Margaret Chase Smith School

In an effort to help her students become better readers and writers, Mrs. Arnold invited Mrs. Butler, our speech teacher, to speak to her students about hearing and recording soun...

During MCS's Christmas event, one of the raffle prizes was a lunch date with our mayor. Emma (pictured standing next to Mayor Cote) was the winner of this raffle prize. Today Ma...

This is a list of our Terrific Kids from last Friday, January 19th. Terrific Kids: Kindergarten – Jordan Charlton, Baylaa Allen, Abe Plumer, Ben Fowler, ...

Even with the cold weather the work continues on the addition to our school. Pictured below are construction workers setting reinforcing rods for the foundation. The next pictur...

Despite the cold weather, snow and ice progress is happening for the foundation to our new addition. Pictured is one of the pads that was poured. A poured pad for our addit...

Here is the list of last week's Terrific Kids. Terrific Kids: Kindergarten – Owen Janousek, Sydney Antkowski, Andrew Purdy, Zariah Ricker, Drew Werner, Crew Chasse ...

Margaret Chase Smith first graders celebrated the end of their Learning About the World nonfiction reading unit by becoming teachers. They worked on reading their books, marking ...

In kindergarten, the students learn strategies that all good readers use. In our reading program these strategies are referred to as super powers. The picture is of Mrs. Ackroyd...

Students in Mrs. Hussey's class were counting, comparing, and adding sets using the appropriate math symbols in their project based learning activity. This student is explaining ...

Mrs. Parker’s kindergarten class was studying “capacity” during their math lesson. They used different containers and water to show which has more capacity.

Kindergarten at Margaret Chase Smith School received a visit from Wildlife Encounters out of Barrington, NH on Friday. Derek, the presenter introduced 6 animals to the students, di...

Mr. Potter read the book "Over the Snow, Under the Snow" to all the students. Mrs. Butler and Mr. Pickering led the school in singing holiday songs.

Tuesday, Ms. McGuiggin's second grade students invited family and friends to see their Space Museum. Ms. McGuiggin's had to research and find facts about a planet they selected. ...

While I was walking about the building I came upon Mr. Bell's kindergarten students working on their stories. I watched as Mr. Bell and his ed tech, Mrs. Smith, go to each table ...

I had the opportunity to watch Mrs. Werner's kindergarten students retell the story, The Gingerbread Man. During this unit students practiced retelling a story identifying charac...

Mrs. Longfish’s second graders shared their “How to” writing with their parents and guests. This event was a celebration for finishing their non-fiction writing unit. Ea...

Margaret Chase Smith School Weekly Update December 17, 2018 Hello, this is the last week of school before the holiday break. Students will be off from school from Decembe...

That was the theme for last Friday’s “Do The Right Thing” rally. Led by Ms. Perrin’s third grade students, everyone learned several ways to be kind. Students also had the ...

While walking around the building I stopped into Mrs. Leigh's second grade class. Her students were working on their nonfiction writing. The boys and girls wrote facts about a t...

Kindergarten students in Mrs. Michaud's and Mrs. Parker's classes practiced following directions and their fine motor skills by cutting and folding to make these festive Christmas...