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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Poland Seminary High School students visited Poland Union on Nov. 17 to help the second grade students for the AquaDog program.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.The Poland Seminary High School Students and the Poland Union students sat around the aquarium at Union during the AquaDogs program on Nov. 17. Pictured are, from left, (back) Braedan O'Shaughnessy, Leah Halatek, Kara Sciulli, Henry Mumaw, Jamie Ranalli and Rocco Almasy; (front) Justin Zuzan, Ava Vestal, Mila Milosevic, Jason Wolfe, Monica Moore and Carson Reda.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students from Poland Seminary High School helped students from Union elementary during the AquaDogs program on Nov. 17 make their presentations on the fish in the Union aquarium.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Second-grader Monica worked with Leah Halatek during the AquaDogs program on Nov. 17 at Poland Union Elementary.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Poland Union second-grade students worked to make powerpoints during the AquaDogs program with Poland Seminary High School students on Nov. 17.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
The AquaDog program at Poland Union Elementary is an after school program the second grader students and students from Poland Seminary High School participate in. PSHS students come to Union to help a handful of second-grade students learn more about the fish and coral in the 120 gallon saltwater aquarium. The students conduct research to prepare a presentation using the Google Chromebooks. The students pick a card from a pile and whichever card they choose, they do a report on that fish or other aquarium item.
Once the presentations are finished, the students will email them to Principal Mike Masucci and after he looks over them, he will share the presentation with the students parents and put them online. Kara Sciulli, a junior at PSHS, has returned for the second time to participate in the program. She worked with second-grader Mila Milosevic and researched the Banggai Cardinalfish.
“I like getting to interact with them and help them type,” said Sciulli.
“I like finding the pictures,” said Milosevic.
AquaDogs provides an opportunity for second-grade students to learn and have fun interacting with the older students. There are five second-grade classes that participate in the program. Every second-grader will have the chance to do it by the end of the year.
“It’s been nice, the parents love it. It’s really working out,” said Masucci.