
May 20, 2012
970 Route 146, Clifton Park, NY 12065
518-881-0570
Posted 5/11/12
In honor of Earth Day Tesago fourth grade wrote a piece about how they would help the earth if they were Lorax for a day.
Posted 4/19/12
Fourth grade string students from Tesago and Skano participated in their first Orchestra Showcase performance on March 29th under the direction of Mrs. Jasinski.
Posted 4/4/12
Mrs. Gerstenberger’s second
grade class at Tesago presented a famous person in history they
researched.
Posted 4/4/12
Tesago second graders
present Character Matters on March 28th.
Posted 4/4/12
Tesago students are
studying weather during the Wonder part of the WISE Program.
Posted 3/27/12
The Tesago Select Chorus performed for faculty and staff on Superintendent's Conference Day.
Teams from three elementary schools competed in a reading tournament in the Tesago cafeteria on March 8. Shen Kids Read was modeled after the “Battle of the Books” competitions, and involved students answering questions about several books in a game show fashion. The teams were comprised of five 5th graders from Okte, Tesago, and Shatekon that had won their own respective school competitions. Their school library media specialists served as coaches, and the event was moderated by Skano librarian Susan Kirby LeMon.
Posted 3/23/12
Students in Mrs. Hickok's fourth grade class at Tesago experiment with pulleys in science.
Posted 3/23/12
Fourth graders from Tesago performed a play called, Red Riding Hood.
Posted 2/22/12
Mrs. Coryer’s class was awarded this
month’s Campbell’s soup trophy at Tesago. Each month a class
receives the award with occasional antics with other classes
hiding the trophy on the winning team. A community of good
humor exists.
Posted 2/22/12
Maia LaVigne, a student in Mrs. DellaPorta's class, won the Siena College Essay contest for third graders and will be attending a free one week athletic camp.
Posted 2/17/12
100 REASONS TO LOVE TESAGO blog.
Posted 2/17/12
Students in Mrs. Halse’s second grade classroom pose with Mr. Pace and Mrs. Quinlivan after presenting information on bullying prevention.
Posted 2/14/12
Tesago First Graders celebrate the Super
Bowl with a special Mystery Reader!

Posted 2/14/12
Tesago Elementary third graders learned about the culture of many countries by entering “AUNT HELEN’S CLOSET”
Posted 1/23/12
Tesago students in Kindergarten through Second Grade celebrated great stories and reading together at our second annual PARP Pajama Story Night. Grandma Tippytoes, our librarian, our principal and all of our K-2 teachers preformed some awesome stories and songs for the kids. A fun time was had by all!
Posted 1/23/12
Algebra is fun in fourth grade at Tesago!
Posted 12/23/11
Tesago Student Council displays some of the 64 boxes of food and household items that were collected and donated to the Jonesville Food Pantry.
Colonel Richard Edwards looks at a video thanking him and all veterans after his own presentation to students on Veteran’s Day at Tesago.
Mrs. Gerstenberger’s class participated in a “Turkey Disguises” video conference with a 2nd grade class in Oyster Bay, NY.
Click here
to see a video [
].
Posted 12/6/11
Students in Mrs. Beidl’s first grade class recently presented their bat research projects to family and friends. They worked hard in the library media center and classroom to find answers to their “burning questions” and research these very interesting animals. Nice job first graders!
Posted 12/2/11
Mrs. Scavone’s science classes get into nutrition by singing their way to healthy eating! They shared their knowledge with some of the primary students and will continue sharing with the Tesago community by making new healthy food items, some of which will be made in the Tesago cafeteria. Um…..um……good! Click here to see the videos.
Posted 11/30/11
Tesago first graders try out chores that pioneer children may have done during the Scotia Glenville Museum's presentation of "In Days Gone By."
Posted 11/30/11
The Tesago 4th and 5th Grade Chorus will be
performing in the
WMHT-PBS
production of Music for the Holidays 2011. They were selected
to be one of 18 choirs from the Capital District to be
featured on the program.
Here are the dates of the performances:
Music for the Holidays 2011' Broadcast Schedule
'Music for the Holidays 2011' on WMHT-TV:
• Sunday, December 18 at 8 p.m.
• Monday, December 19 at 5 p.m.
• Thursday, December 22 at 8 p.m.
• Friday, December 23 at 5 p.m.
• Sunday, December 25 at 4 p.m.
'Music for the Holidays 2011' on Classical WMHT-FM:
• Sunday, December 25 at 6 p.m.
Posted 11/22/11
Students in Mr. Fetsko’s class at Tesago perform acid tests on rocks and minerals.
Posted 11/14/11
There will be a BROOKS BBQ on Thursday, November 17th from 3:00-6:00pm in the Tesago Cafeteria. This is a fundraiser for the award-winning Tesago Chorus and Select Chorus. Eat-in or drive through at the front of the school.
Posted 11/14/11
After studying about characters in class students developed character tee shirts based on their favorite character in a book they are reading at home. We all wore them to school to celebrate.
Posted 11/14/11
The Tesago kindergarten classes worked cooperatively to create fall scarecrows.
Posted 11/9/11
Tesago fourth grades used the secret language to construct a
circuit.
Posted 11/9/11
Latitude and longitude "floors"
students at Tesago.
Posted 11/9/11
Tesago students sorted Halloween candy wrappers, created a tally chart, frequency table and graphed their data as part of their math lesson.
Posted 11/1/11
Students are all smiles during the "cool"
Halloween Parade.
Posted 10/26/11
Mrs. Halse's classroom creates 25 reasons why Tesago Rocks!
Posted 10/20/11
Tesago students in Mrs. Hickok's and Mrs. Chudzinski's room practice subtraction across zeros.
Posted 10/13/11
Mrs. Halse's 2nd graders celebrated the conclusion of their "Healthy Habits" Science unit with a Fruit and Vegetable Party
Posted 10/4/11
Tesago's Lia Morlock auctions off a pair of fashionable sunglasses in Mr. Dzikas's class. Students had the opportunity to spend the Dzikas Dollars they have earned since the start of the school year!
The TESAGO PTA brought the UNCLE BROTHERS to TESAGO on Thursday, September 15 where they performed a creative mix of music for the students.
Posted 9/16/11
Students from Tesago experiment lighting a light bulb using a wire and a battery in Mrs Hickok's 4th grade class.
Posted 9/16/11
Math students in Mrs. Coryer's fifth grade class at Tesago using principles of symmetry to create portraits of their classmates
Posted 8/1/11