Color Day this Friday at MCS to support our Perseverance Pep Rally! Wear your grade level color to support your teammates as you cheer them virtually.
Good evening. Due to a water and sewer issue at Margaret Chase Smith School, there will be no school at MCS on Friday, March 26th. We apologize for the late notice and any inconvenience this may cause. I repeat, due to a water and sewer issue, school is cancelled at Margaret Chase Smith School on Friday, March 26th. All other schools in the district will be open as usual.
Rock, paper, scissors shoot! The students in Mrs. Paradis' class were able to participate in an extra wellness block this afternoon.
Please see MCS's flyer providing information about our Virtual Family Night on March 31st.
MCS Walking Club! Third grade students are taking advantage of their movement break each afternoon!
Ask Ms. Morrow's students if you want to trap a leprechaun. The students in first grade were feeling lucky today as they designed and built their own leprechaun traps using Legos!
Are you faster than a calculator? This is was the task for mrs. Smith's second graders. To reinforce the need to be fluent with their math facts Mrs. Smith had students race a calculator. She would give a number sentence such as 6 + 7 and then see if the student who could only use their recall was faster than a peer who was solving the same equation on a calculator projected on the board. When I left each student I observed was faster than a calculator.
The staff at Margaret Chase Smith School are excited to see their students return to in-person instruction 4 days per week this Monday. To make this a celebratory occasion MCS welcomed the students with an inflatable rainbow, a dancing shark (Ed Cormier) and energetic music.
Hello MCS Families! We are beyond excited to see everyone tomorrow morning as we start our first week of 4 day learning! Check out Mr. Potter's weekly newsletter with his updates.
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The students in Mrs. Allaire's class tried out their warrior poses between literacy workshops. In between moves, the students practiced various I AM statements to connect with our monthly theme of Growth Mindset.
The students in Mrs. Tucker-Gahm's class did an amazing job sharing their opinion pieces this afternoon! Students shared their thesis statement along with three reasons and examples to match. Students expressed their desire for a shorter school day, longer recess blocks and varying school lunch options.
In preparation for Monday’s return of all students, we have had to make some adjustments to our end of the day student pick-ups by parents. We anticipate a high volume of cars now that we are all back, and we need to keep Twombley Road clear.
Kindergarteners through third graders parents will pick up their child(ren) the same that we have used all year, which is to use the fire road to go around the school.
Fourth graders and their siblings will be picked up near our cafeteria and gym. You will enter the school drive and start down the right side as you have before. After the first playground, you will see an inlet and a staff member stationed, turn in and have your placard visible. The teacher on duty will radio inside and have your child(ren) come out. Once everyone is seat belted, please loop around the drive and exit to the right. Then proceed through the small driveway loop to access Twombley Road.
Since, fourth graders will be coming back out against the flow of our pick-up line, it will be important that you stay to the right and leave enough room for the exiting traffic. I will be outside directing traffic and will try to head off any confusions.
Mrs. Hallissey has sent a video through Bloomz to our parents of fourth grade pick-ups showing how this will look.
As we experiment with this new procedure we may need to make some adjustments to it. As in the past, please contact the school if your child will be picked-up by someone different. We will appreciate everyone’s patience and look forward to seeing your child here.
Respectfully,
Chuck Potter Principal of MCS
The fourth grade team shared their Social Studies research slides the past 2 days in the gymnasium. Feel free to test out your knowledge of the West, Midwest, Southeast and Southwest! All of the work was completed during their remote days utilizing Google Slides.
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The students in Mrs. Arnold's class celebrated the conclusion of Read Across America Week with flashlight reading in their favorite texts.
We love you too 4th graders!
As I was walking through Mrs.Morrison's first grade class I watched as her students were going through a SNAP word activity. SNAP words are high frequency words that students should be able to recognize quickly. Mrs. Morrison's students were following along reading sentences and highlighting the SNAP words in each line. Her students were doing a great job.
Mrs. Morrison shared that today her first grade class and the other first grade classes continued on with their mission and learned that the long e sound can also be found in the vowel teams, ee and ea. Rasheed, the class lion, sent them on a hunt in their books to see what other words they could find.
Happy 100th Day of school! Check out what some of Mrs. Arnold's students will be doing in the future!
Great advice from our kindergarten friends! Read Across America Week has begun!
