Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

Over the last few weeks, Mrs. Van Wie and Mrs. Winter's second-grade class incubated and hatched a chicken! Trowbridge Farms in Ghent lent the classroom two incubators and provi...

Here are some photos from MED's Pre-K fun in the sun event.

The fifth grade celebrated their moving on to Chatham Middle School with a Moving Up Ceremony for family and friends on June 13. MED principal Kristen Reno congratulated the stude...

Chatham High School's Class of 2024 returning to their roots at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School for our traditional Senior Walkthrough today. The students and staff at MED lined...

For their end-of-the-year celebration, MED's kindergarten held a carnival for students and their families. The weather was great and fun and games took place on the school's lawn ...

During library time, 2nd graders made fortune tellers to review and talk about fiction and nonfiction.

Author and former CCSD administrator Mike Burns visited MED on Friday to talk to our students about being an author and read his children’s book Nervous Rex to the entire schoo...

First graders in Miss Flanagan's class and second graders in Mrs Van Wie & Mrs Winter's class recently became published authors! Each class embarked on a project to draft, edit, a...

Last week, Mrs. Reichardt's 5th grade science classes enjoyed designing and building STEM marble runs and ferris wheels! After creating a marble run, they blew the marble through ...

It’s the 5th graders last day at Nature’s Classroom! They’re off to the final activities of the week and then will be heading home! The 5th graders have had a busy afternoon of ...

On May 28th, students in the 4th grade embarked on an exciting team building adventure called My Side of the Forest, inspired by the novel My Side of the Mountain . This day-lo...

5th graders visited the MED library to help kindergarten set up a Story Walk for Nervous Rex, by Michael Burns, an author who is coming to MED on May 31!

Mystery readers pop into MED classrooms here and there to spread the love of reading. MED fourth grader Zoe Williams was invited by her former kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Cowles, t...

Mr. Botsford’s language concepts class took a field trip to A. Ooms & Sons Dairy Farm in Valatie on May 21. While at the farm, they learned about the feed cows eat and watched as ...

Dive into the big blue world with Mary E. Dardess Elementary School’s 4th & 5th Grade Drama Club as they present Disney and Pixar’s Finding Nemo KIDS in the Chatham High School a...

May 17 was a surprise Student Appreciation Day at MED. Students formed into their HOUSEs and headed through four fun stations: Rock, Paper, Scissors Hula Hoops, Kam Jam, playgro...

First grade took a field trip to the Theatre Institute at Sage to see one of their favorite story books come to life! Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin always has them laughing, ...

Students in Mrs. Ranita’s kindergarten class had their writers’ celebration the morning of May 14. For the past few weeks, students had been writing and illustrating their own boo...

MED's 4th & 5th Grade Drama Club is in full swing as they gear up to perform Finding Nemo KIDS! Here students are pictured practicing 'flocking,' or moving together just like fi...

In science, 5th grade is learning about how to conserve freshwater on Earth. Students were tasked with creating a 3- step water filtration system that decreased the nitrate level ...