June 27th was the last day of classes for the 2018-19 school year. At Catskill Elementary School, staff waved goodbye to the students as the busses rolled out of the parking lot to bring students home for summer vacation. Have a safe and happy summer – we’ll see you when classes resume September 4th!
Here are the pictures of first grades’ Unbelievable Artists Day with Meghan Evans, the Roaming Paintress. The Catskill Educational Foundation funded this wonderful opportunity for the students to work with a professional artist. Each first grade student created their own canvas painting to keep and display at home.
Learning how to swim and stay safe around water is a real lifesaver. As part of their Physical Education classes, Catskill fourth graders take aquatics in June. Along with learning basic and more advanced strokes, kicks, and rhythmic breathing techniques, students get prepped in how to use a personal flotation device (PFD), stay warm in […]
Catskill is a river town, and to take advantage of the unique opportunity this provides, CCSD has its own fleet of canoes and kayaks for our students to experience our local waterways in. This week, 5th graders enjoyed some time on the water with an introduction to basic boating skills. The classes hiked from Catskill […]
Catskill Elementary welcomed our 2019-2020 Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten students last week for screening. They had a blast, and are excited to start school in the fall. If you have a child that will be starting school in September and have not registered him or her yet, please call our District Registrar, Nuala Jubie, at 518-943-0574 […]
Last week, every 5th grader at CES got a taste of the middle school experience with a visit to CMS. Our soon-to-be sixth graders met the principal, assistant principal, and school counselors, learned about the general expectations CMS has for its students, and then paired up with a 6th grade buddy to shadow for a […]
In May, the Catskill Elementary Student Council sold 12” x 18” American Flags in honor of Memorial Day. Purchasers could choose to have their flags tagged with either who it was in memory of or the name of the family who purchased it to honor all those who died serving our country. The students sold […]
Meet Catskill Elementary School’s Cat’n Around Catskill cat for 2019. “Cattails” will be on display on Main Street now through mid-September. Each student K-5 lent their talent to this colorful kitty, who tells the story of what lives above and below the waterline of a New York pond. Look amongst the seaweed and you’ll find […]
Catskill Elementary School was proud to welcome children’s authors Diane DeGroat and Dan Sadlowski for a surprise visit on May 3rd! Both authors did readings and Q&A sessions with students in the CES Library.
Some middle school shining stars visited CES on May 8th to share with 5th graders what life at CMS will be like for them next year. Groups consisting of both 6th graders and 8th graders (24 middle schoolers in total) dropped into fifth grade classrooms to share what students can expect heading into middle school, […]
