Berlin Intermediate School’s Chess Club has begun its 2010-2011 season. New students are being introduced to the game, while experienced players are battling and honing their skills. Mik Megary, the Chess Club advisor, helps students with various skills and strategies of the game. Above, Emily Malinowsky and Zachary Birkett battle it out on the chess board. 

Members of the Ocean City Fire Department visited Ocean City Elementary School last week announce the winners of the Fire Prevention Poster Contest winners. The winners, pictured, are kindergarten, first, Donavan Roos; kindergarten second, Logan Intrieri; kindergarten, Riley Moyer; first grade, first, Marina Bryan; first grade, second, Jake Gillespie; first grade, third, Bailey Pusey; second grade, first,… Read more »

Jeanie Mancini’s Worcester Preparatory School Preschool students are pictured at Vessey’s Orchard. Pictured, front from left, are Riya Jani, Jillian Lebling, Jackson Hershey, Carson Rayne, Baylor Hoen and Caleb Collins; back, Lebby Becker, Kannon Cropper, Hunter Simons, Dylan Simons, Hanley Kyger, Jonathan Antonov and Case Tilghman.

Snow Hill Elementary School students and staff participate in a monthly walking program called ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously). One Friday every month, the whole school walks for one half hour at the end of the day. Above, kindergarten students Logan Chilly and Vinny Cucina walk together. 

Richard Poist and Ashley Hoffman of Jacqueline Knowlton’s third grade class at Ocean City Elementary School are happily using their computer skills to take reading comprehension tests. 

In honor of Constitution Day, sixth grade students in Jennifer Garton’s math class at Berlin Intermediate School uncovered the mathematical magic of Benjamin Franklin’s square, by finding the patterns within the numbers and finally connecting the numbers with yarn in order to see the symmetrical geometric design. Above, a beautiful completed Ben Franklin Square is shown… Read more »

Worcester County Public Schools last month celebrated Constitution Week. Pictured above, center, Berlin Intermediate School 6th-grader Brody Shockley holds one of the Constitution Week posters, which were made available to schools by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the local General Levin Winder Chapter. Pictured with Shockley is Chapter Regent Pat Arata (left)… Read more »

Third grade students at Showell Elementary recently made their own hats. They read and followed two sets of directions, compared the directions, and discovered certain text features that helped make the directions easier to read.  The result was these beautiful newspaper hats. 

Mrs. Bunting’s 5th grade enrichment reading group at BIS explored mood by creating watercolors in response to their book, “Jeremy Thatcher, the Dragon Hatcher.”   Each student chose a mood card (angry, silly, zany, etc.) and then had to visually represent it using color, line, and shape. Pictured above are De’Aijah Hobbs, Frank Figuerou and Zerrick… Read more »