By Kimmy Wada, Instructional Paraprofessional April showers bring May flowers – and awareness about autism! April is Autism Awareness Month. To show their support, Room 1 has created a bulletin board featuring an Autism Tree, encouraging Ocean Academy staff and students to “grow their awareness.” Sixth grade student, Cody, went around the school to get everyone […]
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By: David Laudien/Student and Mr. T.J. Casey/Instructional Paraprofessional Did you know this is the 79th running year of the NCAA Men’s Division 1 basketball tournament? For sports fans, March Madness in one of the most exciting times of the year. Buzzer beaters, overtimes and upsets are all part of this action-packed month! Every year, 68
By: Mrs. Gwen Specht /Instructional Paraprofessional On Thursday, Ocean Academy participated in National Coffee Day. Staff members took groups of students to the nearby Wawa to sample the different varieties of coffee and hot drinks. On this day each year Wawa gives away a free 16 oz. cup of coffee. There were many other customers
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By: Drennan Hayden/Art Teacher In order to commemorate Women’s History Month (March) the students all chose an influential woman to illustrate. Student selection included Amelia Earhart, Ronda Rousey, The Queen of England, Rosa parks and many more. The illustrations were posted to the bulletin board with a large painting of Rosie the Riveter as the
Recently the students and staff of Ocean Academy – took on a project that took on a life of its own. A few of the students with a love of photography went out and took some amazing landscape shots around the Jersey Shore to enter in the Art & Soul Exhibit, however, they didn’t
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By: Lizzie Hopley/AFTLS & Mrs. Heather Lacher/Instructional Paraprofessional Actors From the London Stage workshop of The Taming of the Shrew “Your whole life is a canvas! And you are the paintbrush!” “Where’s that quote from?” I ask. “Me!” Comes the exuberant reply. It’s by far the best response I’ve had to the exercise I’m currently doing
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By: Mr. B/Gym Teacher & Instructional Paraprofessional Trouble brings the competition to Social Skills every Wednesday! What started off with just one simple game turned into a competitive tournament. Each week one new staff member or student is named “The Trouble Champion”. Not only does the winner get bragging right, they also get the Trouble
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By: Kathleen Caffee/Science Teacher & Drennan Hayden/Art Teacher Biology students have created a one of a kind piece of art! Not only do they look amazing but the students have shown that they understood the levels of ecosystem organization. Each student choose an ecosystem type: desert, forest, ocean and freshwater stream. From there they choose a particular
By: Gwen Specht/Instructional Paraprofessional On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Ocean Academy culinary classes participated in a sushi making demonstration. Ms. Gwen briefly explained the process of making sushi rice. These steps consist of cooking the sushi rice and drizzling seasoned rice wine vinegar over the steaming rice. The students also were shown the seaweed sheets
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Kara Armellino/Instructional Paraprofessional “When things in life shatter and there is no hope of reassembly, use the pieces to create a mosaic that is even more beautiful than what you started with.” -Unknown Students in Ms. Catalano’s World History class were introduced to the Byzantine Empire and the art form that played a huge role
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