Mrs. Dahn’s first graders are building knowledge in a big way! Students spent time building spelling words and geometric shapes. Toothpicks, jellybeans, and marshmallows became great math tools!
We are excited about our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair at the Lower School. The book fair is a reading event that brings to school the books kids want to read. The fair has a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books for every reading level. Please make plans to visit our Book Fair and be involved […]
Please bring your canned food items to Mrs. Partida’s Spanish Class says Lola Derr and Kate and Landon Reynolds! Support the annual food drive sponsored by all the Spanish class students.
On Friday Mrs. Mize’s Math 7 class brought different food and drink items for a fraction food party! The students each brought an item that could be divided up then made up their own word problem to represent a fraction of the amount they brought. The class even learned how to look at the nutrition […]
A group of very motivated fifth graders meet weekly to eat snacks and discuss the current book club selection, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. Anna Marie Ward, the originator of the club, along with her officers: Josie Travis and Mia Fair, named the club “Between the Pages”. These young ladies helped publicize and organize the club, […]
From the desk of Ginger Bell, Director of Family and Alumni Relations: Megan Troxell, ’10, graduated Rice University this past May and has now moved to Boston to get her Masters degree and then on to some form of social work. In one of our conversations, she was speaking about how getting to attend high […]
In Mr. Bunger’s environmental science class we have been talking about pH and other factors that affect the animals that live in our lakes and rivers. An excellent indicator of water quality is the abundance of certain insects that spend part of their lives in the water like dragonflies and mayflies. We are blessed at Brook […]
Fourth grade students from Mrs. Ponce’s class led chapel this week at the Lower School. Students presented three skits about obedience to God. Long ago God used prophets to help teach and warn kings to turn from sin and start obeying God. In modern times, the message is the same. Peer pressure is difficult to overcome but we […]
The students in Mrs. Johnson’s and Mrs. Brashier’s second grade classes have been working very hard to create these beautiful watercolor paintings of lighthouses on the ocean. These paintings go along with the book that they have been reading in language arts called Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter. E. Hanson. The illustrator of the book […]
Sixth graders used a landform model and colored water to make contour maps. As they covered the landform with water in one centimeter increments, they drew a picture on the lid of the model. It was then easy to see how the contour lines became closer together as the elevation increased. Then, students drew their […]
As part of 8th graders studying chemical reactions, students were challenged to make their own glass cleaners, including testing them and marketing them like a real world glass cleaner company. They started with three formulas which they tested and chose a winner to be their glass cleaner. They gave the product a name, a slogan […]
From the desk of Rod Fletcher, Headmaster: When I tell people that Brook Hill has the American Freedom Museum on campus I usually get a look that says, “how cute – probably and room with some old books and a few Civil War bullets.” When I go on to try to explain the extent and […]