Stop by South End School on any Friday afternoon and you may see a four-legged furry Labradoodle walking the halls and visiting classrooms! This new welcomed visitor to South End is 10 year old Abiageal, a pet Therapy Dog that lives across the street from SE with her owner, Mary Ellen Monahan. Abiageal is trained and certified by Bright and Beautiful Therapy Dogs, Inc. and has an impressive resume including spending the last five years as a volunteer for St. Barnabas Paws for Patients. Ms. Monahan was interested in sharing Abiageal with children in a school setting and decided to partner with SE to spread her joy.

Therapy dogs in schools are known to reduce stress, improve students’ reading skills and just comfort and raise the spirits of children in the classroom. Abiageal has focused on one grade level thus far each week, spending at least 20 minutes in each classroom. The students have taken turns reading to her, petting her, getting to know all about her, and of course getting that perfect picture with her!

NE and SE fourth grade art classes designed "vintage style" scarecrows using acrylic paints, sepia and black charcoal chalks. So cool!

All elementary art classes at South End and North End Schools completed the "Square One" fundraiser in conjunction with the FSA. Parents should be excited to purchase homemade art masterpieces...be on the lookout for more information to follow!

MMS 5th grade S.T.E.M. students have created the "Let There Be Light" project.

This month, MMS held it's very first Respect Rally to kick off Respect Week! Ms. Guridys and the choir energized the crowd with songs and had the rest of the school join in!

MMS 7th grade science classes have been working on the process of scientific inquiry and the new Science and Engineering processes to carry out scientific Investigations. Students went through the process to create a paper airplane to see whose would fly the furthest.

MMS 7th grade social studies students worked to create an American Mosaic consisting of their different backgrounds and cultures. Put together to form an American Flag, this project is meant to symbolize the extreme diversity found in America.

MMS students in Mrs. Bulmer’s ELA classes just finished their study of the play, The Diary of Anne Frank. As a culminating project, students were asked to work cooperatively to perform research in order to gain a better understanding of what other types of conditions the Jewish people hid under, in Nazi-occupied countries during World War II. The assignment required students to read an article about a specific hiding place and apply that knowledge to answer a variety of questions regarding the location and the details involved in the task of hiding. Finally, students were able to choose whether they wished to display the main ideas about their hiding places using Glogster or Google Slides, which they used to share their findings with the rest of their peers. Pictured here is the Glogster poster made by a group in response to an article about Jewish people hiding under the kitchen floor.

8th grade science students are understanding the differences between speed and velocity by performing multiple motion labs: Speed of a Toy Car, Speed of a Jump Frog, Speed of a Paper Airplane, and the Velocity of a Hockey Puck. This picture shows students working on the velocity of a hockey puck. Students had to close their eyes to take shots at each goal in hope of actually making a goal. However, this is hockey, so there are positioned players on the ice to block their shots. Students must use a compass in order to take their speed and change it to be a true velocity.

CGHS sophomores spent some quality time with Detective Carolyn Lynch assisting the Driver's Education class with a demonstration on reaction time.

CGHS students in Mrs. Rack's Statistics Honors class collected data on how long they can stand on one leg. They used the data to construct their Dot Plot.