“The way you know a radish is ready to pick is that they show themselves,” Park Avenue Elementary School kindergarten teacher Robin Obey told first-graders last Friday morning.
Students eagerly dug through the dirt, pulling out radishes by the dozen and tossing them into a nearby basket. A garden bed over, other first-graders pinched at spinach plants, pulling off the tender leaves.
The class wasn’t taking place at a farm, but outside the school’s doors at Park Avenue’s community garden.
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By Deirdre Krasula
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5/18/12
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Local streets were full of young athletes, coaches and parents as they joined together to kick off the North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League’s 2012 season last Saturday.
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By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com
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4/26/12
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To celebrate Music in Our Schools Month, which showcases the importance of music education, third-graders at Winthrop Avenue Elementary School in Bellmore took to the stage for two musical performances.
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4/13/12
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The Bowling Green K-Kids recently received exciting news from the New York District of Kiwanis naming it as this year’s distinguished club. Bowling Green was one of only five clubs in New York to receive this honor.
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4/13/12
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District 13 appointed a new principal for the Wheeler Avenue School last week to replace Christine Zerillo, who is retiring at the end of the school year.
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4/4/12
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What can you learn by making toy fishing nets or a canoe? The answer is life skills.
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3/29/12
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Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick celebrated the written word on Friday with its annual Reading Rodeo, at which elected and community leaders are invited in to read to classes.
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3/23/12
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Nearly 50 fifth-grade Parkway Elementary students in the school Art Club created a wall mural composed of 144 painted and glazed tiles.
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By Shannon Koehle
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3/23/12
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Parkway Elementary students and staff filed into Barnes & Noble in Carle Place on March 15. This first-annual literary event begins the school’s “Parents As Reading Partners” campaign.
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By Shannon Koehle
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3/23/12
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Updated 11:41 a.m., March 21: Two men carjacked a silver 2006 Infiniti G35 from Ohio Avenue in Hicksville, and one of them crashed it into the back of Fayette Elementary School in North Merrick, seven miles away, sometime between noon and 1 p.m. on March 20, according to Nassau County Police. Both men were apprehended and charged with multiple crimes.
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By Scott Brinton and David Weingrad, sbrinton@liherald.com or dweingrad@liherald.com
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3/20/12
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