by Lynann Day

Chorley held its annual Fall Festival on October 30th. The Fall Festival is a product of the SIT Teams’ initiative to help promote literacy and parent involvement.

Each classroom selected a theme that was then developed using the many content areas taught in school. Some topics are apples, pumpkins, scarecrows, autumn colors, fall sports, seasons, trees, spiders to name just a few. The creative displays were set up on tables in one of the gymnasiums while the lower hallway was also decorated with scarecrows that reflected each class’ theme. The parents were invited to view the displays on the evening of October 30th and the classrooms made visits the following day. The students were thrilled and excited to see their hard work on display and enjoyed checking out the other classrooms’ hard work as well. The culmination of the event was highlighted at the school’s monthly assembly wherre classrooms learned poems and songs that they performed in front of the whole school.

Special thanks go to SIT Team members (Karen Ciernak, Donna Levien, Lorraine Pagliocca, Catherine Bonnell, Paula Ey, Rosa Goetz and Cherie Gluckman) and the rest of the classroom teachers for their many hours of hard work. What a memorable and special event for the Chorley Family!