UPDATE: In addition to evening activities being canceled, the Wellness Center will also be closed today, Jan. 19, 2023 due to the impending weather.
Due to the impending weather, the Cairo-Durham Central School District will have an Early Dismissal on Thursday, January 19, 2023. The Middle School and High School will dismiss at 11:30 a.m. and the Elementary School will dismiss at 12:30 p.m. As a result, there will be no afterschool or evening activities.
Ms. Wagor's 5th grade students were asked the question: How fast does the Earth spin?
By acting as the Earth spinning around the sun, students quickly realized the sun isn’t moving at all. In the activity, students used their bodies as a kinesthetic model of the Earth to understand how the speed of the Earth’s spin affects the length of a day.
Students learned that when their face spun towards the sun, their back spun away from the Sun. This proved that when sunrise is happening for one side of the world, sunset is happening for the other side of the world.
To answer the initial question, students learned that the circumference of the Earth is about 24,000 miles. Therefore, if it takes the Earth 24 hours to do one spin all the way around itself, that's 24,000 miles divided by 24 hours in one spin. If you do the math, that equals 1,000 miles an hour! The class was shocked!
Great job, all!
Reminder: There will be no school on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Check out some of Ms. Thompson's students taking assessments on their Chromebooks this week!
Whether playing with toys, escaping "lava" or reading books, these AM Pre-K students in Ms. MacGiffert's class are always finding reasons to smile!
Thank you to Marcus McGregor who is here at CDES all week teaching students fundamentals of dancing in Physical Education class!
Penny B. and Amarah F. in Mrs. Margiasso's Kindergarten class utilized their savings of Mustang Money to have "Pajama Day" for just them! Great job, students!
Ms. Flubacher's 5th grade class recently had a special visitor, K-9 Mac!
Congratulations to CDE students for earning positive referrals for self control and optimism. Keep living the other people mindset! #positivityinaction
January is School Board Appreciation Month! Thank you to all of our Cairo-Durham Central School District Board of Education members for all you do for our school district!
#MustangPride
Click here to view the January 2023 Newsletter for CDES: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2363/cdes/2659480/January_2023_Newsletter.pdf
The Cairo-Durham Central School District's Wellness Center is officially open to district adults, faculty and staff! Hours of operation are Monday through Thursday from 5:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more information and to fill out the membership application, consent and medical clearance forms, please visit https://www.cairodurham.org/documents/wellness-center-information/399066.
Check out the Cairo-Durham logo on proud display along the hill leading up to Cairo-Durham Middle School/High School! #MustangPride
Ms. Prinz's 5th grade class joined in on the holiday fun by taking socks, both regular and fuzzy, and turned them into Christmas gnomes to gift to their parents. Some of the students loved them so much they decided to gift them to themselves! Then, students continued their advent calendar countdown until break where they did a Christmas activity a day. One of the most popular activities was making edible Christmas trees using sugar cookie cones, frosting and different candies.
Dec. 23 was a fun day in Ms. Flubacher's 5th grade class when students dressed in their pajamas and cozy socks for "Polar Express Day"!
The Cairo-Durham Central School District would like to wish you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year! We can't wait to see students, faculty and staff back on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023!
Check out this quartet of festively matching students in Ms. Wagor's 5th grade class last week!
The... The... THE GRINCH! Thank you to Deputy Espel, Ms. Pollard and Mr. Stein for fully embracing the holiday spirit with our students at Cairo-Durham Elementary School last week!
Some of our amazing 5th graders in Mrs. Fitzgerald's class were rewarded with games of basketball and lunch with their teacher for their positive behavior and production in the classroom!
