East Rockaway, Lynbrook students ready to hit the books (and computers)
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Friends finish their first day of school at East Rockaway High School.
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Principal Bill Fortgang talks to students after the first day of school.
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Billy Kind starts kindergarten
Barbara Kind
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Sixth graders Ashley Esposito, Amy Glanzer, Taianna Rease and Aleeyah Gibson review their schedules before the start of their first day of classes at Lynbrook South Middle School.
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West End science teacher Annemarie Roth gives Lynbrook fifth graders Irtiza Prottay, Michaela Colin and Nolan Fitzgerald their first assignment of the new school year: to write about the kind of scientist they would each like to be.
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Zachary Grantz 7, left, who is going into the second-grade at Rhame Avenue Elementary School in East Rockaway, and his sister, Camryn, 5, who is attending kindergarten there, were ready for their first day of school Their brother, Nicholas, 3, is at right.
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Thirteen years ago, James Brannigan walked to Mrs. Kohn’s kindergarten class at Centre Avenue Elementary School in East Rockaway. This year, as a senior at East Rockaway High School, he got himself to school in style.
Courtesy Genie Kubat Brannigan
Marion Street Elementary School fourth-graders Andrew Marceda, Jimmy Murray and Mason Pontrell are looking cool going into their Lynbrook school.
Ready for reading, writing and SMART Boards, students from East Rockaway and Lynbrook were off to school for their first day of the fall semester on Tuesday.