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Special Winter Holiday Issue Volume 4, Issue 1

CPS DE C L A R E S BRI D GE

“SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION” FO R SE C O ND Y E A R I N A ROW !

AN D L I S T S BR I DG E SC H O O L A S A

“RISING STAR”

December , 2004

Special points of interest:

• “School of Distinction” and

“Rising Star” status

• Perfect Attendance Dress

Down Day

• December Word of the Day

Puzzle

• Santa Shop Dates

• Breakfast of Champions

• Winter Holiday Show

• CTU Food Drive - Mrs. Bar-

shop Wins Again!

• New Bridge Staff

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Brake’s Take 2

Attendance Superstars 2

December Calendar 3

Students of the Month 5

Honor Roll 7

Perfect Attendance 8-9

25,000 Challenge 16

B R I D G E B U G L E

“Bruno”

Act the way you’d

like to be and soon

you’ll be the way

you act.

Dr. George Crane

New Feature: Where’s Bruno? Can you find Bruno in this edition? The front page doesn’t count. Can’t find him? Look on the back page for the answer to his location.

A CPS “Rising Star” “School of Distinction”

For the second year in a row the CPS Department of Research, Evaluation

and Accountability has designated Bridge Elementary School as a “School of

Distinction”. “School of Distinction” is the highest rating earned by elemen-

tary and high schools. Schools earn this designation by exceeding three out of

four assessment requirements on four progress levels measured by CPS. Our

school exceeded growth expectations on all four levels in: ITBS School

Growth, ITBS Average Student Gain, ISAT School Growth, and No Child

Left Behind (NCLB) Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) measurements.

Our students, staff, and parents were further honored by receiving a

“Rising Star” school designation from CPS. Our school received this designa-

tion for exceeding requirements in all four progress measurements.

Congratulations and thank you to all the students, staff, and parents who

have worked so hard to earn our school the recognition it deserves.

Great People make Great Schools!

Wow! CPS has

rated our school a

“School of Distinction”

for the second year in

a row. CPS has also

declared our school a

“Rising Star” (see pg.

1). You just can’t do

any better than that.

Our students, staff,

and parents have

worked really hard the-

se past years to earn

this honor. We have

the greatest group of

children teachers/

staff, and parents

that a school

could possess.

I am very proud

and honored to be a

part of the on-going

process that has

placed our school

within the top 10% of

all CPS schools. Great

things are happening

at our school. It truly

does take great peo-

ple to make great

schools.

Thank you so much

for all that you do to

make our school great.

Happy Holidays and Best

Wishes to all of the

Bridge School family,

A T T E N DA N C E C H A M P S !

BRAKE ’S TAKE

Do you have any

ideas, suggestions,

or comments on

ways to improve our

school and the ser-

vices that our chil-

dren receive? If so,

please call, write a

letter, or see me to

share your ideas.

Your input is greatly

appreciated.

Thank You!

Dr. Brake

Students/Teachers

Staff/Parents

Would you like to

have a poem, article,

short story, event, or

other item of interest

published in the

Bridge Bugle?

Submit your item to

Dr. Brake

on computer disk

(Microsoft Word format preferred)

no later than the third

week of the month for

publication in the next

month’s school news-

paper. October

Primary: Room 204 Mrs. Baron (97.83%)

Intermediate: Room 003, Mrs. McGuire (97.59%)

Upper: Room 210, Mrs. Newport (98.46%)

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K First Second Third Fourt h Fif t h Sixt h Sevent h Eight h School

Student Attendance Year-to-Date

Indicates day of non-attendance for students

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4

5 6 7

Science

Fair

5-7 PM

8 9 10 11

12 13

PTA/LSC

Meetings

6:00 PM

14

Winter

Assembly

6 :00 PM

15 1/2 Day

Professional

Development

11:08

Dismissal

16 17 18

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30 31

School

Resumes

1/3/05

December 2004 Happy Holidays!

Winter Vacation—No School

Winter Vacation—No School

Santa Shop 10:00-12:30

School resumes Monday, January 3rd

FALL POEMS –RM 001

BUDDY TIME

Volume 4, Issue 1

Fall

I hear wind playing tag with the leaves.

I see birds flying south, but that’s not all I see.

