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Throughout April, the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) visited each of BCSD’s five elementary schools to highlight the dairy production process. CCE educators taught students that New York is home to more than 3,600 dairy farms and over 600,000 dairy cows. Each cow yields around 7 gallons of milk daily, producing 15 billion pounds of milk …
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Three Glenmont Elementary School first-grade students are headed to SUNY Albany in June to participate in the 2024 First in Math Statewide Elementary Mathematics Tournament. The first-grade team was announced as regional winners in the virtual Statewide Elementary Mathematics competition. The students received trophies and Glenmont Elementary School will receive a plaque and a $1,000 …
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Looking for somewhere to recycle your eclipse glasses? Send them to school! Starting tomorrow, each school throughout the district will collect used glasses that do not have any scratches, punctures, tears or other damage. The glasses will be sent to Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC by a BCHS student organizing the initiative as part of the …
Throughout March, the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) visited each of BCSD’s five elementary schools to highlight the process of maple syrup production. Students learned that March is known as “sugaring season” in the Northeast. In late winter, when the weather transitions and daytime temperatures warm to above freezing and nights dip below freezing, sap begins …
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Students at Glenmont Elementary School welcomed science author and educator Dr. Jodi Wheeler-Toppen last week for two presentations, “How a Worm Wiggled into a Book” (K-2) and “Purr-fect Research is so Dog-gone Fun!” (3-5). K-2 students learned about worm anatomy and the importance of revision in writing. Students were encouraged to hold and observe live …
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Author Laura Vaccaro Seeger visited Hamagrael, Elsmere, Eagle and Slingerlands elementary schools this month. Laura is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, a two-time winner of both the Caldecott Honor Award and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award, and winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, to name just a …
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Three BCSD students were selected to represent the district in a statewide poster contest for the New York Association for Pupil Transportation (NYAPT). Bethlehem students were invited to submit poster entries illustrating the theme, “Driving Safely Into the Future” to be judged by the BC Transportation Department. Winning entries from each division will be entered …
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Congratulations to Melanie Painter on a much-deserved award from the NYS Art Teachers Association.
There will be no school for students on Friday, Oct. 6 (Superintendent’s Conference Day). Offices will be open. On Monday, Oct. 9, both schools and offices will be closed (Indigenous Peoples/Columbus Day). Classes for students K-12 will resume on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
Members of our instructional staff who are new to BC for the 2023-24 school year spent three days this week getting to know the district and one another. We want to extend a warm welcome to these professionals who will be working with our students when school gets started on Thursday, Sept. 7! Lindsey Bradt, …
