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Elwood 7th Graders Celebrate Middle Of The Middle Day: Photos
Students celebrated the midpoint of their middle school career by playing games like cornhole and Spikeball and doing origami.
ELWOOD, NY — Seventh graders at Elwood Middle School participated in the second annual Middle of the Middle Day on Feb. 3, celebrating the midpoint of their middle school career, the school district announced.
During the day, planned by teachers Jenine Harris and Danielle Whitcomb, students rotated in groups between three stations.
American backyard games celebrated the nation’s pastimes, with students playing cornhole and Spikeball.
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Christina Moran, the school’s principal, taught origami at the second station. Seventh graders also watched a reading of Eleanor Coerr’s "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," then made their own paper cranes.
Lastly, participants were challenged during Minute to Win It competitions, which included creating the most words with toothpicks and becoming a human ring toss.
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Students were treated to pizza and ice cream during lunch, donated by the EMS PTA, followed by a virtual book talk with author Kwame Alexander. The seventh graders ended the day guessing the name of their classmates using their kindergarten pictures.
"It was a great celebration of our seventh grade," Whitcomb said.
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