Kona Ice will be here for Barhitte's Field Day which is next Friday, May 30th! Prepay orders are being accepted through May 29th.

Learning looked very different this morning without electricity. Here are a couple pictures of some of our students reading by lantern light. They also read “scary” stories and sang songs around a pretend campfire, learned about the discovery of electricity, and made real life connections with history and how things were different before electricity was discovered. We are all very thankful electricity was discovered! There was much celebration when it was restored....your very flexible teachers and staff, the most!

Barhitte Families, Please check out the flyer for summer school opportunities this year. The deadline to enroll is next week (Friday, May 23rd). There is no fee for our students to participate and transportation will be provided. Questions? Call (810) 591-9661.

These Kindergarteners have big plans for their future!

Last Wednesday, our Kindergartners learned about what living things need to survive and made their own terrariums. We are hoping to see some growth in the next couple weeks! Thank you to Longway Planetarium for helping out students learn these important science lessons!

Families ordering trees- There was an issue with the shipping of our trees. They will be shipped next week, and will be white pine trees! They should arrive mid-week and will be delivered to Barhitte. They should be sent home with students. If you are expecting a tree and do not have a Barhitte student, an email will be sent to you when they arrive! Kamohr@bentleyschools.org Proud to be a teacher at Bentley!!

The registration flyers were sent home with students. If you didn't get it and are interested in signing your child(ren) up, please call 810-591-9661 and we will make sure to send another flyer home. Registration closes on May 23rd.

All 5 of our caterpillars emerged from their chrysalis’ and we were able to release them on the playground this week. It was very interesting to watch the whole process over the last few weeks!

The Buy One Get One Free Spring Book Fair is coming to Barhitte next week!

An educator from the Flint Institute of Arts came for the 1st of 3 special Art lessons with our Kindergartners. They learned about color, pattern, and used a new medium to make their own masterpieces. In other exciting news, one of our butterflies finally emerged from it’s chrysalis! We are anxious for the other 4 and to release them on our playground!

Bentley Bond Update: The request for a no-tax increase bond to renovate a donated building into a preschool passed ( https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/05/genesee-county-election-results-for-may-6-2025.html ). Thank you so much to our community for supporting our youngest learners!

Election Day is here and polls close at 8:00 PM. You can get information here: https://www.bentleyschools.org/page/bond-2025-overview Please vote!

Watch WNEM TV5 reporters Elisse Ramey and Zain Omair cover the Bentley Community School District millage proposal on the May 6, 2025 ballot. To get more information about the proposal, please visit our website at https://www.bentleyschools.org/page/bond-2025-overview

In this past month in Miss Williams’ SEL class, we learned all about the life cycle and taking care of baby chickens. We even had some eggs in an incubator! We waited 21 days until our eggs finally hatched! Thank you MSU 4-H for the amazing opportunity!

Election day is Tuesday, May 6. Thank you ABC12 WJRT for covering the story about the Bentley bond issue at https://www.abc12.com/news/education/bentley-community-schools-seeking-2-9m-bond-for-preschool-upgrade/article_d48627e0-9dd7-4456-9434-6e8429b2c53e.html It's our chance to renovate the building donated to us by McLaren for our preschoolers...our Little Bulldogs. We hope you vote on Tuesday!

Kindergarten math is even more fun when with help from our big buddies, and jelly beans!!

More pictures from "Twice Upon a Time". Great job to the Barhitte Theater students and Mrs. Mohr!

"Twice Upon a Time" was a HUGE hit! Great job Mrs. Mohr and the Barhitte theater students!!

A few more pictures of our incoming Kindergarten Rodeo Round Up!

We were so very excited to welcome our incoming 25-26 Kindergarten students at our Rodeo Round Up held on Thursday!