I also see animals collecting food for the winter.

The taste of fall is like pumpkin pie floating through the sky.

Oh, how great we’re back at school!

Smells like veggies and crops on Thanksgiving.

By: Rosie Jurczak

My Fall Poem

I hear my feat crushing leaves.

It looks like lots of colors on the trees.

It tastes like the good turkey dinner.

I feel leaves dropping on my head.

It smells like good pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving dessert.

By: John Lozeau

Fall

Sounds like kids having fun playing in leaves.

Looks like the trees have a face and body.

Tastes like maple syrup from maple trees drizzling into my mouth.

Feels like air is making me fall back.

Smells like home cooked chocolate chip cookies.

By: Tiffani Kilmer

Mrs. Cutler’s fourth grade class and Mrs. Anderson’s first grade class are once again bud-

dies this year. The students have met once and made spooky Halloween bats. They will be

celebrating Thanksgiving by making an Indian corn project. A good time was had by all.

Santa Shop December 8th-10th

10:00-12:30

December Students of the Month

Tomas Colin

Nicholas Guy

Jessica Daniel

Marcin Szczapa

Nicole Musial

Battushig Ontogtokh Nathaniel Cadotte Destiny Domico Patric Hruswicki

Olivia Jarosz Martha Gebala Brandon Gonzalez Damian Jaje

Yasmean Suleiman Elizabeth Molek Lukas Klasek Nicole Swiderski

Jennifer Lopez Danielle Gajewski Dean Meyers Kayla Miller

Alex Enriquez Agnes Domian Henry Salgado

Bridge Elementary School Students of the Month are selected for their outstanding citizenship, academic performance, and conduct.

Natalia Karpierz

ART G R A N T = ART IN S T I T U T E + A.R .T. P RO G R A M

C H I C A G O T E A C H E R S U N I O N A N N UA L H O L I D AY F O O D D R I V E W I N N E R S

Volume 4, Issue 1

Bridge Science Fair

Tuesday, December 7th

5:00-7:00 pm

On November 4, 2004 rooms 001 and 002 visited The Art Insti-tute of Chicago. This was in conjunction with a program they are currently participating in due to a grant our Art teacher, Mr. Friend received. The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Resources in Teach-ing (A.R.T.) have combined their talents and resources to provide the children with a series of art lessons based on portraits. This in-cludes not only recognizing the various types of portraits but also instruction on how to correctly draw their own. As part of the program the participating classrooms were also invited to visit the Art Institute. The children thoroughly enjoyed all the various types of art forms they saw. Later on in their visit they were able to add several more portraits to the booklet they are cre-ating. A wonderful time was had by all. A special thank you to Mr. Eller our A.R.T. instructor and to Mr. Friend for including our rooms in his grant award.

1st Place*—Room 212, Mrs. Barshop (242 items)

2nd Place—Room 108, Mrs. Kelly (124 items)

3rd Place—Room 107, Mrs. Dotson (109 items)

School Total: 1,227 food items

-Thank you for supporting this worthy cause-

* Four years in a row!

