Brandywine Elementary staff celebrated their retirees yesterday! These four ladies will be retiring from Brandywine after long careers at the district. They leave big shoes to fill.
Congratulations to Siobhan Bruegman, Kim Hechtl, LeAnn Clark, and Lynn Mickiewicz! Enjoy retirement!
Congratulations to Siobhan Bruegman, Kim Hechtl, LeAnn Clark, and Lynn Mickiewicz! Enjoy retirement!
The fourth grade class recently completed their year-long project involving the incubation and rearing of Chinook salmon within the classroom! On May 10, they released 126 salmon into the Dowagiac River.
The Salmon in the Classroom Program, administered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, allows teachers to raise approximately 200 Chinook salmon eggs from fall through spring. This provides students with the opportunity to observe the salmon’s life cycle in real time, from egg incubation to the stages of fry and smolt development.
The Salmon in the Classroom Program, administered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, allows teachers to raise approximately 200 Chinook salmon eggs from fall through spring. This provides students with the opportunity to observe the salmon’s life cycle in real time, from egg incubation to the stages of fry and smolt development.
Mr. Copper the Therapy Dog has been a busy little guy! When students collect enough positive behavior tickets, they can turn them in for a visit with Copper! Several students chose to spend some time with our furry friend this week.
Yesterday the middle school and high school choirs visited the elementary to give students a sneak peek into joining the program when they reach the MSHS!
The middle school and high school choirs performed for our elementary students today to give them a sneak peek into what it might look like to join the program!
Students in third grade are preparing for their trip to Warren Dunes next week! They've been researching the area and creating travel brochures for their destination.
Friday was Career Day at Merritt and Brandywine Elementary! Students learned about different career options and were able to have some hands-on experiences! Thank you to our volunteers who helped put together this opportunity!
Fourth grade is reading the book Holes by Louis Sachar. They are working on visualization, character analysis, prediction, making inferences, point of view, and theme. Throughout the book, students create artwork, write from different perspectives, and write opinion pieces using evidence from the book.
Holes is a 1998 young adult novel by Louis Sachar about Stanley Yelnats, a boy wrongfully convicted of theft and sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention center where he and other boys are forced to dig holes daily, supposedly to build character, but actually to find buried treasure linked to a historical outlaw and a family curse.
Holes is a 1998 young adult novel by Louis Sachar about Stanley Yelnats, a boy wrongfully convicted of theft and sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention center where he and other boys are forced to dig holes daily, supposedly to build character, but actually to find buried treasure linked to a historical outlaw and a family curse.
Peter Pan Jr. premieres tonight!
Our Brandywine Elementary students have worked extremely hard in the past few months on this musical! Fly off to Neverland at 7 p.m. in the Brandywine Elementary gymnasium. There is a second show on Friday at 7 p.m.
Our Brandywine Elementary students have worked extremely hard in the past few months on this musical! Fly off to Neverland at 7 p.m. in the Brandywine Elementary gymnasium. There is a second show on Friday at 7 p.m.
The Force is strong with this one!
For lunch today at Brandywine Elementary, our students had Wookie legs, Vader’s veggies, Leia’s buns , Yoda berries, and Light Saber carrots.
For lunch today at Brandywine Elementary, our students had Wookie legs, Vader’s veggies, Leia’s buns , Yoda berries, and Light Saber carrots.
Our Brandywine Elementary students will present Peter Pan Jr. next week! Opening Night is May 7 at 7 p.m. at the Brandywine Elementary gym. There will also be a show on May 8 at 7 p.m. Tickets for adults are $5 and students are $3!
Come celebrate the hard work of our students!
Come celebrate the hard work of our students!
A group of fourth grade girls took it upon themselves to clean up the Brandywine Elementary playground yesterday for Earth Day!
Attention current fifth graders! Sixth grade band sign-ups for the 2026-2027 school year will take place Monday, April 27 from 6 - 7 p.m. in the Brandywine Elementary cafeteria. Sign up to be a part of an amazing program!
The Spring Band Concert will take place on Sunday, May 3 at the Brandywine Middle/Senior High School gym.
6th-8th grade bands will play at 5 p.m., and High School and Jazz Band will play at 7 p.m.
6th-8th grade bands will play at 5 p.m., and High School and Jazz Band will play at 7 p.m.
Third grade students in Ms. Page's art classes are starting a unit on creating "Zentangles."
"The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns, tangles and you create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs." (Zentangle.com)
Students were focused on their designs and filling in all of the space on their small square.
"The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns, tangles and you create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs." (Zentangle.com)
Students were focused on their designs and filling in all of the space on their small square.
Our fourth graders enjoyed a South Bend Symphony field trip last Friday!
It was a beautiful day for some fun at recess!
Our Brandywine Elementary Science Olympiad Team is headed to the Berrien County Elementary Science Olympiad on Friday! Marshmallow Towers is one of the events that some students will participate in. Students are practicing building stable and strong structures using the design process. Good luck, team!
Attention current fifth graders! Sixth grade band sign-ups for the 2026-2027 school year will take place Monday, April 27 from 6 - 7 p.m. in the Brandywine Elementary cafeteria. Sign up to be a part of an amazing program!
Students in fifth grade STEM class recently built their own boats and tested how far they could travel! Engineering at its best!
