District News

The Vietnam War is an integral part of the history curriculum for eighth graders at Suffern Middle School. And to make this monumental moment in history more relatable for students, eighth grade teachers went straight to the source: local veterans who spent part of their teens and early 20s in country.

Releasing trout that they’ve hatched from eggs is a time honored tradition for students in Suffern Central and yesterday second graders from Sloatsburg Elementary had a chance release their fish into the stream at the Thomas F. Bollato Jr. Community Field.

hird graders have a big decision to make for next year: what instrument to play as fourth graders! And here to guide them through the process are Suffern’s stellar music teachers, who spent the day at Cherry Lane and Montebello organizing the first ever Musical Petting Zoo during school hours.

A sure sign that graduation is near is #DecisionDay, a national event celebrating the final day for students to accept their college admissions. And SHS’s Class of 2025 headed outdoors during Unit Lunch proudly wearing hats, t-shirts and sweatshirts declaring their decision. Congratulations Class of 2025! Your future is as bright as this beautiful day!

Spring intramurals begin next week! More information for sixth-graders here! 

CKLA-inspired creativity strikes again! This time, it's at Sloatsburg Elementary where kindergarten classes were treated to a royal tea party, complete with Teddy Grahams and apple juice, to celebrate the end of their unit. The classes studied kings and queens and learned about notable figures that were featured in nursery rhymes. (Good ole' Old King Cole was a favorite.) They've spent the past several weeks writing stories and drawing pictures inspired by the stories they read and today, they got to dress up in their favorite royal costumes for a special tea. 

A Mountie's service to the Suffern community doesn't end once they've graduated from Suffern High School. Fourth graders in Mrs. Fleischmann's class at Cherry Lane witnessed this firsthand when they had the opportunity to get real world engineering advice from Scott Fleischmann (SHS '20).

Suffern Middle School teachers Russ Rice and K.C. Davan are fans of both history and amusement parks so it’s only natural that they would come up with a #PBL that marries both interests. Eighth graders in Davan’s class created a park that had four different lands based off of historical events that happened in the 1920s with clever names like Politics Plaza and Depression Drive. They also used ChatGPT to create super realistic images of their theme parks. (Creating the images and coming up with the rides was the most fun part, students told us. Creating the website was the most difficult.)