The Pulse of the Pride

Lyme School Friends,

Another amazing few weeks. Our days continue to be full here at school. It is an exciting time of year as Halloween approaches. More and more pumpkins show up in our lobby for the Pumpkin Book Character Show as students and classes participate in the pumpkin character display.

The weather has turned and this means cold weather with brisk mornings. This equals more stuff such as hats, mittens, scarfs and so forth. Please help your children dress in layers to be prepared for the weather. Also, labeling items helps us get them back to their owners.

It was fantastic to see and meet so many of you at Open House last week. I know many students were excited to show their family members around our school. It was a great turnout!

Have a wonderful weekend. The next Pulse will hit your inbox as we turn the corner into November on the 4th.

Best,

John P. D'Entremont, Principal

10/28 - MS Activity Night @ 7PM

10/31 - Halloween

11/11, 11/23, 11/24 & 11/25 - No School

11/18 - First Trimester Ends

Please do not forget to email the office and nurse with an absence or tardy related to sickness or appointment.

If ordering school photos, the deadline is December 4th. https://caniaphotography.gotphoto.com/login

Kati Miller RN BSN: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri

Matthew Greenway RN BSN: alternating Weds and coverage as needed

Celeste McCool RN BSN: alternating Weds and coverage as needed

The flu clinic for students is scheduled for November 3, 2022 at school.

The Influenza vaccine can prevent Influenza (flu). The CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get vaccinated every flu season.

Please review the attached information regarding the Influenza vaccine.

If you would like your student to receive the Flu vaccine, please sign and return the attached consent form.

***Students must have a consent form signed by a parent/guardian in order to receive the Flu vaccine.

Please let me know if you have any questions or if you would like a paper copy of the consent form sent home with your student.

~ Nurse Miller

The Lyme School will be following NHDHHS guidance and NHDHHS guidance is based on CDC recommendations. We encourage you to take a look to review the provided links regarding COVID-19 recommendations from the CDC:

Hello Lyme Families!

I’d love to take a moment to highlight our advisory program in the middle school. Advisory is multi-grade (6-8) and its purpose is to ensure that each student and their caregivers have a point of contact here at the Lyme School. It also provides a close-knit group of students for their three years at Lyme. The intent is for students to have the same advisor until they 'graduate' to foster that connection. If families need to communicate with school, the advisor is a great person to connect with initially. They will ensure that information is shared appropriately and will facilitate the next steps if support is needed. Advisory meets several times during the 8-day cycle and is a time for everyone to connect and have fun - they play games, participate in community service, and occasionally compete against other advisories - all in good fun!

Last week into this week students participated in “Rocks, Paper, Scissor Entourage” - within advisories, students competed against one another and the last person standing was the champion for their advisory. Middle schoolers came to the gym during their advisory time this Tuesday for the “Battle of the RPS Champions”. It came down to Bella Ladd in “Teach Peach” advisory and Jacob Lepene in the “Happy Campers”. It was an epic showdown, but the Happy Campers were victorious and now have the gilded RPS Champs 2022 trophy in their advisory classroom. Next Tuesday 10/25 - students will come together for the annual “Lion’s Cup” chariot races. Students will collaborate to build a cardboard chariot to be raced against other advisory chariots. Be sure to ask your middle schooler how it went! Let’s bring on the FUN!

With Gusto,

Rachel (Mrs. Stanton)

Dear Lyme 8th graders and families,

Rivendell Academy in Orford, NH invites you to an Information Night on November 17 at 6:30pm. Come and learn more about Rivendell’s project based curriculum, global and domestic trips, exceptional faculty, close-knit community and more! Please RSVP at this website (Even if you cannot attend, but would still like more information, please complete the form): https://sites.google.com/rivendellschool.org/rivendell-academy-open-house/home

We look forward to seeing you on November 17th!

Best,

Keri Gelenian, Principal

This is digital citizenship week. Students and adults benefit from having digital citizenship skills to participate in online and classroom communities. They must navigate making choices both online and in life. There are both explicit and embedded ways we teach and model digital citizenship at school. Some of the topics within the scope of digital citizenship are media balance, online privacy, digital footprint, communication, cyberbullying, and news & media literacy. Ms. Stanton and I will be working together throughout the year to team up and discuss these topics with students.

Here are a few resources for you to use at home:

Family Tips, Ages 3-8

Tips by Text, for Parents Ages 3-11

Safe Interaction Online, Grades 6-12

On another note, several parents have inquired about accessing SORA at home. Students can access this resource by selecting “The Lyme School” as their library and logging in with their Lyme School Google account. You can learn more about how to log into SORA on the school’s parent page of the Library Media website. Reach out if you have any trouble or questions.

Finally, several weeks ago, we shared about Canva for Education. We are also planning to use Flip. See the following letter for more information:

Flip Opt Out Letter

Have a great weekend!

All Lyme students are doing the Track My Progress Assessments this week and next. We do these Math and Reading assessments three times over the school year: in October, January, and April.

Students take the assessment online (with iPads in Grades K-1 and with Chromebooks in Grades 2-8). Most tests only take 25 minutes per subject (Math and Reading). Track My Progress (TMP) provides teachers with progress data on all of their students. Teachers can see how individual students are doing as well as their class as a whole. The TMP data can help teachers identify students who are not making expected progress, or who may need a little something extra to be sufficiently challenged. We also look at the data together to decide instructional groupings or strategies and the resources necessary to meet the varied needs of the class.

We know that no single data source can be the sole indicator of student progress, so we look at this data in combination with our state test data and other teacher-made assessments when discussing learning progress.

