Give me the splendid silent sun
  with all his beams full-dazzling.

Since children have the ability to see what adults no longer notice, Colin Novick, Executive Director of the Greater Worcester Land Trust, asked the Lower School assembly audience to become detectives by playing hide and seek with the Asian LongHorned Beetles. Outlining the problem of the beetles in the local neighborhoods, Mr. Novick explained that most adults no longer look at or climb trees, and that it is up to the children to investigate the trees in their neighborhoods for signs of the beetle. After explaining what signs to look for (holes, sawdust, and egg-shaped chips in the bark), he reviewed the three tools they would need to begin their detective work—a good pair of eyes, a beetle probe (better known as a pencil), and some tape to mark any suspicious tree. 

At LS Assembly, Mrs. Tupper's kindergarten class read their ideas about what a frog eats if you take it to dinner at Friendly's or the 99. Then they treated the audience to a chorus of the Speckled Frog song.