John Henry LeGault, a senior at SRHS, has left his mark on Memorial School.  Even though John Henry did not attend Memorial, we have had the opportunity to get to know him, and we are very thankful and appreciative to have built this relationship.  Last year, John Henry offered his own time to come to Memorial School in the afternoon to work with Mr. LaPorte and our fourth and fifth grade students during Outdoor Club.  John Henry was a tremendous help during his time with the Outdoor Club, assisting Mr. LaPorte while offering his own expertise and guidance to these upper elementary students who looked up to him.  

During this school year, Memorial School approached Sanborn Regional High School to inquire if a podium could be built as a project during woodworking.  The podium we were using was literally falling apart and had to be pieced back together each time we had an assembly.  Two weeks ago we were informed that the podium was complete.  We learned that John Henry had been devotedly working on our podium for some time as part of his woodworking class at the high school.  We unveiled this new piece of furniture with John Henry at a recent CARES assembly at our school.  Please see the video below during the assembly.  Everyone was incredibly impressed with the level of detail and handiwork evident within the podium that John Henry had built during his woodworking class.

If you are interested in joining us, please R.S.V.P. no later than Tuesday, May 19th by calling the school office at 603-382-5251.

The program starts at 2:00 PM and ends by 3:00 PM.

We would need you to report to the main office by 1:45 PM to assemble for the processional.

Looking at Our Community

This month in Kindergarten we have begun our study of community helpers. We are using what we have learned about non-fiction text to find the main idea and details about how these people help us in our community. Each class will be learning about select community helpers. Ms. Ross's class will be learning about teachers, librarians, and postal workers. In Mrs. Patkin's class they will be studying police officers, firefighters and paramedics. Mrs. Manning's students will be looking closely at doctors, dentists, and veterinarians. Each class taking select helpers gives us the opportunity to use cooperative learning where we will teach each other about the roles and responsibilities of the community helpers we focused on. We are excited to have our students engaged in this rich learning experience. We will be crafting greetings that each of our helpers would use to introduce their roles in our community. At the end of our study we will have the opportunity to meet with real community helpers that do these jobs in our community. Students will be visiting with each helper to ask questions and discuss their contribution to our community.

Ticks & Lyme Disease

Now that the weather is getting nice we are spending more time outdoors! Great! But be on the lookout for ticks, especially black-legged ticks that carry lyme disease and other diseases. They are most active April through October and New Hampshire has one of the highest incidence rates of lyme disease in the country.

Preventing Tick Bites:

 Avoid Direct Contact with Ticks

• Avoid wooded and bushy areas with high grass and leaf litter.
• Walk in the center of trails.

Repel Ticks with DEET or Permethrin

• Use repellents that contain 20 to 30% DEET (N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide) on exposed skin and clothing for protection that lasts up to several hours. Always follow product instructions. Parents should apply this product to their children, avoiding hands, eyes, and mouth.
• Use products that contain permethrin on clothing. Treat clothing and gear, such as boots, pants, socks and tents with products containing 0.5% permethrin. It remains protective through several washings. Pre-treated clothing is available and may provide longer-lasting protection.
• Other repellents registered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be found at Insect Repellents: Use and Effectiveness .

Find and Remove Ticks from Your Body

• Bathe or shower as soon as possible after coming indoors (preferably within 2 hours) to wash off and more easily find ticks that are crawling on you.
• Conduct a full-body tick check using a hand-held or full-length mirror to view all parts of your body upon return from tick-infested areas. Parents should check their children for ticks under the arms, in and around the ears, inside the belly button, behind the knees, between the legs, around the waist, and especially in their hair.
• Examine gear and pets. Ticks can ride into the home on clothing and pets, then attach to a person later, so carefully examine pets, coats, and day packs.
• Tumble clothes in a dryer on high heat for an hour to kill remaining ticks. (Some research suggests that shorter drying times may also be effective, particularly if the clothing is not wet.

Tick removal:

If you find a tick attached to your skin, there's no need to panic. Several tick removal devices are available on the market, but a plain set of fine-tipped tweezers will remove a tick effectively.

