May 10, 2024

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I'm going to be talking about typing club. Typing club is a free online game that we do only on Friday. Some kids do not like it too but some kids do like it. Me and Alana sit together every single time you do typing club and sometimes the time except when Alana has an Ambassador meeting.

by CeCe

Bridges MS: 

The Last Elective

By Ben

As the school year ends, everything wraps up. All subjects have already started their end-of-the-year projects or started to finish everything else. This is familiar behavior in school and is something all of us have experienced. Here at Bridges we are doing the exact same thing with wrapping up our regular subjects and starting crunch time for Top God. Here at this school we also have our electives. These are periods on Fridays when we get to do special subjects set up by teachers. They can be really fun and are one of the most enjoyable classes in our school. Sadly, electives are also coming to an end, much like everything else. In fact, this Friday (the 10th) will be the last elective this school year since it is one of the last Fridays. This can be a big letdown to some students in this school and will be with a lot of them. Despite that, we can still have fun at the end of the school year without electives and enjoy the last elective while we can.

Daily Jobs & Tasks at Bridges Middle School

Sam S.

5/9/24

Hi. Let's talk about the Flamingo jobs and tasks at Bridges Middle School. Every morning when I get to school, I have the delight of going over to Miss Pritchards desk and the first thing I hear from her is “DISHES” which signals me to get my tushy away from her before she explodes and go to empty the dishwasher. In order to accomplish the tasks of dishwasher job, you have to make sure to empty the dishwasher when it’s finished, load it when there are dirty dishes in the sink, and start it when it’s full. We have to make sure to complete these tasks otherwise we get the consequence of Miss Pritchard yelling our name and then saying “Come here please..” and then we are doomed. Some of the other jobs are important to certain people for example, Kalman’s job is taking care of the chromebooks and desktops. He is the only one that can do that because he knows so much about technology. That's the reason dishwasher is so important to me because I am the best at cleaning and I am the cleanest out of everyone at Bridges. INCLUDING MISS PRITCHARD. Anyways. I think that's enough for one website. See ya!

Reading Class In Two Different Classes

By Abby and Riley W Westing  

Reading is outstanding and you can't change my mind about it. I used to be in Ms. Pritchard's reading group but then I advocated for myself and got moved up. The definition of advocate is: To stand up for yourself and be bold. I felt like in Ms. Pritchard's reading group I was ready to reach my full potential. So I advocated for myself in the middle of the semester. I'll be an amazing reader and have good adult skills for when I'm older. The book that we are reading in Mrs. Hofeld’s reading group is Restart by Gordon Korman. Mrs. Hofeld has us do a review of the different chapters we have been reading and she has us take turns reading different chapters. But sometimes on Fridays we get to do a word ladder, which are very fun. It's where the paper has a word written and there will be a clue for each rung of the ladder as we're coming up and then we have to go all the way to the top. We have to write a word next to the little helpful clue. I've already read the book Restart by Gordon Korman but I didn't know that this whole phone's reading group was reading Restart by Gordon Korman until they had just started reading it in the first chapter. The teachers already knew I read the book and warned me to not spoil it for the other students who were in Mrs. Hofeld's reading group. I'm giving the floor to Riley now…

As you can see, there are many interesting things about reading classes. I am in Mr Keenan's reading group where we are currently reading a formerly banned book, Bridge to Terabithia. Bridge to Terabithia takes place in the 1970s in Virginia. In Bridge to Terabithia, the main character Jess ends up meeting somebody named Leslie Burke who doesn't really fit in. He also does not fit in. In the story they create an imaginary land called Terabithia. We read two chapters at a time in the book. That's all the information I can give you about the book, by the way, because that's how far we've read. Every two chapters we answer some questions. Currently, we're answering the questions for chapter 3 and 4. For example, “How did Jess's opinion about racing change?” In Mr. Keenan's reading group, we also did word ladders, primarily at the beginning of the year. Our goal is to finish Bridge to Terabithia in the four weeks we have until school ends. Sometimes we work using no computers and sometimes we all type on the computers. When we are done with questions, we have extension activities, such as a news report, but that was back during The Westing Game. By the way, I have multiple websites on that, and other people also have websites on that. But reading class is always very interesting, especially when our teacher, who by the way is a demon, threatens to eat our books… trust me, it happens a lot. We are having a lot of fun reading Bridge to Terabithia and there's so much information to be unpacked. Maybe if you read it you'll find more than we did.  I hope you have enjoyed our website.