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STEM Match Challenge
“Spring Forward … Pay It Forward – Be Part
Of The Growth Of Our Brillion Schools”
Professional Plating Inc. (PPI) has announced it will match up to $10,000
for any individual donations of up to
$500.00 each from private citizens of
the Brillion school district between
now and April 30 to help the fundraising for the Brillion elementary
STEM center.
This is an opportunity to raise
$20,000 and your support will
be greatly appreciated!
Check donations may be made payable and sent to:
Community Foundation Bril-Stem
c/o Brillion Public Schools
315 South Main Street
Brillion, WI 54110
Please indicate “PPI Match”
on your check.
Thank you!
Larry Dietz from PPI and
Carrie Deiter, Elementary Principal.
Brillion Elementary School
Neither Snow Nor Cold Can
Keep “Donuts From Dads!”
On Wednesday, January 27th Brillion Elementary
hosted its second "Donuts With Dad" literacy
event after a cancellation the morning prior due
to a “late start”. No fear! Donuts had the power
to pack the commons with dads, grandpas, uncles and special guys! The event was organized
to bring "dads" into the school and offer them a
few words on how they can support their readers
at home. Afterwards "dads" got the opportunity
to listen to and read to their child(ren). Donut
holes, juice and coffee were shared. A big thank
you goes out to our contributors: Brillion PTO,
McDonald’s and Econo Foods!
Helpful hints were offered to enforce the message of how "dads" can play a critical role in their
child's reading development. Five skills children
need as readers were shared: spoken words, written words, word power, reading smoothly and
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easily, and knowing what it all means.
Particular attention had been drawn
to “what it all means” or comprehension. Dads can help by asking questions. Why did the character do that?
What do you think will happen next?
What would you do in that situation?
Don’t just ask questions about books
– do it about everything you see and
do with your child-from what’s for
dinner to what the coach should do
on the next play.
"Donuts With Dad" brings home the
message that "dads" are needed to
reinforce good reading habits and that
knowledge, and literacy is valuable,
achievable, and powerful!
Brillion Elementary School
Chrome Books Track Student Progress in Music
Here in Brillion Elementary General Music, we have been working
very hard at learning the pitches on the staff. This skill helps us to
be able to read music- if we can read it, then we can play it on an
instrument or sing it!
This year, we have introduced the use of Chrome books in music
to help track student progress. The students have a variety of
activities to choose to participate in to increase their fluency, and
then use their Chrome books to assess themselves. After each
assessment, they record their score on their own data form. They
also record their high score on a chart in the hallway. So far, the
students are making huge gains and staying very motivated to
reach the grade level target.
"I love using our chrome books to see how we are improving on
note names! I have improved a lot since we began. I went from a
210 to a 340! We have learned really fun activities to memorize
note names, like spelling words out of notes. With getting scores
we also track them on a chart in the hallway.You can see all the
different scores and compare your scores to others. In fifth grade,
we also like to help each other, being math or literacy, and music is
no exception. Ms.Rice gave us the chance to work with partners to
help each other with naming notes, which was super fun. Over all,
I love the whole experience in Music!"
-Madylin Gulley Team 5We hope to be able to continue our use of technology in the classroom. When students use technology as a tool for self-tracking,
practice, and learning, it can be a very powerful tool in the 21st
century classroom.
Rebecca Rice, Elementary Music Teacher
Madylin Gulley
Polar Bear Plunge
On Jan 22, 2016, Brillion Elementary School students from Ms.
Thomasen, Mrs. Eichmeier, Mrs. Saubert, Ms. VanderHeiden, and
Mrs. Milledge’s classrooms all worked together and sold popcorn
to raise funds for the Special Olympics Polar Plunge participants
from Brillion High School Club Unify.
The popcorn project supports the functional math and real life
problem solving skills for students. Together we raised $316.40 for
BHS Club Unify Polar Bear Plunge team and Special Olympics!!
Club Unify’s brave team will be jumping into the icy waters on
February 20th, at Menominee Park in Oshkosh. If you would like
to contribute to the Polar Bear Plunge Team or Special Olympics,
Please contact, Mr. O'Fallon, Club Unify Brillion High School Advisor, 920-524-9182
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Brillion Middle School
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EARTH
Learners in sixth grade are finding out that earthquakes
don’t actually harm people, it’s the structures around them
that do the harm. While doing research on the causes and
effects of earthquakes, students are applying their newly attained knowledge to design a scale model of an earthquake
proof structure. Their group research leads them to ideas
they can incorporate in their building.
