🎃📚 Pumpkins, Pages, and a Whole Lot of Creativity! 📚🎃
A few more pictures from the 4th grade Pumpkin Book Reports! 4th graders brought their books to life with a fun twist! After choosing a book and writing a summary, students transformed real pumpkins into creative characters from their stories. From spooktacular designs to amazing book reports, their hard work and imagination were on full display! 🍂✨
One of the best parts? Our 4th graders loved inviting the whole school to visit their pumpkin book character gallery and celebrate all they had accomplished! We are so proud of their creativity, effort, and love of reading! 🧡📖🎃
Happy Halloween from Central School! 🎃
🎨🖌️ Central’s hallways are bursting with ART! 🎃👻
Our halls have transformed into a colorful gallery of student creativity!
🎃 Kindergarten: Massive, painted pumpkins! 🖼️ 1st Grade: Extra-large portraits inspired by Brazilian artist Romero Britto. 🌈 2nd Grade: Colorful collage portraits. 🧙 3rd Grade: Spooky witches and zombies’ feet! ✂️ 4th Grade: Striking silhouettes inspired by artist Kara Walker. 🖤 5th Grade: Mysterious, imaginative portraits inspired by Tim Burton.
We love displaying our students’ amazing artwork around the school, so their masterpieces may stay up a little longer to brighten our hallways, but don’t worry, families—it will all be coming home soon! 💛
Our halls have transformed into a colorful gallery of student creativity!
🎃 Kindergarten: Massive, painted pumpkins! 🖼️ 1st Grade: Extra-large portraits inspired by Brazilian artist Romero Britto. 🌈 2nd Grade: Colorful collage portraits. 🧙 3rd Grade: Spooky witches and zombies’ feet! ✂️ 4th Grade: Striking silhouettes inspired by artist Kara Walker. 🖤 5th Grade: Mysterious, imaginative portraits inspired by Tim Burton.
We love displaying our students’ amazing artwork around the school, so their masterpieces may stay up a little longer to brighten our hallways, but don’t worry, families—it will all be coming home soon! 💛
🎃📚 Pumpkins, Pages, and a Whole Lot of Creativity! 📚🎃
Our 4th graders brought their books to life with a fun twist! After choosing a book and writing a summary, students transformed real pumpkins into creative characters from their stories. From spooktacular designs to amazing book reports, their hard work and imagination were on full display! 🍂✨
One of the best parts? Our 4th graders loved inviting the whole school to visit their pumpkin book character gallery and celebrate all they had accomplished! We are so proud of their creativity, effort, and love of reading! 🧡📖🎃
Young Author Program 2026 - 2027: Sign up and Bare Books are due this Friday, October 30th!!
2nd graders examined how large structures like houses are built from smaller pieces. In the activity, "Paper Towers", they designed their own structures using an unconventional building material: paper! Students built towers using 3" x 5" index cards and paper clips. First, they built tall towers, then they were challenged to build towers strong enough to support a hardcover book.
In Mrs. Marotta’s first-grade class, students practiced their addition and subtraction skills by creating paper kebabs and then making their very own real fruit kebabs! Math came to life as students learned, created, and enjoyed a delicious treat. 🍓🍇🍌
📚✨ Have you met Ms. Merkt? She’s our new and amazing Central Librarian! ❤️
Our students have been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in the library by exploring the histories, people, and stories that highlight Hispanic communities and cultures.
There are wonderful books on display and even more stories ready to be shared! Here, Ms. Merkt is reading Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal to our kindergarten students.
Thank you, Ms. Merkt, for bringing stories to life and helping our students discover the joy of reading! 📖
Last Friday, October 16th, we celebrated Boss’s Day! To mark the occasion, students used their imaginations to draw what they thought Mr. Gatz should be for Halloween. And wow, did they get creative! 👻🖍️🎃🎉
A big thank-you to Mr. Gatz for all you do and for being such a great boss!
A big thank-you to Mr. Gatz for all you do and for being such a great boss!
Today is National Custodian Day! We are celebrating our amazing custodians, Ricky, Pedro, Michael, Josh and Jose. They do so much to keep our school clean, safe, and running smoothly each day. Here is a picture of our main day guy, Ricky! Thank you!!!
