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It may be a day off from school Monday, but many in the Cheltenham School District will be treating it as a “Day On” in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
It may be a day off from school Monday, but many in the Cheltenham School District will be treating it as a “Day On” in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. All seven CSD schools will be engaged in MLK activities focused on helping those less fortunate or in need of a boost.
Cheltenham Elementary: Collecting and assembling care kits for the unhoused to be given to Covenant House and Project Home. CES Gymnasium, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Glenside Elementary: Creating “Birthday Parties in a Bag” for children at the Woodstock Family Center. GES Cafeteria, 9 - 11 a.m.
Myers Elementary: In support of St. Christopher Children's Hospital Center for the Urban Child, Myers Elementary will be collecting care package items for infants and children, and making cards of well-wishes for inpatient children. MES Gymnasium, 9 - 11 a.m.
Wyncote Elementary: Packing “Birthday Boxes” and making birthday decorations. In honor of Dr. King, birthday boxes will be donated to local food banks. WES Cafetorium, 10 - 11:30 a.m.
Elkins Park School: Making breakfast bags for the unhoused. EP Cafeteria, 10 a.m. - noon.
Cedarbrook M.S./Cheltenham H.S. - Writing letters to the troops; creating cards for Cradles to Crayons, packing kindness cups for the unhoused, and collecting toiletries for Fostering Hope Philly NE. CBK Learning Commons, 9-11 a.m.
Cheltenham H.S. - CHS Students will be able to earn points for their annual Blue and Gold competition by donating toiletry items to Fostering Hope Philly NE. Students are divided by last name into Blue (A-K) and Gold (L-Z) teams, and the team that donates the most items by January 17 earns points!
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Myers fourth graders in Christine Decker, Olivia Sanderson and Jazmin Hayes-Postell’s classrooms got messy last week with a hand-on digestion experiment.
Myers fourth graders in Christine Decker, Olivia Sanderson and Jazmin Hayes-Postell’s classrooms got messy last week with a hands-on digestion experiment. Materials for the experiment included a banana and crackers to represent food, orange juice for stomach acid, water for saliva, a Ziploc bag to represent the stomach, a metal tray to represent the body, stockings for the small intestine, plastic and paper cups, and scissors. The objective of the experiment was for students to understand that the human body needs to break down food in order to absorb the nutrients it needs.
To begin, students put the banana and crushed crackers in the ziploc bag to demonstrate chewing (mechanical digestion). Then they introduced stomach acid and saliva by adding their orange juice and water in small increments to the Ziploc bag (chemical digestion). They then mimicked the action of the stomach by squeezing the bag to mix the contents.
Next, the students transferred the food into the small intestine using the plastic cup as a funnel. As they squeezed the food through the stocking, all the “nutrients” needed for growth and energy flowed into the metal tray. Anything left in the stocking represented what the body could not digest. When the “waste” solidified, students transferred it into the paper cup with a small hole at the bottom to represent the large intestine. They used the other paper cup to push the waste through the small hole, which mimicked the act of expelling waste.
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Representatives from Myers' PBIS Team attended the annual PA PBIS Conference in Hershey.
Representatives from Myers' PBIS Team attended the annual PA PBIS Conference in Hershey. In addition to learning new ideas in the various seminars, the Myers team was honored with its official Tier II recognition badge to add to its banner in recognition of advanced level of interventions and supports for students. Myers has been celebrated by the official PBIS network as a Tier I School with fidelity for four years in a row, and is currently serving as a model school by mentoring another local district in PBIS practices.
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Six students’ work will be featured on the Philly Young Playwrights Festival 2024-25 production schedule.
Six students’ work will be featured on the Philly Young Playwrights Festival 2024-25 production schedule. Ninth grader Nora Sparks’ “The Finale,” 11th grader Marlowe Miller’s “The Wrong Track,” ninth grader David Brookes’ “Iguana Quit,” fifth graders Ray Bonner and Abram Saavedra’s “The Rodent Revenge,” and Myers fourth grader Clyde Greenberg's "JuMaddenji" will be featured throughout the year at different festivals. These plays were selected by the Literary Committee (a collection of nearly 70 program alumni, artists, staff, teachers, and others) from over 700 submissions to be further developed and presented on stage. Purchase tickets>
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