Forest Hill Elementary School

Cornerstone for March

Students learn about "Enemy Pie".

 For March, our Project Cornerstone Asset is asset #17 Creative Activities where parents are encouraged to spend 2-3 hours per week in lessons/practice or leading fun activities at home with their children in music, theater, or other creative arts. Parent readers have focused on remotely reading the book "Enemy Pie" by Derek Munson, emphasizing the value of taking risks to get to know someone, even someone we've initially judged to be an "enemy". The summer had seemed perfect for the narrator in this book, until his neighbor Jeremy Ross moved in, quickly becoming “enemy number one”. Jeremy teased and made fun of the narrator and unfortunately the narrator “took the bait”. The narrator talked about the situation with a caring adult in his life, his father, who offered to help with a recipe for "enemy pie". The chief ingredient in "enemy pie" was to spend time in the company of “the enemy”! Thanks to Dad’s special recipe, Jeremy and the narrator discover they in fact have a lot in common and soon became neighborhood buddies! This is a photo of Ms. Sarsfield's class team reading in March before school closure, leading a fun lesson where the students "interviewed" two friends in order to learn more about peer differences.