Senior Walk 2019
On their final day as high school students, the Class of 2019 visited the elementary school in the fourth annual "Senior Walk." This tradition has the graduating seniors walk through the hallways of the elementary school while the younger students cheer, hold signs, and give high fives. This event aims to inspire the younger students to ...
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Kindness Club
Fourth and fifth grade students in the Kindness Club have been working hard to spread joy this year! Students met once a month after school with a simple goal to be kind and do kind things for others. The Kindness Club made a random acts of kindness poster to encourage other elementary students to do something kind for someone else. They also created and donated encouraging posters ...
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Pneumatic Stucture
Mr. Sanderson's pneumatic structure. Designed using software, built to specs and it holds air! In Mr. Sanderson's Design and Drawing for Production class, Kaylee Streeter, Dominik Cook, and Hayden Albro designed and built additions to the pneumatic structure. All of the plastic panels were welded together using plastic welding techniques, and the structures ...
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Virtual Reality in Grade 6
Sixth grade students using Virtual Reality to explore a Medieval Feast, a siege, and a town in the Middle Ages.
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Popsicle Stick Explosion
Fourth grade students learned how to make a Popsicle Stick Explosion during a STEM lesson. Watch it here: EXPLOSION !
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Teacher of the Year: Mrs. Bassett
Michelle Bassett, McGraw 1st grade teacher, was honored as Teacher of the Year at the Cortland Rotary Luncheon, June 4, 2019. She was nominated by colleague Sarah Leach and her principal, Susan Prince.
Letters read at the ceremony: Nomination from Mrs. Leach.pdf , Nomination from Mrs. Prince.pdf
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Ford's Theater Oratory
Ford's Theatre has posted the videos of the students giving speeches at the National Oratory Festival, including McGraw students, Hailey McCall and Kaylee Lang .
Here are the links! Enjoy!
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Audiology Project
Utilizing Google Classroom and Defined Stem, 4th graders finished their STEM projects and presented their work to the pre-k and kindergarten classrooms. Their presentations were well received and the younger students learned a lot about the human ear. After finishing their presentations, 4th grade students completed a google form survey ...
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Mock Accident
A mock accident with McGraw student actors, McGraw firefighters, TLC paramedics, Cortland County Sheriffs, NY State Police, DA Perfetti, and McGraw faculty took place on Bennett St. on Friday, May 17. Lead by Firefighter Harvey, this was an exceptional collaborative effort by many community members and agencies. Thank ...
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Honoring Fallen Veterans
McGraw high school students visited the cemetary to place flags on the graves of fallen veterans in their honor for Memorial Day.
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Seven Valleys Honor Society
Elizah Horn, McGraw junior, was inducted into the Seven Valleys New Tech Academy National Honor Society. Congratulations Elizah!
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Mobile Maker Labs
The High School Library has been borrowing Mobile Maker Labs from BOCES School Library System for students and staff to explore this past school year. Some of the labs have been Board Games, Real and Virtual Engineering, Movie Maker, and Virtual Robotics.
The Movie Maker was a way to explore and determine what items we will need to start a “Friday ...
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C.A.R.E.S. Assembly
The Elementary CARES Committee held an all-school assembly on Friday, May 3 rd . The Pre-K and 4 th grade introduced the word of the month, "Self-Control," by singing a song and giving examples and non-examples of self-control. All the students involved did a great job!
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Regents Test Prep
Castle Learning NY State Regents Test Prep Opportunities
Is someone in your household taking a NY State Regents exam in the future? We are pleased to announce that the McGraw Central School District and its students have access to Castle Learning (CL). Castle Learning is a wonderful, web-based resource that allows your child to review for NY State Regents exams.
A ...
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Learning 3D Shapes
Students had a lot of fun learning about 3 Dimensional shapes in Mrs. Young's classroom. They learned through guided discovery, kinesthetic, and center activities. Before assessment day, we had a 3D food party. It included: bugles/cones, mini marshmallows/cylinders, cheese cubes/cubes, wafers & mini Charleston Chews/rectangular prisms, Kix cereal/spheres. YUM!!
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Law Week at Federal Courthouse
The McGraw Senior class participated in Law Week sponsored by the United States District Court, Northern District of New York and the NDNY-Federal Court Bar Association. The theme of the classroom presentation from the Honorable Andrew T. Baxter and Michael G. Langan, Esq., Career Law Clerk was Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society, focusing on key first amendment ...
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Cardio Club
Rachael Vianos and Tom McCall started the Cardio Club in early May as a fun, energetic, after school program for 4 th and 5 th grade students. All levels of fitness come together every Tuesday and Thursday for aerobic exercise, rain or shine! Running or walking at each person's own pace encourages all students to keep their bodies moving in a safe and ...
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Extended Learning for Summer 2019
The Extended Learning office at SUNY Cortland is pleased to announce two Academic Youth Programs for Summer 2019. Both programs will be held the week of July 8 – 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Assemblage - Art Program
Discover animation, fiber and mixed media and light-sensitive processes during a one-week immersive studio experience based on the theme Assemblage.
Ideal ...
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