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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence.
Determination.
The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"

Martin Luther King, Jr
stands in front of a picture
of a man he admired,
Mahatma Gandhi.
Both men dedicated to people working together, without violence,
to make the world a fairer place.

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Welcome, glad you found us!
Visit our web site often to find out some of the nifty things we are up to at school.
Tell your family around town or around the world to stop in and see what the kids are doing.
Our students are busy learning, making, thinking, creating, predicting, reading, jumping and growing.
Join us!


Our Media Center Mary Cheney Library
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July
Warm, sunny
Playing, running, hiking
Swim at the pool
Summer
By Julia Deforest - Grade 3
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Baseball
Fun, Hard
Batting, Catching, Pitching
My favorite sport
Hobby
By Matthew Rivas - Grade 3
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Many video clips have been uploaded to the Waddell Channel.
These movies are on the Waddell School YouTube Channel.
While it is blocked in school you can see it at home.
There are many videos there of school life and student activities. Here are some.
 

Mohammad tracked down a fly during a Bug Club hunt!




1st grade trip to the Children's Museum in West Hartford


Insects rule the earth. Get used to it!
Towards that goal there will be a photo contest this summer.
Open to any Waddell student or family member, just email
to Mrs. Craib before school starts an insect photo you have taken!
Photos will be posted online and the students will vote on their favorite in September.
There are some photos already from the Spring Bug Club.

Attention Bug Clubbers:
There are downloadable, free bug books there, plus recomendations for field guides in case you are bug hunting this summer!
Also, anyone who did not get a free male Madagascan Hissing cockroach is entitled to get one or more at any time in the future; just ask. (They like hanging around with others of their kind.)
Females available if you want to try to raise a brood (usually 10 to 20). I can take them when you are done observing their growth. (These are not like the sort of roach the Orkin man blasts...they are hard to breed until you know the secrets...) Want to know more? Visit my web site which has been active for 10 years or more!!! Read comments from teachers around the country, and read the care of pet Hissers advice. Go to > Mrs. Craib's Roach Site

Multicultural Fair Evening Program!
Miss Gallagher again produced a dance around the world show! There are 5 different dances that will be taking place. Miss Gallagher's third grade class did an Irish-Step dancing, The Waddell Dance Team performed a jazz dance to Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal. Sharly and Ricklin put together a spectacular Indian dance, Aylin shared her culture and taught some friends a simple Turkish dance, and Bernard choreographed a Bollywood inspired dance, and formed his own dance troupe of fourth graders that performed with him.
The students have made decorations for the auditorium in art class. Kindergarten tried their hand at Wycinanki (Poland), first grade made papel picado (Mexico), second grade made origami (Japan), third grade made Pajarita (Spain), fourth grade made Ojo de Dios (Huichol Indians of Jalisco,Mexico and also in Bolivia) and fifth grade made Chinese paper cuttings representing peace and harmony.
If you type "Putumayo Kids" into our PTA shopping Amazon box up above you will see the many CDs of music from around the world they offer. (and if you happen to buy one the PTA receives a cut!)

The Spring Music Concert was awesome!!!
The two performances, at 1:50 PM and again at 7:00 PM.
were well attended by family and friends and students.
If you missed it, though, here are some pictures of the rehearsal and the afternoon performance. Check the Waddell School YouTube Channel more.


Many more video clips have been uploaded to the Waddell Channel this week.
These movies are on the Waddell School YouTube Channel.
While it is blocked in school you can see it at home.
There are many videos there of school life and student activities. Here are some.
 

Fourth Grades Explore the United States.
If you have a snapshot of a state or city not in our album email it in!!

Music is from Omaha Nation Collection at the Library of Congress web site.
It is a Buffalo Song.

A Tour of Mrs. Craib's Library: Introduction - Why a Tour?
To find out you have to scroll to the oldest video..the first one I uploaded.
It seems the most recent upload will always automatically show in this widget.
So far there are 7 videos up and I am only just getting started!

Keep in mind that the Shop link up on the top right
will donate money to the Waddell PTA every time you purchase something through Amazon.com!
Just enter Amazon through our Waddell link.

Looking for an easy trip to see something different and fun?
Just hop on Rt. 44 and head east for 25 minutes to get to Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, Depot Campus; 6 Bourne Place, Storrs, Connecticut.
See www.bimp.uconn.edu for directions and map.

Can you name 3 towns that touch Manchester?
Google maps for our school area:

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
- Malcolm Forbes
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The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies:
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