Monthly Assembly Touts New Year’s Resolutions

Students at Buchanan-Verplanck Elementary School learned all about New Year’s resolutions and discussed how to keep them during the school’s monthly PBIS assembly.

Since the calendar turned to January, the schoolwide gathering, which was held in the gymnasium on Jan. 15, 2025, centered around the New Year and how people often mark the start of the next year by making resolutions, resolving to do something differently.

First, Dr. Cynthia Kramer, the school principal, helped define the word “Organized,” the “O” in the district motto “Sailor STRONG.” She told the students that being more organized was a possible New Year’s resolution.

“How can we be more organized?” Dr. Kramer asked the students, who provided several suggestions that included cleaning their rooms and making their beds in the morning.

The students were then treated to a reading of the book “Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution” by Pat Miller. Teacher Marilyne Strang read the book aloud while the pages were simultaneously shown on a digital monitor. By the end of the book, Squirrel, the main character, resolves that helping others is his New Year’s resolution.

After the book was finished, Dr. Kramer called on students to come up and provide ways in which they could help others. After several responses, Dr. Kramer told the students that each class would create a snowman decorated with their New Year’s resolutions and the snowmen would hang in the hallways.

In addition to the focus on resolutions, Dr. Kramer also recognized the Sailors of the Month from December.