President Chester A. Arthur’s Gravesite
Makensie Freeman, 9, Lowville
August 15, 2017
Filed under Articles, Northern New York
President Chester Arthur's grave is in the Albany Rural Cemetery, Colonie. His wife and son are buried there, too. President Arthur was the 21st President. I wanted to visit his grave because I like learning about presidents. On his grave you will see the Presidential Seal. There are rocks,...
Fun at the Rochester Lilac Festival
Kristina Fisher, 10, Webster
June 13, 2017
Filed under Articles, Showcase, Western New York
One of Rochester’s most fun festivals is the Lilac festival, which occurs every year in May! The Lilac festival is a festival that showcases A bunch of lilac bushes that are in a park called Highland Park! It is amazing to see so many lilacs in person. There are 1200 lilac bushes in Highland ...
Student Council Albany Trip
Luke Lopez, 11, Valley Stream
June 2, 2017
Filed under Articles, Long Island
This May I went to Albany with the Student Council of my school. Our Student Council raises money for charities and plans fun activities for the students. When the students in our school ran for office, we gave speeches explaining why we should be elected to office. Todd Kaminski, our State Senator c...
Food Styling
Aimee Quinlan, 11, Valley Stream
May 30, 2017
Filed under Articles, Long Island, Showcase
You’re watching a commercial for a restaurant. The food looks so perfect! You suddenly get a huge craving to go to that restaurant. But when you get there, the food looks nothing like it did on the advertisement. So what makes the food look so good on the commercial? My class participated in...
Beauty and the Beast – the movie
Kristina Fisher, 10, Webster
May 9, 2017
Filed under Articles, Entertainment, Showcase
The new version of Beauty and the Beast is a great movie for children. It is even better than the cartoon version because it gives more detail about this amazing story and it also makes it look so much more real with real actors. One of my thoughts on this movie is that there is a very good theme...
All County Music Festival
Aimee Quinlan, 11, Valley Stream
April 2, 2017
Filed under Articles, Long Island
Beautiful music plays throughout the Tilles Center, as the orchestra performs their songs at the All County Music Festival. The band waits in a hallway leading to the stage, and the chorus practices a few last pieces in their assigned room, before they line up to go on stage. The conductor made sure...
Dissecting
Patrick Biondolillo, 9, Valley Stream
March 21, 2017
Filed under Articles, Long Island
On the last day of my winter break from school I went to the Center for Science Teaching and Learning in Rockville Center again. If you don’t know what CSTL is, look for the article I wrote about it in December. This time, I dissected a squid and a fish. I had rubber gloves on and used a scissor...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Exhibit
Dash Alschuler-Pierce, Valley Stream, 11
March 21, 2017
Filed under Articles, Long Island
If you like the Egyptians and want to learn more about them, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is just the right place for you! They have a tremendous Egyptian exhibit now. Don’t sit there considering if you should go see it! Just do it! I recently went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and I mostly...
Foreign Language
Megan Firnstein, 11. Rochester
March 14, 2017
Filed under Articles, Western New York
It's time to choose our foreign language!! All sixth graders of the Gates Chili Middle School went to a Foreign Language presentation. We listened to some 7th and 8th graders talk about the foreign languages. The four foreign languages offered at our school include: Spanish, Latin, French, and Italian....
Freezin’ For A Reason Coney Island’s New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge!
Bethany Kosinski, 11, Valley Stream
January 24, 2017
Filed under Articles, Long Island
Every year on New Year’s Day, there is a Polar Bear Plunge at Coney Island. That’s when the Polar Bear Club, and anyone else who wants to do it, runs into the freezing cold Atlantic ocean on New Year’s Day. This event is not only for fun. It is also a charity event. No one participati...
Holiday Traditions
Aimee Quinlan, 10, Valley Stream
January 17, 2017
Filed under Articles, Long Island
Does your family have special baking traditions for the Holidays? Well, my grandma makes homemade cookies-chocolate chip, spice, and peanut butter blossoms. This year, I helped her make them. I’ll start with the simplest kind, which is chocolate chip. My grandma makes chocolate chip cookies all-year...
Alexander Hamilton in New York
Lily Zufall, New York City, 10
January 2, 2017
Filed under Articles, New York City
I was lucky enough to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and ever since then, I have been in an Alexander Hamilton phase. I visited three of the Hamilton locations in NYC. The first was Hamilton Grange. The original Grange was Hamilton’s ancestral family home in Scotland. When Harlem was still ...
Fun at the Rochester Lilac Festival
Kristina Fisher, 10, Webster
One of Rochester’s most fun festivals is the Lilac festival, which occurs every year in May! The Lilac festival is a festival that showcases A bunch of lilac bush...
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