001do you want me to do this little light of mine are we live i think we're live i don't know i'm waiting to see it's live okay good afternoon it's no longer morning miss estes nope it's not hello out there in wildwood land how are all of you hi it's so nice to see you on this beautiful cloudy december day yes it is december so welcome to our wildwood hello lathan welcome to our december assembly everybody it's so great to see all of you in this virtual online universe how are all of you miss estes how are you today i am feeling very happy to be here with you it's um you know winter time is not easy no the sun is going earlier here and we have all these little ways to make it
002a little brighter as we head towards the winter solstice and that is the theme of the assembly is how wild with students and families can bring joy and light into the world as we all know people all over the world do this at this time of the year as the days are getting shorter and shorter every culture has figured out a way to bring joy and light into the world and today we're going to hear from our wildwood students how they're doing that already so are we ready to begin it's going to be so exciting you know we all different traditions of how to bring that light there's through joy of spending together either through putting candles in our windows and i think our students at wildwood have figured out ways of bringing that light
003yes so before we begin i just want to remind wildwood students how to use the chat at wildwood we use the chat to send out positive messages to people who are brave enough to get in here in the broadcast booth and share what they're learning so with the chat we also want to remind you that if we notice that you're saying things that actually are put downs or things that are going to bring people down we can block you on the chat and we're really hoping we don't have to do that okay if we see something that's especially a positive message we can put it across the screen as a banner so let's get started we ready let's go all right so ms estes i think you know how we always start every assembly we
004talked about september go ahead go for it we have three new students that we are bringing our family here is that what where did i get it right nick that's it we always start every assembly because welcoming is the foundation it's the heart of wildwood so we're going to welcome a family of three new students i think oh let's see one is in kindergarten one is in third grade third grade and with these online yes and with these online assemblies we actually have a slideshow to show you and we have our magician backstage miss catherine let's see if she's ready we have to take she's giving us a thumbs up here we go new students at wildwood excellent you want to read the first one miss estes uh yeah i can do that i also
005have it on my screen so i can see it my eyes aren't as strong as they used to be but this is joshua oh joshua will be in k2 and he likes to be called by his middle name which is thomas so let's remember thomas let's look at that beautiful face he likes to play sports and thomas likes to go to the park to play with his friends and thomas likes to play with lots of toys in kindergarten oh i can't wait to meet thomas welcome thomas and then he has his big brother oh thanks laura in third grade i think coming up here he is edible and roberto going to be a mr k in courtney's class oh there's mr k welcoming him with the banner he likes playing sports coloring drawing and helping
006others and being nice to others welcome henrvento he wears glasses like me he's in the glasses club yes and we wait to read all right who's next and then the oldest brother go ahead fourth grader juan he likes soccer oh we have something to talk about with miss joyce playing sports and playing percussion instruments i wonder if people remember percussion is like drums so that's awesome he also likes playing with friends and one likes drawing and playing any games not just a few games but any games juan we gotta get together for some monopoly and juan will have to connect you up if you're interested in playing percussion in the wildwood band as well and i love that bruce is saying one has a cool jacket on is that sweet thanks bruce and during this
007year we're figuring out how to welcome our new students even when we're physically apart so welcome to all of you you're coming all the way from westfield and western mass and we'll make you feel at home here at wildwood all right so then the second part of our assembly ms estes i think you know what's coming up is that we send out a message to all our staff and say who have been who has been shining stars who has been a shining star over the last month and we have yeah i just want people to remember there are always more shining stars at wildwood than we can honor i mean i have seen people do amazing beautiful things and it's not always something that we have a chance to honor in this moment but that
008does not mean it doesn't happen and we see you thank you so much but this is a this is for honoring the december signing stars and i'm so excited well thanks for that reminder miss estes so here we go and they certainly we call it a shining star because they're bringing light and love and caring to others and do you want to do the first one i can i can't the very first shining star comes from ms applegate's class omar omar hello sir he has been helping find ways to include our new friend giannis in the class when she does not have spanish translation support he uses google translator to help miss applegate he chooses to help without being asked he lets her know when it's break time and when she should turn on her
