News Archives - Page #22

Hovercraft project puts STEM in action at Sandy Creek

Sandy Creek sixth graders were flying around the gymnasium on Monday as they piloted hovercrafts in an exciting project-based learning experience. The Hovercraft Project, developed by Chase Educational Consulting, visited Sandy Creek Middle School and the teamwork and problem solving began. Teams of students, under the direction of Matthew Chase, founder of the project, began their task with what...
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Sandy Creek students participate in butterfly tagging to track Monarch migration

Why do Monarch butterflies migrate from Upstate New York to a small geographic region in mountainous Central Mexico? How do they find their way there and how doe their offspring find their way back to the Sandy Creek area? These are some of the many questions that scientists have been asking and students at Sandy Creek Elementary School are helping to answer. Future lepidopterists were hard at...
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Changes to district website!

The Sandy Creek Central School District has been hard at work revamping and updating their website, including transitioning to a new website address. The new address, www.sandycreekcsd.org is currently in effect and a redirect will send visitors entering the old address temporarily to the new site, but district officials ask that frequent visitors to the site update the address for future use....
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Sixth grade orientation well attended

Sixth graders and their parents attended a special orientation where students learned about the expectations and opportunities for them as they move up to the middle school in the Sandy Creek Central School District. Students were able to meet with teachers and administration, check out their homerooms, lockers, schedules and familiarize themselves with the building during the event which was...
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Kindergartners come together for Sundaes with Smiles

Kindergarten students in the Sandy Creek Central School District came together the week before opening day of school for an opportunity to find their classrooms, meet their classmates, teachers and principal, and on top of all that, they could enjoy a delicious sundae with all of the fixings. And while smiles were optional, they were in abundance that evening as the students explored their...
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Opening day in Sandy Creek District goes smoothly despite high temperatures

Opening day in the Sandy Creek Central School District went off without a hitch in spite of Mother Natures heatwave that sent temperatures into the 90s during the first two days of school. Teachers positioned fans in the classrooms to provide some respite from the sweltering heat but the students seemed unfazed and were more excited to reunite with friends and get back to the business of...
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Elementary Parent Pickup Changes

Dear Parents and/or Guardians: We hope that you have been enjoying the summer weather and are starting to think about the start of a new school year. If you have been by the elementary school you may have noticed all the work being done to the parking lot. The parking lot project is set to be complete later this month and we are excited to have much more parking space available to our parents and...
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