Kenilworth Public Schools
April 29, 2016
GREAT STUFF Going on In Our Schools
DON'T FORGET TO GET YOUR TICKET FOR THE SHAKE, RATTLE, & ROLL TRICKY TRAY!
Harding 1st Graders showcase talent
Harding Students win in New Jersey Math League Contest
Each year Mr. Klimchak's fifth grade math class competes in the New Jersey Math League Contest. Mrs. Griffin is pleased to announce the class winners.
1st- Louis Wood
2nd - Chloe Salfred- Ingham
3rd- Alex burns, Madelyn Dangle, Niko Du Beau, Julia Lavan, and Tom Bliss
Way to go!
Harding School students Plant Tree in honor of Earth Day
Mrs. Griffin's Gifted and Talented students planted a Red bud flowering tree in honor of Earth Day!
Thank you to Williams Nursery and Union County Shade Tree Advisory Board for an opportunity to be a part of the Arbor Day Tree Planting Program.
District teachers and staff enjoy bring your child to work day
Below are some pictures from our "bring your child to work day."
Teachers and staff across the district shared our wonderful district with their children. In some of these pictures, some staff members children participated in activities such as acting out reader's theater skits in groups of four. Jenn Donohue's boys Brenden (5th grade) and Aidan (2nd grade) in that activity. The bottom two pictures on the right also are of Mrs. Bound and Dr. Tramaglini's children reading with our Therapy Dog.
Mrs. D'Arpa and Mrs. Donough's classes celebrate Earth Day with their Tie-Dye Event
Mrs. D'Arpa's 4th grade class joined up with Mrs. Donough's 2nd graders for their Annual Earth Day Tie-Dye Event. Every year the students bring in an old t-shirt to recycle and renew into a TOTALLY GROOVY new shirt. The students worked collaboratively and celebrated by wearing their final projects on Earth Day. Mrs. D'Arpa's students also wrote Earth Day poems that they shared with their "buddies" and created Earth Day bookmarks out of recycled paper from their classroom. It was a great day celebrating our earth!
Ms. Marks students underscore rigor through hands-on activities in math
Students in Ms. Marks 5th Grade class are currently working on Algebra Patterns and Graphing. Students were given data sets and used chalk to draw line plots outside on the playground. Then, students worked collaboratively to find the average. Students also enjoyed choosing their favorite "emoji" to plot given points on our giant coordinate grid. Our grid on the floor helped students learn and practice using vocabulary terms associated with the coordinate grid.
EDUCATION POLICY
PARCC and Assessment
NOTEWORTHY INFORMATION
Upcoming Events
April 29, 2016 - Harding Honor Roll Breakfast
April 29, 2016 - (7:30 PM) Varsity Softball - Quarterfinal Round Game at Flanagan Fields in Linden
April 30, 2016 - MS/HS PTO Tricky Tray (4:00 PM Doors Open)
May 3, 2016 - Middle School Spelling Bee
May 9, 2016 - Board of Education Meeting
May 12, 2016 - SEPAG Meeting
May 18, 2016 - HS - Every 15 Minutes
May 25, 2016 - Harding Spring Concert and Art Show
May 26, 2016 - Senior Awards Night
May 27, 2016 - Schools Closed - Snowday Giveback
May 31, 2016 - Schools Closed - Snowday Giveback
June 1, 2016 - Schools Closed - Snowday Giveback
June 2, 2016 - Kindergarten Orientation
Recommended Twitter Chats
#EdTherapy - The most Positive Education on Twitter Chat 9-10 PM Thursday Nights (BiWeekly) - Chat focuses on an array of Topics and educators connect to discuss solutions
#BFC530 - The breakfast club - 5:30 am daily - chat has one question for teachers and leaders to start the day positively
#ResilienceChat - Monday Nights 10-11 PM - Chat that focuses on resilience in schools and beyond
#TLAP - 9-10 PM Monday Nights (Innovative Teaching)
#satchat - 7:30 - 8:30 AM Saturday Mornings
#NJED - 8:30 - 9:30 PM Tuesday Nights (New Jersey Educators Chat)
Educational Quotes
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
- Aristotle
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
– Naguib Mahfouz
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– W.B. Yeats
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
PARENTS AND PARENT INVOLVEMENT
Want something added to the Weekly Roundup?
Contact Dr. Tom Tramaglini at any time...