Third grade has been reading books and writing research papers about different inventors. In the conclusion of their study, they each聽came up with an invention of their own and showed second and fourth graders as well as family members through an elaborate Invention Convention. Certificates and ribbons were presented to each participant. First place winner […]
Pre AP Biology students were able to enrich classroom discussions with a hands-on experience in lab. Using fetal pigs, these students had a chance to improve their dissecting skills and knowledge of the anatomy of major body systems.
Recently, the senior English classes made their way over to TurnItIn.com, a website typically used to check essays for plagiarism. Each senior set up an account and most did a 鈥減ractice submission鈥� to see how the TurnItIn process works. This was to prepare them for submitting the major spring essay that is due at the […]
Mrs. Savage’s fifth grade class visited the American Freedom Museum for a “Great American Symbols” scavenger hunt. Each student was given a picture of an American symbol to find in the museum. They also had to find out why it is an important symbol to America and present their information and symbol to the entire […]
Jeffrey Sonola, Heather McLarry, Julianna Newman and Landry Groves were honored recently at the Rotary Club of Tyler鈥檚 annual Tyler Rotary Young Citizen鈥檚 Club Banquet at the University of Texas at Tyler Ornelas Activity Center. Students were chosen based on exceptional practices of citizenship, cleanliness, thriftiness, loyalty, courtesy, honesty, service, dependability, sportsmanship, scholarship and leadership. […]
Mrs. Wallace’s class tested the distance of their race cars in the hallway this week during class. They were able to let their cars race twice and seemed to have a ton of fun while doing it.
Pre-K library classes went on a nature walk after reading several stories about springtime and gardens. Students recorded observations as they found rocks, flowers, leaves, soil and sticks. They also found a few insects and a forgotten, left behind Easter egg.
Pre-K had been studying the life cycle of a butterfly and were able to release their butterflies in their Pre-K Garden.
Second grade completed a model of the water cycle for them to hang and measure in their classrooms using all of their scientific method skills to measure evaporation.
Congratulations to our Teacher of the Year, Shannan McEuen. “I love my students,” McEuen said. “I’ve been at Brook Hill a long time. I love the atmosphere. I love the fact that we have chapel. We can love on our kids and teach them about Jesus and still teach them about other stuff too.”
In Mrs Haugh’s Pre-K class, they聽sorted and graphed Jelly beans according to their color. The class then ate them, of course. They also used their five senses to analysis Peeps. They smelled, touched, listened to and ate them. Afterwards, they were able to use the promethean board and graph to see if they聽liked them or […]
From the desk of Celia Tucker, Academic College Counselor: It is a mystery. I don鈥檛 know how to explain it, but it happens all of the time. I can be in a sea of people and all of a sudden I see someone from Brook Hill and my heart flutters. It happened again last night […]