To accomplish their goal, students are guided through
the engineering design process, the process that is used in
STEM classes throughout their school career. They first
start by researching what has been done to create existing
earthquake proof structures. After doing this, they imagine
possible design solutions by applying their research. When
they have finished the “imagination phase”, they then
create a blueprint of what their structure will eventually
become. This drawing helps them determine what materials they should use and how much of those materials to
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purchase. They will eventually create a scale model (with
the use of materials such as paper, tape, spaghetti noodles,
straws, and mini-marshmallows). These models will be put
through testing so the students can see if their research and
effort has paid off.
To purchase the materials, students must earn money by
complete tasks relating to other core subjects. Examples
of these tasks are to find the central idea in a non-fiction
text or find surface area of their buildings. This money will
then be used to purchase building materials. Money is also
earned by being productive groups, showing respect and
responsibility, or by being on task and on time.
This project not only teaches the necessary content to our
learners, but it also engages students by applying concepts
to create a design solution. Students have been doing a
wonderful job working in groups helping their peers to
become thinkers and problem solvers.
Brillion Middle School
STEM Project
Science • Technology • Engineering • Math
The seventh grade students
are “hacking away” on their
mini golf course projects.
On March 15th, in the middle
school gym, the finished
products will be ready, and
open for play. Please come
and join the fun!
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Brillion MIDDLE School
Middle School Students Perform “Rapaunzel”
Thirty Brillion Middle School students were involved in the play
this year. They presented a slightly fractured version of the traditional fairy tale, "Rapunzel". Students memorized about 50 minutes
worth of dialogue and action for this production and the performances were very well received by the audiences.
Featured lead roles included Cailin Schwalbach as Rapunzel,
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Boden Brooks and Chloe VandeHey as King and Queen Furaday,
Tomas Sommerhalder and Angelina Enneper as Walt and Rene
Schwatzbuckle (Rapunzel's parents), and Madeline Cooney as
Witch Izwitch.
The play was directed by Kevin Hussey.
Brillion MIDDLE School
Making a Connection
Mr. Schwantes’s seventh grade science students
“make connections”, as they share their circuit
projects with Brillion Elementary first graders.
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Baseball • Boys Varsity
Softball • Girls Varsity
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Kewaunee
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Chilton High School
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Two Rivers
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Valders
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Reedsville
Mishicot
Hilbert-Stockbridge
Manitowoc Lutheran
Chilton High School
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Two Rivers
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St. Mary Catholic
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Kiel
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Wisconsin Dells
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Valders
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Chilton High School
Roncalli
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New Holstein
Sheboygan Falls
Kiel
Two Rivers
Valders
Hilbert-Stockbridge
Chilton High School
Roncalli
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Sheboygan Falls
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Markesan
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Wisconsin Dells
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Reedsville
Chilton High School
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Two Rivers
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Sheboygan Falls
Baseball • Boys Junior Varsity
Softball • Girls Junior Varsity
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Reedsville
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Roncalli
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Brillion public School
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Challenge Accepted
Brillion Elementary students were put to a challenge this quarter! Whichever class turned in their 3rd Quarter breakfast forms
first would receive a football, volleyball, and soccer ball for their
classroom. Tracy Hause's 4th grade class met the challenge! They
handed in all of their forms!
Great job to everyone who returned their forms in on time. If
you have any questions about the Elementary breakfast program
please contact Judy Nicklaus at [email protected] or 920-7562368 EXT 4004.
Thanks for your participation!
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Brillion HIGH School
Brillion Senior Travels to Haiti
For the second year Brillion senior, Kiana Gasch has traveled to
Haiti. “I travel with a group from Pens for Hens and our goal is to
provide Haitians with a chicken pen, feed, three laying hens and
some education on chicken care” says Kiana. “I traveled during
finals week. It was a lot of work to have all my finals completed a
week early but the teachers were very understanding.”
Pens for Hens is a non-profit started by Kiana and her father Gordie Gasch, a former Ag teacher at Brillion High School.
Kiana spent eight days in Haiti. One day was spent visiting with
families who got pens last year. Then for four days the group
conducted four to five hour seminars where Haitians learned about
raising hens in a pen and built their pens. At the end of the day the
Haitians took their pens, feed and hens home. some walked and
some loaded everything on the back of a motorbike.
“It was just great to see the happiness and hope on their faces.
These people are so poor it makes you wonder how they do it.
