Lafayette Regional School Newsletter
March 28, 2014
NOTES FROM THE OFFICE:
WHEN PICKING UP YOUR CHILD IN THE AFTERNOON, PLEASE PULL ALL THE WAY UP TO THE END OF THE SIDEWALK SO AS MANY CARS AS POSSIBLE CAN FILL IN ALONG THE SIDEWALK.
KIDS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS….A proud second grader stood up and announced, “We all got the same answer, it’s anonymous!” (unanimous….but it was close….)
WORD OF THE WEEK…
TOG,verb, means to dress especially in fine clothing – usually used with up or out. “Christine smiled as she took pictures of her young kiddos who were togged out for the Spring Concert.”
SCHOOL NOTES:
VARIETY SHOW 2014 ….Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 6:00pm….
Don’t miss it! The show is guaranteed to make you smile. See you there.
READ ACROSS AMERICA WEEK…..
Check out the Lafayette Website for some great picks of our Read Across America Week – It was a blast!
ANNUAL NORTH COUNTRY MIDDLE SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL….
And the winners are…..All of our nine entries to the film festival were nominated for awards and four of our films won the top honor, including Best Film. Come check out the trophies in the front lobby. Congratulations to every 5th and 6th grader for all their hard work.
POETRY NIGHT….
Calling all poets! Poetry night has been scheduled for Thursday, May 1. This is always a wonderful night of poetry readings from members of every age in our Lafayette community. Start thinking about what poem you might like to share.
WINTER PROGRAM BONUS FOR CANNON SKIERS AND BOARDERS…Children who participated in the Cannon ski program during Winter Program will be allowed to purchase a lift ticket for $17 as may their accompanying adult. The child must have an accompanying adult to participate in this offer. Please go to the Brookside Learning Center to buy your lift ticket.
LPTO NOTES
SPELLING BEE 2014…March 21, 2014.
ROCKED! What an amazing community evening. If you missed it this year, please try to be there next year. Big applause to all participants for being brave enough to get up on stage and spell. It’s amazing how hard the simplest words become when you are writing them on that whiteboard. While Team Kenerson was the ultimate winner (I promise they didn’t cheat), every team deserves a high five for their efforts. Congratulations all!
Staff Appreciation Week:WE NEED YOU….ALL OF YOU….Special secret meeting….
for all parents who want to help in any way, big or small, on Tuesday, April 1 at 2:30 in the library. We’ll try to have some Lafayette Service Kids available to watch kiddos on the playground. We are getting started! Colleen Chen and her committee have some awesome ideas! If you are interested in getting involved please contact Colleen Chen at or just show up at the meeting. This is a really fun and easy way to volunteer.
REC NOTES:
SPRING NEWS…
Still plenty of time to ski and snowshoe, but why not think about spring and summer!?
T-ball, baseball and softball sign ups are dueMarch 21st- check out theSpring Sportspage on our website
Exciting summer plans are being made!!Summer Recreation and Soccer Campdates, rates and information are posted on our website. Make sure you sign up earlyfor the discounted rates!! Look us up now at
Questions or concerns? r (603) 616-9547
COMMUNITY NOTES:
Lafayette KIDS shine at BRETTON WOODS NORDIC EVENT….Recently, someLRS students, who are also members of theBretton Woods Nordic Club/BKL, participated in races at the Bretton Woods Nordic Center.Thesesuper starsracedin a 3 kilometer classic raceon 3/8, to benefit the New England Ski Museum,with some of the older kidsracing in the Mt. Washington Cup, a 10 kilometer (6 miles!!!) skate race on 3/9. The skate racers could have simply entered in the 3 km skate race for BKL kids, but chose to challenge themselves instead.
Congratulations to all these awesomekids!
3 km Classic Race (3/8): Dillon Chen, Lily Pospesil, Haley Chen, Julia Woo, Thaddeus Marks, Madeline Ellms, Kyle Pospesil, Emma Woo
10 km Skate Race (3/9): Thaddeus Marks, Madeline Ellms, Kyle Pospesil, Emma Woo
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Littleton Opera House This Weekend…So here’s the scoop….
When the curtain opens forThe Mousetrapon the stage of the Littleton Opera House March 28that 7:30 pm, the news on the radio at Monkswell Manor relates a murder that has recently taken place. Mollie and Giles Ralston, the newly-married owners of the once regal estate which they recently converted into a guest house, hardly notice the news. They are far too busy preparing for the arriving of their first guests, and concerned that the blizzard raging outside may hamper their arrival. So begins this masterpiece of mystery and murder by world renowned author Agatha Christie.
