York Central School District

April 4, 2024 is School Librarian Appreciation Day! Our school librarians Mrs. Feltham and Miss Kolb support our teachers and students by developing materials and activities to support the classroom curriculum. Our librarians are literacy and research specialists in addition to many other hats that they wear, including STEAM instruction. We take this opportunity to publicly thank you Mrs. Feltham and Miss Kolb for all you do for YCS!

On March 24, 2024, the York All Sports Booster Club organized a fun bowling event at Livingston Lanes for students and staff. The Second Annual Peter's Wing Day & Basket Raffle was a huge success. Several teams of students and staff had an enjoyable Sunday at Livingston Lanes, eating the best chicken wings around and bowling. Several local businesses and individuals donated gift baskets, which went home with the lucky ticket holders. Everyone had a great day and the proceeds benefit the York Central School All Sports Booster Club, which in turn supports and celebrates all York athletic teams and the annual All Sports Booster Hall of Fame award.

April 3, 2024 is School Paraprofessional Appreciation Day! York CSD paraprofessionals work hard every day to support our teachers and students in the classroom and beyond. Thank you for all you do. YCSD paraprofessionals are appreciated!

For the last day of the week before spring recess, York Elementary School celebrated our favorite storybook characters that we all know and love. Students and staff were invited to dress up as their favorite storybook character. We had some beloved old favorites and some new characters from our favorite books.

For the month of March, York Elementary School celebrated Read Across America. While reading is always the focus of our instruction, we interspersed many new and fun activities into the month to make reading exciting for every student. Each week in March the students watched a masked reader video. Their job was to guess who the masked reader was. Last Friday at our morning assembly, the masked readers were finally revealed to the students! What a surprise! Thank you to our masked readers Miss Earle, Mr. Dougal, Mrs. Michael, Mr. Dunn, and Mrs. Titus. Thank you to our Elementary School Librarian Mrs. Feltham for creating such a fun activity to support reading. Watch our masked reader videos! https://youtu.be/elRn44bP3a0?si=VG7C0Y_CgGBSFt2k https://youtu.be/GmFu184a6aE?si=Ee4OFp1UYEkaX5H1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWEIk3Yv1vY&t=9s https://youtu.be/VZsUUlrDeeU?si=npSozcr6cO6q5CkW https://youtu.be/lhInkc6DNmg?si=w8GGBF7s0BghKszN

Spring Recess starts now! No school for staff and students March 29 - April 8, 2024. School resumes on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. FYI - Students will be coming home with their solar eclipse safe viewing glasses. Have a nice recess everyone!

What does it matter? Well, it takes up a lot of space! That's what's the matter. Everything around us that has mass and takes up space, has matter. Mrs. Ayers' second graders are learning about matter. In a class demonstration, they learned that even small items like an eraser or a paper clip, have matter. The students made predictions about what would happen if they dropped a small item into a full glass of liquid... do you know the answer? Yes! the liquid may overflow the cup because the item has mass/matter, which takes up space. Great scientific predictions, Mrs. Ayers' class!

How's your knowledge of exponents? Really good if you are a middle school student in Mrs. Steel's math class! Mrs. Steel is teaching her students the algebraic foundations for high school math courses.

CHANGES TO TODAY'S SPORTS GAMES FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 JV Softball and Baseball games are postponed (Date TBD) Varsity Softball game will move to Warsaw CSD, 4:30 p.m. (originally at York CSD)

Six York High School students participated in the Section Five Sportsmanship Summit on March 26, 2024, at SUNY Geneseo. We are proud of our York ambassadors - Mason Parsons, Ryan Brady, Parker Bonefede, Joe Bauer, Tessa Rodwell, and Adeline Ayers. York students joined with others from area schools to spend the day with SUNY Geneseo student-athletes working on leadership and team building activities.

Congratulations to York Senior Joseph Bauer, who was recognized by Section Five for Outstanding Sportsmanship throughout the 2023-2024 basketball season. York Athletic Director Ed Orman accompanied Joe to the Section Five Sportsmanship Summit at SUNY Geneseo where he was presented with the award.

