Great art show with our HMS students at the Hampstead Public Library. Thank you Mrs. Downey...you get our students to create amazing works of art!
Eclipse 2024! Yesterday afternoon the entire HCS community went out together to watch the solar eclipse. Thank you to all our volunteers who helped out. In preparation for the Eclipse, some of our first graders had the chance to use Ozobots with Mrs. Wisecarver where students drew an orbit around planet Earth and then pretended that the Ozobot was the moon crossing between the Earth and the Sun. Yesterday was also marked with many eclipse themed-activities and festivities. You could say that yesterday was truly "out of this world!"
Today is the last opportunity to shop at the HMS Scholastic book fair. Family Night Hours: Shop Today 3:45-5:30 PM.
We are proud to announce that Central School's Destination Imagination (DI) Team, "The Illuminating Skittle Squad" received first place in their engineering challenge at the state-level DI competition this weekend in Goffstown. They have now been invited to compete at the Global DI Competition in Kansas City, Missouri this May! This year marks the first time ever that a Hampstead student has been invited to the Global competition at the senior level, middle level, and elementary level. We are very proud of our students, their managers, and their coaches for this outstanding accomplishment! Way to go!!!
Third and fourth grade students spent the last few weeks of technology class collaborating in small groups to code with TI Rovers. Students used TI graphing technology to program the Rover to move, draw, create angles, and even dance. The Rover is a very effective and engaging tool to introduce students to coding and robotics and we are very grateful to Texas Instruments for providing us with this loan opportunity. Thank you to Mrs. Wisecarver and Mrs. McLaughlin for facilitating this awesome learning experience!
The MS DI team, "To Be Continued..." received 2nd place in their service learning challenge. They have been invited to the Global Competition in Kansas City, Missouri in May...for the first time ever! Congrats to the teams, managers, + coaches. What an accomplishment!!!
Field Hockey Club has started at HCS! This club introduces students to skills, drills, and small games in the sport of field hockey. So far, the club has been a big hit and students in grades 3 &4 have been learning, working hard, and having fun! Thank you to Mrs. Arroyo and Ms. Poulin for facilitating this awesome opportunity for our 3rd and 4th grade students.
7th graders budgeting class with the NH Federal Credit Union rep. This was Class 2/3 before the CU 4 Reality Fair on 4-19. They’ve been learning about budgeting + financial literacy as well as researching different careers and salaries. They ended with an M&M budgeting game!
Due to today's weather forecast, the HMS Book Fair Family Night will take place Monday Apr. 8 from 3:45-5:30 pm. Hope to see you there!
Volcanoes! As a follow up post, here are a few examples of research that our grade two volcano scientists prepared. Well done!
HMS Book Fair Donation Fund 4/1 - 4/4. Please consider donating. The goal; buy a book for students that cannot afford to purchase one from the book fair.. Thank you in advance!
https://shop.scholastic.com/ewallet/fund?lang=en_US&walletId=5d98ad59-3379-4973-a015-ff74fe6bab59
Some of our second graders worked on a Mystery Science experiment on the topic of erosion. This experiment paired nicely with the essential question in the Gr 2 reading program- How does Earth change?
Students had fun learning how the earth can change over time and what elements, (wind, water and storms) can contribute to that change.
Recently, some National Science Honors Society students from Pinkerton Academy visited with our fourth graders. Our students had to opportunity to learn about different areas of science from the "big kids." It was a fun, hands-on learning experience for our students and a great opportunity to connect with Pinkerton students. Thank you to Mrs. Morin for organizing the visit and to Mr. Breda and the PA National Science Honors Society members for coming to HCS to share their time and love of science with our fourth graders!
Last week some second graders learned about how the earth changes. Their studies focused on volcanoes. The students wrote a paragraph and drew an illustration about what they learned about volcanoes. As a culminating activity, students created volcanoes in class and made them "erupt." A lot of fun and smiles were had combining science and reading.
Earlier today HMS student members of the ABC (anti-bulleying club) led a community town hall for 3rd and 4th graders at HCS. This student written and designed production was an interactive presentation around the important role "upstanders" have in our school community and taught our elementary students how to recognize and respond to untrue, unfair and unsupportive comments in a variety of situations. No amount of rain was going to dampen our Middle Schoolers spirits or their motivation for spreading messages of kindness and how we "THINK" before we speak.
Last Friday our third graders had the opportunity to visit Pinkerton Academy for a maple sugaring field trip. The visit was hosted by Pinkerton Academy Forestry students who taught our students all about the sugaring process along with tree germination, and forest conservation with Woodsy the Owl and Smokey the Bear. Students also had the opportunity to apply their knowledge of weather, science, history, and NH culture to their visit. The field trip was a big success thanks to our friends at Pinkerton Academy. Thank you to Jen Haskins (CTE Director), Michelle Mize (Forestry Teacher), and all the PA Forestry students. Thank you as well to all our parent chaperones. One could say this field trip was a "wicked sweet" learning opportunity!
Last Thursday evening the staff of HCS took on the staff of HMS in a friendly dodgeball game. Ultimately HMS won, but tons of laughs and a lot of fun were had by all. The bleachers were packed with staff members, students, families, and community members. Admission to the event was one non-perishable food item. Eight boxes of food were collected for the Salt Box Pantry. Thank you to all who donated!!! Thank you to all who played, attended, facilitated, and organized this event. It was an awesome Hampstead school community event!
All 7th grade science classes had a chance to hear about Forestry Science and Careers. Ben Winter is a Forestry student at Paul Smith College in Northern New York. The students are learning about plant structures and functions and Ben did a great job explaining to the students about the structure and function of trees. He even did a special presentation for a FLEX group about the gear he uses for climbing and how it would attach to a tree.
St. Patrick's Day festivities at HCS came with the annual visit of the leprechauns! One friendly leprechaun lost their shoe in a story but don’t worry, Mrs. Le's first graders helped solve the problem and made the leprechaun a new shoe!
Mrs. Whitehead’s first grade class wrote about how they would help their leprechaun hide his gold. They wrote about where would be good hiding places and why. They also did a guided drawing of their pot of gold and then did a STEM activity to hide their pot of gold. Here are some of their creations!
The Robotics Club with Mrs. McLaughlin is underway! The kids are having a lot of fun! So far three of our teams are ranked 5th, 7th, and 9th in their robotics competition. Go Huskies!
