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Welcome!
Welcome!
Welcome to the second installment of the Noah Wallace IDEA+ Community Newsletter for the 2024-25 school year! The IDEA+ Club is dedicated to honoring and empowering all members of our Noah Wallace community. We are so excited to share our community’s reflections. This newsletter will continue to feature submissions from YOU to share and celebrate together.
To the families that contributed pictures, recipes and information about holidays and cultural traditions for this newsletter, thank you for making this possible! We plan to continue publishing one more edition this year, and to do that we need your help! We’d love to share your family’s seasonal celebrations, recipes, etc. with our community. Please submit your personal stories, recipes, photographs, or book suggestions. No idea is too small! Your reflections will be included in the next newsletter and on the website.
We hope sharing in each other’s worlds will help us strengthen and celebrate our dynamic and diverse community. In the newsletter below, you will find firsthand perspectives on the themes of the month. You will also discover submissions from Noah Wallace teachers that highlight our themes.
Thank you!
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
IDEA+ Club Events
IDEA+ Club Events
Upcoming Event:
Upcoming Event:
Bushnell Park Carousel
Saturday, April 5, 2025
10am-12pm
Bushnell Park Carousel
Saturday, April 5, 2025
10am-12pm
Come enjoy FREE unlimited rides on the Carousel in Hartford and enjoy snacks and conversation with friends! Please RSVP. For more information about getting there and parking visit the Bushnell Park Conservancy website.
Upcoming Event:
Upcoming Event:
The Sights, Tastes, and Sounds of Noah Wallace
Saturday, April 26, 2025
3pm-5pm
The Sights, Tastes, and Sounds of Noah Wallace
Saturday, April 26, 2025
3pm-5pm
We hope you can join us for this popular family event that focuses on sharing, learning, and growing more culturally competent as a community. Families are invited to view and interact with cultural displays as well as try sample-sized portions of delicious food from around the globe provided by Noah Wallace families.
All Noah Wallace families are welcome to attend and participate! We are looking for families that would like to provide food to share or bring in cultural items. Please consider sharing your traditions with our community! Please sign up by Tuesday, April 22nd. To learn more and RSVP please visit: nwpto.org/taste
Recent Event:
Recent Event:
Holidays Around the World
By Aila & Olivia
Did you know that there are a lot more holidays than you may think? For example, there is Junkanoo, Hogmanay, Bodhi Day and many more! K.I.D Club families saw a play on Friday, November 22nd at the new Farmington High School auditorium. The Holidays Around the World performance included 13 different holidays. The Bright Star Touring Theatre taught us about common holidays too, for example, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Diwali. There were only two actors, but they played many different roles. We learned a lot about many different holidays in just over an hour. At the end, the actors answered questions from the audience. We learned that actors have to improvise if something goes wrong. In the show the Swedish aunt dropped her hat and she had to wing it. Since there were only two actors they also had to change costumes fast and they showed us how messy the backstage got. We hope you were there to see it and that one of the holidays was one that you celebrate. Happy Holidays!
Noah Wallace Celebrates
Noah Wallace Celebrates
Time to Make Maple Syrup! with Dr. Huber's family
Time to Make Maple Syrup! with Dr. Huber's family
Every spring, our family comes together for the time-honored tradition of making maple syrup on our property in Wolcott. Mr. Huber taps over 60 trees, carefully collecting the clear, sweet sap that signals the start of the season. He built an evaporator from an old oil drum, using wood to fuel the fire that boils down the sap into golden syrup. It’s a team effort—everyone pitches in, from tapping the trees to hauling buckets of sap through the woods. The final stage happens in our kitchen, where we carefully finish the syrup at the perfect temperature before pouring it into jars and jugs. The best part is enjoying the fruits of our labor—drizzling fresh syrup over pancakes, French toast, or even maple-glazed salmon. This tradition not only brings us delicious treats but is also a fun way to spend time as a family and with our friends.
Students Teach About Noah Wallace
Students Teach About Noah Wallace
What is a Peacemaker?
A peacemaker solves conflicts between other students. Peacemakers received training for a whole day! It was very interesting to learn about different styles and techniques for solving problems. Peacemaking is very fun and I’d recommend it to any willing third or fourth grader.
Malliga (4th grade)
Fun Clubs at Noah Wallace!
There are a lot of clubs at Noah Wallace. There are yoga, game time, astronaut academy, peacemaker and crafting clubs. I am in the yoga club. Yoga is on Thursdays after school and the teachers are Mrs. McMullen and Mrs. Wilde. My favorite pose is the monster pose because you get to move like a monster. In yoga I get to calm down and meditate.
