Addison School District Newsletter Superintendent, Mrs. Stiker 607-359-2244

Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Mr. DioGuardi 607-359-2090 School Business Official, Mr. Perry 607-359-2245

Addison Senior High School Principal, Mr. Howe 607-359-2241 Addison Middle School Principal, Mrs. Loomis 607-359-2261

Tuscarora and Valley Elementary Schools Principal, Mrs. Flint 607-359-2261 www.addisoncsd.org

School Year 2008-09, Issue 35 Page 1 of 3 May 22, 2009

Tuscarora Advanced Band

The Tuscarora Advanced Band mem-bers and their director, Mrs. Hamblin, would like to thank the Band Boosters for all of their hard work this school year that enabled us to attend the music festival at Darien Lake. Without your fundraising and support, this trip would-n’t have been possible. Mrs. Hamblin would like to give a spe-

cial thank you to our parents and chaperones for such a great job of taking care of our students each and every moment of our trip. She would also like to thank our bus who stayed the entire day with us. The students’ received an excellent rating on their performance, and they had a great time at the park. Your help and continued support is greatly appreciated!

Valley Elementary School Career Day

Students from Valley Elementary School spent the morning of May 12th listening to presenters talk about their work. This year, the students had the op-portunity to hear from Clarissa McKindle an interpreter, who also signed the al-phabet, numbers and student’s names. She also signed a story being read by Nancy Smith. Larry Child, Martial Arts Instructor, demonstrated different techniques and told the students that by taking lessons one does not use what they learn against another, but for good. David DeCalesta, retired Wild-life Biologist told the students how one can determine the age and health of a deceased animal by looking at its teeth and jaw bone. They all reiterated the need to get a good education and to be respectful to all. This event was coordinated by Career Development Council and Valley Elemen-tary School teachers.

Sixth Grade Annual Science Career Day

Wednesday, May 13th was a very exciting day for the sixth grade classes at Addison Middle School. Their annual science career day was held with four differ-ent presenters. Steuben Rural Electric demonstrated how electricity works and the importance of safety. Two different representatives from Cornell Cooperate Extension showed students how to read food labels and how to eat healthier. Students not only learned about the different careers available in agriculture, but that our food does not come from the grocery store, but farms. The Steuben County Public Works explained the importance of recycling and proper disposal of waste products.

The feedback from students, educators and pre-senter’s was excellent, and we all learned something new that will help us and the environment. Addison Middle School and Career Development Council would like to thank everyone who participated to make this career day a huge success .

Music News:

The Addison Band Boosters would like to thank all of our community members for their help and support this year. We had great success this year, es-pecially with the spaghetti dinner and the chicken barbeque dinner! As a result of your donations and support, we were able to raise enough money to send our band students to the Darien Lake Music Festival.

The Band Boosters would be honored to have any of our 4th -12th grade band parents and /or community members join our organization. The band boosters are dedicated to supporting our students, the directors, and the band program here in Addison. The Boosters work to promote student and community spirit, provide food and drink for special occasions, develop fundraising activities to support trips, serve as chaperones for these trips, help with all parades, and much more. Please inform Mrs. Hamblin at Tuscarora or Mrs. Vroman at the High School if you are able and willing to join the Addison Band Boosters. Thank you.

Addison School District Newsletter School Year 2008-09 Issue 35 Page 2 of 3 May 22, 2009

Academic Dinner

On Thursday, May 14th, 2009 the National Honor Society and the Student Council hosted the 24

th Annual Academic Dinner. The

following students and faculty members were honored:

High Honor Students: 12

th Grade

Melissa Baker Ariel Brewer Michelle Carapella Daniel Carr Brittani Clark Carey Crooker Charlotte Kemper Benjamin Geesaman Angelika Lisek Chelsea Kendall Amelia McClellan Emily Lyons Kassandra Prutsman Barbara Peter Yunjia Zhang (Tracy) Alexis Soporowski Cady Smith Elisha Vance

11th

Grade Tyler Graves Alicia Learn Joshulin Sommer Kara Sutton Charles Torrence

10th

Grade Jenna Crans Emily Geesaman Ashley Johnson Matthew Kahabka Alyssa Knapp Emily Linsler Logan Pallmann Jacob Reagan Elizabeth Smith Heaven Yarka

9th

Grade Cierra Chaploney Alivia Cole Kimberly Gomez Makenna Harris Allison Hynes Joshua Mosolf Anne Watkins Sara Cunningham

