March, 2002
Lights, camera, action! Students from Team 8H recently participated in a "Poetry Slam" at Pekin High School. Mrs. Nevius from Broadmoor and Mrs. Renner and Mrs. Crosby from Pekin High hosted the event. Students were able to participate in several different categories. Everyone was very impressed with their performances!
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Congratulations to the Pekin Junior High Band for "bringing home the gold!" (o.k...maybe it's actually silver with a blue first place ribbon attached). Either way, we are VERY proud of our band students and their fabulous directors: Mr. Perrilles and Mrs. Janssen.
Broadmoor's art department hosted two guest artists. Students got to meet and work with Jason Snyder and Ben Vonderheide. Both guests are very talented at working with clay and using the pottery wheel. The art department will be the fortunate recipient of a finished piece from each artist to display permanently.
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Brian Miller, 8th grade student at Broadmoor, recently competed in the "Youth of the Year" program sponsored by the Boys Club. The winner received a $10,000 dollar scholarship. Brian was one of 15 finalists throughout the state and received a $1,000 scholarship. He also was able to attend the recognition ceremony in Chicago. Congratulations Brian!
A huge thank-you to all parents who attended student conferences and filled out the District 108 parent survey. The results are now posted and we invite our parents to look at the responses.
The Winter Sports Banquet was held with students from boys basketball, volleyball, cheerleading and poms. Students were honored for their athletic achievements and for all of the hours that they dedicate to Broadmoor and their sport. A HUGE thank-you goes out also to the coaches and the parents. Without their support, Broadmoor's sports programs could not be possible.
Five students recently represented Broadmoor at the district's Young Author's night. These five were chosen from many students who authored their own original book, including pictures. Breanna Rosenberger-Towery, Brittany West, Aubry Stapleton, Cole Mitzelfelt, and Melody McLeod all did a great job with their books. A special congratulations goes out to Cole Mitzelfelt who's book was chosen to go on to the state competition. Good luck to him!
The Illinois Grade School Music Contest was held Friday and Saturday, March
8th and 9th 2002 and Illinois Central College campus.  Students that performed vocal solos/groups and received Superior ratings were Emily Berger, Rikki Cotrall, Ashley Eyer, Lauren McKenzie, Darlene Poplette, Rayelle Foust, Aubry Stapleton.  Those that performed and received Excellent ratings were Katie Heinz, Michael Hazen, Michelle Cullliford, and
Shane Elmore.
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Team 7J and 7B hosted a spaghetti dinner on Thursday, March 7 at the school. Avanti's spaghetti, salad, bread, a dessert and drink was enjoyed by over 300 people with the profits going to Outdoor Education. A HUGE thank-you to Mr. VonBehren and Mrs. Holcomb for all of their help in planning for the evening. A great meal and time was had by all who attended!
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The Scholastic Bowl team had their first match last night against St. Joe's. Both teams played exceptional matches with Broadmoor winning both.
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Congratulations to our Broadmoor wrestlers. 
Students in 8H Connections just completed projects on Call of the Wild by Jack London. Students had a choice of a number of projects, but most chose to make a game with the novel as the theme. After developing the rules and the game, Connections students shared with the others in the class and played the games. Many "dog pieces," meat cards, and supply cards were making the way around the game boards as winners were declared, and the creators of the games began to see the pluses and minuses to their games.
Students in 7B language arts are completing a Colonial newspaper done in conjunction with the reading of the novel My Brother Sam is Dead. Each group has four people. In the groups, students assigned jobs and answer to their editor-in-chief. A paste up style of the paper is being done. Articles in the paper cover events in colonial times as well as events in the novel. As press time nears, editors and staff are feeling the "crunch" of producing a good paper.
The Quality Assurance Review last month was a very rewarding experience for
all of those involved.  One (of many) requests made at the Parent Focus Meeting was that parents appreciated their teachers supplying their son/daughter with bi-weekly grade reports.  This has not been a "building practice" in the past, but BJHS teachers felt that distributing grade reports every two weeks was a very reasonable and worthwhile request. Starting in March, all teams (7B, 7J, 8H, 8S) will be distributing grade reports for each subject area EVERY TWO WEEKS.  Ask your son/daughter for them.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Roiger on the birth of their son! A yet to be named baby boy (!!) was born on Sunday, March 3 at 10:19 a.m. to Brian and Erika Roiger. He was 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 19 inches long. Mom and baby are feeling great, just a bit tired. Dad couldn't be prouder! More stats to come along with pictures. Mrs. Roiger is the math teacher on Team 8H here at Broadmoor.  
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Parents requested that a monthly calendar be added to our website. The calendar link will be located on the green bar at the top of the page and will be entitled "Monthly Calendar." Any dates that you would like to appear on the website calendar, please submit to klink@pekin.net. 
Broadmoor had very successful spring conferences. Parents were invited to attend a student led conference on either Thursday, Feb. 28 or Friday, March 1.  Team 8S also had their Exhibition Night in conjunction with the conferences. Thanks to all parents who made the effort to come and see their child's progress! We appreciate it!
A big thank-you goes out to all of our Broadmoor teachers, students and parents. We had the most successful book fair ever this spring! Thanks to everyone who purchased books (I bet they came in handy with our big snow this week-end!) we were able to get over $1,125 dollars in free books for our Learning Center! Those books will be available for students to check-out soon. Thanks for an awesome fair! We know our Broadmoor students, parents and teachers love to read!