Midway Wrangler Review
By Pat DeCastro
The third term student council has been selected and they are busy working on plans for activities this term. New student council members include Brooke Jones, Samantha Muny, Ammon Cliften, Dallin Remund, Brayson Rutter, Shelby Radmall, Ansley Rasband and Layton McMaster.
Midway teachers had a turn working at Dairy Keen this past week. You may have seen some of them if you stopped in last Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. This is a great example of community support of our schools. We appreciate Dairy Keen and the MaWhinney family allowing out school this opportunity to work with them, invite our students and families into the restaurant, and then share the profit made those evenings with our school. It is a fun week. And the lucky bike raffle winner is Rayce Lloyd.
Wrangler Reading has gotten off to a fantastic start! The students are reading up a storm. Be sure to help them fill in their reading slips. Reading slips need to be returned to the school every Friday, where minutes will be calculated. A new reading slip will come home each Friday for the upcoming week.
Our Midway Wranglers have been especially excited to have some WasatchHigh School students come for lunch time reading. Kids crowd the reading area at lunch time to hear these former Wranglers read their favorite stories. This is another great benefit of the Wrangler to Wasp program this year.
We had a full gym Thursday morning, February 7, as Moms and Muffins got underway. There were lots of moms, grandmas, aunts, and big sisters filling up the room with Midway kids as they read stories and fun books, earning yet more reading minutes. The side benefit was a little bit of breakfast while enjoying reading time together.
Friday, February 8 was the annual 4th grade Rendezvous, a culmination of 4th grade early Utah history studies. In the morning the students were treated to a presentation by a real, present day MountainMan. He told them of his adventures and the life he has chosen. Later that morning, students participated in a Mountain Man measurement activity.
In the afternoon they held their Rendezvous Trading Fair. Students brought “provisions” and were able to barter, trade and buy items using the “Beaver Bucks” they have been earning.
Kindergarten registration for the 2013-2014 school year is coming up quickly. Children must be age 5 on or before September 1, 2013. Registration for Kindergarten at Midway Elementary will be March 20, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Wasatch County Health Department, 55 South 500 East, Heber City.