Roosevelt students really got into celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! One particular activity that brought the passionate side out in the students, was learning about some of our current day Hispanic heritage heroes like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who are both arguably the biggest athletic names in the world! Students got to vote on whom they thought was better by decorating the uniform jersey of their favorite player, and then posting it to the board hanging in the hallway. Can you count them up and see who got the most?
Roosevelt students were wild for Tiger Bucks this month—with the building theme being RESPECT!
The BRAIN SHOW Assembly came to center stage at Roosevelt School, as students got the chance to participate in a real-live game show! In the evening, parents and entire Roosevelt Families were invited to participate together once more. This was very much enjoyed by all. Special THANKS to the Roosevelt PTO for setting this up for us!
Roosevelt third grade student Aadhav Shankar was selected to display two separate pieces of his original artwork The Tulip Field and The Night Sky (both pictured below) at the 4th World Cultural Arts Festival at the National Mall grounds in Washington D.C. this past weekend! Hundreds of submissions came in from around the world, and Angie (an 88 year old professional artist pictured below with Aadhav and his mom) picked Aadhav’s work to be displayed. If you see Aadhav, Grade 3 in Ms. Lyne’s class, on the playground, on the bus, or in the halls of Roosevelt School, be sure to congratulate him. We are very proud of him, as are his parents (seen below with Aadhav)!
Roosevelt School’s nurse, Mrs. DeAndrea, is retiring after 27 years in district, ALL 27 years at Roosevelt School. Mrs. DeAndrea is the epitome of excellence! She will be so very missed!
Roosevelt students were treated to a special two-man play / Earth science assembly by The Grand Falloons, where they were taught about the effects of pollution in our waterways that the kids really enjoyed!
The South Plainfield School District hosted their second annual Band Festival Day on March 29 at the South Plainfield Middle School. 316 band students participated. Every band student from the High School, the Middle School, the Grant School and all four elementary schools participated. Each school played one piece by themselves and then they played it again with the older schools joining in.
March is “Music in Our Schools” Month! Here at Roosevelt students and staff were inspired to dress like rock stars on “Old Time Rock and Roll Tuesday”! They are all already rock stars, but yes, they dressed like them too!
At Roosevelt the Harlem Wizards stopped by for a quick promotional assembly for the students before the main event, which was last Saturday night’s big game against the South Plainfield Teacher Tigers! The Teachers fell to the Wizards 70-47, but a wonderful time was had by all as the Wizards and Teaching Tigers entertained the sold out crowd all night long!
March is Music in our Schools Month! Next week at Roosevelt School please dress accordingly for our spirit week!
Our Roosevelt’s most talented dominated the Central Jersey Music Educators Association awards presentations this year. See the students from Roosevelt that were selected below.
CJMEA Honors Orchestra Picture #1 (Left to Right): Joaquin Jiminez, Joshua Osuebi, Garvika Sri Priya Golla. Anokhi Patel. Colette Cabot, Saanavi Pathak. CJMEA Treble Honors Choir Picture #2 (Left to Right): Colette Cabot, Joshua Osuebi, Kennedy Calderone, Zia Loriega. CJMEA Honors Band Picture #3 (Left to Right): Sean Tutelman, Aiden Truong, Leila Feliciano, Taara Pahalijani. Congrats again to our fine Roosevelt Musicians and Vocalists!
At Roosevelt’s Diversity Day, our students showed their cultural pride of ethnicity! Our school shows its unity through its diversity, which is why Diversity Day has been one of our greatest days of the year thus far! Many proud moments for Roosevelt school this year!
Student’s at Roosevelt were treated to an assembly on MINDFULNESS by Ryan Benz, as he explained to our students how he used Mindfulness to make it through his journey of hiking the Adirondack Trail!
Students got the fabulous opportunity to “Read Across Roosevelt” as well! This is when all of our Roosevelt students, on Read Across America Day, all come out into the hallway of Roosevelt and do silent sustained reading for a minimum of 20 minutes at the end of the day! It kind of puts the exclamation point on what is already an outstanding day for all!
Roosevelt rolled out the red carpet for Read Across America! Celebrity guest readers included Superintendent Dr. Noreen Tansey, Councilman Derryck White, Assistant Superintendent Mary Malyska, and Senator Patrick Diegnan Jr.!
Diversity Day at Roosevelt was a huge hit with all the students, as was the Door Decorating competition. Winning this year was Mrs. Rizk’s first grade class with DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 2nd place was Mr. Bertram and Mrs. Hyun’s EGYPT, and 3rd place was Mrs. Farina’s PAKISTAN!
Our Roosevelt Wingman Team in action! Special thanks to our Roosevelt PTO for getting us our Wingman Shirts!!
Just “Hangin’ Out!” Students at Roosevelt were offered an incentive if they reached the $1,000 mark in the Change for Change coin drive. The incentive was that they would get to tape their P.E. teacher, Mrs. Cutietta, to the wall like a piece of fine art on display for all to see! The pictures below will let you know whether they reached the $1000 mark or not!
Roosevelt Elementary School put on an amazing production of “The Golden Goose”! In one week, known as TheaterWeek, Taubenslag Productions comes in to our school and over the course of 5 days casts, rehearses, and puts on a productions for the students during the school day, and a show for family and friends in the evening. Bravo!
Roosevelt Elementary School celebrated students of the month with Rocky the Roosevelt Tiger. Roosevelt students honored Ann Piro, a community member and retired school librarian, who volunteered to help organized and reshelf their library books. Thank you, Ms. Piro! Roosevelt students also raised over $2,075 in one week during our Change for Change coin drive! The money was donated toward the SPHS Athletic Booster Club’s annual toy drive for those less fortunate in our community during the holidays. As an incentive for reaching this goal, students from each grade level were able to throw a pie in the face of 2 lucky individuals. Any guesses as to who they might be?