COLONIAL PLAYGROUND — All the fourth grade classes raced cars April 15 they made out of recyclables in the project called Recycle Raceway.
I want to take some time and address a topic that consistently comes up with my clients and the general public. And that is DIET. These 3 concepts will help you understand where you fall short.
PELHAM BALLFIELDS — Little League is starting. Most boys are ready to start a new year of baseball or already have started.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — The 24 Game is a game that schools use to train kids in multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.
DARE is a fifth grade program at Colonial and other elementary schools that teaches the importance of staying away from drugs and tobacco.
Former Fox and CNN reporter Scott Benjamin told Colonial Times editors that he used “to be a TV producer, and I worked for ABC, CNN and Fox. Right now, I’m a lawyer, so I do legal work.”
Lots of kids enjoy acting; some even want to start a career in it. The Colonial teachers and the teachers at the acting school at the Pelham Picture House...
PMS — Colonial School’s sixth grade graduates have experienced an extremely busy year so far in their new school...
NEW YORK — When Claire Atkinson was young, she wanted to be a journalist. That’s because Ms. Atkinson either wanted to be famous or be a journalist and talk to famous people.
The Colonial Times editors on April 8 interviewed several famous reporters, including Ed Upright, who is LinkedIn’s copy editor and a soccer journalist...
It’s the time of year that baseball season begins. This year, it looks like it will be a tough year for all 30 teams. We asked you, the people, your favorite team and your thoughts about the season...
COLONIAL LIBRARY — He’s back! Dr. Charles Wilson couldn’t stay away from Pelham schools, so he returned from his break from being school superintendent to serve as interim...
In late December, Joe Solimine Sr., former Pelham town supervisor, was diagnosed with leukemia. He needs a bone-marrow doner and decided to make his own fight into an effort to help others
THE BRONX — Would you like to spend your spring break helping others? Some people do...
COLONIAL GYM — Kids and their parents filed into the Colonial gym on March 21. As the parents went to a PTA meeting, PTA President Suzann Michailoff organized a Kids’ Bingo Night.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — Students have been using the new iPads for education. Kids play educational games that have to do with math, spelling and grammar.
NEW YORK – The Colonial Times editors went to the Hearst Corporation today to learn about magazines, comic strips, broadcasting, magazines and the First Amendment.
Her Best Years Yet......
Anne has been with us a long time - too long.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — During the first half of the school year, the most popular and fun trends with the students varied from video games and sports to playground games and Barbies.
This is the scoop on the second grade, including what they are doing here at school, how they are being graded, how they are feeling and what is the big picture on their projects.
As soon as you enter Mrs. Kathleen Dragan, Mrs. Joanne Lombardi or Mrs. Johanna Kagel’s third grade classrooms, you immediately see busy student...
KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOMS — There are so many twins in Kindergarten this year. In fact, there are five sets.
COLONIAL GYM — The Kids Helping Kids program performed a kit on March 18 that was meant to teach the third, fourth and fifth graders about friendship, kindness, bullying...
FIRST GRADE CLASSROOMS — First grade students and teachers talked about what the students have learned in the first half of the year.
FOURTH GRADE CLASSROOMS — The fourth grade teachers and students reviewed their year so far and talked about what is going to happen in the months to come.
KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOMS — It is the middle of the school year, and most of the kids are all settled into their classrooms. For these students, it is their first time in school.
Kids in the fourth grade are doing a science unit on simple machines. They will be making race cars out of recycled material and racing them as an end-of-the-unit activity...
COLONIAL SCHOOL — People usually wonder what’s new in student government. Now you will know.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — EXTRA!! EXTRA!! Read all about it! The Colonial Times made a print newspaper on March 6 for the whole school.
CONEY ISLAND — At the New York Aquarium, exhibits are being repaired because of damage from Hurricane Sandy. It caused the aquarium to flood.
CLASSROOM 4M — Mr. Ron Martucci’s fourth grade class celebrated getting 20 Growl rings and writing 100 book reviews on Feb. 25 by having a sports/game day and eating ice cream.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — Colonial School is full of creative dressers. The fashion choices this school year are very interesting and different from what they were last year.
The first day of spring was Colonial School’s annual walk-to-school day. The day was organized by the Student Government.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — This year, four teachers switched grades at Colonial. They are Mrs. Meryeme Gashi, Ms. Piera Hattar, Ms. Sophia Shkreli and Mrs. Claire Cavalli.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — Winter is preventing kids from doing many things. In interviews, many people said that winter mostly prevented sports.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Pelham scholastic chess teams had amazing wins at the 46th annual New York State Scholastic Championships here at the end of February.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — “Wreck-It Ralph” was the No. 1 movie of 2012 in Colonial School, according to the first-ever Oscar survey of students by the Colonial Times.
Mr. Peter Giarrizzo is excited to lead the Pelham Union Free School District as the new superintendent of schools. Mr. Giarrizzo will start his new job in July.
Student reporter interviews Colonial Elementary School principal Tonya Wilson.