Students in Ms. Crabtree's 5th grade class are studying the Earth's layers. They compared the layers of Earth to the layers in a Snickers candy bar.
📚 FFA Week Books for Third Grade 📚
BV FFA gifts a copy of Farmer George Plants a Nation to every third grader in the district in celebration of National FFA Week. Each book is written in by a student in Miss Johnston's Introduction to tell the third graders a little more about Ag! Then students in Miss Jacobs' Ag Business class take the books and read with the third graders!
Congratulations to our 7th grade volleyball team as they beat Ottawa last night to move on to the championship game vs Princeton on Thursday night! Good luck to our 8th grade team as they play Princeton tonight at 4:30 to get into the championship game. Great work this season ladies! Go Storm!
Congratulations to our 7th & 8th grade teams in winning their opening rounds in the SRC tournament. The 7th grade won in 2 vs Mendota and the 8th grade won in 2 vs LaSalle. The 7th grade will play Tuesday night at 5:45 and the 8th grade will play Wednesday night at 4:30 vs Princeton. Good luck ladies next week!!
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Good Morning Storm Families,
Happy Snow Day! Tonight's junior high home scholastic bowl meet vs Ottawa has been canceled. We have rescheduled the meet for March 21st with a start time of 4:15. Stay safe and warm today!
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School will be canceled for today Thursday, 2/16/23, due to the incoming winter weather. All BVJH after school activities are also canceled.
Mrs. Price's 6th grade ELA classes have been reading "The Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Students put their investigative skills to use, learned from Sherlock Holmes, during an intense game of Clue.
The 7th grade Social Studies classes created lap books after researching a state of their choice. They researched history, government, geography, and other fun information about their states.
Mrs. Hoyt's 8th grade Physical Science classes learned about Rube Goldberg and his inventions. The students were able to play the board game Mouse Trap to build and create a "Rube Goldberg" machine with the final task being to catch a mouse.
It was a day of hovercraft exploration and erupting volcanoes at the Manlius campus.
Third Grade Artists are creating heartwork inspired by the artist Jim Dine with Mrs. Knapp. They are using oil pastels to add the art elements; line, color, shape, space, texture, and value. Great work!
Fifth graders in Mrs. Kuelper’s class did a science mini lab about how smell affects taste. Students were given an unknown Jolly Rancher flavor and were told to plug their nose and try to guess the flavor in their mouth. We collected and discussed the data.
A big congratulations goes out to the Bureau Valley Junior High Volleyball Teams as the final total came in for Heart Awareness Night. Thank you to everyone in the community and district that made this night successful.
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Mrs. Bell’s 4th grade class learned how to write formal letters. They each chose a national park or natural wonder in the United States to research, and then with the information they wrote a letter to mail. Today, the students walked to the post office to mail their letters.
Bureau Valley Junior High & High School Athletics are offering weightlifting for our junior high athletes. High school coaches will be supervising the weight room in the morning starting February 21st at 6:30AM. There will be no transportation provided. They will enter through the Storm Gym doors and will be let out in time to go down to the MPR for breakfast in the morning. Please contact the junior high office with any questions. Thank you.
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On February 2nd the scholastic bowl team took a break during morning practice to see if our BV Scholastic Bowl Groundhog “Bill” would see his shadow. He did see his shadow. That means 6 more weeks of winter, folks!
Mr. DeVenney’s class met their January incentive! They chose to have a Pickles and Pringles Party. Way to go 4D!
Please join the junior high volleyball teams tonight as the celebrate Heart Awareness Night as well as honoring our 8th graders. We have baskets for our Silent Auction, Parlor Coffee Drinks, Souvenir Shop, and Chuck-a-Duck. Games begin at 4:00 with our 8th grade recognition before the 8th grade game.
Students completed a HIIT workout in PE to improve their speed and agility!
Here is the January issue of our BVJH Thunderbolt. Mrs. Wetzell's Newpaper Club is doing an amazing job keeping us all informed on everything going on at BVJH!
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