Special Winter Holiday Issue Volume 1 , Issue 4

REGION 1 CHAMPIONS!

December , 2005

Special points of interest:

• Bilingual Program Scores

Big $$$$

• Breakfast of Champions

• Family Movie Night Info

• Pen Pal Letters

• Science Fair Winners!

• Lots of other great stuff...

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

Brake’s Take 2

December Calendar 3

Student of the Month 5

Volleyball Champs! 10

Honor Roll 11

Perfect Attendance 12-13

25,000 Challenge 14

B R I D G E B U G L E

Top Row (L-to-R): Coach Page, Desiree Dejesus, Elizabeth Molek, Colleen Doyle, Seham Hussein, Coach Bowen Middle Row (L-to-R): Karolina Krol, Jessica Conneely, Angelina Kadzielawa, Jaleesa Medina Bottom Row (L-to-R): Kathy Grolle, Marlena Warjas, Brianna Vasquez (more pictures and info on page 10)

―Bruno‖

An Illinois Honor Roll of Schools ―Academic Improvement Award” & ―Spotlight School Award” Winner

A CPS ―Rising Star” school, a “School of Distinction”, an

“Autonomous Management Performance School” (AMPS) and

Santa Shop December 13th-15th

10:00-1:00 No one knows what he

can do until he tries. -Syrus

Happy

Holidays!

Page 2

BRAKE ’S TAKE

Volume 1 , Issue 4

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. Winter

Vacation December 26th -

January 6th

School Resumes

1/9/06

Happy Holidays to

all the

Bridge School

Family!

Happy

Holidays

To all the Bridge School

Students, Staff, and Families!

Best Wishes,

Indicates day of non-attendance for students

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 Mid-Quarter

10

11 12 1/2 Day

Professional

Development

11:08

Dismissal

13 14 15 16

Family

Movie

Night

17

18 19

PTA/LSC

Meetings

6:00 PM

20 21

Winter

Assembly

22 23 24

25

26 27 28 29 30 31

School

Resumes

1/9/06

December 2005

Winter Holiday—No School

Santa Shop—10:00-1:00

Happy Holidays!

Page 4

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

1 0 1 B R I G H T E N S B R I D G E !

Volume 1 , Issue 4

Paraprofessional School Resource Personnel (PSRP) aide Mrs.

Annyvette Castro was recently accepted into the Northeastern Illinois

University School of Education. Mrs. Castro is completing her college

coursework leading to teacher certification. The Bridge School family

is very proud of Mrs. Castro and wishes her the best.

Congratulations!

First Quarter Honor Roll students were treated

to donuts and drinks at the first quarter

“Breakfast of Champions”. The event spon-

sored by the Bridge Student Council (Teacher

sponsors: Mrs. Green/Mrs. Iammartino) was

held on November 18th to honor those stu-

dents with outstanding academic performance.

Honor Roll students also signed a big banner

that will be hung outside the Bridge School of-

fice. The event is held each quarter to honor

the hardworking students who achieve Honor

Roll status. We hope to see even more stu-

dents at the next “Breakfast of Champions”!

“BR 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

Mrs. Lewis’ first graders

had a great time picking their fa-

vorite colors to finger paint the

enormous flowers and leaves for

their mural Draw Me a Star.

December Students of the Month

Monika Zawislak

Paulina Ryndak

Megan Szajna

Thomas Jackowski

Amina Jibawa

Jamila Umar Rebecca Guerin Paul Tran Alyssa Galiardo

Christopher Delgado Katarzyna Pilat Isabelle Santiago Phoenix Juarbe

Daniel Fricano John Si Martha Gebala Eva Pawlik

Kamil Kobylka Ezdhar Deeb Kamil Michalek Desiree Dejesus

Tiffany Reyes Agata Chojan Branden Lisciandrello

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

Kristin Confessor Ihajaira Valenzuela

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Bridge

Family

Movie

Night

What: The Polar Express

When: Friday, December 16th

From 6:00 PM—

Who: Bridge School Students

and Families only! Students

must be accompanied by an

adult parent or guardian.

Where: Bridge Auditorium

How Much: Free!

Bridge Bugle Page 7

Roller Coaster In November, the 8th graders built roller

coasters. These roller coasters were the final project

for our study of motion and Newton’s Laws. The stu-

dents were to build a model of a properly working roll-

er coaster. The roller coasters were designed to

demonstrate Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.

