Bureau Valley Junior High/Elementary

The elementary and jr. high students looked very patriotic in their red, white, and blue today! 🇺🇸 Tomorrow is career day. Go Storm! ⚡️

Junior high student council has started their Minonk Chocolate Company caramel apple & caramel whip (caramel covered in chocolate on a stick) fundraiser! All locally made in Minonk Illinois. Sales go through Friday, October 9th and orders come in Tuesday, October 20th. Find a student council member or email Mrs. DeBrock to get yours ordered! Thanks for your support.

We were tickled pink to see so many of our students and staff dressed up for pink day! Tomorrow is America day so wear your red, white, and blue. Go Storm! ⚡️

⚡️BVJH September Student of the Month⚡️ These students have a positive influence on the BVJH student body through extraordinary qualities of character, citizenship, service and leadership. Congratulations and keep leading with Storm pride!! 🌩️💙

🌟 **September Student of the Month & i-Ready Incentive Winners!** 🌟

We are so proud of our students who were recognized for September Student of the Month: Kane Balensiefen, Calvin Marquis, and Charlotte Davis! We also want to recognize those who earned rewards through our i-Ready incentive for most lessons passed this month: Jovi Doty, Evalyn Williams, Will Endress, Lola Bogatitus, Sadie Endress, and Ellie Klein.💙


Good luck to our students next month in earning these awards! Congratulations to all of our students who earned recognition and rewards! We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what you accomplish next! 🌟

Pajama day is always a student and staff favorite dress up day. Way to show your school spirit! Tomorrow is Pink Day.

On behalf of the Junior High PE department, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Dominic Carton for volunteering his time to paint our shoe shelves. They look amazing!! We provide extra tennis shoes for students who forgot theirs or just need to keep a pair. If you have any decent running shoes or basketball style shoe we will gladly put them to use. Thank you!

Today we celebrated the late great Dolly Parton in simple but meaningful ways. We made banana pudding, imagined books we might write if we were authors, and created a collaborative poster of Dolly.

Girls Basketball season tips off on Monday! Go Storm!! ⚡️ #RallytheValley #Entry #FN5GL

The 7th/8th Grade Football season kicks off on Wednesday! Go Storm! ⚡️ #RallyTheValley #Entry #FN5GL

Thank you to Paul and the transportation department for keeping our kids safe! Junior High students learned about bus safety and evacuation during their bus drill today!

Just a reminder the Perfect Pastries orders are due Monday the 28th. Help us support PTO, which helps the school! ⚡️

High school homecoming is next week and we get to join in on the fun! Here are the homecoming dress up days for Preschool - 8th Grade. Go STORM!⚡️ If you would like to order a homecoming t-shirt, use this link. The store closes on Sept. 27th. https://stores.inksoft.com/bureau_valley_homecoming/shop/home

In honor of the selfless acts of Welles Crowther during the 9/11 attacks, Ms. Bitting's class read the story The Man in the Red Bandana today, they wore red bandanas in class, and they named their very first Monarch butterfly after him. It was fitting that it emerged today.

Junior high student council officers presented each new student to our district with a Bureau Valley t-shirt so they can join in on Storm pride Friday's ⛈️⚡️ Welcome to BV!

This past weekend student council President Stevie Davis and advisor Mrs. DeBrock represented the IAJHSC Northwest district as district representative and adult executive director at the fall board meeting. They represent all the schools within the organization located in the brown region on the map.

One project student council officers did over the summer and start of the school year is school supply shopping. They provided school supplies for junior high students in need as well as stocking up to fill our share shelf located in the hallway for students to have access to school supplies all year long.

Mrs. Bell's 4th grade class held a place value party. The students rotated around the room to different party centers to complete the task cards.

8th grade students are painting portraits of people that inspire them. They used a grid to draw their person, and are now mixing and painting different values to create a posterized style portrait.

Elementary & Jr. High students showed their support this Hat Day by making a donation to our local fire departments in remembrance of those lost on 9/11. Donations from the entire district are being tallied and will be announced in the near future.