Bridge Bugle

Room 002

Nicole Swiderski

Room 003

Paul Dubicki

Room 206

Maggie Palka

Room 207

Nicole Jackowski

Room 208

Jennifer Lopez

Room 209

Agata Chojan

Aleksandra Makal

Room 210

Alex Enriquez

Room 212

Agnes Stanula

Room 214

Natalia Karpierz

Room 205

Danielle Gajewski

Justyna Jakubaszek

Room 207

Dominick Dworak

Patricia Delgado

Karolina Glowacka

Melissa Koenig

Martyna Mika

Olivia O’Donovan

Marcin Szczapa

Room 208

Razan Abuhashish

Mary Belsan

Kristine Confessor

Michelle Kilmer

Natalie Kleszcz

Rebecca Stevens

Room 209

Jomana Abuhashish

Chris Chlebek

Raul Gonzalez

Nicole Kordecki

Eric Martinez

Arsalan Muneeruddin

Sandra Sladek

Dominicka Wroblewska

Room 210

Michael Allen

Jessica Henmueller

Room 211

Andrew Aldape

Wojciech Bartoszek

Thomas Frackiel

Estefania Garcia

Katarzyna Grolle

Dalal Jibawi

Dominik Pikul

Yasmean Suleiman

Room 212

Walter Dworak

Maggie Gorska

Andrea Headley

Peter Kopczyk

Adrian Markowicz

Kelly O’Donovan

Janusz Pikul

Hubert Troszczynski

Room 214

John Bendyk

David Rosado

Ashley Stec

Natalia Wojciaczyk

Room 001

Dominika Duda

Ryan Harenberg

Sean Horwitz

Tiffani Kilmer

Brian Miklas

Nicholas Santos

Room 002

Steven Galiardo

Sylvia Gebala

Thomas Jackowski

Matthew Stachura

Room 003

Jessica Conneely

Benjamin Henmueller

Angelica Jaje

Alexandra Lopez

Kamil Michalek

Aleksandra Ryndak

Aneta Walega

Room 004

Amanda Abrasevic

Lidia Bronkowska

Megan Dickey

Karolina Krol

Elizabeth Molek

Lukasz Pikul

Damian Stachowski

Katlyn Tenold

Room 106

Veronika Berkowicz

Kaya Cuper

Steven Fiumefreddo

Mustafa Jibawi

Dean Meyers

Hina Muneeruddin

Congratulations

To Our

Scholars!

