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Catching up with the fourth grade

The fantastic fourth graders at Block Island School have been busy this school year. In addition to their rigorous curriculum, they have incorporated lots of hands-on learning, movement breaks, and outdoor adventures.The students earned many opportunities for learning outside the classroom by demonstrating good choice-making and behavior. While studying erosion in science, students walked to

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B.I. Sports this week

School Sports at Home Boys Varsity Basketball vs. Middlebridge, Saturday, Jan. 7 at 12:30 p.m. (School gym)Note: The Girls Varsity home game scheduled for Jan. 14 has been postponed. Recreation Department Weekly Schedule Tuesdays:• 8-10 p.m., Pickleball (School Gym)Fridays:• 6:30 – 8 p.m., Friday Night Games, grades 4-6 (School gym)• 8 – 10 p.m., Open

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“A far-way place close to Connecticut:” What Block Island was and remains

In 1967, a travel writer visited Block Island. The writer worked for The Providence Journal, and like all reporters in the United States at the time, saw his nation divided on many social and cultural fronts. Newspaper reporters had their hands full in the summer of 1967 as civil unrest exploded across the nation’s major

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