By Justyna Jakubaszek room 206

In May this year, all students in the bi-

lingual program participated in the Lan-

guage Proficiency Assessment sponsored

by Mc Graw- Hill Publishing Company.

As a result of this, the Bilingual Depart-

ment has been awarded $3,537.

Room 109 has been reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Last week, the

students had a little ―taste‖ of Pioneer life by making their own butter! It was a long process, but it was

worth all the hard work. Our butter was delicious!

Honorable Mention

Outstanding Excellent

Superior Super Science Fair Winners The 2005-2006 Science Fair was the best ever. All the

students did a great job which made the judging ex-

tremely difficult. This was the first year that every stu-

dent who participated earned an award ribbon for their

wonderful projects. Unfortunately only 3 students can

represent Bridge School at the regional science fair.

Those 3 superior award winners were (pictured left –to-

right):

Dominick Dworak 7th Grade Room 208

For his project ―Rhythm-Rhythm‖

Olivia O’Donovan 7th Grade Room 106

For her project ―Bacteria‖

Steven Fieumefreddo 8th Grade Room 212

For his project ―Electric Growth Plant‖

Congratulations & Good Luck!

November 15, 2005

Dear Caroline,

I live in Chicago. It has a lot of people. The population in Chicago has more than three million people. You can go to

Buckingham Fountain. It is one of the largest fountains in the world! I love to go to Adler Planetarium. There are a lot of differ-

ent kinds of transportation in the city. There are buses, cars, taxies, and the ―El‖. The ―El‖ is an elevated train that takes you

around downtown. If you don’t like noise, don’t come here! I also love to go to Navy Pier. There is a big Ferris wheel there.

My most favorite part of Navy Pier is that every year there is a big Air and Water Show! There are airplanes and boats! The day

before the Air and Water Show, I was on the Ferris wheel and the Thunderbirds were zipping past! If you came here, you would

have fun!

Your friend,

Megan Szajna

November 15, 2005

Dear Mille Jones,

Chicago is a great place to live. There are so many fun things to see and do here like going to the Field Museum to see

Sue. Sue is the biggest, most complete dinosaur fossil ever found! Sue is a Tyrannosaurus Rex (T. Rex for short). Just in case

you were wondering, Sue’s name came from the guy (or guys) who discovered her.

There are more fun things to do in Chicago. You can also go to the Adler Planetarium or visit Buckingham Fountain.

In 1927, Buckingham Fountain was given to Chicago by Kate Buckingham in honor of her brother. Just so you know, every 60

seconds, 133 jets shoot about 14,000 gallons of water into the sky. The water reaches about 150 feet high. One more cool fact

about Buckingham Fountain is that it is one of the largest fountains in the world.

I wonder how life is in Alaska?

Hope you write back soon,

Veronica Ruse

November 15, 2005

Dear Steve,

How are you doing? Have you ever seen Sue? Sue is downtown in a museum. She is a dinosaur. She got her name

from the person that found her. There are all kinds of tall buildings. The biggest one is the Sears Tower. It is the biggest one in

the United States. Have you ever been to a baseball game? We have the Sox and the Cubs.

The Bears are the football team here, but my favorite football team is the Indianapolis Colts. You can also go to the

Botanic Gardens. There is this mall called the HIP. It is fun to go to. It is called the HIP because it stands for Harlem Irving

Plaza. It has Target, Nike, Champ’s, Carson’s, Kohl’s, and many more stores. It is fun in Chicago, and I wish I can meet you

some day. Oh, I almost forgot, maybe we can go to the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier.

Sincerely,

Wayne Sobotka

Room 109 Writes Alaska

Pen Pals About Chicago!

5th/6th Grade Girls Volleyball Team

Are Region 1 Champions! The 2005-2006 5th/6th grade girls volleyball team ended their season as Region 1 Champions. The girls

competed for the city title but lost a heartbreaker to Hawthorne Academy at the city finals. The girls

were awarded Region 1 Champion medals and Coach Page and Coach Bowen presented the school with

an award plaque noting the achievement. The volleyball team had a victory pizza party on Thursday, No-

vember 10th to celebrate their achievement. Way to go girls!

Congratulations!

