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SES Author and Artist Night

Posted on: Friday, April 26, 2013

Seaford Elementary School hosted Author and Artist Night on Thursday, April 18, 2013. Cindee Progar, Seaford's art teacher, displayed student's artwork throughout the halls. Mrs. Judy Mitchell, music teacher, presented a third grade musical on recycling. All classrooms displayed writings by the children and student published books.

Cooking with Kids at Magruder Elementary

Posted on: Friday, April 26, 2013

The Title I team at Magruder Elementary School recently held a Cooking with Kids workshop for their students and their students' families. Together they made chicken cheese quesadillas, fruit salad, and pineapple-banana smoothies with "fried" ice cream for dessert. Children were able to help make the recipes and then taste them. Teachers spoke to parents about the reasons why it is important to cook with children at home. Everyone had a fun-filled time learning to cook and sampling their final products!

Skyping in Kindergarten

Posted on: Friday, April 26, 2013

Kindergarten students in Mrs. Mason's class at Bethel Manor Elementary School were able to Skype with a military veterinarian stationed in Germany. Major Barry shared pictures of some of the dogs from her deployment in Afghanistan, where her primary job was to care for military dogs. She was able to share what veterinarians do with the dogs and answer questions the students had about her job and the animals. Students are all working on Transformative Learning where each class is researching a community helper. Together the kindergarten classes will create a neighborhood with a veterinary clinic, a restaurant, grocery store, farm, and a bakery for other students in the school to visit.

Monarch Butterfly Garden in Progress

Posted on: Friday, April 26, 2013

All York County School Division elementary schools are participating in the Monarch Butterfly Garden Initiative Project this school year. Staff, students and the PTA from each school are working together to establish new butterfly gardens, or improve existing gardens, on school grounds. Students voted on native plants to include in their school’s garden. All students will be contributing a plant to the garden. The Monarch Initiative Project is funded by a grant from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.

YCSD Odyssey of the Mind Teams Advance to World Finals

Posted on: Friday, April 19, 2013

Odyssey of the Mind teams from Dare Elementary, Magruder Elementary, Tabb High and York High competed this past weekend in the State Tournament at John Champe High School in Aldie, Virginia. York High School’s, It’s How You Look at It, Division III team placed second and Dare Elementary School’s, Pet Project, Division I team placed third. Both teams will represent the York County School Division and Virginia in the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals at Michigan State University from May 22-25, 2013.

Tabb MS Participates in Overseas Coupon Program

Posted on: Friday, April 19, 2013

Sixth and seventh grade Tabb Middle School (TMS) students have been participating in the Overseas Coupon Program. This program encourages people to send coupons overseas for use by military members and families. Coupons may be used up to six months past their printed expiration date at certain U.S. military bases overseas. Students have been clipping, sorting and totaling coupons throughout this school year. To date, these TMS student have sent coupons totaling $14,780 to Rota AB, Spain. They wrote letters that were sent with the first mailing of coupons, and hope to hear from the base before the end of the school year.

Two YCSD Schools Listed Among Nations Best

Posted on: Friday, April 19, 2013

Two York County School Division high schools made The Washington Post's annual list of the top public high schools in the country. Of the 1,900 schools listed, Bruton High School was ranked 501 and York High School was ranked 517 nationally. Only two other peninsula area high schools were recognized on the list. The High School Challenge Index uses the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests taken by students at individual schools during the 2011-2012 school year divided by the school's total number of graduates, to rank schools. The Washington Post considers the formula as a measure of student readiness for college.

TES Gets Filmed while Skyping with a Classroom in Brazil

Posted on: Friday, April 12, 2013

Mr. Steiner's second grade class at Tabb Elementary School recently Skyped with a second grade class in Brazil while participating in a Skye Documentary. Alyssa McCray, Jelissa Coleman and Jordan Rogers were interviewed by the Skype documentary crew about their experience.

Holocaust Remembrance Quilt Presented to the Jewish Community Center of the Peninsula

Posted on: Friday, April 12, 2013

Katie Bookbinder's Yorktown Middle School geometry students transformed a math assignment involving congruent triangles, area and perimeter into a quilt to commemorate the lives of all those affected by the Holocaust. The students presented the quilt to the local Jewish Community Center of the Peninsula on the afternoon of April 7, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The quilt is on display at the Jewish Community Center.

Coast Guard Contest Winners at Yorktown Elementary

Posted on: Friday, April 12, 2013

Yorktown Elementary Art students combined engineering skills with art to create amazing posters of innovative future ships. Students were asked to design a ship that transports goods more environmentally friendly; or uses an alternative fuel in the International Coast Guard/Jason Project, Let's Make Ships Greener Art Contest open to K-12 grades. Six 1st place winners were chosen from K-5; and six were chosen from 6-12 grades. Matthew Petrie was selected as the Grand prize winner of the contest. Krupa Patel, Maanov Patel and Caroline Allmon were chosen as first prize winners.

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