In general, our teachers use the TMP data to know: which of their students are at risk in reading or math, who is not making sufficient progress to keep up with their peers, and how their students are progressing in their learning of the Common Core Standards in Math and Reading.

I was so glad to see so many families at our Open House...thanks for stopping by the Art Room!

This week in the Lower School, we are wrapping up some nature-based projects: pumpkins (grade 1), sky trees (grade 2), fall leaves (grade 3), field grasses (grade 4), and watercolor landscapes (grade 5). Fall art lessons have a settling-in feeling, a deep breath where we can look closely and make careful observations.

Kindergarten students read the Color Monster and we made paper bag puppet Color Monsters. This class was less calm, well, because we made a bunch of monsters. A different sort of settling in!

Where do fun new design lab projects come from? Last week it was the pasta isle.

Because - really - who hasn't wanted to build a mini race car out of pasta wheels?

Ultimately, it's not the quality of craftsmanship of the mini pasta wheeler that matters. It's the time, attention and perseverance that the 1st graders displayed while cutting, gluing and customizing their mini cars - honing their basic building and engineering skills. These groups were also excited to learn about vacuum forming, which we used to make the plastic molds for their cars.

Inspiration comes from all over, and especially when we are always looking.

In the Middle School our Rock Band elective is underway and picking up steam! Students are getting the chance to jam as a group on electric guitar, bass, piano, drums, vocals, and more! Our newest chart is Sweet Child O Mine by Guns and Roses and everyone is doing amazing! Band name is still TBD but they'll be ready to rock in no time!

If you are interested in an amazing wind band performance, the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble will be putting on a dynamic concert as an extension of its Music Mexico Collaboration with performers and composers from Mexico. This is my second season playing French horn with the ensemble and would love to see you there! Follow the link for more info and tickets!

Pacho Flores, Héctor Molina & Luis Manuel Sánchezwith the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble November 01, 2022 @ 7:30PM

The students in grades K-3 have been working on their eye-hand coordination and being able to cross the midline.These skills help kids build their motor planning and allows for the left and right hemispheres of the brain to communicate

This type of skill is also considered a manipulative skill, which further helps kids establish patterns of movement. All of these skills are important, providing opportunities to participate in various activities, which further allows those skills to be enhanced. Research shows that learning takes place from head to toe and helps kids read and exercise the cerebellum, the portion of the brain that deals with coordination.

Tossing and catching scarves or what one may consider juggling, is actually a great way to enhance all of these skills! The third graders recently created some of their own ways of building upon these skills using multicolored scarves. Since scarves come down slowly, kids can be more successful as the practice and learn this essential combination of developmental skills.

Clearly, there is a lot going on? Who knew tossing and catching scarves would cover so many essential developmental phases of growth and maturation. Watching the third graders use their imaginations and challenge themselves with their own ideas was incredibly impressive. Learning can be colorful and fun!!

Week one of team tournament play rounded out with its first set of champions. Congratulations to the Red soccer team on their win! Also, newly crowned Ultimate Ball Champs!

The next Board meeting is Thursday, November 17th at 7 PM at the Lyme School.

(not a school-sponsored activity)

Students in grades 1 - 4 have been signing up for the Beginner Violin class which starts next Thursday, October 27 at 2:05 in the Music Room.

This is good news because in the past two years it was not possible to offer it at all!

Meanwhile, a group of capable violin students in their third, fourth, and fifth years of study are taking weekly lessons and thinking about the new (slightly scary) string orchestra class for them which starts next week also.

It is not too late to join!

The initial violin rental term is two months, a reasonable time to explore this new instrument; rental can be ended at that time and the instrument returned if it doesn't "click." I hope there are other students thinking about the violin. Parents can reach me at: djeantyler@gmail.com for more info!

I just wanted to let you know I am running some soccer clubs starting at the end of October to January. If any of your students are interested we are open to the public as well.

There are 3 clubs a K-2, 3-4 and 5-8th Grade. Each will be a bit different in how the club runs but all involve soccer at some level. A link to register is copied below.

Have a great week!

https://www.crossroadsacademy.org/programs-clubs/afterschoolclubs/

Just wanted to send out a reminder to everyone so there's no confusion about how the lyme ski program works....

Early dismissal is @ 1:30 for those in the program, who are bused to the skiway where their equipment is waiting for them - more details on how that happens later.

It is held during the 1st 6 thursday's of the year with the last Thursday before Winter break as a make-up day. The program will end when vacation starts.

Your child will have to have a skiway season pass - can be bought online (link: https://dartmouth.resortstore.net/en/catalogue/lyme-resident-child-season-pass_30/) Note that the processing fee for this pass is $25 through the end of October, after that it goes to $50. If your child doesn't have a pass and signs up for the lyme ski program they will need to bring $10 for a ticket for every day they attend......so getting a pass is a no-brainer!

There will also be lyme ski program rentals, more on that later but very inexpensive. You can also get season long rentals at the skiway now!!!

Please be advised that the Lyme Ski Program has nothing to do with any programs offered by the Skiway Snowsports School programs.

Hope this helps you plan for the upcoming winter!

Thanks and think snow (after today of course) - Steve

Steve Small - Recreation Director

(O) 603-442-6781

(C) 603-491-7537

Recreation@lymenh.gov

www.lymenh.gov

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OUR VALUES

● Fairness ● Acceptance of Others ● Integrity ● Responsibility

● Perseverance ● Individuality ● Compassion ● Courage

John P. D'Entremont, Principal

Elise Foxall, Academic Director

Geoff Tomlinson, Student Services Director