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Thank you ☺️ WFMT!! We are so excited about their donation to our program!
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Congratulations to December BVE Student's of the Month. These students show great character, citizenship, service, and leadership. We are proud of them!
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BVE/BVJH Staff and student did a wonderful job displaying their Christmas Spirit for this year’s door decorating contest. Congrats to our 3-8 kitchen staff for 1st place, Mr. McNabb for 2nd place and Mrs. DeMay for 3rd place. Students are invited to wear Christmas pajamas on Monday and Christmas Sweaters on Tuesday next week along with our staff! 🎄⚡️💙
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6th grade is working with data sets and different ways to show them. Today they made predictions about how many drops of water can fit on a penny. They then made stem and leaf plots to compare their predictions with their actual results. They will then find the average number to describe the data.
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3rd Grade created hot chocolate mugs with marshmallows during SEL. The students listed people, places and things that bring them happiness, joy and "warm their heart" on the marshmallows. Enjoy the creativity!
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Mrs. Kuelper’s fifth grade science class researched several endangered species. The students had to locate the continent or ocean where the endangered animal lives. They learned that some species are only found on certain continents.
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Mrs. DeMay’s 7th grade Life Science classes finished their microscope unit by looking at their cheek cells under the microscope. This process is called a Heat-Fix Stain, using a candle and Iodine!
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Mrs. Knapp’s BVHS Teaching Assistant Krysten Walowski did an amazing job creating this interactive bulletin board for our hallway.
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Fourth grade artists are using watercolor resist technique to create snowflakes. They drew their snowflakes with white oil pastels, then painted over the snowflakes with cool and neutral watercolors.
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BVE and BVJH Brainstorm students and staff had a great time today at Circa 21 experiencing Santa Claus The Musical 🎵.
Thank you to Mrs. Corwin and her staff for creating this opportunity for our BV families.
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This is a kind reminder of our Junior High Student Council Christmas Movie Night! Permissions slips needed to be already turned in by your child. They will be starting Home Alone at 5:30 with doors opening at 5:15!
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Congratulations to our 6th grade boys basketball team finishing 12-1 overall this season!! Good job Coach Gruber and to all athletes involved! Go Storm!!
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BVJH is kicking off the Christmas season with the bowling unit. Students learn to keep their own score, bowling approach, and bowling etiquette.
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Mrs. Bell’s students explored weathering and erosion on mountains this week. The students shook sugar cubes in a container to see what would happen to the cubes as they continued to shake the containers.
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7th grade students in Mrs. DeMay’s class learned how to do accurate microscope drawings.
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Our Bureau Valley Junior High choir and band ended the night very well! Congratulations to all performers and directors on a great night!
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Our Bureau Valley Elementary did extremely well at their winter program. Great job to all students, Mr. Lancaster, and Mrs. Krug on an excellent performance! Happy Holidays Everyone!
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And we are underway with our BVE holiday program!
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Happy Holidays Everyone!
We would like to bring some holiday cheer by inviting everyone tonight to enjoy our Bureau Valley Elementary & Junior High for our annual Christmas programs. The elementary program will begin at 6:00 with our junior high program beginning at 7:15.
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Ms. Ackerman’s 6th grade ELA class got welcome aboard to Educational Airlines today!
Students used their own passport to explore locations that are home to celebrations and traditions from all around the world! 🌎
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