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Last week (Jan. 11-15) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa schools honored their paraprofessionals. A few ways this took place included the teachers taking the paras out for lunch at Classic Co. Bar & Grill. Also, on Friday, elementary teachers took over recess duty, a task normally assigned to the paras. So what does a paraprofessional do? From the Minnesota Department of Education website = "Paraprofessionals may work in a variety of positions in a school district including, but not limited to,...
During this century, speech has been to Fine Arts at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa as much as volleyball has been to the Jaguar athletic program. It is indeed a program unto itself. That came about by no accident, with B-B-E speech coaches through the years building turnout into the mid- and upper-30s and over 40 in some seasons while cranking out conference and sub-section team championships left and right while having dozens of students earn trips to the State Speech meet each April. Interviews of...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board approved the fiscal year 2016 levy at Monday’s regular meeting at the high school. The local levy, which will help fund operations for the 2016-17 school year, is set to include a 7.74 percent increase from last year. The biggest source of the increase stems from the Long-Term Facility Revenue category of $107,630. This is a new funding stream approved by the state legislature. Superintendent Matt Bullard explained, “This is our 10-year facility plan that we talked about in August. It was granted by new...
Students in Family and Consumer Science teacher Carin Hagemeyer's ninth grade class operated their own restaurant out of the high school FACS room at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school on Tuesday this week. Above: Milly Hobbs, Emily Knight and Alondra Saucedo were three of numerous servers at the restaurant. Behind them are kitchen helpers Addison Arneson and Molly Holme. Read more about the class and see more photos on page 15 of the December 24 issue of the Bonanza Valley...
On Monday, December 7, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school bands and choirs held their annual Christmas/Holiday concert. Performing were the Percussion Ensemble, the Junior High choir, the Junior High band, the Senior High choir and the Senior High band. The final song was a joint performance between all 7-12 grade band and choir students of the song "Believe" by G. Ballard and A. Silvestri. The event was live streamed at the school's website for those who couldn't attend in person, and a...
This year’s Christmas program will be held on Wednesday, December 16 at 2:30 p.m. in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary gym. This year’s program is called “Arf! On the Housetop” - a puppy musical about a very important element of the holidays for everyone…home. This program features students in 4th grade and also has students in grades K-3 participating. If you can’t make it in person, the Bonanza Valley Voice broadcasting team will stream this event live on the Internet. Visit this web story to see details on how to watch it from your c...
Math Masters is based upon research concerning the characteristics of mathematically gifted people, the traits of eminent mathematicians, and the achievement of girls and boys in math. The purpose of the program is to challenge students to use higher-order thinking skills and problem-solving abilities in mathematics and to give recognition for academic effort and achievement! Math Masters demonstrates the idea that math can reinforce critical thinking skills and still be fun. On Friday, March...
Here's video that will be shown live from the high school tonight, courtesy of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school broadcasting team: Share Events on The Cube...
On Monday, November 2, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa National Honor Society held its formal induction at the B-B-E High School. The program began with President, Alyssa Dalen, and Vice President, Joe Reller, welcoming the guests. Next, a poem was read by Jennifer Boyle about how to be a leader. The guest speaker was Lucas Sjostrom, who is a partner with his wife Alise in the Redhead Creamery of rural Brooten. Sjostrom spoke to the students about the four pillars of NHS and how they can be leaders...
The opening night of "Avenue Q: School Edition" by the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa theater company was a smashing success. Those in attendance were given close to two hours of laughs and joyful moments while taking in a musical adapted from Broadway that shares a very special message for everyone. As they filed out afterwards shaking hands with the cast and crew, fans raved at the terrific singing, stage work and theatrics delivered by the students. You have just two more chances to catch the show:...
Shown are the winners of the Voice of Democracy essay contest held for juniors at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. From left: Mrs. Cassidy with the Belgrade V.F.W. Auxiliary, Hailey Braegelman (third place), Isaac Vliem (first place), Molly Tengwall (second place) and Dave Schwinghammer with the Belgrade V.F.W....
The Floriculture team also competed and used the contest as a building block for the future. Teams had to identify quite a number of greenhouse, garden, and houseplants, take a written knowledge based test, place two classes of saleable plants, and set up a bud vase with a saleable display. Team results were: 1st Hancock – 2014 pts, 2nd Battle Lake – 1948 pts, 3rd Parkers Prairie – 1927 pts, 4th Morris Area – 1824 pts, 5th B-B-E – 1428 pts, and 6th West Central Area – 363 pts. Local participant...
Tickets are on sale now to the B-B-E theater company's upcoming performances of the newer Broadway musical 'Avenue Q: School Edition' on Friday, November 20; Saturday, November 21; and Sunday, November 22. You can purchase your tickets at the High School office or by calling 320-346-2317. The theater students and Director Lucy Lloyd asks the public to share this information and attend at least one of the shows. Lloyd commented about the musical, "Avenue Q: School Edition is a show full of...
The Jaguar Kids Connection and preschool kids dressed up in costumes and walked around the hallways in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school on Friday for a Halloween parade. A few staff members even got in on the Halloween fun. See more photos at http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com and click on the 'photos' tab....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaycees sponsored a Halloween party for area kids on Monday, Oct. 26 at the B-B-E elementary school. Dozens of kids, parents and family members enjoyed over a dozen games with prizes. The B-B-E Dazzlers dance team was on hand to help at the game sites and did a wonderful job making the event fun for kids of all ages who participated. You can view and purchase photos from the Halloween party at https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/2015-BBE-Bonanza-Vall...
After getting to the podium, Dean DeKok paused and looked out at the crowd gathered on Saturday night at the Padua Pub for the first Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Hall of Fame banquet. "I got a call about two months ago from Wes Von Eschen talking about the Hall of Fame you guys have put together. Right away I think of all the other people who should be considered for something like this. What a privilege it is to be up here with you." DeKok, a 1962 graduate of Brooten high school, was one of eight...
Parent-Teacher Conferences for all students in Kindergarten – 12th will be held on Monday, October 26, 2015 from 12:00 – 8:00 PM. All Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school district parents are encouraged to attend since teachers value this time as an opportunity to discuss how your child can reach his/her potential. We at BBE feel parental support is very important in achieving educational growth. All elementary conferences will be held by appointment only. If you haven’t already signed up for conferences, parents should call the elementary schoo...
Attending a small high school like Brooten gave Sherwood Sagedahl an opportunity to play four varsity sports – football, basketball, baseball and track & field. He remembers having a goal to "letter" in all four sports in one school year so he could get the "B" and the sport pins. He reached that goal his senior year! In football Sherwood played end defensively and offensively on the Bucs Nine-Man team. A highlight in his senior year was winning the Homecoming game over Boyd 33-0. Another h...
B-B-E's Homecoming is next week, October 6-9. The list of senior royalty candidates was recently selected and are shown above. (From left) Kelsey Rosengren, Ben Thompson, Bailey Buchholz, Adrian Belden, Kendall Kampsen, Brendon Loch, Morgan Weller, Joe Reller, Haley Van Beck, Taylor Knight, Amanda Kollman, Jake Fischer. The Homecoming coronation will be at the high school on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 9:15 a.m....