009microphone and more i mean omar has been doing so much and he's been welcoming and supportive in art class ms cara has shared and he sends her explanations and reminders and encouragement i mean omar is just really showing the welcoming spirit thank you omar that's fantastic and so the people who are in the same classes as our three brothers they can take on what omar has demonstrated how you can welcome people in this online universe and so the next one comes from miss katherine in music she says i'd love to nominate selena for a shining star in music she has taken on distance learning like a champion is always so excited about what we're learning in music and has been singing her heart out way to go selena oh i love that and another shining
010star from ms applegate's class is that the class has been doing the jumping jack challenge this is amazing i don't know if you were able to read this number it's a big number i had to practice my place value skills 13 463 jumping jacks the class has been able to do it's amazing it's awesome so stephanie omar drew anna amelia bear and jalen we've been working together supporting each other counting together and trying our best way to go fantastic miss applegate's class mr b is quite impressed and as we've been talking about part of taking care of ourselves is staying physically active so important it is true neil it is amazing yes all right so we're going to keep this assembly moving miss estes because we have a lot to share and the first that's
011going to be sharing uh a fantastic what i'd call a community service project is a fifth grade the entire fifth grade we have miss bing owen and three fifth grade students who are gonna who are brave enough to come into the broadcast booth with us so ready here we go so we magically make you appear first we're going to add miss bing owen hello hi miss bing owen my name is and then jordan jordan so we understand that you're going to talk a little bit about this community service project that was connected to what is called monty's march right yep are you ready okay i'm gonna close my mouth okay i think we're gonna i think miss catherine again is going to project uh slideshow she's giving me the thumbs up backstage and we're off
012to the side take it away fifth graders that is super cool okay so i'm not going to talk unless there is a question that we don't know yet but we're going to start with whoever's reading that front page uh well this is monty's march it's and yeah and it's by me ren and jordan in fifth grade which is already kind of new okay hi i'm ren and monty's march is all about raising money for the food bank of western massachusetts and the food bank helps support families and people without enough food to eat montana's team helped raise money for the food bank uh to buy meals for people in eating this year was turned into four meals last year they raised around a million meals and this year they wanted to raise that number even
013more because more people need food because of the pandemic and they have more people have lost their jobs and they have needed the help of the food bank and monty's march thank you monty's march also a fun fact monty's real name is christopher belmonte wow thank you um it looks like jordan may have been bumped off but yeah i don't see him backstage jordan are you out there with in the wildwood universe can you come back just check and see oh there he is wait let me get him back in sorry jordan hi jordan all right go ahead well um i'm this is my sidebar okay all right we got your back go ahead uh what we did to participate in the monty's march we walked at home on yards and hallways and a bunch
014more all together many students of wildwood washed 320.67 miles that's a lot of miles we raised a thousand dollars so many classes participated whether in pe at home with families or on your own also remember to participate next year thanks so much for donating we could not have done this without you also fun fact monty's question this this year was a covered cowboy that's not his costume but just another picture yeah well yeah so i'm next right okay how to donate monty's visit you can donate by going to the food bank website then click on the donate button to learn how to donate the food bank can help people who don't have food for their family if you if you donate you can also donate monthly so you're now helping people every month monty visited
015the fifth grade fifth grade meet he answered questions and made jokes in my opinion he's a nice guy visiting monty it's fantastic thank you fifth graders um wow thank you daniel's class ran nine miles fifth graders can i ask you i just want to make sure people understand did you who did these slides like this because it's very professional um well wren kind of made the background and then i made my slide and gordon mates heads each of us made the slide that we read yeah fantastic a real collaborative effort and is if you don't mind i'll um i just had a question what what what do you remember most about either this project or what really sticks with you or about monty's visit because he came in and did a whole class a whole
016grade level meeting right jordan thank you for raising a hand it's really really helping everyone who doesn't really have food right thank you yeah ren um i remember a lot of stuff one thing i especially remember is the fact that monty was pretty funny yeah go ahead b yeah um what i remember is everyone wanted to know about his costume it was like the one man that's funny well thank you you know we we got this idea that we can do more we can do and help people over the next three months at wildwood and so one of the ways we got the idea was because of what you did for monty's march there's so many people that need help right now and the wildwood community can be there for them so thanks for getting
