Our 2025 CCSD "Seed of Selflessness" Award Winner is......
McConnellsville Elementary interventionist Michele Zimmermann!
Read More: https://www.camdenschools.org/article/2246673
At the end of Wednesday morning's festivities, we got our fourth grade winners from each school together, along with team photos from Camden and McConnellsville! After a day of spirited competition, the bar has been set high (pun intended) for our third graders on Friday!
On Wednesday, fourth graders from both elementary schools came together to compete as part of the annual Camden Central School District fourth grade track meet! The event is always a highlight of the year, especially for this group as they prepare to become one Blue Devil family at Camden Middle School this fall!
Students strived to do their best while representing their school in six individual track events, five field events, and an exciting mixed 4x100 meter relay. Along the way, the competitors also learned how much they've grown since their third grade meet a year ago!
The CCSD Third Grade Track and Field Meet scheduled for Thursday morning has been postponed to its rain date, Friday 5/30 (Tomorrow).
The start time remains 9:15 AM on the new date.
This change does not affect today's Section III Championship Meet at CHS.
In art class with Miss Lis, 3rd graders from Miss Sochia’s class at McVille took their artwork outside to splatter paint! (And after the weeks of weather we've had, it's certainly wise to cash in on the sunshine while we can!)
Student took inspiration from artists like Jim Dine and Jackson Pollock to create these awesome projects. Great job, third graders!
In art class with Miss Lis, 3rd graders from Miss Sochia’s class took their artwork outside to splatter paint! Student took inspired from artists Jim Dine and Jackson Pollock. Check out some of these awesome projects. Great job, third graders!
Check out some spectacular student artworks that Miss Lis hung up in the new conference room at McConnellsville!
Our colleague Alissa Barber will become Mrs. Izzo on Saturday! She brought in her dog Cannoli today sporting her very own wedding dress , pearl necklace and veil! Best wishes on your wedding, Alissa!!
The McConnellsville Joint 4th Grade Book Club and Student Council Food Drive to benefit the Camden Food Pantry ends TOMORROW. Can you please help them reach their goal of 200 items? Contact Shelley Malenowski (smalenowski@camdencsd.org), or send items in with your McConnellsville student or staff member!
By the way..... another in-demand item that pantries often look for? Canned fruit! That joins peanut butter and boxed cereal in the top three most-requested items!
The third most requested item from food pantries is canned fruit. Our last day of collecting food for the Camden Food Pantry is tomorrow. Won't you please help us?
Did you know that one of the most needed items at a food pantry is boxed cereal? Do you have an extra box you can donate to our Food Drive for the Camden Food Pantry? Our drive runs until Friday!
Another top requested item at food pantries is peanut butter. Our Food Drive for the Camden Food Pantry lasts until Friday, if you'd like to send in a jar with your student!
Need something important ahead of the upcoming weekend? Connected Community Schools can help! They are having Open Hub hours at CHS from 4 PM to 6 PM on Wednesday, 5/21. Please enter through the front bus loop entrance. Contact Valarie at the number listed on the flyer if you have questions.
Polls are now open at CHS for the budget vote and Board of Education elections! They will run from noon to 9 PM.
Last week in art class with Miss Lis, 3rd graders worked in art centers. Students switched between using how to draw books, white boards and learning how to create spiral art. 3rd graders had so much fun!
The McConnellsville food drive continues this week!
It's spring, and our "Look at Me, I'm Three!" participants are growing so fast! So it was only fitting that we had a flower-themed May meeting on Wednesday!
The group practiced some relaxing mindfulness, then read the silly story "Grow Flower Grow!" by Lisa Bruce. In the story, Fran tries to feed her flower spaghetti and pizza to make it grow!
Then, it was craft time! Attendees made a paper craft, and also planted flowers for themselves (sans spaghetti). As they keep growing, those flowers will grow with them!
Mark your calendars! June 4th will be our last "Look At Me, I'm Three!" for the school year before our friends head off to Pre-K in September!
Mrs. Malenowski's 3rd grade reading group read Last Stop on Market Street, made their own buses, and coded them to make sounds and drive with SAM Labs robotics.
Budget Update 5/16/25
We would like to inform you that in the 2025–26 budget notice, the amounts listed in the program and capital components are reversed in the contingency budget column only. This does not impact the total amount of the contingency budget as listed.
You can click here ( https://5il.co/3er3p ) to view an updated version of the notice. The update will also be reflected in the online version of our budget newsletter.
McConnellsville fourth graders had a great time learning about the animal kingdom on Thursday with their field trip to Syracuse's Rosamond Gifford Zoo!
