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GAME DAY ANNOUNCEMENT!
Our 7th & 8th grade boys teams will host Streator tonight with a tip off time of 4:30. Good luck Storm!!
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GAME DAY ANNOUNCEMENT!
6th grade will be traveling to Streator tonight to take on the Panthers with a tip off time of 4:30!
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Mrs. DeMay’s science class is learning the fundamentals of the microscope!
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The sixth grade social studies have completed their study of Ancient Egypt. They used thinking skills to play an Egyptian board game, used cartography skills to make a 3D Egypt map, and researched goddesses of Ancient Egypt and much more!
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Mrs.DeMay’s Science class had fun today learning to identify minerals using each mineral’s properties and characteristics!
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The 7th AND 8th grade robotics teams are BOTH state bound! Great job to all the kids. It was a long day, but so worth it…to see the looks on the kids’ faces hearing those announcements!
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The 5th and 3rd graders collected data on how far their sail car would travel. They also experimented with calcium chloride and baking soda to learn the difference between an endothermic and exothermic reaction.
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Good luck to Bureau Valley Storm Bots. They will be competing at The Rust Belt in East Moline today.
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Please enjoy our BVJH November issue of The Thunderbolt!
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Storm Sweetie Announcement:
We will be sending the Storm Sweetie flyer home on Friday with the elementary students for Storm Sweeties happening in December. The flyer is attached below!
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Congratulations to the Bureau Valley Junior High November Students of the Month! These students showed extraordinary qualities of character, citizenship, service, and leadership.
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Congratulations to our BVE Student's of the Month for November. These students displayed qualities of character, citizenship, service, and leadership!
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Good Morning Everyone,
Important announcement for tonight's boys basketball game concerning the cheerleaders! There will be no cheerleaders traveling to the game tonight due to coach having a family emergency. There will also be no practice, so all cheerleaders will go home after school.
Thank you
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We have eight students participating in this year’s Illinois Elementary All-State Chorus! These students were nominated and then selected, the chorus concert will take place in Peoria, IL on the last day of the Illinois Music Educators Conference! Congratulations to these students, and we hope they have a great experience!
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6th grade science students finished a STEM project based on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! They drew prototypes of their balloon design and today they constructed their balloons! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Students in Ms. Crabtree’s class put their adding and multiplying decimals skills to work. They had to plan a Thanksgiving dinner, make a grocery list, and then add up the cost.
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Some more pictures of our Turkey Bowling adventures today. Congratulations to all winners! Happy Thanksgiving to all students, staff, and community of Bureau Valley School District! Go Storm!
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Turkey Bowling was quite the success this year for our elementary and junior high students and staff.
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Reminder: BVJH/BVE will dismiss at 2:00 on Tuesday, 11/22/22, for Thanksgiving Break. Progress reports will come home with students and there will be NO Brainstorm. School resumes on Monday, 11/28/22. We wish all of our Bureau Valley communities a Happy Thanksgiving!
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3-5 PE - Basketball skills - Dribbling around a defender. Each cone represents a defender and the students have to switch hands to keep the ball away from the defense.
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