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2015-2016 |
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Painting like Jackson Pollock |
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Harvesting |
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First day of school! |
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2014-2015 |
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Click here to see the bird video created by Beverly Johnson featurng Mrs. Hoidal's K-2 grade class. |
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Click here to see clips from the concert on December 17 also by Beverly Johnson. |
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Collecting critters for the touch tank at the end of September. |
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2013-2014 |
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On June 11, the Chebeague Island School hosted schools from Peaks Island, Cliff Island, and Long Island for a Casco Bay Islands Field Day. Photo by Sam Birkett. |
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Harvesting |
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Making a scarecrow |
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Searching for habitats on the trail |
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Collecting critters for the touch tank |
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First Day of School! |
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2012-2013 |
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We love snow!
The third & fourth graders on February 15, 2013. (Click on the picture for a larger view.) |
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A snow creation. |
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Happy Valentine's Day! |
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We always have a lot of lovely creations for Valentine's Day at the Chebeague Island School. |
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Exchanging valentines. |
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On Monday, February 11, we enjoyed another fantastic meal created by Deb Bowman and Mrs. Summa in celebration of Chinese New Year. Thank you, Deb! |
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The menu included slow roasted pork... |
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Yum. |
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...pot stickers... |
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...deep fried brussel sprouts in a honey, balsamic glaze... |
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...szchuan beans, rice, fortune cookies and various sauces to try. |
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Almost lunchtime! |
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We're using chopsticks...
We were happy that School Committee member (and school volunteer) Beverly Johnson could join us! |
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And we were entertained by a Chinese dragon! |
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In February, students traveled to Sanford's Pond to skate for PE! |
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On the day before the Thanksgiving break, the Kindergarten - fourth grade traveled to Old Fort Western, a living museum in Augusta where the students learned about weaving and.. |
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chopping wood. |
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Thank you, Mrs. Summa for another delicious Thanksgiving feast! |
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We wrote down what we're thankful for... |
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and shared them. |
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Making pretzels like WALTER THE BAKER by Eric Carle in Pre-K. |
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Corn victory!
Island Institute Fellow, Celia Whitehead and students successfully harvest the last of the corn from the school garden before the raccoons got to it! |
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Thanks to a grant from Recompense, the school now has binoculars for each student. Beverly Johnson has been showing the students how to use them to become proficient birders. |
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2011 - 2012 |
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We began February with Spirit Week. Each day had a new theme. Here are pictures from Wacky Hair Day! |
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The cooks! Caitlin Gerber and Deb Bowman helped our own Mrs. Summa prepare a delicous Thanksgiving dinner of turky, gravy, stuffing, roasted veggies (from our garden), cranberry relish and pumkin pie! |
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We had guests from Island Commons join us. |
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2010 - 2011 |
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Bev volunteered all kinds of time in Mrs. Westra's room last year. The kids made her a special book and a birdhouse to show their appreciation.
Click here for a bigger view. |
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Mosaic design project by Hannah. |
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As part of the STORMS project, Beverly Johnson and students went around the island to photograph landscapes to compare with photographs from the past and see how they have changed. |
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Bev, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Westra and 3rd - 5th graders working on their STORMS project. |
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Making the best of a long winter. |
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Valentine's Day |
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Valentine's Day dinner with the Island Commons residents! |
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Valentine's Day dinner. |
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Snow! |
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During Spirit Week in January, each day of the week had a theme. This was animal day with some of the first and second graders practicing their fierce animal faces. |
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On December 21, the school children put on their show, Fall into Winter, for the community. In additio to singing,they also demonstrated their new Spanish skills in a a skit and acted out a few holiday celebrations around the world Click here to view a slideshow of the performance. |
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Residents from the Commons came to the school on November 23 to share a Thanksgiving meal that included veggies from the school garden. |
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The Multipurpose room was rearranged and the tables were covered with tablecloths. |
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Each table featured a habitat created by the students. This is Beatrice's squirrel habitat. |
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Mary made the gravy. |
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Bump carved the turkey. |
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Thank you, Laura and Erin for a delicious meal! |
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Tiffany and Zackary visit the greenhouse to water the tomato plants and see what's ready to harvest. |
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The third-fifth graders talk about their field trip to the Portland Symphony Orchestra's Youth Concert, The Planets on November 9. |
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View slideshow for the week of May 10: Field Day with Long Island and K-2 share their shadow boxes with Pre-K. |
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Before starting out, the Camp Sunshine bear, PE teacher Virginia Tatakis-Calder and the students reviewed how much money they raised. $1,300 and counting for Camp Sunshine!
Great job! |
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Reviewing the rules of the road. |
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The walkers took a break at Secondwind Farm. Thank you Dick and Dianne Calder for manning the water station! |
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The third and fourth grade students made block prints in Art on Thursday, January 28. |
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After carving in "soft cut" linoleum, the students rolled ink onto the plates... |
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Then they rolled out 10 prints each. |
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On Friday, January 29, the K-2 class went on a field trip to visit the Town Offices and Works Department. |
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Holiday Concert on December 17. Everyone singing. |
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Pre-K students perform. |
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The Violinists perform. |
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Old Fort Western Field Trip on November 10. The K-2 graders see what it's like to saw firewood. |
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And tighten the ropes on an old bed. |
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Make toast. |
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Wash dishes... |
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Dry dishes, crush cinammon and scrape sugar. |
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And churn butter. |
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Meanwhile, the 3-5th graders learned what school was like 250 years ago. They tried writing with quills. |
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They recited. |
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In October, it was time for harvesting the school garden. |
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Is that a beet? |
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Look what we got! |
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We're washing our vegetables, getting them ready Mrs. Ann to cook them for us for lunch!! |
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On Friday, October 23, we visited Island Commons and learned a little about its history from Miss Sally. |
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And we performed a play. |
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Some of us were seeds, some of us were pumpkins... |
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And we got candy! |
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