Cluster Corner (Specials)

March 2025

Music

Students will work on activities related to the season of Spring.

Media Center

  • Kindergarten – Students will learn about different features of our community such as important buildings and transportation.
  • 1st Grade – Students will learn about the history of transportation through the past and present and how it has improved.
  • 2nd Grade – Students will learn about different Cultural Institutions in NYC, such as museums by taking a virtual tour of the Official Website of each location and designing their own postcard.
  • 3rd grade – Students will finish their group project on Inventions of Ancient China and will present their finished products to the class.
  • 4th Grade – Students will learn what life was like when New York was once called New Amsterdam.
  • 5th Grade – We will continue Unit 2 of the Passport to Social Studies Curriculum, learning about “The Age of Exploration with a focus on the Vikings.
  • In addition, all 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes will borrow books from the Media Center Library on a bi-weekly schedule.

Computer Science

  • Grades K – 2: Students will begin working to solve puzzles by building algorithms through code. Students will pair-program at times, and debug together.
  • Grades 3 – 5: Students will use code.org, Scratch, and other coding websites to practice their programming skills and create various projects.

Art

  • Kindergarten students will learn about the colors of the rainbow by using ROY G. BIV, and painting a colorful spring scene.
  • First grade students will learn about warm and cool colors by painting city scenes with reflections.
  • Second grade students will learn about piranhas by creating a paper fold drawing.
  • Third grade students will learn about the artist Vincent van Gogh, by creating “Starry Night” inspired resists.
  • Fourth grade students will learn about balance and symmetry by creating Yin Yang Zentangle designs.
  • Fifth grade students will learn about hand anatomy by drawing X-Ray hands using oil pastels.

Physical Education

  • Grades K-2: Students will begin learning about the manipulative skill of dribbling with hands. They will participate in a variety of games that will work on basketball dribbling, passing, and shooting.
  • Grades 3-5: In honor or March Madness, students will begin learning and practicing basketball skills. We’ll focus on dribbling with ball control using dominant and non-dominant hands, passing, and shooting. A variety of games and stations will be used to reinforce skills.