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Rachel Cahill, Olivia Smith, Melanie Park, Jada Wheeler, and Taylor Hernandez at the track meet

The fifth-grade Hershey Track Meet was held on Tuesday, May 8, at the Spanish Fork High School track. Brockbank fifth-graders enjoyed competing after working hard getting ready for this competition.

Grandma Cleo Cox with Mrs. Lisa Birds first grade pirates. AAARGH!

Brockbank first graders read the book, "Pirate Mark" and listened for all the AR sounds in the story. They made pirate hats and wore eye patches. In the story MARk loved chocolate bARs so do first graders so the students went on a treasure hunt around the school looking for AR clues to find the treasure. AAARGH what cute little pirates they ARe!

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Indoor Tennis Participants with Mrs. Annette Morrison, Mrs. Peggy Rothaug, Austin Rothaug, Makayla Michelsen, and Mrs. Susan Johnson. Absent from photo was Mrs. Karen Swenson

Brockbank's after school tennis just completed for the year and was a great success! Brockbank's Speech Teacher, Mrs. Susan Johnson helped to start and supervise the after school tennis program. Her with the help of volunteers taught students the fundamentals of playing indoor tennis. Brockbank was able to have indoor tennis with the help of the United States Tennis Association who generously donated junior size nets, foam balls, and rackets. Two sessions were held after school, the first session was for the older grades 4-6 and the younger grades 1-3 recently finished.

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Jordyn Fernandez, Elley Colledge, Abigail Kirk and Alcira Miles working together on their picture

Students in their art classes recently went outside to enjoy the sunshine and use their creativity. They got to draw with sidewalk chalk anything that they wanted either by themself or some worked in groups. The students really enjoyed this activity!

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Jace Hanks, Dax Hill, Mason Olson, Shawn Stanworth, Garrett Dedrickson, and Greg Olsen

The fourth-grade Hershey Track Meet was recently held on Thursday, May 3, 2012 at the Spanish Fork High School track. Brockbank fourth-graders worked really hard getting ready for this competition and it showed. Fourth-graders enjoyed the sun and competing in it!

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January Langston, Carter Nelson, MaKinzey Fillmore, Lauren Trafny, and Corbin Gull

On Friday, April 27, kindergarten students at Brockbank Elementary entertained their parents and grandparents with a fun program. They showed them what they have learned this year by each student memorizing a small speaking part and by singing songs. The students worked really hard practicing and performing this program and all of them did a great job!

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Brockbank is happy to announce the Hansen Heroes for April!

Picture #1 - Garyn Jensen, Kylee Pace, JAmy Davis, Tate Sorensen. Principal Alison Hansen, Jesse Shepherd, Kade Thompson, Cheyenne Jensen, and Lucy Sloan. Absent from picture - Gracie Herbst.

Picture #2 - Back - Ramsey Anderson, Brinley Michelsen,  Lyssa Fisk, Principal Alison Hansen, Stephanie Quiroz, and Mark Heward. Front - Morgan Porter, Zachary Beus, Cody Herbst, and Annisa Nilson. 

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Back- Max Hansen, Luke Jensen, Taylor Swan, and Emily Rowley. Front - Amanda Mitchell, Emily Lund, Abbey Colledge, Amelia Moleff, Brooke Sorensen, and Makaylee Bryson.

Thursday, April 26, ten Brockbank Elementary students represented their school in the Utah State Elementary Debate Tournament held at Hillcrest High School in Midvale. Students spent months and months preparing and reseaching for this opportunity. These ten students earned the right to go to state by debating and placing earlier in the year at the District Debate Tournament.They have worked in partnerships preparing arguments for either the affirmative or the negative. All elementary students statewide receive the same topic. This year the topic was, "Resolved: That the State of Utah should provide incentives to increase the consumption of locally produced foods as a means to reduce energy use and improve air quality." More than fifty teams from all over Utah came to this tournament. Makaylee Bryson and Brooke Sorensen took fifth place overall arguing for the negative. They received a medal for placing in the top five and were also awarded a medal for getting High Speaker Points. All of the Brockbank students received an excellent rating from the judges, just barely not placing. Faculty advisor, Mrs. Kristel Peterson said, "I am very proud of all the students for their progress and all their hard work. They all did terrific!" A huge thank you to Mrs. Peterson, who worked endless hours preparing the students. We would also like to thank all of the parents, but especially Sherry Bryson and Rebecca Jensen, parent volunteers, who did so much in helping the students and Mrs. Peterson get ready for this tournament.

