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TONIGHT!!

🏈🏈Trumbull High School Football Game - Middlebrook Night 🏈🏈

For those of you joining us at the game this evening, we look forward to having you all gathered as representatives of our school. If you would like to wear your Middlebrook spirit wear- even better! Kindly remember, this is not a drop off event. All family members are welcome. More information is listed below in the PTA section of the newsletter.

Additionally, a big shout out to our PTA for the wonderful turnout at Bingo last week. The food truck, pizza and snacks provided nourishment and a great opportunity to share meal time. We had many happy Bingo winners, smiling faces and fantastic prizes.

Have a great weekend!

Kind regards,

Ms. Ponte and Ms. Molloy

Postponed to November 4 (due to rainy forecast)

Cow Chip Fundraiser Guardians Farm 3:15pm

October
National Dyslexia Awareness Month

Fire Prevention Month

Italian American Heritage Month

TONIGHT

Friday, October 20

Trumbull High School Football game - MIDDLEBROOK Night! Game starts at 7:00 PM.

(Wear your Middlebrook spirit wear and join our school community to cheer on the Trumbull Eagles football team! )

Tuesday, October 24

Early Dismissal - 1:00 pm, Parent Conferences

United Nations Day

Thursday, October 26

Early Dismissal - 1:00 pm, Parent Conferences

Friday, October 27

School Store, grades 1-5

ZOMBIEBROOK students in grades K-2, 5:30-6:30pm and grades 3-5, 7:00-8:30pm

A Quieter Zombiebrook 5-5:30 (see flyer below)

Tuesday, October 31

Halloween

On Halloween, Kindergarten and First grade students are invited to come to school dressed in costume; while Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth graders can bring a costume that can be put on in their classroom over their clothes.

Please know that costumes are OPTIONAL. Costumes cannot be violent in nature. Face paint or scary masks such as the “Evil Jester”, “It”, “Grim Reaper”, “Chucky”, “Scream” or any other costumes that contain blood/scars will not be allowed to be worn. No accessories of any kind are allowed.

Thank you for helping us to keep our students safe.

https://forms.gle/vTikTnYA2WDDcCU48F

Our Student Council Senators were elected for the 2023-2024 school year last week in an election where third, fourth and fifth graders voted! Congratulations to all of our fifth grade candidates who campaigned and presented wonderful speeches in front of a large group of students, teachers and administrators. All students who participated should be applauded for completing this challenging task, and are encouraged to continue to be leaders within our community!

A big congratulations to our senators:

Sloane Daly

Nicholas Ghazal

Jack Hoefer

Lana Jones

Emma Murphy

Loudon Pizzi

Emersyn Stennett

We are looking forward to a very productive, and exciting year!!

Mrs. Castillo and Mrs. Ginand

Second grade writers enjoyed sharing their stories with their partners. They did a great job telling each other what they may need to work on, as well as what was great about their story.

Thank you for all the amazing books that were donated and read to children on Tuesday, October 17th. We had many special guests including Board of Education members, Mr. Sullivan (Madison School Principal), Assistant Superintendent Dr. Iwanicki, Officer Duva and a plethora of other talented community members. Children sat raptly as they immersed themselves in the science themed literature.

Our interactive vocabulary bulletin board is up and running. This year, our focus is on science related vocabulary words. Research shows that a robust vocabulary improves all areas of communication — listening, speaking, reading and writing. Effective vocabulary instruction includes repeated exposures to key vocabulary. Vocabulary knowledge is built gradually over time, and multiple exposures offer opportunities to revisit words, and relate those words and ideas to one another.

Our interactive vocabulary board will not only provide repeated exposure to words, but it is an amazing way for Middlebrook students and staff to learn from one another. Our bulletin board will change as the science units change throughout the year. As students become more acquainted with various vocabulary, they can take a trip to the board and add new words. Our focus now is:

• Earth’s place in the universe

• Earth systems/climate/weather

• Changing Earth

When your kids come home, ask them if they have some vocabulary words they can add to the board. We can’t wait to see how many new science words we will learn this year!

