We hope you enjoy this month's Mustang Minute:
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Your Principals,
Mr. Braden & Mr. Lubus
The 7th and 8th grade band had the opportunity to travel to Badger yesterday! They worked on prepared music with other middle school students from LGMS and played with the Badger Wind Ensemble students. Together, they worked on musical concepts such as articulation, dynamics, and attention to detail. It was also wonderful to see some Brookwood alumni in the high school band! What a great morning of music!
Feb. 12-14th // 50 cents per sucker
*suckers will be purchased during the school day and students can deliver purchased suckers themselves or student council will
deliver on 2/14*
BMS Student Council is excited to host a Cocoa Bar will include hot cocoa, marshmallows, whipped cream, and other fun toppings. This activity will include a special reading, 15 minutes of free reading and sharing of favorite books with friends, and ten minutes of open gym. Students must purchase a ticket to enter the event. Tickets are $1.00 and all proceeds go towards other student council school events. This will be held during the day at BMS and will be organized amongst our student council members, teachers, and students. Ticket sales are 2/5-8th at BMS // Event is 2/9
Our fourth grade musicians are having fun learning to play the recorder in music class! So far they have learned about properly holding and blowing into the recorders to make the best sound. They have learned their first two notes and can’t wait to learn more. Be sure to attend their Spring Music Festival Concert on Wednesday, May 15 to hear their progress!
Ms. Bullock attended the AIME (Active and Integrative Music Education) Conference at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point on Saturday. She was one of over twenty presenters for the day. Ms. Bullock presented her research into Teaching the Music of the Holocaust to Middle Schoolers and the benefits of the sociotransformative constructivism philosophy. That is taking what the students already know, making their learning relevant to the present, so they can apply it to their future learning. In addition to the music of the Holocaust unit in this manner, she teaches about the music of the Olympics, Morse Code, and many other topics.
Way to make us Mustang Proud!!
Congratulations to the Brookwood Middle School participants, Sharon, Gracelyn, Talia, Kate, and Peyton. These students participated in their first of three Forensics meets at Reek School on Saturday. Forensics is a public speaking club; the students have been preparing their material since the end of November. Way to make us Mustang Proud!!
After school art class for 4th-8th graders at BMS.
Heart ART! Create Valentine's Day themed artwork on 2/13 from 2:45-4pm at BMS with Mrs. Garrett!
Thank YOU to all the families that came out to Family Skate Night!! We hope you had as much of a blast as we did!!
6th-8th graders....are you looking for an opportunity to use the fitness center before school starts? This is a great opportunity to build muscle, get in shape, or work on your fitness goals. The fitness center will be open on Monday and Friday mornings from 7:00 AM until school starts. Come to the front door of the school to be let in. This is for students in grades 6 - 8. Questions: contact Mr. Guth (matt.guth@gcj2.k12.wi.us) The first day is February 5th. See you then!
Feb. 2nd is National Wear Red Day: Raise Heart Health Awareness
We hope to see all of our Mustangs in red!
Visit the classrooms, meet the teachers and complete your child’s registration! Any child who will be 4 on/before September 1, 2024, is eligible to enroll in 4-year-old kindergarten. Any child who will be 5 on or before September 1, 2024, is eligible for our full-day, 5-year-old kindergarten program. Please bring your child's birth certificate and proof of residency. Online registration will soon be available at www.genoacityschools.org. For details, call at 262-279-6496.
February 27, from 5:00-6:30 pm at BES, 630 Kossuth Street
Children 18 mos. and up, along with their caregivers, are invited to connect with fellow families and gain information about our FREE community playgroup! Our certified staff will provide valuable insights into developmental milestones and will be running fun activities that target specific developmental areas: fine & gross motor, speech & language, social/emotional, and pre-academics. Parents with developmental concerns about their child can fill out a screening questionnaire. Call Carey at 262-279-6496 to register.
February 23 - choose 9:00 am-10:30 am OR 12:30 pm-2:00 pm
No School : February 19
The 8th-grade leadership students' final activity for the semester was a mini kindness assembly for the 5th-graders. It has been a work in progress and they finally had a chance to execute it. The assembly started with our famous 3-in-a-boat grouping and get-to-know-you activity. Next, they discussed why they felt putting on such an assembly was important. One area of discussion involved conflict vs bullying. Everyone has a conflict at some point. Conflicts can be discussed and resolved. The intention is not to hurt someone. Bullying is intentional and hurtful. The students showed a movie they made that illustrated different types of bullying. The leadership students also did a tug-of-war demonstration that showed how everyone can work together to stop bullying. Together, kindness can prevail!! A final activity was the snowball fight of kindness. The kids wrote down something kind they could do for others and then they got to throw them and find someone else's snowball. It was such a great final activity for this group of 8th graders. We are so proud of all that they have accomplished this semester!!
The 6th graders had a fantastic Spanish-speaking country folk fair. They researched a country, created a large poster alluring people to come to see their country, made a slide show filled with rich pictures from their country, and offered special treats that represented the country. Some of those treats were food, bracelets, and even face-painted flags. The fifth graders were invited to come around and learn about the Spanish-speaking countries. They walked around with passports that got signed after they answered specific questions about the presentations. It is always fun when students can learn from each other.
What a beautiful winter day for a trip to the forest! Our 4K - 4th grade naturalists were able to spend almost 2 hours snow shoeing, bushwhacking (exploring the forest off trail), learning
about ice fishing, and touching mounted North American forest animals. Forts were made, snowmen were camouflaged, trees were climbed, bears were stroked, and smiles were everywhere. After hot chocolate and granola bar snacks at the warming station, the milk jugs to be used as luminaries for the night hike were decorated and bagged. Their adventure in the school forest had a little something for everyone, especially fun! We hope to see you at the school forest for the family night hike on Saturday, February 3rd for 4-8 pm.
We loved seeing all the Brookwood Blues today!!! Let’s keep celebrating our Mustang Monday’s!!! Classes are pulled randomly —-so stay on your toes every Monday!! Some Monday’s will be Mustang Monday’s and some will be Brookwood Blues! Go Mustangs!
Families are invited to come in and visit various grade level pods where we will host reading strategies for all ages with some of your favorite fictional characters, genres, authors, and topics to support academic strategies you can use at home! As you visit the rooms, make sure you check off your "Bingo" sheet so you can then join in on the mini s'mores snack bar in the cafeteria where you and your family can read "s'more" books together and also
join in on the book exchange!
February 9th from 5pm-730pm
Thank you to all the families that participated in our Family Engagement Team’s Staff Scavenger Hunt. We hope you all had as much fun participating as we did putting it together!! It’s not too late to turn those sheets in if you still have them!! Here’s a few snapshots of some of our prize winners!!!