F I R ST QUARTER S I LV ER HON O R RO LL

GO L D EN HO N OR

RO L L

Room 001

Nicholaus Cappy

Jesse Chavez

Dominika Duda

Diana Herrera

Rozalia Jurczak

Tiffani Kilmer

Omar Leyva

John Lozeau

Furquan Muneeruddin

Chris Perez

Aidan Preston

Brooke Sparks

Mark Stec

Nicholas Wdowiak

Saul Zamora

Room 002

Andrzej Cudzich

Abdulla Emini

Steven Galiardo

Thomas Jackowski

Edward Molotla

Selma Music

John Samek

Nicole Swiderski

Brenda Vega

Jessika Warjas

Angelika Zmiejka

Room 003

Steven Akbar

Mark Babilonia

John Balingit

Filip Boksa

Paul Dubicki

Kyle Enriquez

Ben Henmueller

Jasmine Jibawi

Adam Kornafel

Ewelina Krystopa

Alexandra Lopez

Anna Pukala

Aleksandra Ryndak

Brianna Vazquez

Room 004

Brandon Diemeke

Elizabeth Molek

Anna Ortiz

Manuel Perez

Lukasz Pikul

Room 101 Manal Abughoush

Juan Anguiano

Desiree Arroyo

Joshua Berrier

Estera Bredicean

Aman Haidari

David Hruswicki

Jenean Jibawi

Rafal Kocon

Brian Kuczynski

Rene Leyva

Tiffany Myszkowski

Christina Pecoraro

Damian Pikul

Juan Sanchez

Jessica Tredota

Julia Troszczynska

Natalie Zajac

Room 102

Melayna Allen

Samantha Ayala

Judmir Bullari

Iliana Cato

Christian DeJesus

Gian Dungca

Esther Garcia

Patrick Hrusewicki

Mario Martinez

Veronica Ruse

Room 103

Remah Abuhashish

Milagros Brito

David Guevara

Nicholas Guy

Joshua Lebron

Justin Lozeau

Lauren McGuire

Marcelina Puc

Noreyma Salgado

Megan Szajna

Room 105

Kienna Bariso

Destiny Domico

Julij Golubev

Rikeya Hargrove

Rade Jibawi

Daniel Lozeau

David Lozeau

Nicholas Pesole

Katarzyna Pukala

Jacob Rakoczy

CarlieVasquez

Room 106

Hector Cruz

Natalie Ficek

Ivan Guereca

Mustafa Jibawi

Alex Kulahin

Hina Muneeruddin

Axel Ramirez

Bianca Sikaffy

Ihajaira Valenzuela

Room 107 AM

Tomas Colin

Alyssa Galiardo

Mathew Gapinski

Natalia Glowacka

Shannon McGuire

Kamil Obrochta

Karolina Peza

Karol Pisanko

Delanie Preston

Paulina Ryndak

Julia Smialkowska

Monika Staszel

Piotr Szczech

Paul Tran

Monica Waga

Kamila Wrobel

Nicole Zacny

Room 107 PM

Samantha Alanis

Jakub Bigos

Thomas Green

Jakub Koperny

Eduardo Martinez

Ivan Martinez

Martyna Paruch

Kamil Piotrowski

Sandra Santosh

Klaudia Skoropad

Nicole Swiderski

Room 108

Frankie Alcantar

Kielvin Bariso

Kimberlie Gjoka

Brandon Gonzalez

Khrystyna Kozak

Justine Lopez

Salvador Moreno

Anthony Villegas

First Quarter

Perfect Attendance

Volume 4, Issue 1

Bridge Bugle

Room 109

Diane Bendik

Ayman Blan

Alison Cappy

Amanda Diemeke

Klaudia Drozd

Martha Gebala

Brianna Green

Amanda Hedstrom

Sylwia Jastrzebska

Jeremy Knapp

Ewa Pisanko

Ricky Reyes

Kaitlyn Scanlan

Stan Tountchev

Peter Tran

Daphne Valle

Damian Wysocki

Room 114

Sebastian Cato

Cinthia Gomez

Julia Rakoczy

Henry Salgado

Room 203

Angelica Bujak

Filip Czarnik

Paulina Falkowska

Sebastian Jaje

Maciej Kalwajtys

Jakub Kot

Adrian Lipinski

Andrew Migas

Karolina Niedzwiadek

Adrian Skobelski

Krystian Solowiej

Anna Szczech

Aleksander Zbroja

Room 204

Paulina Alicka

Gregorz Chlebek

Bart Falkowski

Laura Jarosz

Alexandra Kania

Patricia Kania

Lukas Kornas

Konrad Michalek

Maciej Myszka

Gabriela Naronowicz

Alexandra Niemas

Gregory Pikul

Tomasz Snarski

Justyna Szczech

Tomasz Tutka

Damian Waga

Kamil Wicha

Mateus Wicha

Wiktor Witkowski

Jessica Zacny

Room 205

Joanna Chudy

Nyxsaly DelValle

Daniel Farris

Robert Frackiel

Paul Fricano

Danielle Gajewski

Levonte Hargrove

Stanca Ivan

Peter Jaroszewski

Krzysztof Lapinski

Jose Orengo

Andrew Sobarnia

Anthony Stanford

Room 206

Gizelle DeRamos

Waldemar Gorczyca

Ewelina Kopiczko

EwelinaKowalska

Nicole Musial

Denisa Pavlincova

Justyna Rydlewska

Daniel Stelmach

Malgorzata Szczypka

Room 207

Jeda Abuhashish

Ina Bullari

Patricia Delgado

Nicole Jackowski

Amina Jibawi

Marco Leyva

David Lopez

Joey Rocco

Marcin Szczapa

Patrick Szczecina

Damian Twardus

Room 208

Razan Abuhashish

Mary Belsan

Kristine Confessor

Margaret Cudzich

Mark Gorzkowicz

Michelle Kilmer

Melissa Knapp

Sam Legg

Jennifer Lopez

Michal Tutka

Room 209

Agata Chojan

Dorian Hryniewicki

Izabella Janczur

Arsalan Muneeruddin

Paul Si

Adrian Szlag

Natalia Twardus

David Vazquez

Room 210

Michael Allen

Shannon Doyle

Katarzyna Duda

Alex Enriquez

Agustin Gomez

Agata Grolle

Jessica Henmueller

James Herrity

Joel Martinez

Jonathan Martinez

Senida Music

Alan Pearson

Michael Termar

Dana Valenti

Room 211

Michelle Aguirre

Kamil Falkowski

Thomas Frackiel

Estefania Garcia

Dominick Pikul

Omar Ramirez

Room 212

Dominick Babilonia

Andrea Headley

Matthew Legg

Maciej Leszczynski

Agnes Stanula

Hubert Troszczynski

Damian Wojcik

Room 214

Salima Azzouzi

Alejandro Gallegos

Joanna Jasinska

Natalia Karpierz

Jose Lemus

Sanju Santhosh

Ashley Stec

Natalia Wojciaczyk

First Quarter

Perfect Attendance

TH A NK SGIV I NG PO EM S OF SHAR I N G

Volume 4, Issue 1

November brings crisp weather, bare trees and Thanksgiving. It is a time to reflect on all of the

good things each of us has in our lives and also a time to be generous to those families who are less

fortunate. With this in mind the children in room 002 created sharing poems. Here is a small sam-

ple.

