To celebrate all of the safe, respectful and responsible behavior we saw around Horace Mann during the 3rd quarter, the PTA invited Jungle Terry for a school-wide assembly. From the moment he showed up in his zebra-striped Range Rover, we knew the fun was about to begin!
Students in grades PK-5 were engrossed and excited by the stories he told and the animals he showed. As you can see in the pictures below, several students had the opportunity to hold animals, including a tarnatula, a ball python and a brown skunk. Second grader Isaac C. even got to "surf" on an African tortoise!
As the end of the show, Jungle Terry set up a "pet and go," where he laid the 11 foot python on the table and invited each student to walk by and touch the snake on the way back to class. Nearly all of our kids took a deep breath and did it :-)
Big thanks to our PTA for making this awesome event possible. We would especially like to thank Carla Adamov for arranging the event and to several PTA volunteers (Federica Pasquali, Sandy Twardesky and Laura George) for helping out.
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