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Deer Park Hosts Virtual Gingerbread Night
Deer Park's Special Education Parent Faculty Club sponsored the Dec. 9 event.

Press release from Deer Park School District:
Dec. 21, 2020
Deer Park’s Special Education Parent Faculty Club sponsored a virtual gingerbread cookie decorating event for 50 Deer Park students on Dec. 9.
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The first half of the event, for preschool and elementary students, featured a reading of the Jan Brett book Gingerbread Friends by David Renahan, the district’s administrator of elementary special education, while speech language pathologist Christine Michels took the students through the steps of decorating a cookie.
During the second half of the event, led by teachers Gabriella Gilmartin, Brittany Verdicchio and David DePrima, the district’s administrator of secondary special education, middle school and high school students engaged in conversation while decorating their own gingerbread men and connecting with friends they may not have seen this school year due to virtual instruction.
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