Mill Pond Students Visit Freedom Trail, Impress Guides [IMAGE GALLERY]

Fifth grade students at walked a portion of the Freedom Trail on Tuesday as part of their study of the Revolutionary War. Including teachers, chaperones and students from four of the 12 fifth grade classes, about 100 people loaded two school buses at the start of school and took a ride to Boston.

The buses stopped at the State House in Boston and unloaded into Boston Common. The group was then divided into three tours, each led by a guide dressed in period costume.

The guides engaged the groups by sharing stories, jokes and questions of events leading up to the war.

The tour started at Boston Common and continued by the State House, Park Street Church, through the Granary Burial Ground (past the graves of Paul Revere, John Hancock and Samuel Adams), the site of the Boston Massacre, the Old State House and Faneuil Hall.

After the program, students gathered for an outdoor lunch and games near Faneuil Hall before loading the buses and heading back to Westborough, arriving at school just before the end of the school day.

Teachers Nancy Buffone, Anne DiBona, Rona Richard and Kathy Swanson organized the students and kept the group busy.

“They love this,” said Buffone. “And the guides are always surprised at how much the kids already know about the history of Boston.”

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