during chapel service.  He explained that the Bible answers this question in scripture.  Psalms 98:4 tells us to shout joyfully to the […]

Brook Hill started slowly Tuesday against Frisco Legacy Christian and spent the remainder of the game trying to catch up to the visiting Eagles before ultimately succumbing 65-61 in their game at Herrington Gym. The Guard pulled to within one point, 46-45, on a 3-pointer from Parker Galbraith with three seconds remaining, but Legacy Christian […]

6th grade is learning about the layers of the earth in science.  To demonstrate their understanding, students made 3D models showing each layer in the correct proportion and a fact about each layer. Models ranged from cake to Rice Krispies to clay and beads.  Creativity was flowing in Ornelas room 105!

As a part of their study of botany and taxonomy, pre-AP biology students dissected flowers and beans to observe the external and internal structures during a lab.  Students then used this knowledge to determine which reproductive structures are represented in fruits and beans.  Additional activities in the lab involved explaining the flow of fluids in xylem […]

In this lab our AP Physics 1 students explored simple harmonic motion. By hanging a mass on a spring, each lab group was able to produce predictable up and down motion—in other words, simple harmonic motion. The students then positioned a motion detector under each spring-mass system and recorded the position and velocity of the […]

Chemistry students in Mr. Bunger’s class are beginning a new unit. Students are learning about how electrons are arranged in atoms of different elements, the different energy levels the electrons are on, and how all of that affects the size of atoms and the way they react with other elements. Mr. Bunger introduced the new […]

Spanish 1 students practiced their oral Spanish skills this week using Brook Hill’s new Surface tablets. The students have been reading a Spanish novel in class and they recorded an oral summary of the novel in Spanish. Using the tablets allowed to students to record,  listen to their summary and then rerecord again to finalize […]

From the desk of Ginger Bell, Director of Alumni and Family Relations: According to Michelle Blessing, “Families differ in terms of economic, cultural, social and many other facets, but what every family has in common is that the people who call it a family are making clear that those people are important in some way to the […]

From the desk of Ginger Bell, Director of Family and Alumni Relations: Please continue praying for Christi Zimmerman.  As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Christi went to Israel last week for the second phase of the stem cell treatment being done to slow the progression of her ALS.  Well, while in Israel waiting […]

Brook Hill’s fourth grade students went on a field trip to the Ross Perot Museum in Dallas last week. Students enjoyed animal exhibits, space educational exhibits, engineering exhibits and many more science related activities. Students also experienced a variety of hands-on stations that stretched their science knowledge and educated them about the world around them.       […]

Each day in Bible 12, Seniors study the Word and make entries in their SOAP Journal (Scripture Observation Application Prayer). In studying the Gospel of John we have come to chapter 15, which opens with the Lord saying, “I am the true vine and my Father is the vine dresser.”  Where better to study this […]