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Managing Stress with the 5 Senses Grounding Technique
7th Grade students in Mrs. Robertson's Health Class are learning about Mental/Emotional Health : Stress. They are learning about the 5 Senses Grounding Technique. Students worked in groups in the 5 different stations to try each of the techniques.
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Turkey Grams
It's Turkey Time! Berner Middle School Students and Staff can show the people in our lives how thankful we are for them by sending a candy Turkey Gram to anyone at Berner Middle School!
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October Berner Learners
Berner Learners is an education initiative at Berner. Students are recognized for exemplifying strong character attributes and academic effort. Working together with the Character Education Club, while also recalling "The 16 Habits of Mind" by Costa and Kallick, the Berner houses select five students each month that demonstrate the five core attributes of Achievement, Character, Attitude, Effort, and Improvement.
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‘Shrek’ is On Deck as Berner’s Fall Musical
The tale of the grumpy ogre and the princess with a deep, dark secret is coming to the Berner Middle School stage on Nov. 22 and 23. A cast of 80 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students will perform “Shrek the Musical.”
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Thanksgiving Food Drive
After a weeklong food drive in November, Berner Middle School’s student council members witnessed the impact of their efforts with a visit to a local food pantry. On November 8th, student council officers loaded boxes of nonperishable goods onto a school bus and headed to the Our Lady of Lourdes parish outreach center in Massapequa Park.
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Massapequa’s Pink Events Raise Awareness and Funds
Massapequa students dig their pink attire, which they have been wearing throughout October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In addition to showing their support through fashion, students, staff and community members have also been raising money for local organizations.
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Berner Teacher to Share Best Practices Abroad
With an opportunity to give back to her profession, Kristen Urban, a sixth grade teacher at Berner Middle School in the Massapequa School District, will spend a week in Jamaica to help improve literacy instruction.
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Berner Sixth Graders Get a Digital Reality Check
A pair of Nassau County police officers emphasized social media and online safety during a presentation for sixth graders. The Sept. 17 program at Berner Middle School gave students the tools they need to stay safe and make good choices in middle school and beyond.
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
-Albert Einstein
“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”
-Mark Twain
“There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.”
-John Adams
