First impressions: Blind Brook students meet their new teachers before school starts
September 5, 2019 at 8:04 a.m.
Twins Sebastian and Hayden Candee, both rising third-graders at Ridge Street School, said they had fun at the 8th annual Blind Brook Federation of Teachers-sponsored Meet and Greet on Tuesday, Sept. 3 in Harkness Park. Before taking a seat in the grass with their babysitter Chiara Michos, a Blind Brook High School senior, they had the opportunity to get to know their new teachers.
Now a first-grade teacher at Ridge Street School, Karen Tagliaferri hugs her former student Rianna Battiwalla, 8, from her second-grade class last year.
Third-grade teacher at Ridge Street School Kerri James smiles as she leans down to introduce herself to her new student, 7-year-old Mackenzie Pigassou.
Diane Pring’s red dress sparkles as she jumps high during the annual Kindergarten Social on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The 5-year-old is competing in one of the various games put on through Hi-Five Sports Club at the Harkness Park tennis courts.
Possibly a future track star in the making, 5-year-old John Umbro sprints across the tennis courts ready to tag his teammate during a relay.
Rising kindergartner Yehuda Cywiak looks around the court to find the best passage to roll his ball and knock down his opponent’s pins during one of the games.
A game of Simon Says did not last long amongst the kindergartners since the losers, and winner, were treated to ice cream afterward.
Dylan Brauntuch, a 4-year-old and rising kindergartner at Ridge Street School, enjoys an end of summer frozen dessert after playing games with her future classmates during the social.
Students eagerly raise their hands to show who is ready to be a kindergartener at the Harkness Park tennis courts during the Kindergarten Social.
Rising kindergartner Justin Crasper jumps as he competes with his fellow classmates to see who can get across the tennis courts and back first.
The red shirt team, which was comprised of students in Geri Fisher’s kindergarten class, gets ready to face off against the white shirts, the future students in Lisa Mecca’s class, in a game of Red Rover.
