The Lyndon K-8 School currently serves more than 500 students in the heart of West Roxbury, with the public library around the corner and the YMCA just across Centre Street.
On the ground floor, K1 students are making books with art teacher Amy Sallen, while other early learners are engaged in a variety of letter and word study activities. Jackie O’Dwyer is reading a story to her K2 students, who proudly share all they’ve learned about different animals this year.
Second graders are playing a “hoop game” in the gym under the supervision of PE teacher Michaela Schindler. In Kathleen Carroll’s science class, third graders are testing vehicles they’ve made to find out how fast they can go when moved by weights and a pulley system. Dale Leong is teaching his middle school students the scientific language with which to describe tulips with different shaped petals.
Roger Scott’s social studies classroom is festooned with large flags from many different countries as seventh graders work on a world geography lesson. Theater arts teachers Travis Krupp and Sivan Amir work with 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students who are practicing for an upcoming performance of “Finding Nemo”.
I enjoyed my visit to the Lyndon and hope you’ll invite me to YOUR school! Please remember to take care of yourself amidst all the paperwork, field days, class trips, performances, and celebrations the end of the school year brings!
Warm regards,
Amika Kemmler-Ernst, Ed.D. amika45@gmail.com
We are making a chapter book in art class for family and friends. We’re learning how to draw different things with pencils and crayons.
~ Lucian Seibert & Charlie Jascek, K1
We are on different teams in PE, playing a hoop jump game. We jump through hoops until we meet face-to-face and then we play “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to decide who wins and can move on. We’re learning different games and ways to move, like running and jumping and hopping and walking!
~ Mason Gomes & Ismel Arias, Grade 2
We are listening to Ms. O’Dwyer read Dreaming Up and looking at the picture. We’ve also learned a lot about different animals: wolves can run for a long time, salmon have red eggs, what owls eat and how they spit out pellets with bones in them.
~ Jackie O’Dwyer’s K2 students
We were playing the drums to Bomba music from Puerto Rico. In Mr. J’s music class, we are learning how to play different instruments and how to keep the beat!
~ Sibley Ruffing, Oscar Dodge, Naeem Hassan & Hollis Coyne-Glavin, K2
I’m writing an essay in ELA about The Night Diary, a historical novel about the separation of Muslems and Hindus into two countries, Pakistan and India. I’ve learned they are still at war with one another and many refugees have been killed trying to cross borders.
~ Jaiden Menden-Sanchez, Grade 6
e were in science class, building a vehicle which moved by weights and a pulley system, then testing how fast it could go. We noticed that our vehicle went faster when the small wheels were in front. In this class we’ve also learned about the water cycle and the different forms that water can take, which is complicated!
~ Logan Talevi & Victoria Terrero, Grade 3
Ms. Brosnan is helping me with a “cool down” assignment.
This year I’ve especially liked learning to do division problems. It’s kind of similar to multiplication, because you multiply when you split up (divide) numbers.
~ Melanie Garcia, Grade 4
I’m playing the clarinet in Band with Mr. Colby. This year we’re learning how to collaborate with many other instruments by playing above or below our instrument’s octave. Right now we’re playing “After the Rain” which requires us to play a range of octaves on our instruments.
~ Alazsa Beasley, Grade 8