Congratulations to our First Place Science Fair winners in Grades 1-8.They will represent St. Raymond Elementary School at the Bronx-wide Science Fair at Mount St. Michael Academy on March 28. Thank you to all the students who worked so hard on their projects.

Grades 1-4 First Place winners with Mrs. Silvia D’Arco, Sr. Mary Cleary, SC; Sr. Josefa Marie Curcio, CSJB; and Mr. Eugene Scanlon.

Bottom step, Lucas Garcia, 1^st Grade. Next step, left to right, Laura Rodriguez, 4^th Grade; Raymond Menendez, 2^nd Grade; Alexandra Batista, 3^rd Grade.

Grades 5-8 First Place winners with Mrs. D’Arco, Mrs. Vanessa Singh and Mr. Scanlon.

Bottom step, Ariana Menendez, 5^th Grade. Next step, left to right, Isabella Guzman-Gallego, 6^th Grade; Nathan Peguero, 7^th Grade and Tiffany Lahuatte-Cedeno,
8^th Grade.

UPK students recently completed a building unit in which they learned about the building process, the types of jobs involved in the creation and maintenance of a building (architects, designers, engineers, plumbers, electricians, etc.) and the types of buildings they see in their own communities. Afterwards, they created buildings of their own that were displayed in our main floor hallway. See below for samples of the students’ work.

Students in our three Kindergarten classes celebrated the 100^th day of school on Monday, February 11 by dressing up as if they were 100 years old.


Top, left to right, Kindergarten East and Kindergarten West. Bottom, Kindergarten North. They look pretty good for 100 years old, don't they?

Students from Mrs. Fragoso’s reading group served as reading buddies to our Pre-K 3 students recently. To strengthen their oral reading skills, several 5th Graders read aloud to the younger students, either one-on-one or one reader to a couple of students. Our youngest students enjoyed being read to by the older students and Mrs. Fragoso plans to have reading buddies visit Pre-K 3 again.

Congratulations to Melissa Leka of class 7-308, who has been awarded the Edward Cardinal Egan Scholarship. Sponsored by the Tri-State Italian American Congress, the scholarship is awarded to students of Italian heritage attending Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of New York. Brava, Melissa!

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