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But they are happy and good natured. It feels good to be doing
something that will make their lives healthier. I especially love the
Haitian children. We would have all the kids in the neighborhood
helping us put the pens together.” commented Kiana.
Kiana also wrote about her Haitian experience for the World Food
Prize. This past fall she attended a conference in Des Moines, Iowa
as the first Borlaug Scholar from Wisconsin.
This has been a real ‘Brillion’ project. Most of the money raised
for the project came from donations and rummage sales at local
churches. Both Peace United Church of Christ of Brillion and Zion
United Methodist in Forest Junction participated in raising money.
Next year Kiana is headed to UW Milwaukee to study Nursing.
She says “this Haiti experience has really opened my eyes to the
world needs for proper nutrition and health care. I plan to keep
doing these trips.”
Brillion HIGH School
BHS Drama Club
Announces the
Backstage Farce,
Moon Over Buffalo
Moon Over Buffalo is the story of an acting couple on tour in
Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac
(revised one-nostril version) and Noël Coward’s Private Lives. This
backstage farce, by the author of Lend Me a Tenor, brought Carol
Burnett back to Broadway and also starred Philip Bosco as her
megalomaniac, often drunk husband and leading man.
Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles in
The Scarlet Pimpernel epic and director Frank Capra himself is en
route to Buffalo to catch their matinee performance. If comedies
and farces are your favorite choice of theatre, then Moon Over Buffalo, is sure to please.
Foundations
of Science
Freshmen in Foundations of Science
working on a STEM project. The
project brought together the study
of the solar system with designing
and fabricating an
electrical system
that would light up
and teach about
2 constellations
in our night sky.
If you're an actor or a wanna-be actor, then you'll love it even more.
It's one of those plays that shows the scenes behind the onstage
scenes. In Moon Over Buffalo, there are really three plays intertwined with each other. And, being a farce, you have all the craziness that includes five doors opening and closing, people hiding in
closets, half-dressed actors, near misses in running into people who
are hiding, mistaken identities and mass confusion.
Timing is everything...and
as the show goes on the timing gets better and better…
Shows are slated to run on
March 10, 11, 12 at 7pm and
March 13 at 2pm. Tickets
can be reserved starting on
February 7th. Go to www.
brillion.k12.wi -click on the
Endries Performing Arts
Center icon and order your
tickets online. To order by
phone, call: 1-866-967-8167.
Tickets are also available at
the door before each performance.
Cast List
George Hay...................................................................Dylan Mentzel
Charlotte Hay.......................................................Morganne Sendek
Ethel..................................................................................Cecilia Petrie
Rosalind Hay........................... *Hope Klessig/**Brooke Solberg
Howard............................................................................. Isaiah Gotter
Eileen..........................*Allison Degner/**Courtney Schwalbach
Paul................................................................................ Blake Hermans
Richard...........................................................................Payton Gruett
*performing role on March 11/13
**performing role on March 10/12
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Brillion HIGH School
National Honor Society Members
Collect Items for Harbor House
The NHS decided to hold a fundraiser for Harbor House at the
suggestion of Courtney Schwalbach who works there. Harbor
House is a domestic abuse center that provides housing and offers
assistance to survivors of domestic violence.
The Sting Cancer group donated a few of the fleece blankets they
had tied. Courtney Schwalbach, Morganne Sendek, and Jacob
Dahl plan to deliver these to Harbor House and also tour the facility. We held the fundraiser for one week after Christmas break. We are
so thankful to the people who brought things for the fundraiser. Many adults--teachers, aides, and janitorial staff--got involved, as
well as several of the students. The NHS is also planning a fundraiser to raise money, hopefully
getting more of the students involved. The money could be used
for gift cards such as gas cards and grocery cards that Harbor
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Brillion Public Schools
315 South Main Street
Brillion, WI 54110
ImPortant DateS
Mark on Your Calendar
February
PHONE NUMBERS
Elementary School Office . . . . 756-3624
Middle School Office . . . . . . . . 756-2166
High School Office . . . . . . . . . . 756-9238
District Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756-2368
The school’s website contains information such as:
Bus routes • School Calendar of Events
Sport Schedules • Free & Reduced Lunch Forms
Lunch Menus • Employment Information
Open Enrollment Information & Forms
Staff & contact information
Board of Education Information
Board of Education Policies
This only names a few of the items on the website!
www.brillion.k12.wi.us
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Teacher Conferences 12:30-8:00pm
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No School –Spring Break
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11:30 Dismissal
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