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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By: Mr. Hayden/Art Teacher February is a big month. The biggest. Huge. People say , ‘Mr. Hayden your class is the best. Your class is the biggest’. And they’re right People love my class. So, so much. Believe me. So during my ‘executive time’ I came up with this idea. Seemed like a simple solution
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By: Teresa Salisbury/ Instructional Paraprofessional Today the students and staff were entertained by “ Las Cafeteras” at Ocean County College. The atmosphere was electric with music, song, and dance. The group’s members were excited to share their combined passion- introducing the world to the music of their roots. The performers shared family histories from Mexico
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By: Charla Cole/ Instructional Paraprofessional The students and staff at Ocean Academy had the pleasure to meet Rashad Malik Davis, author and illustrator of “Carefree Like Me”. This book centers around two best friends who magically get pulled into another dimension. In their quest to make it back home they soon realize they must rely
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By: Kathleen Caffee/Science Teacher Ocean Academy students and staff are thrilled to see our trout tank restocked! A volunteer for the NJ Fish & Wildlife Agency, Paul Russo, was greatly welcomed into school with a bucket of fish. Paul informed our students that the fish traveled from the only fish hatchery in our state, Pequest
