In Grade 5 Social Studies today, the kids used a program from Wordclouds.com to review their Mesopotamia content. Kids chose their shapes, fonts, colors and words to appear in their image. This is one festive example.
HMS 5th grader, Corrine, rocking spirit day with the sparkly lights and working hard in Social Studies..."writing a letter to her nomad friend trying to get him to come live in the city state because it is a much better place to live".
The HMS Elf on the Shelf is baaacccckkkkkk.......
HMS Spirit Week continues: 12/18 - MISMATCH DAY, 12/19 - TWINKLE TUES - WEAR YOUR SPARKLE, 12/20 - UGLY SWEATER DAY - WEAR TACKY SWEATERS, 12/21 - YOU’RE A GIFT - WRAP YOURSELF LIKE A PRESENT, 12/22 - FESTIVE FRIDAY - WEAR ALL OF YOUR FESTIVE GEAR TODAY!
Recently, our preschoolers conducted some investigatory "Pumpkin Science" work on the pumpkins that they learned about this past fall. They set up a pumpkin research area in the corner of the playground to monitor what happens to pumpkins as they break down. Many different sizes, varieties, and shapes of pumpkins were used for this experiment. Way to go Preschool Pumpkin scientists!
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In second grade we celebrated the Hour of Code in December by learning about binary code. Students discovered that individual letters were represented by an 8 digit combination of zeroes and ones. They created a bead candy cane with the binary code of their name with red and white beads. One color represented the zeroes, and the other represented the ones!
The fourth grade chorus held their annual Holiday Concert. It was an evening of festive songs and good cheer, delighting a full house of family members and friends. The concert backdrop featured student artwork and a beautiful gallery of self portraits. Bravo! to the fourth graders and to Mrs. Starck and Mr. Terrille for a great holiday performance!
This past week our third graders took a swimming field trip to the Workout Club in Londonderry. A fun time was had by all! Thank you to the Workout Club for hosting us and to Mrs. Ingraham and Mrs. Arroyo for organizing this aquatic event!
Get your festive spirit ready for HCS Spirit Week! Every day will feature a different festive theme. Join the fun!
Ms. Denisky's advisory is participating in making their Holiday Tree for the fifth grade, and the students made a Chemis-TREE. They researched elements on the periodic table and created ornaments for the tree. Well done 5th grade!
HMS week one of spirit continues...Thursday is crazy sock day and Friday is Holiday head gear day! Join in the fun!
Mrs. Bonnell's FLEX classes designed and built book trees for the holidays!
This month, the grade 5 advisory team has had fun creating themed trees. Students from Mrs. Connors’ advisory came up with The Lorax theme. After making Truffula tree tops, a student created a wooden Lorax. Mr. Remillard and the student’s grandfather assisted him.
Congrats to Dylan B, Christian M, and Jaxon C! They auditioned for/were accepted to the NH Band Directors’ Assoc Mid Level Honor Band. They will play in a band with 80 other ms musicians from NH. This is a testament to their hard work and dedication. Awesome work, boys!!
Girls B lost by 1 point with seconds left in the game vs Amherst. Eloise J had 10 points and Hannah W had 6 points. The girls fought hard throughout the whole game. Our next game is home Thursday vs Timberlane.
Boy's A defeated Chester 56 - 27 with a strong defense + timely scoring. Leading scorers were Trevor M, Logan O and Christian W. Defensively LJ G, Kaybin G and Cam S played well. Strong rebounders were Nevin R and Quinn B. We are now 4-1 in league play + 7-2 overall.
Our Wee Deliver postal service is underway! This past week our students were busy writing letters and our fourth grader postal workers were hard at working making sure that the letters were delivered on time and to the correct addresses. So far nearly a hundred letters have been written and delivered. Way to go! Thank you to Mrs. Freilich who is severing as our Wee Deliver Coordinator this year!
We did it! A new world record was set for Cup Stacking! 746,698 stackers and 2,242 schools / organizations took part in the WSSA Cup Stacking event. This event set a new WSSA World Record for the "Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations". Our third and fourth grade students' participation in this event helped surpass the previous record of 737,863 stackers.
In PE class, students participated in a cup stacking ladder tournament. In the tournament if you won the round you moved up in the ladder. At the end of the tournament a winner was determined from grades 3 and 4. Congratulations to Gr. 3 winners Ben Fowler and Harper Malcom and to Gr. 4 winner, Sam Peterson. Way to go Gr. 3 &4 students and thank you to Mrs. Arroyo and Mrs. Ingraham for organizing this event!
St Council is having our annual Food + Toy Drive, to support families in need + our local Salt Box Food Pantry. Advisories will collect non perishable food items + new, unwrapped toys for children of all ages. Donations collected during advisory from now until Wednesday, 12-14.