017us started and if your family needs help in this way you can certainly contact us at the school and we also have ways to help your family get in touch with different groups if you need to get some food support because we are all in this together yeah so important thanks miss estes thank you miss bingo and thank you to the whole fifth grade teaching team and we're going to transport you now magically so thanks for being brave enough to join us bye sarah and by ren wow that is so inspiring a thousand dollars they raised isn't that incredible that buys a lot of canned beans which is what i eat a lot of yeah it's so important to take care of people right now so next up ms estes we have sixth graders and
018they have something with such an intriguing title it's called the finding joy project oh our leaders of the school are showing up let's see those sixth graders let's go sixth grade i'm gonna invite chris one of the sixth grade teaching team here we go and uh there's chris and let's good to see you so tell me this title's i'm i'm so interested aren't you mrs it's called finding joy is that the name of the project uh yeah all right so tell us that we all need some joy right now right um so basically we made a video about a project where you can fill out a google form or something where you can fill out a google form and you could be entered into a raffle to win something okay but tell us more about
019this google form what is it um do you want to say rosie yeah sure so the google form has questions and the questions will help us uh so we're using a process called design thinking and we're trying to uh we're trying to like create something like more joy in school so we need to hear from user school they're students and teachers and everybody else at the school okay all right so i'll look back to katherine i know she's been working on this and giving me another thumbs up it's amazing okay does that mean you explain because if it doesn't i want to hear from you why do you think people need to find joy at school and in their life why is that important um because i don't i well i think like if you
020can find some joy then that can make you have like me like a better life and like you can have more fun and have better things happen yeah joy's important okay all right so yeah so uh miles couldn't be here but he was in the video okay great that's important thank you for helping you know that all right so are we ready to see it chris do you have anything to add or should we just go right to the video let's go to the video students thank you rosie dude here we go hello we are 6th graders coming to tell you about something exciting that thing is an amazing prize that you can win but first let's tell you about our sponsor joy not the dishwashing soap just plain old joy in sixth grade we
021are researching joy by looking at different people's perspectives on it such as desmond tutu and the dalai lama we are trying to make the school more joyful and we need your help we are using a process called design thinking and in order to make something that works and make school more joyful we need to hear from the users which is you you are the users we thought of a quick way to get your answers your teachers will give you a form and put it in the google classroom fill it out sometimes next week if you respond to the extra three questions then you will be entered into a raffle to win a t-shirt if you respond to just the first three then you could get a postcard from a sixth grader this is primarily for
022third fourth fifth and sixth graders but second and first graders and kindergartners don't worry we will work something out with your teachers have fun making school more joyful oh man i'm loving this i have to say how you all are taking this to another level it's a three-letter word it rhymes with boy but it is not a simple concept i mean we have some of the great thinkers in the world who've explored this idea of joy and you are going there and trying to understand it on a deeper level i mean sixth grade you're just blowing it up i love it so i think you i think that chris and ms estes and and jude and rosie i think you are throwing out the challenge for the entire school so again over the next three
023months how can we bring joy into our lives into our school but then out into the world so that's our challenge so we're going to be thinking of all sorts of ways to do that so thanks for getting it started and we'll definitely be sharing this in our assemblies and our newsletters we want to make sure that everybody is up to date on how this is getting pushed into our everyday lives in these next three months because we all need it we need to be there for each other go enjoy team i like it madison lee we're the joy team all right so thank you i'm gonna try thank you michaela uh i'm gonna magically send you away thanks for kicking this off and explaining the project and chris um i think we're looking for
024the sixth grader with the poem so if we could if you could help us out we're gonna i'm gonna laura i think she she's not backstage no she's not backstage oh lord on your email in the stream link oh she just showed up here we go i'm gonna remove rosie bye bye rosie thank you so much and bye bye bye jude thank you rosie thank you jude you are amazing thank you bruce all right and let's bring hola lara out here perfect time there she is this is your second time in the broadcast booth yes thank you so much because it takes courage to do this and you're also demonstrating to your sixth grade classmates that it can be done right so i understand like uh you have a poem to share with us and
