Week in Review: December 4th - 8th

This week in STEM, students learned that chocolate is made from cacao beans. Let's just say that cacao beans do NOT taste like the chocolate we are used to! Another student NOT enjoying the origin of chocolate! Our 3rd grade students visit the British Art Gallery in New Haven to ignite their creative side. Check out some students in action. Our 4th grade students learn how a police dog is trained and how a canine officer communicates with a police dog during Our 4th grade students getting a lesson about some of the tools canine officers use to train their police dog. 4th grade students join our 1st grade students to buddy read and help them identify facts about animals for their "All About" books. ...

December 8, 2017

Week in Review: November 20th-22nd

We are so lucky to be partnered with Yale University and have an opportunity to work with Yale Demos. Our teachers giving feedback to some furniture options for our new building on the campus of SCSU. So exciting! An awesome team of Strong staff members put together a turkey dinner for our entire staff! Thank you to everyone who made a dish! We are all so grateful and everything was delicious! Students in 3rd grade made "multiplication turkeys" to celebrate the holiday and show multiplication in four ways. ...

November 22, 2017

Week in Review: November 13th-17th

After completing a unit on portraits, one of our 2nd grade students creates a portrait of a tiger. Isn't is cute that her the color of her bows match the tiger? Our third grade studied the evolution of written communication. In STEM students created mail carriers and programmed the Dash and Dot Robots to deliver different types of mail through a series of obstacles. On Monday, we celebrated our 5th annual National Day of Reading, formerly known as Ben Carson Reading Day to raise awareness of the importance of everyday, leisure reading. Look at the excitement one of our third grade classes had to share what they read! Fourth Graders read an article and watched a video on Scholastic News to learn about the recent hurricanes. This helped students to write letters to students in Puerto Rico for the Hispanic Heritage Month activity. We continue to think about everyone who was impacted by the hurricanes. Our Kindergarten students using learning mats in Physical Education. The learning mats utilize technology and physical fitness to reinforce math, literacy, and health skills during Physical Education. ...

November 17, 2017

Art Display at Central Office!

We are extremely proud of our students whose artwork is displayed on the 2nd floor of the Gateway building! Thank you to Mrs. Platt and Mrs. Schrier for developing the artistic skills of our young artists. Great job to all! ...

October 27, 2017

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