Assistant Principal: Kimberly O'Donnell
E-mail:
Principal's Secretary: Vickie Cousins,
School Secretary: Tina Bowers,
Address: 290 Parker Farm Road Buxton, Maine 04093-3247
Phone: (207) 929-3830
N 43° 40’ 48.9”
W 70° 34’ 58”
Map to Jack Memorial School
Mission:
The mission of the Jack Memorial Elementary community is to create an atmosphere in which all students can become effective problem solvers, responsible citizens, and confident learners.
Vision:
The Jack Memorial staff in partnership with its parents, work to produce happy, caring and responsible children who look forward to coming to school each day.
BEMS Fundraiser featuring the Harlem Globetrotters, March 20, 2010
Goals:
To improve students' reading and writing skills K-3
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Buxton Elementary School Construction Project
Meet the Principal of Frank Jewett and Hanson, Jack Memorial and Eliza Libby Schools
Meet the Assistant Principal at Frank Jewett and Hanson, Jack Memorial and Eliza Libby Schools
Calendar of Upcoming Events for March 2010
BackPack News - School News for April 2009
Buxton PTO - Forming Partnerships With Our Schools and Community
The Staff of Jack Memorial School
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Principal - Don Gnecco Head Teacher - Jennifer Dowler Principal's Secretary - Vickie Cousins School Secretary - Tina Bowers School Nurse - Suzanne Sanborn, RN, BS Art Teacher - Octavia Stevens Music Teacher - Peg McAdam Phys.Ed. Teacher - Carolyn Gross - Web page Librarian - Laurie Dunlap Resource Teacher - Margaret Mayer Speech Therapist - Lorelyn Jones Guidance Counselor - Elizabeth Petersen Social Worker - Kellie Joyce District ESL Teacher - Anna Cosma Occupational Therapist - Leslie Tsomides |
Kindergarten web pageErica Woodsum Jen Dowler - Webpage Sue Groover - Webpage Diane McNally - Webpage
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Grade Two Debbie DeLea Carey Johnson - Homepage Laurie Delaney - Web page
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| Reading Associates Polly Pease Lindsay Jackson Pat Drouin
Reading Interventionist
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Computer Teacher Donna Bullerwell-Web page
Building Aide
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Self-Contained Classroom Kathy Farrell
Ed Techs:
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Research Resources for Jack Memorial
Animal Research Project
Click here to print a drawing of your animal
Click here if your animal is endangered
Encyclopdedia of Animals
MARVEL! - This is the Maine Virtual Library and has a ton of good stuff.
NoodleTools - How to cite sources
Space Research in Jack Memorial - 2002
Activities for Read Across America Day - March 2, 2009
Jack Memorial Archives
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In the fall, the kindergarten classes of Jennifer Dowler, Heather Davidson, Diane McNally, and Sue Groover at Jack Memorial School in Buxton go on a field trip to Dole's Orchard to continue their studies of life cycles. Kindergarten teachers Sue Groover and Diane McNally say that the students first learn about the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly. Then, at the orchard the classes learn about the life cycle of the apple tree and the pumpkin plant. These lessons are all part of the kindergarten science curriculum. In social studies students learn about community helpers, so this trip to a local farm helps the kindergarten students to learn that the food that people buy in the big grocery stores often comes from a farm right in the community.
As well as learning about how apples and pumpkins grow, the students picked apples, went through a haystack maze, and went on hay ride through the orchard. |
Helen McAlpin's first grade class at the Jack Memorial School in Buxton celebrated Thanksgiving early. The MSAD#6 food service served turkey dinners complete with pumpkin pie for lunch the week before Thanksgiving. The class made pilgrim hats to wear at their dinner. One student said that even the girls were pilgrims! Another announced that pilgrims drank chocolate milk with their Thanksgiving dinner!
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The kindergarten classes at Jack Memorial School in Buxton studied the maple sugaring process. As part of their study, they went to the Snell Family Farm in Buxton. They were given a tour by Ramona and John Snell, with help from their daughters, Margaret and Carolyn. The students learned how a tree is tapped and how the sap is collected. They saw that that sap was clear when it came from the trees, and they got to taste it! They visited the sugar house where there is a big wood furnace which evaporates the water from the sap and turns it into maple syrup. After the syrup is boiled down, it it put into bottles and sold. The kindergartners and their teachers, Diane McNally, Sue Groover, and Jennifer Dowler got to try some maple syrup on vanilla ice cream provided by the Snells. | |
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| The Kindergarten classes visited O'Donals Nursery. Charlie McNutt, father of Molly, invited all the kindergarten children to come and learn about trees and plants. We went on a walking tour of the facility and we went to the potting shed and all started a small pot of marigolds which we brought back to school so we could watch them grow. | |
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Kindergarten Classes study Maple Sugaring
Buxton History Project - a work in process by the Third Grade students at Frank Jewett School and Jack Memorial
The First Grade Tide Pool project, the winner of the National Semiconductor Internet Innovator Award.
Something special! Helen McAlpin, a teacher at Jack Memorial, created a video as a result of a summer workshop focused on New Media Production. Check her "Mystery Creature, Riddle Number 1."
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Mrs Guimond's class makes Rubber Band Racers with a High School Class
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Monsters in Mrs Guimond's Classroom
Mrs Groover's Kindergarten 2000-1 class has been building for dinosuars.
Mrs McAlpin's Class of 2000-1 created moon stories and want to share them with you.
2000 - The winter of 2000-1, Mrs McAlpin's Class created snowmen pictures and share their stories with you.
Visit the pictures of a First Grade Christmas 2000
1999 - Mrs McAlpin's First Grade Class of 1999-00 studied The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving
1999 - The first grade created an alphabet book of space. Z - Y - X...... Blast-Off!
1999 - Our Place in Space Project The first grade worked with the third grade in their study of space.
1998 - Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving, a first grade project.
1999 - See a map project done by the second grade on their classroom computers.
1999 - Mrs. Guimond's Class writes about Jack Memorial
Mrs. Guimond's class participated in the Great Mail Race. This is what they told the people who sent them e-mail messages from all 50 states and 6 continents about their school and their town.
Welcome from the two third grades at Jack Memorial School in Buxton, Maine. Buxton is located at 70 degrees 35 minutes north, and 43 degrees 40 minutes west longitude. We are located on the Saco River and close to Sebago Lake. We are 15 miles west of Portland and the Atlantic Ocean. Over 7,000 people live in Buxton.Jack Memorial is a K-3 building with 211 students. Our school is in a rural area and is part of a large school district made up of 4 towns. We have a farm next door to our school with horses. Once a moose was on our playground. Many of our parents commute to Portland to work.
Maine is known as Vacationland and the Pine Tree state. We have a lot of wildlife. We have mountains and a rocky coast with many lighthouses. People enjoy our beaches and state parks for swimming, fishing, hiking and other sports. There are whale watching excursions in the summer on the ocean. Our four season climate attracts people in the winter to ski, snowmobile, snow board, to go sledding and ice skating. We can receive over 100 inches of snow in a typical winter. You may remember last winter we had an ice storm. Many of us lost electricity for 5 to15 days.
We ship our lobsters all over the world. Maine is well known for other seafood, blueberries, apples, potatoes, and maple syrup. LL Bean is located in Freeport and is famous for it's outdoor catalog.
