Millinocket School Department

On Thursday, October 23rd, students in 3rd-5th grade were invited to Mrs. Reece's room to listen to a guest speaker. Mrs. Reece's brother from Texas, Dylan "Ceasar" Zayasbazan, talked about his experience hiking the Appalachian Trail. The students learned lots of interesting facts by viewing a slideshow of pictures he shared, listening to an interview where Mrs. Reece asked him questions, and by answering questions presented by the fifth graders. He started his journey at Springer Mountain, Georgia , and ended at the top of Mount Katahdin. This trail is roughly 2,190 miles long. It took him approximately 5 1/2 months to hike the whole trail. His trail name given to him by other hikers is Caesar because of his hair. He encountered many animals including bears, snakes, a moose, turtles, frogs, and cows. He started off hiking with a group, but became separated from them and did most of the hike alone. He had only one set of clothes that he wore during the presentation and he had worn out two pairs of sneakers on the hike. Dylan showed the students the backpack he carried the whole trip along with some of the things in it such as a tent, a water purifier, small cooker that attaches to a small gas tank, freeze dried food, etc. One morning when he was in Maine, he heard a rustling noise and thought there was a bear outside of his tent, but it was a moose. His favorite state to hike in was Maine.

The Granite Street title program had a wonderful family fall night on October 15th with 65 students and their families attending the event. Congratulations to our door prizes winners - Brittany Adams, Michaela Ingersoll , Lacey Hallett and Adrian Adams. Thank you everyone who participated.

Our PK students visited the Millinocket Fire Department as part of Fire Prevention Week. Thank you for to the fire fighters and EMTs who shared their knowledge with our students. Thank you, Officer Frank, for being one of our chaperones.

A playground committee has been formed at Granite Street to work on updating our playground and beautifying our school grounds. Thanks to a generous donation from Our Katahdin, 14 trees were purchased from Richardson's in Patten. On Friday, Ocotober 10th, Shelley Farrington and Patric Santerre helped each class adopt and plant a tree. Thank you to Louie DiFrederico for digging the holes in preparation for this event.