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Guest Speaker Teachers Fairley Students About Visual Impairment
Select students in Julia Boots’ second grade classroom at Fairley Elementary School closed their eyes and were asked by a guest presenter to take a look around.
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Volney Students Receive Character Education Awards
Students who have done an outstanding job throughout the month of April at Volney Elementary School were recently honored with Principal’s Awards and On-a-Roll certificates.
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Mother’s Day Wildflower Wander Set At Amboy 4-H Environmental Education Center
Participants, led by naturalist Pat Carney, will meander about the woodland exploring Wake-Robin, Goldthread, Cowslip, and others whose common names and stories are as colorful as their blossoms.
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Palermo Elementary Guest Teaches Perseverance Through Painting
Palermo Elementary students learned a valuable lesson from guest presenter Dennis Pullen: we all can be different and the same. Noticeable differences with Pullen and the students in grades kindergarten through four included his wheelchair, breathing device and lack of mobility. But, similarities far outweighed those three.
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Phoenix Students Get A Lesson In Drumming, Culture
Music was in the air at Emerson J. Dillon Middle School recently as performer Biboti Ouikahilo presented an African drumming workshop. The multi-talented artist showed off his skills and taught seventh and eighth graders his trade.
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Lanigan Students Earn Self-Control Awards
Having that self-control in their classrooms, special areas and hallways throughout the month of April earned them a certificate of recognition and thunderous applause as each of them was called to the front of the all-purpose room.
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STEM Instruments Use Recycled Materials
For the month of March, students in third grade classes at Altmar-Parish-Williamtown Elementary School were challenged to create a musical instrument using only throwaway materials during their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Family project.
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Third Marking Period Academic Honor Roll at APW Announced
Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Junior/Senior High School Principal Joe Olsen has announced the academic honor roll for the third marking period.
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Pre-K Readers Earn Special Visit From Principal
Students at Sandy Creek Elementary are testing just how far Principal Tim Filiatrault will go to encourage his school to read. How about dressing up as a favorite Dr. Seuss character and reading to the pre-kindergarten classes who won the recent reading challenge by reading the most as a class?
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Leadership Qualities Earn Mexico Elementary Students Recognition
Several Mexico Elementary School students were recently honored for exhibiting leadership qualities throughout the month of April. Each awardee received a certificate and a medal because they served as role models for their peers and exemplified the seven Habits of Happy Kids.