Princess Williams

The students, faculty, and parents braved the heat to go on our ACS walk to benefit the American Cancer Society.  We themed the celebration around celebrating more birthdays. Our walk was in honor of Mrs. Patti Hobson (AES secretary) who is currently battling cancer.   Each day Mrs. Williams (aka Princess Williams)  donned a different piece of her princess outfit until the last day.   Here are some pictures from today's walk.. The students at FLW still have time to donate to the American Cancer Society if you would like.

Field Day and the rain

So we did not exactly have a FULL day of field day but the time we did have outside yesterday was so much fun and WET!!!

Here is what we did before the rain.

Bean Bag Toss

Scrambled  "eggs" Race

Obstacle course starting line

Parachute

Anteater Game

 Duck Pond Race

Sack Races

Abby and mom

Mimi joined in the fun

Pa joined in to with Ava 

Brady and mom

Magic Bubbles

Picnic lunch inside the gym due to rain

As you can tell it was a great morning.  We did not let the rain damper our fun.  Thank you to all the parents who cheered and helped us have a GREAT day.

Walking tour of Lumberton

On Monday we took a great walking tour of our town.  We learned many interesting facts about the town we live in.

Did you know:
We had a toll house. It is at the end of Chestnut Street.  The toll collector would collect money from rafts and boats so they could continue through on the waterways.

Lumberton had 3 grocery stores at one time.  After their business was closed on of them turned into a post office at the corner of Landing Street.

Lumberton had a carriage service on Main Street.  The coach service took people to Mt. Holly and Medford.

In 1874 Lumberton had a covered bridge.  It had accidents on it almost daily.

Did you know Lumberton also had an amusement park?  It was in the Eayerstown Picnic area.  It was located between  Landing and Eayerstown Road down by the creek.  It even had a Ferris wheel.

At the present day gazebo at the corner of Main Street housed a rather large shoe factory.  It made shoes for Buster Brown and sold them at JC Penny's.

FLW School

One of the many bridges in Lumberton

 

In the Gaun building we saw clothing that was actually worn by people who lived in Lumberton

Inside another room of the Gaun building houses many artifacts and memories of years gone by in Lumberton.

Eating lunch outside was great.

We walked to the fire house where there is a special marker of the height of the water line in the flood of 2004.

We made it back safe and tired from our walking tour of Lumberton.

Please help....

Dear Parents,
Our annual FLW Art and Curriculum  show is being held next Thursday, May 14th, at 6:30 pm. The children have worked very hard on their artwork and projects to be displayed for all to enjoy. We are in great need of parents to help hang and display the "masterpieces" on Thursday the 14th, (yes, the day of the show) from 1:30 until 3:00pm in the FLW APR. Because of scheduled classes and lunch periods, we are unable to get into the APR earlier. Limited time requires as much help as possible. If you are available to help set up, please contact Dee Morris to confirm your attendance at deemorrisflw@gmail.com, ASAP!! This is not a PTA event but as standard school protocol requires, you must have a BOE authorized volunteer affidavit on file to help in the school.  Your help is always greatly appreciated!
Thank you,

Field trip to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia

We had time to explore the dinosaur part of the museum

Inside the Butterfly Garden we saw beasutiful large butterflies.  One even landed on me!  I think it liked my shirt color.

Museum volunteers taught us about the earthquakes in Nepal.

In our Bugs and Beyond workshop we became bugs with hard exoskeltons.

In the Inside Out room we got to touch animals.  Here is a large black lopped ear rabbit.