Showell Elementary

Physical education teachers Robin Wolinski and Scott Bailey had 125 Showell Elementary students jump rope to raise money for the fight against heart disease and stroke recently. Their efforts raised over $6500. Pictured above, Liabrooke Leggour does her part.

Ocean City Elementary School’s First Grade

Ocean City Elementary School’s first grade held their choral concert, “Character Chorus,” on March 11.  The songs and dialogue focused on good character traits and making smart choices.  The children learned through these songs that when we choose our friends by character, we choose the best friends.  When we understand that we all have feelings,… Read more »

Second Grade Students At Ocean City Elementary

Second grade students at Ocean City Elementary recently held their Spring Concert titled “Almost Spring”.  Pictured are students from Mrs. Wendi Eitel’s class dressed in their costumes for their song, “Puddle Jumping”.  Pictured are:  Macy Petersen, Julia Rettig, Yarden Rafaeli, Amanda Melvin, Hattie Brous, Stephanie Clark and Kira Solomon.

Worcester Prep

Geneva Sampson’s Grade 5 Reading Class at Worcester Prep, after reading about teatime in one of the novels on the class reading list, visited Tea by the Sea, the tea shop in Berlin. Pictured above, Shea Dowling of Ocean City, loved dressing up for teatime. “It was so much fun, and we loved the food.”

Elks 2007-2008 Americanism Poster Contest

Riley Mears, a 2nd grader at Showell Elementary, won 1st place in the Elks 2007-2008 Americanism Poster Contest, “My Favorite Symbol of America” for ages 6 & 7 sponsored by the Ocean City, Maryland Elks Lodge #2645.  She also won 1st place at the South East District Level where she competed with over 600 poster entries…. Read more »

Showell Elementary Third Graders

Showell Elementary third graders, Erica Hall (left) and Logan Gordy (right) came dressed to school as if they were going on a voyage to help kick-off their new reading theme.  Erica wants to go to Hawaii and Logan would like to visit a rain forest.  The third grade children in Mrs. Lertora’s and Mrs. Johnson’s classes wrote… Read more »

Things I Like

Things I Like

Learning about an unknown topicAn old computer that still works wellThe saying, ‘seeing is believing’Early Bon Jovi recordsThat baseball season is nearAn excited dog at mealtimeThe anticipation of time away from homeLooking back at what made news years agoThat I don’t move furniture for a livingLooking at newspapers while visiting other placesAnyone with a good… Read more »

Berlin Intermediate School

Sherman the Shorebird recently visited Berlin Intermediate School for lunch to kick off its “Hit the Books” reading program. Above, first row, are Gino Falvo, Alli Schumate, Tabby Shelton, Sherman, Veronica Haskell and Christy Wheeless; second row, Sunni Burks, Diane McClosky and Elizabeth Masters; and third row, Ben Vaxmosky, Sonny Furst, Matthew Moore, Jorge Rosas,… Read more »

Ocean City Elementary School

Ocean City Elementary School held its annual Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Contest.  One winner was chosen from each homeroom and then a grade level winner was chosen.  The class winners for first grade were Skylar Moore, Lily Figgs, Grace Beres, Reed Welton, Michelle Hernandez;  second grade,  Emily Hurley, Dina Sbih, Niamh Lundberg, Amanda Melvin, Maggie Bunting;  third… Read more »

Kindergarten Students At Ocean City Elementary School

The kindergarten students at Ocean City Elementary School recently took a field trip to Atlantic General Hospital.  Jacob Kelley and Lilly Castellanos-Avalos in Mrs. Kim Malone’s class are holding the doll that the nurses used to teach the students about the process a person goes through when having surgery at the hospital.