Washington Drive Collects Pouches for Purses
Washington Drive Primary School, in conjunction with the PTA Green Committee chaired by Jennifer Totten, has once again taken part in an exciting school-wide recycling program.
Approximately four years ago, teacher Jacinta Pisano introduced the idea of collecting Capri Sun-type juice pouches and sending them to Terracycle, a company that upcycles them and turns them into bags, lunch bags and pencil-cases. Upcycling is a process that requires even less energy to produce a new product than recycling. Not only will the juice pouches take up less space in landfills, but the school will get two cents back for each juice pouch sent, money which goes to benefit the needs of students in the district.
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Celebrating Tradition
Fifth-grade students in Barry Taylor’s and Andrea Horowitz’s classes at Thomas J. Lahey Intermediate School celebrated various cultures and holiday traditions from around the world as a part of the social studies curriculum. They also shared some of the traditions of their own family culture during the school’s Holiday Multicultural Feast held on December 21.
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Holiday Happenings in Harborfields
Kindergarten students in Cari Sacks’ class at Washington Drive Primary School recently completed a cross-curricular unit of study using the familiar story of the Gingerbread Man.
Students read several stories centered on variations of the famous character, comparing and contrasting the story elements. The gingerbread theme was also used to solve mathematical problems and compose sentences.
As a fun culminating activity, the students invited their parents into their classrooms to help decorate gingerbread homes, to be shared with their families during the holidays.
While Mrs. Sacks’ class worked diligently to bring holiday cheer to their families, Monique Keith-Golding’s second-grade class at Washington Drive took part in a “bucket-filling” activity aimed at spreading cheer to needy children on Long Island. The class worked in conjunction with the Holiday Magic Organization, a group that provides holiday gifts to families in homeless or transient situations. The second graders voluntarily purchased gifts, organized them into groups, wrapped them, and created holiday cards to accompany the donations.
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Becoming Informed
Seventh and eighth-grade students at Oldfield Middle School attended the presentation “Drug Use and Young People” presented by Steve Chassman, Clinical Director of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (LICADD).
The assembly was part of a LICADD psycho-educational program which focuses on students’ behaviors and attitudes and gives them the knowledge to make more informed decisions and say no to drugs and alcohol.
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Students Are Police SMART at Washington Drive
Students of Washington Drive Primary School in the Harborfields Central School District participated in the annual Police SMART program with Suffolk County Officer Rosemarie McCormack.
Officer McCormack spent time in each classroom introducing and reviewing the concepts of police safety with students.
“What is an emergency?” she asked students in Mrs. Fealy’s kindergarten class. “I am going to show you what you can do to make good choices in those situations.”
She reviewed concepts of stranger danger and dialing 911 and reinforced the concepts that students were exposed to in prior visits.
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HACEF’s Winter Enrichment Program 2012
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