Student Fitness!

Mr. Slater challenges his students to work quickly through high interest fitness stations!

Real Life Experience - Shared...

Today the 6th grade students spent time with Luke Johnson.  Luke, an Oneonta City School graduate spent a semester in Africa working with the Masai Tribes.  During his time in Tanzania he climbed Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.  This challenge took

 self-discipline and determination.  

Real life experiences - shared!  

What a fantastic opportunity for our students.

Let's Get Involved!

Second grade students are researching reptiles!  

Fourth grade students are becoming math experts.

Sixth grade students read and interpret literature!

Back to Business!

Following the holiday break students and teachers got right back into the groove of things

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Clingy Third Graders???

No - they are just studying magnetism!  Through hands on learning, reading, and writing our students are diving deeply into their science curriculum.

Best Practice Teaching!

5th grade teacher Brad Zeh, Title I teacher Janice Pidgeon, Special Education Teacher Nancy Wilkinson, and Librarian Julia Iannello  work collaboratively to provide an outstanding English Language Arts block for their students.  The reading program that we use functions in a six day cycle.  During each cycle there are particular skills, vocabulary, and strategies that students focus on. On the 7th day an assessment is given.  The results are carefully analyzed and as result students receive small group instruction the next day.  The instruction targets individual needs. This approach  is teaching and learning at it's best.

Teachers using student data to 
immediately 
drive their instruction!  

We reviewed the results of this intervention during our team meeting today and the intervention worked!  After reteaching skills and concepts using a focused approach our students showed growth!

   

A Sock Hop at School??

ABSOLUTELY!

Today is the 50th day of school and Mrs.Ganio's and Mrs. Sagesse's kindergartners celebrated in style.  The focus of the day was, "The 50's."  The boys slicked back their hair while the girls finished their style off with a ribbon.  Students dressed up in poodle skirts, rolled up jeans, and denim jackets.  The fantastic musical sounds of the era played all day.  For morning journal students wrote about what they would like to be in 50 years.  During calendar time students compared the styles and fads of present day to past times.  

At 1:00 the sock hop began.  The students worked the hula-hoop, tried the limbo, did the twist, and completed activities that involved the number 50.  The sock hop ended with root beer floats and English  Muffin pizzas! 

Ohhhh the good old days!

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