The Top Ten Seniors: Melissa Baker 1

st

Amelia McClellan 2nd

Carey Crooker 3 Kassandra Prutsman 4

th

Jessica Mosolf 5th

Barbara Peters 6th

Rebecca Mather 7th

Michelle Carapella 8th

Benjamin Geesaman 9th

Kayla Windnagle 10th

(Pictured to the right , from left to right: Michelle Carpella, Benjamin Geesman, Rebecca Mather, Barbara Peters, Carey Crooker, Jessica Mosolf, Kassandra Prustsman, and Melissa Baker)

National Technical Honor Society Samantha J. Gaboriault Katrina R. Hoad Alyssa M. Hughes Alicia M. Learn William S. Yeaples Michelle Carpella

Student Council: Karissa Flint, President Jacob Reagan, Vice President

Mrs. Eartha Onyiruka gave awards to the Job Partnership/EDOT students: Cary Crooker Kiernee Machuga Cady Smith Cynthia Stillman

Staff Sgt. Putnam awarded the Distinguished Athlete Award: Michelle Carapella.

The Outstanding Teacher Awards were given to: Mrs. Wendy Allard Mrs. Kelly Dickson Mrs. Misty Hively-Pierce Mrs. Beth Ann Jones Mr. Roger Seymour

(pictured to the left, from left to Right: Mrs. Hively-Pierce, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Seymour, Mrs. Dickson and Mrs. Allard)

Following the dinner and presentation of awards, guests were in-vited to the National Honor Society Induction in the High School Auditorium. Inducted new members: Rebecca Carr Tyler Graves Joshulin Sommer Karissa Flint Alicia Learn Bridgette Sutryk Rebekah Fort Katelyn Marchi Kara Sutton Megan Tomeno

We would like to thank all of the students, presenters, Honored Teachers, cafe-teria staff, Ad-ministration and especially the parents for making this evening so wonderful.

pictured above; Ms. Preston, Michelle Carpella and Mr. Carpella

pictured above; Samantha Gaboriault, Alicia Learn and William Yeaples

Pictured above, from left to right: K. Marchi, A. Learn, R. Carr, K. Flint, R. Fort, T. Graves, J. Sommer, B. Sutryk K. Sutton and M. Tomeno

Addison School District Newsletter School Year 2008-09 Issue 35 Page 3 of 3 May 22, 2009

Addison School District Events Date Event

25 May Memorial Day—No School

26 May 6:30 Board of Education Business Meeting

June 2nd & 3rd

New York State Social Studies Exam for 8th Grade

June 5th 7th—12th grades Pops Concert

June 9th 9 am Kindergarten Orientation

June 9th 6:30 Board of Education Work Session Valley School

June 11th Sports Banquet

June 16th—June 25th

New York State Regents Exams

June 26th 7 pm Graduation

Mrs. Rice’s Regents Review Schedule

AIS for English 11 will be in room 215.

Tuesdays: May 26 June 2, 9, 16

Wednesdays : May 27 June 10

3:00 – 3:30 Reading and Listening Practice

3:30 to 4:30 Writing practice and individual conference time

Students will receive extra credit for attending.

Regents Review – United States History and Government with

Mrs. Allard - American History Regents is June 16, 2009 at noon.

*The following review sessions will be in Room 214 from 3:00-4:30

Thursday, May 28 – Industrialization and Progressive Reform and Multiple Choice Tuesday, June 2 – World War I and World War II and Multiple Choice Thursday, June 4 – Roaring 20s, Great Depression, and New Deal Tuesday, June 9 – Cold War and Multiple Choice Thursday, June 11– Decade studies and recent Presidents and Multiple Choice Monday, June 15 – Document Analysis and DBQ Essay Tuesday, June 16 – Themes in American History (9:00-11:00)

What is happening at the Jennie Mose Family Resource Center

7 Cleveland Dr., Addison, NY

(lower level of the Tuscarora Elementary School) 607-359-3839

Center Hours: Mondays, Tuesday, and Thursday 9 am – 3 p.m.

Wednesdays 9 am—8 pm

May 25th—Memorial Day—Closed May 26th—10:30 Story Hour May 27th—10:30 Story Hour and 6 pm—8 pm Parenting with a Heart May 28th—10:30 Story Hour

Parenting with a Heart will be held on Wednes-days starting May 6th until July 8th, from 6 pm—8 pm. Topics include; discipline, addiction, sibling rivalry, child safety, communication and more. Child care is available, please call 359-3839 to register.

