A huge THANK YOU to Dick Andren at Hirundo Wildlife Refuge for an amazing day of learning last week. We also appreciate the support from Jenn Goodwin, School Community Coordinator for RSU34, for organizing and planning our trip! Students enjoyed a program led by Dick on how human communities are like forest communities. We ended our visit with a fun scavenger hunt of items from the forest!
LMS summer school learners are becoming great caretakers of our school garden! Yesterday, we harvested basil, mint, garlic scapes, and rosemary. A few green beans right off the plant were a nice snack while we worked. We are learning about the unique smells of herbs, garden pests, and effective gardening techniques.
LMS Invention Convention finalists that participated in Big Gig, Jr. this spring were invited to make a guest appearance on Greenlight Maine! The episode was recorded at Husson University on Monday, July 15th, 2019 and is scheduled to air in September. Pictured from left to right are Zoe Yerxa, Jenelle Sanchez, and Brianna Engstrom, Leslie Poake (Junior Achievement of Maine Board Member), and Julene Gervais (Greenlight Maine Host).
Thank you to Nicole Vachon from FAME (Finance Authority of Maine) for her awesome presentation about college and career readiness! Students learned about contests, scholarships, and savings accounts that they can be participating in right now as middle schoolers.
Melissa (Lewis) Zabierek
LMS Athletic reminders: Fall Sports Sign-up Link: https://forms.gle/9YydhqGbGrMvm34s7
All forms can be found on our website under documents. Start dates are the following: Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer and Field Hockey (Clinics 8/20, 21, 22, 27, 28 ,29 from 4-5:30) Tryouts 9/4, 5, & 6
Cross Country (Clinics 8/20, 21, 22, 27, 28 ,29 from 3-4) Practice Starts 9/4
Football (Practice starts 8/19 3-4:45 @LMS)
OT Sports is happy to partner with NLAT and offer our student athletes in-house physicals on Aug. 14th from 8-12. Students will need a $10 dollar check made out to RSU34 & a parent/guardian if under the age of 18. This is offered to LMS & OTHS students. NLAT will provide all other needed paperwork. If interested, please come to the lobby area at OTHS.
LMS students from our summer Coyote U programs visited the Old Town Public Library, Old Town Fire Department, and Old Town Police Department this morning. Students had excellent questions and learned more about the history of our town. Thank you to Officer King, Deputy Chief Baker, Ms. Pool, and Mr. Lucas.
Thank you, Hutchins Greenhouse for all these donated plants and flowers! And thank you, Mrs. O’Connell, for getting them and planting them.
Watch this song and video created by our Operation Breaking Stereotypes group, co-led by Mrs. O’Connell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=6JpZOK8K8_Y
New to LMS, this happy pair are our new P E teacher Lucas Grinnell and our new assistant principal Dr. Gert Nesin
LMS Music Dates for 2019/20: https://5il.co/896v
LMS would like to recognize the following 30 eighth graders, 20 seventh graders, and 18 sixth graders for earning a scholar athlete award at their year end assemblies recently. Way to go Coyotes and we hope you keep working hard in as well as out of the classroom! 8th--Scholar Athletes: Natalie Baker, Ian Benson, Brooklynne Blockler, Hunter Clukey, Owen Cote, Izabella Damboise, Xander Doty, Taylor Dow, Mark Gaetani, Gabriel Gifford, Spencer Gordon, Josh Harvey, Eva Holt, Kayleigh Johnston, Andrew Koch, Conner May, Tyler Nash, Olivia Neely, Sophia Nepton, Keegan Plourde, Cassidy Rackliffe, Annie Roach, Jordan Spencer, Abby Swedberg, Patrick Sylantys, Nate Tibbits, Kayleigh, Wagner, Grace Willey, Myah Worster, Lily Young
7th--Scholar Athletes: Morgan Davis, Alexis DeGrasse, Ben Dickey, Makayla Emerson, Danica Flewelling, Brady Fournier, Clive Haverkamp, Ayla Lawrence, Jackson Lizzotte, Brendan Mahaney, Hannah Marsh, Owen Rand, Ethan Roach, Norah Sanborn, Carter Sevigny, Brea Smickle, Sidney Staples, Emma Trefts, Preston Vose, Zoe Yerxa
6th--Scholar Athletes: Lucas Bartkiewicz, Emmitt Byther, Allyson Caron, Teg Coiley, Samuel Cote, Emma Doucette, Claire Gaetani, Mikayla Johnston, Savanna Lolar, Liz Magoon, Jack Marquis, Sadie May, Lily Mickel, Grace Milligan, Robert Murray, Paige Oakes, Kaiden Plourde, Kameron Plourde
LMS Trimester 3 Report Cards will be mailed home. We are printing them now and they will be mailed by Friday this week.
Dreams by Janice is offering an after school program next year. Please see the attached flyer for more information about this great opportunity for students.
We had a fantastic 8th grade assembly, field day and HS step-up day. 8th graders do not need to attend school tomorrow, 6/18. We look forward to a great last day (1/2 day) with our 6th and 7th graders. Dismissal at 11:15am.
Field day kick off!
Looking forward to our 8th grade assembly from 8:30-9:30 tomorrow morning. Field day will follow. 8th graders then go to the high school for step-up day in the afternoon and are dismissed from the high school.
A quick reminder, the last day of school is Tuesday June 18 and dismissal from LMS will be at 11:15.
Leonard Middle School musicians Cassidy Rackliffe (8th grade) and Aiden Palmer (7th grade) earned “Outstanding Musician” awards at the University of New Hampshire Jazz Festival this spring. Both students performed beautifully on two instruments; Cassidy on bass guitar/tuba and Aiden on bass guitar/clarinet. The UNH Jazz Festival is very selective when presenting this award. This is the first time in LMS history that two students have received it the same year. Congratulations Cassidy and Aiden!
LMS 8th graders are packed up and ready for their overnight at Camp Jordan! We leave at 8:30 today.