Room 001

Eva Pawlik

Room 002

Martha Gebala

Paulina Kocon

Room 003

Sylvia Gebala

Nicole Swiderski

Room 004

Dominika Duda

Room 111

Azhar Deeb

Jessica Smith

Room 206

Justyna Jakubaszek

Room 209

Filip Palka

Paul Dubicki

Room 210

Razan Abuhashish

Mary Belsan

Jennifer Lopez

Room 212

Kaya Cuper

Hina Muneeruddin

Room 214

Jessika Warjas

Saul Zamora

Room 205

Johanna Alvarez

Marco Leyva

Paul Si

Room 206

Danielle Gajewski

Stancuta Ivan

Room 207

Amanda Abrasevic

Megan Dickey

Kamil Michalek

Angelica Jaje

Alexandra Lopez

Nara Solis

Room 208

Agata Chojan

Dominick Dworak

Aleksandra Makal

Erika Santana

Room 209

Gustavo Amador

John Balingit

Jessica Conneely

Ezdar Deeb

Victoria Paprzycki

Veronika Scott

Katlyn Tenold

Room 210

Kristine Confessor

Isabella Fit

Patricia Kalwajtys

Natalie Kleszcz

Melissa Knapp

Michael Tutka

Room 211

Lukasz Pikul

Room 212

Natalie Ficek

Jagoda Fichtner

Mustafa Jibawi

Dean Meyer

Room 214

Desiree DeJesus

Filip Duda

John Lozeau

Berenice Martinez

Aidan Preston

Brenda Vega

Room 001

Nicholas Armijo

Rebecca Feliciano

Savannah Gonzalez

Jenna Jurewicz

Kristyn Krajewski

Karolina Niedzwiadek

Batman Ontogtokh

Anthony Villegas

Room 002

Alexandria Banez

Angelica Gacek

Briana Green

Mark Miceli

Ricardo Reyes

Sergio Ruiz

Room 003

Scott Calderon

Sean Horwitz

Brian Miklas

Marina Turcios

Angelina Kadzielawa

Kaylee Sherrod

Room 004

Steven Galiardo

Thomas Jackowski

Natalia Chmiel

Room 106

Izabella Janczur

Room 111

Khrystyna Kozak

Jovanee Mejia

Nelson Santana

Ian Santillan

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

Francisco Alcantar

Nicholas Armijo

Gabriel Augustyniak

Alison Cappy

Sylwia Jastrzebska

Jenna Jurewicz

Gladys Mar

Salvador Moreno

Karolina Niedzwiadek

Batman Ontogtokh

Ewa Pisanko

Damian Wysocki

Room 002

Leslie Aispuro

Kielvin Bariso

Ayman Blan

Elissa Delgado

Angelica Gacek

Martha Gebala

Briana Green

Justin Lopez

Sergio Ruiz

Adrian Skobelski

Peter Tran

Room 003

Scott Calderon

Nicholaus Cappy

Andrzej Cudzich

Jonathan Figueroa

Ivan Gonzalez

Bart Kozminski

Darius Kwasnik

Brian Miklas

Sebastian Mozdzierz

Julia Starczewski

Brooke Sparks

Nicole Swiderski

Marina Turcios

Nick Wdowiak

Mario Valenzuela

Aleksander Zbroja

Room 004

Ashley Castillo

Dominika Duda

Augusto Estrada

Steven Galiardo

Omar Leyva

Andrzej Migas

Edward Molotla

Furquan Muneeruddin

Kevin Salgado

Anna Szczech

Justyna Pikul

Room 101

Samantha Alanis

Kiara Barrios

Modesty Chavez

Jessica Figueroa

Jacob Habayeb

Eduardo Martinez

Theodore Nickson

Kamil Piotrowski

Delanie Preston

Ofelia Romero

Sandra Santhosh

Room 102

Kienna Bariso

Joshua Berrier

Rozan Deeb

Marissa Domanty

Kala Geralds

Julij Golubev

Jenean Jibawi

Phoenix Juarbe

Angela Knaff

Brian Kuczynski

Raye Legarda

Rene Leyva

Samuel Martinez

Joshua Nazario

Ivan Ruiz

Robert Sanchez

Kenneth Solis

Samira Umar

Jose Vasquez

Room 103

Aman Haidari

Rikeya Hargrove

David Hruswicki

Evelina Jaje

Rafal Kocon

Daniel Lozeau

David Lozeau

Destiny May

Alec Panagopoulos

Nicolas Pesole

Katarzyna Pukala

Jacob Rakoczy

Isabelle Santiago

Jame Sobotka

Jessica Tredota

Julia Troszczynska

Carlie Vasquez

Manal Abughoush

Rade Jibawa

Room 105

Sasha Aponte

Jocelyn Borrero

Daniel Delgado

Thomas Green

William Knapp

Alexis Lopez

Shannon McGuire

Battushig Ontogtokh

Lillyanna Padilla

Emily Swiderski

Alexandro Valenzuela

Bernardo Vega

Eyad Blan

Room 106

Robert Anderson

Dorian Hryniewicki

Arsalan Muneeruddin

Olivia O’Donovan

Jonathan Pederson

Joey Rocco

Ethan Santillan

Jessica Sparks

Marcin Szczapa

Patrick Szczecina

Damian Twardus

David Vazquez

Justyna Wyczesana

Amina Jibawa

Room 107a.m.

Sydney Bock

Patrick Gillespie

Celina Guevara

Leyla Jibawi

Rebecca Krupa

Anna Kulach

Brian Kwiatkowski

Magdalena Naruszewicz

Zuzanna Pasierbek

Shyla Solis

Kelly Tarasiewicz

Morad Deeb

Room 107 p.m.

Agape Alfaro

Joanna Bidnik

Nazim Demiri

Kayla Jurewicz

Witoria Kurc

Johnathan Nickson

Janelle Nolivos

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Eric Platt

Cornelius Ruse

Jessica Zajac

Room 108

Daniel Allegretti

Anthony Barsano Jr.

