Newsletter #5
Jueves, Octubre 15, 2015
Serving the Lyme Community for over 100 years
Boletin Informativo
Flags of the World’s Spanish Speaking Countries
Hola!
Blisters For Books!
the Lyme
School
Critical thinking, creativity, and the ability to Thanks to everyone for a great Bliseffectively interact with others are vitally importers for Books Run! Especially Mrs. tant tools to students of all ages. Without the Damren, Judy Russell, Denby Coyle, ability to evaluate, analyze, and solve problems; Maggie Minnock and our very helpful communication fails. Without creativity, children staff photographer John (on left). are limited to familiar, mundane thinking. Without effective communication skills, students lose ability to build relationships - particularly with others of differing cultural backgrounds. Early language instruction cultivates these three essentials. And it’s key - from a neurological and a developmental perspective our Early Language Program (which provide instruction in Spanish) is available to our youngest students, as children at this stage of development are most predisposed to learning language. Instruction in a second language at an early age encourages development of the same neurological pathways which optimize students’ ability to acquire multiple languages later in life. Our program provides foreign language instruction beginning in Kindergarten every day for 30 minutes. Our program uses the TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) method for Spanish instruction. TPRS uses a vocabularybased (aka "lexile") approach to instruction, without as much direct focus on grammar and grammar rules (such as verb conjugations). Students see high-frequency words and structures (groups of words) in Spanish, along with their English translation. Those words and structures are immediately put into compelling, comprehensible situations (stories) so that students acquire the language in as natural a setting as possible. It is similar to a baby being immersed in a language and acquiring (and ultimately using) the “most important” words first (mama, dada, bottle, up, down, etc.) and the less frequently used words as time progresses. These high-frequency structures are the building blocks for proficiency, with grammatical accuracy and oral fluency coming in later years of instruction. TPRS instruction focuses on students Lyme Pumpkin Festival! having the chance to hear and read Spanish while understanding Dust off your brooms, carve your pumpkins and bring it, with limited “forced output”. As students acquire more and your biggest homegrown pumpkin! On Saturday Ocmore Spanish, "natural output" begins to occur, and they contober 31, 2015 Lyme will hold its annual Pumpkin Festitribute more and more to the stories in class. Using this approach val. This is a special event for all families in Lyme. At allows all students to be successful and understand the target 10:00 am a costume parade will start off around the language, while at the same time challenging more advanced common led by the Lyme Town Band and the Lyme students to synthesize prior knowledge to contribute using SpanTown fire engines. After the parade prizes will be ish. awarded for the biggest pumpkin in the following cateWhy this approach? Even prior to its formal beginning we gories: pre-school- grade 1, grades 2-4 and grades 5-8. knew that we wanted students to experience learning There will be goodie bags for all of the children. This a second language in a similar way they experiyear we will also be judging carved pumpkins for kids of enced learning their first languageall ages! through play and an desire to comAgain This Year!!! municate what was important with The 7th annual pumpkin bake off!! Bring a pumpthis language. We know that children kin baked or apple baked item to the common by # at this stage learn best while “at play” 5 9:30 for judging!! Please have baked good(s) and through songs, rhymes, games. labeled with bakers name and item name. Señor Harkins’ use of the TPRS method We are always looking for volunteers!! If anyone is in• Volume:10 • and the activities he creates in each class are terested please contact Emi Gray at 795-9970 2015-2016 as enjoyable to watch as they are for the kids, SCHOOL YEAR and the results are impressive.
The Plains School 1906 The
Laura Barnes School 1958
Lyme School
Page Two
Newsletter Student Council Coat Drive Children’s Jackets (not ones you are currently using) will
be collected in the lobby to be donated to Listen from October 19th to October 31st.
After-School classes in metalsmithing, knitting and pottery for children aged 8 through 18. CraftStudies @ the Hanover League of NH Craftsmen offers children, youth and teens the opportunity spend two hours each week transforming a raw material into a useful or decorative object. Call 603 643 5384 to register or for more information. http://www.hanoverleague.org/current-classes#youth
Message from the
P.T.O. PTO is BACK!
Week of
Al a carte Fruit and Milk are available everyday
Building a Sustainable, Enjoyable and Inclusive PTO:
Your involvement can focus on what you enjoy and have time for. What will result is that it will make things happen Trivia Night: A fun evening event for parents involving trivia games, a silent auction and refreshments including a cash bar and BYO snacks. Dee Scanlon: [email protected] Alicia Willette: [email protected] Family Barn/Square Dance: A family friendly square dance. In the past this has been held in a beautiful old barn in Lyme and has included a BBQthemed dinner and a pie-auction to support class accounts. Patience Rich: [email protected] Dee Scanlon: [email protected] Teacher Appreciation Lunches: During conference weeks in the fall and spring parents provide drop off lunch in the staff room for teachers and staff to enjoy. Ellen Parish: [email protected] Kate Cook: [email protected] Box Tops: The Lyme School earns 10 cents for every Box Top turned in! Jen Wilcox: [email protected] Family Directory: A booklet containing contact information for all Lyme School students and their families, organized both by class and alphabetically. Leigh Prince: [email protected] Kath Stanton: [email protected] We discussed several other ideas to help new families learn about, get connected and feel immediately welcomed to our community as well. This is likely to be one of the major topics at our next gathering. Thanks to everyone! This is going to be fun! Participate to the degree you can and to the degree you are enjoying it and we will accomplish those things that are most important to us.
