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Field Day

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Viewfinder: Field Day at Fort Lee Middle School

Viewfinder is a weekly photo gallery that takes a look at the community through the camera lens. This week, we have images from Fort Lee Middle School’s annual Field Day event.

“Spirit Week” at Fort Lee Middle School wrapped up Friday with the school’s annual “Field Day,” an Olympic-like event pitting homeroom against homeroom and featuring everything from sit-up, running, basketball shooting and football throwing competitions to three-legged races, water balloon tosses and tug-of-wars. “It’s a range of competitions that goes on for the whole day,” said middle school principal Rosemary Giacomelli. “All the homerooms are in different colors … so when you look up in the stands, you see light blue, dark blue, red, yellow, green, orange, all these colors are sitting in the stands. It’s an amazing, amazing day. It is just so much fun.” At the end of a full school day of competitions, the seventh grade homeroom winner …

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