CHP Teams Wins First Place at the RoboCup Junior OnStage National Competition ... and Best Programming Award!
Team Jazzmin' Jewels, comprised of Aleena, Karishma, Satviki, and Vaishnavi, won first place at the competition. The Jazzmin' Jewels team will represent U.S.A for the RoboCup Junior OnStage Primary Competition, to be held in Montreal, Canada from June 17th – 22nd. Wishing Team Jazzmin Jewels good luck in Montreal! Team RoboDancerz comprised of Sid, Nitasha, Agni, and Abhiram, won the Best Programming Award!
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Preschool - Kindergarten News
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Poetry Day in Preschool
Preschool through Kindergarten joined together in the multi-purpose room and amazed everyone with their beautiful poetry.
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Pre-Kindergarten Poetry Day
What a beautiful day it is was for our lower school children to recite poetry. Each class recited at least two poems.
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Kindergarten Students Performs on Poetry Day
Kindergarten students recited beautiful poetry for Poetry Day. Some of the students volunteered to recite a poem on their own!
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Butterflies
Pre K - 3 had the opportunity to watch the transformation of ten hungry caterpillars turn into 10 beautiful monarch butterflies over the course of 2 weeks.
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First Grade Recites Poems
First grade students celebrated Poetry Day. The students focused on poetry from their curriculum.
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Second Grade Celebrates Poetry Day
Second Grade students performed on Poetry Day. The students focused on poems based on the themes of nature and the seasons.
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Grade 3 Poetry Cafe
On Tuesday May 1st, the 3rd graders had an amazing day of reciting poems by Jack Prelutsky and showing parents the poetry portfolios they worked on in their "3rd Grade Poetry Cafe."
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Grade 4 Poetry
“We have tomorrow, bright before us, like a flame…”
During CHP’s annual Poetry Day celebration, the words of Langston Hughes resonated as the fourth graders presented many of his poems to a room filled with their guests and fellow classmates.
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What was life like in the past?
First Graders found out what life was like in the past during their visit to the Red Mill Museum in Clinton. During our tour of the mill, students discovered all the simple machines that were used to power the mill and produce products.
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Cinco de Mayo
Third grade had a Cinco de Mayo celebration on May 5th in their classroom arranged by Sra Pattani, their Spanish teacher. They had Mariachi music playing in the background while enjoying freshly made cheese quesadillas, corn and bean salad, salsa, chips, guacamole, lemonade and apple juice.
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Third Grade Mystery Reader
Third grade welcomed Mrs. Ankita Shah, Aarush's mom, as our Mystery Reader. Mrs. Shah was welcomed by a thunderous drum roll. She read a very interesting book to us,
When I Grow Up
by Al Yankovic. The students loved the rhyming text and the sense of humor that is reflected in the book.
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Third Grade Welcomed Another Mystery Reader
"Once there was a tree ... and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Third grade Mystery Readers, Mrs. Sonia Patel and Mr. Nilesh Patel, parents of Aasha Patel, read the wonderful book
The Giving Tree.
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Trailside Nature and Science Center
Second grade students enjoyed nature at its best as they spent an afternoon at the Trailside Nature and Science Center in the Watchung Reservation.
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Smart Consumers
Second graders have been studying ways to become “smart consumers.” As part of our social studies unit on economics, the children went on a mock shopping trip. Each group had a budget and used shopping circulars to compare prices.
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So Much to Learn with Painted Lady Butterflies!
2nd graders carefully observed each stage of the butterfly life cycle after receiving just hatched butterfly caterpillars earlier in the Spring.
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Grade 2 Investigation
Second graders recently completed a lesson on how problems made by wind and water can be solved.
Applying what they learned, small groups of second graders designed and tested models to protect a road from a landslide.
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Poetry Day
Students in the Middle School practiced for a month to prepare for their poetry celebration. Students from grades 5 to 8 gathered in classrooms to share their chosen poems.
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CHP Pottery Club is Full of Artists
Middle School artists found their talents in creating face masks out of clay. The clay is dried, fired in a kiln at 1800 degrees, then glazed and fired again. These faces are shaping up to be some of the best faces to come out of the kiln yet!
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Winners of Middle School Science Fair
Cedar Hill Prep's annual Science Fair produced outstanding results. The winners for Middle School are from the combination of an extensive research paper combined with the presentation of experiments.
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Ship the Chip
Talented fifth graders in science tested their engineering skills. They made shipping containers for a single Pringles chip that kept the chip intact and fresh through the USPS using only cardboard, tape, a sponge, a coffee filter, a foil square, and a piece of plastic.
