Margaret Chase Smith School

Second graders at MCS enjoyed a lesson about hedgehogs and then created a fused glass animal with Mrs. Cheryl Rhoda from Glasworx in Sanford. The day before, the students watched...

Even with the adverse weather conditions construction on the addition to Margaret Chase Smith School continues. Last week brought below zero days and a snow storm. However, the ...

As I was walking around the school I came upon a third grade art lesson. The art standard was to learn about weaving. Mrs. Lewin-Grover, our art teacher, had the students learn ...

With the Super Bowl just days away, many of our students (and staff) are thinking about the New England Patriots playing in the big game. To build on this exciting time, students...

While I was walking through classroom I came upon Mrs. Werner's kindergarten class. What drew me in was the discussion the class was having about dinosaurs. Mrs. Werner was read...

This a reminder that our PTA is sponsoring a "Coin Clash" between the classrooms. All coins collected will help the PTA in their efforts to support enrichment activities for our ...

The second grade science unit is Material Magic this trimester. The science unit develops the idea that by taking advantage of the properties of materials we can solve many proble...

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. ...