Our student council members attended a leadership conference at BYU on Monday! They listened to some inspiring speakers and learned leadership skills to bring back to Brookside this year. Some of these students’ favorite take-aways were: lead others with your heart and your brain, have a positive attitude, be inclusive, be kind, be more accepting, and have grit!

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In fifth grade, we have been learning about the causes of the American Revolution.  In Miss Bird’s class, we have had an economy from the beginning of school where the kids have been earning tigers for their weekly pay and doing good work.  The past couple of weeks, we have started having taxes and the students are beginning to hate this time. The taxes increase in frequency until they finally just get angry and “rebel” like the colonist did.  These taxes are unfair like wearing jeans, blonde hair, having a sister. We also had some fees like a chair fee.

Rhett Morrision, Lydia Kmetzsch, Edie Wilde, Emery Strong, Benjamin Smith and Jessie Peterson were choosen from all the student's who turned in artwork this week, to win a prize for coloring a school lunch week cartoon. Great coloring students!

As part of National School Lunch Week some of the Brookside teacher's signed up to serve lunch to our students. It looks like they are having way too much fun...

Today we had a table contest to practice our division algorithm. The blue table was able to consistently compute the correct answers the fastest with single digit divisors. Next we will try bigger dividends!

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Kempton Nord took all the chairs down when he gets to school in the morning, Olivia Burris always asks what she can do to help her teacher, Lyle Gribble took down all of the chairs in the morning, Casey Cottle got to work quickly doing beautiful cursive, Matilyn DeLlamas stayed on task, Adalynn Rouse is always helpful in class and a good friend to everyone, Maliki Madsen is a good listener and always smiles, Matthew Christian is a great silent reader.

What a fun day in first grade! We participated in a STEM project where we had to build houses for the 3 little pigs. All we could use were dots and toothpicks to make our houses. Once our houses were built the Big Bad Wolf tried to blow them down! Some of our houses fell down the first time, but after we improved them they all stayed up! We had so much fun planning, building, experimenting, improving, and presenting our plans. The pigs are safe from the Big Bad Wolf now!

Our fifth grade classes headed down to the Kindergarten hall with teaching in mind. Each fifth grader assisted one Kindergarten student in learning and practicing the Art of tying shoes. The Kindergarten students had a splendid time learning from their older peers and were eager to show them they were up to the task. The fifth grade students jumped in with both feet and began the tying show down. What a wonderful way to learn and grow together.

Each Monday, Miss Bird’s Fifth Grade class gets to mentor Mrs. Jorgensen’s class become learners. Last week they interviewed each other in a get to know you activity. This week they celebrated Columbus Day by making Hats. The fifth graders look forward to helping the second graders with reading, writing and math.

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This week we did a STEM activity in the first grade. After reading "The Three Little Pigs" we built homes for our piglets using only "dot" candy and toothpicks. We then tested them against the huff and puff of the wolf! (blow dryer). First, they made a plan of how to build, then we tested and went back to the drawing board to make our designs even stronger. Finally, we built once more! ALL their houses withstood the blow dryer by the end! Woo hoo!