Preschool Mother's Day Tea

Preschool Howe-Manning Garden

Grade 3 Howe-Manning Gardens

Third graders planted bulbs in several of the Howe Manning gardens.  Daffodils, tulips and other spring flowers have begun to bloom. 

4th grade Biography Stamp Project

Combining our opinion writing unit and study of informational text: autobiographies and biographies, 4th grade students participated in the Biography Stamp Project. Each student researched a person of their choice using books and technology with a focus on learning about their individuals' accomplishments, challenges, and inspiring personality traits. They then wrote 5 paragraph essays/letters to The Stamp Advisory Committee of the U.S. Postal Service recommending that their person be featured on a postage stamp. They also designed stamps to represent their subject. All of their hard work was displayed at a Living Museum for the third graders, where students dressed as their person of choice and gave short oral presentations. 

2014 Kid 2 Kid Program

6^th Graders wrote and performed skits related to bullying for students in kindergarten through 2^nd grade at the Fuller Meadow School.  The skits demonstrated what a bullying situation might look like at school and then how this same scenario could have been handled in a better way.  Thank you to the sixth grade Kid2Kid group and to Mrs. Swanson and Mrs. McCarthy for leading the group.  Students will perform for the third through fifth graders at Howe Manning on Thursday, May 1^st.

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.