The group of strangers arrives to become stranded in the boarding house during the storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house (played by Sage M. Couture and Andrew Lidestri) as the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background (Meghan Bullard), an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef (Connor MacDonald-Heit), a retired Army major (Mike Valcourt), a strange foreign man (David Weddington) who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a judge (KatharynGirouard) who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman (played by Cassandra Gould), traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, when the judge is killed. Two down and one to go! So, who is the next victim? Will the murderer be unmasked in time to stop more deaths?
The Mousetrap, set in the Great Hall of Monkswell Manor in the 1950’s, has kept audiences guessing about these answers and many more for over six decades in this classic who-done-it by the master of British murder mysteries.
To get to the rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons leading to another famous Agatha Christie switch finish that will shock and amaze.
Though Dame Agatha Christie went on to become one of the most famous writers in history, selling billions of copies of her literary works and renowned for many such asMurder on the Orient Express and “Witness for the Prosecution,it is TheMousetrapthat has become the longest running play in history, now in its 64th consecutive year on the London Stage.
Directed by Andrew Lidestri,TheMousetrapwill be performed by the Upstage Players March 28, 29 andApril 4 at 7:30pm, and twoSundayMatinees performedMarch 30 and April 6at 3:00pm. All performances will be at the Littleton Opera House. Tickets are available now at the Topic of the Town Restaurant on Main Street Littleton and at the door. General admission is $10. The Upstage Players is proud to present a production involving community members from all across the North Country from Whitefield to Woodsville, and everywhere in between, to produce a spectacular show in Littleton at the Opera House.
IMPORTANT DATES…Now thru the end of the year!
Tuesday, April 1 – Super Secret Staff Appreciation Meeting in the Library – All Parents Invited
Thursday, April 3 – Variety of Talents Show, 6:00 pm
Monday, April 7 – LPTO Meeting, 7:00 pm in the Library
Tuesday, April 1 – Lafayette Service Kids, 2:30pm
Thursday, April 10 – School Board Meeting
Friday, April 11 – Table Tennis Tournament
Friday, April 18 – Hampstead Players Perform The Wizard of OZ, 1:15pm
Thursday, April 17 – 5th & 6th Grades Play, 6:00pm
Friday, April 18 – Spring Break begins at 2:25pm
Monday, April 28 – School resumes
Monday April 17 – Lafayette Service Kids, 2:30 pm
Thursday, May 1 – Poetry Night, 6:00pm
Tuesday, April 29 – Track & Field, Ages 11 & 12, 2:30-3:30pm
Wednesday, April 30 – Track & Field, Ages 9 & 10, 2:30-3:30pm
Thursday,May 1 – Lafayette Service Kids, 2:30 pm
Thursday, May 1 – Track & Field, Ages 7 & 8, 2:30-3:30pm
Friday, May 2 – Creative Edge Dance to perform at Community Mtg, 10:40am
Friday, May 2 – Progress Reports go home
Monday, May 5 – LPTO Meeting, 7:45am in Conference Room
May 5-9 – Staff Appreciation Week
Monday, May 5 – Kindergarten Registration, 1:00pm
Tuesday, May 6 – Track & Field, All Ages, 2:30-4:00pm
Wednesday, May 7 – Track & Field, All Ages, 2:30-4:00pm (Rain date)
Thursday, May 8 – Track & Field, All Ages, 2:30-4:00pm( Rain date)
Thursday, May 8 – School Board Meeting
Friday, May 9 – Hampstead Players perform Hercules and His Heroes, 10:30am
Saturday, May 10 – Track & Field Tournament – Lancaster
Thursday, May 15 – Lafayette Service Kids, Ice Cream Social
Friday May 16 – Lafayette Service Kids at Community Meeting, Earth Day (??)
Thursday, May 15 – Profile Spring Arts Festival
Tuesday, May 20 – Spring Concert, 6:00pm
Monday, May 26 – No School, Memorial Day
Friday, May 30 – Boston Trip for 5th & 6th graders
Friday, June 6 – Festival of the Arts
Monday, June 2 – LPTO Wrap Up Celebration
Tuesday, June 10 – Tentative 6th Grade Graduation Date
Wednesday, June 11 – Tentative Last Day of School
Monday, June 16 – Report Cards mailed home