Margaret Chase Smith School

Ms. McGuiggin's 2nd graders invited parents, friends, and other students in the school to visit their Dinosaur Museum. The 2nd grade scientists were eager to share their knowledg...

Debi Hartford from Thurston and Peters Sugar House in Shapleigh visited MCS second graders to share the process of making maple syrup. The kids learned the different ways sap is ...

This year our kindergarten teachers are piloting a phonics program by Lucy Calkin. This program fits in well with her reading and writing programs that we use. Part of what our ...

What a delight it was when Mrs. Ackroyd brought her students to visit the office today. Her students have been learning how words work and their latest victory was leaning about ...

The Sanford Schools Annual Art Show will be held at the new Sanford High School/Sanford Regional Vocational Center on Friday and Saturday, April 5th and 6th from 6:00 pm to 8:30 p...

Margaret Chase Smith School held their annual “ Reading Under the Stars” event on the evening of March 26th. Upon arrival, each family received a bag filled with a variet...

1st graders have been learning about different reading strategies they can use and to add these strategies to their "reading tool box". This Thursday I had the opportunity to hea...

Margaret Chase Smith School's PTA hosted a Family Paint Night this Thursday. For a very low cost students and their family came to MCS and had the chains to express their creativ...

Monday we were treated to a wonderful lesson on how maple syrup is made. High school students Julia, Kayla, and Lindsay read a story about making maple syrup, brought us REAL mapl...

Students from the SRTC Landscaping program and the Early Childhood Education program visited several classrooms at MCS and read the book "Maple Syrup from the Sugarhouse", by Laur...

To bring some sunshine into this cold, long winter Mrs. Carman's First graders decided it would be fun to read at the beach. We had a big sun, a picture of the beach on the board...

After reading the book, Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler, Mrs. Deschambault's students had a homework assignment to do 5 acts of kindness at home each night for 3 nights. The rain...

The Green and Yellow Rooms read non-fiction books about penguins. There are 17 species of penguins; one being the crested penguin like these Rockhoppers. Mrs. Parker’s class ...

As I was walking through the building I came upon Mrs. Werner's kindergartners learning about "Force and Motion" through our Mystery Science. I watched as Mrs. Werner's students ...

Our second graders are starting or getting ready to start their next unit in writing which is about poetry. One of the skills being taught is to look at the world around us throu...

On Friday afternoon the students and staff gathered at the new addition to watch the last beam being lifted into position.

Second graders in Mrs. Arnold’s room celebrated Dr. Seuss’ Birthday Friday by participating in Read Across America. Families joined and read with the children, listened to poetry...

During the early half of February our PTA had a Coin Clash Challenge. The Challenge was for every class to decorate a jug to collect coins and to see which class could collect t...

Before our February break the students and staff at our school were participating in Kindness Activities. As a school, students and staff were sending notes, cards and snacks to ...

The Kindergartener’s celebrated the 100th day of school in different ways. Mrs. Parker’s class made crowns that said “100 days smarter” Mrs. Civiello’s class made trai...