Please help support the Mackenzie Backpack Program by donating during our 10-weeks of giving campaign.
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
flyer on a yellow background announcing Mackenzie Elementary School's 10-weeks of giving food drive. There is an image of a box filled with dry goods with the words "fight hunger good drive give today!" Under that image a listing of dates and what the school is requesting be donated during those weeks.
Our first graders are learning to write personal narratives. They have created two narratives, titled "Balloon Hop" and "Roller Coaster Ride". First, they shared the experiences of playing the game balloon hop and riding a virtual roller coaster. Next, they created a story plan with sketches to prepare them for writing. Finally, they wrote their personal narratives. Way to go first graders!
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of children sitting on the floor with their hands raised
Image of a student holding a purple balloon and having a pink balloon between his legs
Image of a boy wearing a blue shirt jumping while holding a purple balloon in one hand and having a pink balloon between his legs
Image of a little girl in a green shirt with a pink jacket jumping with a purple balloon in her hand
Image of a students personal narrative study plan for Balloon Hop
Image of a student's personal narrative about Balloon Hop
Image of a student's personal narrative about Balloon Hop
Image of a student's personal narrative about Rollercoaster Ride
Image of a student's personal narrative about Balloon Hop
5th grade students caught reading books on the playground on a beautiful September morning for DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) time!
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
Student with her back to the camera on yellow and green playground equipment
image of students sitting on the playground surface reading books
image of student sitting on and below plaground equipment while they read books
image of students sitting on playground equipment while reading their books
Image of a student in a red sweatshirt sitting by herself at the edge of a playground, she's abandoned a yellow ball to read a book during Drop Everything And Read time!
GRM PTA NEWS: MEMBERSHIP: Join the Mackenzie PTA to support your child and your school! Research shows PARENT INVOLVEMENT in their child's education is the #1 influence for them doing better in school. Anyone can join: parents, grandparents, teachers, aunts, uncles, neighbors, business & community members. JOIN HERE: https://mackenzie.givebacks.com/store/items/11175 Mackenzie Spirit Wear Sale Get your Yellowjacket Spirit Wear by visiting https://d2kgraphics.chipply.com/ELDRED/store.aspx?apid=10397800 The online spirit wear store is open now and will run through October 13 with expected distribution being the last week of October. DON'T DELAY, ORDER TODAY!!
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
Red Apple NYS PTA Logo
Yellow & Green Yellowjacket Pride Logo
Attendance matters! Please make every effort to send your child to school everyday. If your child is going to be absent, please email an excuse/medical note to the email address indicated for your child's school.
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image notice of new email addresses to send absence excuses to
Back to School Shopping Community Event-FREE to all ECS families. Gently used clothing sizes 4T-Adult M. Monday, August 26 9AM-3PM and Tuesday, August 27 Noon-4PM at Mackenzie Elementary School . Here is a sneak-peek at some of the items available.
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
image of clothes folded on tables in a school library
Image of boxes labeled with sizes of children's clothes
Image of boxes full of shoes
Image of back packs and lunch boxes
Image of a table with folder clothes on it and racks with coats hanging on them
Greater Barryville Chamber of Commerce Announces End of Summer Celebration.
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
Flyer from the Greater Barryville Chamber of Commerce announcing their end of summer celebration
Back to School Shopping Community Event FREE to all ECS families Gently used clothing (sizes 4T-Adult M-limited Adult L available) Limited supply of backpacks, lunch bags, and school supplies will also be available on a first-come-first-served basis. WHEN: MONDAY, AUGUST 26 9AM-3PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 NOON-4:00 WHERE: MACKENZIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Please contact Mrs. Gallo with any questions gallom@eldred.k12.ny.us
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
Clipart image of a school building with the works back to school below it and colored pencils on either side of the words
Elementary school supply news!
over 1 year ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of a gray wood slat table with colorful art supplies surrounding it. Announcing that the Eldred Central School District will be providing school supplies for the 2024-2025 school year.
EARLY DISMISSAL-Monday & Tuesday, June 24 & 25 the Mackenzie Elementary School will dismiss at 1:00. Car pick up will begin at 1:00 and buses will depart by 1:15, getting students home 2-hours earlier than normal. There has been a change to the academic calendar; June 26 is now a snow give back day therefore there is no school for students so the last day of school will be June 25. Have a great summer!
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of school children walking home from school. Grade papers are on the right of image.
Congratulations to our Mackenzie Elementary School 6th grade class as they celebrate "Moving Up" to the JSHS! Moving up ceremony June 20, 2024 6:00 PM Congratulations to the ECS graduating class of 2030!
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Eldred Central School District Yellowjacket Mascot
Mackenzie Elementary School will celebrate the end of the school year with a sprit week June 17-21! Monday-June 17-Hawaiian Day Tuesday-June 18-Crazy Hat Day Wednesday-June 19-NO SCHOOL in observance of the Juneteenth holiday *Thursday-June 20-Summer/Beach Day-shorts, t-shirts, sunglasses-please no bathing suits! Friday-June 21-Eldred Pride-wear Green & Gold or your GRM shirt
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Monday, June 17 Spirit Week-Hawaiian Day-Clipart image of an orange Hawaiian shirt with white hibiscus flowers on it
Tuesday, June 18 Spirit Week-Crazy Hat Day-Clipart image of a hat with a spinner on top
Thursday, June 20 Spirit Week-Beach Day-Clipart image of beach items, towel, hat, sunglasses, flip-flops, starfish
Friday, June 21-Spirit Week-Eldred Pride Day-Eldred Central School District's yellowjacket mascot
On May 22 Mackenzie Elementary School hosted a Social Studies Fair. It was a wonderful display of all of our students hard work.
