{"id":13442,"date":"2025-03-25T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=13442"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:55:51","slug":"students-and-parents-camp-out-at-great-neck-middle-avid-literacy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/students-and-parents-camp-out-at-great-neck-middle-avid-literacy-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and parents camp out at Great Neck Middle AVID Literacy Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Neck Middle AVID teacher Cari Huffman and students gathered around a pretend campfire to explain the importance of notetaking during the school\u2019s AVID Literacy Night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Cindy Focke<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Creative Writing Club member Avery Miller, right, encouraged sixth grader Mila Williams to try typing on a typewriter during Great Neck Middle\u2019s AVID Literacy Night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Great Neck Middle School was filled with happy campers March 12.<\/p>\n

More than 100 students and their families returned to school for a camping-themed evening of learning fun during AVID Literacy Night.<\/p>\n

AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is an elective course, however the program\u2019s strategies to improve organizational, goal setting and reading and writing skills are incorporated throughout the entire school.<\/p>\n

Parents had the chance to see what it was all about.<\/p>\n

Approximately 20 interactive activities were spread throughout the hallways and several classrooms, while the school\u2019s annual book fair took place in the library.<\/p>\n

Sixth grader Mila Williams\u2019 mother, Shelley Schudel, was glad she attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is great for me to learn the different steps to things such as writing essays and being organized,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mila tried out a unique machine on display at the creative writing club\u2019s \u201ccampsite.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a typewriter,\u201d explained Avery Miller. \u201cA lot of people have never seen one in person before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Great Neck Middle\u2019s Creative Writing Club put together a creative display for the school\u2019s camping-themed AVID Literacy Night. From left, members Jenavieve Brimmer, Drew Denault, Nicole Dellaquila, Lilleigh Butera, Avery Miller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The eighth grader and fellow club members created an interactive display featuring a camp stove with baked beans and a game to match quotes with popular books, such as \u201cOh, the Places You\u2019ll Go,\u201d by Dr. Suess.<\/p>\n

They also promoted their school\u2019s blog, the \u201cTide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mila\u2019s prize: candy and a stamp on her AVID Literacy Night passport.<\/p>\n

Nearby, students spun a wheel to answer a math question. Olive Thompson, center director of Mathnasium on North Great Neck Road, said reading impacts math and other subjects.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helps you read a problem and think logically in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearby students created kindness rocks, wrote thank you cards, practiced writing their names in cursive, completed Mad Libs word games and more.<\/p>\n

AVID student Leari Johnson and classmates gathered around a pretend fire to explain the importance of notetaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking good notes affects our ability to read and comprehend in general,\u201d the eighth grader said.<\/p>\n

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From left, Great Neck Middle seventh grader Adrian Herrett learned some Spanish phrases with help from eighth graders Avery Hathaway and Claire Chamberlin during AVID Literacy Night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Avery Hathaway greeted visitors and said her name in Spanish. \u201cHola! Me llamo Avery,\u201d exclaimed the eighth grader. She and Claire Chamberlin guided students as they read sentences in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Eighth graders Ava McHugh and Ryan Howard asked Zayden Locke to touch some Oobleck and guess if it was a solid or a liquid.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t sure. They explained that the gooey mixture of cornstarch and water was an example of a non-Newtonian fluid, such as ketchup, toothpaste and quicksand.<\/p>\n

Zayden\u2019s mother, Teri Wales, said she was glad her son wanted to attend the literacy night. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to expose them to science and interesting ways to look at things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Event organizer Suzanne Bruehl is the Great Neck Middle literacy coach. Her role is to support teachers in embedding literacy into their lessons.<\/p>\n

Literacy night highlighted strategies to show parents how their students are being prepared to be future-ready for college, the military or employment, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany sixth graders get to see what is being done in eighth grade and hopefully make the connection that reading and writing and communicating is a lifelong skill.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eighth graders Ryan Howard and Ava McHugh asked Zayden Locke if he thought the gooey Oobleck was a liquid or a solid during Great Neck Middle\u2019s AVID Literacy Night. From left, Teri Wales, her son Zayden, Ryan, Ava and science teacher Leigh Chandler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Great Neck Middle algebra teacher Audrey Casazza and eighth grader Pia Asmussen hosted a display at AVID Literacy Night that connected writing and math skills.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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