Bruneau Elementary
October Newsletter
Upcoming Events
October 12th Scarecrows with PTO
October 13th School Board Meeting 7:00pm @ Rimrock Library
October 14th Fire Prevention Day
October 14th End of 1st Quarter
October 18th-20th Parent Teacher Conferences
October 21st Early Release
October 25-28 Red Ribbon Week
Scarecrow Stuffing
PTO's annual scarecrow stuffing fundraiser is underway. Please send in jeans and shirts to help make scarecrows. We also need newspapers to stuff the scarecrows. Students will be drawing the faces and helping stuff scarecrows on October 12th from 2:45-3:45. Everyone is welcome to come and help!
Pencil Fundraiser
We are selling scented pencils to raise money for a gift for our Veterans as well as new playground equipment. Pencils will be sold in the Bruneau Elementary office. The prices are listed below.
Smencils: $1.00
Smens: $2.00
Smarkers: $1.00
Gel Crayons: $1.00
Classroom News
Pre-K Mrs. Merrick
In Pre-K, we are learning how to sequence the events in a story. During letter C week we read, "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" and this week for letter D, we are reading, "If You Give a Dog a Donut". These are wonderful stories that also help the students to use their imagination, as we pretend that we are in the story and they have to decide what they would give the animal next. Watch for re-tell stories that will be sent home, and have your student read the stories to you!
K/1 Miss Wampler
This week our class read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. We practiced retelling the events in the story and putting them in order from first to last. Then we drew pictures of our favorite cookies and made a class graph. (Chocolate chip was our favorite.) So if you give a kid a story about cookies, they are going to want to try it out for themselves. Which means we had to sample some of our favorites!
Reading our Story
Favorite Cookie Graph
Trying Some of Our Favorites
2/3 Ms. Prucker
In Social Studies our unit on maps has changed and we’re now focusing on learning more about our country. We are learning the location of different states and getting more familiar with different parts of our country. In focusing on our country, we are also learning about different symbols that represent the United States. The class had a wonderful time learning about Francis Scott Key and our national anthem. In science our unit on the rain forest is coming to an end but we’ve had a lot of fun exploring the different layers of the rain forest and looking at some of the different animals who call that habitat home.
4/5 Mrs. Kangas-Hanes
Scientists Live in Bruneau!
After a short autumn rain last week, the fourth and fifth graders had an unexpected visitor to our playground. As scientists we asked this question: What species is “Ted”, the toad? This question became a fun exploration and research project. It so inspired us that the very next day a second frog was brought in to our class to visit, and now we have another mystery to solve! We are very busy learning how to write a professional science lab, which answers our questions about an previously unknown or little understood animal in our own backyard!
Music Ms Volk
The music classes are off to a great start this year! Our first few weeks consisted of review and experiential activities to prepare students for the more involved concepts each grade will learn this year. K/1 is beginning to delve into unpitched percussion like drums and tambourines, and they are getting their first chance to sing alone and experiment with movement. Ms. Prucker’s 2/3 class is really excited to play more mallet instruments this year, and is rocking the work they’ve been doing on rhythm reading! The high point of music for 4/5 is learning the recorder, which they started at the end of September. All three classes have learned a new steady beat movement game, which will be used all year to reinforce pulse and beat, one of the most basic music concepts.
Principal's Corner
Angela Duckworth defines grit as passion, discipline and perseverance for long-term goals.
Grit isn’t talent. Grit isn’t luck. Grit isn’t how intensely, for the moment, you want something.
There are two things you need to know about grit:
- Grit predicts success more reliably than talent or I.Q.
- Anyone, man or woman, adult or child, can learn to be gritty.
To be gritty is to resist complacency and the "good enough" attitude. In our school, we're working with students to foster and develop grit each day, through the Growth Mindset described above. Why? Because we want our students to have the desire and discipline to persevere when the task is difficult and the odds are against them.
September Students of The Month
Kindergarten & 1st Grade
Leif Pearson
Ily Gennette
2nd & 3rd Grade
Adrian Farfan
Carlos Escobedo
4th & 5th Grade
Tony Gallardo
Joslynn Burk
Kid Questions
Miss Wampler's kindergarten and first grade classroom chose to interview Miss Sue this week. Sue Boldman has been our cook at Bruneau Elementary for the past four years.
We found out the Miss Sue's favorite food is tacos, her favorite color is blue, and that she likes dogs. Sue loves cooking the foods our students like most including French fries and chicken. When asked what she likes about working at our school, the answer was the kids at Bruneau Elementary. The interview questions were asked by our first graders Liam Aquiso, Kenzley Fowers, Jessica Escobedo, Ulices Rivera, Mackley Prow, and Jaysik Anger.
School Improvements
Come see the improvements we've made at Bruneau Elementary this year. We started with new paint on the inside halls, gym, and lunchroom. Then we received new green and gold curtains in the gym. Students also received new playground equipment this year! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!