Lower School Fifth graders boarded a bus to travel back in time to the Middle Ages! After studying history from the Medieval time period, the unit of study culminated in an educational and entertaining field trip to Medieval Times in Dallas. Students enjoyed an exciting tournament display and learned about knighthood, horsemanship, and chivalry. This will be a […]

Fifth grade Spanish students honored a family member by writing a paragraph totally in Spanish about them.  The paragraph included the person’s occupation, their relationship to the student, clothes they might wear to work, and things they liked about the family member. Fifth graders also brought  pictures from home of their person  to display with each paragraph.

October 28-November 1 is “I Just Read a Great Book Week” at the Brook Hill Lower School. Mrs. Gibson’s fifth grade class chose one of their favorite easy-readers to read to Mrs. Powell’s Pre-Kindergarten class.  Not only was this a very special time for the Pre-K students, but it was an especially fun time for […]

5th graders dissected owl pellets this week as part of their study of different ecosystems.  At first it seemed gross, but they quickly adjusted and had a great time finding the bones! Once students dissected the pellets, they classified the skulls to determine what the owl ate.  After this each student classified the bones by placing […]

To help our 5th grade students understand scientific concepts about plants, Mrs. Wallace devised a mystery case the students needed to use leaves to solve. As the story goes, a robber had escaped and the only evidence police had on the suspects were leaves stuck to the trucks’ tires. In order to solve the case […]