Photos: Fun-raising at Altamont Elementary
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
At the center of the hive that was the Altamont Elementary School gym last Friday evening, fifth-grader Aidan Chrysler launches a bowling ball across the floor, earning a strike with the crash of plastic pins. He and several other students wore their face paint as mustaches, beards, and goatees as they used white tickets, purchased by their parents to raise funds for a field trip, to play games.
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
Bringing life to the party, Everett Burby, also in fifth grade, sits focused on his brush and the blank cheeks of a steady stream of customers at the back of the gym, where he applied the painted facial hair and spangled designs.
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
“If you miss me, you’ve got to kiss me": Raising funds for the trip, third-grade teacher Dana Doak returned on March 6 to his usual spot, as a target for wet sponges hurled from students past and present, complete with taunts:
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
A line formed to throw sponges at the taunting Dana Doak and this boy arches his brow as he responds with a wet sponge in hand; he met his mark. Altamont fifth-graders read “All the Way Home,” a book by Patricia Reilly Giff in which two young fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers, one from an upstate apple orchard, the other in Brooklyn, form a friendship on Coney Island, where the Altamont students will visit.
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
Standing watch, Anna Brust, 13, a Farnsworth Middle School student and AES alumna, does not taunt at the ring toss, where the cardboard Statue of Liberty was chosen by her brother, Matthew Brust, and Brennan Reiner, for their corner of the gym of games, which had a theme of “Celebrate America.”