Traditions
This favorite playground equipment was the inspiration for the song "Circle Game" in past years' end-of-year 5th-grade slide shows.
What is the Merry-Go-Round?
A spiral staircase leads to this iconic spot at Brookside, allowing children to get a bird's eye view of the campus.
What is the Brookside Tower?
This expert on Detroit has led numerous tours around the city for faculty members.
Who is Kathleen Samul?
A Maypole, the MayDay Carol, singing, dancing, skits, and recorders are all part of this event.
What is the Spring Festival?
1922
What year did Brookside School open?
This long-standing practice at Brookside allows teachers to teach mealtime etiquette and good manners.
What is Family Style Dining?
This charming space was the original classroom at Brookside, then known as the Bloomfield Hills School, and is currently home to drama classes and chapel performances.
What is the Meeting House?
Taco and Lamby have entertained children in her class for over 30 years.
Who is Debbie Calfin?
Children look forward to hayrides, a dunk tank, bounce houses, face painting, cotton candy, and caramel apples at this event.
What is the Fall Festival?
In the spring of this year, two class grades graduated from Brookside.
When is 1981 or the year that 6th grade moved from Brookside to the middle schools?
Younger students are paired with older students as classes meet throughout the year to share time and activities together.
What is the Brookside Learning Partner Program?
This wing of the school opened in the fall of 1996 and floats on the flood plain created by the Rouge River.
What is the Vlasic Early Childhood Center?
He is the architect who designed many of the buildings on Cranbrook's campus.
Who is Eliel Saarinen?
On this day, parents do the teaching and kids learn about pig hearts, physics, planets, bones, and more.
What is Science Day?
An immigrant from Italy, he came to Cranbrook in 1905 and served Cranbrook for more than 50 years as a landscape architect. His granddaughter would later work as a 2nd grade teacher and literacy specialist at Brookside.
Who is Mike Vettraino?
To honor Mr. Booth, children at Brookside spread out across the campus to pick up garbage.
What is the Booth Memorial Clean-Up?
Tucked in next to the brook, children gather here to read on clusters of stone pedestals surrounded by wildflowers.
Where is the Brookside Children's Garden?
She designed the upholstery, tapestries, and rugs at Kingswood and headed the Department of Weaving and Textile Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Who is Loja Saarinen?
No, you are not on Broadway. This annual production with our fifth grade thespians takes place in the Brookside gym.
What is the December Program?
1931
What year did Kingswood School open?
This frozen treat is served at Friday lunches.
What is Ice Cream?
Children walk through this archway each morning as they enter the school.
What is the Log Jam?
The MC at Brookside's annual 5th grade talent show, he is known for descriptive introductions, amazing magic tricks, and hilarious jokes. When not directing cars to pull up in the traffic circle, he can be found filling the role of Dr. 100 or teaching human development to the 5th grade boys.
Who is Peter Charney?
Frozen, The Brady Bunch, Annie, Elvis and kids in costumes, too!
What is the Brookside Halloween Parade?
She was the first headmistress of Brookside School and rode a trolley to work each day.
Who is Jessie T. Winter?