THE LYME SCHOOL

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 effect...

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 trai...

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, wind di...

Lolos Do you like restaurants with great food, a beautiful location, and lots of space? Lolos has that. I...

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. T...

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 classro...

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 c...

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, r...

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 can be...

We have been busy studying the Industrial Revolution and learning how the ingenuity of 19th century Americans changed the world forever. Your student took a test on this content la...

The 6th graders began their penpal exchange with Lyme community members. The 6th graders wrote about themselves last week and yesterday received letters back. Their excitement to r...

The 7th graders started reading the book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwambe. For each chapter they read, they identify and jot down thoughts, questions and epipha...

For the past month, the fifth graders have been learning about genetics in science class. Topics have included: inherited traits, dominant versus recessive traits, punnet squares,...

Photo Courtesy of Jada Rich The students in 8th grade Humanities have joined a ‘walking party’ of middle schoolers from around the nation and around the globe to study and learn...

In the second grade, we spent the last few weeks learning about different characteristics of cities, including types of housing, innovations, transportation, activities to do and d...

Third, fourth, and fifth-grade Lyme School students have just begun working on their very own music projects. Some students are working in small groups, some in pairs, and others h...

This past week the 4th Grade presented their persuasive essays to the 3rd Grade to "persuade" them to come their state. For the past several weeks each 4th Grader researched their...

As 6th and 8th graders are working over the past month with Mrs. Abbene in the design lab, 7th grade has been diving into time management as both classes identified this as an impo...

3rd graders have been focusing on the Lyme School Value of “Integrity” - students decided on the definition as “doing the right thing, even when no one is watching”. We worked thro...

We’ve been busy and having fun in K-Ville talking about manners and what makes a good friend. Kindergartners read several books highlighting the importance of including others, giv...