A look back at the 2016 Ocean Academy school year… https://youtu.be/Bbxm_7kudxU This year’s senior class trip was a two hour cruise on the Spirit of New Jersey. Sailing on the Hudson River provided spectacular of views of the NYC skyline, including the Empire State Building, The Freedom Tower, and a close up view of the […]
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Contributed By A Student On June 1st, Ocean Academy went to the Ocean County Landfill in Manchester Township. The students saw a brief presentation on how the landfill works while they had donuts thanks to Mr. Fink, a former student’s dad. After the presentation, students and staff boarded the bus and went on a tour
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The students in Environmental Science and Marine Science had the pleasure of participating in the “Trout in the Classroom” program. Ocean Academy students witnessed the life cycle of trout firsthand and recently released them in the stream at Riverwood Park. Students had the opportunity to release trout individually as well as record the fish acclimating and
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Ocean Academy held its annual OA’s got Talent show on Friday, 6/3. The show ran for nearly an hour. Students emceed the show, played guitar, sang, danced, and performed skits. Mr. Berman’s students made the decorations and set up for the show.
After creating a video promoting Ocean Mental Health Services, Matt Ryan visited Ocean Academy to speak with the students about his career as a radio personality, dealing with disabilities in the working world and life in general. On May 18th, Matt Ryan
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By R Scheiderman and an OA student On May 11th, Ocean Academy attended a Colloquium Conference sponsored by the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (Cchange) at Brookdale Community College; which focused on facing racism. Dr. Terrence Roberts was 15 years old when Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated. After
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Several students from Ocean Academy participated in the “Facing Racism” student art project sponsored by “cchange” at Brookdale Community College. The exhibit opened Sunday, April 10th and will continue through December 16th. Many local schools, along with OA contributed to the exhibit. Each school submitted an artistic “face” of racism, as well as an essay demonstrating
BY: Eileen Catalano English/Social Studies Teacher Ocean Academy students recently had the unique experience to work with master glassblower Nick Emeric and his associates Samie Dingfeld and Alex Raptis at Hot Sand of Asbury. Each student worked one on one with a glassblower to design and blow a glass egg. They were given the opportunity
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Students enjoyed a History Painting Party as a culminating activity to studying the Harlem Renaissance. We chose as our artist, Romare Bearden and his city scape painting. Each student put their unique twist on this famous artists painting. .
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The students in Environmental Science and Marine Science are actively participating in an exciting program! This is the second year Ocean Academy has had the pleasure of participating in “Trout in the Classroom”. Last year, the students enjoyed watching the life cycle of trout firsthand and releasing them in a local stream. The art class
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