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Mr. Sommer's Fifth Grade Boys Circle had a blast working with partners and in teams programming Ozobot!
Ozobot is a little toy robot that blends the physical and digital worlds — and teaches kids programming. ... Ozobot can identify lines, colors, and codes on both digital surfaces, such as an iPad, and physical surfaces, such as paper.

First graders in Clarendon school had a blast on their field trip to Jenkinson’s Aquarium. They learned various facts about seals, penguins, sharks, fish and more!

ONE SESSION DAYS
12:30 PM Dismissal – All Grades
November 25, 26 & 27

PARENT CONFERENCES
Monday, November 25th
1:00 – 3:00 PM
6:00 – 8:00 PM

Tuesday, November 26th
1:00 – 3:00 PM

THANKSGIVING RECESS
November 28th & 29th
School Closed

Mrs. Rodriguez’s 3rd grade students practicing their throwing and catching skills in physical education class.

Students in Mrs. Mongiello’s after school program spread kindness by listening to and acting out scenes from The Rainbow Fish. Students discussed ways to show kindness and enjoyed decorating their own shimmering fish.

Marsh Explorers

Rain or Shine! On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, Mrs. Michele Wurst’s third grade students explored a salt marsh within an estuary at The Meadowlands Environment Center. Following an introduction to the habitat, students ventured out on field walk amid the phragmites to explore the sights, sounds, and smells of a salt marsh. Along the way to a collection site, students made observations about the weather, physical environment, fauna and flora. At the collection site, students used dip nets to collect and identify aquatic organisms that inhabit the impoundment of DeKorte Park. Working with the live specimens, such as grass shrimp, blue crab, killifish, and eel, students learned how to make observations about nature and how to record their observations through journaling and sketching. Students also completed an outdoors salt marsh scavenger hunt and earned a Platinum Award for scoring all required points and an additional 15 of 17 bonus points. Students were provided with pre and post lesson plans at school surrounding this unique adventure and cannot wait to return to DeKorte Park in the future.

Mrs. Lamatina’s class has reached an exciting point in their TC writing workshop. They are learning how to make their own books and teach others about a certain topic. Some class favorites are books about ballet, baked goods, and the playground!

At Clarendon the children enjoyed a fun filled day! Creating play dough monsters, dance contest and sing a longs. They also enjoyed some Halloween inspired activities including “fire”side reading, Halloween Bingo, Spider number matching, Halloween Counting books, and pumpkin carving predictions and observations. Additionally, making bats and Halloween Scavenger Hunts.

Mrs. Smith-Bonin’s ELA classes read their “Spooky Narratives” by campfire as they roasted marshmallows.

Students in Mrs. Knapp & Ms. Herrmann’s Character club have been discussing what kindness looks like such as helping others, giving compliments, sharing etc. After learning about how to be kind, we created a chart to remember how and why we should be kind. Students are practicing all the ways to be kind and put them on the kindness catcher bulletin board. Each student had fun creating their own “Kind Words” poster.