Kindergarten Information Night - Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Parents/Guardians - Please join us for an Kindergarten information meeting on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 6 p.m. in the Ivan F. Hilfiker Auditorium. This meeting is for parents/guardians of children in the York Central School District, who will be five years old on or before December 1, 2024, and who will be attending kindergarten in the 2024-2025 school year. More details are posted on the school website - click the link below. https://www.yorkcsd.org/article/1522323

York High School students interested in health care fields attended Glow With Your Hands Health Care, a career exploration program held at Genesee Community College. This is the second year of the event. Over 575 students from the GLOW region (Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and Wyoming Counties) attended the career fair. The students met with a variety of health care professionals representing colleges and various health care specialty areas such as nursing, therapists, and technicians.

Rise and shine Knights! It's a great day to be a York Golden Knight!

Class of 2024 York School Apparel Sale! Online ordering through a local vendor. All proceeds benefit the York High School Class of 2024. Sale is from March 25 - April 8, 2024. Use the link below to order! http://www.companycasuals.com/ycsseniors

The Great North American Total Solar Eclipse is just two weeks away! Are you prepared? Remember - students will be given safe viewing glasses on Thursday. SUNY Geneseo Professor Aaron Steinhauer visited York CSD to speak with students about the total solar eclipse. He presented a lot of good information about the timing of the solar eclipse as well as information on how to safely view the eclipse. Professor Steinhauer created a website that is very informative and includes an interactive map that you can pinpoint where you will be during the eclipse and it will tell you how long the eclipse totality will be. Click the link below to visit his website. https://eclipse.geneseo.edu/ Livingston County also has a great website. Click the link below. https://www.growlivco.com/eclipse

York Golden Knights participated in Genesee Community College's Tech Wars competition on March 21, 2024 at the Batavia Campus. Three York CSD teachers were actively involved in facilitating one or more competition stations at Tech Wars. Thank you to Mr. Mike Barrett, Mr. Peter Apps and Mr. Greg Keenan. Twenty-one Knights designed and built a variety of pieces to compete in catapult, CO2 cars (design & speed), sumo bots and drones. We are proud to announce that York School students were among the top finalists in several categories. Congratulations to: John Ayers - 1st place in catapult Olivia Simmonds - 2nd place in CO2 design Sylvia Llop - 6th place in CO2 speed Mike Dunn - 6th place in CO2 speed Joe Bauer - 4th place in CO2 speed Joe Bauer - 2nd place in sumo bots Kasey Coffey - 3rd place in sumo bots Jake Pangrazio - 4th place sumo bots

York Elementary School welcomed a very special guest this morning. Communications Specialist and former broadcast journalist Rebecca LeClair attended our Friday morning assembly to talk about the upcoming April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse coming to Western NY. Mrs. LeClair shared some very interesting facts as well as safety tips for viewing the eclipse. She inspired the students to write about their experiences of the rare Total Solar Eclipse. "Everyone who experiences totality will have an eclipse story. You...your family...our entire area. This is your opportunity to write it with purpose!" Mrs. LeClair commented.

Thursday, March 21, 2024, is World Down Syndrome Day Students and staff wore their crazy or mix-n-match socks today to recognize World Down Syndrome Day. March 21st was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which leads to Down Syndrome. Together we will create a single global voice advocating for the rights, inclusion and well-being of people with Down Syndrome in our schools, community and around the world!

Mrs. Shaffer's third grade class studied mosquitos - the pesky flying bug is common at summertime activities. Students were surprised to learn some interesting facts about mosquitoes that they didn't know. Did you know that only the female mosquito bites? Did you also know that mosquitoes are attracted to certain people over others? This explains why some people are constantly swatting away the mosquitoes while others standing right next to them are not bothered much at all! Or how about this fun fact - mosquitoes prefer to lay their eggs in water and they only require a small amount of water to do so. This explains why in areas where there is standing water, including small ponds and even bird baths, there is also an increase in mosquitoes. The students listened to the video lesson about mosquitoes and then discussed the information they learned about in small groups. Prior to the mosquito lesson, Mrs. Shaffer led the class in a movement exercise to help them work off their excess energy and prepare to listen and learn.