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Around Farfield Schools: Yee Ha! Virtual Gym, COVID-19 Grading, High Schoolers Help With PPE Around Farfield Schools: Yee Ha! Virtual Gym, COVID-19 Grading, High Schoolers Help With PPE
Around Farfield Schools: Yee Ha! Virtual Gym, Covid-19 Grading, High Schoolers Help With PPE Yee Ha!  Nobody can sit still for the "Cotton Eyed Joe," especially when you see Fairfield County teachers do their lively version of the line dance in a virtual physical education workout video they made for their K to fifth-grade students to do at home. Northeast Elementary School physical education teachers Jim Bradley and Laurie Doyle Lubowitz created this dance workout video for their distance learning students.Laurie Lubowitz Stamford's Northeast Elementary School teachers Jim Bradley and Laurie Doyle Lubowitz, in masks and socially distancing from one another, also dance the Cha-…

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by Donna Christopher
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Pump It Up: Education Department Says Greenwich Students Are Fittest Of All Pump It Up: Education Department Says Greenwich Students Are Fittest Of All
Pump It Up: Education Department Says Greenwich Students Are Fittest Of All Are your children getting the minimum recommended daily hour of exercise -- a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline? Take heart, Greenwich Public School parents, because your kids are getting at least that. Their 60 minutes is at school alone. The schools' physical education program drew high marks last month when the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) recognized Greenwich Public Schools as a highly performing, Physically Active School System  also known as PASS, awarding the school district a 2019 Connecticut Red Ribbon PASS Program Award. The award d…

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by Donna Christopher
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No Dread, Just Fun During Phys Ed At This Westchester School No Dread, Just Fun During Phys Ed At This Westchester School
No Dread, Just Fun During Phys Ed At This Westchester School Remember the existential dread of phys ed class? Children good at sports love gym class, but just the thought of going could be en energy drain for non-athletes. Nearly every youngster can learn to ride a pogo stick or spin a plate. They are just a few of the fitness activities that enlivened physical education classes recently at a school in Westchester. Third- to fifth-grade students and their gym teachers at  F.E. Bellows Elementary School in Rye Neck also learned diabolo manipulation, devil sticks, Chinese yo-yo, clowning and stilt-walking from circus performers of O-Town Circus Ac…

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by Donna Christopher
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Kindergarteners Learn To Skate At New Canaan Country School Kindergarteners Learn To Skate At New Canaan Country School
Kindergarteners Learn To Skate At New Canaan Country School Kindergarteners at New Canaan Country School got the opportunity to test their ice skating skills Monday, Dec. 3 in the first class of a series of instructional classes taught by professional instructors. The class will teach young students the fundamentals of ice skating technique, which include gliding, stopping, and skating backwards. This class is a long-standing tradition and even a “rite of passage” for young students at New Canaan Country School. It dates back to the school’s opening more than a century ago. Before the rink was built in 1957, students skated on Hardon Pond. The skil…

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by Valerie Musson