Response to this year's Family Night on March 2 was so overwhelming, the event had to be moved from Mullen Elementary to the High School to accommodate the hundreds of attendees.
Pictured above are the Smith brothers, Tyler, Cameron and Grayson, working together to crack the algebra problems.
Students in grades Pre-K through 5 were invited to attend the "Wild About Learning" themed event. Family Night, which was put together and hosted by the K-5 AIS teachers, was formerly known as Literacy Night. This year's Family Night was the first time the District has been able to hold the event since the pandemic.
Riverview 1st Grader Henryk Wisnieski working on solving a math problem.
Elementary families were able to spend part of the evening in the High School auditorium being entertained by Nickel City Reptiles and Exotics. The rest of the evening, students and their families had the opportunity to make their way to a variety of animal themed stations throughout the HS cafeteria.
Students from Tonawanda's National Honor Society volunteered at the temporary tattoo station. There were craft stations at which students and parents could create a stick puppet or assemble a foam craft. The reading station had families working on a direction-following activity. Math tasks for each grade level were centered on animal-themed word problems as well as a few math card games.
The City of Tonawanda Public Library was on hand to help parents and children alike sign up for a Buffalo and Erie County Public Library card. Each child in attendance was able to pick out a new book from the free book station. Students could also test their luck at the fun and games station, at which small-scale carnival games were set up. Lastly, families could strike a pose at the selfie station, which was painted by Tonawanda Art Teacher Erica Forget.
A fun time was had by all who attended, where the general sentiment was how wonderful it was to be able to participate in district-wide events again.
Mullen 3rd Grader Bryce Saunders is deep in thought coming up with a solution to the math problem posed.