1st grade students hosted their mothers & grandmothers for a tea party and poetry reading today. Over the past few weeks students have been learning about, reading, and writing their own poetry – this afternoon, as a culminating event, students read their favorite poem out loud and served tea and snacks to their mothers and […]
The Rotary Club of Tyler recently honored students who were chosen to be members of the “Rotary Young Citizens Club.” To be chosen as an outstanding young citizen, a student must be exceptional in the practices of citizenship, cleanliness, thriftiness, loyalty, courtesy, honesty, service, dependability, sportsmanship, scholarship, and leadership. The select membership in this club […]
On April 28th, three Brook Hill students presented original poems at the Bullard Community Library Teen Poetry Contest. Allie Childers won first place and a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card, Favour Diokpo tied for second place, and Taylor Schultz won third place. Second and third place winners received new books of their choice. Congratulations, […]
Last Friday our 5th grade Spanish students were tasked to write original sentences in Spanish using position words and prepositions. Check out their creativity and language abilities in these examples: El huevo está entre la papa y la hamburguesa. The egg is in between the potato and the hamburger. La pluma está cerca de la […]
From the desk of Travis Albea, Director of Marketing: Typically I try to cover individual classes and events to share with the Brook Hill community, but this Thursday morning I took an unconventional approach. I wanted to give a snapshot into all the various things happening at the Brook Hill MS/US in a window of […]
Like our Kindergarten classes, PreK has also been learning about our great state. In celebration of the end of their unit on Texas, PreK students engaged in activities like horseshoes, barrel riding, lasso, cow patty toss, face painting, cow milking, and even received a personal brand on a piece of wood! Parents came to help […]
April is National Poetry Month and Thursday, April 24, was “National Poem in Your Pocket Day”. All Brook Hill Lower School students were given a poem to put in their pockets to celebrate this special day. Raegan McCallum, our Technology Director, delivered a microphone and amplifier to the cafeteria so that students could read their pocket poems aloud using […]
On Tuesday, 5th Grade students launched rockets into the air using air pressure they stomped out of plastic bottles. Students made rockets with paper and then the class held a contest to see whose rocket went the highest through the process of elimination. Once students were back inside they evaluated why one rocket went higher […]
Part of preparing our students for college means helping them get to know the options that are available to them. One of the advantages our students have at Brook Hill is the opportunity to speak with colleges from across the US, right here on our campus. College representatives flood our campus almost week throughout the school […]
From the desk of Sandra Fritcher, Lower School Principal Every spring, usually in April, the Lower School participates in achievement testing. We utilize the nationally-normed CTB Terra Nova Achievement Test for grades K-5. Why? The assessment provides us with another source of information that is helpful in determining individual and group needs of our students. […]
Mrs. Powell’s prekindergarten student, Piper, brought a frog (really a toad) to school. The librarian, Mrs. England, asked Piper if she would bring the frog to the library because, there was a matching book. Brooklyn is holding the book, I took my Frog to the Library, while Piper holds the frog!
Kindergarten Spanish students acted out the story, “La Gallinita Roja”, The Little Red Hen. They made masks to represent which animal they were: la gallina – the hen, el perro – the dog, el gato – the cat, or el ratón – the mouse. The students participated in the story while studying animals in Spanish.