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Meet the newest member of the Brookside Team! We are excited to welcome Ms. Cassandra Macari to Kindergarten! #BESTatBrookside
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Join Ms. Hughes and Mrs. Gomez for Popsicles with the Principals on Monday, August 28th from 2:00 to 3:00 PM on the Brookside blacktop. Enjoy a sweet treat and fun back to school read aloud with us. Hope to see you there! #BESTatBrookside
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Meet the newest member of the Brookside Team! We are excited to welcome Ms. Lauren Santaella to 4th Grade! #BESTatBrookside
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Meet the newest member of the Brookside Team! We are excited to welcome Mr. Michael Sarin to 3rd Grade! #BESTatBrookside
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Meet the newest member of the Brookside Team! We are excited to welcome Ms. Christina Lam to our Academic Support staff! #BESTatBrookside
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Meet the newest member of the Brookside Team! We are excited to welcome Mr. David Capozzi to 4th Grade! #BESTatBrookside
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Save the Date! Brookside's PTO will host a movie night on September 5th at 8pm on the blacktop. We hope to see you there!
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"Shore" fun to see your teacher at beach! We hope everyone is enjoying summer and can't wait to see our students back in September! #BESTatBrookside
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Ms. Johnston, Mrs. Moliere and Ms. Jung are spending the week at the Paramus Summer Institute learning with colleagues from other districts on how to implement best literacy practices into our reading and writing instruction. Thanks for being the #BESTatBrookside!
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We miss our Brookside students! Mrs. Vaughan stopped by to cheer on some of her students during their summer baseball season! Thank you for being the #BESTatBrookside!
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A special send off for our 5th graders and retirees, Mr. Adkins, Mrs. Basovsky and Ms. Hines. We will miss all of you at Brookside! #BESTatBrookside
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We can't believe our 5th graders graduated a week ago! Our students, staff and families enjoyed a special moving up ceremony. A special thank you to our 5th grade parent committee for planning a great year of events. #BESTatBrookside #ThrowbackThursday
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A special thank you to our music department and students for an amazing First - Third Grade Spring Concert! #BESTatBrookside
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Brookside's 4th graders celebrated completing the LEAD program with Officer Svenda with a fun afternoon! Thank you to the Westwood Police Department and our community helpers for coming to celebrate with us! #BESTatBrookside
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First graders are having so much fun exploring their books in the dark! On Fridays we have Flashlight Friday! We turn off the lights and enjoy reading our books by flashlight. Some friends even had some reading buddies to read to! #BESTatBrookside
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Kindergarten ML students in Mrs. Le Parc’s class have been reviewing short vowels, writing words and using them in sentences! #BESTatBrookside
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Mr. Adkins’s scientists made multisensory observations of sealed black boxes to determine the contents. They developed models and discussed with their classmates. They constructed physical models in order to replicate the behaviors of the original black boxes. #BESTatBrookside
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Fifth graders in Ms. Moliere's class were spotted observing properties of different materials, observing mixtures, and separating mixtures using different methods. #BESTatBrookside
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We wrapped up Teacher Appreciation Week with a pep rally in our new tee shirts! A special thank you to our PTO for showing Brookside so much love this week and to Mrs. Pettit for creating our shirts! #BESTatBrookside
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Miss Iozzia’s 2nd grade class took advantage of the beautiful weather today! They practiced their OR words as well as their red words. #BESTatBrookside
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