The Woodstock Primary School held its annual science fair on March 28, 2014.  Each grade level created a designated type of project.  Kindergarten created scientific collections; first grade made scientific displays; second grade constructed scientific models; and third grade conducted scientific experiments.  The projects filled the cafeteria and the gymnasium, giving our school the feel of a science museum.  This year we had more than 200 students contribute a project to the evening fair, nearly the entire school population!  The projects were very impressive, from jelly bean collections

While many of us were eagerly following the Sochi Winter Games, 21 Onteora High School students were excelling in a very different kind of ‘Olympic’ competition. Onteora’s Science Olympiad Team recently took home a third place trophy as well as 25 individual medals at the Mid-Hudson Region Science Olympiad Competition, which took place at SUNY Ulster on February 8. The third place finish qualified Onteora to compete in the State tournament, to be held March 14-15 in Long Island.

“For the past two years we missed going to the State competition by one place,” notes Onteora Science teacher Carolyn

During the month of March, the Bennett staff donated much-needed items for the Ulster County SPCA.  The Ulster County SPCA is an independent, no-kill shelter which is a private nonprofit organization whose mission is to prevent cruelty to animals by providing temporary shelter and finding adoptive homes for homeless abused and neglected animals.  Since this organization doesn’t receive funding from Ulster County government, the donations were greatly appreciated.  For more information please access their website at http://www.ucspca.org, email info@ucspca.org, or call 845-331-5377.  The

For the past two weeks the front entrance of our school has been adorned with boxes disguised as adorable little yellow school buses and pet houses waiting to be filled with food and supplies for our local food pantry in Woodstock and at the Saugerties Animal Shelter.  Each morning my first graders could be heard persuading faculty, staff, and students to: "Fill the buses, fill the buses, fill the buses...PLEASE!  These filled-to-the-rim gifts of kindness from all of us were very appreciated by their recipients.  ~ Carol Brower

The Boys Book Club of Guys Read at Bennett is a project that was established and run during the first three sessions or our afterschool activities. I began this project with many different goals in mind. The first and foremost was to re-instill the love of books for many of the boys I have contact with on a regular basis as an AIS Reading Teacher. The program has progressed from volunteer adult male role model readers, reading to the boys to broaden their interests in topics to read about, to the students taking an active part in reading books to form the BBT (Boys Book Club) Guys Read Library