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In the BLOG below -- details about the new outdoor classroom planned for Cherry Brook Primary School. A $4,200 grant from Westinghouse awarded this week helps by providing a storage shed, benches, a lawnmower, and snow thrower. On the Leader Board: The lead item on the Board of Education's Monday, February 22nd agenda is the BUDGET.
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Featured Articles
Canton Students Attend Economic Summit
Ten Canton High School students from Mrs. Kerry Hartley’s high school Economics classes
traveled about three hours to participate in the first ever New England High School International
Economic Summit at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.
On Saturday, December 19, 2009, 240 students, representing 12 school districts from 3 states, experienced a valuable hands-on lesson in global trade negotiations and economics.
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Students at Economic Summit.
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Starry Nights at CIS
Think van Gogh’s work is just for adults? Vincent might never have imagined his work in the hands of children, but CIS's 4th graders have just finished a poetry
and art unit based on Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night.
Students learned about the life and work of van Gogh and carefully analyzed how he used line, color, texture, and shape. They discussed critical questions such as describing the textures within the painting, identifying the shapes which stand out and why they do, and defining the overall mood of the painting.
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CIS students study van Gogh's work |
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Technology Changes at Cherry Brook Primary School
It’s no secret that Cherry Brook Primary School is short on space. To help ease the problem, we creatively turned 25 ASUS EEE PC 1000HE’s, in a very pretty blue color, into a much needed classroom.
With these 25 tiny, inexpensive, new laptops on a cart and the Technology Integration Specialist Robin Nardini travelling to the classrooms each week for technology instruction, we were able to reconfigure the old computer lab into a Special Education room and revert the Special Ed room into a 2nd grade classroom.
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Students at Cherry Brook use the new laptops.
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