News & Notices
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On March 13, Memorial Elementary School hosted its first-ever Multicultural Festival. Students and families toured the world enjoying food samples, music, dances, crafts, and traditional dress from across the globe.
Memorial Elementary School celebrated Read Across America Week from March 4–8, 2024! On Thursday, March 7, students brought books to life by dressing up as their favorite book characters.
On February 29, Memorial School fourth graders competed in game show-style competitions, pied each other in the face, had an epic dance battle, and much more at Powerhouse Studios in Paramus!
Students at Memorial Elementary School enjoyed a Mad Science assembly on Monday, February 5. Scientists performed experiments on a variety of science topics showing kids how our world works in an exciting hands-on way.
The Paramus Public Schools and the Littogether Learning Communities proudly present community learning workshop days. On January 18 the workshop, led by author Hannah Schneewind, was entitled “Teaching Readers and Teaching Reading: Strategies for Centering Students While Supporting Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension.”
Teachers of grades k–5 inside and outside the Paramus district attended the full day workshop at Memorial Elementary School. Schneewind is co-author of a book called Trusting Readers: Powerful Practices for Independent Reading which focuses on integrating reading skills into instruction that teaches the whole child. The workshop explored how to introduce strategies for getting to know readers, specific language to use while giving them feedback, and how to balance focusing on the reader with focusing on the skills associated with reading.
Mr. Tom Marshall, principal of Paramus’ Stony Lane Elementary School and founder of Littogether Learning and the New Jersey Literacy Leaders’ Network, explained, “Sometimes we think that being a good teacher of reading means paying attention to the nuts and bolts of the language, and sometimes we think it’s about the meaning-making that happens when reader meets text. It’s really not one or the other. Being an effective teacher means being able to teach both the reader and reading. We need to be prepared to give feedback about metacognition and attribution as well as to give feedback about decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills.”