Elementary School Calendar - March
Haldane Central School District Haldane Reorganizes for New School Year -
Mark Villanti takes over reigns as Superintendent
While Haldane students still savor the joyous sound of the final school bell, school board trustees and administrators are already getting their house in order for the next time that bell rings early in September to mark the beginning of the 2007/08 school year. The Haldane School Board met on July 10, 2007 to reorganize on a number of fronts. full story...
Twenty-one Haldane students participated in the Putnam County All-County Elementary Music Festival 2007 at George Fischer Middle School on March 3rd.
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Parents as Reading Partners (PARP), a K-5 program sponsored by Haldane PTA and a grant from Target, encourages families to share the joys of reading together
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The Haldane School Foundation's annual Snow Ball capped off winter on a bright note, raising more than $30,000 to be used for grants and enrichment initiatives at Haldane Central School.
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Local author Jean Marzollo talked about her books with Haldane Kindergarten students to enrich PARP (parents as Reading Partners). She has written approximately one hundred and twenty- five books including the renowned I Spy books and the Shanna Show books. She told the children that she has always loved to read from the time she was a little girl. She encouraged the children to read and draw whenever they can so that they might have careers as writers or illustrators.
Mrs. Marzollo started her career as a teacher in Boston and she worked as an editor for Let’s Find Out for twenty years. Since then she has been a full time writer. Her latest accomplishment is to illustrate her own books such as Let’s Go, Pegasus! And Little Bear, You’re a Star!Mrs. Marzollo explained how she gets inspiration for her books and how she “test drives” her ideas on local children. The kindergartners loved hearing about how her sons, David and Dan, gave her ideas for many of her books. They were very interested that she wrote a selection of sports themed books for her sons such as Hockey Hero and Basketball Buddies.
Highlights of Jean’s power point presentation were the images of how Walter Wick creates the amazing images for her I Spy books. She challenged the children to try to figure out how the photographs were made and then shared some of Mr. Wick’s photography tricks with them.
The children (and adults) were mesmerized by Mrs. Marzollo’s informative presentation. Following the lecture numerous children stated that the wanted to be writers or illustrators when they grow up.
The Haldane PTA organized Jean Marzollo’s visit.
Press Release
4/27/07
The fourth graders in Mrs. Windels class at Haldane Elementary honored Black History Month in a very special way.
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