Brookwood Middle School

No School - April 30, 2021

We need your input! This survey is the beginning of the discussion about how to move forward after our failed referendum. The School Board will use your feedback to help guide their next steps. Please complete this short survey and be watching for our upcoming listening sessions. Thank you in advance for your participation! https://tinyurl.com/2zjxue4h

For your weekend enjoyment! Our Family Engagement Team is excited to share with our Brookwood Families and our community members a digital read aloud series where our team and staff members will be reading books aloud to you and your families while sharing effective reading strategies and activities for you to engage in at home with not only our books we are sharing with you but also your own personal books, books from our local library, our school libraries, or even books bought from the store. We hope you enjoy this activity and find ways to implement these strategies and games at home with your loved ones. We hope you enjoy this read aloud from Mrs. Bobula! Being patient is something that we all need a reminder of at times...but this little impatient caterpillar needed to be reminded quite a few times...and we can't wait for you to see what happens at the end of this read aloud: https://youtu.be/zI26b4pzx6I If you missed our previous read alouds, check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlhKsK8VoY0m8XUfhSQInKAKDOMIexVw3

Brookwood Families with children in grades 3rd-8th grade, please see the following letter from our principals in regard to our upcoming state test: Forward Exam https://tinyurl.com/6xwb2c58 . If you have any questions, please contact your child's respective principal.

Brookwood Families, please see the following letter from our Superintendent Kellie Bohn: https://tinyurl.com/rpyx8p7w

6th Grade students learned all about Vincent VanGogh's most famous painting, Starry Night. Students created their own versions using the colors of their choice and painting on a clear piece of plastic placed over a coloring sheet of Starry Night. The focus of the assignment was to notice and mimic and the unique style of brushstrokes that VanGogh used in his painting.

The middle school student council will be doing a penny war the week of 4/12-4/16. The penny war will help support a local animal shelter. How it works: Every middle school homeroom teacher will have a bucket in the entryway of the middle school. When students walk in and out for recess, they will put pennies in their homeroom’s bucket. Every penny equals one point. Students can also put silver change in other homerooms’ buckets. All silver change takes points away from that homeroom. Example: a nickel takes away 5 points. The homeroom with the most points on Friday afternoon wins.

FREE Early Childhood Party! Children 18 months-3 years old at BES on April 30th. Our certified staff will be running exciting games and activities that will target specific developmental areas such as: fine motor, gross motor, speech and language, social emotional, and pre-academics. Parents will fill out a screening questionnaire beforehand, then bring join their child while our professionals interact with your child to make sure everything is on track for success! RSVP to Jayme Wisneski at 262-279-6496 or email Jayme.Wisneski@gcj2.k12.wi.us

Please, VOTE! Polling locations are open today from 7am-8pm. Here are some voting resources: Where do I vote: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/FindMyPollingPlace FAQs about voting: https://elections.wi.gov/faq Operational Referendum resources: https://www.genoacityschools.org/o/gcj2sd/page/referendum-2021

Please see the following Mustang Message in English from our Superintendent Kellie Bohn https://youtu.be/xCozvATZAas Por favor vea lo siguiente Mensaje Mustang en español, con Danica Rodriguez https://youtu.be/qGdNM9-H2vA

For your weekend enjoyment! Our Family Engagement Team is excited to share with our Brookwood Families and our community members a digital read aloud series where our team and staff members will be reading books aloud to you and your families while sharing effective reading strategies and activities for you to engage in at home with not only our books we are sharing with you but also your own personal books, books from our local library, our school libraries, or even books bought from the store. We hope you enjoy this activity and find ways to implement these strategies and games at home with your loved ones. We hope you enjoy this read aloud from Mr. Hanson! This story is a narrative non-fiction story...and if you aren't quite sure what that means...we hope you listen to this story so you have a great example of one. We love the message that Mr. Hanson has to share with you about this book too...stay tuned to the end where he shares the special message of this story: The Tree Lady. https://youtu.be/t5P7YjHiOHY Missed out on some of our previous read alouds? Check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBs_aQbe_tA&list=PLlhKsK8VoY0m8XUfhSQInKAKDOMIexVw3

Don’t forget....we are only 4 days away from voting!! You may ask...why vote and what is the impact of the District’s operational referendum on our community?! Check out that information here: We hope that this page is helpful to our community members. www.genoacityschools.org/o/gcj2sd/page/referendum-2021

Don't forget to spread the word and vote on April 6th! Please see our virtual info & Q&A session we had on 3/23/21 about our upcoming Operational Referendum: https://youtu.be/OWnyfoM3vQY . To view our previous session and other information about the upcoming Operational Referendum, please go to https://www.genoacityschools.org/.../page/referendum-2021 During our Q&A session, we were unable to do a live translation into Spanish during the recording, but we have gotten the information translated into Spanish here: https://tinyurl.com/2yusp9yt

