Piper Carpentier looked at her blue rectangle up on the wall with the words “to be a famous singer” written on it.
“My favorite singers are Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo,” said the fourth grader at William H. Barton Intermediate School.
Piper was just one of the students who spelled out her dream this week and posted it on the wall at the end of the main hallway at the Queensbury school where students are taught to “let their dreams fly.”
“The teachers all did a lesson in their classroom this week focused on dreaming and being unique and being different,” said WHBI Principal Gwynne Cosh. “Then they listened to a read-aloud that had the common theme of dreaming and being yourself.”
The project aligns with Queensbury’s district-wide mission to help students articulate their dreams and develop strategies to make those dreams come true.
“We want kids to dream, because the sky’s the limit,” Cosh said. “We want them to follow their dreams, to have that passion, to set a goal in life, and really see it through. Dreams can come true.”
Some of the students wrote dreams about trips they want to take and careers they want to have someday, while others wrote more immediate dreams about doing well in fourth grade. Seeing the dreams stapled to the wall every day is a virtual reminder to dream, Cosh said, and to support each other in achieving our dreams.
“When you’re little, you make wishes,” she said, “and wishes turn into dreams, and dreams set the path for success.”
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