Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

Mrs. Lynch's third-grade class went out and picked up garbage behind our school's playground fence for Earth Day!

5th grade science students in Mrs. Reichardt's classes worked together to develop a water filter system that would decrease the nitrate level in polluted water and increase its cl...

MED students taking English as a new language in Mrs. Garcia-Cabrera, Mrs. Knapp, and Ms. Lutz classes go together before spring break for a special fiestita. The students ga...

Students in Mrs. Ranita’s kindergarten class enjoyed a delicious dose of discovery, proving that even the sweetest treats can unlock some seriously cool scientific concepts. Stude...

It sounded like Santa's workshop in the MED cafeteria on April 3! Representatives from Herrington’s and Questar III visited school to show our fourth graders how to use tools and...

Ella, Dakota and McKinley are proud to show off the generous donations of pet supplies that MED students collected in March. Mrs. Schneider delivered the heaps of donations to l...

Fourteen 5th graders joined the 28th Annual Science & Technology Fair at CMS. The participants included Anna Artist, Audrey Baldwin, Addison Barwell, Dakota Bowen, Kailash Flores,...

Local Author Daniel J. Mahoney visited the MED library March 13 to discuss his latest kids book, We Don't Eat Our Neighbors , with our students in grades K-3. He shared how he...

5th grade has been learning archery in PE class and also after school with our Archery Club! They recently had a special guest join in on the fun - School Resource Deputy Roberts!...

March 5 was MED's fourth Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which we celebrated our students and their collective achievement in class. March's theme was "Compas...

Students in 5th grade science were challenged with making a water pump to transport 100 ml of water from one beaker to another. They are learning about criteria and constraints. S...

5th grade students enjoyed a field trip to the Museum of Innovation & Science in Schenectady, NY. This trip supported the student's science curriculum by giving them a planetarium...

Here are a few photos from the PTA's Cupcake Wars and Tricky Trays event held March 7 at MED. Our five judges (MED Principal Mrs. Reno, Superintendent Mr. Kourt, Dean of Students ...

First grade is out of this world! They ended their Astronomy unit by making model rockets, charting phases of the moon, and painting their own planets. What a blast!

Hip, hip, hooray! Mrs. Baskiewicz's class celebrated this milestone in the most wonderfully wacky ways! Forget counting sheep – they were counting everything ! From 100 silly ste...

Ms. Martin and Mrs. Thorpe's 4th grade class were so excited to exchange Valentine's with their buddies in Mr. Botsford's class while enjoying some sweet treats!

Someone stole the pencil sharpener in Miss Flanagan & Mrs Horton's Class! To celebrate 100 days in school, these first graders turned into detectives to solve the mystery. Throug...

Good hygiene is essential for students to be successful and MED is thrilled to announce that our school now has a fully-stocked hygiene/care closet that we have affectionately na...

Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Reichardt combined their fifth-grade math and science classes for an activity on how to use a stopwatch, read the time and record the time correctly. These sk...

Kindergartners in Mrs. Baskiewicz's class celebrated Groundhog Day by first becoming weather predictors themselves! Before the official Groundhog Day on February 2, they made thei...