
June 3, 2025
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, 2025
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...

May 19, 2025
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...

May 19, 2025
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...

May 16, 2025
Our elementary students turned into mini track stars in may as they tackled the hurdles in PE!

May 15, 2025
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...

May 13, 2025
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...

May 13, 2025
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...

May 12, 2025
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...

May 8, 2025
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...

May 6, 2025
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 28, 2025
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...

April 25, 2025
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...

April 22, 2025
Mrs. Lynch's third-grade class went out and picked up garbage behind our school's playground fence for Earth Day!

April 22, 2025
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...

April 16, 2025
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...

April 10, 2025
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...

April 7, 2025
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...

March 24, 2025
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...

March 20, 2025
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,...