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Important Information about the Summer and Opening of the School Year 2005
McGee Survival Guide for Incoming Students
by the students from Ms. Landino's Period-D-ILA Class
What
is March Madness?
by
Andrea Pomponio
March Madness is purely
madness. It is really fun though.
You have a penny drive where you put pennies in your grade’s bucket to
win the dance. Whichever grade has
the most pennies wins. There is a
basketball tournament where the teams play, and whoever wins the finals goes on
to play the teachers. There is also
Spirit Week, where there are hat day, pajama bottom day, UCONN Husky day, and
Green and Gold day. You have to pay
a dollar to participate in some of these events.
Do
you think you get a lot of homework and projects in fifth grade?
by Matthew Papke, Samantha
Cooper, and Sheel Patel
The first few days
of school, you don’t get a lot of homework, but as the year goes by, you will
get more and more. The homework sometimes can get a little over whelming,
but it calms down. It is not as bad as it seems. You
will have nothing to worry about if you don’t wait until the last minute to do
it. In some classes, you don’t get
as much homework as the others. It is very important to use Period H, Directed
Study, to do your work, stay organized, and pay attention so that you know where
you put your homework and what homework you have to do for that night. The best
way you can stay organized is to have three-ring-binder notebook with sections
for each class or folders for every class. Be sure to have pencils,
pens, colored pencils, extra lined paper, and of course a reading book
with you each day, too. One big thing that teachers make you bring to every
class to help you stay organized, is your agenda. The agenda is given out to you
at the beginning of the school year. Also, you might want to work on your typing
over the summer a little, because you will have to type almost everything that
you write.
What’s
lunch like?
by Jaclyn Rubin, Natalie VonAchen, and Paul Shelkov
In McGee there are four
lunch waves. Sixth graders usually
go to first wave, but sometimes the second. You go during the long period that
changes every rotation. Long period
lasts eighty-four minutes, and twenty-one minutes of it is your lunch.
In the lunchroom there are
six people to a table. A good part
of lunch is that you can sit with whomever you want, wherever you want. You
can’t do that at your school. A
bad part of lunch is the lunch lines move slowly, so you might not have much
time to eat. If you want to have a long time to eat, bring your lunch. Before
you go in the lunch line, you have to be called up by a teacher.
When you get called up, you have a decision to make, hot or cold lunch.
Hot lunch is what you had
at elementary school; hamburgers, chicken nuggets, french fries, and other hot
foods. Cold lunch is a deli line.
They have grinders, wraps and salads. On
any of them you could get ham, cheese, lettuce, pickles, olives, turkey, roast
beef, and many more tasty items. Lunch is two dollars and twenty cents.
You could also buy snacks. There
are three vending machines; ice cream, chips, and juices where you can get
milkshakes and even Fruit 2 O. In
the snack line you could get water, juice, pretzels, bagels, or milks.
What’s
happening at McGee after-school?
by Tyler Mayer and Jimmy Nolan
After school clubs and
activities are really fun and neat. There are as many clubs in McGee as there
are fish in the sea. You can choose from sports and track to Ukrainian eggs and
fly fishing. You have seven
interscholastic sports; these are sports where you play other schools.
These sports include soccer and cross-country in the fall, basketball and
wrestling in the winter, and track, baseball, and softball in the spring.
There is also lacrosse in the spring, which is almost a school sport.
You have to try-out for soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball.
As a 6th grader it is hard to make the teams so don’t think
you’re horrible at the sport if you don’t make it.
However, you should try-out for the sports in your first year at McGee,
because it gives you a better chance during your next two years. With clubs like
flag football and lacrosse, you make it no matter how good you are.
There are also intramural sports, sports you play with other teams from
McGee, and even a boggle club at this middle school.
All in all McGee has many after school activities, and to get the most
enjoyment during your middle school years, join some of the clubs!
This
period stuff is confusing, can you explain it?
by
Chris Domurat
Periods are easy, they are A-H. Each period is a class. A, B, D, E, and F are core classes. C and G are exploratories.
If
you go into the wrong classroom, and realize it half way into the class, what do
I do? by
Chris Domurat
If
that happens, you should: Raise your hand, and tell the teacher your situation.
What
happens in gym, what’s your favorite part/activity?
by Chris
Domurat
It’s called Project
Adventure. They push you to your limits, in this case, the Rock Wall.
What is ISS
and who is Mr. Francolino?
by Sheel Pate
Mr. Francolino is the ISS (in-school-suspension) teacher. He is the teacher you go to when Mr. Benigni, the assistant principal gives you an ISS. Mr. Francolino may shout a lot and look scary, but really, he is nice as long as you behave. I should know. One time my morning meeting teacher was not in school when morning meeting started so the office said that Mr. Francolino had to substitute just for a half an hour. But the point is that Mr. Francolino will be your teacher for the day if you ever get an ISS. Don’t do anything bad or else you won’t have a really nice day!
Lockers, what do I need to know about them?
by Sheel Patel
Your locker will be the easiest thing that will happen to you at McGee. Every year, the school will change every single locker combination so the student who had your locker the year before can not get in to it. On the first day of school your morning meeting teacher will give you a piece of paper with your locker number and locker combination. I personally suggest that you never ever tell anyone your locker combo. It can keep things from disappearing from your locker. If you ever have locker troubles, ask your morning meeting teacher.
June 16, 2005, Ms. Landino's Period-D-ILA Class
