The LAST Distance Learning Calendar!

Distance Learning Calendar
We hope you're doing well and still hanging in there with the stress of distance learning. We are happy to announce that this will be our last distance learning calendar! Traditionally, at the end of 8th grade, we go on field trips and enjoy a host of other group activities.  Since we cannot do those things, we thought giving you some time at the end of the year to catch up would be helpful.

Please keep checking PowerSchool, and submit any late or missing assignments!

The *LAST* Distance Learning Calendar for 8th graders & other end of year information

Distance Learning Calendar
We hope you're doing well and still hanging in there with the stress of distance learning. We are happy to announce that this will be our last distance learning calendar! Traditionally, at the end of 8th grade, we go on field trips and enjoy a host of other group activities.  Since we cannot do those things, we thought giving you some time at the end of the year to catch up would be helpful.

Please keep checking PowerSchool, and submit any late or missing assignments!

Belongings left at school & school property return
The janitorial staff has completely cleaned our learning community. Student belongings that were left in cubbies are now bagged. There will be a pick-up planned for the week of June 10th. (More information to follow.) At that time, please be prepared to hand in Chromebooks, Science text books, and literature circle novels.

Report Cards
Report cards will be mailed home sometime after June 18th.

MRUSD Parentt Event - Please attend!

MRUSD Parent Event:

An Evening with Joelle Van Lent

COVID 19 has had a huge impact on each of us, and our entire community. As educators, we have reached out to Joelle van Lent to help us make sense of our role at this time and to help us feel confident in supporting the children and families we serve. 

We would like to provide a Zoom session with Joelle for our interested families on Thursday, May 28th at 6:30pm.  This session is designed to explore how we are impacted by the stress we are each experiencing, and what we can do as individuals and caregivers to best support our children.

Zoom Event - Thursday May 28th, 6:30-7:30pm

To receive an invitation, please use this link.

Joelle van Lent is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with children, families, and child serving agencies. Dr. van Lent has expertise as a therapist, clinician, evaluator, consultant, and trainer. Her work focuses on child and adolescent mental health, family therapy, trauma, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dr. van Lent’s approach is geared toward fostering resilience and creating communities that support healthy development. She is currently in private practice based in the northwestern part of Vermont and works across the state with schools and agencies.

Graduation Speeches

Traditionally, we invite 8th graders to give speeches at graduation. We are looking for any 8th graders who are interested in giving a speech to add to our graduation video. If you are interested, please submit your speech to Ms. Lanfear by Tuesday, May 26th. Once your speech is approved, you will have the chance to come to school to record your speech. Please email Ms. Lanfear if you have any questions.

Get your school work done early over the next few days, because we're going to have some beautiful weather this week! 

Ms. Lanfear

Virtual Students of the week: Lexia Leaders!

Wow; there were two students last week who each completed 46 units each! Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your online learning!

McKenna McWilliams 

Cole Lemieux

Fantastic Job!

Have a great week everyone, and don't forget to log your Lexia minutes! Parents, for more information about the benefits of Lexia, please visit: https://www.lexialearning.com/why-lexia

Graduation Update

Hello everyone,
We wanted to make sure you all saw this important line from survey results that SATEC sent out via emial.


"We are working on our plans for celebrating our 8th graders.  We will not be able to have an in person graduation as we normally would, but we plan to pre-record some of the important components (i.e. graduation speeches from our students, award presentations, and reading of all our students' names).  We will be sending out a survey to students and parents to gather your input on our plans and how to use the fundraising money that was slated to be used for our trip to Montreal next week so stay tuned."

Be on the lookout for a survey from SATEC via email!

We are looking forward to celebrating our 8th graders!


Ms. Lanfear

Lexia Reminder

Hello everyone,

Reminder: Lexia is scored as a self-direction score in Language Arts. To receive a score of '4' you need to log 60+ minutes over the course of the week. If you have finished the Lexia program, you should use this extra time for independent reading.

In case you missed it, Here is the Distance Learning Plan for Monday, May 11th - Friday, May 22nd. 

Have a great week & make sure to send us an email with any questions you have!

Mrs. Lanfear

Distance Learning Plan May 11th - May 22nd

Hello everyone,

Here is the Distance Learning Plan for Monday, May 11th - Friday, May 22nd. Please email us with any questions.

We hope you have a relaxing weekend.

Ms. Lanfear & Mr. Howrigan

Having a hard time with independent reading?

Hi everyone,
Here are the independent reading guidelines for school closure.  Even if you haven't been able to commit significant time to reading, please make sure to complete the survey every Friday.

A parent recently shared a great post with me; it's Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) reading chapter 1 of book 1. I suggest you play it and clean your room at the same time! What a great way to complete your independent reading for the day!

Have a good night.

Ms. Lanfear