We are excited about our upcoming Book Fair which will begin on Monday, October 24th! This year our fair will be online as well. This means you can have family and friends click on this link below and place an order from the scholastic store. The books will be delivered to the school about a week after the fair closes. This is a great way to get for grandparents & other family to help support our book fair & get their Christmas shopping done early! The online book fair will be open from October 16th - November 5th.

To continue with Red Ribbon Week, Thursday, October 13, was "Living Drug Free is No sweat". Students and faculty wore sweats. As an activity each class created a banner with a drug free theme and at the end of the day there was a drug-free banner parade. Everyone went outside and two students for each class carried their classes banner around the school. Judges voted and picked out the four top banners. All of the classes did a great job! It was very hard to pick but the winners were; first place went to Mrs.

Wednesday, October 12, for Red Ribbon Week students wore purple to represent that, "Brockbank Students Stand United Against Violence". Teachers reinforced the importance to students of being violence free. At the end of the day Principal Alison Hansen drew two names of students wearing purple and they each won a gift bag donated by Terry and Louise Crook from Chick-fil-A. Thanks to kindness of not only Mr.and Mrs.

Red Ribbon Week continues at Brockbank. On Tuesday, October 11, it was "Play Hard, Play Clean!" The students had the opportunity of dressing up in their favorite activity or sports uniform. The students learned how important it is to remember to stay healthy and stay active, physically and mentally. A healthy mind is less likely to take drugs! For a fun activity high school athletes from various sports came to Brockbank during their lunch hour to play with students. A lot of the high school students attended elementary school at Brockbank and have sibblings at Brockbank.

October 10-14 2011 is Red Ribbon Week at Brockbank Elementary. Many exciting events have been planned for the week. Monday, Oct. 10, was "Join Hands to Take a Stand Against Drugs!" The students were encouraged to wear red and were given a red wristband to wear and pledge to stay drug free.

Congratulations to Brockbank's Foster Grandmas, Marie Hansen, Earline Holley, and Ruth Dahl! They were all recently honored by the Utah County Foster Grandparents for outstanding years of service.  Marie Hansen is a foster grandma in Mrs. Marcy Noorda's first-grade class and was recently honored for 18 years of service. Earline Holley is a  foster grandma in Mrs. Amberly Kariuki's kindergarten class and was honored for 10 years of service. Foster Grandma Ruth Dahl is in Mrs. Tara Farr's kindergarten class and was honored for 3 years of service.

Brockbank is happy to announce the Hansen Heroes for September.
 
Picture #1 - Back; Katelyn Poulsen, McKinley Harrison, Nicole Noorda, Makayla Mitchell, Principal Alison Hansen, Austin Kubalek, Cade Swenson, and Bowen Olsen. Front; Brenner Shepherd, Jackson Cornaby, Holly Hermansen, Alex Hansen, McQuin Hair, Brinnley Gordon, and Katelyn Gappmayer. 

Picture #2 -Laycee Bills, Katelynn Sanford, Principal Alison Hansen, Morgan Chilson, Taye Newman, and Parker Coe.
 
Congratulations to these students for being good examples in their classrooms!

Brockbank's PTA recently awarded prizes to the students that excelled in the walk-a-thon. The walk-a-thon was a great success with several students walking over 100 laps. Students that walked a 100 laps or more were given a gold medal and a $10 gift certificate to the book fair. Prizes were also given to the students in each grade that walked the most laps.

Brockbank PTA along with Brockbank faculty recently held their sixth annual walk-a-thon fundraiser. It was a great success with lots of support from the students and parents. Students, along with many of their parents, walked laps around a track set up on the grass field as a way to exercise and raise money for the school. The funds will purchase document cameras for classrooms. The goal is to equip every classroom. Document cameras allow teachers to use technology to create a more interactive classroom. Prizes, pizza, snow cones, and bake sale items were available throughout the night.

Friday, Sept. 30, Kindergarten students at Brockbank Elementary celebrated Apple Day at school. The students participated in several different activities including tasting apples in several different forms; cut in slices, applesauce, pie, and juice; deciding which color of apple they like best, doing math and science activities involving apples, and illustrating their own apple books. It was a fun educational day that the students enjoyed.