Morning Book Club

By Katie Aiello And Candice Woods

The first meeting of the Breakfast Club was May 4. The students in Mrs Kuruc’s fifth grade class plan to read the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare.

The students attended the meeting with their parents to discuss the book before school. Taylor Boles said that she is looking forward to reading and talking about the book with her father.

“I want to have the parents get involved with reading so this is where the book club comes in,” Mrs Kuruc said.

Creating Yearbook Pages

By Marissa Bobkowski And Zach Richter

Since it is the fifth graders’ last year at Middle Gate School, Mrs McGough, the media specialist, and the Yearbook Committee decided to have the students make their own yearbook pages.

For the past three years, Mrs McGough has been teaching fifth graders how to design yearbook pages. Students had to put all of the technology skills they learned to use during the activity.

The fifth graders had a lot of fun working on their yearbook pages. “It was a really interesting way to do it,” Mia Malin said. Chris Parker added, “It was cool that we got to make our own yearbook pages.”

Mrs McGough said that the winning yearbook pages for each of the four fifth grade classes came out great. “I think each class will be proud of their work,” she said.

Look for the fifth grade pages in the yearbook!

Trip To The Circus

By Katie Aiello, Missy Dowd, Candice Woods, Mary Alice Upshur & Taylor Boles

Middle Gate fifth graders got a chance to clown around… at the circus. Students attended Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus May 18 at the Hartford Civic Center as part of the study of animals.

Students watched as tigers, zebras, camels, llamas, miniature ponies, and elephants trotted by. Of course there were trapeze artists and plenty of clowns filling the floor.

After the circus, students had plenty to say about the wonderful event. “The circus was awesome,” Samantha Villa said. “They make dreams come true.”

It was truly a fun field trip!

Jump Rope For Heart Fun

By Lauren Busser

Earlier this year, students had a ton of fun participating in “Jump Rope for Heart.” Students helped to raise money for the American Heart Association by jumping rope in the school’s gymnasium.

Mrs Laura Cooper, the school’s physical education teacher, ran the event for the students. She said that the students thoroughly enjoyed jumping. The students were able to use all of the jump rope skills learned in physical education class, such as single rope, long rope, double Dutch, and more.

Mrs Cooper worked with a teacher from another school and that is were she came up with the idea of bringing “Jump Rope for Heart” to Middle Gate School.