2024-2025 May

Upcoming Dates for the EGMS Community

6/9 - Transition Day for rising 5th Grade Students
6/10 - 8th Grade Dinner Dance (EG Community Center), 6-9PM
6/10 - EGMS PTO Fundraiser - 20% Give Back Day at The Cracker Barrel Pub (Flier below!)
6/11 - EGHS Graduation, W 6/11, 6PM
6/13 - Academic Awards Day (during school day)
6/13 - Last Day of School! (Early Release at 12:30)

Memorial Day Parade

Many thanks and congratulations are in order for the EGMS and EGHS Band for marching and performing in the annual EG Memorial Day Parade!

CAS Scholar Leader Banquet - Aquaturf

Congratulations are in order for Everett Lowman and Lily Thompson!!! Everett and Lily were our two Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) Scholar Leaders for 2025! Great food, family, company, and weather were all there in our celebration of these two model students. We wish them well next year and beyond as they are promoted to the high school level!

EGMS PTO: Fundraiser!

Please come out to the Cracker Barrel Pub in Tariffville, Ct on June 10th. Whether you're dining in or ordering take-out, simply mention that you're there for the EGMS PTO, and The Cracker Barrel Pub will donate 20% of the sales! For more information, check out the flier.

7th Grade Social Studies

Mrs. Petersen's students had the choice of creating projects about the Aztec, Maya, or Inca civilizations, and the students went all out with a lot of fun!

8th Grade Dinner Dance

Please review the note below from the EGMS Dance Committee:

Dear Class of 2029 families,

The 8th Grade dinner dance is on Tuesday, June 10th and the decorations and food committees are still looking for items to be donated and volunteers to help with this event.

Please take a look at the Sign Up Genius and consider signing up to donate an item, Amazon gift card, or make a monetary donation. All gift cards and monetary donations will be used to purchase items needed for this event. Details for drop off or monetary donations are included in the Sign Up Genius.

Thank you!

8th Grade Dance Food & Decorating Committees

Superintendent Survey!

As you are likely aware, Superintendent Missy Bavaro is retiring over the summer, and she will be sorely missed by our community!

That said, we recognize that we have a job to do in filling the position over the next few months. Please click on the link HERE for more information on how you can help and be informed regarding the search for a new Superintendent. Enclosed in the link is a flyer containing some information about joining focus groups and completing a survey (located HERE for your convenience) about what our community needs in our future superintendent. The survey closes on June 13, so please take some time soon to contribute some feedback!

Gr 7 Health

In Mr. Ziff's Health class, students had the chance to do QPR training with Justine Ginsberg from FVHD and Alicia Van Neill from EGYS. In the two-day lesson, students learned how to "question, persuade, and refer" those that may be in need of mental health support.

EGMS Band and Chorus

The EGMS Concert is on Tuesday, June 3! We hope to see you there!
Also, please click HERE to access the PDF document to register your student for EGMS Band and Chorus next year! It's due on June 10.

Gr 7 Science

In Mrs. Ciccarelli's class, 7th graders are having a blast experimenting with Newton’s Laws of Motion….. these action shots reflect our practice and exploration with INERTIA!!!!

Gr 6 Science

Mr. Dorr's class dissected perch as a follow up lesson on invasive species in the Great Lakes!

Gr 8: Guest Speaker

On Friday, May 23, as a concluding activity for Mrs. Stewart's unit on resilience, Holocaust survivor Rabbi Philip Lazowski spoke with our eighth graders about his experience as a child during the Holocaust and how faith, hope, resilience and kindness helped him to survive. He left our students with the task of studying hard, knowing the truth about history, being kind to others and drawing upon family and community as motivators to be their best selves.

Grade 6 General Music

The 6th Grade General Music class is making great progress with learning the guitar! They have learned pitches on three strings, four different chords, and the G Major scale. Please enjoy their performance of "Twinkle, Twinkle" from today's class. You will hear students performing the melody using the first three strings of the guitar as well as hearing students play a simple version of a C Major chord, a simple version of a G Major chord, a simple version of a G7 chord and a D7 chord. Click on the picture to listen to them play!