Menus 10/19 to 10/23 • Week of 10/26 to 10/30
Monday
Tuesday
HOT LUNCH: Brunch for Lunch! WG Pancakes Local Maple Syrup Sausage Home Fries Fresh Fruit
HOT LUNCH: Grilled Cheese on WG Bread Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Butternut Squash Casserole Fresh Fruit
Option: BYO Salad
Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: Shepard’s pie (Local G. Beef, Fresh Potato, Corn) Dinner Roll Fresh Fruit Option: BYO Salad
Wednesday
HOT LUNCH: Turkey Taco Salad in a Tortilla Bowl Taco Toppings Refried Beans Fresh Fruit Sandwich Option: Tuna Salad on WG Bread
Thursday
Friday
HOT LUNCH: Beef Stroganoff Egg Noodles Garlic Bread Maple Glazed Carrots Fresh Fruit Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: Chicken Enchiladas Mexican Rice Black Beans Toppings Fresh Fruit Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: American Chop Suey WG Egg Noodles Garlic Knot Roll Roasted Spaghetti Squash Fresh Fruit
HOT LUNCH: Pulled Pork Sandwich on a WG Knot Roll Fresh Cole Slaw Sweet Corn on Cob Fresh Fruit
Option: BYO Salad
Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: Cheese or Chef ’s Choice Pizza Salad Bar Fresh Fruit Sandwich Option: Egg Salad on WG Bread
HOT LUNCH: Cheese or Chef ’s Choice Pizza Salad Bar Fresh Fruit Sandwich Option: Egg Salad on EG Bread
Contact me at: [email protected] Phone: 795-2125 or just stop by. You may print color copies of the Newsletters at: www. LymeSchool.org
Lyme School is an equal opportunity employer and provider.
Serving the Lyme Community for over 100 years
Boletin Informativo
Flags of the World’s Spanish Speaking Countries
Hola!
Blisters For Books!
the Lyme
School
Critical thinking, creativity, and the ability to Thanks to everyone for a great Bliseffectively interact with others are vitally importers for Books Run! Especially Mrs. tant tools to students of all ages. Without the Damren, Judy Russell, Denby Coyle, ability to evaluate, analyze, and solve problems; Maggie Minnock and our very helpful communication fails. Without creativity, children staff photographer John (on left). are limited to familiar, mundane thinking. Without effective communication skills, students lose ability to build relationships - particularly with others of differing cultural backgrounds. Early language instruction cultivates these three essentials. And it’s key - from a neurological and a developmental perspective our Early Language Program (which provide instruction in Spanish) is available to our youngest students, as children at this stage of development are most predisposed to learning language. Instruction in a second language at an early age encourages development of the same neurological pathways which optimize students’ ability to acquire multiple languages later in life. Our program provides foreign language instruction beginning in Kindergarten every day for 30 minutes. Our program uses the TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) method for Spanish instruction. TPRS uses a vocabularybased (aka "lexile") approach to instruction, without as much direct focus on grammar and grammar rules (such as verb conjugations). Students see high-frequency words and structures (groups of words) in Spanish, along with their English translation. Those words and structures are immediately put into compelling, comprehensible situations (stories) so that students acquire the language in as natural a setting as possible. It is similar to a baby being immersed in a language and acquiring (and ultimately using) the “most important” words first (mama, dada, bottle, up, down, etc.) and the less frequently used words as time progresses. These high-frequency structures are the building blocks for proficiency, with grammatical accuracy and oral fluency coming in later years of instruction. TPRS instruction focuses on students Lyme Pumpkin Festival! having the chance to hear and read Spanish while understanding Dust off your brooms, carve your pumpkins and bring it, with limited “forced output”. As students acquire more and your biggest homegrown pumpkin! On Saturday Ocmore Spanish, "natural output" begins to occur, and they contober 31, 2015 Lyme will hold its annual Pumpkin Festitribute more and more to the stories in class. Using this approach val. This is a special event for all families in Lyme. At allows all students to be successful and understand the target 10:00 am a costume parade will start off around the language, while at the same time challenging more advanced common led by the Lyme Town Band and the Lyme students to synthesize prior knowledge to contribute using SpanTown fire engines. After the parade prizes will be ish. awarded for the biggest pumpkin in the following cateWhy this approach? Even prior to its formal beginning we gories: pre-school- grade 1, grades 2-4 and grades 5-8. knew that we wanted students to experience learning There will be goodie bags for all of the children. This a second language in a similar way they experiyear we will also be judging carved pumpkins for kids of enced learning their first languageall ages! through play and an desire to comAgain This Year!!! municate what was important with The 7th annual pumpkin bake off!! Bring a pumpthis language. We know that children kin baked or apple baked item to the common by # at this stage learn best while “at play” 5 9:30 for judging!! Please have baked good(s) and through songs, rhymes, games. labeled with bakers name and item name. Señor Harkins’ use of the TPRS method We are always looking for volunteers!! If anyone is in• Volume:10 • and the activities he creates in each class are terested please contact Emi Gray at 795-9970 2015-2016 as enjoyable to watch as they are for the kids, SCHOOL YEAR and the results are impressive.
