Mrs. Mancuso’s 2nd graders at Garfield School turn letters into tiny sculptures and practice writing with wipe boards — learning that’s playful, tactile, and memorable. 📚🖐️🧩
Garfield School students learned about pedestrian safety!
Curious minds on the move! 😊 Today Garfield School’s 4th graders visited the Kearny Public Library and the Kearny Museum — a day full of books, local history, and hands-on learning. 📚🏺
Mrs. Lazu’s preschool class at Garfield School practiced name-building today using letter cards. This simple, hands-on activity supports letter recognition, fine motor skills, and student confidence — all foundational for future reading success. 👩🏫📘
Can tiny hands build big dreams? ✨🧒👧 Mrs. Lazu’s preschoolers spent the day crafting towers — a little engineering, a lot of giggles, and teamwork all around! 🏗️❤️ #PlayBasedLearning
Garfield School: Mrs. Alfaro's 1st graders are literacy stars! The students are busy reinforcing reading and writing skills through engaging center activities, small group lessons, and personalized iReady work. Every student is on the path to becoming a successful reader and writer. Great job!
Garfield School: Congratulations to Mr. Schalago's Homeroom for earning the Best Homeroom Attendance Award for the month of October!
Garfield School: Mrs. Bifulco's 2nd grade authors started their writing lesson with the funny animal story, "Click, Clack, Moo," to inspire their own silly tales. The students worked individually and used peer conferencing to add to and refine their creative stories. We can't wait to read these funny and creative masterpieces!
Garfield School: Ms. Seeley and Mrs. Gallagher-Figueroa’s 2nd graders are building strong math foundations! They engaged in a strategic lesson focused on adding and subtracting within 100. Using a combination of music, technology, and partner work, students strategically applied key concepts like place value, properties of operations, and the relationship between addition and subtraction throughout group activities and individualized iReady time.
Congratulations to Garfield School's October Students of the Month!
Happy Veterans Day! Garfield PEERS got creative and teamed up with Mr. McShane’s art classes to design artwork for our local veterans. Students created thoughtful pieces to hang up in the school and to hand in as gifts. The PEERS also invited 5th and 6th graders to write heartfelt letters of appreciation to thank our veterans for their service.
Saluting the heroes who served our nation. #VeteransDay
Happy Halloween! Garfield School 6th Grade Peers will be collecting any gently used and clean costumes from November 10th to November 26th. Please consider donating!
Happy Halloween from Garfield School!
Garfield School: What a fang-tastic day! 🕸️ Our school Halloween celebration was filled with fun costumes, smiles, and school spirit. Thank you to everyone who helped make the day so special! 👻🧡
Mrs. Wei's kindergarteners at Garfield School made some SPOOKY crafts. 👻
Our talented Sixth graders at Garfield school collaborated to create some amazing haunted houses! Each piece is unique and filled with creativity. We want your opinion. which haunted house do you this is the best?
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Garfield School: Halloween fun at Garfield School! 🧡 Our amazing staff showed off their creativity by dressing up and spreading festive cheer throughout the halls. What a great way to celebrate the day! 🎃
Garfield School Book Fair! Thank you to the PTA.
Garfield School Trunk to Treat! Thanks for Garfield School PTA, staff, volunteers, families, and of course the teachers who got pied in the face. 🎃
