GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Lee F. Jackson students, teachers and administrators spent part of the day on Wednesday, enjoying the works Dr. Theodor Geisel Seuss, or Dr. Seuss. The day of school-wide learning and reading was in honor of the birthday of the late author. Students listened to volunteer readers from Woodlands High School and had a great day with our own "Cat in the Hat." ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Wordsmiths, polyglots and linguists will take to the stage later this month to show their mastery of the English language as of Greenburgh Central’s elementary schools will once again hold the district’s fourth annual Spelling Bee on Friday, March 11. Kindergarten and first-grade students, called the Honey Bees, will compete at the Lee F. Jackson School during the ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The Greenburgh School District has partnered with the National Youth Football Organization to offer a non-contact spring football league to students from ages 5 through 18 this spring.The innovative program, which will include coaches and former National Football League players, is open to students throughout the region who want to learn how to play football safely ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- In celebration of World Read-Aloud Day, which was held this Wednesday, Greenburgh's elementary schools held an array of activities centered around reading and enjoying books out loud. Students in Jessica Blau's class at Lee F. Jackson School and Maria Maldonado's class at Highview School Skyped with children's author Melissa Guion, author and illustrator of Baby ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- RJ Bailey School students worked with the famed Dance Theatre of Harlem last week to learn not only dance movement, but the history of dance and Black History.Dance Theatre of Harlem teaching artists Theara Ward, Zalika Warren and Lettie Battle explained the African Diaspora to students and played dancing games to help students understand how the great migration of ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- More than 65 students and teachers signed up to give blood last week at the Woodland High School Blood Drive in Greenburgh. The high school's Key Club invited the New York Blood Center to conduct the blood drive in the Frelow Center, where participants smiled (and winced a little) while paying it forward to others.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The Greenburgh Central School District and its Parent University program is holding a workshop on stress relief for parents later on this month."Seven Ways to Support Your Student and Keep Your Sanity," will be held on Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Woodlands High School Little Theatre.The free workshop, which begins at 7 p.m. will be led by facilitators from S4 ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Students at the RJ Bailey School were visited this week by Jon Riddleberger of New York City's Shadow Box Theater, who worked with them on creating shadow puppets around the theme of mythical characters. Helen of Troy, Dionysus, Eurydice, Paris, Odysseus and others took shape as shadow puppets, and the students will eventually create an iMovie using the shadow ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Greenburgh Superintendent of Schools Dr. Tahira Dupree Chase will hold her second Superintendent’s Tea for the 2015-16 school year on Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Greenburgh Administration Building -- also known as the Mansion -- at 475 West Hartsdale Ave.Coffee and tea will be served, and Dr. Chase and other administrators will answer questions ...

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The Richard J. Bailey School in Greenburgh will presents its sixth-grade dinner theater musical, Shrek the Musical Jr., at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, in the auditorium.Admission price, which includes the play and dinner, is $8 for adults, and $5 for students in grade K-6. For more information or to advertise in the musical program, please contact Claire Cronin at ...