This past weekend, 8th grader Jordan Klinge played a Level 5 Bassoon solo at NYSSMA. This challenging piece is often played by students in high school or even college! Break a leg, Jordan! Last week, Tuckahoe’s first grade students Skyped with children's book author, Jonathan Emmett, in his home near Nottingham, England. Mr. Emmett read them his book, The Princess and the Pig, a modern fairy tale. Library Media Specialist, Laurie Verdeschi, asked Mr. Emmett to Skype with her students because her students have enjoyed so many of his books and because The Princess and the Pig was listed in the new ELA Common Core 1st grade Fairy Tale Domain. After they read aloud, students asked the author questions they wrote during their Library class. Students learned that Mr. Emmett got the idea for The Princess and the Pig from a piggy bank that his daughter liked that he pays a lot of attention to improving his work from the first draft to the final product, and that his favorite children's book is Where the Wild Things Are by American author, Maurice Sendak. Our Tuckahoe PTO will be having its annual Mother’s Day Plant Sale at 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 8th and Friday, May 9th on front lawn of the school building located at 468 Magee Street. Support Tuckahoe’s Relay for Life Team! Fight back cancer and have some fun! Tuckahoe’s Relay for Life Team will be having the following fundraisers: a Chinese Auction on Friday, May 23rd at 7:00 at Southampton High School. For further information, please contact Justine Charos at 283-3550 ext. 112 or our school nurse, Wendy Meyer at ext. 313. Our Spring Concert Dates this year are Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. for grades Pre-Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd & 3rd; and Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30 p.m. for grades 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Student Council is hosting the St. Baldrick’s Foundation Fundraiser on Tuesday, June 24th beginning at 10:00 a.m. on the Tuckahoe school grounds.