Sharing with people Sharing with family

Harvesting crops Have a happy Thanksgiving

Autumn is cold Autumn is different colors

Remember to share with people Reading with the family

I share with my family Illustrating a book is hard

Not to be mean and be nice November is cold

Giving clothes and food to poor Gardens will have to be picked

people

By: Berenice Martinez By: Richard Schulz

Sharing with others Sharing with others

Harvesting crops Harvesting fields

Autumn is cool Animals like turkey is what we

Remember about Thanksgiving eat for Thanksgiving

I and others eat turkey Rustling leaves fall from trees

November is a month of sharing In November, Thanksgiving is

Giving thanks to people celebrated

Natalia celebrates

By: Thomas Jackowski Thanksgiving

Giving thanks for all you have

By: Natalia Chmiel

Sharing with others Sharing with people

Harvesting crops Helping hands

Aurums is fun Autumn is cold

Remembering the first Thanksgiving Receiving fruit and vegetables

I love getting together on Indians and Pilgrims once

Thanksgiving celebrated

November makes me feel grateful November has a lot of leaves

Giving is an important part of Getting and giving food to

Thanksgiving pass around

By: Nicole Swiderski By: Christian Zamora

Bridge Bugle

N E W A D D I T I O N S T O T H E B R I D G E S C H O O L F A M I LY

Mrs. Joan Miarecki is our new comput-er lab instructor.

BRIDGE SCHOOL P RO U D LY P R E S E N T S OU R W I N T E R H O L I DAY S H OW

Winter

Wonderland Tuesday, December 14th

At 6:00 pm

Winter Vacation December 20th - 31st

School Resumes 1/3/05

Happy Holidays to all the

Bridge School Family!

Mrs. Sandy Guziec is our new school lunchroom assistant.

Volume 4, Issue 1

A R O U N D C H E R I Y A D I L O H A P P Y U

B W J P C R S D K A M O N G M R S B R A K E N

D D O O A Y R I H R G H T N E L O V E N E B D

M E A N W H I L E S S G L I T T E R Y G K D E

A Y L T N E U Q E S N O C B E S I D E S A E R

R I J S H I T H G I J E N N A I S A T D R T N

V S O I R O O G W K A R I S A N E A R E E N E

E L K N I W T O W A R D A E S C S S C T N E A

L A B D J P L R D B S S E J A E K L O A P T T

O C C R H G P T E O E J J S J O V I A L I N H

U I H G U O H T L A F F C D E Y O J R E V O F

S S E D M S W S S R F A D E W I T H O U T C A

S N R R B E Y O N D D D S S S D Y Y U Y U I N

E E I B E N N F S E I E L A U R E L I I O I T

A S S R T T V D S M A R G A R E T L S I I U A

S N H A Y H S F D D S E S C H O R T L E D S S

O O J K I U S H M R S T A Y L O R D E I D I T

K N O E E S S E S E D T S U O D N E M E R T I

S E Y O A E S R S E A I S O N D E L K C U H C

E B O K S D E L I G H T F U L A C H R I S B T

December Word of the Day

Primary

around

underneath

upon

among

besides

toward

since

without

aboard

beyond

behind

near

happy

Intermediate

meanwhile

consequently

although

joyous

fantastic

overjoyed

thrilled

enthused

glowing

glittery

cascade

twinkle

holiday

Upper

delightful

marvelous

tremendous

elated

contented

jovial

chuckled

chortled

tittered

benevolent

cherish

nonsensical

season

Bridge Bugle

Over 300 Bridge students with perfect attendance for the first

quarter participated in our first “Perfect Attendance Dress Down

Day” event (Staff sponsor: Mrs. Selim). Students with perfect at-

tendance were given a letter “A” tag which allowed them to dress

out of uniform on November 24th. The Dress Down Day event will

be held each quarter to award students for their outstanding

school attendance. Students with perfect attendance will also re-

ceive a certificate for each quarter of perfect attendance. At the

end of the school year students with perfect attendance for the

year will be treated to a special event day of movies and treats.

