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Next SPACE Meeting
In the Sacandaga
Library Media Center
Gearing up for another great school year.
Looking forward to some exciting programs and working with the schools to
challenge our children.
Childcare will be provided.
A
Framework for Understanding Gifted Children
Pat
Schuler,
a nationally recognized speaker on issues related to gifted education, will be
discussing how some gifted kids today may be out-of-stage intellectually,
out-of-phase socially, and out-of-sync emotionally/psychologically from their
classmates. Some are Twice Exceptional and have additional behavioral, social
and emotional difficulties.
Based on her
experience as a classroom teacher, gifted and talented teacher, and now
therapist, Pat will also share strategies and techniques that teachers,
parents, and counselors can use to better understand and serve gifted kids.
Pat Schuler received
a Master's degree in Gifted Education from the College
of New
Rochelle, a
Master's degree in Counseling Psychology as well as a Doctorate in Educational
Psychology (Gifted and Talented Education) from The University of Connecticut.
For children of those attending the forum
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Chemistry for Kids
– presented by John D. Fisher
7p.m.
in the Sacandaga Cafeteria
Phase Change – Solids, Liquids, and Gases
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Students will
see demonstrations and participate in hands-on activities of phase changes for
solids, liquids, and gases that will give them a new level of understanding
and wonder for the world of chemistry! Hands-on activities will
include filling balloons with dry ice to observe the change of the solid dry
ice into a gas.
Childcare will be
provided by National Honor Society Students
Your
Child’s Digital Footprint –
It
Can Grow Like a Weed
Identity
management in a digital world
Please
join us for a
Presentation
by Robert Frederick,
- Coordinator of Career and
Employment Services at
SchenectadyCountyCommunity
College.
Mr. Frederick will discuss how a
person’s digital footprint can affect their future prospects related to:
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College
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Employment
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Other quality of life issues
He will outline how and why
employers, colleges and business services are gathering information regarding
people’s personal history and will concentrate his discussion on how they can
establish stronger profiles or repair weaker digital profiles using the
technology and resources available.
Monday,
November 16th @ 7pm
Scotia-GlenvilleHigh
School
Room
A-30
PTSA
meeting @ 6:15pm
(prior to program) in Room B-2
Join
us and bring a friend!
Questions?
Please call:
Kim Koza
393-8501
or
Robert Frederick
381-1368
Join us on
Monday, June 1
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S.P.A.C.E. meeting 6:30 at the Sacandaga
Library Media Center!
Mr. Kavanaugh, Director
of Curriculum for Scotia-Glenville, will be joining us for this meeting to
discuss the changes in the OPAL programs for next year. Come and hear about an
exciting new program for 4th and 5th graders and ask any questions that you
may have.
Bring a friend!
Childcare will be available for parents
attending the meeting!
SAGE
Shenendehowa Advocates for Gifted Education
Presents
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For more
information check out the SAGE website here
Mark your calendar!
The Union College 2009 Rube
Goldberg Challenge will be held Saturday April 25, 2009
The following is the schedule for
the competition day:
8:30am - Set-up
9:30am - Competition Briefing
Session
9:40am - Competition
12:30pm -Lunch 1:30pm (for
Competing students)
Awards immediately following
Lunch
2:00pm Campus and Engineering
Tours upon request
This is a fun and
exciting exhibit of students engineering skills
Pictures of 2008 competition
Visit Union's Rube website
for more details
For
more pictures
Monday March 23, 2009
Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library
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Connecting Boys with Books
with Michael Sullivan, Author
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This nationally known speaker is a true advocate of reading, especially for
boys. Parents will learn tips to engage and sustain sons’ interest in books.
This event is generously co-sponsored by the Friends of the Clifton
Park-Halfmoon Public Library and Capital Region BOCES School Library System and
The Early Childhood Direction Center of the Capital Region. This program
is part of the Library’s year long celebration of 40 years of service to the
community.
Required registration beginning Monday, March 2 in-person or phone the Library
at 371-8622.
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SAAC camp to
run from July 6 to Aug. 14 at S-G Middle School
The Scotia/Schenectady Academics and
Arts Camp (SAAC) is an educational enrichment program held for six weeks. Our
goal is to provide a safe, fun environment where children can be creative,
make friends, and continue to learn throughout the summer. Operating under the
philosophy that "a child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit,"
SAAC has enriched the lives of thousands of children since its inception in
1963.
It is held at the air conditioned
Scotia-Glenville Middle School, 10 Prestige Parkway, in Scotia.
Check out the site here: http://www.saaccamp.com/
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On Thursday, February 5th at 7:00pm
in the Sacandaga Elementary Library
SPACE (Scotia-Glenville Parents Advocating for
Challenging Education) hosted a forum on Visual-Spatial Learners (VSLs)
Visual learners are students who remember what they see, and often forget what
they hear. They often get “the big picture”, but miss the details, can be
excellent problem and puzzle solvers, yet might struggle with organizational
skills and sequential tasks. As a result, they present unique challenges to
their parents and teachers
Speakers included Jan Tunison, High School Librarian, and Becki
Ayers, sixth grade ELA/Social Studies teacher, and Christine McKenna, parent
(all mothers of VSLs) The forum discussed the characteristics of a
visual-spatial learner, parenting strategies, and how we can help them be
successful in the classroom.
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Check out our new VSL
page! Click here!
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Scotia-Glenville students
compete in district-wide Spelling Bee
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Fifteen students from the four
elementary schools and middle school took turns spelling words during the
annual Spelling Bee at the Middle School on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Two students - grade 5 student Aubrey
Gallop from Glendaal and grade 6 student Avery Maycock
from the Middle School - will represent Scotia-Glenville at the 27th annual
Regional Spelling Bee on Monday, March 16, at Proctor's Theater in
Schenectady.
The winner of the regional bee
receives an all-expense paid trip to the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee in
Washington, DC May 24-29. The regional champion will also receive a computer
as well as other prizes for the area's top spellers.
These students were the building
champions who competed in the school-wide Spelling Bee:
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Glendaal
School: Graciana
Cox, grade 4; Aubrey Gallop, grade 5; and Joie
Prentice, grade 5
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Glen-Worden
School: Erin
Zeman, grade 4; Zachary Ladouceur, grade 5; and
Liam Rooney, grade 5
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Lincoln
School: Stratton
Yerman, grade 4; Maggie Holley, grade 5; and John
Pierce, grade 5
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Sacandaga
School: Dylan
Van Patten, grade 4; Carter Gibbons, grade 5; and Natalie
Straut, grade 5
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