Month: April 2024

Special Lessons this Week

Mrs. Muhr

This week we were treated to two special lessons.

On Thursday, Brecknock held a Music in the School assembly for third and fourth grade. This assembly introduced us to the Woodwind family of instruments. Third graders will bring home a paper in a few week to decide if they would like to start instrument lessons next year at Brecknock. This assembly was informative and hopefully inspiring for some future musicians.

Today we had a visit from two Garden Spot High Schoolers who are on the Health Council. They came to talk about the upcoming Mini-Thon. Our guest speakers were Elizabeth Bowman and Erin Usner. These two twelfth graders were in Mrs. Muhr’s class at Brecknock when they were in second grade. We looked way back in the blog archives and found this picture from December, 2013 when we had collected gifts for our Christmas Child. It was fun for the girls to reminisce and for my current students to see how different things looked (chalk board and mounted tv).

Eclipse 2024

Mrs. Muhr ,

Today was an exciting day at Brecknock as we prepared to watch the eclipse. After P.E. we watched a slide show that explained what causes an eclipse and showed a video of the projected path of today’s eclipse. Then we watched a video that explained how eclipse glasses protect our eyes and talked about how to be safe while viewing it. After packing up, we all headed out to the playground to view the eclipse. We were disapointed at first that the clouds were covering the sun, but they parted a few times and gave way to a beautiful view of the eclipse. We calculated that the third graders will be 30 years old the next time a total eclipse is expected to cross PA’s path!