We were excited to see each other today!
Thank you Mrs. Cady for reading to 1st grade today! 🎄
3rd grade has started learning to play drums in Music class! They are working on skills such as finding the steady beat and learning basic drum set skills. Everyone enjoyed themselves!!
Everyone was fill with Christmas cheer at the Kindness table today!
Good Evening, Storm Families,
Due to severe weather conditions and increasingly poor road conditions in our area through the evening and early morning hours, Bureau Valley Schools will be closed on Wednesday, January 10th. We will provide updates as necessary for Wednesday's activities via email, our website, and social media. Please stay safe and follow local weather advisories.
Go Storm!
Snow day fun! Let's see those snowmen.
Good Evening, Storm Families,
Due to severe weather conditions expected in our area, Bureau Valley Schools will be closed on Tuesday, January 9th. All school activities, including extracurriculars, are also canceled. Please stay safe and follow local weather advisories. We will provide updates as necessary via email, our website, and social media.
Go Storm!
Bureau Valley Schools has sent a TEST text message and email to our staff and parent contacts. If you are a school contact and did not receive the TEST message, please contact your child(ren)'s school(s) to update your contact information. We are monitoring the weather forecast and will communicate any delays, closures, or emergency messages to these contacts if needed. Thank you for your assistance in ensuring our communication systems are effective! Go Storm!
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas break. We wanted to remind you that school will begin Tuesday, January 9th. We look forward to seeing everyone and hearing about their Christmas break.
Gingerbread transformation day in first grade was a blast! The students visited different centers through out their day. Some centers included making a Santa number bond, sequencing and reading "how to make gingerbread cookies", playing gingerbread snap with sight words, and making gingerbread people with homemade play dough. Also, thank you to fourth grade for helping with making gingerbread cookies!
Gingerbread day was a blast in first grade! We also had help from our 4th grade friends! 🎄Merry Christmas!
BV will dismiss for Christmas break tomorrow 12/22 at 2:00pm. PreK AM will attend 8:00 - 10:00 and PM will attend 11:40 - 1:40. We will see our students back at school on Tues, 1/9. We wish all our families a safe and wonderful break. We look forward to a wonderful 2024!
Friday, December 22nd will be a pretend snow day at BV Walnut. Everyone wear you school appropriate PJs to school! PJs will assure that it will be a fun and relaxing day before Christmas break. Remember we will still have PE and go outside for recess.
On the 21st lets all dress like the Grinch (wear green)! We are sure we will see lots of Grinches running around but only happy hearts!
Tomorrow, December 20th lets all dress in our Christmas Twinkle! Wear lights, sparkle, and sequins!
The halls will be all aglow!
Tomorrow, December 19th we will all wear our favorite Christmas sweaters! We can't wait to see them all!
Tomorrow, December 18th we will start our Christmas week of fun dress up days. Dress as your best "ELF" self.
Congratulations to Jace Bence, Stevie Davis, Kinley Gruber and Sophia Thurston for being selected to sing in the Elementary All State Choir in Peoria! Students from all over the state will perform on the last day of the state music education conference in January.
Students in Gr. 3, 4, 5 have been working on expanding their writing skills through use of figurative language. The figurative language examples are: simile, metaphor, idiom, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, & alliteration. Way to go for making writing fun to read!
On December 7th, BV Walnut 4th grade kicked off their annual 12 Days of Kindness leading up to break! So far we have delivered candy cane grams and read to the Little Blessings preschool students. Keep an eye out for more kindness activities as we move through December!
