School Days 12.3.14

Cape May City Elementary
Ms. Madeline Hunter’s fifth grade class at Cape May City Elementary School has been studying colonial times. Recently the students had to try and identify artifacts from that time period and on November 26, the activities were set up as centers where the students were able to create and explore.
Lower Township
Sandman School proudly announces the Academic Achievement List for the first marking period.
5th Grade
Nathan Archbold, Ashley Ashbridge, Zachary Bada, Logan Barikian, Jennifer Drake, Makenna Fletcher, Zeb Hinker, Nevada LaRoche, Genevieve Spitaletto, Coral Stevenson, Emily VanArtsdalen, Andrew Barber, Shea Bonner, Margaret Boyle, Ryan Leinenger, Colin McGinn, David Nelson, Jayna Renna, Madison Schiffbauer, Zachary Seetoo-Ronk, Christian Snyder, Destiny Tillotson, Sophia Cirino, Alyssa Covert, Abigail Leslie, Emma Rodrigues, Jacob Roskowski, Michael Williams, Nathan Yoa, Isabella Yorio, Mark Lane, Davis Clifford, Hannah Seningen, Delaney Brown, Hailey Dolbow, Zachary DuFault, Troy Genaro, Gianna LoMonaco, Devon Peckiconis, Colin Adams, Ava Cremin, Jacob Kronemeyer, Kaylee Morales, Robert Panish, Karlee Wiltshire, Julia Olsen, Jacqueline Jamison, Eleanor Beane-Fox, Michael Castellano, Alexis Cremin, Elijah DiCola, Kyla Haibach, Hailey Jamison, Alexis Koelle, Alyssa Lemmon, Abril Moran, Sean Murphy, Sophia Nieves, Trevor Pittman, Caitlin Quinones, Avery Rovira-Hewitt, Andrew Weber, Julia Hill, Robert Sleght, Brody Saltzman, Devin Langford, Marley Kronemeyer, Evan Golden, Cali Rose Flosdorf, Robert Eckel, Molly Davis, Anya Jo Davids, Jesse Coombs, Corey Achuff, Katie Suter, Jenna O’Neill, Angelina Alliano, Matthew Brown, Joseph Donnelly, Olivia Longshore, Anthony Magliocco, Justin Popdan, Haley Revak, Devon Smith, Nathan Stewart, Hailee Stiefel, Kaya Thomas
6th Grade
Andrew Azevedo, Jack Ferguson, Sophia Greto, Samantha Jenison, Cassandra Lake, Briona O’Connell, Dominick Pastor, Hope Sandhoff, Kaylee Silver, Mikhail Solis, Andrew Vanderlinden, Nina Young, Casey Benezet, Mickela Messick Chester, Ryan Miles, Samuel Recupero, Brianna Barnes, Aiden Conley, Hailey Gain, Emily Harron, Eric Konczyk, John Murphy, Alexis Nalbone, Haley Ruffo, Jackson Schiffbauer, Destini Striluk, Nicholas Hess, Donovan Richardson, Dylan Roskowski, Kyle Stellander, Nathan Zeigler, Paul Cristelo, Connor Eckel, Kelsey Endicott, Jaida Fleck, Elise Heim, Caleb Lawson, Serena Lin, Molly McGuigan, Sydney Morrison, John Payne, Jordan Pierce, Ashlyn Sekela, Juliana Bell, Alexandria Bright, Andi Callen, Nikolas Frey, Nicolas Gioulis, Malea Horn-Attanasio, James Jamison, Tommy Musso, Victoria Novsak, Laura Perry, Christian Ray, Tom Rucci, Misty Shaw, Delaney Smith, Wesley Tosto, Lilie Wilson, Isabella Aftanis, Joelle DuFault, Ashley Hamby, Allison Johnson, Reed Lindsay, Madison Magliocco, Olivia Matthews, Drew Montanero, Kevin Morrissey, Hannah Oliver, Robert Quinn, Abby Sachs, Max Souder, RomanVoinea, Alyssa Wagner, Mattie Newby, Nora Amroune, Gabby Adams, Chris Bland, Michael Carpenter-Zuckier, Chloe Conley, Max Gilbert, Haley Larsen, Aidan Lowry, Nathan MacCarter, Madison Mansfield, Justin Peter, Carli Rotondi, Gabe Salinsky, Jordan Surran, Cole Weidman, Peter Wilson, Kenderson Woodward, Kirsten Anderson, Chloe Hemingway, Mia Lund, Taylor Magill, Amber Musgrove, Riley Sullivan, Lily Atkinson, Jeanine Bresan, Samantha Cruzan, Emily Donnell, Alexis Kiefer, David MacDonald, Skyler Maisey, Christina McCann, Dina Moustafa, Abigail Nagel, Crystal Pham, Elliott Prince, Bryce Reidenbach, Thomas Martin
Outstanding Effort
5th Grade
