Brookwood Elementary School

In 2nd grade, they have been learning about what it means to be a good citizen and different aspects of government and elections. In honor of the U.S election, they held their own mock election this week. In their election, students were able to try out and vote for their favorite flavor of oreos: chocolate or golden. The students filled out their Voter Registration Card and ballot and turned it into the ballot box. Votes were counted and chocolate won by a landslide victory of 28 to 11! What a fun experience!

We hope you enjoy this week's Mustang Morning Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjCtz6-eu5w Our 3rd graders rock....thank you for all of your hard work on these!

All Veterans are invited to Brookwood Middle School for a Veterans Day Program celebration on November 11th, beginning at 9:30am. We are truly thankful of all of our Veterans and their service.

Here is this month’s Mustang Minute:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tbETKGE1bCEzyPdt19QgZEmoLEEn8URC/view?usp=sharing *edit to Mustang Minute: Join Student Council's Fall Frenzie #2 Activity Night on November 15th from 4-6pm for 6th, 7th, & 8th graders at BMS. $5 Entry: light supper or $3 with a new box of cereal for Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry

Genoa City Community Members, Please see the following letter from our Interim Superintendent Paul Weber: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wSUl2iBNDlJ08RrxLEvqpYiLoHj_3zqz/view?usp=sharing

Yesterday was our 4K October Family Outreach and it was a blast!!! Thank you to Pearce's Farm Stand for having us!!

A message from our Brookwood PTO: Don’t forget—Turkey Trot forms are due back at school by this Friday, November 1st! Let’s get ready to run, have fun, and maybe even gobble up some goodies!

In guidance class, 1st grade students are excited about becoming emotion detectives! They decorated their own spyglasses and are learning how to look for clues to figure out how someone is feeling (using facial expressions, body language, listening and looking at what is going on around the person) and why the person might be feeling that way. This will lead directly into learning to be empathic and what they can do to help someone.

BES After School Adventure Club has been a blast! Thank you to the teachers, students, and parents for making this such a success!!!

We love seeing all the artwork throughout our buildings at this time of year, but what becomes an annual tradition that is showcased that really “brings us back” are these beautiful clay pieces of artwork in each building…pumpkins at the elementary school and fall leaves at the middle school.

No School: November 8th // Teacher PD Day

We can't wait for our 4K October Family Outreach!! Contact your child's 4K teacher for more information.

Thank you to all the families that came to the BES art room during parent/teacher conferences to enjoy the Black Light Art Show - Underwater World - put on by our students!!! They did a outstandingly glowing great job!! Our artists are already talking about what the theme can be for next year!!

Thank YOU to all the families that purchased at our onsite book fairs!! We are sad to see the onsite fairs go...but the online fair is still open for purchases until November 3rd!! 25% of ALL online sales come back as a profit for our school libraries. We are in need of your help for our elementary fair though....we are $120 short in sales for our elementary library to hit its next tier of rewards!! If you'd like to help us hit our next tier of rewards....please purchase through our elementary school's link: BES: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/BESBookFair BMS: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/BMSBookFair Thank you again for supporting our Scholastic Book Fairs!!

Tonight is the last night for the Scholastic Book Fairs hosted at both school libraries!! Here are some of our staff wishlists that teachers have been requested to be donated to their classroom libraries! Can't make it to the fair but want to support our libraries? Here are the online links, which are open for purchasing from October 21st-October 25th. Our libraries will get 25% back for all online purchases! BES: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/BESBookFair BMS: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/BMSBookFair

We can't wait to see you all at the Book Fair!!! Here are some of our teacher wish lists if you'd like to support our classroom libraries. Can't make it to the fair but want to support our libraries? Here are the online links, which are open for purchasing from October 21st-October 25th. Our libraries will get 25% back for all online purchases! BES: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/BESBookFair BMS: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/BMSBookFair https://www.canva.com/design/DAGUZj8oNKU/W94iPNtxi_o2G3VWniS7_A/view?utm_content=DAGUZj8oNKU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor

The Genoa City Joint 2 School District’s Families in Need Program is designed to help our district families who are having difficulty meeting the immediate needs for their child(ren). If you are a Family in Need, we ask that you fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Clm23MIxwkfibVzvV61hBx_hjIQ4opUJzCkRZSIDeiHdzw/viewform This form will allow you to sign up for a holiday box with essential needs for your child(ren) and for us to stay in contact with you when supports are being offered from our community partners to share with you. OR If you are interested in supporting our Families in Need Program, you can donate monetarily for us to purchase essential needs for the children in these families or you can sign up to “adopt” a child in this program to personally purchase items for their holiday box. If you would like to support this program, please fill out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5VqnxePA4GTPImtasH51s3EYhij-ughXSCtxPffRT_moVHw/viewform If you have any questions about this program, please contact Helen Xiong directly: Helen.Xiong@gcj2.k12.wi.us Thank you for your continued support in all things Brookwood.

What an exciting afternoon at both schools!!! Thank you to our Brookwood PTO for leading in coin wars at both schools this year!!! Congrats to our winning grade levels: 1st grade for BES and 4th grade for BMS!!! Thank you to all those that donated!!! As the winning classes, students from those grade levels got to duck tape their principal to the wall!!!

Happy Monday, Mustangs! Here is this week's Mustang Morning Show! Enjoy! https://youtu.be/sa6qlNsp0e0

No School: October 25th