025poetry does bring joy into people's lives for sure do you want to explain a little bit about how you made this poem or do you want to just launch it um so a little bit um earlier in the year we started working on these poems called i'm every good thing which are problems about ourselves and we were like looking into metaphors and figurative language and stuff like that so um uh yeah so all the sixth graders we all wrote poems and worked on them for a while and so chris and nick asked me if i could prevent mine so yeah i'm going to be doing that all right so take a deep breath i'm going to remove from the screen though because i want you to be the focus if that's okay okay all right
026all right so um here we go i'm really crazy and sometimes not i am a volcano at one point i'm calm and next i'm explaining with level i'm like a light bulb when you flip the switch i turn on and glow bright i'm an artist i'm creative i'm light i'm really bright i'm a fresh patch of bright green grass with the sun beaming upon it beautiful bright and glowing yeah that good i have mistakes and learning and getting things wrong in math but then being reminded to persevere more i struggle and get frustrated but you know what i'm right back on my feet again i'm standing on set looking in the light and camera while saying my lines i am my character i am an actress i'm cotton candy soft sugary and sweet i'm graceful
027and polite like a ballerina i am an empty split i am empty space waiting to be filled by learning i'm ready to be challenged but succeed i'm ready to be pushed and learn from my mistakes i am going to the mall with my friends laughing talking and having fun i am video games with my brothers problem solving and creativity i am watching movies with my family popcorn and snacks i'm sad when it's all over i am the fast words of rap spreading awareness and deep down meaning something good i'm here for a reason to show people what's wrong and what's not i am the running kicking and scoring of soccer i'm the passing communication and teamwork of soccer i'm the fun laughing and silly part of stonker i am the undisputed champion i am a
028highlight of re i'm a highlight reel of magnificence i am the celebration the applause and the standing ovation i am victory i am a daughter a sister a niece a friend a cousin a granddaughter and a cat owner i i am real although i am something like a superhero every now and then i'm afraid i am not what they might call me and i will not answer to any name that is not my own i am what i say i am i'm a seed being nurtured every day by friends family teachers and everyone else around me every day i learn and grow more so i can become a beautiful flower one day i'm a miracle a blessing i am brave i am hope i am my ancestors wildest dreams i am worthy of success of
029respect of safety of kindness of happiness and without a shadow of doubt i am worthy to be loved i am worthy to be and that's it so oh my gosh [Applause] now when i thought it was over she kept going and then i thought she might stop and then she kept going and the whole thing i mean spoke to your complexity and to our complexity as human beings we are not one thing we are multitudes we are our ancestors wildest dreams and olar you took it there you went there you didn't hold back you explored the different facets i am so ex just get excited for you right now thank you uh yeah oh lara the chat is filled up i can't even see it all in one because there's so many uh appreciations um
030that brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart it was very very powerful so thank you for your bravery to read it so beautiful i have to think chris cuz he was one who was like oh i really think you should uh read your poem because he was like a classic joke because um chris would be like who wasn't allowed to read their poem and everyone in the chat would be like me totally i'm so glad you listened and so powerful incredible over here no was were you nervous to do this definitely oh definition of courage is to have fear to have a moment where you're nervous about it because if it's easy that doesn't necessarily take courage so i am so even more impressed that you were able to come here today
031and have such poise in sharing your thoughts and your very very interesting level of wisdom for such a young age yeah thank you so much and you said it for everybody a little will each worthy you are worthy and each of us in our own way so what a beautiful beautiful sentiment thank you ah so we take a breath and get filled up with that joy from hololara's poem and now we're going to move on to the next thing so thank you for joining us in the broadcast booth and if there's any family member anywhere in the world who doesn't get to watch this live this is recorded so you can share the link with them right okay i'm sure everyone in your family will be so proud for his proud all right take care
032a little laura thank you chris thank you chris with these projects we'll look forward to uh bringing joy take care thank you all right so miss esther wow i know and there are many sixth grade poems out there so poetry is something that people are studying in different grade levels miss estes and and actually thinking about how to bring the joy of their poetry to people in the outside world so i look forward to hearing i know second grade fifth grade and sixth grade have i have ideas [Music] and the thing about poetry that i always connected to is that like if we have people out there inspired by olara's poetry i mean think about what she did she was taking metaphors that connected to her and explained what that meant i am cotton candy
