Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

Registration for Chatham Central School District’s 2025-2026 universal prekindergarten program is open now through March 1, 2025. If you have a child who is eligible to attend pre...

Registration for the Class of 2038 is now open. Chatham’s digital registration information can be found here … Children must be 5 years old on or before December 1, 2025 to be e...

In physical education, students have been learning bowling for the past few weeks! To finish out the unit, they did cosmic bowling!

Fifth graders had an opportunity to join a service club that benefited the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Albany Medical Center. Sixteen students met weekly to learn how to knit ...

Mrs. Reichardt's 5th grade scientists are investigating the effects when substances are mixed with water. Students created a sugar water solution by measuring and weighing water a...

Miss Mason and Miss Gomm's kindergarten classes joined forces for a morning of exciting games with Mrs. Ristau, our incredible literacy coach. Watch out, world – these little read...

Mrs. Reichardt's fifth grade science students recently completed a lab where they used their senses to identify materials based on observable properties. Students used sight, tou...

The MED encore team (music, art, library, PE) was in peak form the day before our holiday break. They took a sleigh ride through the halls and then did some holiday rapping at the...

Those pesky elves were at it again the Friday before our holiday break! Students arrived at MED to find the hallway lights off and holiday inflatables lighting the way. Rumor has ...

The CHS Printmaking Class gifted each 1st grader and the students in Mr. Botsford's Language Concepts class with a handmade bookmark that was personally designed and printed by e...

Some pesky elves got into the school this week and have been causing some holiday havoc at MED. On Tuesday, teachers and students arrived to find their classroom furniture haphaz...

The sweet aroma of confection filled the air as our kindergarten classes transformed into a bustling construction zone of sorts. Armed with frosting, candy, and boundless creativi...

In collaboration with 4th grade's section on the Middle Ages, Mr. Roth's art classes studied the history of stained glass making in the medieval period. They learned how colored g...

First and second graders in Mrs. Van Note and Mrs. Kral's math groups are playing reindeer games! Students practiced adding, subtracting, and adding 10 more.

Gobble, Gobble! The third grade spread some Thanksgiving cheer by caroling around MED singing some silly Turkey Day songs the day before break!

As part of a community service project sponsored by the Chatham American Legion Auxiliary, MED, CMS, And CHS collected hundreds and hundreds of items for military care packages th...

Watch out, Macy's! Our kindergarteners are taking over the parade scene! They learned the secret to making giant parade balloons and then let their imaginations soar. Each kiddo p...

On November 25, the fifth grade homerooms held Friendsgiving Tea Parties! The kids sat in small groups, snacked on cookies and crackers, sipped from tea cups, and used conversati...

Fourth grade students traveled back in time to the Middle Ages for their Core Knowledge Learning Unit 2. As the culmination of the unit, they celebrated with a hands-on, fun-fille...

Pre-k classes at MED held a Friendsgiving Feast November 22 to celebrate the coming Thanksgiving holiday!