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Safe Routes to School
Lebanon Borough School is proud to participate in the Hunterdon County Safe Routes to School Program, which
encourages and educates students to walk safely throughout the school year. On Wednesday, October 10th,
students at the Lebanon Borough School celebrated International Walk to School Day. We had a nice turnout for
this event! In February,we will host our "Winter Walk”.
Health Office
Nurse's News: It's that time of the year; Cold and Flu season. Hand washing is key in prevention of illness. Also,
get plenty of rest and try not to stress too much. To help you identify a cold versus the flu, click on the link below.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/images/about/cold-or-flu-large.png
For more information on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, please visit the CDC website at
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/coldflu.htm
The Family Support Organization (FSO) of Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren Counties has free workshops and
support groups. Topics include Seasonal Depression and an Opioid Use Disorder Support Group, to name a few.
Please click on link for the dates and times. All activities are free and open to the public. For more information
on the FSO and their programs, visit their website at https://fso-hsw.org/
Technology/Enrichment/SSS/A.T.
During the fall, grades three through six each learned about all the things that happened during a decade - the
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s. They learned about People and Events, Science & Technology, Lifestyles, Sports,
and Arts and Entertainment, plus saw lots of pictures, clips of movies and tv shows, heard music and news stories.
They’ve put together all the information from the last few weeks, and are writing a 'time-travel’ report on “If I
Lived in the 19___s”. They also made a PicCollage to go along with their report, and put together collage puzzles
of their decade (so much information in a 1000-piece puzzle!)
Second graders came with me to see the voting process at work, while I voted. They are working on individual
butterfly reports, doing research and coloring their butterfly the correct colors, then making a Keynote slide with
their picture and information.
Kindergarten and first grade have been working in apps on various skills and topics, including science (animals
and fall), shapes, logic, math, and analogies. PreK worked in apps on writing in D’Nealian (with a stylus), shapes,
logic, and letter names and sounds.
The first week in December is Hour of Code Week, which kicked off our coding lessons. During that week, we
used the website code.org, which has many varied activities for all ages. After that, we continued the month of
December and beyond with grade-appropriate apps using coding, ranging from Code-a-pillar to Swift Playground.
We also experienced hands-on coding, with coding board games, physical coding blocks, and little robots. The
students in 3/4 A.T. assisted the young children with some of these activities. Learning to code is a favorite of all
students!
When coding lessons are over, all classes will have various history/geography/map lessons on either Children
Around the World or the United States. For the older students, this will include research and reports. For the
younger ones, it will include books and stories, as well as puzzles, maps, and coloring activities.
Preschool
Our AM preschool classroom has been very busy this fall. We learned about fire safety, pumpkins, Halloween,
color mixing, Thanksgiving, holidays and trees. We were all very excited for Halloween, we carved a pumpkin,
and had a visit from the firetruck when we got to try on real fire boots and a real helmet. We learned stop-drop-
roll! We learned letters A-J and started learning the shapes. The students showed a lot of respect and caring
throughout the fall. During the winter, we will continue to learn the letters in the alphabet and more shapes. We
will make snow and gingerbread people while learning about the season winter. We will finish our trees unit!
The PM has been busy as well learning about fall, fire safety, families, the 5 senses, Halloween and pumpkins,
color mixing, Thanksgiving, pets, dinosaurs, nutrition and the holidays. We looked at pictures of our own families
and graphed who has siblings. For our 5 senses unit, we had some help from a few 6th grade students to rotate