001we are live hello out there in wildwood land our first assembly of the year and we are under one roof miss estes miss ellis the first time so we're hoping that everybody's connection is working and that you can see miss allison and i on the big screen so welcome welcome so nick what does it mean to be a welcoming school that is what we want wildwood to be i would say a welcoming school is a place where as soon as people come through the doors that they can be just the person they are you know love the things that they love feel comfortable talking and sharing with people and that they're accepted and that they thrive here what do you think i fully agree be who you are because you are great to us and
002we are welcoming to you how you come i love that idea so this assembly we say that we make a promise to our new students those students who are thinking that this is their first year they're not thinking that this is their first year at wildwood they've been with us just these first four weeks of school and as we welcome them you can think about how you felt when you were new everybody was new here once so are you ready miss allison i am i am so excited so let's see these beautiful beautiful students who have come to wildwood the way this assembly works you're in your classrooms and you can put things in the chat okay it says it's hard to hear nick oh no oh no all right i don't know if this
003can help let me get my headphones okay miss allison i'll do the first one cause i'm so excited this is angie angie's in grade two angelina loves riding her bike helping her mom feed three birds four fish and one cat named prince she's a very big helper and loves to help people her favorite color is purple just like me hi let's see you got your headset now nick okay just i hope this helps out there where i don't know maybe miss being owen can let us know you sound a little muted to me but let's see read this one nick let's test it okay so this is ava in grade two ava loves her pony fox her dog gypsy and her chinchillas she loves doing cartwheels and is also great at drawing ava has had
004a great show season this summer winning lots of ribbons at horse shows she's also a great big sister wow ava i've never been on a horse okay that's worse it's worse oh boy it was better before all right nick you're muted now how's that everybody it was better now and we keep trying go ahead miss allison you go ahead put lily up grade six lily lily likes playing outside with friends skating and swimming i love swimming too her favorite foods are pizza and spaghetti i love pizza too she loves her family very much and i love them too lily it's so special to be a sixth grader we're gonna pack in seven years into that one year at wildwood thank you for welcoming lily who's next emmanuel emmanuel in grade one emmanuel loves playing basketball
005and video games his favorite food is also pizza a manual nice as you're seeing these people you can cheer for them in your classrooms if they're in your class and even if they're not even if they're not all right who's next eliza she's in the third grade eliza likes reading climbing riding her bike irish dance and sewing and quilting wow wow fabulous welcome to wildwood eliza we have a whole family coming up here dominic is in grade five he's the oldest brother he loves cars superheroes sports and food wow he wants to be a fireman when he grows up a firefighter thank you dominic for helping out the community and his sister sisters ava she's in third grade and ava loves dancing ballet listening to music and playing with her baby dolls oh when she
006grows up she wants to be a teacher wow fantastic ava we need more great teachers and last but not least xavier the younger brother he loves dancing telling jokes and making people smile wow get this everybody when he grows up he wants to be a doctor to cure kovid oh i love that welcome welcome everyone so this next slide can you all see it yeah there are words for welcome in every language of course in english it's welcome if you take that and put it together well come i am so i feel so good i feel well that you have come into our school into my house into my home what other words for welcome can you see on this sign or in your classrooms you can raise a hand if you know a word
007for welcome or it could be hello in another language invite miss katherine to come on too because she has traveled all around the world hi catherine hi friends hello hi everyone out there i know that you have traveled around the world before you came to wildwood and then you had a very special trip to morocco where your husband is from right this summer yes yes i had a wedding in morocco and whose wedding is catherine my wedding and did you feel welcome there i felt very welcome um and i can share i can share two words in arabic that mean welcome one is the the actual transluce translation of welcome is marhaba um you can try saying that yeah and then um another thing that is often said to mean welcome is assalamu alaikum which
008means peace be unto you and if someone says that to you you can respond with alaikum salaam which means peace back to the person who gave it to you beautiful let's try that you say it to me okay can we repeat what she says it's hard to say sometimes so i'm going to repeat that so what you say is salaam i don't remember salaam we can all learn words for welcome words for hello in different languages did you know at wildwood we speak over 20 different languages so that's something that we can say to each other teachers who are out there if your students have told you a word for welcome you can put it in the chat and we can say it i better i hope to see bienvenidos because i know there are
