Winter Peace Concert
All students in grades JK-4 performed in the annual Haggerty Peace Day concert, along with Haggerty Chorus, optional for grades 3-5. Ms. Irvin-Kent led kindergarten, first, and second grade in their performances. Our new music teacher, Mr. Mooney, led a combined third and fourth grade in several beautiful pieces about peace, ending with With Two Wings. Haggerty Chorus closed the concert with gospel piece “Let There Be Peace.”

Thanks to a few parents for accompanying on their instruments: Jenny Talbot on violin and Ramesh Kumar on darbuka. What a way to be a model for the kids!

We hope everyone takes the messages in our music and creates peace in the world.




Art Corner
By: Laurie Gaines
We created Peace Posters and symbols of peace. Students wrote poems, created their own symbols, made paper doves, and two doves with feathers that represent how they create peace.








Peace Across the School
First and Fifth Grade: Our first graders in Ms. Yeh and fifth graders in Ms. Faucher's class are reading buddies and together they made made a giant peace fingerprint poster and peace doves.  

Mr. Bob: Students working with Mr Bob practiced followed multi step directions, tracing around a stencil, cutting and assembling as they created their peace doves.

Kindergarten: Ms. Golding's K classroom spelled PEACE with their bodies.




Library Corner
By: Sarah Novogrodsky
We read What Does Peace Feel Like? And we created our own Peace Poems.






More Peace!
Ms. Luizzi's students read Can You Say Peace? And said Peace in their own languages!

Ms. Fav's first graders reflected on what Peace is...


5th Grade Delivers Their Donated Socks!
With the help of the AMAZING Haggerty Community the fifth grade collected 452 pairs of socks. They delivered the socks to the First Church Shelter in Harvard Square on Thursday, December 22nd.

Coaches Corner
By: Suzanne Russell, ELA Coach
Based on a strong recommendation from Maggie Benati, 4th grader, several teachers and students recently read Wishtree. This book perfectly matched our Peace Theme as well as our school’s inclusive philosophy and practices.

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate, is told from the perspective of a neighborhood oak tree named Red. Red, has seen a lot of life. When a new family moves to the neighborhood not everyone is welcoming, and Red's experience as a wish tree is more important than ever.

Wishtree is a beautiful story that teaches valuable life lessons about prejudice, friendship, acceptance, and how one or two people really can make a difference.

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