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students sit next to their giant box snakes they created in the cafeteria.
Lunar New Year + Math = One Giant Learning Experience!

Students in Marissa Siracusano, Jamie Temple, and Heather Breen’s classes teamed up to construct three massive "Lunar Wood Snakes" 🐍 using boxes of all different sizes. But here’s the twist—they weren’t just building a cool display; they were calculating volume! 

Each student wrapped their box in Lunar New Year colors and determined its volume before adding it to the growing snake in the cafeteria. The final step? Finding the total volume of the entire snake!

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Passport to Learning at Cahill Elementary School

Cahill Elementary School students spent the past month exploring the world without leaving campus. Each class selected a country to study, creating poster boards filled with facts, pictures of their flags, and meaningful objects that represented their chosen place.

two High School students take turns reading a book to the Kindergarten class in Spanish and Ukrainian
Bilingual Read-Aloud Brings Languages to Life at Cahill Elementary

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Student works with Laura Cahill on creating a jack o lantern for Halloween
Pumpkin fun was in full swing at Cahill Elementary!

Students in Erika Warren’s class teamed up with Assistant Principal Tricia Pipitone and Principal Laura Cahill for a hands-on pumpkin carving lesson. One group created a cheerful “happy pumpkin,” while the other designed a “scary, silly pumpkin.”