Service Club is sponsoring a food drive to coincide with the Super Bowl. … [Read more...] about Pierrepont “Soup”er Bowl Challenge
Pierrepont School Spelling Bee
Books and Beyond
Dear Parents/Guardians, Once again, Pierrepont School is pleased to participate in the reading motivational program, BOOKS AND BEYOND. We will begin the program on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 for students in Grade 4 and 5. This year’s theme is “Bulldog Pride!” The following will give you a basic introduction to the program. The purpose of Books and Beyond is to generate behavioral changes in students in the area of recreational reading habits. Students are encouraged to record reading in intervals of 20 minutes until they read 200 minutes to complete each station and earn a … [Read more...] about Books and Beyond
Celebrating Native American Influential Figures
In conjunction with Native American Heritage Month and the culmination of our unit on the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech the sixth-grade students in Ms. Medina, Mrs. Manocchio, & Ms. Levine's classes completed a project on influential Native Americans. The students learned about the Native American cultures by practicing their research skills, crafting oral presentations, and creating artistic visual images of their assigned Native American leader. Classmates learned a lot from the presentations and enjoyed viewing the busts which are displayed … [Read more...] about Celebrating Native American Influential Figures
Gifted & Talented “Fuzzy Challenge” Presentations
Over the last few months, students in 6th grade Gifted and Talented classes have worked in small groups to solve a "fuzzy challenge." A "fuzzy challenge" is not clear at the start of the assignment. The challenge is complex and mult-dimensional. Very much like real-life situations, all of the teams had the same task, but were competing to create a better solution than other teams. Potential solutions changed as the process evolved. Students gave their final presentations and solutions this morning in front of judges, parents, and Ms. Almaliah in the Pierrepont MPR. [Read more...] about Gifted & Talented “Fuzzy Challenge” Presentations