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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.

Monster Mini Golf. November 4th, 10:30-1:00pm. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Secaucus School Districts Fundraising for the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.

October Bucketfilling Winners!
Kindergarten
Layan Samhan
Eshaan Kashyap
Aashna Sah,

First Grade
Tejas Mohapatra
Auggie Shiffer
Jelvin Javier,

Second Grade
Piper Yuan
John Hegarty
Jordan Tran,

Third Grade
Reese Rubsam
Slayner Santana
Ryan Gera,

Fourth Grade
Alexia Shivani
Jada Castillo
Anaya Patel,

FIfth Grade
David Santana
Zoe Donaldson
Ava D’Addetta

Ms. Hensle’s class participated in a S.TE.A.M. Activity about “ Why our Skeletons have so many bones”? The children drew a model of their hand, located all the bones in their hands by observing hand movements, marked their models with the bones, then filled the bones in with oil to make their own X-Rays!

The Clarendon School 4th graders participated in a squid dissection. This hands-on opportunity allowed
the students to identify internal and external structures and their functions. This was an interesting and
exciting way to learn this area of the curriculum.

Jersey Mike's Fundraiser for St Jude on Tuesday, October 29.
20% of all the proceeds will go to St. Jude.