Matthew Bock

Christian DeJesus

Christopher Delgado

Alejandro Gonzalez

Adrianna Goral

Nicholas Guy

Patrick Hruswicki

Robert Jurewicz

Tamara Lewis

Justin Lozeau

Marcelina Puc

Edgar Ramirez

Dana Rudzinski

Tomasz Tutka

Room 109

Lukasz Boufal

Judmir Bullari

Taylor Burg

Arlinda Emini

David Guevara

Lauren McGuire

Konrad Michalek

Maciej Mosiejewski

Weronika Mroczek

Nathan Ortiz

Veronica Ruse

Noreyma Salgado

Joshua Santos

Artana Sherifi

Wayne Sobotka

Megan Szajna

Tatiana Turcios

Mateusz Wiechetek

Room 111

Angelika Bujak

Radislaw Burgiel

Patricia Czternastek

Peggy Knapp

Khrystyna Kozak

Daniel Mozdzierz

Patrycja Poplawska

Piotr Rafacz

Ian Santillan

John Si

Jessica Smith

Kamil Stasik

Edyta Zadzilko

Azhar Deeb

First Quarter

Perfect Attendance

Bridge Bugle

Room 114

Sebastian Cato

Tomasz Chlebek

Jacob Ward

Room 203

Grzgorz Chlebek

Piotr Gorczynski

Natalia Gorlicka

Alexandra Kania

Patricia Kania

Lukasz Kornas

Wiktoria Kowalczyk

Sebastian Ksiazek

Piotr Lesniak

Maciej Myszka

Aleksandra Niemas

Bartosz Pikul

Gregory Pikul

Katarzyna Pilat

Tomasz Snarski

Justyna Szczech

Martyna Szubert

Damian Waga

Kamil Wicha

Mateusz Wicha

Bartek Zadzilko

Natalia Zaremba

Room 204

Jakub Bigos

Peter Jackowski

Marcel Kardas

Victoria Kospin

Angelica Kozuszko

Daniel Kulach

Sylwia Mieczkowski

Kevin Mienta

Karolina Peza

Karol Pisanko

Paulina Ryndak

Dawid Sobus

Monika Staszel

Piotr Szczech

Monica Waga

Nicole Zacny

Mateusz Zieba

Room 205

Johanna Alvarez

Salima Azzouzi

Taran Bradley

Jacob Castillo

Gilbert Ciezobka

Nicholas Cruz

Analiss Diaz

Semjace Garcia

Ilona Kozminska

Marco Leyva

Ashley McMahon

Tiffany Reyes

Sanju Santhosh

Paul Si

Dominika Wroblewska

Room 206

Oliver Aispuro

Sylvia Chrzestek

Joanna Chudy

Robert Frackiel

Paul Fricano

Adrian Kadzielawa

Vasyl Kostyk

Krzysztof Lapinski

Branden Lisciandrello

Danny Munoz

Jose Orengo

Monika Piszczor

Andrew Sobarnia

Anthony Stanford

Klaudia Szubert

Room 207

Lidia Bronkowska

Dario Cruz

Colleen Doyle

Kyle Enriquez

Kathy Grolle

Anna Kielich

Lukas Klasek

Alexandra Lopez

Kamil Michalek

Dominik Pikul

Anna Pukala

Omar Ramirez

Nara Solis

Tony Vittorioso

Kenny Watkins

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First Quarter

Perfect Attendance

Room 208

Michael Belsan

Krzysztof Chlebek

Agata Chojan

Cassandra Downing

Dominick Dworak

Fadi Fareh

Brandon Feliciano

Robert Hanusiak

Joanna Jasinka

Bryant Lackage

David Lopez

Aleksandra Makal

Erika Santana

Natalia Twardus

Room 209

Michelle Aguirre

Mark Babilonia

John Balingit

Filip Boksa

Jessica Conneely

