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A Way With Clay In Port Jefferson

LIMG June 5, 2023 0

Pictured: Artist Cliff Mendelson worked with students in Port Jefferson School District’s Edna Louise Spear Elementary School. Photo courtesy of the Port Jefferson School District Edna Louise Spear Elementary School fourth graders recently participated in a clay workshop with visiting artist

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Love Shared By Port Jefferson’s Buddy Program

LIMG February 14, 2023

Photo courtesy of the Port Jefferson School District Edna Louise Spear Elementary School students not only think about others in the local community, they often do something about it. Students in Christine Bokina and Kristi Krieg’s fifth grade class and Maureen Zajac’s second grade class teamed up to bring some smiles to the faces of local […]

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Port Jefferson Fifth Graders Say Hello In Many Languages

LIMG September 27, 2022

Photos courtesy of Port Jefferson School District Students in Edna Louise Spear Elementary School spanned the globe to learn to say hello in dozens of languages, including German, French, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish and Swahili. Christine Wicks’ fifth grade class used speech and nonverbal actions to create social connections with each other as part of the […]

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Port Jefferson Students Create Instruments From Recycled Materials

LIMG April 23, 2020

Students from Edna Louise Spear Elementary School experienced Earth Day in a different way this year, when they were encouraged to create musical instruments out of recycled materials. Music teacher Lisa Scrom asked the third, fourth and fifth graders to create an instrument from one of the four instrument families – percussion, woodwind, string or brass […]