033soft and sweet i mean yeah it's it's the uniqueness of us is coming out in how we think of this so if you want to write like that believe me it's in you it's in you i am blank and then you have to just explain how you're like that thing and it i'm telling you don't hold back because that's exactly what she did she didn't hold back and you have this uniqueness in you that can be shown and shine bright throughout for everyone so don't i'm inspired i'm writing tonight gotta keep my journal going all right so now we're actually moving from writing to bring joy to art and the first grade has been doing this self-portrait portraiture project that is so inspiring as well miss estes and we're gonna just let three first graders
034we can only pick one from each classroom in their video they're going to explain this project and they're going to show their self portraits and these videos they made all by themselves oh boy let's see it let's see it look to catherine see if she's ready for this one she's giving me the head nod catherine way to go okay and the thumbs up too so here we go these are three first graders representing all the first grades uh who did their self portraits in class and i am done with mine of course so you see i added watercolors to my self portrait and portrait i chose a reddish blueish i mean a reddish pinkish star and i add purple tulips because it's a reminder fling spring and then i got some flowers dripping down and
035this heart and bunnies because my mom's gonna get a pet bunny and that's it so if you have any questions just click here for more for another tutorial all right i hope you have fun i'll see you in our next video bye wow that was my moon huh and i think we have two and then you're yellow this is my portrait and it shows uh oh i gotta i think we gotta get this is my portrait and it shows that i love horses because there's a horse um right here and my setting is a horse farm and it shows that i love pancakes donuts and waffles because my shirt are those three things and bye ah that was so cool this is my portrait and it's representing who i am i'm gonna talk about my
036the objects so right now yeah somewhere here yeah right here all these things represent who i am this is my water bottle the one that has the lines on it mixed with see and this is my cat and here's me here's a remote control when i put four hearts because my sister's four i put seven stars because i'm about to feast four and i put um a flower right there to represent who i am oh nick i i think we're coming back right yeah yeah wasn't that something oh wow i mean talk about the evidence of symbolism in artwork i mean i'm thinking miss yon would be really really proud because it took me a long time to realize how symbolism is used in artwork and these kids have figured it out in in first
037grade oh and here she is myself cara what'd you think of those first grade artists those were amazing i'm so happy those first grade teachers did an excellent job on this unit yes yeah and there's a surprise coming up and they thought of a very creative way to bring light and joy to the world is tomorrow they're actually going to hang all the self-portraits on the outside windows you've heard about this of wildwood so that families and staff can come to wildwood and walk along the outside of the building and cpr um well i am here not just to compliment those beautiful portraits and the wonderful artists who made them but also to tell you about two new things that will hopefully bring us joy um so one comes from the whole a team we
038are starting a weekly arts lunch so every wednesday from 11 45 until 12 15 any students are invited to join us at there'll be a meet link for an arts team lunch to check in with mr b and miss catherine and catherine our music teacher and mrs wells and me and have social time with each other um the link can be found on the choice board and we'll also publicize it some other places so that's coming great news and then the other thing i'm so excited to share is this virtual wildwood art museum which is just starting out and we received funding from our awesome pgo to create this so it is an online space where i hope every wildwood student will have a piece of art displayed so that's going to end up being
039you know like 350 pieces of art right now we're around 20. um but we're gonna get there and i think maybe we can share it now yeah so i think um i'm not sure why but i don't hear you echoing it makes you sound i hear you so i have it on my computer and i think maybe miss catherine can help me figure out once again how to share it okay so now it's there but miss catherine how do i get people to see what i see thank you for your patience everybody because um hi i can actually share it i've got it up on my screen oh perfect okay all right great all right so i'm going to remove do we need to remove ourselves no okay here we go this is amazing it's
040like walking into our own art museum right cara that's the goal that's all right so i i i spent about a half hour in there just recently so here we go all right so this is the link and it's publicly available so you can share it with your family and with your friends and basically you can navigate through the space approaching each of the projects and when you click on a project it will give you information about the artist and what they use to make it so miss catherine if you want to click for example on that penguin on the far wall near the window wow if you click on it it'll bring you right up in front of the artwork yeah there you go and then top right if you click the lowercase i