Ezdhar Deeb

Paul Dubicki

Thomas Frackiel

Lukasz Giza

Mariusz Gorlicki

William Krupa

Elizabeth Molek

Filip Palka

Victoria Paprzycki

Aneta Pezinska

Veronika Scott

Syria Shehu

Brianna Vasquez

Brisa Vasquez

Alex Wojcik

Room 210

Razan Abuhashish

Mary Belsan

Ladrel Brown

Kristine Castillo

Stephanie Corral

Malgorzata Cudzich

Brittany Firszt

Marek Gorzkowicz

Natalie Klezcz

Samuel Legg

Jennifer Lopez

Alex Mehring

Martyna Pezinska

Rebecca Stevens

Michael Tutka

Franz Vergara

Room 211

Steven Akbar

Viviana Atempa

Cynthia Gomez

Lukasz Pikul

Maritza Tlapa

Janelys Vasquez

Mateusz Wilk

Haya Blan

Yasmean Suleiman

Room 212

Danielle Anderson

Hector Cruz

Kaya Cuper

Kamia Dear

Natalie Ficek

Ivan Guereca

Monika Jastrzebska

Mustafa Jibawi

Alex Kulahin

Dean Meyers

Hina Muneeruddin

Axel Ramirez

Bianka Sikaffy

Michael Szczapa

Ihajairi Valenzuela

Room 214

Melissa Almendarez

Desiree DeJesus

Jeremy Johnson

Rozalia Jurczak

John Lozeau

Berenice Martinez

Aidan Preston

John Samek

Krystian Solowiej

Brenda Vega

Jessika Warjas

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

Mrs. Lori Henmueller

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. Lora Niewinski

Vice-President:

Mrs. Karen Dubicki

Secretary:

Mr. Bob Walsh

Treasurer:

Mrs. Jeannie Doyle

27,500 Book Challenge

When you add two hours to

eleven o’clock, you get one

o’clock.

Riddle of the Month

When can you add two to

eleven and get one as the

correct answer?

Where’s Bruno? Look on page 11

Room 107

Kindergarten

114

Year-to-Date

285

Room 114

Pri. Sp. Ed.

26

Year-to-Date

88

Room 101

1st Grade

45

Year-to-Date

120

Room 105

1st Grade

90

Year-to-Date

180

Room 204

1st Grade

181

Year-to-Date

390

Room 102

2nd Grade

100

Year-to-Date

403

Room 103

2nd Grade

302

Year-to-Date

872

Room 203

2nd/3rd Grade

171

Year-to-Date

523

Room 108

3rd Grade

156

Year-to-Date

362

Room 109

3rd Grade

116

Year-to-Date

390

Room 001

4th Grade

61

Year-to-Date

236

Room 002

4th Grade

123

Year-to-Date

312

Room 111

4th Grade

201

Year-to-Date

516

Room 003

5th Grade

114

Year-to-Date

387

Room 004

5th Grade

165

Year-to-Date

403

Room 214

5th Grade

97

Year-to-Date

264

Room 207

6th Grade

135

Year-to-Date

263

Room 209

6th Grade

303

Year-to-Date

563

Room 211

6th Grade

178

Year-to-Date

260

Room 106

7th Grade

61

Year-to-Date

119

Room 205

7th Grade

34

Year-to-Date

96

Room 208

7th Grade

60

Year-to-Date

188

Room 206

8th Grade

24

Year-to-Date

101

Room 210

8th Grade

61

Year-to-Date

136

Room 212

8th Grade

29

Year-to-Date

139

7,596