The Plains School 1906 The
Laura Barnes School 1958
Lyme School
Page Two
Newsletter Student Council Coat Drive Children’s Jackets (not ones you are currently using) will
be collected in the lobby to be donated to Listen from October 19th to October 31st.
After-School classes in metalsmithing, knitting and pottery for children aged 8 through 18. CraftStudies @ the Hanover League of NH Craftsmen offers children, youth and teens the opportunity spend two hours each week transforming a raw material into a useful or decorative object. Call 603 643 5384 to register or for more information. http://www.hanoverleague.org/current-classes#youth
Message from the
P.T.O. PTO is BACK!
Week of
Al a carte Fruit and Milk are available everyday
Building a Sustainable, Enjoyable and Inclusive PTO:
Your involvement can focus on what you enjoy and have time for. What will result is that it will make things happen Trivia Night: A fun evening event for parents involving trivia games, a silent auction and refreshments including a cash bar and BYO snacks. Dee Scanlon: [email protected] Alicia Willette: [email protected] Family Barn/Square Dance: A family friendly square dance. In the past this has been held in a beautiful old barn in Lyme and has included a BBQthemed dinner and a pie-auction to support class accounts. Patience Rich: [email protected] Dee Scanlon: [email protected] Teacher Appreciation Lunches: During conference weeks in the fall and spring parents provide drop off lunch in the staff room for teachers and staff to enjoy. Ellen Parish: [email protected] Kate Cook: [email protected] Box Tops: The Lyme School earns 10 cents for every Box Top turned in! Jen Wilcox: [email protected] Family Directory: A booklet containing contact information for all Lyme School students and their families, organized both by class and alphabetically. Leigh Prince: [email protected] Kath Stanton: [email protected] We discussed several other ideas to help new families learn about, get connected and feel immediately welcomed to our community as well. This is likely to be one of the major topics at our next gathering. Thanks to everyone! This is going to be fun! Participate to the degree you can and to the degree you are enjoying it and we will accomplish those things that are most important to us.
Menus 10/19 to 10/23 • Week of 10/26 to 10/30
Monday
Tuesday
HOT LUNCH: Brunch for Lunch! WG Pancakes Local Maple Syrup Sausage Home Fries Fresh Fruit
HOT LUNCH: Grilled Cheese on WG Bread Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Butternut Squash Casserole Fresh Fruit
Option: BYO Salad
Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: Shepard’s pie (Local G. Beef, Fresh Potato, Corn) Dinner Roll Fresh Fruit Option: BYO Salad
Wednesday
HOT LUNCH: Turkey Taco Salad in a Tortilla Bowl Taco Toppings Refried Beans Fresh Fruit Sandwich Option: Tuna Salad on WG Bread
Thursday
Friday
HOT LUNCH: Beef Stroganoff Egg Noodles Garlic Bread Maple Glazed Carrots Fresh Fruit Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: Chicken Enchiladas Mexican Rice Black Beans Toppings Fresh Fruit Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: American Chop Suey WG Egg Noodles Garlic Knot Roll Roasted Spaghetti Squash Fresh Fruit
HOT LUNCH: Pulled Pork Sandwich on a WG Knot Roll Fresh Cole Slaw Sweet Corn on Cob Fresh Fruit
Option: BYO Salad
Option: BYO Salad
HOT LUNCH: Cheese or Chef ’s Choice Pizza Salad Bar Fresh Fruit Sandwich Option: Egg Salad on WG Bread
HOT LUNCH: Cheese or Chef ’s Choice Pizza Salad Bar Fresh Fruit Sandwich Option: Egg Salad on EG Bread
Contact me at: [email protected] Phone: 795-2125 or just stop by. You may print color copies of the Newsletters at: www. LymeSchool.org
Lyme School is an equal opportunity employer and provider.
