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News > Galleries > My Ideal School Contest, 2017

My Ideal School Contest, 2017

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Eric Urrunaga East Somerville Community School, Somerville, MA "My ideal school is a rainbow. It has flowers on the right. I love my school and my art teacher."
Mariya Stytsenko Newton School, Greenfield, MA "Newton School is a great place to learn because the teachers are helpful! Newton School is the best in the world! Newton School would be even greater if everyone in the whole school would always be loving, kind, and helpful. Also, it would be cool if our school had dinosaurs, pirats, skeletons, and was made of rainbows!"
Violet Cox Mullen Hall School, Falmouth, MA "I love how my school has many teacher and many things to learn with teacher. I like how the playgroung has many things to take turus with people that can share with others to. I like how my school has pretty flowers to look at and for bee to take the pellon. I thank Mull Hall school has pretty things and special things for people like you."
Kayla Simpson East Taunton Elementary School, East Taunton, MA "I love East Taunton Elementary School. I like library because I like to read, everybody says I am great at it. I like Mrs. Trainor because she is nice. I like art because I am creative and I have good ideas. That is why I like East Taunton Elementary School."
Caroline Cleary Murphy Primary School, Weymouth, MA "My ideal school is a happy place. Theirs alot of plants in the classrooms and its verry prity. After school people play on the trampaleen . Theirs lots of fun books to read. Ther is little playhouses. It’s like a the playground. Ther is a gym in the school and ther is a play side in the gym and then there’s a lunch side."
Abby McManus Fuller Meadow Elementary School, Middleton "My ideal school would defently have a smart bord because I want to draw on it all the time. I would also have no home work because do not like homework. And I would have a slushy magene because I love slush. And it will help me learn."
Varvara Karenskaya East Somerville Community School, Somerville, MA "This is my dream school. As you see I love kitties and hearts, YES! But my real school is bigger."
Andrew Campbell Fuller Meadow Elementary School, Middleton, MA "In Fuller Meadow the gym is my favorite part. It is my favorite because you get to play fun games like tag. It helps me calm down."
Siri Dasari Lura A. White School, Shirley, MA "At Lura A. White we are safe. We learn math. We learn how to read. Our teachers are the best. We have a awsome playground. We get to go outside for gym sometimes. We are friends with everyone"
Justin Hopf Lura A. White School, Shirley, MA "We have RTI. We go out for gym. We share our supplies. We are friends with everyone. We go to the computer lab. We learn math. We say the pledge. and we sing. We have after school clubs."
Kamila Gavel Philip Coburn School, West Springfield, MA "I like about my school because it is big. Osol I like about because my techr is niys. I love her. At my noo school it has windos like a hat and the cat hat."
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