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of "Uncle Sam" cardboard cut out holding a sign welcoming people to the social studies fair. There are some red, white and blue star shaped balloons too
Image of student projects for social studies fair. This particular one is of celebratory Chinese masks and lanterns
Image of student projects for social studies fair. This particular one is of Greek Vases
Image of student projects for social studies fair. This particular one is of Hieroglyphics
Image of a timeline depicting the Post-classical period early middle ages Iron Age 1000 BCE-200 CE
image of parents and students reviewing student work at the social studies fair
image of parents and students reviewing student work at the social studies fair
Our 6th grade students visited Memorial Park in Glen Spey to help clean it up and get it ready for Memorial Day ceremonies. They had a special visiting guest speaker, retired ECS teacher Linda Hazen. Notice students diligently taking notes as part of their journalism unit in the Units of Study.
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of 3 students holding rakes as they clean up Memorial Park in Glen Spey to get it ready for Memorial Day ceremonies
Image of students pruning a bush as they clean up Memorial Park in Glen Spey to get it ready for Memorial Day ceremonies
Image of students clean up Memorial Park in Glen Spey to get it ready for Memorial Day ceremonies
Image of a student holding a rake as he cleans up Memorial Park in Glen Spey to get it ready for Memorial Day ceremonies
Image of students listing to guest speaker, retired ECS teacher Linda Hazen
Image of student taking notes while listening to a guest speaker. This is part of the 6th grade journalism unit in the Units of Study writing program
Our second grade invited retired GRM teacher, Mrs. VanHage, to celebrate “D” day in our ABC Countdown to Summer! She read the students the book “Arnie the Doughnut” and treated them to some delicious doughnuts- that looked exactly like Arnie! Thank you, Mrs. VanHage!
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of a teacher wearing a bright pink shirt sitting in the front of a classroom reading a book to a group of students seated on the floor in front of her.
Photo collage of students eating donuts in a classroom and a selfie of the teachers
Photo collage of students eating donuts in a classroom
Today's lunch at Mackenzie Elementary School: pulled pork sandwiches, baked beans, coleslaw, watermelon and low-fat milk choices. Looks DELICIOUS!!!
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Today's lunch: pulled pork sandwich, baked beans, coleslaw, watermelon and low-fat milk choice served on a green tray
School-made coleslaw
Fresch cut watermelon slices
We have some winners! Congratulations to our students from Mackenzie Elementary School who won the random monthly drawings for the last few month through the Sullivan County Reading Challenge.
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
monthly Sullivan County Reading Challenge winner
monthly sullivan county reading challenge winner
monthly Sullivan County Reading Challenge winner
THANK YOU GRM PTA! Our Mackenzie students and staff really love our new shirts!
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of our 5th grade students and teachers posing in their new GRM t-shirts that the PTA bought for them
Students pose on the playground in their new PTA shirts
Students posing on the playground in their new PTA shirts
Students posing on the playground in their new PTA shirts
Every year in April, our primary grade students (grades PK-2) celebrate Week of the Young Child (WOYC). Annually, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (naeyc) celebrates WOYC to recognize that the early childhood years (birth through age 8) lay the foundation for children's success in school and later life. It's a time to plan how we will better meet the needs of all young children and their families. At Mackenzie Elementary we celebrated with Music Monday, Tasty Tuesday, Work Together Wednesday (where we partnered up with our grade 3-6 students for a STEM project), Artsy Thursday and Family Fun Friday.
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Kindergarten Artwork on display for our Week of the Young Child Art Show
PreK self-portraits on display for our Week of the Young Child Art Show
First grade "stuffed animals" artwork on display for our week of the young child art show
Second grade art work on display for our week of the young child art show
students playing chutes and ladders for family fun friday
Families play various board games together for week of the young child 's family fun Friday
Students making healthy snacks with fruits for Week of the Young Child's Tasty Tuesday
Siblings getting ready to play a game for Family Fun Friday
Our primary grades teamed up with our intermediate grades for Week of the Young Child's Work Together Wednesday STEM activity.
Siblings playing a game together for Week of the Young Child's Family Fun Friday
ECS graduate, Emily Campanella (Class of 2011), is a therapist who had a long-held dream of writing a children's book. She saw that dream come to life when she self-published "Kindness is for Everyone: The Heartwarming Tales of Em & Dev". We were excited to welcome her to Mackenzie Elementary School today to share her book and message of kindness with our students. For those grade levels that didn't get to see Ms. Campanella today she will be back again next Monday!
almost 2 years ago, Jennifer Anderson
Image of ECS class of 2011 graduate, Emily Campanella, sharing her self-published children's book with our students.
Image of ECS class of 2011 graduate, Emily Campanella, sharing her self-published children's book with our students.