NAUGATUCK - Students at Cross Street Intermediate School adopted two wolves as part of their language arts unit “Nature” in teacher Kathy Mucha’s fifth-grade class. One of those wolves visited the school on Monday.
The wolves, Zypher and Atka, cost $25 apiece for the adoption fees through the Wolf Conservation Center in New York. Students had to perform two acts of kindness at home to earn $1 apiece from their parents to adopt the wolves. They learned about wolves, wrote about them and created PowerPoint presentations about them. One PowerPoint was about how a visit by one of the wolves, Atka, could benefit the student body at Cross Street.
Fifth-graders Ayanna Bencosme, Alysha Cacase, Adriana Moreno, Sydney O’Donnell, Sarah Sookram and Autumn Travis presented the PowerPoint to the Parent Faculty Group at Cross Street on March 13, and the PFG was so impressed that it gave the students full amount of money, $650, to make the trip possible.
Naugatuck Patch was there when Atka visited Monday morning.
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.
We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here