Life Skills

In Dr. Schooren's class, students earned money during testing weeks to buy their concessions and watched Despicable Me 4. They practiced their budgeting and shopping skills, making chance, and ordering from a concessions menu.

Later in May, the students had a spring picnic! The students planned the menu, found their recipes, and prepared the foods for everyone to enjoy

Grade 6 Coding

Students in Mr. Berardy's Coding class use their microbits to measure temperature data to play rock-paper-scissors and to compete in a mathematics game.

EGMS PTO

Our next, and final, PTO meeting of the 2024-2025 school year is Tuesday, May 20th from 7:00pm - 8:00pm. This meeting will be held virtually and the Google Meet info is below.

We'll be covering some new funding requests as well as soliciting nominations to vote on new PTO leadership for the President, Vice President & Secretary roles, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

We hope you'll join us!

Meeting link

meet.google.com/csj-xtnm-xwa
Join by phone

(US) +1 219-321-0356

PIN: 495928868

7th Grade Math

Mrs. Dabrowski's 7th graders have an activity going where they get to guess the numbers of spheres in the jar! Check out the jar, and check out the prize for winning!

Ekphrasitc Workshop: EGMS Alumnus Mackenzie Delpha

On Sunday May 18, Mackenzie Delpha will be teaching an Ekphrastic Workshop at the Agonist Gallery in East Windsor, CT. It’s open to all ages, and it will take place from 2-3:30PM.

From Mackenzie:
"Students will be taught the elements of Ekphrastic poetry/prose and how to use them. Then they will be given time to explore the museum and write their piece. After that, they will participate in an open mic. My hope for this class is for writers to feel confident in their interpretations of art and also to improve their craft."

7th Grade Science

The Water Cycle is quite the cycle….. and way more than the simple evaporation, condensation, and precipitation they learned back in elementary school. The water cycle has so many different paths that a water droplet can take than the traditional 3 steps they already knew. 7th grade students each “rolled” their way around the water cycle to create their own unique water droplet journey that they are now in the process of personifying and turning it into a story about the journey they took. It is a creative way for them to be assessed on their understanding of the water cycle and all the processes and changes a water droplet can go through.

EGMS School Supplies for 25-26!

From the EGMS PTO:
East Granby Middle School families — don’t wait!

Prices everywhere are rising — even for school supplies at Walmart, Target, and Amazon. But not at 1st Day School Supplies! We locked in the lowest prices months ago! Order here: 1stDay.sale/20189

Vex Robotics World Championship 2025

Andrew Houghton and Dylan Hamilton from EGMS had a busy few days in early May! As members of the 4-H G-4s robotics team, these kids put their whole hearts into representing their hometown with pride. The Vex World’s Championship, held in Dallas, TX, gathered teams from 32 nations to compete for three days. Their new experiences were never ending, including in their first match when their alliance was from China and they communicated using Google translate! They ended the qualifiers with a 6-4 record placing 24th out of 81 teams in their division. 32 teams out of the 81 made it to elimination brackets where the G-4s lost to the first place seed. For skills, they ended 174th out of 483, and their Strength of Schedule was second for their division.

The G-4s walked away with so much to be proud of. Nice work, Dylan and Andrew!

Grade 7 Social Studies

In Mrs. Petersen's class, students have been researching different civilizations and now are in the creating stage where they are making g models, artifacts and songs to support their presentations.

EGMS PTO: Teacher Appreciation Week

The EGMS PTO went all out on celebrating our educators this week! On behalf of the faculty and staff, thank you so much for the lunch, the snacks, and the vibe! Truly, you brought a lot of joy to us here at EGMS!

Gr 8 SS and a movement break!

In Ms. Rosenstein's class, Eighth graders take a tai chi movement break at the end of social studies class. Here our students are practicing a flowing movement called, "Parting Wild Horse's Mane."

Gr 8 Science

Even opening a box can be a fun and messy experiment in Dr. Faulkner's science class!

Life Skills

Dr. Schoorens' Life Skills class took a fun break after all of the testing this week to play an incredibly intense game of Jenga. It may have been more stressful than SBAC!

Gr 7 MET - Robotics

Mr Berardy's MET class students are learning about electricity by using snap circuit simulator kits.

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