Celebrating Our Special Olympians and Much More May Learning

Many of our students recently took part in the Special Olympics held at the Cicero-North Syracuse High School.  Students competed in a variety of track and field events and returned with several ribbons for their accomplishments. 

As part of what's become an incredibly moving tradition, the staff and students of Stonehedge lined our sidewalk and hallways with handmade signs to welcome our athletes as they returned from their day of competing. The cheers and support rallied the competitors as they paraded through the school. 

We are so proud of our athletes!

We are so proud of all our participants!

Congratulations to our Citizenship HEDGE Award winners

At this month's Character Education assembly, Miss Finger's and Mrs. Mathewson's second grade students talked about what it means to fill a bucket and take away from someone's bucket.Their skit featured students saying nice things which added to the bucket. The lesson stemmed from the book "How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids" by  Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer.

Olivia Astafan, Anthony Barba, Alex Bojarski, Aidan Bosak, Mason Boyles, Hunter Briggs, Zachary Channels, Kendra Dudman, Connor Hayden, Corinna Gartner-Baca, Scott Hayes, Patrick Holzhauer, Abbey Jacuk, Jayden Maeweathers, Helen Melnik, Evan Moscibrodzski, Sophia Olson, Anthonoy Pallone, Luke Pena, Michael Ravesi, Gianni Russell, Jack Senus, Abbey Smith, Abigal Simmons, Lucas Strain, Adam Tremblay, Rosemary Vrabel, Bryant Yackel

Mia Barbuto, Alex Bigelow, Brayden Carvel, Molli Clark, Renee Cluckey, Isaiah Coleman,  Colin Crinnin, Jacob Dalton, Ryen Doran, Jakob DiMauro, John Egerbrecht, Ashley Foss, Gino Haskell, Lilly Hodell, Sophia Lawrence, Austin Luke, Quinn Kilbury, Mason McAloon, Katie McDonough, Andrew McLaughlin, Haleigh Mattice, Yana Melnik, Gavin Moore, Mischa Raczka,  Audrianna Reed, Colby Rienhardt, Niyzo'nn Salami,Nicole Sanderson, Aubrey Vincentini

Recently Stephanie Scheirer, Growing Healthy teaching assistant, visited second grade classrooms and performed a demonstration dissection of a sheep's eye with the children. 

The demonstration coincided with a science unit the students were studying. The visual dissection taught students more than anything a book could! They retained a great amount of information about the eye. They were surprised about the size and feel of the eye and compared a sheep's eye to a human eye.

Getting into the Silly Spirit for a Great Cause 

Today, May 26, is Red Nose Day. According to their website, Red Nose Day is on a mission to lift kids out of poverty and has raised over $1 billion globally in the last 25 years. Stonehedge's Balloon bus got into the silly spirit by donning noses purchased by their generous driver Theresa Doner. Another great example of school spirit for the greater good and kids supporting other kids. 

Showing Our Stripes for Buddy Day  

Many of our classes teamed up with the grade level buddies (kindergarten with fifth, first with fourth, and second with third.) for special activities and crafts today. The first and fourth graders traced their hands and cut them out and will be creating unity wreaths from the hands to decorate the hallways. They also read together to learn more about the holiday. Different grade levels created various crafts, all tying in lessons of patriotism and Memorial Day.

Please remember these important dates:

Friday, May 27  no school (Snow Day give-back)

Monday, May 30 no school for Memorial Day. 

Monday, June 13 Water Carnival for grades K-2

Thursday, June 16 RAIN DATE for Water Carnival grades K-2

Monday, June 20 is a full day of school with lunch served. 

Tuesday, June 21 half-day with dismissal at 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, June 22 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL --half-day with dismissal at 11:30 a.m. 

Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend!
Lori