🦃EARLY DISMISSAL

1:00 pm TODAY

Kudos to the Grade 2 team for kicking off the Thanksgiving holiday with their rendition of the Macy's Day Parade. All their hard work and learning conveyed the feelings of the season: cooperation, friendship, and joy! We hope that our entire Middlebrook family enjoys the brief respite from school and finds time to celebrate all you love. We are certainly thankful for our " little turkeys" who attend our school!

Warmly,

Debbie Ponte, Principal

Michele Molloy, Assistant Principal

November

National Native American Heritage Month

Thursday, November 28

No School - Thanksgiving Day

Friday, November 29

No School

Tuesday, December 3rd
International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Thursday, December 5th
Holiday Boutique
Crowne Pizza fundraiser

Friday, December 6th
Report Cards available on Infinite Campus
Holiday Boutique

Saturday, December 7th
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Monday, December 9th
Winter Concert - Grade 5, Strings and Band only

Tuesday, December 10th
BOE Meeting 7:00pm

Friday, December 20th
Reflections due
Early Dismissal 1:00pm

Saturday, December 21st
First day of winter

Monday, December 23rd - Wednesday, January 1st
Winter Break

Wednesday, December 25th
Christmas Day
Hanukkah begins in the evening

Thursday, December 26th - Wednesday, January 1st
Kwanzaa

Wednesday, January 1st
New Year's Day

Thursday, January 2nd
School resumes
Hanukkah ends in the evening

First trimester ended on Friday, November 22nd. All report cards will be distributed electronically via your child's online Campus Backpack on Friday, December 6th.

Please visit this link to learn more about how to access the Infinite Campus Portal and how to locate your child's report card in Campus Backpack.

As part of our commitment to reducing paper copies, we will no longer be printing copies of student progress reports. For those of you who have students receiving support through PPS, please refer to the Parent Portal for Progress Reports. We would be happy to provide you with a hard copy of your child’s Progress Reports upon written request to our PPS Clerk, Colleen Schexnaildre cschexna@trumbullps.org and include your NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS.

Congratulations to our students who have been recognized for demonstrating PAWS behavior- we are so proud of them! (Missing from the photo: Aksita G., Maxx D. and Leilani S.)

Students are able to enjoy the Middlebrook Cornhole equipment during PE class. Thank you to the 2024 Grade 5 class for this outstanding gift!

Thank you to our Grade 2 team for delighting our entire school with our Thanksgiving Day parade!

Ms. Bugge, a standing member of the Wendat Nation, joined Mrs. Russo's first grade classroom on Monday to share artifacts from this Native American tribe from Canada. She taught them all about traditional ceremonies and showed clothes that Wendat people would make and wear. She brought in model canoes, drums, talking sticks, dream catchers, animal fur, and handmade bowls to share with the class. She even sang a traditional song performed during ceremonies. Thank you, Ms. Bugge!

If you have any questions about the club, please email your Co-Presidents at middlebrookfathersclub@gmail.com

On December 5th, the Fathers club will be hosting a pizza night/day where Middlebrook families can order from Crown Pizza ALL DAY! Order available for pick-up, delivery or dine in. Be sure to provide the promo code “Middlebrook”. Proceeds of all orders will be generously donated back to the PTA! Please see the flyer below for more details!

On January 11th, Middlebrook Hockey Night will be taking place at Sacred Heart University! Come watch a game, support your school, and don’t forget to wear your spirit wear! Wait, you don’t have spirit wear?!?! Get on Membership Tool Kit today and order away!

More details to follow on how to purchase your tickets.

Ryan Mones & Max Palmer

Co-Presidents, Middlebrook Fathers Club

Do your kids enjoy art, music and dance or have an interest in writing, producing films and taking photos? Then have them submit their creations to the PTA Reflections Program. This year's theme is: Accepting Imperfection.

For inspiration, visit the Reflections virtual art gallery and learn more about prizes and scholarships.

Click here for full details and how to submit your creation. Submissions are due on December 20th.

https://files.constantcontact.com/c02813e3301/ea671c89-03c1-4f27-870f-f95135409a9c.pdf

YEARBOOKS ON SALE

See below for flyer with the QR code to pre order.

Durham has upgraded our bus tracking system. The new platform is called BusZone ®. It allows you to view your students current school bus location & information about the route in near real time, including the scheduled and estimated arrival times to your stop.

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