This week was Neurodiversity Celebration Week at Zane North and across our district. Staff and students engaged in conversations and activities, and conducted read alouds to explain neurodiversity and increase awareness and knowledge about brain differences. We emphasized sharing information about different neurotypes (such as Autism, ADHD, and Dyslexia) in a strengths-based, inclusive way.
During Neurodiversity Celebration Week, students learned that neurodiversity is an umbrella term, used to refer to different ways of thinking. To reinforce this point, students got together to decorate their own umbrellas that highlighted various neurodifferences (such as Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, Tourette Syndrome), and individual student umbrellas were combined to make larger umbrella displays, to emphasize our unity as a school community in valuing all kinds of different minds.
As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we gathered together to plant some flowers. Each student in the school had an opportunity to plant a flower in a seed starting greenhouse kit, choosing from a dozen different kinds of flower seeds. The different kinds of flowers were meant to represent various neurotypes and differences we have as individual learners. And planting them together was a demonstration of our unity as a school community to celebrate, value, and respect our neurodiversity.
Students and staff participated in Rock Your Socks day in support of World Down Syndrome Day on Thursday, March 21st.
Our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders enjoyed their trip to see "Shrek the Musical" at Collingswood High School today.
Thank you to the Zane North community for your amazing support of our Read-A-Thon. Collectively our students read more than 63,000 minutes, and through many generous donations, $15,000 was raised to support school activities! Pictured below are our 3rd graders, who lead all classes with 12,175 minutes read.
Mrs. Curley and Mrs. Jones' classes had a great visit with these furry friends yesterday. They met therapy dogs Snow, Peppa and Angel and learned how they help people.
We are looking forward to next week's Neurodiversity Celebration Week!
In support of Read-a-Thon, we held an Imagine More Stories assembly with Thembi Palmer featuring the book "This is How We Do It" by Matt Lamothe, which tells the story of how people live in different parts of the world. Students enjoyed this interactive storytelling experience.
Our readers at Zane North have been on the move during Read-a-Thon!
Today our students had the chance to meet with German Exchange students who are staying with host families from Collingswood High School. The exchange students spoke to our students about different aspects of German life and culture.
Our 4th graders enjoyed their engineering workshop with high school engineering teacher, Mr. Brescia.
Our 1st graders are enjoying library check out day today!
Thank you to Collingswood High School students from the cast of "Shrek the Musical" for reading, singing, and dancing with our students today! The musical will run from March 21-23. More info at collingswoodtix.com
Congratulations to all our performers at the Zane North Revue on a fantastic show! Thank you to our parent volunteers for all your efforts in making the show a memorable experience for our students and families!
Congratulations to all our performers at the Zane North Revue on a fantastic show! Thank you to our parent volunteers for all your efforts in making the show a memorable experience for our students and families!
Thank you to the Collingswood High School 12th grade Senior Leaders for spending time with our students at recess today!
Mrs. Gafas's 5th graders hard at work in math class, using their knowledge of place value to add decimals.
Today as part of our Black History Month celebration at Zane North we were very fortunate to have teaching artists from the Philadelphia Ballet visit for interactive assemblies on African dance. The teachers were also joined by members of a Philaelphian dance and drum assembly who performed for our whole school. We are grateful to our PTA for coordinating the assemblies, and to the Philadelphia Ballet for providing this outstanding learning experience at Zane North.
Today as part of our Black History Month celebration at Zane North we were very fortunate to have teaching artists from the Philadelphia Ballet visit for interactive assemblies on African dance. The teachers were also joined by members of a Philaelphian dance and drum assembly who performed for our whole school. We are grateful to our PTA for coordinating the assemblies, and to the Philadelphia Ballet for providing this outstanding learning experience at Zane North.
