Sporting their Spirit Day athletic team jerseys and T-shirts, Lower School students entered the gym for this week’s LS Assembly as the iconic song “We Are the World” played in the background. The song, as the fifth-grade presenters described, “is about being kind and helping people around the world” and struck the right chord for the assembly’s theme of community and nod to Earth Day. Second graders took center stage as a class to describe how they’ve been learning about community in their social studies classes and recently connected with Canine Companions, a nonprofit that trains service dogs for people with disabilities. This segued to a segment on the importance of doing even little things such as turning off lights as you exit a room or picking up trash in honor of Earth Day on April 22. One fifth grader remarked that “The Earth takes care of us, so we must take care of it,” which led into a group chant of this year’s Earth Day theme of “Our Power, Our Planet.” Happy Earth Day to our amazing community of learners!
