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Generations Live a Milton Day
 Milton’s grandfriends—uncles, aunts, friends, grandparents and great-grandparents—experienced a day-in-the-life of a Milton student at the annual Grandfriends’ Day on Friday, May 14. Relatives and friends were invited to campus for a morning of classroom visits and activities that included a welcome breakfast event and a closing assembly in the Caroline Saltonstall Gymnasium. The assembly featured the talents of Milton’s young actors, musicians and speechies with performances spanning all grades of K–8. Guests enjoyed scenes from Oliver Twist performed by Milton’s sixth graders, a concert by young percussionists and recorder players, a reading of the third graders’ favorite book, a humorous and original take on Doreen Cronin’s Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, songs by the eighth grade chorus, and more.
Author Da Chen Visits Milton
 Da Chen, author of China Son and Color of the Mountain and father of Victoria Chen (Class III), visited campus on Friday, March 5. His first stop was the multipurpose room of Junior Building to talk with Grades 2 and 3 about his childhood in south of China, answer questions from students, and play his bamboo flute. Da Chen also met with Grades 7 and 8 in Straus Library to present "From China to Wall Street to Random House: a Chinese Author's Journey."
These are our lifers
Now in Class I, looking to the post-Milton horizon, these students joined Milton in Kindergarten and are now making college decisions. Click here to see our "lifers" 13 years ago. We've heard from their parents, this week, that the transition from the earlier image to today's image happens in a flash. So savor the moments.
School-wide Brainstorming Ideas See Action
All Together for Haiti
We are all struck at the earthquake's devastation in Haiti. There are many Haitians in the Milton Academy community, and students, faculty and staff across the campus wish to help in whatever way they can. Milton would like to invite you and your children to participate in a coordinated, school-wide effort to raise awareness and relief funds.
Lower School
We have initiated a program called "Helping Hands for Haiti" with Lower School students, who were invited today at school to join in. We ask that along with your child, you identify a household task or chore that is not normally part of your child's responsibilities. In recognition of that task, you may place between 1 and 10 dollars in an envelope to send to school. We will collect all these funds into a Milton Academy Haiti relief fund which will be allocated wisely and carefully. In the Lower School, we will also create a Haitian flag in support of our Haitian community members, to be displayed in the Junior Building lunch room. With student help, we are also developing a way to publically illustrate all the household tasks students performed in support of earthquake victims.
Middle School
Tonight, Middle School students are invited to participate in a Grades 6–12 "Hoops for Haiti" event from 5–6:30 p.m. in the ACC. There will be food, music and basketball, including a half-time shootout (with prizes!) for anyone willing. We ask for a $5 donation from spectators and participants (more is appreciated!). We will accept IA, cash or checks made out to Milton Academy; in the memo line please write Haiti Relief. Snacks, drinks and cookies (cash please) will be available.
Thank you for your support of these fund-raising programs for Haiti. It has been heartening to see the broad, rallying response from our community, and with these continued efforts we can make a true impact in helping Haitians recover from this natural disaster.
With our thanks on behalf of the K–8 community,
Marshall Carter, Rosalie Tashjian and Gretchen Larkin
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Inspired by Shelley Pearsall's All of the Above—a story about four inner city students and their quest to build the world's largest tetrahedron—Milton's fifth graders create their own structures out of tetrahedra.
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