041in a circle it will tell you some more information about cassie's artwork here oh fantastic yeah and so that's going to be true for all of our students wow and i've got a lot of great submissions and kids have been having a really fun time exploring the museum they've found that yes you can fly out the windows um so lots of options all right thank you cara thank you thank you work that you put into creating this i can't wait to visit again and again and again all right thank you thanks for having me do you remember chili willie uh no i don't remember chili willy it was it was a cartoon from the 1940s okay okay who didn't like the cold my name is chilly willie i'm frozen through and through and that drawing
042reminded me of silly willy he was a penguin that had a scarf and a hat that was really fun for me to remember that from my childhood those memories are great i love that picture but before people make a conclusion that's not true you were not born in the 40s you were not alive then well i i i have a childhood where i watch some old old all right so moving right along shall we miss estes let's go little randomly and right to this project so bringing light and joy bringing light into the world is a metaphor but this next project everybody at wildwood has been touched by it and and it's i think you're gonna know what i'm talking about because it's in the form of books that mrs wells and her dynamic team
043has been bringing light and joy into the wildwood community so let's give it up for mrs wells she's beaming in from the wildwood library itself hey hello hi miss wells hello everybody i've really enjoyed the student work and this assembly is amazing we have the most incredible students in the world by the way but yes well they are bringing me so much joy with all their work and we have a joyful little workshop here in the wildwood library of my little elves working yeah and me off the screen so they can see it bigger okay here we go you're gonna take it away fantastic all right so um this project has brought so much joy to me and my like i say my little elves um but it's a big project so today we wanted
044to talk a little bit about how you're bringing us joy and how it's working to put together our book backpacks for next week next week is when we'll do the exchange again wednesday and thursday after school 3 30 to 5 30 is the pickup time we'll be going on the school bus again to the apartments tuesday and thursday so to get these book bags together all of these books have to be picked off the shelves right and these are the book bags ready to go check this out we got a new green letter and speaking of letters your letters have brought me so much joy and it's a good thing too when you leave me a letter like this i got a letter saying thanks so much and that brought it was so happy to
045open these letters and get your messages from october and maybe you asked me for a new for a book right so here's a friend who asked me can i please have driver with the kid the meltdown and look at that this kid get exactly what they want right there here's a sad kind of a sad story but a surprise here's a friend who wrote me a beautiful letter and they wanted harry potter the chamber of secrets and i walked over to the shelf and i said to jen i said to miss cat i'll we find this we couldn't find it we couldn't find it but look somebody donated it so now this fun friend gets that right in their pile of books and all of these books will be checked out and brought to you
046and that brings me so much joy but this project is bringing lots of people joy miss jen cat she's gonna join me over here she's one of our pgo volunteers thanks laura hunter for she's a pgo volunteer too jen cat has been driving the book backpacks to a lot of friends in the neighborhood jen thanks so much for doing that oh you're welcome it's really fun and i love seeing everybody's face when they get their backpacks sometimes there's kids waiting outside sometimes they're waiting looking out their window and they always ask one kid asked me last time did i get some good books and i said only if you put them on hold that's the key right that's right so we hope the books are bringing you lots of joy i want to thank miss
047cat gen cat look at them they're already back to work they can't stop working they are better than elves you know this is crazy uh we're working so hard to get your backpacks out but this would not be possible without so many pgo volunteers pgo funding our project to bring more books to kids like all those great uh dogmans that are out there right now that's because they help me buy those and then finally i have to say a big thank you to two people who bring me joy every day and that's joyce and shayla without joyce and shayla calling families there would be about 100 kids who aren't getting books right so they called the families and made sure they knew about the book project and now we are giving books to 323 kids
048in december and that really is all because of joyce and shayla and they're hard work so thank you to the pgo this project has gotten so big and brings me so much joy but all the people involved are why it's working so well and why everybody's happy and it makes me happy so keep putting books on hold and be nice to your volunteers and keep reading that is amazing miss wells thank you so much for all your leadership on this and it's just so wonderful to see how everybody is working together to make this dream happen yes and mrs wells and i'm i'm so glad it's bringing you joy because you're bringing joy to the whole wildwood community and you know you had this idea it's so inspiring to me because you had this idea
