Name of Project: Green Screen Supports Literacy Project Topic: Project-Based Learning Demographics: The Monticello Central School District is located in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York state – a rural area that has seen a significant economic decline in the past few decades, after a drop in the tourism industry. It is …
Students of the George L. Cooke Elementary School have been waiting for warmer weather to gear up the garden for planting. The Student Council from the after-school program joined forces with the Garden Club to help first grade teacher Dennis Lankau get the garden ready for the planting season. Some students raked up the leaves, …
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A group of Monticello Central School District science students spent the greater part of the day on Friday, May 10 calculating water pH levels, performing tests to determine how height and incline influence speed and conducting experiments to learn the difference between kinetic and potential energy. Although the tools they used were what you would …
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Sixth-grade students in Danielle Dillon’s science classes used some yummy ingredients for their plate boundary lab recently – specifically graham crackers, fruit roll-ups and icing. They were learning about tectonic plates – convergent, divergent and strike slip plate boundaries. The graham crackers represented the continental crust, the fruit roll-ups represented the oceanic crust and the …
The George L. Cooke Elementary School Student Council has been looking for ways to pay it forward to the community. On Earth Day, when they learned about how long it takes for sneakers to decompose in the local landfill, they wondered if there was a way to recycle sneakers instead of throwing them away. The …
At our April Fun Friday our Special Area Teachers helped our students relay a very important message: Take care of our Earth! Kindergarten and first grade classes sang a short song – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to the tune of Itsy Bitsy Spider. Fourth and fifth grade students presented what they learned about their very own …
Mrs. Furman’s second-grade class at the Emma C. Chase School are learning about ways to keep our Earth clean. As a culminating activity the students went on a litter pluck as they walked down the streets of Wurtsboro. The class put on their gloves and went to work filling bags with garbage. The students were …
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On Friday, May 3, the staff of Catskill Regional Medical Center (CRMC) treated a slew of interesting patients. One managed to break his back and foot, and also suffered a large laceration to his arm after a mishap while making breakfast. Yet another sprained his arm and leg while hopping from one lily pad to …
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The Monticello High School administrators were made aware of an alleged threat late in the day on Wednesday, May 8, from a teacher who had heard students discussing it. There were no social media posts, notes or witnesses, only second and third-hand information. At that time, the administrators determined the allegations were not credible after …
Students across Sullivan County are virtually reading their way through the county, thanks to an initiative from the School Library System at Sullivan BOCES. (SLSSB) In an effort to create a culture of reading across Sullivan County, the SLSSB created the “Cross County Reading Challenge.” Each school district has a “team” of participating students. Whenever …
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