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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art and Essay Contest
Sleepy Hollow Middle School art students utilized art as a visual language when they created original pieces that reflected and honored the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Andrea Harrison’s art classes mirrored the style of African American collage artist Romare Bearden. They worked in groups and designed each collage around one of Dr. King’s quotes and then chose digital images that they complemented with pictures that they drew and painted. The artwork is currently on display as part of the New York State Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art and Essay Exhibition in Albany.
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Student Scientists
Sleepy Hollow Middle School students learn from scientists and get hands-on experience at Regeneron in Sleepy Hollow. Learn more aboSleepy Hollow Middle School students learn from scientists and get hands-on experience at Regeneron in Sleepy Hollow. Learn more about this partnership by watching this visual story.
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Sixth-Grade School Hike
Sleepy Hollow Middle School students enjoyed their first hike of the school year on Sept. 20 when they explored the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. Sixth-graders, all of whom are members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers Team, are students in Michelle Sciullo, Kirk Dietz, Mayerlin Strippoli and Mayra Yepes’ classes. This is one of the many team traditions for sixth-graders. Students had the opportunity to join the runners’ group or take a more leisurely stroll along the path. The activity builds community allowing students get to know each other and their teachers on a more personal level. An added benefit, students from the runners’ group often join the cross-country team in seventh-grade.
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No One Eats Alone
Here is a visual story that presents some of the moments from No One Eats Alone Day at Sleepy Hollow Middle School. Students joined together on Sept. 20, for an afternoon of fun and companionship.
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Remember and Serve
Sleepy Hollow Middle School students weren’t born when the 9/11 attacks occurred 18 years ago. As the anniversary of the attacks approached, Principal Joshua Whitham confronted a challenge: how to teach the history but also do something actionable. Whitham discovered the answer with the assistance of 911day.org and United for the Troops, two organizations with which he partnered over the summer.
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Pearl Harbor Survivor Shares Life Story
World War II veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor Armando “Chick” Galella remembers the attack on Pearl Harbor like it was only yesterday. The 98-year-old Sleepy Hollow resident met with Sleepy Hollow Middle School students in Andrea Harrison’s art classes on 9/11. The students soon learned that ironically, Galella enlisted in the army on September 11, 1940. He served five years in the Pacific Theater and earned the highest rank an enlisted man can receive - Battalion Sergeant. Galella received the Bronze Star Medal for Meritorious Service and bravery in the Battle of Okinawa.
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Sleepy Hollow Middle School 62nd Annual Recognition
Sleepy Hollow Middle School students move up to Sleepy Hollow High School. Watch this visual story that captures some moments from the ceremony.
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National Junior Honor Society Induction Ceremony & Eighth Grade Awards Night
Emily Clayton volunteered her time with the Midnight Run, Samantha Poy helped clean up Tibbetts Brook in Yonkers and Isabella Levine mentored students in the Nature Girls Program. These are just some of the service projects that Sleepy Hollow Middle School students carried out this school year as members of the National Junior Honor Society. On June 20, they shared their experiences with the community as they inducted approximately 15 sixth-graders into the organization.
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Sleepy Hollow Students Create Word Search Puzzle With World Famous Puzzle Maker
As sixth-graders in Kirk Dietz class sat in their classroom with a Smartboard on June 14, David L. Hoyt, the “World’s Most Syndicated Puzzle Maker,” collaborated with them 800 miles away from Chicago. The Sleepy Hollow Middle School students and Hoyt developed a puzzle that will be featured in Hoyt’s Word Search Word Traveler app this Monday, June 17. The game is played in more than 100 countries around the world.
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Middle School Performing Arts Department Awards
Sleepy Hollow Middle School recognized student musicians for their achievements in band, orchestra and chorus. On May 30, the sixth, seventh, and eighth-graders received pins and ribbons in recognition of their efforts and contributions to the department.
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IBM Hosts its Annual Women in Technology Workshop with SHMS Students
No matter where you live, or what language you speak, technology, math and science play an important part of your everyday life. IBM hosted its annual Women in Technology Day on Tuesday, May 21 in the boardroom of the administration building. This annual event encourages young women to think about entering the field of STEM.
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Lunch Buddy Program Honored
Sleepy Hollow Middle School students, faculty and administrators were honored for their commitment to the Lunch Buddy Program May 8, at Greenburgh Town Hall. Seventh-graders volunteer their time during their lunch period making new friends with Stephanie Castillo and Kelly Whelan’s Communications and Life Skills Classes.
