Boomer, from Trenton Thunder, Visits Woodside School

After being on the waiting list since last year, Mrs. Wolf, the SAGE teacher at Woodside School, was able to get Trenton Thunder to come to Woodside School for the first time for two different assembly programs. Boomer’s Baseball Tour, a motivational program for geography was presented to the fifth grades. Students answered questions during a geography trivia game. The team members all received posters and audience members who answered a question missed by the team members, were also given a prize. The students were encouraged to write letters to the various teams to receive pocket schedules. If they send a copy of the letter they sent (to 10 teams) and a couple of schedules they get back, they can receive two free tickets for a Trenton Thunder game. Ed Zacharewicz and Boomer, from the Trenton Thunder, also conducted an assembly for the second through fourth graders to help motivate students to read more outside of their school work. Prior to the assembly the teachers read the poem “Casey at the Bat,” which was featured during the assembly program. The message was that reading is important because it helps you learn, it is fun, and it improves your imagination. As students in the audience answered questions they received Trenton Thunder lunch bags. Everyone got a bookmark on which they could list 10 books they read. The teacher is supposed to initial it and then students can send it in to receive two free tickets to a Trenton Thunder game. Boomer was a big hit and hopefully students will be motivated to read outside of school.