Monday, June 20, 2011
Student council comes up with colorful idea to celebrate the last week of school.
The Tuscan Elementary School's student council was looking for ways to celebrate the last week of school and to end the year on a high note. The note they created was so high that it was "over the rainbow." In fact, it was a rainbow. The school's 602 students and staff created their own special spectrum out on the school's blacktop, using color t-shirts as their palette. The student council asked each grade to come dressed in one color of the rainbow: Kindergarten was red, 1st grade orange, 2nd grade wore yellow, 3rd grade was graced with green, 4th grade sported blue and 5th grade donned purple. Right after morning announcements, the students filed out onto the yard. Each grade followed the lines painted on the blacktop. With minimal …
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
People to People's World Leadership Forum drew attendees from around the world; they visited sites including the Smithsonian, the Holocaust museum, and Arlington National Cemetery.
A wise man once said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” My journey began with a stumble. Perhaps it was because I had been anticipating for so long my People to People trip to Washington, D.C., the journey and new experiences, and the friends I would meet along the way. This was a journey that began with a letter of recommendation from my sixth grade Language Arts teacher Melissa Williams at South Orange Middle School. Now, 10 months later, I had finally arrived at a World Leadership Forum. But when we stepped into the hotel that would be my home, the only faces I saw were unfriendly and only made me more sensitive. Slowly I began to see that those unfriendly faces were nervous students like me. They were from all …
Thursday, August 27, 2009
A group for homeschooling families, which includes a Maplewood mom, convenes monthly at the library.
While the reasons that parents homeschool their children often encompass religion and nutrition, Karen Mitchell simply thought she could do a better job of teaching. "I think the biggest difference is I don't have to be re-teaching the manners and beliefs of our household," said Mitchell, an East Orange resident who coordinates a group of homeschooling families that meets monthly at the South Orange Public Library. A former New York City math teacher in the public school system, she's been homeschooling her daughter Mayeesa, 14, and son Shawn, 13, for the past seven years, and she intends to teach her 3-year-old twins when they get old enough. For Mitchell, the last straw came when her daughter was in third grade and had three hours of …
Monday, June 22, 2009
Afterschool primping at Anthony Garubo in Maplewood.
Anthony Garubo Salon in Maplewood is normally closed on Mondays, but they opened today to help Columbia High School students get ready for prom. Pictured are four seniors at their 2 p.m. appointment getting hair and makeup done. Editor's note: I was at Anthony Garubo exactly nine years ago doing the same.
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Anthony Garubo Salon & Day Spa
174 Maplewood Ave, Maplewood, NJ
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Editors of student-run Velocity Magazine were up early on Saturday to hold a garage sale.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Velocity Magazine, a Columbia High School publication, is entirely student-written, designed and edited. And since the costs of production have risen, the publication is also creatively student-financed. Thus, staff members found themselves folding clothing, arranging board games and making change in a driveway early on a chilly Saturday morning, when many of their classmates were still asleep. On Saturday, April 4, Velocity staff held a garage sale at the home of one of the staff members. The goal was to raise funds for the magazine. According to CHS sophomore Ilana Langsam, assistant editor-in-chief, “The magazine relies on sales—each issue costs a dollar—and outside funding such as bake sales and this garage sale.” Carolynne Kelly, busy…
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Tracy Freeman
2:04 pm on Monday, June 20, 2011
Love this! So impressed that everyone came together for this, on the last Monday morning of the school year no less!!!! more ›