COLONIAL LIBRARY — Fifth graders showed there inventions to their parents during the Invention Convention on Jan. 6.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — The 24 Club has started again and is meeting every Friday at 7:50 am.
COLONIAL GYM — Lots of Colonial kids are playing rec basketball after school. There are three teams: Colonial Red and Colonial White for the boys, and Colonial Red for the girls.
MOUNT VERNON — Girl Scout Troop 1666 went to the Ice Hutch during lunch on Jan. 26 to learn and practice ice skating.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — Animal Jam is a game played on the Internet that is on a wave of rising popularity here.
COLONIAL LIBRARY — The Student Government met in the library at lunch on Jan. 19 and your correspondent was there.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — The food drive has started and needs food more than anything.
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PUTNAM VALLEY — The Cub Scouts went on a hike during their winter cabin campout held Jan. 20-22 at Agatha A. Durland Scout Reservation.
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FIFTH GRADE CLASSROOMS — Mrs. Holly McNamara came to talk to the fifth graders about the heart. Mrs. Meryeme Gashi has been teaching all the fifth graders about the heart.
COLONIAL LIBRARY — Mrs. Claire Cavalli, a second grade teacher, has joined the Colonial Times as official faculty advisor.
NORWALK, CONN. — It was a rainy day on Jan. 12 when the Colonial fourth graders went to the Maritime Aquarium. 4C and 4M got to see all kinds of sea animals.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — Fifth grade has two hockey players this year, Maggie Solimine and Patrick Wertimer, both from class 5G.
Three prominent university professors, experts in math education, will talk during the first Pelham Community Math Night on Jan. 24 at Daronco Town House at 20 Fifth Avenue.
COLONIAL’S FRONT YARD — Sometime ago there was a big hole in the front of the school. No one really knew what it was. They had it fenced off for a while, too.
CLASSROOM KS — Ms Sophia Shkreli is a new Kindergarten teacher at Colonial. She has already been teaching for eight years.
EVERYWHERE — Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! You can find them in NYC, on Amazon, and on peoples’ heads at Colonial.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — There is a new program at school called the Volume Scale. Teachers use this mainly at lunch, and not very often in the classroom, to quiet down the kids.
POMPEII, ITALY — A Colonial Times news editor went on a tour of Pompeii, a 2,000-year-old city inhabited from approximately the 6th century BC to 79 AD by the Greeks and then the Romans.
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COLONIAL SCHOOL — The student government’s executives plan to give the school a new logo and set up different committees.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — Pelham Middle School Principal Joe Longobardi talked last month about the creation of 23-year-old Pizza Day.
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PMHS — Staff members of The Pel Mel, the student newspaper of Pelham Memorial High School, treated the Colonial Times editors to a presentation on how they produce their paper.
FIFTH-GRADE CLASSROOMS — The fifth graders are enjoying an invention project, working in groups and coming up with problems and solutions for them.
LIBRARY — The fourth-grade classes had an incredible visit with Bob Vetter, director of Journeys into American Indian Territory, and Jamie Reason, who is a Cherokee.
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COLONIAL SCHOOL — DARE classes began on Dec. 5 to teach fifth-grade kids to resist drugs and violence.
PELHAM COUNTRY CLUB — Students from the Hutchinson Orchestra will perform here at the Pelham Music Festival on Feb. 4.
COLONIAL SCHOOL — Dr. Todd Evans came to teach the fifth grade about the heart of the zebrafish, a species found in the puddles of India.
SOUND SHORE MEDICAL CENTER — The Colonial School Lunch Bunch visited here on Dec. 7 to decorate the tree, eat cookies, sip hot chocolate and sing holiday songs.
CLASSROOM 2H — Ms Piera Hattar, a new-to-Colonial second grade teacher, said in an interview with the Colonial Times that she has been teaching for a grand total of six years...
LIBRARY — The Colonial Book Fair held Nov. 15 to 17 was a huge success, selling $10,113.70 worth of books and making $2,022.70 in profit for the Colonial PTA.
HUTCHINSON SCHOOL — The Kindergarten Snowball Dance is coming in January.
CLASSROOM 4M — Mr. Joseph Longobardi, principal of Pelham Middle School and former principal of Colonial School, said middle school is an exciting place...
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