AE/MS Students Visit the State House
Visit with representatives, governor
AE/MS Family Letter, April 10, 2014
ANDOVER ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL www.aemseagles.org April 10, 2014 Dear AEMS Family, Tonight is Poetry Night! Participants should be here by 6:15. The names of the finalists will be on reserved seats in the first few rows. It is a semi-formal evening in which we insist on a quiet and respectful audience. The evening […]
AE/MS News, April 2014
MV Senior Projects on display April 17
By Jane Slayton, AE/MS Principal
We are the champions! Huge congratulations to the Merrimack Valley Girls Basketball team! They are the state champions for the first time in MV history! We are especially proud of our Andover girls – Erin Frost and Haley Adams! Spring is here, and eighth grade students are already scheduling their high school course work. The […]
SHARE Day Comes to AE/MS on May 16
Sign up to present a workshop by April 7
By Gisela Darling, SHARE Day Coordinator
Just a reminder: SHARE Day (See How the Arts Reaches Everyone) will take place at the Andover Elementary/Middle School on Friday, May 16. If you would like to participate by giving a workshop to students, the deadline for submitting the information is Monday, April 7. For general volunteers (helping to assist a workshop leader, helping with primary grade workshops, […]
AE/MS Family Letter, March 26, 2014
ANDOVER ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL www.aemseagles.org March 26, 2014 Dear AEMS Family, The show I have been waiting for all year is finally here! Opening night for HONK is Thursday night at 6:30. HONK will also be performed on Friday night at 6:30. I am so impressed with the amount of time and work the […]
AE/MS Celebrates Pi Day
Paper plates build pi one digit at a time
By Michelle Keezer, AE/MS math teacher
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3-14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Most textbooks however only use 3.14 or 22/7 to calculate the circumference and […]
Leprechuan Traps Come Up Empty at AE/MS
First graders try to catch 'em every year.
AE/MS Bakes Bread for Local Food Pantries
King Arthur Flour shows them how
By Jane Slayton, AE/MS principal
During the second weekend of March you could smell bread baking throughout Andover. Students in grades four through seven baked bread and returned to school with fresh, homemade bread after the weekend. Most of the bread loaves were delivered to the Bread and Roses Soup Kitchen in Franklin, where it was part of the supper, […]
Lexi Emeny is AE/MS Spelling Bee Champ
It took 14 rounds to pick the winner
By Amanda Lauster, AE/MS Reading Teacher
On March 7, 33 AE/MS students in grades four through eight participated in the school spelling bee. This year’s bee was full of challenging words such as omniscient and cajolery. Our AE/MS 2014 Spelling Bee Champion is seventh grader Lexi Emeny. Her winning championship round word was pharmacy. This year’s runner up was another seventh […]
AE/MS Music Department Expands Musical Opportunities
Fourth graders welcomed into school band
By Adam Stewart, AE/MS Music Director
Excitement abounds in the AE/MS Music Department! March is Music in Our Schools month, and in celebration of that fact we are rolling out two major portions of our new music curriculum. You may have already heard the melodious squeak of a recorder from a neighbor nearby as our third graders have begun learning the […]