Congratulations to our amazing artists! While at the Art Show at Bethel Woods on Thursday, April 13, five RCS students won six awards: Nevaeh Bush won Student Choice and Artists Choice awards; and the following won Student Choice awards: Angelena Hund, Gabriella Alger, Brooke Bull, and Kelsey Ryder. Awards were given by professional artists from the area and by high school students participating in the Art Show. The public opening reception is from 2 to 6 p.m. today, April 14, and the show will continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 15 and 16.
​The Roscoe Teachers' Association is proud to sponsor our RCS artists at the annual Sullivan County PK-12 Art Show! Artwork by students in Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade will be featured at the Art Show at Bethel Woods on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 14-16. The opening reception for artists and their families will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Friday, with the public opening from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Please stop by to admire the creativity of our students! We plan to show photos from the event later.
Over spring break, members of the Wellness Committee installed a Sensory Path in the Faculty Room hallway. It offers students and staff guided movement opportunties. The project was created in conjunction with Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County, Creating Healthy Schools and Communities.
The Class of 2027 will be participating in the Little Caesars Pizza fundraiser again this year, starting tomorrow, Wednesday, April 12. Please see an eighth grader to retrieve their link, or scan their QR code to order pizza, breadsticks, and/or cookie dough. To reach an eighth grader, email ndavidson@roscoe.k12.ny.us or njuron@roscoe.k12.ny.us and they will get you in touch with a class member. All orders are delivered right to your door via FedEx within seven days of purchase. The sale will end Friday, April 21. Thank you for supporting Roscoe's Class of 2027!
Roscoe-Rockland Ambulance Corp., in coordination with the New York State Citizen Preparedness Corps, will host an emergency preparedness training at 6 p.m. Friday, May 19. at Roscoe Central School. The event is open to the public 18 and older. The training will teach residents to have the tools and resources to prepare for any type of disaster, respond accordingly and recover as quickly as possible to pre-disaster conditions. The course will address natural and manmade disasters. Participants will be advised on how to properly prepare for any disaster, including developing family emergency plans and stocking up on emergency supplies. Each family that attends will receive one preparedness kit. Registration is required and must be made by visiting https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RCS05192023
The High School Video Editing class and our second graders collaborated to create weather report videos recently. See a sample of their work here: https://youtu.be/U6MaiHBMCcA
Earlier this week, the Class of 2023 presented their plans for their senior trip to the Board of Education. The trip is scheduled for June 4-7 in Ocean City, Maryland.
Our pre-k students recently completed their first directed drawing activity. Check out their awesome work.
John Conway, Sullivan County historian, spoke to the third, fourth and sixth grade classes on March 27 about colonial history in New York state. His presentation focused on how the first settlers came to the area, how they lived, how they worked, and how they did everything they could to survive successfully. He made clear to all of the kids that it was very difficult to survive in this time period. Mr. Conway spent about one hour talking, and at the end of the presentation, was kind enough to answer many questions. The students each had an active listening organizer and were not only taking notes during the presentation but were formulating their questions to be shared at the end with Mr. Conway. What made Mr. Conway’s presentation even more interesting was that the third and fourth graders had already been to Fort Delaware in Narrowsburg and quickly remembered what they learned during our fall field trip there.
Barbara Moran from Cornell Cooperative Extension visited RCS on March 22 as part of Agricultural Literacy Week. Students in first grade through fourth grade planted tomato seeds and read the story "Tomatoes for Neela." Each classroom received a copy of the book. We thank Ms. Moran for visiting school.
Congratulations to Zaylee Cox and Ashlee Ladenhauf on being named to the OCIAA All-League girls basketball team! Read more here: https://www.scdemocratonline.com/stories/bcany-ociaa-announces-girls-basketball-all-league,88588?
Cupcakes and Mice and Snails, Oh my!
PK-4 students have been busy making ceramic projects. The kiln is almost full and then projects will be on display soon.
During the Great Depression, a "city" of the newly poor built shanties in Central Park. Herbert Hoover was seen as president who did not care about the people’s plight so they named their "city" Hooverville as the ultimate insult. These are life-size shanties that groups of eighth grade students designed and built with cardboard and a roll of duct tape. The structure had to have room for each person in the group to be able to "get out of the elements."
Works of art are sometimes framed by the frame of a computer screen or phone. Jacob and Angie in Shannon Henke's digital art class recently completed their final projects and showcased art can be done in a digital realm. As part of her project, Angie used Adobe PhotoShop to place herself in the National Gallery Of Art Jacob created an animated stop-motion film, which can be seen at https://tinyurl.com/9zjps4we, using wooden model figures borrowed from Mrs. Hood.
Seventh grade students recently performed a readers theatre on the War of 1812. These photos are off the props they made to support their roles. Microphones for narrators, mustaches for generals, flags for the countries involved and a bonnet for the woman who sewed the giant flag that flew over Fort McHenry that inspired Francisco’s Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Students in Studio Art demonstrated their creative skills using wood burning tools this winter. Here are a few of their artistic projects.
Our younger elementary classes celebrated St. Patrick's Day on Friday with painting, drawing and other projects, as well as wearing green to avoid being pinches by the leprechaun.
Roscoe Central School honored its fall and winter athletes at a ceremony on Thursday, March 16. The modified and JV/Varsity ceremonies were combined into one because of the winter storm earlier in the week. Congratulations to all of our athletes. See more photos from the event on our Facebook page
Angie Hund, an RCS junior, has been accepted to The School of The New York Times Summer Academy. Angie will spend two weeks in New York City participating in a creative writing program and networking with other aspiring writers. Angie is a journalist and social media editor at Manor Ink. This lover of literature can also be found working at and organizing children's programs at the Livingston Manor Free Library, as well as working weekends at Hound Books in Roscoe. Congratulations Angie!
Congratulations to Ashlee Ladenhauf and Zaylee Cox for being named to the Sullivan County Democrat's Girls Basketball All-Star list. https://www.scdemocratonline.com/stories/sullivan-county-democrat-girls-all-stars,87039?
