Brookwood Families:
At the January School Board meeting, a change was made to the 2025-26 calendar to align with an adjustment made by Badger to their calendar. Below are the changes that were made. An updated version of the calendar is attached.
ORIGINAL
Feb 18, 2026 PT Conferences after school
Feb 19, 2026 PD Day for staff/No school for students
Feb 20, 2026 No School staff and students
CHANGES APPROVED
Feb 18, 2026 - Normal School Day - No Parent Teacher Conferences
Feb 19, 2026 - Normal School Day - Parent Teacher Conferences after school
Feb 20, 2026 - No School for Students or Staff
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXNDtj_b477fd_4zGdmktncJWrI5Nlkw/view?usp=sharing
Don’t forget to mark on your calendars our GCJ2 Family Cardio Drumming event on February 4th from 3:45-4:30pm at BES!! See you there, Mustangs! Our 1st graders are having a blast!!
Brookwood Families,
Please see the following letter from our Interim Superintendent Paul Weber in regards to school closure for January 21, 2025 due to extreme cold:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VRBrbYZWWYLprz4qzM3-Mu1iuLzrEogs/view?usp=sharing
Family Skate Night was a BLAST!!! We hope you all had as much fun as we did. Thanks to all those that were able to make it!!
Come join in on Family Cardio Drumming on February 4th at 3:45pm at BES!!
Questions: Briana.Brenek@gcj2.k12.wi.us
Our 4K families are welcomed to join our 4K staff and friends on January 29th at 5pm at BES as we complete messy science projects together. **No regular 4K programming on Jan 29**
For more information, please contact your child's 4K teacher!
No School - January 20, 2025
Teacher PD Day
Our BES Lost and Found table is growing....Mrs. Sponenburg put together this spreadsheet of the items we have. If you see something that is your child's, please contact Mrs. Sponenburg directly to claim your item(s).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xFwwRGhlGjUP4HyC27udyzxNEXbnWeqEFyONgF58J98/edit?usp=sharing
Sarah.Sponenburg@gcj2.k12.wi.us
We are SO excited to bring back Ski Club this year. This club is open to ALL of our students and families.
Students in 4th-8th Grade have the opportunity to ride a bus after school from the middle school to Grand Geneva and be overseen by staff members there.
Students in 4K-3rd grade MUST be accompanied by a parent at the Grand Geneva. ALL families are welcome to register and sign up for special tickets through our ski club program through Mrs. Horak. Please fill out the following form if you are interested in more information or would like to sign up for Ski Club. Mrs. Horak will get you additional information and the link to register: Melissa.Horak@gcj2.k12.wi.us
Through the Grand Geneva registration link she sends you, you will be able to specify exactly what package you would like to order:
STUDENT RATES:
$15.83/lift ticket and/or $10/ski/snowboard rental and/or $13.75 lesson per week or
full registration of $39.58/per person/per date: full registration includes a 90 minute ski lesson, ski rental and lift ticket You must be at least 6 years old for ski lessons
ADULT RATES (19 years and up)
$35.00/lift ticket and/or $35/ski/snowboard rental
**There are no snowboarding lessons offered by Grand Geneva**
Come one week or all six weeks!! We encourage families to purchase all 6 weeks of lift tickets at once so you don't miss ticket deadlines or have to wait in line each week to get the printed tickets. If you pre-purchase lift tickets, you will receive all the printed lift tickets for the season on the first date.
You MUST register/pay for the first ski date (January 17) by JANUARY 10th - NO EXCEPTIONS
Our Dates: Jan 17, Jan 24, Jan 31, Feb 7, Feb 14, and/or Feb 21
BEGINNERS and advanced skiers are ALL WELCOME!! Registration for this club MUST be done prior to the trip and MUST be done through the link provided by Mrs. Horak. This event is open to all students AND also open to family members. Reminder, if students outside of the grade bands of of 4th-8th grade attend, it is required that parents oversee those other children at this event.
ALL BMS STUDENTS that ride the bus MUST check out with Mrs. Horak or Mrs. Erickson with their parents between 6:30pm-7:00pm at Grand Geneva. The homebase for check out will be decided upon the arrival at Grand Geneva.
If you have additional questions, please contact Mrs. Horak at melissa.horak@gcj2.k12.wi.us
Please fill out the following form to join and/or get information on Ski Club:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0g3N3nARB_YA8rxeHUcJjjKss80HsihoY7fnX9pVh-LNCjw/viewform?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR14_tq4CLikCQpfqjuDwtfOgNCXaifTeHpf7TkVs6P97gOedB4w7-eFY_4_aem_ZN-mfhA1JHETo6uNXVl8DA
Happy New Year, Mustangs!!
Here is the January Mustang Minute:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kj2Aw7PNJ2o2uIZ1Z8G896flEPx7hACM/view?usp=sharing
Happy New Year!! Here is this week's Mustang Morning Show!!
https://youtu.be/Gd-Bf-MLRGc
*Also, please remember that there are limited sizes for the Family Skate Night Event!
2024 December Spirit Week and Winter Extravaganza pictures are posted on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/GenoaCitySchools/
Thank you to EVERYONE that donated and/or adopted to our holiday Families in Need clothing boxes for students. We had SO many local communtiy groups, businesses, Brookwood families, and community members supoort this program that we were able to fulfil boxes for 68 individual children.
Thank you to All World Machinery Supply for their donation of boxes, our Brookwood PTO for helping organize the boxes, Lakeland Community Church for giving us breakfast bags for every child in this program, @The Lost Sock in Genoa City for their support in our laundry assistance program, our secret wrapping elves, and EVERYONE else that adopted children and/or donated monies to our Families in Need Program. Without our community’s support — this program wouldn’t have be as successful as it was.
Thank you to our local food pantry, @loaves & fishes on 715 Walworth Street / Genoa City - 262-203-0878 for supporting our families and our community with food and holiday toy support!!
Thank you…thank you…thank you!!!
It's that time of year....order your 2024-2025 yearbook today!!
Go to: yearbookforever.com to place your order!
Questions: Kristina.Nast@gcj2.k12.wi.us
Join us on January 10th at Brookwood Middle School for a fun, free family event from 5pm-7pm! Lace up your roller skates and enjoy quality family time together. Please note, this is not a drop-off event—parents and guardians are encouraged to stay and create lasting memories with their kids. Limited supply of adult sized skates: 1-12. We can't wait to see you there!
Did your child come home asking if it was a spirit week last week?! Well..it wasn't for our students but it was for our staff....our staff had a secret "Undercover Dress-Up Week" last week and it was a fun week keeping our students on their toes with why we were all dressed the way we were. Check out the fun our staff had being a part of this: https://youtu.be/L0KmVdk75Xc
Don't forget our district wide spirit week starts on Monday: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZA8QqMytgJHiJFNYjFh7mkf6uOfXk_5L/view?usp=sharing
It's been quite busy lately....but we wanted to thank all those that were able to attend our winter concerts! If you have pictures for us to post, please email them to Helen.Xiong@gcj2.k12.wi.us
