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BV Walnut Preschool is offering screenings for children 3-5 years old.
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Mrs. Minssen’s Gr. 3,4,5 Reading/ELA groups have been focusing on written expression through varied activities such as descriptive writing, writing a thank you, acrostic poetry, and using chronological order with transition words.
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Khloe and Maddie enjoying ice cream sundaes at our Marble Party! 4th grade earned the party through positive behaviors as an entire class! The class earned over 100 marbles! We celebrated with ice cream and board games.
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The Kindergarten classes made apple pies to eat at their Thanksgiving Feast.
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Mrs. Arians students had fun practicing their categorizing and classifying skills by playing Thanksgiving Family Feud!!!
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Happy Thanksgiving from the BV Walnut Preschool!
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Kindergarten enjoyed their annual thanksgiving feast. The students helped make the homemade bread, butter, and apple pie.
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There will be no salad available on Monday or Tuesday this week.
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Good afternoon. We are sending out a reminder that school will be dismissed tomorrow, Tuesday, 11/22 at 2:00pm. Please make arrangements for your students to be picked up then.
We wish you all a wonderful, safe, and happy Thanksgiving. We will see you on Monday, 11/28.
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4th graders Kaylee and Jace perform a science experiment to determine which type of lava comes from different volcanoes!
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Thank you to the BV Walnut PTO for the wonderful Thanksgiving dinner! Everything was delicious and enjoyed by all!
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Good morning. We have a few more items on the lost and found. Please see if any of them belong to your student.
Thank you and have a great day!
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Students are beginning to learn the basics of flying a drone, the basic rules, and ways we use them in society and in education!
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Thank you to Johnson Oil, Mary Zittle, and everyone who pumped gas at the Walnut Shell Giving Pump. The Bureau Valley Walnut Elementary campus received a donation of $495.78 that will be used for student incentives and celebrations. We are so grateful for our community support!
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We hope you were able to enjoy our Veterans Day Program. Please take a moment to share some appreciation with our staff as we move into Thanksgiving.
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We are honored to hold our Veterans Day Program at 10:00 today. Doors will open at 9:30. If you are unable to join us we will stream it live on our Facebook page.
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A huge thank you to Country Financial for their generous donation of $1500 to the BV Walnut Elementary for teachers to use for classroom supplies! Each teacher will receive $68. Pictured is Tyler Hansen presenting the check to BV Walnut Principal, Kristie Cady.
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We have several items that are on our lost and found that may belong in your home. If you see something that is yours please have your student pick it up from the table. Thank you.
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We have several items that are on our lost and found that may belong in your home. If you see something that is yours please have your student pick it up from the table. Thank you.
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We would like to remind everyone that Bureau Valley schools will not be in session on November 8th for election day. Please take a moment to talk to your child about the importance of voting.