Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

Public performances of Oz! The Musical are Friday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 17 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chatham High School auditorium. Join Dorothy and her favorite f...

Ms. Martin & Mrs. Thorpe's 4th grade class invited Mr. Botsford's Language Concepts class in for Pancakes with Pals. They enjoyed listening to If You Give a Pig a Pancake , doi...

On display at the Chatham Public Library is a collection of various artworks by MED students. These include individual sculpture projects, self portraits, landscapes, paintings an...

Mr. Botsford’s language concepts class took a field trip to A. Ooms & Sons Dairy Farm in Valatie on May 9. The rain didn’t dampen their fun. While at the farm, the children watche...

As part of Teacher Appreciation Week , WMHT is honoring teachers from around the region, and they have picked MED 5th grade teacher Connie Reichardt as one of their honorees! You...

April 25 was MED's fifth Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which we celebrated our students and their collective achievements as a class. April's theme was "Kin...

Chatham's school resource deputy, Deputy Roberts, recently stopped by Ms. Brownell's fourth grade general music class to play a few rounds of the game "King of the Do-Re-Mi-ounta...

Mrs. Lynch's third-grade class went out and picked up garbage behind our school's playground fence for Earth Day!

5th grade science students in Mrs. Reichardt's classes worked together to develop a water filter system that would decrease the nitrate level in polluted water and increase its cl...

MED students taking English as a new language in Mrs. Garcia-Cabrera, Mrs. Knapp, and Ms. Lutz classes go together before spring break for a special fiestita. The students ga...

Students in Mrs. Ranita’s kindergarten class enjoyed a delicious dose of discovery, proving that even the sweetest treats can unlock some seriously cool scientific concepts. Stude...

It sounded like Santa's workshop in the MED cafeteria on April 3! Representatives from Herrington’s and Questar III visited school to show our fourth graders how to use tools and...

Ella, Dakota and McKinley are proud to show off the generous donations of pet supplies that MED students collected in March. Mrs. Schneider delivered the heaps of donations to l...

Fourteen 5th graders joined the 28th Annual Science & Technology Fair at CMS. The participants included Anna Artist, Audrey Baldwin, Addison Barwell, Dakota Bowen, Kailash Flores,...

Local Author Daniel J. Mahoney visited the MED library March 13 to discuss his latest kids book, We Don't Eat Our Neighbors , with our students in grades K-3. He shared how he...

5th grade has been learning archery in PE class and also after school with our Archery Club! They recently had a special guest join in on the fun - School Resource Deputy Roberts!...

March 5 was MED's fourth Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which we celebrated our students and their collective achievement in class. March's theme was "Compas...

Students in 5th grade science were challenged with making a water pump to transport 100 ml of water from one beaker to another. They are learning about criteria and constraints. S...

5th grade students enjoyed a field trip to the Museum of Innovation & Science in Schenectady, NY. This trip supported the student's science curriculum by giving them a planetarium...

Here are a few photos from the PTA's Cupcake Wars and Tricky Trays event held March 7 at MED. Our five judges (MED Principal Mrs. Reno, Superintendent Mr. Kourt, Dean of Students ...