Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

First Grade is in the middle of their ABC Countdown to summer and having a blast! A few days ago they celebrated 'G for Glow Day' with highlighter drawing in one room, and a kara...

May 29 was MED's last Effective School Assembly of the school year. May's character theme was "Helpful." We celebrated our students and their collective achievements for the fi...

The 5th graders are packed up and ready to enjoy one more day at Outdoor Classroom! They will be back in Chatham later this afternoon. The student buses will arrive at approximate...

Thanks to support from the Chatham Education Foundation, 2nd graders at MED were able to travel to Russell Sage College to see the musical Robin of Sherwood ! Students learned m...

Our elementary students turned into mini track stars in may as they tackled the hurdles in PE!

At MED, a thrilling caper unfolded when Mrs. Reno mysteriously vanished, leaving the 5th-grade class in suspense. Students, guided by Ms. Blumenthal, gathered clues, made inferenc...

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...

MED's Fourth and Fifth Grade Drama Club put on Oz! The Musical May 16 and May 17 at Chatham High School. Audiences joined Dorothy and her favorite friends Scarecrow, Tinman, and...

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,...