Please plan on attending our SOFA meeting Next Tuesday! When: Next Tuesday February 4, 2014 Where: Mr. Ballard’s Room Time: 6:00 pm We will be discussing and planning for our Valentine Carnations sales, upcoming Spring Musical, “Hello Dolly,” and our annual Fine Arts Banquet. Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers! Please come and […]
From the Desk of Dr. Stan Ward: Ah, the spring. In spite of the cold temperatures of January, we have technically entered the “spring” semester. For my senior students, it is a time of decision making: where to attend college, who to ask to the winter formal on February 15, etc. When students ask for […]
Lower School Principal, Sandra Fritcher, and Kindergarten student, Abby, share a special moment reading together.
Prekindergarten students led chapel this week with a very important message: “It doesn’t matter what you say, just pray!” When asked what do you pray about, several students answered that they pray for family, brothers, sisters, or teachers. Several shared their special prayers at dinnertime and bedtime. But the important idea to remember was that “It […]
Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Powell’s students are learning letters with their corresponding sounds in Prekindergarten. Learning is very hands-on in the lower grades!
Third graders are learning about the journeys of early explorers such as Ferdinand Magellan. While reading the biography of Ferdinand Magellan, they learned about navigation tools such as the cross-staff and astrolabe. Students wrote in journals about the voyage, the life of Magellan, and imagined themselves on board the ship. Several students in Mrs. Bickerstaff’s […]
Hibernation Day for kindergarten students was the culmination of a research unit about animals that hibernate. Students made posters which included important information about the animal such as habitat and diet, and then presented their research to classmates. On “Hibernation Day”, students came dressed in their PJ’s, brought teddy bears to school, and watched a video based […]
The Brook Hill Academic Team attended the Lindale Speech/Academic Meet on Saturday to prepare for our TAPPS District meet in February. We competed against 30+ public and private schools from all districts and still managed to place in several events! The following students placed 1-6th overall at the meet: SCIENCE: Wei Lin (2nd […]
The freshmen and sophomore parents sponsored a Mardi-gras themed teacher appreciation breakfast for MS and US teachers this week. Teachers and staff are thankful for our encouraging parents!
This week the upper and middle school chapel program hosted Johnny Russell, Young Life director for Tyler. Johnny spoke about John The Baptist’s relationship with Jesus in John 1 and Mark11. Because John the Baptist knew Jesus, John was willing to die for Jesus. The chapel ended with this video and the question, “Do you […]
Pre AP Biology students make real world connections! After studying the structure and functions of DNA these students extracted DNA and proteins from strawberries during a recent lab.
From the Desk of Kent Travis, Humanities Department Chair: Our lives tell a story. This is something we may have heard often lately, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Our lives tell a story and we’d do well to accept this, remember it, and live out days in full awareness that it is […]