North/South Day

For high school, kids from Trottier in Southborough combine with kids from Melican Middle School in Northborough to form one high school. Today, the Northborough kids came to Trottier to meet the eighth graders from Southborough. They played “minute to win it” games and the band and chorus combined to rehearse for a joint concert in the afternoon. They’re playing the theme song from The Incredibles.

For one of the periods, I caught up with my sixth graders, and they asked me to go to their French class. I think I'll remember them most after I leave. The French teacher was involved with North/South day and left a worksheet for the substitute teacher to handout, so I helped answer questions during that period. I took French up until eighth grade *with Channing Moreland who is sitting right next to me right now when I’m writing this blog. The worksheets were going to be collected (for completion) at the end of class, so the kids were busy at work doing crosswords on basic French vocabulary. I was surprised that I still remembered some of those words on the worksheets, and my Latin background from Milton helped with some of the roots. Now I know why Latin is helpful (besides reading inscriptions in chapels).