Newsday FutureCorps Project:Bags of Hope

Mrs. Legaz and Mrs. Omisore's kindergarten classes took part in a service learning project, which will be featured as part of Newsday's FutureCorps. Bags of Hope were assembled for children battling leukemia. Students cheerfully decorated bags and made encouraging pictures to brighten spirits.The bags were filled with toys, books, crayons, friendship bracelets, tissues, markers and journals. Next week, the teachers will deliver the bags to Stony Brook Hospital Children's Cancer Center. The project was initiated because a sibling of one of our students is a cancer surviver. The thankful family joined us today for this service project.

 

LEGO Build to Express

 First graders in Mrs. Schafer/Mr. Edwards' class used the LEGO Build to Express kits to assist them with writing stories.

Fall Fun in PE

Our fall-themed obstacle course was a lot of fun. It incorporated many movements that the children practiced in their physical education classes such as jumping, rolling, crawling, balancing and scootering. There was even a "spooky house" at the end of the obstacle course.

Top Hats and Tiaras

As part of our PBIS commitment, we celebrate appropriate behavior in the cafeteria when a class earns 25 stars. Mrs. Legaz's kindergarten class was the first class to acheive that honor this year. The children ate their lunch wearing top hats and tiaras. Congratulations!

Holiday Mail for Heroes

Mrs. Capobianco/Mrs. Hayton's kindergarten class made cards for the Holiday Mail for Heroes program. The Red Cross will distribute these cards at military installations, veteran's hospitals and other locations. The class listened to the book, Hero Mom, by Melinda Hardin to learn about the heroic things our soldiers do.

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement is a global not-for-profit organization. Their purpose is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. This is accomplished through the dedication of volunteers from businesses and the community, who volunteer their time to teach the JA programs. All programs are age-appropriate and regularly evaluated. They range from a kindergarten program with colorful read-alouds and piggy banks to high school programs that teach budgeting, investment basics and wise credit usage. Volunteers from HSBC, trained by JA staff, taught first grade classes today at South Street School. The "Our Familes" program supported our first grade social studies curriculum.

Colonial Days

Second grade classes visited the Smithtown Historical Society to learn about life during the colonial days. 

Dream

Dream by Susan V. Bosak is a book about the hopes and dreams that we all have from the time we're children to when we're all grown up. It's about the special and important wishes you make on the stars at night...wishes for yourself and others. Fifty children and their parents gathered at SSS to hear the story and engage in related crafts. Children decorated wooden dream chests, which represented the magical portal between reality and dreams.."what is" and "what can be."  They also made dream catchers, which is a tradition of Native Americans. Dream catchers protect sleeping children. Positive dreams slip through the hole in the center of the dream catcher and glide down the feathers. Negative dreams get caught in the web and expire when the sun rises. Sweet dreams, everyone!

Leaf Man

Ms. Norman, our library media specialist, read the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert to all kindergarten classes. Then, the children created their own leaf man. These are students from Mrs. Haas and Mrs. Maffia's class.