The Pulse of the Pride

Lyme School Friends,

We have had another busy and productive two weeks!

School is bustling with activity and we continue to keep our eyes on the many things we need to accomplish before the end of the year. Our lower schoolers put on a successful concert and are getting ready for their Maypole event. Our middle schoolers have finished their state testing. Our 5th graders attended their first middle school activity night. Our 4th graders finished their penpal project and met their penpals.

This was also the week that our 8th graders were off campus. They had an excellent trip to Washington DC and Gettysburg (pictured right students enjoying breakfast overlooking Gettysburg Battlefield). Students took in many sites and had a great time celebrating the end of their time at school. Their next big event is graduation which will be held on June 11th at 4:30.

Have a great long weekend! School will be closed on Monday for the holiday.

The next newsletter will hit your inbox on June 5th!

As always, thank you for your partnership and please reach out if we can be of assistance.

Regards,

John P. D'Entremont, Principal

Dates:

Memorial Day School Closed - May 26, 2025

8th Grade Step Up to Hanover High School - May 27, 2025

Maypole Celebration - May 29, 2025 @ 1PM (rain date May 30, 2025 @ 2PM)

HHS Dance for 8th Graders - May 30, 2025

Walk/Bike to School Day - June 4, 2025

4th Grade Field Trip - June 4, 2025

Kindergarten Popsicle Party - June 9, 2025

Field Day - June 11, 2025

8th Grade Recognition/Graduation - June 11, 2025 @ 4:30PM

Third Trimester Ends - June 11, 2025

Hello! Next week on Thursday, May 29th at 1:00PM will be our yearly Maypole Celebration, with performances by Lyme School's K-5 classes. This is a longstanding tradition in the Lyme Community and we hope to see you there!

Every year our lower school classes make baskets to hand out to community members. If you have extra flowers at home or in your garden to donate please send them in with your student the day of the Maypole or drop them off in the buckets placed outside the entrance to the school.

If your student is participating, we encourage them to wear "springy" clothes. This is an outdoor event, please check the weather so everyone is comfortable outside that day!

Starting at 1PM we will have music performed by some of our student violinists as well as the adult recorder group the Suite Notes. Around 1:15 the program will begin as follows:

Kinder: Busy Like a Bee

1st: K.I.N.D.

2nd: The Garden Song (Inch by Inch)

3rd: The Rattlin' Bog

4th: Constant Billy- Morris Dance

5th: Maypole Dance and weaving of the Maypole, Unite and Unite

K-4: the passing out of the May Baskets

Parking reminder: please make sure you park at the school or in the park and ride, no cards are allowed to be parked around the Green.

Note: for safety students will not have their belongings with them and the expectation is everyone will return to school and be dismissed at 2PM. Reach out to your student's classroom teacher if you are expecting to collect your child right from the Green after the performance.

Rain Date: Friday, May 30th @2:15PM

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Shannon O'Leary

Happy Friday, Lyme School Families-

I can't believe we're less than 3 weeks away from the end of the school year!

Here are the last two PTO events coming up:

Walk/Bike to School Day- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4th (rain date: Thursday, June 5th)

Here's hoping the weather will cooperate!

A few safety reminders:

• Helmets are required
• Wear bright colors
• Bike in a single file

Parents, if you are interested in being a neighborhood organizer for this event, please email us at pto@lymeschool.org

Refreshments will be served at the school entrance starting at 7:30 am. If you can help by providing refreshments, please sign up here!

Hope to see you at the Maypole Celebration next Thursday!

Cheers,

Fauve Dela Cruz (she, her, hers)

Chair

Lyme School PTO

pto@lymeschool.org

Lost & Found will be donated by the end of the week. Here are some photos. Please encourage your children to check and feel free to check out the tables at beginning or end of day. Thank You!

Dear families,

We have sent home invitation letters for the Summer Title 1 program in student backpacks (Friday, May 15th). If you did not find it and/or are interested in your child attending, please reach out at your convenience.

Again, it will take place in the basement of Converse Library from July 7th-July 31st, Monday-Thursday from 8am-noon.

Thank you,

Geoff Tomlinson

(gtomlinson@lymeschool.org, 603-795-2125 ext. 106)

There will continue to be two groups for these classes next year. Please see this form to provide input on your child's placement for next school year.

The survey closes on June 3, and the State wants to ensure all voices are heard.

The survey takes approximately five minutes to complete and is available online here: New Hampshire Landscape Literacy Survey

This is critical to the development of the State Literacy Plan.

We welcomed Marek Bennett, a NH-based cartoonist, musician, and educator, to the Lyme School this week. Marek taught our grades 5-7 students several cartooning techniques and how to tell a story in an 8-page mini-booklet. Students created comics about historical topics with Ms. Collins and animal adaptations with Ms. Burns.

Marek’s published comics work includes the graphic novel series, The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, as well as drawing, translating, & editing for The Most Costly Journey (2021) with the bilingual El Viaje Project. In September 2022, both books were featured at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC.

Hello Lyme School Families!

We’re excited to announce that we’re now accepting applications for middle school students (rising 6th–8th graders) who are interested in joining the Student Advisory Leadership Team (SALT) for the upcoming school year!

This past year, our SALT members did an incredible job launching the program. They played a key role in their advisories and were instrumental in organizing and leading our new Lyme PRIDE Days—fun, all-school, multi-age events that brought our community together. We’re eager to welcome a new group of student leaders and can’t wait to see the energy and ideas they’ll bring!

Information and applications have been shared with our rising 6th graders and rising 7th/8th graders are also welcome to apply!