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Mrs. Tara Farrs afternoon class at Cal Ranch

On Friday, April 20, Mrs. Tara Farr's kindergarten classes went to Cal Ranch to learn about baby chicks, ducks, and turkeys. This field trip went along with the unit about Farm Animals that is in the Kindergarten Core Curriculum.  While there the students learned about how to take care of a chick, what they eat, how to keep them warm, etc.  They also talked about how they come from eggs just like dinosaurs do so in a way a dinosaur is just a big chicken! The students were able to pet the chicks, ducks, and turkeys while the adults held them.  It was a lot of fun and the students had a great experience handling the animals!

Sixth-Grade Kid Power Members

Back; Natalie Millet, Sage Olson, Tyler Sorensen, Devin Berns, Cade Swenson, Caden Critchfield, and Freda Tuaone. Front; Stephanie Quiroz, Bowen Olsen, Evigail Chacon, Jimmy Escobia, Briggs Ashworth, Max Christensen, and Aimee Gilner.

Brockbank is excited to announce we raised enough money in our fight against cancer with our school wide "Penny War" to achieve our goal and therefore helping the Huntsman Foundation's "Walk of Hope". Huntsman's is building a brick pathway between the Huntsman Cancer Institute and Huntsman Cancer Hospital and with the generosity of our students and an anonymous donation of $350 we have raised enough money to get 3 bricks and have "Brockbank Elementary" engraved on them. Thanks to the time and effort of our "Kid Power" sixth-grade student council members, who were over the "Penny War" and helped to motivate the students to bring in their pocket change in this great cause we raised $1,228.43! Fourth-graders brought in the most money, $341.03 but didn't win the war, even though they brought in $99.00 in pennies.There was enough other coins and dollars in their can to cancel out all their penny points. Kindergartners ended up winning the war by having the most penny points with 44.91. Way to go Brockbank!

Superintendent Rick Nielsen, Miss Alyson Tober, Director of Elementary Education; Julie Warren, and President Nebo Education Association; Jim Griffin

Brockbank Elementary is pleased to announce and congratulate Miss Alyson Tobler for earning Brockbank's Teacher of the Year Award for 2011-12. Alyson was honored by the Nebo School District Board at their April 4, 2012 meeting. Alyson is a Special Education Teacher here at Brockbank.

Alyson Tobler provides a rich, positive learning experience for students. She is respected by students, parents, and faculty at Brockbank and has a well-deserved reputation of being honest, fair, and hardworking. Alyson believes every student is capable of success and structures lessons so that students on every level can achieve mastery. Alyson’s understanding of methodology and curriculum
development is outstanding as she plans and delivers effective lessons. Students respect Alyson and are willing to work hard to meet her expectations.

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Miss Tierney Diamond explains Survivor rules to fourth-graders

Brockbank enjoys having student teachers from UVU and BYU come every year and do their student teaching here at Brockbank. We have had some great ones and it is always hard when it is time for them to leave. One example is Mrs. Larina Quispe's student teacher, Miss Tierney Diamond from UVU. On her last day here at Brockbank she wanted to do something special for all the fourth-graders so she planned a
"Surviver Party". With the help of the fourth grade teachers they had a Surviver challenge. Some of the challenges included an egg search, marshmellow mouth stuff, eating dirt and worms (cookie crumbs & gummy worms), pushups, and hold the plank. The students divided into teams and everyone had a lot of fun! Brockbank fourth-graders are really going to miss Miss Diamond and wish her luck as a teacher!

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Fransica Ortiz mentoring Brynn Olsen

Brockbank students benefit from LIA program at the Spanish Fork High School. LIA is Latinos in Action which is a class designed to provide Hispanic students the way to develop leadership, citizenship, and mentoring skills. LIA students are taught writing and reading skills, resume development, bilingual speaking, work ethics and responsibilty, time management, goal setting, team work and cooperation, problem and decision making, and community involement. In order to be involved in
this class they must be invited to be enrolled based on their GPA, citizenship, dependability, and trustworthiness. LIA students are trained to mentor elementary school students. Approximately 26 LIA students come to Brockbank twice a week and work with students that need help with reading, spelling, math facts, anything that the student maybe struggling with at the time.

Pictured is the afternoon peer tutoring groups; front - Elyse VanTassell, Colton Jones, Corbin Gull, Hallie Swenson, Morgan Beckstrom, and  Brett Greenhalgh. Back - Abbey Colledge, Taylor Swan, Sadie Bennett, Tatyana Ioane, Sheridan Creer, and Kate Baadsgaard.

Brockbank just finished up another successful year of peer tutoring by having a party. Brockbank has ran a peer tutoring program for several years where kindergarten students benefit from being paired with a sixth grade student for peer tutoring.  The sixth-grade tutors undergo training with our literacy specialist on the basics of emerging reading skills and then are paired with a kindergarten buddy. Both kindergarten and sixth grade students enjoy forming new friendships and learning new skills together.