With summer right around the corner, it’s time to think about keeping children healthy while school is out. With this thought in mind, the Peekskill City School District has committed to providing free meals to children during the summer. Click here to learn more!
Congratulations to our Oakside Elementary School student musicians who participated in the NYSSMA Piano Festival this year. Both students not only made excellent music, they made Oakside and their families "Peekskill Proud"!
Congratulations to our Grade 3 Oakside students who received the NYS South Eastern Zone (SEZ) Physical Education Award, which covers Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties. The students were nominated by Oakside’s Coach Murphy and Coach Gardner, and were selected as winners because they demonstrated excellent sportsmanship, citizenship, physical fitness/health and cooperation. The group of students were honored along others from the region at the 54th annual awards ceremony at Arlington High School on May 4.
Ms. Delmonaco's class at Oakside Elementary recently welcomed guest reader and retired PCSD music teacher, Mr. David Thomas. Mr. Thomas read the students a book about Duke Ellington, as it would have been the musician's 120th birthday. In other PCSD music related news, Mr. Thomas is also working with PHS Chorus Teacher Mr. Del Casale and will be accompanying on piano for the PHS spring concert this week, as well as at NYSSMA this May.
On April 10, Oakside Elementary students in the school's Strings program took a field trip to SUNY Purchase to hear the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra's Educational Concert. The students were able to enjoy Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in person!
Did you know Oakside publishes a STEAM newsletter? Click on the headline to learn more!
Just before the holiday vacation, Oakside students in Mrs. Hernandez's Grade 3 Dual Language class held a holiday secret snowflake gift exchange and writing celebration. Students shared their narrative writing pieces with their family members and revealed who they had as their "secret snowflake." Students were filled with joy and smiles!
Oakside Teacher Mrs. Martha Lynch would like to send a special shout-out to her Grade 3 Dual Language student, Miss Catherine Fernandez, who, after learning about kindness and empathy in class, decided to cut over 8 inches of her hair to donate to the Children with Hair Loss organization.
Why do we love our local library? Because they’re “out of this world!” Thanks to The Field Library for supporting our Oakside readers by creating a display for the school’s reading program and distributing “rocket response” forms for our students to fill out. Click on the headline to red more on this story.
Congratulations to our Oakside summer readers who were recently honored at the school’s Reading Celebration!
Oakside students are reaching for the stars and have accepted a challenge to read 10,000 books by the end of the school year! To kick-off their literacy initiative, the school put on a play which embraced this year's theme, "Reading Takes You Out of This World." Student actors and actresses showed their peers the amazing power of books by recreating imaginative scenes from familiar stories. Special thanks goes out to The Oakside Reading Team teachers (Tara Tierney, Beth Irving and Christine Hirsch) for organizing the event, and to the day's guest actors Principal Staci Woodley and Superintendent Dr. David Mauricio.
Thank you for being an important teacher in the lives of your children.
Thank you for being active in your child’s education.
Thank you for bringing them to Oakside each day so they can learn and grow and play...read more.
Gracias por ser un maestro importante en la vida de sus hijos.
Gracias por ser activo en la educación de su hijo.
Gracias por traerlos a Oakside cada día para que puedan aprender y crecer y jugar...leer mas.
