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Students bury treasures until 2020
Published Saturday, January 26, 2008
Photo by Lauren Radomski
Joshua Danielson, an Ashby kindergartner, works on his time capsule in Cindy Welch’s classroom Friday.
After weeks of anticipation, Friday was the big day in Cindy Welch’s kindergarten classroom: the day the time capsules came together.
Armed with paper-covered Pringles cans, gluesticks and crayons, the Ashby students set to work on the projects they will not see again until 2020.
“That’s what my plan is — to have them come back at the end of their senior year and spend a little time with me in the classroom and open the capsules,” said Welch, who began the capsule tradition when she joined Ashby Public School four years ago.
Capsule contents include not only work by students but contributions from their parents. On Friday, students completed small booklets describing their families, their favorite things and their future careers. They also received small mementos — things like photos, small toys, even the corner of a blanket — that parents had given Welch to include in the capsules. Some parent contributions came sealed in envelopes, with students already chomping at the bit to see what was inside.
“Anything that fits is game to go in (the capsules) until we don’t have any more room,” Welch said.
Each capsule also includes a personal note from Welch to the particular student — even written on the student’s favorite color of paper.
As students scribbled and glued Friday, Welch said that while her first class of students will not open the capsules for sometime, she’s looking forward to the day they do.
“I’ve got a stash of Pringles cans filled with really great things,” she said.
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Hey kids, watch where you bury your treasures or some lousy, layabout, lazy, good for nothing, thieving squirrel will dig them up when you are not looking. Don’t ever trust squirrels.
Posted by JL (anonymous) on January 27, 2008 at 12:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This is so creative! What a great thing to do with these students.
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