Owen D. Young Central School District

Our 10th grade students are learning about nutrition, recipes, and the importance of measurements in Health class. Today they tested out their recipes and learned about the nutrients and calories in the different combinations they came up with.

SCHOOL CALENDAR CHANGE: ODYCSD currently has two remaining unused emergency days. As a result, school will not be in session on Friday, May 3 and Tuesday, May 28. If the district is required to use an emergency day before those dates, families will immediately be notified of the change.

3rd graders participated in a GLOW DAY! They worked on reading and math skills and enjoyed some time with the sphero robots. "Today you will Glow when you show what you know!"

Learning is Electrifying! The Kindergarteners learned about static electricity with Mr. Pollock.

PreK through 3rd grade students had a visit from Tulip the calf in honor of Ag Literacy week! Accompanying Tulip were Mr. and Mrs. Doody who read a book to the students and gave each student their very own book to keep! Thank you Doody family!

Richfield Springs is looking for a Modified Baseball Coach. If interested please contact Mr. Matt St. Peter at 315-858-0610 or mstpeter@richfieldcsd.org. Candidates must be willing to work toward their NYS coaching certificate but have a minimum of fingerprinting, first aid, CPR, and child abuse courses completed to begin. Scheduled first practice is April 8, 2024.

"Would you, Could you, Read to us?" Pre-K invited Mrs. Tucker to be a guest reader this past week.

3rd grade has been actively engaged in PARP and Read Across America month. The students have been dedicating time to listening to stories and having discussions in regards to themes, moods, and overall plots. Students are voting on their favorite books and at the end of the month will have a "Book of the Year" winner!

2nd grade launched their Time Unit with reviewing time to the hour and half hour using Bee-Bots. They not only practiced their time, but also practiced coding and tracking the code they used.

The first graders replicated constellations out of spaghetti and marshmallows. Then they became Jr. Astronomers as they finished up their space unit.

Spring sports parent meeting will be held at the Richfield HS cafeteria on Wednesday, February 28th at 6pm. Students must have Family Id information completed for their spring sport before they can participate in any practices. Varsity practices begin Monday, March 11th. Modified spring sports begin on Tuesday, April 9th.

6th graders dissected frogs today.

CFES sponsored a trip for our 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students to visit Utica University for a tour, dinner, and a Utica Pioneers Hockey game!

4th grade students are studying erosion. They did an experiment where they determined how the volume of water would affect the rate of erosion.

The online ODY school store is OPEN! This is an open fundraiser, with proceeds going to benefit our ODY students. Access the ODY Online School Store: https://bit.ly/3GAQOge

Congratulations to all the fall sports seniors!

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