To help celebrate PARP (Pick a Reading Partner) Week, Wading River School students were in for a special treat reading stories together and guessing who the Masked Readers were at the first-time-ever event. It even included the SWR Wildcat! Special thanks to all the staff, students, and families who joined in on the fun. Everyone left after listening to many stories by our Mystery Readers and with a book in their hand donated by our generous PTA.
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Date Added: 5/17/2024

Shoreham-Wading River High School sophomore Natalee Cortina, a WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) student, embarked on a Stony Brook University Southampton campus research vessel to explore the wildlife and ecosystem of the Shinnecock Bay.

Natalee, along with other students on the trip, engaged in two trawls of the seafloor to search and identify local marine species. They launched probes to determine parameters such as salinity, temperature and dissolved oxygen percentages of the bay. Trawling nets were hauled in to reveal collected marine life. Students learned about and handled species such as whelks, horseshoe crabs, spider crabs, sea robins, blue claw crabs and mud crabs. The trip was followed by a tour of the Marine Research Lab where they viewed tanks with other local species such as seahorses and fish collected from research dives.

Natalee was accompanied by WISE adviser Ellen Fraser.

Date Added: 5/15/2024

Miller Avenue School staff and students started the week with a carnival-themed Pick a Reading Partner celebration. Smiles were everywhere with teachers and staff donning red clown noses, serving as ringmasters to their classes, while others wore “Reading is a Ticket to Adventure” T-shirts. First grade teacher Ralph Jimenez encouraged young readers to kick it up a notch with their song rendition of “Take me out to the circus” to the tune of “Take me out to the ballgame,” all to inspire a love of reading in students. Principal Claudia Smith also got in on the fun by wearing the P.T. Barnum-inspired suit worn by Hugh Jackman in “The Greatest Showman.” On Monday evening, families attended a BINGO night, and Tuesday was a day that encouraged students to bring a favorite stuffed animal to school.

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Date Added: 5/14/2024

Wading River School had a very special Mother’s Day surprise with the quail eggs from Mrs. Klefsky and Mrs. Krandis’s classes hatching last night around 9:30 p.m. “Students were incredibly excited to meet them this morning,” Principal Lou Parrinello said. Other classrooms’ eggs should hopefully be hatching this week, students are watching chicks break through their eggs during the day.

“This is a very unique project where all of our fifth-grade classes incubate and hatch quail eggs, Mr. Parrinello said. “After a few weeks of nurturing, we partner with CEED (Center for Environmental Education and Discovery) where they are raised until mid-summer when they are released into our local woods to help reduce the tick population and replenish native quail.”

Date Added: 5/13/2024