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Flexible Seating in the Sixth Grade
The sixth grade Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote a Grant to the PTA and received money for flexible seating. Taking advantage of this beautiful day, Mrs. Sciullo's Social Studies classes continued reading the Wanderings of Odysseus
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Autism Awareness and Acceptance
“Autism can’t define me, I define autism.” Award winning motivational speaker Kerry Magro inspired Sleepy Hollow Middle School students on April 18, with these words and experiences from his own life. The author, movie consultant and founder of the non-profit KFM Making a Difference, was non-verbal at age two and diagnosed with Autism at four. “One of the hardest parts for people with autism is other people, how other people treat us differently. Look at the whole person first before you look at the disability.”
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Sixth- & Seventh-Grade Students Celebrate Pi Day
APRIL FOOLS! Postponed from its traditional date of March 14, on Monday, April 1, students in Ms. Yepes’, Ms. Connell’s, Ms. Albukerk’s, and Ms. Rodrigues’ math classes celebrated everyone’s favorite irrational number, π. To celebrate this event, students measured to derive the value of pi as accurately as possible by calculating the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of several circles. After, calculating the averages
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SHMS Participates in the Meditation Lab
Thanks to a generous grant from the Foundation, SHMS students and teachers were treated to a session of mindfulness. The Meditation Lab was founded in 2016 by longtime yoga teacher and mother of six, Jennifer Monness. As a parent to middle school, high school, and college-age children, she was all too familiar with the overwhelming pressure students feel to achieve in their lives. A certified yoga and meditation instructor, Jen has
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RHCP Homeroom Wars
The 6th grade Red Hot Chili Peppers team (Dietz, Strippoli, Sciullo, and Yepes) had a homeroom war competition during FLEX period on Friday. This competition involved classes racing to finish and solve a Jumble Championship puzzle (thanks David L. Hoyt). The winning team got the distinction of hanging the team mascot, a giant, inflatable chili pepper on their door.
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Sleepy Hollow Middle School is Feeding Westchester
The Sleepy Hollow Middle School cafeteria was filled to the brim on Wednesday, March 6 as students sorted, weighed, and packed food drive items. The homeroom competition started with a school wide assembly where a representative from Feeding Westchester spoke to our students about food insecurity in our area. Over the course of the 7 week drive, homerooms battled
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Brewed For You Joins Forces with the SHMS Food Drive
On Friday, March 1, students in Ms. Doran’s class were treated to hot chocolate as a reward for donating more than 160 items to our middle school food drive! Ms. Doran was so impressed with her class of twelve students that
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Mummification
Students got their hands dirty as they helped to mummify the body of the dearly departed Pharaoh Henny (the cornish game hen) in Mrs. Mullin’s social studies classes. Over a six week period, students learned all about Egypt and the mummification process as they participated in the actual process of mummification. The culminating activity of wrapping, preserving and preparing the body for its eternal slumber was presided over by Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead. Students created all of the objects that
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Musical Inspiration
Katya Grivena’s fingers danced across the keyboard Feb. 11, as she performed for Sleepy Hollow Middle School students during a mini-concert. The Russian-born musician has completed 18 seasons at Carnegie Hall, traveled across the United States and around the world, but playing at Sleepy Hollow brought her great joy. “I love bringing music to kids,” she said. “The children are still very open to new experiences.”
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Crime Scene Investigation
How do you end a unit on the scientific method? By investing a crime scene of course! Mrs. Conjura and Mrs. DeGregorio, science teachers at Sleepy Hollow Middle School, provided the 6th grade Wizard's Physical Science classes with this exciting real world experience. Students were engrossed in the activity as they observed a crime scene that was set up in the classroom. They sketched out the scene and wrote observations about what they saw. Students are excitedly awaiting the results from
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Strippoli's Students Take on Teaching!
Mrs. Strippoli's 6th grade students learned about temperature by preparing a lesson on climate change and global warming. Working in small groups, they
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Hitting All the Right Notes
“The pictures match the beat of the music.” This is how Mia Jgarkava described what she heard and Observed January 14 during her Exploratory Music class. The eighth-graders watched commercials and portions of podcasts paying special attention to the musical tracks underneath. They also met the musician who created the scores, Composer and Music Producer, Andrew Linn.
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