Forest Avenue Elementary School recently collaborated with Reading is Fundamental and Marchon Eyewear, a VSP Vision company, to give students the holiday gift of reading. Every student at Forest Avenue Elementary School received a Gift of Reading bag for the holidays. The Gift of Reading bag included three books with bookmarks, postcards and a coloring sheet. Students were filled with gratitude as they enjoyed their new books over the break.

Date Added: 1/15/2025

Forest Avenue Elementary School held its first Scripps National Spelling Bee for students in third, fourth and fifth grade. Forest Avenue School is excited to “bee” participating as the Scripps National Spelling Bee celebrates its 100th year. 

Participants studied the spelling word lists for more than a month before taking on the challenge. Each grade level from three through five held its own competition. After vying for the title of grade level winner, three students were entered into the final round of competition on Nov. 25. 

Fourth grader Bruno Garcia was crowned the spelling bee winner after more than 40 rounds of competition. He will be attending the regional bee at Hofstra University in February. In second place was fifth grader Liam Johnson and in third place was third grader Valentino Charles. 

Date Added: 12/6/2024