Bureau Valley Walnut

It was a ✨magical✨ day at Bureau Valley Walnut! The Homecoming week dress up theme today was Disney and our students wore their favorite Disney costumes and gear!

Can't wait to see everyone's Western🤠 or Hawaiian🌺 outfits tomorrow!

Homecoming Week is off to a great start! We loved seeing everyone in their pajamas today! It looks like Mr. DeMay's class may have even snuck in a snooze at the pavilion.

Tomorrow is Disney Day - Dress as your favorite Disney character or wear any Disney apparel!

Big smiles in SEL today! We learned calming deep breaths, picked our happy things, and everyone loved meeting Boozle the purple monster!

PTO Night – New Date! Come for the appetizers, stay for the conversations, and help make a difference at BV! It’s a fun night away to chat with other parents, share ideas, and support your child’s school.

Over the last couple of weeks, 4th Grade social studies students have been learning how laws are formed, the difference between bills and amendments, and veto power. Students came up with bills for new school rules and amendments to current rules. Both classes acted as congress and engaged in respectful debate over the suggested bills and amendments before voting. (Special shout out to Michael, Grady, Caden, and Nicole for their excellent participation in our debates.)

Mrs. Henegar's student of the month for September was Cale Adams! Cale was chosen because he is responsible, hard working, and kind. Cale is trustworthy and a great role model. Way to go, Cale!

Boozle stopped by the Lightning Room today and the smiles were ear to ear! Boozle can't wait to pop in every week to help us work on feelings and have a little fun!

Touch-A-Truck had it all! Climbing in cabs, exploring big rigs, foam pit giggles, the Dinosaur Sensory Truck, and a special moment with the Pink Fire Truck. Stormy brought the energy and BV families brought smiles! Huge thanks to every vehicle, driver, and business who made this night a success!

Career Day was a huge success! Our students had an amazing time learning from different professionals about all kinds of careers. Special thanks to Mr. Roth for his demonstration on coding and robotics. The future is looking bright! ☀️

2nd Grade PE Class Zombie Tag. A favorite game for the 2nd graders to play is Zombie Tag. Zombie tag is a variation of the game of tag where players are "infected" by the "zombie" and become zombies themselves until only a few "survivors" or no one remains. Key variations include: a zombie with one foot in a hula hoop and a pool noodle as a tagging device, which restricts their speed. The 2nd graders had a great time developing spatial awareness, cardiovascular endurance, locomotor and non-locomotor skills (running, chasing, fleeing, dodging).

Wrigley was excited to be back in the halls, soaking up smiles, wagging her tail, and hearing her name! Here’s to a paw-some year making Mondays a little less “ruff”!

🚒 Touch-A-Truck is this Thursday, Sept 11 from 5–7 PM!
Bring the whole family for a fun evening exploring big trucks and community vehicles!

📚 Reminder: Classroom tours will only be available from 5–6 PM, so be sure to arrive early if you want to visit the school.

We can’t wait to see you there! 🚜🚓✨

This week in 1st grade we worked hard on adding and subtracting using ten frames! So, we celebrated all of their hard work at the end of the week with some fun math games.

Mrs. Krug's 3rd grade class had a visitor for Ag in the Classroom! They learned that we can grow gardens no matter where we live. Students were able to listen to a book about growing gardens. They were able to design and draw their very own gardens!

We love science in 1st grade!! We were able to all make our own cotton candy and we released our monarch butterfly!

Get your smiles ready! Picture Day at Walnut is tomorrow!

Be sure to get your Storm Sweeties applications in by Friday, 8/29, in order to receive a shirt! You may turn forms and payment into your student's teacher or the office.

Please see the Bureau Valley Shuttle Schedule for the 25-26 school year!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DfrEY9DQNBb8E98AVwRA9ZVzNR0raCb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101033944129535601438&rtpof=true&sd=true

If you need the school supply list please click the link below!

If you are in Preschool, Thunder, or Lightening classes, your teacher has your lists.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDd6UsKXwNAD-a7dFK_L2quTZuFUgitibenD375YRhE/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you Mrs. Quinn for coming and teaching us about pollinators and plants that are native to our area! We got to add some coneflowers, aster, and milkweed to our pollinator garden. Then we got to throw some milkweed seeds along the creek bank! We can't wait to see the pollinator garden in the fall!