Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

First grade is out of this world! They ended their Astronomy unit by making model rockets, charting phases of the moon, and painting their own planets. What a blast!

Hip, hip, hooray! Mrs. Baskiewicz's class celebrated this milestone in the most wonderfully wacky ways! Forget counting sheep – they were counting everything ! From 100 silly ste...

Ms. Martin and Mrs. Thorpe's 4th grade class were so excited to exchange Valentine's with their buddies in Mr. Botsford's class while enjoying some sweet treats!

Someone stole the pencil sharpener in Miss Flanagan & Mrs Horton's Class! To celebrate 100 days in school, these first graders turned into detectives to solve the mystery. Throug...

Good hygiene is essential for students to be successful and MED is thrilled to announce that our school now has a fully-stocked hygiene/care closet that we have affectionately na...

Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Reichardt combined their fifth-grade math and science classes for an activity on how to use a stopwatch, read the time and record the time correctly. These sk...

Kindergartners in Mrs. Baskiewicz's class celebrated Groundhog Day by first becoming weather predictors themselves! Before the official Groundhog Day on February 2, they made thei...

5th grade science classes made lip balm this week! After watching a teacher-led demonstration on how heating and cooling affects materials, students were able to work in small gro...

January 30 was our third Effective School Assembly of the school year. January's theme was "Perseverance" and featured the 5th grade's Pledge of Allegiance Squad and Spirit Squad,...

First grade kicked off another round of celebration stations finishing up their "Early American Civilizations" unit. In this unit, they explored the similarities and differences b...

Ms. Martin and Mrs. Thorpe's 4th grade classroom had their monthly activity with Mr. Botsford's language concepts class. This month the students enjoyed listening to a read aloud ...

Students in Ms. Martino's WIN group (reading, math, and social emotional learning work time) listened to a read-aloud of the book The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi, an encour...

In physical education, students have been learning bowling for the past few weeks! To finish out the unit, they did cosmic bowling!

Fifth graders had an opportunity to join a service club that benefited the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Albany Medical Center. Sixteen students met weekly to learn how to knit ...

Mrs. Reichardt's 5th grade scientists are investigating the effects when substances are mixed with water. Students created a sugar water solution by measuring and weighing water a...

Registration for Chatham Central School District’s 2025-2026 universal prekindergarten program is open now through March 1, 2025. If you have a child who is eligible to attend pre...

Registration for the Class of 2038 is now open. Chatham’s digital registration information can be found here … Children must be 5 years old on or before December 1, 2025 to be e...

Miss Mason and Miss Gomm's kindergarten classes joined forces for a morning of exciting games with Mrs. Ristau, our incredible literacy coach. Watch out, world – these little read...

Mrs. Reichardt's fifth grade science students recently completed a lab where they used their senses to identify materials based on observable properties. Students used sight, tou...

The MED encore team (music, art, library, PE) was in peak form the day before our holiday break. They took a sleigh ride through the halls and then did some holiday rapping at the...