Calling all future kindergarteners!

The Cohoes City School District will be conducting its annual kindergarten registration for all children who turn five years old on or before Dec. 1, 2010.

Registration is done by appointment only at the Cohoes Middle School Registration office (1st floor). Please call Mrs. Smith at 237-4131, Ext. 2299 to make a registration
appointment for your child. If your child is currently in the UPK program, you do not need to register him or her for kindergarten. MORE

Turner rep brings construction to life for students

Students in Kate Lamica's class have been curiously watching the addition being built outside of their windows for months, wondering what each of the pieces of equipment were and what each beam was framing. One student had even been drawing a scaled diagram of the addition based on what he could see from his seat in the classroom. MORE

Poetry via the airwaves

Second graders at Abram Lansing got a poetry lesson via the computer recently.

Students in Mrs. Christina Carriola's and Miss Leora Flax's second-grade class used the video communication program Skype to connect with Shoshauna Flax, a Boston-based children's poet, who also happens to be Miss Flax's sister. MORE 

Fourth graders dance a story

A fourth-grade class at Abram Lansing will be participating in "Stories that Dance" and telling a story they wrote themselves through the Stories That Dance program.

Maryann DeCarr's classes have participated in the program, which gives students to write, choreograph and perform their own production, in the past. The program is a partnership between Proctors and the Northeast Ballet Company. MORE

Abram Lansing students bring valentines to Eddy residents

February 8, 2010 – Abram Lansing Elementary School students brought some Valentine’s Day cheer to residents of The Eddy on Feb. 8.

The students, who are in Kate Lamica's class, brought valentines they had made for residents, and worked on a craft project with them. MORE

Students learn about different cultures through dance

Third-grade students at Abram Lansing Elementary School, with the help of professional instructors from eba, are learning dances from different cultures.

The dance instruction, made possible through a grant from the New York State Association of Arts Educators, connects what the students are learning in their social studies classes to movement. MORE

Caroling, caroling through the snow…!

Abram Lansing Elementary School students brought a little holiday cheer to residents of The Eddy by signing holiday carols.

The fourth-grade classes at the school walked to The Eddy on Monday, Dec. 21, and traveled through various buildings singing! MORE

Letter to parents from elementary principals

This year, the elementary school in the Cohoes City School District are moving to a trimester schedule. To view a letter from your child's principal about the changes, click here.