Martin Road Elementary School

Did you know you can create a beautiful poem in just three lines? That’s the magic of haiku! A haiku is a short Japanese poem that follows a simple pattern: the first line has 5 s...

Our fifth graders have been exploring how the numbers of 10, 100, or 1,000 can be written as products of the number 10. These numbers are called powers of 10. The exponent tells h...

Have you ever read a story and gotten confused about what happened first, second, or last? Learning how to sequence events helps students understand the order of a story, making i...

This week's staff highlight recognizes Reading Specialist Jennifer Smail, a teacher at Martin Road Elementary who is a Merchant of Hope, helping students overcome adversity and un...

This week's staff highlight recognizes Reading Specialist Jennifer Smail, a teacher at Martin Road Elementary who is a Merchant of Hope, helping students overcome adversity and un...

Inside Ms. Verstreate's fifth-grade classroom, clusters of students are reading, writing, and discussing stories in ways tailored just for them. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all l...

Our fourth-grade mathematicians in Mr. Froese's class are learning how to solve one-step word problems using multiplication and division, which is a real-world skill. Students wor...

Using Skittles to create graphs in Math class can be a fun, hands-on way to help visualize information and make math interactive! Mrs. Janiga's third grade mathematicians used p...

The November Martin Road Gazette is out. Find out what students have been working on so far this year and all the happenings around the school this upcoming month. Click here to ...

It was a spook-tacular themed day in Mrs. Oaks' classroom at Martin Road Elementary last week. Students participated in a number of Fall-themed activities throughout the day. ...

Martin Road and Truman Elementary Schools held a fun-filled Trunk-or-Treat Night, bringing together students, families, and community members to celebrate Halloween in a safe and ...

Mrs. Short's 3rd grade class recently completed a unit of study on expository texts using the story "Every Vote Counts." Before reading the text, students worked in pairs to defin...

Our second-grade mathematicians are busy preparing for their upcoming Unit 1 Math assessment. Second grade teachers, Mrs. Silagyi and Mrs. Wagner, utilized station teaching to re...

Martin Road Elementary had some special visitors for its annual Health and Wellness Week. Players on the Buffalo Bills made an appearance as a part of the exciting Play 60 Charged...

This week, our 4th grade mathematicians are exploring how to add whole numbers using the standard algorithm. A unique feature of our new iReady Classroom Mathematics series is a d...

LCSD recognizes Martin Road Elementary teacher, Tina Gagliardo. "I've been teaching 2nd grade and then 4th grade in the Lackawanna City School District for the last 15 years. I a...

The Birthday squad of Buffalo is a local organization that gives donations to schools so that children can have special recognition on their birthday. This program has been runnin...

It was a picture-perfect Fall day for our annual Martin Road Elementary Fall Walk-a-thon! This healthy tradition was a huge success with our physical education teachers, Mr. Comun...

One School, One Book started off strong today at Martin Road Elementary. Students gathered in the auditorium for a special announcement of what this year's book would be. This y...

This week, students in Mr. Taub's room discovered a time capsule from 2004. What do you think it could be? Before uncovering the treasure, students learned about making predict...