How to remove a tick

1.    Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin's surface as possible.

2.    Pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don't twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers. If you are unable to remove the mouth easily with clean tweezers, leave it alone and let the skin heal.

3.    After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with rubbing alcohol, an iodine scrub, or soap and water.

 4.    Dispose of a live tick by submersing it in alcohol, placing it in a sealed bag/container, wrapping it tightly in tape, or flushing it down the toilet. Never crush a tick with your fingers.

 Follow-up

If you develop a rash or fever within several weeks of removing a tick, see your doctor. Be sure to tell the doctor about your recent tick bite, when the bite occurred, and where you most likely acquired the tick.

Mud Season

Parents, mud season is upon us!   As the temperatures climb and rain comes, there is more slush and puddles on our playground area.  You are asked to send in a change of clothing for your child to keep in the cubby here at school in the event that they "find' a puddle and become soaked.  Clean dry slacks, shirt, underwear and socks should be in a bag labeled with your child's name and grade.  Thank you for preparing your child for weather changes and outdoor play at school.

Immunization Requirements for Fifth grade students:

Please be advised that when your child is age 11 years or older, and it has been 5 years or longer since their last Tetanus toxoid-containing immunization, they must receive a booster dose of tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine.  If your child has a documented medical contraindication to pertussis vaccine, a Td booster is acceptable.  In addition, every child entering grade 6 must have had (2) doses of Varicella vaccine (chicken pox).  If your child had the disease of chicken pox, this must be listed with the date of the disease on a recent physical history and exam form completed by your child's health care provider.  If your child is 11 years old, and has already received these immunizations, please provide a copy of the latest physical exam and updated immunization record to the health office as soon as possible.  This may be faxed to the school nurse at 603-382-1466. If your child has a well-child visit scheduled within this school year, please discuss these requirements with the doctor at the time of the visit, and provide a copy of this physical and updated immunization record to the school nurse. 

Medication Pick Up

          As the end of the year is coming, I'd like to remind all parents that if your child has medications in the health office they need to be picked up by the end of the school year. The last day to pick them up will be June 19th. After June 19th all medications left in the health office will be discarded.  

Thank you,

Sheila O'Sullivan, RN

LIBRARY VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMONS  

The week of   May 7 - May 15, 2015

 

Top Priority:  Books borrowed for last year's summer reading, books overdue from 2013-14 school year, as well as the books overdue this school year.

How you can help End 68 Hours of Hunger

Depending on the extent to which you want to become involved with the program, your participation can vary from a one- time contribution to monthly or even weekly participation.

Here is a list of the kinds of support that you can provide depending on your desired level of participation.

One event contributions:

You can send a single donation to P.O Box 240, Newton, NH 03858.

You can go shopping and purchase non-perishable food products (with expiration dates as far as possible into the future) and deliver them to us (requires prior arrangement so call us at (603)560-0151 or (978)210-1335 for a list of products and delivery arrangements).

You can host a fund raiser to earn money for the program.  We can help provide you with letter head, forms and if possible have someone there.  We are gearing up for food drives this spring and summer and we need tons of volunteers for that to run smoothly!

Multiple event contributions

You can send us a check every month or as often as you wish to support our efforts.

You can set up a team to be responsible for one week each month. Packers go to the high school to our storage room, pack bags, and sometimes deliver them back to the schools filled. 

You can help unload, sort, and store groceries after each delivery/purchase.

We currently need, canned pasta with meat, tuna, mayo, cereal bars/granola bars, crackers, cereal, canned fruit, jelly, and snacks or fun single serve items.

Perhaps you have your own ideas!  We are open to suggestions!  Call or write now!

Kingston Recreation

Summer Camp

SIGN UP your campers (ages 4-12)

and CIT (ages 13 -15)  today!

Go online at kingstonnh.org/recreation

or stop by the town hall

Beach, swimming, arts and crafts, field trips, games, sports, and more!!!

All counselors are first aid and CPR certified, and have completed an online and in person training course

8 week program

First week starting June 29th

$90/ week resident 

$100/ week non resident