Don't forget to spread the word and vote on April 6th! Please see our virtual info & Q&A session we had on 3/23/21 about our upcoming Operational Referendum: https://youtu.be/OWnyfoM3vQY . To view our previous session and other information about the upcoming Operational Referendum, please go to https://www.genoacityschools.org/.../page/referendum-2021 During our Q&A session, we were unable to do a live translation into Spanish during the recording, but we have gotten the information translated into Spanish here: https://tinyurl.com/2yusp9yt

For your weekend enjoyment! Our Family Engagement Team is excited to share with our Brookwood Families and our community members a digital read aloud series where our team and staff members will be reading books aloud to you and your families while sharing effective reading strategies and activities for you to engage in at home with not only our books we are sharing with you but also your own personal books, books from our local library, our school libraries, or even books bought from the store. We hope you enjoy this activity and find ways to implement these strategies and games at home with your loved ones. We hope you enjoy this read aloud from Mrs. Brault. In this read aloud, Mrs. Brault talks about the progression of a book. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/khmszqOQxRw If you're interested in more of our series, check the other read alouds here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlhKsK8VoY0m8XUfhSQInKAKDOMIexVw3

https://youtu.be/lENV_WEUALI 7th and 8th grade choir and band spotlight performance. Both ensembles rehearse in smaller classes to accommodate social distancing. They were able to come together to perform for you. Please enjoy!

Don't forget..we don't have school tomorrow, Mustangs! We hope you also have a great Spring Break! See you back on April 5th! Parent's, don't forget to mark your calendars to vote on April 6th!

Hello Brookwood Families! As part of our mental health grant, we are currently setting up calming corners in all kindergarten - 5th grade classrooms and some related art’s classrooms! We are also distributing personal calming kits for each student containing items such as a stress ball, playdough and breathing boards. Calming corners are physical spaces that allow students the opportunity to work through emotions they are feeling and/or refocus themselves, without leaving the immediate learning space. Each calming corner has a basket of materials and tools for students to use for this purpose. A calming corner is not a time-out chair; this is not a punishment or discipline practice. It is a place for a child that is frustrated, sad, or otherwise upset to practice calming strategies and further develop their emotional regulation skills. We are teaching our students about emotional regulation by utilizing the Zones of Regulation curriculum (see chart below). We let the students know that taking a quick break at the calming corner can help them calm themselves and refocus, allowing them to manage their emotion, and rejoin the class ready to learn. Calming corners allow us to have a variety of helpful coping strategies & tools on-hand (such as deep breathing strategies, sensory tools, stress ball etc.). This will be new and novel at first, but just like any other classroom routine, in time it becomes commonplace for the students. They use it as a tool for their learning like using a word wall or multiplication chart. Zones of Regulation is good for School & Home! The language we use to describe feelings is anchored in a set of tools called, “Zones of Regulation.” It is based on a simple 4-part division of emotional states that gives a child a starting point to articulate their feelings to both themselves and others. If you want to know more about our calming corner or our Zones curriculum, please reach out to your child’s school counselor. Sincerely, April Fitzsimmons - Elementary School Counselor Kayln Obry - Middle School Counselor

Reminder: Live Virtual Information and Q&A Operational Referendum Session is tonight from 6:30-7:30 in English and Spanish. Join by click this link: meet.google.com/xjf-subh-xms Recordatorio: La Sesión de Referéndum Operativo de Información Virtual en Vivo y Preguntas y Respuestas es esta noche de 6: 30-7: 30 en inglés y español. Únase haciendo clic en este enlace: meet.google.com/xjf-subh-xms

This year our 4K & 5K registration process has adapted with the times a bit. We want to be sensitive to the health and safety of our families and future students, as well as to our current students and staff. We do want to limit the exposures and close contacts to all of these groups. Our goal this year has been to remain safe, healthy, and open for our community. This year we will be offering two different options for 4k and new 5k student registration. The 1st option is a virtual tour and introductions to our staff and programs. This will be through the connected video links we have posted here. 4K Video: https://youtu.be/gjyd6niyOQY 5K Video: https://youtu.be/l1Lf28LoAg8 This week from Monday March 22nd - Thursday March 25th we will be accepting registration materials at the BES Office from 7:45am - 3:45 pm. Mrs. Wisneski will be in the office to receive filled out registration packets, verify birth certificates and addresses, as well as to answer any questions you may have. Registration packets have been sent out to any families that have signed up on our district website. If you still need a packet or missed the registration week, you can still get registration packets sent to you by going here: https://www.genoacityschools.org/o/bes/page/4k-5k-registration In addition we will have packets at both the Brookwood Elementary and Middle School offices for pick up. The second registration option is to attend our registration night on March 25th. This will be from 5-6:30. We do ask if you are choosing this option that you call Mrs. Wisneski to sign up for a time slot for your family. The inperson night will include all the information from the virtual tour, and classrooms will be open for you to step into if you would like. Whichever option works best for you and your family, please have all registration materials filled out prior to coming to the school. This will expedite the registration process and limit waiting and long lines. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at 262 279-6496. Make it a great day and Go Mustangs.