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Spreading love to the elderly at Central Boulevard School
For the school’s monthly Thoughtful Thursday activity, students of Central Boulevard Elementary School in the Bethpage School District created valentines and wrote acrostic poems to spread
happiness and love to residents of local assisted living and nursing homes this Valentine’s Day. Established a few years ago, Thoughtful Thursday is a school-
Vera Shumsky’s kindergarten class at Central Boulevard Elementary School created valentines to spread happiness and love to residents of local assisted living and nursing homes this Valentine’s Day.
wide community service initiative in which the entire school dedicates one Thursday a month to bettering the community through a project. The initiative reinforces the school’s message of “character builds success.” Students in grades K-2 colored Valentine’s Day graphics, including cupcakes, hearts, cherubs, and mes-
sages such as “Happy Valentine’s Day” and “Be My Valentine.” Third- through fifth-grade students wrote acrostic poems using the letters in “heart” to warm residents’ hearts and let them know Central Boulevard is thinking about them.
Photos courtesy of the Bethpage Union Free School District
For Thoughtful Thursday, Central Boulevard Elementary School students colored Valentine’s Day graphics to warm residents’ hearts and let them know they are thinking about them.
Third-grade teacher awarded Target grant
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Christine Palmieri (far right), a third-grade teacher at Old Country Road Elementary School, won a Target Field Trip Grant for the second consecutive year. Old Country Road Elementary School’s third-grade teacher Christine Palmieri in the Hicksville School District is the recipient of a Target Field Trip Grant for the second consecutive year. To enhance their science curriculum, this grant will pay for the entire
third-grade class to take a field trip to the Queens Zoo. At the zoo, students will engage in a hands-on instructional program about mammals and observe animals in their natural habitat.
Photo courtesy of Hicksville Public Schools