Congratulations to all our students who participated in the first ev-

er “Perfect Attendance Dress Down Day”. We hope to see more

students participating next quarter!

TURKEY REPRIEVE

F I R S T Q UA R T E R P E R F E C T A T T E N D A N C E D R E S S D O W N D A Y I N S T Y L E !

COUNSELOR ’S CORNER

B Y M R . M E T Z D O R F F

Room 108 has been working on turkey poems. Here is one everyone should enjoy.

Took off!

Under the fence!

Run away!

Kicked the tree!

Escaped!

Yahoo! Way to go turkey! By Paulina Kocon -- I wonder what Paulina ate

for Thanksgiving?

Thank you for participating in our Krispy Kreme Fund Raiser on Report Card Pick-Up Day!

The first 6 Care Packages were shipped to a platoon of soldiers in Iraq on 11/19/04!

This program will continue through the 2004-2005 School

Year!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Bridge School Sponsors Troop Care

Package Program!

Your Support

Is Appreciated!

A group of students from Room 209 with perfect

attendance for the first quarter enjoy Dress Down

Day.

L U N C H R O O M M A N A G E R I S

AWARD WINNING CHEF !

Fantastic Fun For Everyone (FFFE)

By Mrs. Jolanta Banaszak

F I N E A R T S N E W S

B Y M R . T H O M A S F R I E N D

Volume 4,

Did you know that a tom (male turkey) can weight up to 50 lbs.?

Did you know that a Bratsville turkey weighs less than 10 lbs?

Did you know that Squanto died in 1622, just a year after the first Thanksgiving

feast?

Did you know that Pilgrim fathers were publicly punished for their children’s poor behavior?

You should know all these facts since the leading theme in the library this November was the first

Thanksgiving. We learned about the Pilgrims and the first thanksgiving through different media:

Squanto’s biography video, “Turkey that can fly and turkey that can’t fly”: a nonfiction book, the Pil-

grims of Plymouth movie. Students made illustrations related to this theme, which were displayed in

the library.

In December, the theme will be Winter Wonderland and the librarian is planning many exciting activi-

ties.

The Librarian

Our very own Lunchroom Manager, Mrs. Bar-

bara Comito, won second place in the first an-

nual city-wide Sodexho - CPS “Sweet &

Treat” bakeoff cooking contest. Mrs. Comito

won with her now world famous Almond Piz-

zele dessert. Congratulations Mrs. Comito! We

are very proud of you.

This year’s subject for the Illinois PTA Reflections art contest was “A Differ-

ent Kind of Hero”. Selected entries will proceed for judging at the district lev-

el, and possibly regional, state and national levels! Congratulations to the win-

ners: Michael Gajewski, Jessica Henmueller, Peter Kopczyk, Jonathan

Martinez, Dawid Niedojadlo, Kelly O’Donovan, Daniel Sparks, Agnes

Stanula, Hubert Troszczynski.

Also, Bridge School’s winter assembly “Winter Wonderland” will be Tuesday

December 14, 6:00 PM. Students are excited and busy learning their songs for

a spectacular presentation!

Bridge Bugle

First Quarter Honor Roll students were treated to donuts and

drinks at the first ever “Breakfast of Champions”. The event spon-

sored by the Bridge Student Council (Teacher sponsors: Mrs.

Green/Mrs. Iammartino) was held on November 24th to honor

those students with outstanding academic performance. Honor

Roll students also signed a big banner that will be hung outside

the Bridge School office. The event is scheduled to be held each

quarter to honor the hardworking students who achieve Honor Roll

status. We hope to see even more students at the next “Breakfast

of Champions”!

TECH TALK B Y M R S . J O A N M I R E C K I

C O M P U T E R L A B I N S T R U C T O R

“B R E A K FA S T O F C H A M P I O N S ” H O N O R S H O N O R R O L L S T U D E N T S

Honor Roll students enjoy donuts and juice at the first quarter “Breakfast of Champions” salut-ing their efforts.

Technology classes are in full swing during the Second Quarter at Bridge School. Our Computer Curriculum spans

from Kindergarten to Grade 8, and each class is scheduled for a weekly session in our well equipped and ever-

improving Computer Lab. Each student has a computer to work on in the Lab to develop his/her technology skills.

