Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick hosted its annual dance-a-thon last Friday inside in the gymnasium.
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By David Weingrad
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3/30/11
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On Thursday, March 24, at 10 a.m., Birch Elementary School administrators, teachers and students uncovered a time capsule that was buried 50 years ago on November 5, 1961.
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By David Weingrad
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3/25/11
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Newbridge Road Elementary School demonstrated compassion and generosity through the Student Council’s “January Jammies” program, which collects new pajamas for children and young adults in need. The pajamas were donated to Mercy First, an organization that benefits foster-care and group homes. Students enjoyed wearing their pajamas to school one recent Friday to celebrate the culmination of the program.
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3/24/11
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“The King of Butterflies” is in potential danger of becoming extinct.
At Floyd B. Watson Elementary School, the fight is on to keep them in the Earth’s environment for years to …
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TOM STEINERT
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3/23/11
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On May 1, one month shy of his 50th birthday, Merrick’s Dennis Cohen will run in the St. Anthony’s Triathlon.
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By David Weingrad
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3/21/11
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More than 100 students from Birch and Chatterton elementary schools in the Merrick District recently took part in the National Foreign Languages Week poster and essay contest, and first-place winners were announced last week. This year’s theme was “Languages Make the World Go ’Round.”
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3/17/11
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Students at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick recently took part in the annual National Foreign Languages Poster and Essay Contest.
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3/11/11
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Thanks to a grant from the Rockville Centre Education Foundation, third graders at Wilson Elementary School enjoyed growing plants that they could eat!
Working last fall with a Master Gardener, …
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3/9/11
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Watson School fourth grader Kyle Mosher has come a long way since he started wrestling four years ago. Kyle took up the sport in the footsteps of his older brother Craig, a varsity wrestler at Kellenberg Memorial High School, who often passes along what he learns to his younger brother.
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3/9/11
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Earlier this year, students in Amanda Kowalski’s class at Winthrop Avenue Elementary School in Bellmore wrote letters to Kowalski’s nephew, Lance Cpl. Michael Reyes of the U.S. Marines, and the soldiers in his unit. To thank the students for their thoughtfulness, Reyes recently visited them. Dressed in uniform, he told the students that he and his unit are helping to build schools and hospitals while overseas, spoke of the traditions of the Marines, and answered questions about his uniform and medals.
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3/3/11
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