049i remember when you first talked to me about it and i went i don't know mrs wells this is so big but you you made it happen and then we're all joining you so thank you so much and i just want everybody to notice how safe everybody in the library is being i just i mean it's important you know i mean we take the self health and safety of our community very seriously and and this is not something that is done without keeping that in mind so i just want us to be aware of how much is going into keeping our family safe and inspired and and and reading so thank you all right take care everybody library team being part of the team all right so miss miss estes this is it this is
050we're coming to the end of the assembly but there's one part that we always have to make sure that we leave time for yeah and um you know we're doing it in a new way uh which actually reaches our hearts even more when when students who we saying goodbye to we call them shooting stars um they're they're leaving the wildwood community going to new schools and homes um we leave a little bit of time at the end of the assembly and they may they make videos now for us and in this one get your tissues ladies and gentlemen yeah boys and girls and anyone else out there just this one broke my heart and i'm going to miss him very much yeah so this is jamwell who's been with us since kindergarten he's in second
051grade and i think his family's probably watching this jamwell made a beautiful video for all of us um that we're gonna watch right now hi everybody my name is john will and i'm here to tell you that my mom moved from another house to another house and i really like your school and i appreciate that my teachers taught me good and i hope you have a fun time and the things that i like from this from wildwood is math science and reading those are three things that i really like really really really like and i will miss you a lot lot and i i you'll still be in my heart and everybody and i really will miss you i i can't really so i appreciate all your help that you gave me and i really
052like it i love you guys bye this guy by this arm by miss very firey my friends bye miss principal nick bye bye bye jim well i'm gonna miss you lots too yes so we actually have a little ritual we do before we say goodbye and so that's everybody out there in wildwood land you can do it from your homes or wherever you're watching this video so we we think of jamwell he's moving to holyoke we think of him in his new home his new school you think of him making new friends and when we have that image in our mind we start to send that out just the way we do in the gym ready one two three oh john well can you feel it oh goodness all right so thank you everybody before
053we close the assembly there's one more way we're going to be sharing lots of ways over the next three months how we're bringing joy and light into the world and there's one way that i've already started to talk about in my weekly videos ms estes and i think i've talked about it with you it's telling stories and listening to stories and i was inspired to start this wildwood story project by something called storycorps that you can hear on the radio or in podcasts and so in this way we're going to be learning how we can call our grandparents or our aunts or uncles or ask our parents do you have a story that you'd like us to record and share and our fifth and sixth graders are going to take the lead on this as
054well and we're giving you questions you can choose from as you think about this like one question that i'm gonna tell a story about is what would you like to say to your younger self i like that question what would i say to little nikki when he was in fifth grade and there were things that he was worried about and i'll tell you a story you can also ask somebody like what was the kindest thing that anyone ever did for you that's a big question these are big questions they they can't be answered with a yes or no yeah and there are ways miss estes now with within during these times you can do it with someone far away it's called storycorps connect so you could actually call your grandmother who lives three thousand miles
055away and record her story and we're not talking about videos they're just audio stories and then we're going to put them up on the wildwood website for everyone to hear if you want to otherwise you can just keep it for your family and i think that's a lovely idea as we're trying to make sure that we're being safe in this time with um with uh you know we're supposed to be staying close to home we shouldn't be traveling too far yeah so as we head into our vacation time during the winter holiday season this will be a wonderful way to connect with people who you might not be able to see and i tell you when you when you if you call if you connect with the family member and you say grandpa i'd like
056to you to tell me a story that's going to make grandpa very happy and uh you can do it on your phone with an app with someone who's living in your home oh okay that's great so anyway you'll hear more about it and i can't wait to share my story with everybody too and maybe just ask these you have one i'm happy to share my stories but you you may have seen orion my 14 year old he we'll see how i do i'm not i'm not making any promises but maybe you'll ask me a question or two all right all right everybody out in wildwood land this is it wow amazing students that we have don't we miss estes they are phenomenal they're letting their little light shine and i can't wait to report more
057about it as the months go on right so the next assembly believe it or not will be bringing in the new year 2021 so we'll see you in january in the new year and for now we're saying goodbye have a good rest of your day everyone take care bye later bye bye we miss you seeing you