Each fall, North Hornell Librarian Vanessa Splitulnik’s students are introduced to Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller. Sophie is a little girl who gets a squash at a farmer’s market and treats it like her baby, named Bernice. She takes care of her squash baby until she starts to turn bad. After a discussion with …
There was a lot of activity at the Intermediate School on October 25, 2021 . Students from one of Jacey Hanson’s fifth-grade ELA classes launched a rescue mission for a toad stuck in a grate outside of the school. Students Angel Mota, Xzavier Raycroft and Zach Mullen, who call themselves the “Nature Bros,” wrote a …
In September, the Hornell City School District announced that the Intermediate School was awarded a $3 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Librarians Jordan Hahn and Jennifer Carretto are busy planning creative ways to use the allotted grant money over the next five years. Families with second to sixth grade students should …