Although I have been the Bridge School Computer Teacher for only two weeks, in my humble opinion, Bridge has

the best school computer lab- and the best students!

Since the goal of computer class in the lower grades is to introduce the children to using the computer as a tool in

learning, the Primary students have already started with keyboard navigation, mouse and cursor operation and using a

web browser to navigate appropriate web sites independently. They will also use electronic drawing programs, and

math and reading games with letters and numbers to increase their abilities. While using educational software, the

younger children become comfortable with basic computer terminology, care of computers, learn how to turn a com-

puter off/on, using a mouse and beginning keyboard skills.

Middle and Upper grade students will concentrate on improving their keyboarding skills, and developing word pro-

cessing skills in MSWord, database development with ACCESS, and spreadsheet skills in EXCEL. Students will

learn proper file handling procedures, and gain experience in creating presentations in PowerPoint, both individually

and as group members. Multimedia presentations, desktop publishing and web design will also be introduced at mid-

dle grade levels and reinforced and developed in the upper grades. Since the goal of computer class in the middle and

upper grades is computer literacy, our students will be working to develop many computer skills. Additional topics of

discussion will be the Internet, viruses, and software piracy.

As an additional piece of news, most classrooms are getting new computer equipment very soon, maybe before the

printing of this newsletter. Internet connected PC’s and multipurpose printer/scanners will be a welcome addition to

these classrooms. Although we will continue to use Study Island in the Computer Lab, access will soon be available

on these classroom computers, with some friendly competition between classes, so stay tuned for updates!

FLASH! – EMAIL FOR STUDENTS! – it’s coming, details to follow in the near future! (No cost involved and Per-

mission Slips will be required)

Bridge Elementary School 3800 N. New England

Chicago, Illinois 60634

773-534-3718

Principal:

Dr. Christopher Brake

Assistant Principal:

Mrs. Margaret Taylor

Special Winter Holiday

LSC Parent Representatives:

Mr. William Doyle

Mr. Michael Herrity

Mrs. Yvonne Majewski

Mrs. Wioletta Rakoczy

Mrs. Pamela Sparks

Mrs. Renata Zabiega

Community Representatives:

Mrs. Cheryl Filippini

Mrs. Pat Walenga

Teacher Representatives:

Mrs. Linda Barshop

Mrs. Ideria Page

Administration:

Dr. Christopher Brake

PTA President:

Mrs. Karen Dubicki

Vice-President:

Mrs. Lora Niewinski

Secretary:

Mrs. Jeannie Doyle

Treasurer:

Mrs. Kathy Herrity

25,000 Book Challenge

Wholesome.

Riddle of the Month

What is it that when you

take away the whole, you

still have some left?

Answer:

Where’s Bruno? Look on page 4

Room 107

Kindergarten

136

Year-to-Date

291

Room 114

Pri. Sp. Ed.

18

Year-to-Date

52

Room 101

1st Grade

72

Year-to-Date

132

Room 105

1st Grade

225

Year-to-Date

831

Room 204

1st/2nd Grade

175

Year-to-Date

505

Room 102

2nd Grade

250

Year-to-Date

911

Room 103

2nd Grade

328

Year-to-Date

686

Room 108

3rd Grade

111

Year-to-Date

293

Room 109

3rd Grade

114

Year-to-Date

346

Room 203

3rd/4th Grade

403

Year-to-Date

954

Room 001

4th Grade

32

Year-to-Date

191

Room 002

4th Grade

46

Year-to-Date

306

Room 003

5th Grade

87

Year-to-Date

329

Room 004

5th Grade

121

Year-to-Date

311

Room 211

5th Grade

123

Year-to-Date

385

Room 207

6th Grade

47

Year-to-Date

192

Room 209

6th Grade

133

Year-to-Date

508

Room 214

6th Grade

7

Year-to-Date

62

Room 205

7th Grade

26

Year-to-Date

95

Room 208

7th Grade

79

Year-to-Date

276

Room 106

7th Grade

20

Year-to-Date

84

Room 206

8th Grade

27

Year-to-Date

99

Room 210

8th Grade

24

Year-to-Date

56

Room 212

8th Grade

41

Year-to-Date

65

School

Total

7,960

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