Rachel spoke about Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month on the loudspeaker. She noted diverse backgrounds of people from countries like China, India, Japan, Korea, Samoa and other Pacific Islands. She also noted Famous Asian Americans from New Jersey like Connie Chung and Sana Amanat from Summit who created the Marvel character Ms. Marvel!
Eve made an all-school announcement about Mental Health Awareness Month. Taking care of yourself through diet, sleep, volunteering, joining clubs and exercise can help promote a healthy mind and body.
Ava, Teddy, and Elliot made a whole school announcement for National Speech and Hearing Month, along with their teacher, Mrs. Lewis-Styler. They talked about what stuttering is, how to help someone with a stutter (be patient, give them time to finish, listen to what they are saying, and don't finish their sentence). Also, some famous people who stutter are Tiger Woods, Ed Sheeran, Emily Blunt and Paul Duncan (only a little famous in the halls of Franklin!).
It's Field Day at Franklin!
Creativity is at work here with our fourth graders today while they have inside recess!
Tonight's performance was outstanding! Thank you Mr. Staluppi and Mr. Geyer for growing our fifth graders' musical talents!
The Fourth Grade Band, under the direction of Mr. Staluppi, performed this evening for their families. Bravo!
Our Fifth Grade Chorus and Band performed at school today. They did an outstanding job and are ready for the evening performance!
Another successful Teachers' Treasure this afternoon! A tea party and bird house building with Ms. Wright, Mrs. Kelley, and Mrs. Valencia.
Mrs. Naylor, our long time strings teacher, is retiring! She and the orchestra put on an amazing performance this week! Congrats to all of them!
Students attend Ellis Island as part of their 3rd grade unit on immigration. It was a beautiful day for the trip!
Congratulations to our Music Students of the Month! These students demonstrate respect, kindness, a positive attitude, and strong effort in every class. Harrison Skidmore, Claire Sherwin (not shown), Brody Forsyth, Budy Bonk, Gabby Sock, Drew Daswani, Alexa Williams, Beau Gerlach, Anna Davies and Jacob Buonocore.
Congratulations to Mason Gleitman , Ruby Boneparth, Daniel Clerx, Annie Jablonski, Max Gersten, Ava Kaufman, Connor Molloy, Alisha Datwani, Liam Joffe and Jane Green on being Artists of the Month! These students not only demonstrated creativity and excellence in their artwork, but they were also respectful and kind towards others.
We had our Character Ed assembly today where we revealed our new word of the month:Inclusivity. We also had a puppet show from the student council that focused on food allergy awareness. The students did a wonderful job!
Dr. Gonzalez and our administrative team were busy chatting with parents this morning about the upcoming referendum projects!
Franklin's fifth graders and third graders enjoyed The Living Voices assembly program today learning about Anne Frank (5th graders) and what it might have been like to immigrate through Ellis Island (3rd graders).
Ahana Sharma was selected as a winner in the Earth Day poster contest! Congrats Ahana and thank you to everyone who participated!
Classes learned about Earth Day this week. 1-H had some fun and also took time outside to pick up litter on the Franklin property.
We had another great assembly sponsored by our PTO today! Bash the Trash is a group of musicians who reuse and repurpose items that others don't need anymore "trash" to make their own instruments. With Earth Day happening tomorrow, they weaved the message of the "three Rs" (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) into a fun assembly and sing along. They explained how they made their instruments and also taught students about how to create sound from their instruments. They played an electric cello made out a tin can, a guitar made from an attache case, a conch shell, and an instrument made out of styrofoam and rubber bands It was super fun and super informative!
Thank you to all of our families for helping to ensure students wore their grade level t-shirts today! We took the panoramic photo with the whole school (which you can purchase). Here are the 5th graders who made a peace symbol as we snapped a picture for their yearbook!
