Levittown District Notebook: Best Buddies, Sun and Moon

The following is a collection of press releases from the Levittown School District, provided to Patch by Syntax:

MacArthur High School

Calastek to Have Photo Displayed in NYC: The Professional Women Photographers group (PWP) of Manhattan selected MacArthur High School senior Ashley Kalstek’s photograph to be exhibited in the Abstracts in Color show at the Calumet Gallery in New York City.

Ashley’s photo will also be featured in the Abstracts in Color catalogue, which will feature all of the show’s entries.

The mission of the PWP is to aid and assist women photographers from New York City, Long Island, and Rockland and Westchester Counties in growing and learning their passion for photography.

Division Avenue High School

Colucco Attends "Best Buddies" Seminar: Division Avenue High School senior Caroline Colucco traveled to Washington, D.C. as a Best Buddies representative to encourage passage of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Disabilities Act.

Caroline met with Congressman Peter King, Tim Shriver (Eunice’s grandson), and New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.

“It was one of the best experiences of my life!” exclaimed Caroline.

Best Buddies’ mission is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Division Avenue chapter of Best Buddies, advised by Muriel Ventura, is one of the largest and most active on Long Island.

Northside Elementary School

Studying the Sun and Moon: Second-grade students in Mrs. Rissoff’s class at Northside School engaged in a “hands-on” science activity that demonstrated how objects in the sky orbit.

Mrs. Rissoff discussed the orbits of the earth and the moon and showed the children scientific, movable models of these orbits for further understanding.

The students then received three sugar cookies in large, medium and small sizes, as well as yellow, blue and white icing. They were instructed to use yellow to cover the sun, blue to cover the earth, and white to cover the moon, and then to place the cookies on a sheet of black paper to show their astronomical positions relative to one another.

Each student demonstrated to Mrs. Rissoff how the earth rotates around the sunand the moon around the earth by moving the cookies on the paper. The youngsters thoroughly enjoyed this activity, especially when they were able to eat their iced cookies!