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COMMUNITY
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SAGE -
Shenendehowa Advocates for Gifted Education Website
SAGE sponsors Saturday Scholars, a program of mini-courses designed to provide
challenging enrichment opportunities for academically, creatively and
artistically talented children.
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Shen Dollars for Scholars program offers a
wide-range of scholarships. Memorial Scholarships include those in memory of
Kyle Hempstead, Adam Haswell, Susan Jill Hughes, Nicole Lee, and PJ O'Donnell.
Additional scholarships with specific emphases, as well as the general DFS
scholarship, are also available. Interested applicants should visit the website
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Karigon is one of
four
elementary
schools
located
on
the
main
campus.
It
is
connected
to
Orenda
Elementary
School
sharing
a
cafeteria/auditorium.
It opened in 1968.
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Posted on 6/24/09
Karigon's New Puzzle Pieces Logo Sign
Dedication. Members of the
Karigon School community gathered to dedicate the new logo sign. Principal
Greg Wing spoke about the process used to bring the school's community together
to decide upon a new school logo. Fifth grade Student Council President Class
of 2008, Olivia Pickett, and Mike Valiquette, the eleventh grade Shen HS
student who designed the logo, attended the dedication.
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Posted on 5/27/09
2009-10 School Supplies
Beginning September 2009, Shenendehowa has prepared
district-wide supply list guidelines for elementary schools.
Click here to view. This
is an effort to regulate the amount of supplies that parents have to
purchase at the beginning of the year.
Karigon school supply lists for
September 2009:
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Posted 5/22/09
Karigon Earth Day and
Arbor Day Celebration.
 
  
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Posted 5/20/09
Half-day schedule for June:
- Friday, June 12, AM Kind.
attends, no PM Kind.: Karigon K-5
are dismissed at 11:15 a.m.
- Friday, June 19, AM Kind.
attends, no PM Kind.: Karigon K-5
are dismissed at 11:15 a.m.
- Wednesday, June 24, no Kind.
attends: Karigon gr. 1-5 are dismissed at 11:15 a.m.
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Posted on 5/8/09
Animal
Protective Foundation sponsored an essay and poster contest with the theme Be
Kind it Animals. Iida Nyman (fourth grade at Karigon) won the essay
contest with honorable mention for her essay about our class pet, Nutmeg the
guinea pig. Julia Newhall (fourth grade at Karigon) won first place for her
poster showing Pets Need Love Too. Congratulations to both winners! We are
proud of you!
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Posted on 5/8/09
Author Peter Lourie visited
Karigon. He writes books for children as well as adults about his various
travels throughout the world. His books for youngest readers include Amazon,
Hudson River, Yukon River and others. While here at Karigon, Mr. Lourie did a
whole group presentation for grades 3-5 on his Hudson River adventure from Tear
of the Clouds to Manhattan by canoe. Later in the day Mr. Lourie presented
additional slides and information on writer's workshop in the fourth grade
classrooms. He signed books for the students and got all of us excited about
being an explorer. Here are some pictures of his visit.
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Posted on 4/23/09
Karigon celebrated Young Authors’ Week in
March. During the week parents were invited to come to their child’s
classroom to celebrate their child's
writing. The goal of the week was for children to share
their writing and see themselves as writers.
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Posted on 4/3/09
Middle school boundary changes - As a result of the need to balance
enrollments across the three middle schools students from the various elementary
schools will be reassigned. The major changes are:
- Skano, Shatekon and
approximately half of Arongen 5th graders will go to Koda for sixth grade.
- Chango, Karigon and Orenda
5th graders will go to Gowana for sixth grade.
- Tesago, Okte and
approximately half of Arongen 5th graders will go to Acadia for sixth grade.
Students currently in middle
school will remain assigned to the same school until they move on to High School
West for 9th grade.
Requests to attend the same
school as a sibling should be sent to the superintendent's office. Students with
specialized programs may be assigned to a different middle school for that
particular program. Formal notifications will be mailed to parents next week. |
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Posted 3/26/08
As part of a class project, Mr. Sawyer's students at Karigon Elementary
School built an igloo in their classroom. The Karigon community donated 787
gallon jugs which were used to construct the igloo over the course of February.
As a culminating activity, Mr. Sawyer's class gave tours of their igloo to the
entire school and a contest was held to estimate how many gallon jugs were used.
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Posted 3/25/08
Karigon Reflections 2008-09- Theme: "WOW!"
