2011-2012 Gardiners Avenue News
With April being Autism Awareness Month, students at Gardiners Avenue Elementary School participated in a day of activities to bring awareness to autism.
[May 17, 2012]

In recognition of May as National Poetry Month, students throughout the Levittown School District celebrated their favorite poets during "Poem in Your Pocket Day."
[May 15, 2012]

Congratulations to the Gardiners Avenue School students who participated in a Math-A-Thon to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
[April 24, 2012]

In an effort to encourage an appreciation of the night sky, Mobile Ed Productions navigator Derek McDonald led students at Gardiners Avenue Elementary School in the Levittown School District into an inflatable planetarium to study the stars, planets, and constellations.
[March 13, 2012]

As part of PARP Week, Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown hosted a special day of reading.
[March 12, 2012]

Students in kindergarten through second grade at Gardiners Avenue Elementary School attended a PTA sponsored and literacy based assembly with national touring theater ArtsPower.
[February 28, 2012]

Police Office Galvin, from the Nassau County Police Department, received a 'Shop with a Cop' grant from the Levittown Target store.
[February 02, 2012]

Since the start of the school year, Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown has been engaged in the spirit of giving. This caring community of hard workers has made a tremendous impact upon others in need.
[December 23, 2011]

Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown has been working with the Social Service Volunteers of Nassau Inc. collecting new items such as: gloves, mittens, hats, scarves, new toys, and books.
[December 21, 2011]

At Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown, The Student Council, along with Mr. Rocco Ognibene, Lead Teacher/Student Council Advisor, bundled donated items that hung on the school's Giving Tree in the main lobby.
[December 21, 2011]

Gardiners's Election Day was a huge success! For the past several weeks, under the direction of Mr. Ognibene, our Lead Teacher at Gardiners Avenue School, Fifth Grade Students learned the valuable lessons of campaigning in a fair manner, making an informed decision, and the significance of voting.
[December 19, 2011]

While reading What Will the Weather Be? By Linda DeWitt, the kindergarten students at Gardiners Avenue learned about cold fronts, meteorology, humidity and precipitation.
[December 09, 2011]

At Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown, students and staff teamed up with Levittown's Kiwanis Club and helped families in need at Thanksgiving.
[December 05, 2011]

A lot has changed since the beginning of the school year. At Gardiners Avenue School, Susan Hendler, School Principal held an instructive workshop for First Grade Teachers, which informed educators about the goals, objectives, and procedures for the implementation of the New Common Core Standards in Mathematics and English Language Arts.
[November 21, 2011]

Gardiner's Avenue Elementary School offered a workshop for the Kindergarten students and their parents to provide information about motor skills and handwriting.
[November 17, 2011]

Poster ideas, slogans, and speeches have all been part of the nomination process for Fifth Grade candidates at Gardiners Avenue School seeking election for Student Council. A sea of posters with catchy slogans caught the attention of peers as they prepared to listen to students' nomination speeches.
[November 09, 2011]

It was a spooktacular parade at Gardiners Avenue School! Fun costumes filled the halls as staff and students prepared to parade their Halloween outfits before a plethora of parents lined up outside.
[November 02, 2011]

On Tuesday October 4th, Gardiners Avenue School participated in the Make Your Day Better Program sponsored by Office Max in Levittown.
[October 25, 2011]

Hollyrock Entertainment brought its game show "Brain Challenge" to the Levittown School District to host this year's "Get a Voice" kickoff at Gardiners Avenue Elementary School.
[October 25, 2011]

Second Grader Cassidy Baltazar, who attends Gardiners Avenue School, was a third prize winner of The New York Association for Pupil Transportation for Division I, New York State School Bus Safety Poster Contest.
[October 20, 2011]

At Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown, fifth graders are working hard and taking responsibility to raise money, which will help reduce the cost of their year book, field trip, dance, and other fifth grade activities.
[October 18, 2011]

The Kindergarten children in Mrs. Bergersen and Mrs. Minogue's classes, at Gardiner's Avenue School in Levittown, read and discussed The Kissing Hand, written by Audrey Penn.
[October 18, 2011]

Community service continues to be a top priority at Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown. Since "Open School Night," teachers, parents, and students have been working together to gather canned food to place into baskets for Thanksgiving.
[October 07, 2011]

Earlier this year, at Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown, students in Mr. Centonze's 5th grade class participated in a news report about their summer.
[October 03, 2011]

Students in Mrs. Boneillo's Kindergarten Class, at Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown, celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday by tasting red, green, and yellow apples, taking a survey of their classmate's favorite apple choices, and creating an enormous favorite apple graph.
[October 03, 2011]

Students in Mrs. Ruppert's First Grade class, at Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown, celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday by making a special hat and reading books about his life.
[October 03, 2011]

In preparation for "Back to School Night," First Grade teachers at Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown worked extremely hard and transformed their hallway into a gigantic "Candy Land" game board.
[September 23, 2011]

On Monday, September 19, 2011, The Wantagh Fire Department presented a Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Program to Gardiners Avenue students.
[September 23, 2011]

It was a full house at Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown on "Back to School Night."
[September 23, 2011]

At Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown, the entire staff is extremely proud of their students. The children's dedication towards patriotic pride rose to the occasion in honor of the ten year anniversary of 9/11.
[September 15, 2011]

American Flags wave in the wind at the 9/11 Memorial in front of Gardiners Avenue School in Levittown. Several Gardiners Avenue students volunteered their time beautifying the 9/11 Memorial to patriotically honor the ten year anniversary of 9/11.
[September 15, 2011]