Mrs. Bickerstaff’s 5th grade class was honored to have Mr. Patrick Fitzgerald, father to our Caley, as a teacher guest this week. Mr. Fitzgerald is a pilot for the Wheels Up Company. Since our class learned about how to use latitude and longitude to find places on the Earth, we thought it would be cool […]
College Algebra students had their first test this week, and it looked a little different than usual. Instead of the entire test being on paper, students answered the first half of the questions on a Surface Pro Tablet. In an effort to expose students to hybrid and online courses, we Mrs. McEuen has specifically designed […]
Dr. Moon, the Orchestra Director at SFA and the conductor for the Longview Symphony came to The Brook Hill School on Wednesday to encourage our students to audition for the East Texas Youth Orchestra, (ETYO) that he also conducts. The ETYO is made up of two groups, a middle school and an upper school audition only […]
Kindergarten students have been busy over the last two weeks studying the letter “P”. Students plotted out their favorite kinds of pickles, used their senses to observe and study pop rocks, and even debated their favorite kind of popcorn.
Mrs. Newsom’s and Mrs. Brown’s 3rd grade classes visited the American Freedom Museum on Wednesday and did the unthinkable…they touched stuff!! Don’t worry! They had permission and a good time! As a way to introduce their year in U.S. History, our Brook Hill 3rd graders came for the “Can I Touch That?” tour. They found […]
From the desk of Tammy Hayes, Middle School Principal: From the classroom to athletics, we had a lot of “firsts” in the middle school this week. It is our first year to run on a block schedule and on the blue/orange schedule. Classes are longer at 70 minutes and study hall is every Monday, Tuesday, […]
Eighth graders are learning about the design process. To introduce the subject, students were challenged to build a barge out of a 20 X 20 cm piece of foil and 4 straws that could hold the greatest amount of pennies. Students built the bridge and then tested it. The range of pennies held was from […]
Pre-AP sophomores and AP juniors gave their first presentations in Dr. Brunson’s humanities classes this week. Juniors presented literary-critical analyses of Robinson Crusoe within his historical context as an entrepreneur and colonialist. Students not only read the novel, but researched and analyzed Crusoe within history. Students then wrote essays on a selected subject, and presented […]
AP Chemistry got to use some new technology this week as students were learning the relationship between concentration and the amount of light absorbed by a solution. We used a Vernier lab quest connected to a spectrophotometer to measure the absorbance values for samples of known concentration in order to generate a calibration curve. Then […]
Our Pre-K classes their 5 senses to explore an octopus for the letter “O” this week. Students used words like slimy, smelly and even squishy to describe the octopus. Students also engaged in other activities like graphing their favorite flavor of popcorn like they did last week for cookies. Students utilized the promethium board in […]
Third grade students learned about Internet Safety during computer class this week. We also reviewed many of the safe websites linked to the library page for research and learning. Then students were given the task of illustrating one of their favorite websites for our “website banner” in lab.
Mrs Mattay’s (Erica Eden, Alum), 7th grade humanities class visited the American a Freedom Museum this week to get a taste of Texas history, their primary subject for the year! Students were given an overview of Texas History and even had the chance to play Family Feud, Texas History Style. It was a great introduction […]