Raffle winners Owen and Quinn Stavola came to school on Friday in style! It also happened to be Owen's birthday- what a treat!

TONIGHT!!

Game starts at 7pm

Please wear your Middlebrook school spirit!

Students get in free with one paying adult.

One kid per adult

Adult tickets are $6

Game will be rain or shine unless thunder and lightning.

Holiday Boutique will be held on December 7th and 8th.

Please join us on November 8th between 7 and 9:30pm for a planning meeting in the Middlebrook cafeteria. We would appreciate as much help as we can get.

If you have wrapping paper to donate please drop it off in the entryway of the school. In addition, if you have time to create gift packages please let us know via mbholidayboutique@gmail.com.

Did you know that your gently worn sneakers could help Middlebrook?

Well, they can and here’s how…Our school is participating in a fundraiser where there is nothing to buy or sell; all we need is your support and your gently worn, used, or new sneakers (children's and adult's)!

Here’s how you can help:

Start in your closets at home and gather as many pairs of sneakers that you no longer want; maybe you’ve out-grown them, they’re out of style, or out of season. Every pair counts!

The sneakers that we collect will help raise money to support our program AND will help our environment by keeping sneakers out of landfills.

We will be setting up a box in the lobby soon, but start saving them now!

Spiritwear is Available- grab your favorite Middlebrook apparel!

https://middlebrookelementarypta.membershiptoolkit.com/form/m/255678

Trumbull Public Schools provides parents and guardians with Infinite Campus access to view student's report card information, attendance and payments for field trips or school related fees. Families without an active Parent Portal account should have received an email with instructions and an activation code in August. If you have not yet activated your account, please use the link: Parent Portal.

The CHET Dream Big! Competition will launch on September 7! This competition is brought to you by the Connecticut State Treasurer’s Office as Trustee of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET). Dream Big! is open to all Connecticut residents in grades K-12.

We need your help to make sure students and their families know about this opportunity to win contributions to their CHET 529 college savings plans!

This year, we will be awarding more than $450,000 in CHET 529 College Savings Plan – Direct Plan (“CHET 529 Direct Plan”) account contributions to students in grades K-12 and technology prizes to schools. For the winning students, we will be awarding:

• Three $20,000 prizes
• 24 $6,000 prizes
• 336 $500 prizes

To enter, students are asked to answer a question in the form of a drawing, essay or video. Younger students will be asked to answer a question focused on improving their communities and the lives of others, and older students will be asked to describe a lesson they’ve learned and how it will influence their future.

Submissions must be uploaded by 5:00 p.m. on November 6. There is no cost to enter. For program details and entry process visit:

www.chetdreambig.com

Thank you for your support!

The CHET Dream Big! Competition Team

The Vulnerable Child and Family Series: Children in an Anxious World - Part 1 of 2

December 06, 2023 from 6pm-7:30pm

Target TPS Audience: Parents of young children (birth to age 12); elementary school teachers
Cost: Free
Registration required: https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=geajtbyd77nmea4kuxfw0c7j1effxu09kmd86td658hxpkp0gy79
For registration questions, please contact Emma Velasquez, SERC, (860) 632-1485, ext. 218 or velasquez@ctserc.org.
Presenter: Dr. Ira Chasnoff, NTI Upstream

Event's Public Description: The COVID pandemic has removed structure, consistency and predictability in the lives of children and families around the world. Humans are more likely to thrive with these three elements, so when they are missing, the stress of everyday living rises. This online session will provide an overview of how stress affects the human brain and present some family-based strategies for helping children from birth to age 12 deal with stress.

Middlebrook School Hours

Doors open at 8:20 AM

Regular School Hours: 8:35 AM - 3:20 PM

Early Dismissal Hours: 8:35 AM - 1:00 PM

Delayed Opening Hours

1 ½ hour Delay – 10: 05 AM – 3:20 PM
2 hour Delay – 10:35 AM – 3:20 PM
2 ½ hour Delay – 11:05 AM – 3:20 PM

Middlebrook WEBSITE LINK: https://mes.trumbullps.org