Seventh Graders, Capstone Student Step Up to Fight Food Insecurity

Last Friday, our seventh-grade students participated in a community service project in partnership with Village Table Wellesley. The experience focused on helping students better understand food insecurity and how communities can come together to support neighbors in need.

Students began the day by learning about the realities of food insecurity in our local communities. Through discussion and reflection, they explored questions such as: What does food insecurity mean? Who does it affect? How can individuals and communities help? These conversations helped students recognize that access to nutritious food is not something everyone can take for granted, even in communities close to home.

After building this understanding, students moved into action. Working together, they packaged and prepared food items that were placed in the Watertown Community Fridge and accessible to anyone who may need them. These refrigerators provide a simple but powerful way for communities to share resources and ensure that fresh food is available to those who need it.

Third Graders Study, Create Animal Adaptations

Third graders have been learning about the physical and behavioral adaptations of animals. As their culminating project, students designed and constructed an animal species using their knowledge of adaptations and their own creativity. Some criteria included structural adaptations that allowed for an offense or defense against predators and instinctive behavioral adaptations, such as camouflaging to hide from a predator or burrowing underground during hibernation. Students also needed to consider their animal’s place within a food chain, its lifecycle, and a habitat suited for its ecosystem. Our third grade zoologists presented these new species to their classmates in person as well as virtually to family members near and far.

– Leigh Twarog, third grade teacher

Celebrating Pi Day and The Wonders of One Never-Ending Number

Pi Day is tomorrow, Saturday, March 14 (3/14), so our middle school mathematicians celebrated this extraordinary number all week! While 3.14 is commonly used to approximate the mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, pi is actually an irrational number—one that mathematicians and scientists have proven has no final digit and no discernible pattern of digits within. Be sure to check out the Schoolhouse Gallery, where 500 digits of Pi are now beautifully displayed along with pictures of our previous years’ middle school Pi Day Champions! 

This week, students interested in entering this year’s Pi Day competition recited as many digits of pi as they could in their grade-level teams. And this morning, during the Middle School Meeting, we crowned the 2026 Pi Day Champions: 1st place, Rubin Xiao, seventh grade (returning champion with 227 digits!), 2nd place, Chris Baker, sixth grade (161 digits), and 3rd place, Harper Treisman, eighth grade (50 digits). Congratulations to our 2026 champions! Their names and the numbers of digits recited will be added to a plaque proudly hung in the Kiva.

Happy Pi Day, everyone!

– The Middle School Math Team

Second Grade Hosts Farmer from Gaining Ground

On Wednesday morning, the second grade hosted a very special guest, Farmer Maddie from Gaining Ground! Gaining Ground is a local nonprofit that grows and distributes 100% of its organic produce to local hunger relief agencies. We learned from Farmer Maddie all about the farm and played a seed guessing game. Farmer Maddie helped us get ready for a very important project that begins on Monday: Read for Seeds. The second graders will collect pledges from relatives, friends, and neighbors for the number of pages they read during a two-week period. All of the money they raise will go directly to Gaining Ground’s annual seed budget. We can’t wait to see our changemakers in action!

– The Second Grade Team