Roosevelt’s own Addisyn Knight was featured on Philadelphia’s Channel 3 CBS News after taking part in the Camp Abilities program at Rowan University! To see the whole story, please check out this YouTube link to see Addy in action!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4pfxdHyW_M
Roosevelt School students held a very special and ceremonious Veteran’s Day Assembly and Celebration for our Veterans of Foreign War. The SPHS chorus, orchestra, and band all came to Roosevelt to play for our Vets and were amazing! There were also some dramatic readings of poetry by our students, as well as a presentation to our Vets of nearly 500 student-created and colorfully decorated cards, complete with a personal message thanking them for their service to our country! The ceremony was capped off with the entire school singing “Grand Ole Flag”, with each waving their very own American Flag! Well done, Roosevelt!
Today Roosevelt students were treated to an assembly relating to Environmental Science and conservation. The Illusion Maker company performed a show that combined the imagery of illusion and magic with an educational twist about the importance of taking great care of our environment by Reducing, Reusing, Recycling, and NOT littering! Special thanks to Dr. Tempel and the Borough of South Plainfield for sponsoring and bringing this “Clean Communities Assembly Program” to our school!
Roosevelt students (and staff) really got into celebrating Red Ribbon Week (and it’s slogan of “Be Kind to Your Mind: Live Drug Free!”). This week students got into the spirit with Crazy Hair Day (see students) and wearing your favorite animal print (see Tigress Teachers)!
Roosevelt students got paid a special visit from our School Resource Officers today! SRO Rene Marte and SRO Stephen Petriello put on a very informative presentation about Bicycle Safety and Halloween Safety. Thank you SROs!!
Roosevelt School Student Council, under the direction and guidance of Mrs. Hyun and Mrs. Gwiazda, organized a fantastic fundraiser for the victims of the Hawaiian Maui Fires. Students were able to purchase leis for two dollars each and on Friday October 20th, “Hawaiian Day” happened at Roosevelt! Student efforts raised $1137 dollars toward the cause and these proceeds were donated to the Maui Food Bank! Great Job Roosevelt!
Roosevelt students really got into celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! One particular activity that brought the passionate side out in the students, was learning about some of our current day Hispanic heritage heroes like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who are both arguably the biggest athletic names in the world! Students got to vote on whom they thought was better by decorating the uniform jersey of their favorite player, and then posting it to the board hanging in the hallway. Can you count them up and see who got the most?
Roosevelt students were wild for Tiger Bucks this month—with the building theme being RESPECT!
The BRAIN SHOW Assembly came to center stage at Roosevelt School, as students got the chance to participate in a real-live game show! In the evening, parents and entire Roosevelt Families were invited to participate together once more. This was very much enjoyed by all. Special THANKS to the Roosevelt PTO for setting this up for us!
Roosevelt third grade student Aadhav Shankar was selected to display two separate pieces of his original artwork The Tulip Field and The Night Sky (both pictured below) at the 4th World Cultural Arts Festival at the National Mall grounds in Washington D.C. this past weekend! Hundreds of submissions came in from around the world, and Angie (an 88 year old professional artist pictured below with Aadhav and his mom) picked Aadhav’s work to be displayed. If you see Aadhav, Grade 3 in Ms. Lyne’s class, on the playground, on the bus, or in the halls of Roosevelt School, be sure to congratulate him. We are very proud of him, as are his parents (seen below with Aadhav)!
Roosevelt School’s nurse, Mrs. DeAndrea, is retiring after 27 years in district, ALL 27 years at Roosevelt School. Mrs. DeAndrea is the epitome of excellence! She will be so very missed!
Roosevelt students were treated to a special two-man play / Earth science assembly by The Grand Falloons, where they were taught about the effects of pollution in our waterways that the kids really enjoyed!
The South Plainfield School District hosted their second annual Band Festival Day on March 29 at the South Plainfield Middle School. 316 band students participated. Every band student from the High School, the Middle School, the Grant School and all four elementary schools participated. Each school played one piece by themselves and then they played it again with the older schools joining in.
March is “Music in Our Schools” Month! Here at Roosevelt students and staff were inspired to dress like rock stars on “Old Time Rock and Roll Tuesday”! They are all already rock stars, but yes, they dressed like them too!
At Roosevelt the Harlem Wizards stopped by for a quick promotional assembly for the students before the main event, which was last Saturday night’s big game against the South Plainfield Teacher Tigers! The Teachers fell to the Wizards 70-47, but a wonderful time was had by all as the Wizards and Teaching Tigers entertained the sold out crowd all night long!
March is Music in our Schools Month! Next week at Roosevelt School please dress accordingly for our spirit week!
Our Roosevelt’s most talented dominated the Central Jersey Music Educators Association awards presentations this year. See the students from Roosevelt that were selected below.
CJMEA Honors Orchestra Picture #1 (Left to Right): Joaquin Jiminez, Joshua Osuebi, Garvika Sri Priya Golla. Anokhi Patel. Colette Cabot, Saanavi Pathak. CJMEA Treble Honors Choir Picture #2 (Left to Right): Colette Cabot, Joshua Osuebi, Kennedy Calderone, Zia Loriega. CJMEA Honors Band Picture #3 (Left to Right): Sean Tutelman, Aiden Truong, Leila Feliciano, Taara Pahalijani. Congrats again to our fine Roosevelt Musicians and Vocalists!
At Roosevelt’s Diversity Day, our students showed their cultural pride of ethnicity! Our school shows its unity through its diversity, which is why Diversity Day has been one of our greatest days of the year thus far! Many proud moments for Roosevelt school this year!
Student’s at Roosevelt were treated to an assembly on MINDFULNESS by Ryan Benz, as he explained to our students how he used Mindfulness to make it through his journey of hiking the Adirondack Trail!
Students got the fabulous opportunity to “Read Across Roosevelt” as well! This is when all of our Roosevelt students, on Read Across America Day, all come out into the hallway of Roosevelt and do silent sustained reading for a minimum of 20 minutes at the end of the day! It kind of puts the exclamation point on what is already an outstanding day for all!