Math Review 3:00 – 4:30 pm Algebra Review Monday May 26th - room 107/204

Thursday, May 28th - room 107

Tuesday, June 2nd – room 107/204

Thursday, June 4th - room 107

Monday, June 8th - room 204

Tuesday June 9th - room 107/204

Thursday, June 11th - room 107

Thursday, June 19th – room 204 8-11am

Math B Review Wednesday, May 27th – room 218

Wednesday, June 3rd – room 218

Wednesday, June 10th – room 218

Tuesday, June 23rd – room 218 8 – 11 am

Geometry Review Wednesday, May 27th – room 220

Wednesday, June 3rd – room 220

Wednesday, June 10th – room 220

Monday, June 15th – room 220

Math Test Dates Tuesday, June 16th, Geometry Regents 8 am Wednesday, June 17th, RCT in Math 12 pm

Friday, June 19th, Integrated Algebra Regents 12PM Tuesday, June 23rd, Math B Regents 12 PM

Addison Sport Schedule May 25th-30th

Tuesday May 26th

Boys’ JV Baseball Home - Avoca 4:30 Girls’ JV Softball Home - Avoca 4:30

Wednesday May 27th Golf @ Mendon TBA

Thursday May 28th JV Baseball @ Bath 4:30

Friday May 29th

Modified Softball Home - Wellsville 4:30 Modified Baseball Home - Wellsville 4:30

Saturday May 30th Track Class CC Sectional at Marion TBS Sectional play to be announced!

All events are subject to change.

Dear Parents & Guardians: As we begin preparation for this year’s summer school program, it is necessary that we inform you of two temporary, but significant changes. Due to the capital construction/building project at the High School and the ongoing roof renovations to Tuscarora, this year’s Pre-K thru Grade 4 (and a combined 5/6 classroom) summer school will be held at the Valley Elementary School. Also, because of the limited amount of classrooms available, the number of students eligible to attend the program is limited. Letters of invite will be sent to the parents of students in academic need of attending the summer school program.

Contact Donna Taylor @ 359-2090 with any Addison school district summer school questions.

As an alternative to our traditional summer school program, students may attend the summer youth experience at the Addison Youth Center. This enjoy-able and educational program is designed for grades 4- 6. If you have any questions regarding the Youth Center program/curriculum, please contact Dawn at 359-2116.

Your patience is greatly appreciated as we continue to work on giving our students a first class, twenty first century education.

Below please find additional information about the Addison Youth Center Program

The Addison Youth Center will be sponsoring a Summer Program which is tentatively scheduled to run from July 6th until August 13th. The program will be held from 8:00am until 12:30pm Monday through Thursday.

The weekly themes currently being planned: Science/Technology (week of July 6), Golf/First Tee weeks (week of July 13 and July 27), Water week (week of July 20), and Field Trip weeks (week of August 3 and August 10). The AYC Summer Program is open to Addison Central School District students cur-rently enrolled in 4th, 5th, or 6th grade. Each weekly program will be limited to 40 students. The First Tee program, which will run concurrently with Golf week, will be limited to 20 students and will require a separate registration. The ACSD will provide transportation for the AYC summer program. Each stu-dent must enroll in each weekly program prior to the start of the program. Summer program weekly sign-ups will be accepted until June 26, 2009. Weekly program registration can be done online at addisonyouthcenter.blogspot.com or forms can be picked up at the AYC.

If you have questions you can call the AYC at 359-2116 or stop by the center at 21 Community Dr., Addison NY.

Addison Vocal Music Pops Concert

Addison Middle-Senior High School Vocal Music Department will present a Pops Concert on Friday, June 5th at 7:30pm in the High School’s Auditorium for the Performing Arts. The Concert will feature the combined talents of Senior High Voice Class One and Middle School Voice Class Select. Concert tickets can be reserved by calling the High School Library at 359-2241 from 8am-3:30pm Monday through Friday.

Memorial Day - Addison School will be closed on

Friday, May 22nd and Monday, May 25th. We wish

everyone a safe and wonderful weekend. See you back

in school on Tuesday the 26th.

Thank you to everyone who took time to participate in the annual school vote on May 19th.