April 3, 2019
We had a fun writing activity with our third grade buddies recently. Each K-kid had a third grader for a partner and they were in charge of writing a comic that had to do with a s...
April 3, 2019
Kindergarten through 2nd grades has been investigating movement and simple machines. Beginning with the study of wind, students created pinwheels to understand how the warm spring...
April 3, 2019
We depend on electricity every minute of everyday and yet many of us take it for granted until the power goes out. Grades 3 through 5 have been learning about simple and parallel ...
April 3, 2019
The Cardboard Warriors (Abbene/Girdwood Advisory) had a successful Willy Wonka Candy Stand at opening night of the Willy Wonka Jr. play. We raised over $170 for the Lyme Drama Clu...
April 3, 2019
Thank you to all of our chaperones who helped make our maple sugaring adventure possible. What a terrific program Thetford Acamdemy is offering. The high school students guided ...
April 2, 2019
7th Grade Social Studies and Design Lab
Mrs. Officer and Ms. Abbene have teamed to create an interesting and fun project, while embedding relevant Social Studies content ...
April 1, 2019
Social Justice was the topic for Humanities class over the past few weeks. Students chose and read a book that dealt with an aspect (or often times, multiple aspects...
March 28, 2019
One of the highlights of second grade is when we get to spend time with our fifth grade buddies. We often do projects and activities together to practice teamwork and solving comp...
March 28, 2019
Seventh grade students read a math-themed book during the month of March and then shared a summary of their book on FlipGrid. They were asked to include interesting facts about th...
March 27, 2019
The third graders have been working in pairs and small groups using jump bands. These bands are placed around the ankles and students have to jump in sync to a rhythmic pattern. ...
March 26, 2019
This month, fifth graders have been learning about ecosystems. For the last two weeks, we are learning why it is important to study populations within these systems, how we study...
March 24, 2019
During February and March the eighth graders studied weathering and erosion. Weathering is an ongoing, usually slow, process that is part of the rock cycle. To observe its eff...
March 24, 2019
As the third quarter of the school year began the seventh graders learned that many traits are not inherited through simple Mendelian rules. For example, even though dominant tr...
March 24, 2019
The sixth graders studied weather and light energy during the winter months of January, February, and March. The kids learned to use cloud observations, pressure trends, wi...
March 22, 2019
Lolos
Do you like restaurants with great food, a beautiful location, and lots of space? Lolos has that....
March 22, 2019
The First Grade had a busy time the past few weeks with our States of Matter Science Unit. We began by observing and recording how long it took for an ice cube in a cup to melt. ...
March 21, 2019
K-Kids recently received a wonderful surprise from some middle school friends. At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Girdwood brought some of her middle school students to our classr...
March 18, 2019
We have a problem in Spanish class. In each of our most recent stories we created in class, we ended up with a cat that bullies other people and animals. It's an epidemic that we ...
March 14, 2019
For the past two weeks in our adolescent health course, sixth graders discussed self esteem and self image and how to build one's self esteem based on intrinsic values and goals, ...
March 11, 2019
Benefits of Boredom
By: Mary Crockett - Grade 3
Did you know when you come back from resting your brain, it might be easier to solve tricky problems? Being bored actually...