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Latest news from the Reflections State
Judging Results: Ellen Yang's Reflections literature entry from Karigon
Elementary received first place at the State Level in the Intermediate
Division (grades 3-5). Congratulations Ellen!! This is the 4th consecutive
year that Karigon has had an entry forwarded from Northeast Region to
States. Great job!! |
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Posted 3/20/08
On Thursday, March 19th author Mark Graber and illustrator Jack
Graber visited Karigon and met with students in Kindergarten, first grade, and
second grade. The local brothers told the children about a childhood
adventure that inspired their book “The Legend of Moon County.” Mark and Jack
talked with the children about finding inspiration and using your imagination,
the writing process, and how a book is made. Jack also taught the children some
creative drawing techniques.
  
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Posted 3/3/08
Parents of Karigon Students,
As you may be aware,
our Karigon Partnership Team is working on 3 main goal areas one of which is
to “Improve Communication to Parents”. We have created a means by which you can
share your knowledge or expertise in the classroom.
Community Resources
Survey
We invite you to become
a partner in our HOME-SCHOOL CURRICULUM CONNECTION by completing an on-line
survey. The information collected will be used to develop a COMMUNITY RESOURCES
database to be shared with our teachers. We would like to strengthen our social
network and curriculum by finding local family, business and community members
who can assist in our educational programs. If you are interested or you know of
someone who would be able to assist and have a hobby or expertise in a
particular area, please fill out this online survey
Click Here:
http://www.shenet.org/karigon/KPT/KPT_communityresourcessurvey.asp |
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Posted
2/25/09
Karigon is
sponsoring a "Young Authors' Week" on March 16-20 and also
an Author Visit for grades K-2 on Thur., March 19 (plus
another author visit for grades 3-5 in April). For
Young Authors' Week they are celebrating the children as
writers and inviting parents in to see and hear some of
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Posted 2/17/08
Mike
Valiquette, HS East 11th grade student, has won the design contest to create
Karigon’s New Logo! Karigon’s Class of 2008 fifth graders decided upon a
“Puzzle Piece Logo” sign for the outside of the school as their gift. The next
step will be to turn this logo into a sign which will be placed on the outside
of Karigon.Congratulations Mike!
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Posted 2/17/08
The Karigon
Chorus Movie. This musical was conceived by the Karigon Theater Writers’
Workshop in a desire to express as many December traditions as possible:
Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years Day, First Snowfall, Eid al-Adha, Kwanzaa,
Winter and Santa. The story, characters and dialogue were compiled so that
all of us can appreciate the richness we share at this time of year. The
concert was filmed Dec. 10, 2008.
Click here and
click the PLAY button to watch. (Approx. 14 min.)
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Posted 2/9/08
Assemblyman Reilly
visited Karigon on in February to congratulate fifth grade
students for winning the contest "Take Me to Vote," which
was sponsored by the Saratoga County League of Women
Voters.
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Thanks to parents,
students, and teachers, Karigon had the largest
percentage of parents taking their children to vote in
the November Presidential election. During his
visit, Assemblyman Reilly allowed the fifth graders to
practice the role of a legislator by discussing and
voting on current issues. |
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Posted 11/7/08
Karigon teacher, Mary
Murphy, recently had an article published in the Times Union newspaper.
Her article, "Science has helped diabetics, but more is needed" was
published on November 2. Click here to view
the article. |
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Karigon' Spring Choir
Concert will be held on Tuesday, April 28. It was mistakenly listed
as April 29 in the calendar mailed home to parents this summer. |
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TOUR
KARIGON - Check out this new webpage all about
Karigon. |
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In an
effort to ensure consistent practices and protocols across
our elementary schools, the district has developed an
elementary handbook for students and parents and a volunteer
handbook.
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WHO'S WHO |
Principal: Gregory Wing
Counselor: Debra Reinisch
Psychologist: Brigid Jeffers
School Nurse:
Mary Niles |
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START/DISMISSAL |
Gr. 1-5 school starts at 8:05 a.m.
and dismisses
at 2:15 p.m
AM kindergarten starts at 8:05 a.m.
and dismisses at 10:40 a.m.
PM kindergarten starts at 11:45 a.m. and
dismisses at 2:15 p.m. |
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DIRECTIONS |
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Take the Northway I87 to Exit
9. Head west on
Route
146.
At
the
fourth
light
take
a
left
onto
the
main
campus.
Take
your
first
right,
Karigon
is
the
first
building
on
the
right.
It
is
the
school
on
the
right
side
of
the
building. |
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