009some children out there who know bienvenidos everyone especially this month is national hispanic heritage month that's right no heritage month and we'll be talking about that in a bit all right so let's go on to the next slide of welcoming students who do we have next you go ahead ms allison i will i get to introduce melissa she's i think she has a sibling as well so alyssa's in grade four likes to play with her friends read ride her bike me too she also likes to dance and listen to music oh i love that fabulous melissa and her brother is raphael he likes he also likes to ride his bike play basketball and play with his friends in the park awesome and zev is in second grade and likes playing for hours outdoors anywhere with
010water and sand building lego ships and making cool robots and vehicles out of recyclables from his invention bin exchanging pokemon cards with friends and reading listening to stories and i'm noticing miss allison that uh mr k's class put two words for welcome i think the first one is a tough one for me to pronounce it might be in finnish that mr k has learned yeah my grandfather was from finland wow and then mahali put in hola hola hello spanish yes thank you mahali all right let's move along after zev wow we have xiaozu and grade one and she likes to play with her pets one dog and two cats a brown border collie looby a black short-haired cat named luna and a white rag doll this is called a ragdoll cat check that out her
011favorite lumi shown in the picture she also likes to draw pictures read books play the piano try different types of sports or just have fun in the backyard with their friends and we have been learning all about each other's pets during this covent time so yes we have your pets all right next go right farther is serenity in second grade likes painting and drawing and playing roblox and following her favorite youtuber and she's shown here with her kindergarten sister soraya and we will be welcoming the kindergarteners as a group because there are so many of them oh yeah yeah all right next week stars all right we cannot have an assembly without our shining stars and always every month we asked the staff at wildwood who has been a shining star and this month we
012talked a bit about welcoming and we recognize there are many many many we're all shining stars really but so we every month we just mention a few um with names that have come from our staff you want to do the first one on the bus because welcoming on the bus is super important so on the bus the adults after asked if anyone could speak spanish and help a new fort river student who is a spanish speaker juan hernandez oh in grade five quickly volunteered and spoke to the student helping her know where to go and what to do thank you joanna and also john's a fifth grader you know we really do expect and look to our fifth and sixth graders to be leaders on the bus oh yeah all right next we have mr
013k nominated carlos as a shining star these are mr k's words he says that carlos has been a model student he's always in the right place he tries everything whether it's a strength or something that challenges him he's been kind and welcoming to his classmate and he's frequently looking for ways to be helpful i love that the next one comes from miss tomasick at second grade recess so if you're in second grade listen up she nominated aija asia jarrett for her kind and friendly helpful behavior during recess asia stopped playing to help a friend who didn't know how to tie their shoes her kind act made it possible for the friend to continue playing and stay safe oh we agree with you that this is a kind action that makes asia a star thank you
014asia and we'll be talking about recess and introducing some important people who are out at recess every day in a few minutes and then from miss applegate we have a terrific trio and really i have to say miss applegate's whole class has been welcoming our new students in that class but the terrific trio are yaya winnie wynn and urela uriella and they have gone out of their way to welcome the new students in the class bella and angie and they went up and said hi to them and played with them and they've been so friendly to our new students in second grade so thank you to that terrific trio and miss applegate class and to the whole class really nice job miss allison the next list is long it's long and you know it's also
015a large group of people but they a lot of people been helping miss mastryani oh my gosh these sixth graders they are helping miss mastriani by helping her set up and clean up for lunch because those kindergartners need help sometime and the sixth graders can help they are leaders they are so leaders sama reed onyx derek drew b pia salma youssef melanie amber valeria that's a lot of names so thank you sixth graders um and miss bastriani actually said that more people alison want to help really we will be asking all of the staff at wildwood do you need help with anything because we have fifth and sixth graders who like to help they are the leaders of our community we have other students who like to help as well so just send allison and
