Photos of Student Activities

Miss Ga Young Lee

Miss Ga Young Lee is a visiting scholar from In-cheon, South Korea, sponsored by the University of Vermont. Ga Young graduated from Hankruk University of Foreign Studies, majoring is "Interpretation and Translations for International Trade and Relations in English Speaking Areas".

She is hosted by two Barre Town families and will stay until the end of the 2010-2011 school year. Ga Young’s two host families are: James and Kim Canavan with their children Allison and J.J who are students at Barre Town School and our school nurse Tanya Crawford-Stempel, her husband Colin and their two sons. Our school is very grateful to these two families for hosting Ga Young. Her goals are to teach Korean culture and to learn to speak and write English fluently. Her mentoring teachers at Barre Town School are Mrs. Susan Barnard, K-2 Physical Education teacher, and first grade teacher Mrs. Annette Bisson-Rossi.

Ga Young will be the assistant director of the second grade gym show. She loves to dance, so will be teaching our second graders several new Korean dances. Barre Town Middle and Elementary school is proud to host Miss Ga Young Lee at our school.

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Ga Young Lee with host families in Washington, DC
Ga Young with her host families on a trip to Washington, DC

2010 Second Grade Gym Show

In June 2010, the Barre Town School presented the Second Grade Gym Show, “It’s a Small World”. The show is under the direction of Mrs. Susan Barnard, k-2 physical educator. This year’s show was dedicated to Mrs. Susan Smith, a second grade teacher for all twenty-three gym shows and a teacher at BTMES for thirty-two years. She has been a strong supporter of physical education and she has made a difference in our school and with your children.

Ms. Alice Thomason Worth, our principal, introduced our show. She was very proud of the collaboration between teachers and staff and most impressed with the efforts of our second graders and the upper grade students who helped them. It is a team effort that Barre Town School is proud of.

This year’s show was supported by many teachers, staff, and community members.

  • All the second grade teachers helped: Mrs. Sue Pratt, Mrs. Susan Smith, Mrs. Andrea McLaughlin, Mrs. Phyllis Wiggins, Mrs. Heather Battistoni, Mrs. Veronica Eldred and Mrs. Suzanne LeCours
  • Mrs. Margaret Mehuron, k-8 music director, Mr. Brent White, band director, lead the 7 and 8 grade Jazz Band.
  • Mr. Phil Joyal , 6-8 physical educator, organized the double Dutch swingers
  • Mrs. Laura Thygesen, 3-5 physical educator, assisted in many ways.
  • Mrs. Sarah Chap directed the May Pole.
  • Ms. Anne Leeds helped with the art work that was hung all over the gymnasium walls.
  • Mrs. Carol Barry, adapted physical education para-educator, was behind the scenes helping many children feel successful.

Ms. Paula Gills, formerly from Norwich University, and local folk singer, was our “ star singer” leading the children in the National Anthem, and” It’s A Small World”. She sang the “Vermont Song” and dedicated it to Mrs. Susan Smith.
Sara Bresette, a senior at Spaulding High School, has been turning Double Dutch ropes for our students for eight years. In addition, we had help from the Bello family -- mother Michelle and children Christina, Grace and Hope.
The “mother-of-the year award” goes to Jamie Jones who gave many hours to come in and helped with all the various numbers. A former student, Miss Susan Longchamp helped coordinate the sound for the program.
Ryan Malone, eighth grader, video-taped the show for Video Visions and it was broadcasted on the local television public access station.

Below, you will see the slide show of the different numbers performed. The pictures were taken by Mark Ouimlet, our official year book and school photographer. The numbers performed were jump-roping -- double Dutch, egg beater, short rope inside a long rope, and a single rope. Every child in second grade was a jump rope star. The wonderful 7 & 8 grade Jazz Band played throughout the show. We came in a spiral formation around the American flag, sang the National Anthem (led by Ms. Paula Gills). The second grade song was called “Lights of Freedom” (was directed by Margaret Mehuron)

The May Pole dance was a very colorful traditional number, originated in England. The children worked so hard moving to the beat. Fifth graders Cameron Ferry and Jennifer Knowles helped with this number and it was performed by Mrs. Wiggins and Mrs. Battistoni’s second graders.

This year a new number was choreographed by fifth grade students, Kit Gurin and Parker Nolan, who are professional Irish Step Dancers. Mrs. LeCours and Mrs. McLaughlin’s class were in lime green shirts, donated by Barry T. Chouinard T-Shirts in Northfield, Vermont. It was a challenging number, and it came out great thanks to the second graders really working extra hard to make it a wonderful new number for our show. We were so proud of their efforts and our fifth grade leaders. Our home school family was a big part of this number with mother Michelle Bello being the special helper.

Other numbers in the show were: Parachute Folk dance from Hungary, the Korean Mask Dance led by two seventh grade girls (Rose Meriam and Mikaela Moore) and originally choreographed by our South Korean Intern, Miss In Kyung Choi, who was visiting and assisting in physical education for the 2009-2010 school year. Mrs. Wiggins and Mrs. Battistoni’s class did a very interesting weave of streamers to the song, “Proud to Be an American”.

