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• Harcourt Reading Storytown for Grades 1-4
• McMillan/McGraw Hill K-5 Math Program
• Grades 1-4 Science
• Grade 4 Social Studies

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Third Graders Make Friends Poster

A group of third graders in Mrs. Bentel's Room--Emily Cowser, Natalie Ewing, Anthony Lucchitti, Autumn Plutt and Holly Troesch--worked together to create a special poster to promote friendship in their school.  The poster features a special poem and is framed by a series of paper faces that were given to each Memorial classroom for all of the students to sign as a pledge to be friends with everybody.

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Students Participate in Enrichment Expo

Twelve Memorial Gifted Students traveled to Washington Elementary to participate in the Fourth Annual Enrichment Expo.  These students proudly presented projects they independently planned and implemented throughout the first semester.  This year 41 Elementary Gifted Students participated in the Expo.

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Mobile Biology Lab Visits Memorial

The University of Pittsburgh's Mobile Biology Lab paid a visit to Memorial and the students learned about the Scientific Method by participating in three exciting experiments that were led by four Bethel Park High School students.

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Kindergarten Students Have Fun with Science

Memorial Kindergarten students had a blast conducting experiments to learn the difference between solids, liquids and gasses!  The students experimented with dry ice, carbon dioxide and even made a semi-solid called SLIME!

Please click here to check out the excitement on the students' faces as they learned that science is a blast!

Third Graders Enjoy the Benefits of a Class Bank

Mrs. Bentel's third grade students are learning about money thanks to a year-long Class Bank project.  Students can increase their savings account by earning "money" for things such as completing homework, exhibiting good behavior and helping their teacher.  They can make "withdrawals" for "perks" such as teaching a lesson, sitting at the teacher's desk, sitting with a friend or playing a spelling game.  As the year progresses, students will learn more about saving and spending money by participating in other activities such as check writing.  Here, a student withdraws some of the money in her account to present a math lesson she prepared on her own.

Second Graders Read "The Nutcracker"

Second grade students in Miss Buckley's room were swept up in the magic of  the story of "The Nutcracker."  They enjoyed reading the tale of the sugar plum fairies, giant mice and of course, the nutcracker.

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Fourth Graders "Pay It Forward"

For the second consecutive year, Memorial fourth graders participated in a "Pay It Forward" holiday service project to make the holidays brighter for 10 children who are part of the Allegheny County Foster Care System.  The students were encouraged to purchase a Christmas present for one of the children and then 35 students stayed after school for a wrapping party, working together to wrap 115 presents!

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Miss A Visits Kindergarten

Miss A's visit to Memorial Kindergarten was especially appropriate this year, since she arrived during the beginning of cold and flu season!  This Land of the Letter People character sings a song about sneezing to the students, and the children sing, "Achoo!' as part of the song's chorus.  So it was a great teaching moment for the Kindergarten Teachers, to stress the importance of sneezing into a Kleenex or into their sleeves to help prevent the spread of germs.  Achoo!

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Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue!

One of the themes for this year's Spirit Week at Memorial was Patriotic Day, and the students did their best to come to school dressed to show their pride for the good, old USA!

Students Benefit from Use of Smart Boards

Thanks to a generous donation from the Memorial PTA, the Memorial Library is making books more vivid and exciting to students with the use of one of two Smart Boards. For example, Librarian Mrs. Oczkowski can project Book Flix on the Smart Board to help teach students the difference between fiction and non-fiction.  Thank you, Memorial PTA, for donating two Smart Boards and for helping books to come alive for Memorial Students!

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First Graders Study Illustrator Eric Carle

First Graders learned about children's book illustrator Eric Carle and his book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, to help them better understand how to draw a caterpillar. Art Teacher Amy Smeal-Mittner showed the children how to put geometrically shaped blocks together to form a model from which they could draw their own caterpillar.

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