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Young Women in Science Day at Princeton University
On May 21st, nine of our fine young ladies attended a conference and workshop at Princeton University. Hosted by Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, this was a day to inspire young women to consider the many career fields in Science that await them.
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Annual Bergen Science Challenge
The event had 100 students competing for prizes and national opportunities. Nandini Shah compared vision using contacts to vision using eyeglasses. Shyam Parikh set up a stock market algorithm challenge worthy of Wall Street. Nethra Velanki tested UV rays through different colored translucent glass samples.
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Grade 7A Assisted Living Senior Center Visit
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On Wednesday, May 2nd, students from Mrs. Lekhi's 7A homeroom enthusiastically and lovingly entertained the residents at the Assisted Living Senior Center.
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Cedar Hill Prep Students Rocked at National History Bee!
40,000 students participated over the course of 6 months and 600 National finalists for each division - Grade 5/6, Grade 7 and Grade 8 convened in Atlanta. Seven students from Cedar Hill Prep School qualified for the Nationals - Aakarsh Mamawala, Agni Rajinkanth, Anush Polamraju, Arjun Agrawal, Keyon Majidi, Matthew Clarke, Rohan Jay and Vikram Renganathan. Vikram and Aakarsh were ranked in the top 8 in the regional competition, and Vikram was the "Regional Champion" in the Elementary Division. Vikram Renganathan made it to the final four and tied for 2nd place. Aakarsh Mamawala made it to the quarter finals, and Anush Polamraju made the final 250. Vikram was 3rd in the league, Aakarsh 54th, Anush 63rd.
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CHP Debate Team Finished 3rd in Debate National Championship!
The National Competition among all leagues was held on May 5th at the Nest M School in lower Manhattan. 71 teams, 213 students from 7 leagues, competed.
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Junior Olympics Sizzle at CHP!
Led by 8th grader Lilyanna Hopkins, the students marched out to the Olympic theme song, all decked out in their House colors. 8th grader, Fisayo Odukoya, and 7th grader, Vaishnavi Bhalla, sang a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem, which inspired the crowd's excitement for the games to begin!
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7th and 8th Grade Dance
Cedar Hill Prep School hosted its first 7th and 8th grade dance at The Imperia in Somerset, NJ. It was wonderful to see our students enjoy the night dancing away and having a good time.
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Congratulations to several Spanish students from Cedar Hill Prep School who attained national recognition for excellent performance on the 2018 National Spanish Examinations. Students from Cedar Hill Prep School earned a total of 4 gold, 3 silver, and 13 bronze medals along with 19 honorable mentions.
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US Geography Olympiad exam
Cedar Hill Prep School students participated in the US Geography Olympiad exam in Atlanta, Georgia on June 1st 2018. Congratulations to Vikram Renganathan, Aakarsh Mamawala, Rohan Jay, Aishwarya Vedula and Leela Menon for their effort and performance. The rankings are as follows: Vikram Renganathan- 6th, Aakarsh Mamawala -26th, Aishwarya Vedula - 55th, and Leela Menon - 66th.
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CHP PTO and CHP Education and Research Foundation News
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
CHP students participated in
Dress Down for a Cause
to support the Quaid R. Mobus Foundation raising $195.00.
HUMANS OF CEDAR HILL PREP
CHPERF would like to recognize Shyam Parikh as a HUMAN OF CEDAR HILL PREP for the month of May. Shyam organized a fundraiser at CHP
for his sister and many other kids who have Cerebral Palsy. Shyam’s sister is a patient at the Children's Specialized Hospital. He feels that they give the best care to her and many other children with special needs. Parents, teachers, and students participated in this cause so dear to Shyam's heart for his sister.
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Support CHP Education and Research Foundation.
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Upcoming Events
June 4 - 7
TerraNova Testing (Grades 1 - 8)
June 6
Music Collage 6:00 pm
June 7
Spring Concert (Preschool - Grade 4)
6:00 pm
June 8
Spring Concert (Grades 5 - 8)
6:00 pm
Junior Olympics Field Day
1:00 - 2:15 pm
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June 11
TerraNova Make Ups
Awards Ceremony:
Elementary School (Grades 1 - 3) 8:30 am
Preschool - Kindergarten 12:00 Noon
Middle School (Grades 5 - 7) 6:00 pm
June 12
Water Play / Ice Cream Truck
June 13
Last Day of School
Graduation Ceremonies:
Kindergarten - 9:00 am
Grade 4 - 11:00 am
June 14
Grade 8 Graduation Ceremony
2:00 pm
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Cedar Hill Preparatory School
152 Cedar Grove Lane Somerset, NJ 08873
Fax: 732-356-5409
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