Here is the information sheet

Here is the application

Applications are due to Mrs. Stanton by Monday, June 2nd. New members will be notified on Friday June 6th

Students may handwrite their responses or create a digital copy of the application to submit electronically or physically to rstanton@lymeschool.org.

Thank you for supporting student leadership at Lyme as “we strive to create an inclusive school environment where all students feel valued.”

With Gusto!

Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Thayer
SALT Advisors

Kindergarten

K kids have been looking at Art and practicing describing what they see. I love this, as I am never quite sure what will come out of the imaginations of K kids. These last few weeks, we looked at Alma Thomas’ Spring Flowers and Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie.

First Grade

This week, we learned about three famous sculptures: Michelangelo’s David, Oldenburg’s Giant Toothpaste Tube, and the Spiral Jetty (Robert Smithson). Grade 1 has discovered the hot glue station (low temp) and have been working on making 3D art.

Second Grade

Continuing on the theme of art and nature, 2s looked at the artwork of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Students mixed their cold colors to paint ponds. There is much joy in this process as they discover the infinite range of watery colors.

Third Grade

We learned about the artist Yayoi Kusama and why she uses so many dots in her work. We practiced steady ruler skills and created webs of connected dots.

Fourth Grade

4s continue to deep dive into stop motion animation. They are refining their films and continuing to find new features of the stop motion app on the ipads. We learned about “pixilation” (stop motion using people) and tried to develop some “special effects” techniques.

Fifth Grade

We continue on the journey to bring their animals and their scientific stories to life. We are just transitioning from the form to the details, which is where much of the magic happens!

Middle School Elective

For the last Art elective of the school year, a group of 7th and 8th grade students are creating a set of new artist stools for the art room. I asked these students to pick a favorite artist to represent on their stool, keeping in mind that this is really a gift for the younger students of Lyme School. The students have chosen a collection of poets, singers, artists, and authors to give inspiration to the littles. (Pictured: experiments in cyanotype for an Anna Atkins inspired stool)

Our latest cultural dive in 4th and 5th grade Spanish classes has been learning about the Spanish-speaking country of Peru. By reading short articles about its diverse geography, including the Amazon Rainforest and the Andes Mountain range, students practiced the high-frequency verbs we've been studying, used context clues and cognates to gather meaning, and learned new vocabulary at the same time. Students also learned about some of Peru's most famous tourist sites including the "rainbow mountain" named Vinicunca and Machu Picchu. Lastly, students learned all about how Peru is famous for being the birth-place of potatoes. They have over 4,000 varieties of potatoes in Peru and they are a staple of the diet there! (Pictured here is a glyph that shows which facts about Peru students found most interesting.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b21lIFkhwdk

Students in the primary grades have continued with skill work around eye-hand coordination. This week, students were paired and given the task of trying to pass a small plastic puck back and forth to one another with accuracy.

Working with partners is a great way to practice this skill and allows for students to have fun during that practice time. Eye-hand coordination is an important skill to develop tracking between the brain, eyes, and hands as voluntary movement, which helps with such things as reading

Team tournament play has returned for round two of our PE elective for the year and game play certainly did not disappoint! After a championship round and two overtimes, teams red and yellow claimed dual victories to claim the team tournament play trophy in soccer.

This elective always proves to be fun and exciting and I’m proud of our kids who work so hard and compete with good skill and a great attitude!

The Lyme Lions Robotics team, consisting of ten middle schoolers from Lyme, has been busy revamping their presentation and robot design as they prepare for an invitational tournament in Long Beach, California next week. The team will be competing against (and also collaborating with) teams from around the world.

I am proud of the time and energy that the team put into their work this year, and I'm excited to see them perform on a big stage!

Staffing:

The Nurse's office is staffed Monday-Friday by a Registered Nurse. Please email

nurse@lymeschool.org and/or call the Main Office 795-2125 if your child is absent from

school due to illness or injury.

Duties include Nursing care, Health Screening, Medication administration, First

Aid, Emergency care, Individualized Health Planning, Health Education, and

collaborative work with families, teachers, special education services, our

guidance counselor and behavioral coach.

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

Matthew Greenway RN BSN: Wednesday/as needed coverage

Celeste McCool RN BSN: Wednesday/as needed coverage

Medication Administration:

If your child requires emergency medications (epipen, inhaler, etc.) to be kept securely

in the Nurse's office, please contact nurse@lymeschool.org to set up a time to deliver

the medication along with an updated allergy or asthma action plan from your child's

Healthcare Provider.

Returning students need an updated allergy or asthma action plan at the start of each

school year.

For daily medication administration, please complete and return the forms below with

your child's Healthcare provider.

All medications need to be dropped off before the first day of school.

Authorization for RX Medication Administration

Medication or Procedure Order Form

COVID-19 Information:

Please review the provided link regarding COVID-19 recommendations from the Center

for Disease Control (CDC) if your child is experiencing respiratory illness symptoms or

has tested positive for COVID-19.

CDC Guidelines

The Lyme School Nurse's office is here to support you and your child and to promote

healthy outcomes for students and staff.

Please contact me with any questions or concerns you or your student may have

regarding the upcoming school year.

We look forward to a new school year and appreciate your cooperation.

Kati Miller RN BSN

Lyme School

As of March, 1 2024 The Center for Disease Control and Prevention updated guidance to provide "practical recommendations and information to help people lower risk from a range of common respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, flu and RSV."

We follow these guidelines. Please review the following links from the CDC for more information and reach out to me with any questions/concerns.

Thank you for your efforts in keeping our Lyme School students, staff, and families healthy.

Preventing Spread of Respiratory Viruses When You’re Sick

Testing and Respiratory Viruses

Masks and Respiratory Viruses Prevention

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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