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| 5/23/10 |
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Ride For Life Comes to Rushmore Ave. School |
On May 20th the students and teachers of Rushmore Ave. School welcomed a very special event. The Ride for Life, an annual public awareness and fundraising campaign held to raise awareness for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) visited the school for a second time, this time on its annual ride across Long Island. Lead by Chris Pendergast, an ALS patient and former teacher himself, the Ride for Life was met by cheering students and smiling teachers who showed their support for the patients, their families and friends. The student at the school spent the weeks prior to the visit collecting their coins and making signs in preparation for the return visit. After the ride paraded past the school, the riders were hosted to some snacks and drinks and were presented with a donation on behalf of the school community. The event was truly an experiece that will be remembered by the children for a lifetime and the difference that they made in the lives of the ALS patients and familiies will remain with them forever as well. |
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| 5/13/10 |
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Rushmore Avenue Student Council Fosters School Spirit |
This years Student Council Representatives should be proud of all their accomplishments as Rushmore’s School leaders. They were extremely creative and helpful in executing successful school spirit days. Some themes included Sportsmanship day and Black and Orange day. They were also provided with numerous opportunities to serve others in and outside of the Carle Place Community. They helped organize events such as “Coats for Kids,” “Adopt a Family,” “Little Doctors Program,” “Bingo Night,” “Hats for Haiti,” and “13th Annual ALS Ride for Life.” |
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| 4/25/10 |
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RUSHMORE AVE. READ ALOUD NIGHTS |
Mrs. Dintino has been enjoying reading the Diary of a Wimpy Kid to ESL students. We have been laughing since it began! It is a real page-turner. The read aloud takes place in the Rushmore Avenue Library Media Center on Thursday nights in April. This was a wonderful program for students and parents to enjoy through Title III Grant! |
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| 4/25/10 |
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FIFTH GRADE CIVIL WAR PROJECT |
The students in Ms. Katherine Manzella’s fifth grade class have recently completed a research project on the Civil War. Students created a newspaper in which they wrote about an event from the Civil War as if they were there. Some of the topics included major battles, famous people, recipes, songs of the Civil War Era, inventions that were created during this time in history as well as jobs that may have been available. Students also had to think about which point of view they would write from; the North or the South. While in the computer lab, students researched their topic through using the Internet as well as books found in the library. Students also learned how to use Microsoft Publisher in order to create their newspaper. |
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| 4/07/10 |
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Students Get Smart With SmartBoards |
On Tuesday, April 6th, the students in Ms. Psinakis’ and Ms. Sussman’s class learned to use a protractor to measure angles. There new EnoBoard was put to use to support the teaching and learning of math in an exciting and interactive way. Individual students practiced creating angles of various measurements, and teams of students worked towards identifying these measurements to the nearest degree, with the EnoBoard protractor. Students learned to identify the differences between acute, obtuse, and straight angles. |
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| 1/14/10 |
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Students Speak Out Against Smoking |
January 2010- After completing their Health unit on lungs and smoking, students in Mrs. Tusa and Mrs. Mulhearn's 5th grade class created anti-smoking commercials, pamphlets and comic strips to persuade children and adults to never start smoking or to quit. The students who did commercials filmed their commercials at home and school. They were then played for the rest of their class to enjoy and learn from, making good use of technology. All of the projects were very creative and included pictures, negative side effects of smoking, and smoking related diseases. It was a very enjoyable and very worthwhile experience for the students.
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| 11/04/09 |
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The Accelerated Reader Program |
The Accelerated Reader Program, a nationally recognized motivational incentive-based program, is well underway for students in grades 3-6. Students have been eagerly visiting the Library Media Center's computers after reading their books in order to win prizes. Mrs. Elisa Kerin, the Library Media Specialist is coordinating the program.
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| 11/04/09 |
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Halloween Pumpkin Pageant |
The Rushmore Elementary School is buzzing with excitement as the Halloween Pumpkin Pageant has begun. Pumpkin characters from all corners of the school are being submitted to the library on a daily basis. |
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| 11/04/09 |
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RU Environmental Center Inspires Creativity |
Third graders gather ideas for their next writing piece in the Rushmore Avenue School’s Environmental Center. Students and staff have enjoyed maintaining this motivational outdoor classroom that is utilized through out the school year. It is a great place to dive into a book, take photographs for a special project or spend time with classmates who enjoy gardening. |
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| 11/04/09 |
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Rushmore Creates Towers |
In their exploration of citizenship, the third graders in Rushmore Avenue School read the remarkable book, The Wonderful Tower of Watts by Patricia Zelver. It is the story of an Italian immigrant, Sam Rodia. In an effort to create a thing of beauty out of the discarded trash in his run down Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles Old Sam, as he was called, he created The Tower of Watts.
Through Old Sam's efforts The Tower of Watts has become a tourist attraction in the Watts section of Los Angeles. He has shown that something beautiful and worthwhile can be made from what people would consider garbage.
Students designed their own towers based upon the book. They collected and cut interesting pieces of scrap paper to create mosaic designs. Each tower was unique and beautiful
The students at Rushmore Avenue School learned about citizenship, immigration, recycling, and mosaics. The third graders even listened to the early recordings of Enrico Caruso while creating their towers, just as Old Sam did as he created his towers. |
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