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Students bring someone special to school
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Music teacher Dean Wilson thanked everybody's special person for coming to Market Street Elementary School on KISS Day.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Second-grade students from Market Street Elementary performed a short concert for their special people on KISS Day on March 25.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Market Street Elementary School students showed off their music reading skills to their audience on KISS Day on March 25.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Cookies, brownies and treats of all kinds were brought to KISS day at Market Street Elementary School, compliments of the PTA and various other parent volunteers.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Students in the second grade at Market Street Elementary School chose a special person to bring to KISS Day on March 25.
By amanda tonoli
KISS (kids invite someone special) Day at Market Street Elementary School in Boardman was an opportunity for students to bring someone special for a performance, refreshments and quality time with the students. First- and second-grade students brought whoever they chose to attend on March 25.
Each grade within the elementary school has the opportunity to bring someone special during different times of the year. Because it was the second half of the school year the performance provided for the guests was a short musical show, those who had their KISS Day earlier in the year put on a physical education exercise.
Music teacher Dean Wilson introduced the second-graders, informing the audience that teaching them music is so far beyond just singing and entertainment, but they are learning to read music as well. The students displayed their music reading skills during the show, impressing parents and guests alike with this forgotten skill.
“We are very blessed to live in this community with the arts and our wonderful administration,” Wilson said.
Sharon Carbon, a mother to a second-grade participant in KISS Day, said she enjoyed what the school does with music programs and fun days like this for the children. She said that it makes the children well-rounded.
Carbon joked that she beat grandma this time – her younger son had chosen to bring his grandmother to his KISS Day,
“I’ve only been here [before] on that side of the table,” Carbon said, referring to the side students sit on. “I remember coming when I was a kid, my grandpa came.”
Carbon said when the program started years ago and was specific to just grandparents. It has since changed because more and more grandparents are moving away after retirement or for other reasons.
Andrea Erck, guest to her great niece, said her great niece asked her grandfather the year before.
“She was so cute and shy about it,” Erck said. “She was really sweet and asked him as if it were a little date.”
Carbon continued to say that the coolest part of this event used to be that the grandparents got to eat lunch with them, which is what the refreshments serve as now.
Parent volunteers and members of the Parent-Teacher Association, PTA, provided all the refreshments and decorations for the event.