LYME SCHOOL

The goal of the Lyme School Spanish department is for students to “acquire” Spanish. “Acquiring” a language is different from “learning a language.” Acquiring is something that h...

Forest Friday meets the Thetford Academy Outdoor Education Program! On Friday, November 1st, Della Cote, Claire Halter, and Charlie Gartner attended the Upper Valley Teaching P...

Through ongoing observation, questioning, and diagramming fourth graders have broadened their cloud knowledge. Students are doing an amazing job noticing patterns and similaritie...

For a few weeks now the 5th graders have been involved in an integrated learning opportunity, where they have been "stranded" on a deserted, tropical island. Our room has been tr...

The sixth graders spent October studying changes in matter. They began the unit by investigating how solutions form, exploring ways to increase the speed at which to create a so...

Students in the Powering Tomorrow elective have been hard at work learning about electricity generation, the impacts on our climate, and how we can design more efficient and clean...

In honor of Veterans Day the third grade composed letters to veterans thanking them for their service to our country. Each student wrote a letter of thanks to a family member, a l...

6s may elect to take an Art Elective each quarter. The 1st quarter option was Drawing and 2nd quarter is Sculpture. During our Art/Design lab block (Day 8), we have been working o...

3s created beautiful worlds after watching the live feed from the International Space Station (so amazing…), which was connected to their classroom studies about maps and globes. ...

Ks have been learning about some of the elements of art: Line and Shape. In order to build vocabulary around lines (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zig zag, dotted, etc), we act t...

The seventh graders learned about cells and cell parts during the months of October and November. Thank you Izzy and Ella T. for sharing your edible cell models with the class! ...

The eighth graders worked on developing a better understanding of matter and learning how physical properties can be used to identify minerals. Several labs focused on measureme...

Second graders picked out pumpkins during their field trip to Cedar Circle. Before taking these pumpkins home, students participated in a pumpkin investigation. Each scientist rec...

We are thrilled to welcome Maddie Warriner to the Lyme School for an amazing week of dancing. Maddie will meet with each class twice during the week, culminating with an all-schoo...

PE this week is full of fitness, fun, and games. Students in grades K-5 are enjoying Halloween themed games such as Ghosts in the Graveyard, Ghostbusters, and Capture the Pumpkin...

During the first quarter, the eighth graders learned about the adolescent brain in health class. They investigated the parts of the brain, such as the Frontal lobe, The Amygdala,...

The Kindergarten goes outside for science on Friday afternoons and this past Friday was no exception; this time we had three moms volunteering and teaching a 4-Winds lesson. It w...

Ask your 6th grader to show you how to find area and perimeter using base 10 blocks… ask your 7th grader how to simplify expressions using algebra tiles and expression mats… ask y...

Greetings, Lyme families! It has been wonderful to return to the Lyme School after spending precious time this summer and fall with my new kiddo, Norah! She was born in J...

The 8th grade started their year with a unit on human rights. They prioritized lists of human rights, read informational texts about human rights policy and human rights abuses, ...