From Seth Boyden Elementary School:
The circus came to Seth Boyden School recently, as the New Jersey Circus Center took up an Artist’s Residency at the school for five days! The program culminated in the fourth-graders creating and performing their very own Circus, both in a school-day assembly and an evening performance for an auditorium packed with families and friends. The students performed such classic Circus acts as spinning plates,juggling, stilts, clowning,
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