Tuesday marked the final 4th & 5th Grade Run Club of the season! 🏃♀️🏃♂️ Our students gave it their all, ran their best, and celebrated with well-deserved popsicles! 🍧🎉
Way to go, runners! 👏
Kindergarten had a fun and action-packed last week! They continued sharing family photos and finished up their apple unit with a party Friday. Highlights included the sink or float science experiment, the 10 Apples Up on Top craft and activity, making Johnny Appleseed hats and making applesauce! They even had an apple-themed goodies tasting.
Mrs. Bradys' class has been sharing their families with their kindergarten friends! In science, we have been exploring the life cycle of apples. In literacy, we have begun to learn about nursery rhymes and fables that have been favorites with children for generations. We’ve explored and acted out several including: Ring Around the Rosie and Jack Be Nimble. These rhymes help the students learn vocabulary and build phonemic awareness. In our “Skill lessons” this week we practiced gesturing, tapping out and blending syllables and sounds. The students especially loved playing “Duck, Duck, Goose” by segmenting then blending several different compound words. (play, ground, play, ground, playground!)
Building classroom community, together:
Third graders in Mrs. Desmond’s class used collaborative jigsaw structures to become “experts” on important spaces in their classroom, including the classroom library, hydration station, meeting space, and calming corner.
In partnership with district instructional coach Sam Crowley, students were photographed modeling how to use each space successfully, and their examples were displayed throughout the classroom.
This work is about more than learning routines. It gives students voice and agency in shaping the expectations, goals, and norms of their classroom community. Rooted in Responsive Classroom practices, students’ hopes and dreams for the year help guide the rules and expectations they create together.
When students help build their classroom community, they develop a deeper sense of ownership, belonging, and responsibility within it. 🌱
Third graders in Mrs. Desmond’s class used collaborative jigsaw structures to become “experts” on important spaces in their classroom, including the classroom library, hydration station, meeting space, and calming corner.
In partnership with district instructional coach Sam Crowley, students were photographed modeling how to use each space successfully, and their examples were displayed throughout the classroom.
This work is about more than learning routines. It gives students voice and agency in shaping the expectations, goals, and norms of their classroom community. Rooted in Responsive Classroom practices, students’ hopes and dreams for the year help guide the rules and expectations they create together.
When students help build their classroom community, they develop a deeper sense of ownership, belonging, and responsibility within it. 🌱
Third graders are flying into their first art project!
After reading Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, students sketched their very own designs inspired by the story. ✏️✨ Sketching gives young artists the freedom to generate ideas, make mistakes, try again, and build confidence before bringing their final projects to life.
We can’t wait to see where their creativity takes them! 🖌️💫
After reading Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, students sketched their very own designs inspired by the story. ✏️✨ Sketching gives young artists the freedom to generate ideas, make mistakes, try again, and build confidence before bringing their final projects to life.
We can’t wait to see where their creativity takes them! 🖌️💫
Mrs. Lyson's 4th Grade Class is off to a fantastic start to the school year!
Our 4th graders are busy getting to know one another, learning our classroom routines and procedures, and building a positive classroom community 📚✏️
Most importantly, we are learning, laughing, and having lots of fun along the way! We’re excited for all the wonderful things this school year has in store! 🍎
Our 4th graders are busy getting to know one another, learning our classroom routines and procedures, and building a positive classroom community 📚✏️
Most importantly, we are learning, laughing, and having lots of fun along the way! We’re excited for all the wonderful things this school year has in store! 🍎
Central's 1st grade teachers welcome Ms. Durkin to the team with an official ribbon cutting!
Everyone is ready to go for our first day of school. See you bright and early!
Everyone is ready to go for our first day of school. See you bright and early!
Central teachers and staff are excited to be back!
Mrs. Brady’s Kindergarten classroom had a blast this week participating in themed activities for our Roadrunner Countdown! Students brought in games to play, acted out charades, and even designed their own board games!
Mrs. Bindon and Mrs. Lyson's 4th grade students are looking forward to a bright and sunny summer! ☀️😎
