Dear Parents/Guardians,
This is your weekly update from Matthew Paterson Elementary School. Please make sure to read the reminder section below!
School Highlights
Last week was another great week for our students, faculty, and families. Our students continue to be engaged in the curriculum. Our third-grade students present their Passport project on the county they research to parents, teachers and fellow students. Our amazing PTO held the final school store of the year. Thank you to all those parents that helped out during this school year to make this happen for our students. Fourth graders enjoyed a trip to New Windsor Cantonment.
This Week at MPES!
Monday May 22nd – Day 1
Tuesday May 23rd – Day 2– Fourth Grade Canoe Trip Amelio: AM Memmel: PM
Wednesday May 24th – Day 3 Fourth Grade Canoe Trip Zulauf: AM Allen: PM
Thursday May 25th – Day 4 Kindergarten Parent Orientation
Friday May 26th – ALL Carmel Schools Are Closed
Monday May 29th – Memorial Day ALL Carmel Schools Are Closed
Information/Reminders
ANONYMOUS ALERTS
As part of our ongoing commitment to enhancing safety, communication and equity districtwide, Carmel Central School District has launched a new communication tool, Anonymous Alerts®. This tool enables students or parents to report urgent information to school officials quickly, easily and anonymously across all our school campuses. Through the Anonymous Alerts® mobile app or web-based reporting system, students, parents and staff can confidentially report incidents of bullying, cyber-bullying, and other sensitive topics through private messages to our administration. To place an incident report, students, parents and staff can simply visit the Carmel Central School District Anonymous Alerts website via a web browser or download a free iPhone/Android app by searching for "Anonymous Alerts" from the iPhone Store or Play Store respectively. After downloading the app, the activation code “carmelcsd” can be used to access the dedicated CCSD submission form.
Have a great rest of your day!
Sincerely, Mr. Michael Kirk Principal
Over several weeks, third-grade students in Mrs. Belasco’s class at Matthew Paterson Elementary School examined powerful words and statements from famous poets, activists and other historical figures, and discussed how to be “change agents,” or people who make the changes they want to see in the world. Each student was given a piece of paper to write a powerful word or a statement that they believed could lead to change.
Read more about the inspirational words of change our students chose.
It was a fun afternoon of assembling and disassembling, constructing and deconstructing, and putting together and taking apart – all in the name of creativity and science for second-grade students in Mrs. Vickery’s class at Matthew Paterson Elementary.
Working in small groups, students had a chance to construct different figures using clay and toothpicks. As one student constructed, the others sketched the result, each taking turns as the lead builder.
Read a full story and see more photos of our engineers in action.
Local veterans received Valentine’s Day messages of thanks from district students this year and some cards included a special video message!
With assistance from RTI Reading Teacher Janine Avitabile and Instructional Technology Coach Michele Love, a group of third-grade students at Matthew Paterson learned how to create short video messages using graphics, music and voiceover audio as a supplement to their hand-crafted cards for veterans.
See Valentine's Day video messages created for veterans by our students!
Challenge accepted! Matthew Paterson Elementary students kicked off the annual Kids Heart Challenge with the American Heart Association last week and they are already busy learning about heart health and raising funds to help protect hearts.
A fun experiment with textures and designs created some savory results for third-grade students at Matthew Paterson Elementary School. Under the instruction of Art Teacher Alex Lombardo, the students used simple materials to make creative and eye-catching salt art.
Read about the Salt Art projects and see photos of our students' work!
America's oldest sport, lacrosse, has origins that date back to 1100 A.D. and was played by Native American nations with matches sometimes including 100 to 1,000 or more men. The matches were often used as a social event or to help settle disputes and utilized wooden sticks with net baskets or pockets attached along with small balls wrapped in deer hide.
Fourth-grade students in Mrs. Zulauf and Mrs. Adam's class at Matthew Paterson Elementary School learned about the Native American people of New York, specifically the local Carmel area, and the perseverance, ingenuity, and creativity they showed as people in so many things, including the game of lacrosse!
Through a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) cooperative activity, our students tested their own perseverance, ingenuity, and creativity by creating lacrosse sticks using recyclable materials. The goal: to catch and toss a ball.
The tradition continued for third-grade students at Matthew Paterson Elementary School this year with the annual Thanksgiving Celebration. For more than 45 years, third-grade students and teachers have been gathering for a fun-filled day of seasonal activities, academic lessons, crafts, food and more – and this year was no different. See photos from the annual Thanksgiving Celebration.
Schools & Administrative Offices Closed