Grace Copeland, Jay Heishman, James Kessler, Brielle Unruh, Anthony Gentile, Marissa Murphy, Grace Abadie, Tyler Deane, Michael Flores, Michael Hober, Brian Nelson, Hailey O’Neal Natajah Steffen, Jeremiah Rivera, Kevin Davidson, Aleks Domanowski, Alexis Kapurelos, Adelia Ogden, Nick Shaw, Joseph Terinoni, Joseph Whitesell, Jazzy Yorio, J.P. Harris, Thomas McMenamin, Braydon Castillo, Robby Cummiskey, Grace Dermott, Zaria Greer, Nadalie Hamilton, Alexis Jordan, Robert Sheeler, Emma Wilson, Nicholas Kraus, Logan Morris, Sean Reiser, Isabel Bove-Osterle, Olivia Caruso, Rylee Donaghy, Faith Gallagher, Olivia Mawhinney, Amberlee Muller, Erik Speck, Dan Tannenbaum, Shaelyn Wolf
Outstanding Effort
6th Grade
Brianna Dickson, Kaylee Grube, Kenneth Lenker, Sergio Malpica-Carrasco, Olivia Dowe, Alesia Chase, Abigail Robb, Madison Trainor, Nicole MacFarlane, Lindsay Holden, Sophia Levin, Casiya Lewis, Carley McDonald, Christian Campanaro, Alexis Hamilton, Hanna Howarth, Mary Jelesiewicz, Ava Leidey, Caleb Nickerson, James Pellerin, Brianna Sullivan, Ciara Becker, Emma Reinhardt, Ashton Grossman, Samantha Billig, Lacee Calfine, Philip Jordan, Brooke LaSerre, Zachary Baker
Middle Township
The second grade Art classes at Middle Township Elem.#1 under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill-Grira have created Panthers in the style of Romero Britto. These projects demonstrate our Panther Pride and will be displayed in Local buisnesses in the Township. The Middle Township Council for the Arts is involved and pictures will be uploaded to their Facebook page, with a gift certificate going to the person finding the most panthers.
Wildwood Middle School
Wildwood Middle School students got a taste of the Great Fire of Cape May when they made their way to this city to take a tour and listen to tales of the disaster than changed the face of this seaside resort.
Thirty-five students and their teachers piled onto the bus Nov. 14 to make their way south at the end of their school day to participate in the tour, “Cape May on Fire.” The hour-and-a-half long program took students throughout Cape May to hear the harrowing history from docents and actors portraying characters from the event.
The Great Fire of Cape May took place Nov. 9, 1878 and burned down almost half the city’s buildings. Originating in the attic of the Ocean House, the fire was believed to have been an act of arson.
“All the visitors had long since gone back home,” said Carol Hartman, a docent from the Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC). “In 1878 there were only about 1,700 year round residents in Cape May.”
Students learned how a whipping wind of 35 miles per hour with gusts up to 50 miles per hour helped spread the fire to other buildings. Adding to the disaster were leaking fire hoses and a fire company that was ill-equipped to handle a disaster of that magnitude.
Les Aungst, an actor portraying the ghost of Cape May Fire Chief Col. Edward Lansing, brought the fire to life for students. Dressed in a 1878 fire uniform, Lansing explained how the fire spread and how the Cape May fire company was not prepared to handle the fire.
According to Lansing, firefighters sent word to Camden, the closest metropolitan area, to get additional fire equipment. Three hours later, while Cape May continued to burn, additional help came to the city to help fight the fire.
The fire burned from early morning to late afternoon. When the last flame was doused, 35 acres of Cape May were destroyed at a cost of $600,000 in 1878.
“Most students go home after a long week of school but the Wildwood Middle School students extend their learning into the evening,” said Principal Christopher Armstrong. “Students use this time to learn about local history and the arts.”
Armstrong said the program was made available to the students via the MAC the school’s after school 21st century grant program. “This trip would not be possible if it were not for the 21st Century Community Learning Center funding which is a grant from the US Department of Education and the NJ DOE.”