-Adam (grade 3)
Noah Wallace Community Connection Board
Noah Wallace Community Connection Board
Our Noah Wallace Community Connection Board welcomed our incoming East Farms Families on February 13, 2025 at a special Open House. In addition to student-led tours of the school and fun games of "Cosmic Bowling" families participated in the Community Connections Board as part of the special event. Noah Wallace students prepared the question in advance to get to know their future classmates!
Community Events
Community Events
French Canadian Jam
French Canadian Jam
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT
Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 2:30pm-4:30pm
Get acquainted with French Canadian traditional tunes at this monthly jam session, happening Saturday afternoons on First Free Weekends!
Free
53rd Annual Greater Hartford St. Patrick's Day parade
53rd Annual Greater Hartford St. Patrick's Day parade
Step off from the Capitol in Hartford
Sunday, March 15, 2025 | 11am
The Central Connecticut Celtic Cultural Committee will be hosting the 2025 Greater Hartford St. Patrick's Day parade on March 15th to celebrate the 53rd Anniversary of this great event! The parade will take place on Saturday 3/15/2025, stepping off from the Capitol building at 11AM.
Free and open to all who register.
CT Maple Weekend
CT Maple Weekend
Many locations all over CT!
Saturday and Sunday, March 15 & 16, 2025
including...
Auerfarm in Bloomfield
Auerfarm invites you to a unique pancake breakfast experience! Bring your family, friends, and neighbors out to Auerfarm on March 15th & 16th! Become a sugar maker and learn the process from sap to syrup. Enjoy the freshly made maple syrup with a farm-style homemade breakfast! Afterward, we invite you to stay a while, visit our animals, stroll our trails, and enjoy time in nature with the family.
Access for All Community Day | Women’s History Month
Access for All Community Day | Women’s History Month
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 11am-5pm
Join us in honoring the lives and works of women artists on view at the Museum and in our community! Participate in a movement workshop by the Hartford Dance Collective, our artists in residence responding to Modern Women: Visionary Artists; create your own artwork in our makerspace, studio activity, or drop-in drawing activity in our galleries; and hear from local authors.
Schedule:
10:30-11:30 a.m. | The Hartford Dance Collective Movement Workshop
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Drop-In Activity in Studio A
10:30-11:30 a.m. | Author’s Talk and Book Signing: Yvette Cole, Author of Harriet’s Dinner Party
12-1 p.m. | Drop-In Drawing in the Galleries
12:15-1:15 p.m. | Author’s Talk and Book Signing: Janice Hechter, Author of Where are the Women?
Throughout the Day | Makerspace Art Activity - Discover and explore artworks from female artists in the Museum’s collection to create a Herstory Timeline!
Maple Moon Living Exhibition – An Indigenous Song & Dance Market
Maple Moon Living Exhibition – An Indigenous Song & Dance Market
Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Saturday, March 22, 2025 from 10am-4pm
In the tradition of our moon cycles, four times a year the Mashantucket Pequot Museum carries on the cultural honoring and celebration of each new season in a beautiful way by welcoming guests from across the globe to experience our culture, our songs, our food, and our way of life. Join us at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum to experience our traditional new year celebration and thanksgiving with Pequot maple syrup treats and family-friendly programming and entertainment as we create a space to experience our story with native artisans and storytellers showcasing their gifts and talents.
Admission to the marketplace is free!
Access for All Community Day | Art, Nature, and Poetry
Access for All Community Day | Art, Nature, and Poetry
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 11am-5pm
Free Admission all day!
Visit the Museum and explore connections between artists and the environment through interactive activities. In aligning with National Poetry Month, we will also be offering poetry writing prompts for families that take inspiration from artworks on view.
Open Call to Families
Open Call to Families
Your contributions are what make this newsletter rich and engaging! IDEA+ encourages every member of the community to consider sharing so that it keeps growing strong. Going forward, we hope to have even more student voices represented and would love any pictures, stories, recipes your child may also want to submit. Our own ‘normal’ may be new, different and exciting to another in our community - and we always love to hear how everyone is doing!
Please submit here! Final issue deadline is May 16th!
If you’re interested in attending the IDEA+ Committee meetings, we encourage you to click on the link provided for more information. You can also email the NWS PTO (nwpto@fpsct.org) with questions or ideas.
Thank you again!
NWS IDEA+ Committee
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