The final number was all the second graders performing the Korean fan dance. Mrs. Eldred’s class was in full Korean traditional costume. The costumes have been donated to our school by our interns, Miss Hae Min Jeong, Miss In Kyung Choi, and our soon-to-be Visiting Scholar from the University of Vermont, Miss GaYoung Lee. All of these women have contributed a great deal of information about South Korea and we are so grateful for their generous contributions to our show. The children sat and sang “It’s a Small World” lead by Ms. Paula Gills. The traditional final number was the “Good-Bye” song from The Sound of Music.

The show was performed for the school during the day and an evening performance was presented for the parents. All went home saying, “Second graders at Barre Town School exceeded well beyond the second grade standards in all areas!“

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Second Graders Visit Nursing Home

Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing HomeWoodridge Health and Rehab has our second graders come and dance and sing each year around valentines day. The second graders in Ms. Sue Pratt and Mrs. Sue Smith put on a great show and then gave out Valentines. We were in full costume with the traditional fan dance. Miss In Kyung Choi, our Barre Town intern from South Korea, was with us. She lead our second graders in several traditional numbers. Ms. Paula Gills, a central Vermont folk singer also joined us. Each year Mrs. Susan Barnard prepares the children in dance during physical education. It is a special time for all. You can tell by all the smiling faces. Thanks to the Times Argus for giving us these photos.

    Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home

Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home  Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home

Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home  Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home

Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home  Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home

Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home  Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home

Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home  Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home

  Barre Town students perform at Woodridge Nursing Home

Miss In Kyung Choi

Barre Town School is proud to host our second intern, Miss In Kyung Choi, from South Korea. In Kyung arrived in March. Her first host family is Ms. Linda George whose son, Zane, is going into second grade in the fall. This August, In Kyung will move to her second host family, Ann Hastings-Works and Vaughn Works, whose daughter, Sarah, will enter eighth grade. Barre Town School would like to say a special thank you to the host families for opening their homes to In Kyung and helping her feel a part of our community.

Since In Kyung’s arrival she has been helping out in Multi-Grade One and Two with Annette Bisson-Rossi’s class. She is able to help the children one-on-one in all areas of the curriculum. In Kyung has also been giving lectures about South Korea to various classrooms throughout the school. In the afternoon she has been helping Susan Barnard in K, 1, and 2 physical education.

One of In Kyung's major roles this spring was assisting in the second grade gym shows. She led all the second graders in traditional (and beautiful) fan dances. She has taught all the second graders how to do the mask and drum dance, a remarkable undertaking which many of you saw in the June 4 gym show. We are grateful that In Kyung has given our school gifts of the drums and also three of the boy’s costumes for the fan dance.

In Kyung has made many friends and will be with us until February of 2010. What a wonderful experience for our students to have someone like In Kyung with us each day at our school. We are all learning many Korean words and are just starting to understand the Korean culture.

           

   

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2009 Kindergarten Circus!

Our Kindergarten children enjoyed performing our circus show for family and friends during physical education. Every child was able to dance with a puzzle made in art class. (under the direction of Ms. Anne Leeds, art teacher). This was a Vermont Council on the Arts state wide project. Children enjoyed juggling, cooperative activities, spinning plates, and dancing. It was a fun day at school for every child in kindergarten. The show was directed by Mrs. Susan Barnard Pictures were taken by Mr. Mark Ouimet from Lifetouch studio.

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Jr. Iron Chef Competition

On Saturday, April 12, 2008, Shane Safford, Cameo Lam, Taylor Molander and Jasmine Fleury participated in the first annual Jr. Iron Chef Competition at the Champlain Valley Exposition. The event was co-sponsored by VT FEED and the Burlington School food Project. The BTMES Chefs competed against 24 other middle school teams from around the state. The team had 90 minutes to create their recipes which were Vermont Country Spinach Salad and Stone Soup; both dishes were delicious and will be featured in upcoming menus in the school's cafeteria. (click on each thumbnail below to see a larger image)

Weather

        Popular weatherman Tom Messner talks "weather" with future weather people in Mrs. Martel's third-grade class.
Students performing a play relating to Bridge to Terabithia
 
 
        Dr. Dawson, professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the department head of the MS Clinic ant the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in Molly Smith's class. When he visited, Dr. Dawson displayed a brain model and explained the domains and functions of the human brain. He interacted with the students by having a few come up and use different parts of the brain. For example, one student had to close her eyes and reach inside a basket. She was asked to identify a stuffed animal without seeing it. He taught them about sight, and had one boy sit in a chair and hold a cardboard square on between his eyes. This was an example of partial loss of sight.
Mrs. Laura Thygesen's fourth graders enjoy a sunny day while snowshoeing behind the school during physical education class. This is a lifetime activity that we hope students will carry on throughout their life. Getting outside in our Vermont winter is so important.

 
      

Mr. Phil Joyal's sixth grade students wait eagerly for the ball to rebound off the frame in a game of Tchoukball. This was a new game that was introduced by our Norwich student teacher, Miss Sarah Chap in grades 6-8. It was a game that develops a great deal of team work and cooperation as well as physical fitness.