The historical importance and key facts about each of the nation’s 50 states were on display for all to see during this year’s fifth-grade “state fair” at Blue Point Elementary School in the Bayport-Blue Point School District.
In preparation for the annual event, the students researched their assigned
state and created presentation boards on which they described the state’s unique identifiers, such as its seal, flag, bird, geographic location and famous individuals who were born there, in addition to its general climate and population. The completed boards were put on display in the school’s cafeteria for the fair attendees to enjoy. The project offered students a hands-on and in-depth approach to studying their researched state, as well as the other states in the nation.
Blue Point Students Know Their State Facts
The fifth grade 'state fair' event aims to help students learn everything from state seals to state birds.
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John Thompson May 19, 2013 at 10:26 pm
And so the taxpayer is once again asked to give more to an already out of control and bloated…Read More system. Every year the school districts on Long Island receive increases of millions of dollars to their budgets, and still they want to bleed the taxpayer for more.
As two income families struggle to pay exorbitant tax bills, we’re asked to pay even more? We’ll here’s a novel idea, how about if the teachers union’s began demanding less?
This early retirement baloney must stop, salaries should be capped, administrators and their staffs must be cut by at least eighty percent. In addition, educators and staff should have to pay for their own medical and retirement plans just as the rest of us must.
Here on Long Island, families are suffering and sacrificing, and many are being forced to leave due to taxes which are out of control. It is time for educators to cease hiding behind children with threats of decreased student programs, and to make an honest and realistic observation as to why things are as bad as they are.
To blame parents for not paying enough into the system to support the schools is ludicrous. The real problem lies in a system which is self serving, and run by incompetents blind to the harm they are inflicting upon our children and families.