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Cold-Blooded Creatures Visit General Wayne Elementary

Students and faculty at the school celebrated Earth Week with a live reptile assembly on April 15.

General Wayne Elementary School students received a visit Friday afternoon from some cold-blooded pals. In celebration of Earth Week, students had a chance to meet turtles, an iguana, pythons, a baby crocodile and more in the assembly conducted by presenter Michael Walz of World of Reptiles.  

“This is our big culminating event for Earth Week,” Principal Bonnie Citron said. “All week, we’ve been doing different activities: we wrote Earth-friendly poems, decorated lunch bags with Earth-friendly themes and went for nature walks. It’s a fun week.”

Walz’s reptile presentation is a treat for students at the end of Earth Week, but moreover, it is students’ reward for their overwhelming participation in March’s Reading Madness month, Citron said. 

The goal was to have students read a total of 2,011 books in March, Citron said. A little over halfway through the month, students had already met that goal.

“We told them there would be a surprise at the assembly if they doubled the goal. The grand total was 5,140 books,” Citron said.

The surprise turned out to be a faculty member puckering up to something unusual: one of Walz’s snakes.

“We just told the students that at the assembly, there would be something about lips and snakes,” Citron said.

When Citron revealed toward the end of the assembly that second-grade teacher Dana Brown would kiss one of Walz’s snakes, students jumped out of their chairs and cheered. The auditorium erupted with laughter and applause after Brown locked lips with Walz's scaly friend—a fun surprise for students after a month of hard work. 

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