LYME SCHOOL

For Quarter 3 grades 6 and 7 students will be tasked with writing and producing short films or movie trailers. In groups of 3-5 students will write, storyboard, film and edit a mo...

Grades 3-5 have been enjoying studio time in The Design Lab. Students are offered the opportunity to use the skills and tools they’ve been introduced to during semester one; Desig...

Second grade began their Robotics Unit with Ozobot Evos. Students are writing binary code using red, blue and green markers to program their robots to complete assigned functions....

The mercury was barely at 10° F on Tuesday. Nonetheless, the sixth graders bundled up and tromped out for their monthly visit to their Weather, Woods, and Water study site on Gran...

We had a special guest visit our classroom last Friday. Michael Caduto, an author and storyteller who focuses on environmental awareness, spent the afternoon with us and even taug...

In changing the name of our lost and found this year to “Not Found Yet…”, we did so with a hopeful spirit! We believed the repurposed cubbies and permanent location in the stairw...

For many Lyme School families our outdoor classroom lessons (which we refer to as Kinderforest in K and Forest Friday in the 3rd grade ) is one of the ways that we are working to ...

The eighth graders finished their study of minerals at the beginning of this quarter. They completed an interesting lab during which they used physical and chemical characteristi...

The seventh graders finished the first quarter with a microscopic study of viruses. They began the second quarter by learning about cell structures and cell processes. Important ...

The sixth graders investigated changes in matter at the beginning of the second quarter. They dissolved sugar cubes in ice water, tepid water, and hot water to see how increased ...

Recently, the seventh grade was involved in a unit which focused on the study of HIV/AIDS, where they learned about what exactly these viruses are, the cells involved, how they im...

With each New Year, we often set goals that allow us to challenge ourselves to achieve things that will benefit us. Sometimes, to reach those goals, we need help. Recently one o...

You know you are in education when you are working to discourage idling cars because of the cold and simultaneously reminding others that they should wear warm clothes. However, I...

Grade 8 spent Quarter 2 building and programming Lego Mindstorms EV3 robots. With our fleet of robots -a puppy, a conveyor belt, a grabbing arm, and a boy- students began setting ...

8th Grade French News We just completed another unit in our texts and are being assessed this week on leçons 13, 14, 15, and 16. Students will be tested on reading, writing,...

This quarter grades 6 and 7 completed many tiers of the Design Thinking process. First they participated in the Egg Drop design challenge. We had several eggs make it safely to th...

Grades 3 through 5 spent the first half of Quarter 2 working on coding using blockly. Blockly represents coding concepts as interlocking blocks. After students practiced programmi...

Grades Kindergarten through 2nd have been working on projects that focus on improving their communication and collaboration skills. Design challenges included designing and buildi...

The Humanities class just completed the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. We use this book as a lens to begin to understand the Jim Crow era in our nation's history. ...

The 7th grade has been engaged in an inquiry into the experiences of refugees. This study was centered around three essential questions: 1. What is home? 2. How do critical...