016uh an email and we can find people to do the work that needs to get done around here i love that idea let's go for it thank you so much sixth graders moving right along to our next batch of new students who could they be well it's ellie in grade three likes cream pasta with chicken and ellie likes to run and do jump ropes ellie has one older brother ellie lives in hadley with her family hi ellie hey ellie welcome to wildwood coming up after ellie is sophia also in grade three and what these photos are making me hungry she's eating ice cream in the photo but she likes swimming at the beach gymnastics i don't know what this is but it says playing roblox oh nick you i'm gonna show you it's fun all
017right so we can have a game of roblox i guess whatever it is all right next who do we have oh igbo in grade four likes playing sports soccer and basketball drawing painting and video games fabulous welcome iguay and dennis dennis is in grade two he loves playing outside art puzzles playing with his brother who used to go to wildwood is now in high school cousins and friends welcome dennis and for this next one we didn't have a chance to get a picture but izzy wants everyone to know that they are really into saying hi and would love you to come up and play with them thank you izzy moving on ah peaceful playgrounds here we go so the peaceful playgrounds we're going to invite a few people on to our who are super important
018we're gonna add them to our stream so welcoming austin mr b and [Music] and josiah hi everyone hello hello hello so this year we are putting a lot of focus on recess as recess being the time when you know it's super important for welcoming and for our new students but for really for all students so the question that we're going to be asking everybody is what would you hope recess to be for people so we have hired new people right we have josiah now and robin joining austin and mr b is taking a role of like coordinating and teaching games to these fabulous staff members right to develop ideas for recess so welcome to all of you can would you mind just saying a word or two about like a few words about what you
019would want for recess to be you want to kick it off mr b sure thank you um so i am so happy to be working with these three people to make recess better and we've been talking about it in pe and um i've noticed the excitement um students are really happy uh about a different kind of way to go about recess um and it ties in with our welcome assembly right here um i envision uh we envision recess to be a welcoming um place as well so you know everybody we talk we're talking about this too and pe everybody has different skills some people have been playing soccer since they were two and some people haven't tried it yet and we want recess to be a welcoming place where people can come in and they're
020unsure of their skills but still play and have fun and the people who are more skilled who've been playing longer they can go about a different way maybe they can pass and help teach um new people to the game and then that way everyone's having fun and more people are learning and loving the sport and we're accomplishing our main goal of being active and also we all want to bring different games to recess we don't want to just have soccer basketball foursquare or actually you students out there know who you are foursquare gets a little different out there um but not just the same old team old we want to add some games that are fun that we do in pe or otherwise um to mix it up and make sure everybody's getting involved who
021wants to um so i'm very excited to work with this crew and everyone else who's out at recess and um yeah we're looking forward to making it better great all right how about you austin do you love about recess what would you like to have happen uh i agree with mr b i think we should have more games so the kids to get involved you know um yeah i mean um so i can really think about for right now sure so austin i i think we're gonna get some ideas but maybe also the students can come to you and to robin and josiah with ideas that would be awesome okay great all right robin josiah how are you doing new staff members any thoughts about recess what would you want it to be i've been
022bouncing some ideas with allison um to make recess a little bit better and i have some plans up my sleeve but we haven't kind of figured it out correctly yet um i just want students to have a good time out there and really get along and help each other out and look for each other and there's a lot of new students so you know pulling them into the games that they're already playing and you know just be inviting because the school is inviting beautiful how about you just not that you're robin yeah i just really want the new uh the kids to be encouraged to join in and play games with other kids and for the kids who are more skilled to show the uh maybe less skilled kids uh how they play the game
023and how it works and a good way to work together and work as a team great well thank you very much you know you're the ones that will be out there there will be other people joining you so i want the students to look out there and see austin josiah robin and they can go you to go to them if there's anything that you need help with um because recess is also about solving problems solving problems peacefully so thanks for your work thank you thank you thank you everyone and we'll see you soon all right all right here we go we go on to the next one person speaking of recess excuse me miss allison okay uh could i get back on stage here catherine i'm so sorry we have a surprise guest we do
