Boxford, Middleton and Topsfield Rotary Club Reference Book Donation

On Tuesday, April 15^th members of the Boxford, Topsfield, and Middleton Rotary Club donated a dictionary to each of our 3^rd grade students and a thesaurus to each of our 4^th grade students.  The children have been busy using these references during their English Language Art blocks.  Thank you to Dr. Creeden, Lisa Foley, Bob Murphy and the Rotary club for their generous donation.  

Chief DiGianvittorio, Office Peachey and Officer McParland met on  Thursday March 6th with 6th graders to enlist their help in naming the new service dog that will be joining the Middleton Police Department this Spring.  The children chose the name Kai.  Thanks to the Police Department for including us in this exciting process. 

Preschool Author Visit

Sherry Cerino is a local children’s book author who came into the preschool this week to do a presentation “Getting Back to Kindness”.  Sherry is the author of Ella and the All-Stars , a book that’s theme focuses on kindness and acceptances of individual differences.  “Ella” is a starfish in the story and is an acronym for Early Learning Leads to Acceptance.  It was a fun and engaging activity for all the preschoolers.

Water Bottle Project - Grade 6

Sixth grade students in Mrs. Baker's, Ms. Clemenzi's, and Mrs. Swanson's classes worked collaboratively on a project-based lesson titled, "Should we stop using disposable water bottles?"  Student groups researched four areas to focus on.  These included health risks, pollution, how is the water inside affected, and how bottles are made.  Some students compared tap water to bottled water and discovered that 59% of bottled water is simply tap water.  Did you know that only one out of six disposable water bottles gets recycled?  That means that five  out of six plastic water bottles ends up in our landfills, waterways, and oceans. 

Hand on History Program

The American Revolution came to life for the 5^th grade students Monday, February 24^th.  Denis Cormier, Commander of the 7^th Massachusetts Regiment and President of the Hands on History Program, was the costumed presenter who demonstrated to the students what it was like to participate in the American Revolution, Including many original and reproduction artifacts and soldier uniforms.

BOK Program 2014

Students enjoying a new year of BOK.  BOK is held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings in the gym.  The instructors are Mrs. Anderson (5th grade teacher) and Mr.Marques (OT Specialist)