024we do yeah is that okay catherine if you can just put me on there i just want to introduce the surprise guests are we ready okay here we go oh my goodness it's a great day for ducks robert ducky you're the one you make bath time so much okay get the hook come on come on come on let's go play together all right okay all right that was just a brief intro what do you got there all right new students it's a great day for ducks and here's liam in grade one hi liam he likes games toys going on walks hanging with his brother and baby sister he also enjoys playing basketball and loves yay we're here on the last group so many new students to welcome who's next tulsi is in first grade and
025is a fun-loving first grader she has a pet fish named blueberry she enjoys playing outside in nature riding bikes with her brother and dancing she's learning all about horses and hopes someday to be a veterinarian because she cares about animals of all kinds oh beautiful tulsi and next we have esme esme's interest of drawing reading and fashion oh fabulous esme in grade four welcome to wildwood next is xavier in third grade loves sports and video games he's going to live in the outdoors loves swimming taking bike rides playing football he is kind and very smart he also enjoys spending quiet time with all of his family beautiful babies and ho khan is grade four he likes playing video games sports reading books watching flamingo and pets especially his dog skywalker oh i bet he likes
026star wars yes could be could be and bella is in second grade loves fairs and festivals and water parks she wants to share her excitement that she's turning seven she's great at trying new things making friends and reading one of her favorite authors is mo williams welcome bella yay that's all our new students that is it and guess what everybody at wildwood we welcome new students throughout the year i know there are two new students who are going to be starting next week yeah and one is going to be visiting today going into grade two in miss jag's class so all year you'll get a chance to practice welcoming and think about you know what it what mattered to you when you were new at wildwood and then do the same pass it forward so
027thank you everyone the other thing before miss catherine talks is like sometimes we make mistakes at wildwood and this is who we want to be a welcoming school a kind school but mistakes are made by everybody and at wildwood we believe that it's important to fix to repair to restore the relationships that we have so we'll be talking more about that and how we do that and now drum roll please [Music] yes and this one is a little untraditional because oftentimes i just sit here with a guitar and sing but i thought this would be a great opportunity to showcase some of what the students are learning in music class did we want to say hi to claudette i don't know she she's in there she's there wow fabulous i don't know claudette did you
028want to come on i'm going to make her come on i'm making her come on hi claudette hello um so before we do the song uh we do have a minute or two claudette i know that you're you came to us as our new computer teacher after the year started how has it been for you to be come to a new school like this yeah it's been great it's been great meeting everyone the kids are great um staff is like really awesome it's like it's really a welcoming community i i think i made like one of the best choices ever um and i've been learning so many names so i think i have a total almost like 450. i'm like 600 like i'm sure i think i have like 60 more to go today yeah
029so it's like between here and in cracker farm so it's been it's really i'm really happy to be here fabulous but we're so glad you made the big move from near boston to come all the way out here and it's out it sounds like our students and our staff have been welcoming so that's great yes nice fabulous i look forward to everyone getting to know you and you getting to know all our students well well welcome welcome welcome to wildwood thank you and now we get to sing all together claudette how how good is that nice we'll see you later all right well we're not actually going to sing um this is a dance um and miss mary's third grade class graciously um offered to be my performers for the day so you're going to
030see a video a video that was taken by rhiann in uh miss mary's class and they're going to introduce the song as well and the dance um we learned this as part of latino heritage month so we've been talking about what it means and how to celebrate that and so uh if you're feeling a little wiggly you can some of some of the students know it already so you can try doing the moves in your chairs don't stand up don't don't go too crazy but you can try doing the moves in the chairs and at least clap along all right so are we ready yes okay here we go what dance are we doing we're doing my show and it's it it came from mexico came from mexico and why was this dance created the
031cat sugar cake yeah it was farmers cutting sugar cane nice job friends [Music] so [Music] so [Music] okay [Music] um wow fantastic weren't they good i was so i was so impressed that's a great dance that was amazing thank you miss catherine thank you so great to see and as i was watching it i want to say to everybody at wildwood you know these assemblies we want to see things like that like really fabulous things that people are learning students are learning so in future assemblies just send those ideas and we'll be sharing them with all of you so thank you thank you miss catherine thank you alison have a great day everybody is a great day it is a great day for ducks so we'll see if we have indoor recess or if we
032can get outside if it stops raining and whack around all right thank you everybody bye thanks miss allison have a great rest of your day see ya see you everyone