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The Ray School is contacted by local businesses and non-profits to make our parents aware of upcoming opportunities. We publish information that directly supports or enhances our K-5 population. Please note that these are not school sponsored events.

If you have a program you'd like featured, please contact Gwyn in the front office. Items will be featured for the month with updates each Friday.

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Week of October 28 - November 1

 

Ford Sayre Skiing

Ski Instruction and Training Programs 

For Kids of All Ages

Registration is open and spots are still available!

Alpine, Nordic, Jumping and Recreation

Check us out and register online www.fordsayre.org

 

Ford Sayre Ski Sale

Sunday November 3rd

12:00-2:00

Richmond Middle School

Hanover, NH 

Ski Consignment Friday Nov.1, 6-7:00 and 

Saturday November 2, 9-11:00

www.fordsayre.org

 

Christmas Market with a Difference

Is returning for its 30th year at Church of Christ at Dartmouth College (that's the white church with the steeple behind Baker-Berry Library on campus) 

Thursday November 7, 10am–6pm

Friday November 8, 10am–6pm

Saturday November 9, 10am–2pm. 

Twenty nonprofit organizations will be selling fair trade, handcrafted items made by artisans from around the world. The "difference" is that 100% of the proceeds go to the participating charitable organizations and their artisans. You can find jewelry, apparel, linens, baskets, toys, cards, specialty foods, and lots more. It's a great way to make a positive impact in the world...through shopping! Find out more at:

www.facebook.com/ChristmasMarketWithADifference or 

www.ccdcucc.org/christmas-market-with-a-difference

Circle of Security

At times all parents feel lost or without a clue about what our child might need from us.  Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking from you.  The Circle of Security Parenting program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.    Wednesday’s from 10am-noon. Registration required https://forms.gle/1YQ3GM5THzT98qB68 

Health Research Live!

Communities and researchers discussing health priorities.  Join us for community discussions on health research being conducted in New Hampshire and Vermont.  Hear from scientific researchers, community members, and organizations - all providing their perspectives on important health issues.  Be part of the conversation to influence health research being conducted in your local community. These events are FREE and open to the public.  We especially encourage parents to attend.

  • November 19th - Vaping and e-cigarettes - RSVP to tinyurl.com/MontshireVaping

Montshire Museum of Science 6:30-7:45pm

(These programs are produced and organized by Dartmouth Synergy, the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Montshire Museum of Science, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Population Health.)

Music and Movement

Preschoolers, come dance and sing with us! Local dance and music instructors, Nelleke Wooten and Sarah Slater, are holding a class for preschoolers who love to dance, move and sing! Children will learn basic building blocks of song and dance while exploring movement and music in a warm and welcoming creative space. This is a drop-off class and children should be potty-trained.

 

Music and Movement (MnMs)

Preschoolers ages 3 - 5

Fridays from 11 - 11:45 am

Four sessions: 11/1, 11/8, 11/15/ 11/22

Cost: $60

Hanover Parks and Rec's Richard Black Center, Room 206

 

Questions? Email us at: and5x6x7x8@gmail.com!

 

To register, click here: MnMs Registration

Rock Climbing

Does your child love to rock climb?  Consider joining the elementary climbing team!  We are a casual team that meets Fridays 5-6:30pm at the Green Mountain Rock Climbing Center in Quechee, VT.  There are several friendly "competitions" in the winter and spring, with plenty of time to learn some basic skills beforehand.  The team is free to join, but kids must have a climbing membership at GMRCC that costs $275 for the whole year. If interested, please contact:  Kari Gleiser, kari.gleiser@gmail.com.

Etna Library Story Time

Stories, songs and a craft for young children.  Tuesdays & Fridays at 10:00am etna.library@hanovernh.org

Montshire Museum of Science Programs

Through the Montshire’s Warm Welcome program, eligible individuals can purchase a 6-person Montshire Membership for $20 or a single-day admission for $3 per person.

https://www.montshire.org/warmwelcome

Afterschool Adventures

Grades 3-5

Learn the basics of programming by using iPads to create code that controls the motion of small, spherical robots called Spheros. These fun whimsical robots can be programmed to create art, run mazes, or be choreographed to follow a dance routine.

https://www.montshire.org/afterschool

Young Scientists

PreK-K

This weekly preschool/kindergarten program will foster your child's natural curiosity by learning through hands-on experiments and fun projects as we explore the physical and natural sciences. A different topic is presented each week. Learn More

Montshire Makers

Grades 6-8

After a short introduction to the project, get making! You’ll have an hour to make, tinker and create something amazing to take home. We provide tools, materials, know-how, and snacks! Learn More

Whaleback Ski and Snowboard Programs

Whaleback Wednesday's are Back!

After-school ski/ride program for beginners-experts. Bus transportation from Ray School and back. Online registration is open! https://www.whaleback.com/hanover

Attention 3rd graders!!!

All 3rd graders are eligible for an UNLIMITED SEASON PASS for only $45 at Whaleback Mountain (includes Freedom Pass, Killington, and Ragged Mtn benefits)!

https://shop.whaleback.com/collections/season-passes/products/3rd-grader-season-pass

Freestyle, Freeride, Snowboard Programs

Whaleback Core Team is a freestyle, all-mountain ski and snowboard youth development and competition club. Ages 5 and up! Early registration and multiple child discounts! http://www.whalebackcoreteam.com/ for registration and information.

LISTEN Community Services Holiday Basket Program

Holiday Gift Baskets are a wonderful tradition that unites our community during the holiday season.

  • Our holiday baskets provide warm clothing and a food certificate for a complete holiday meal.

  • Receiving families fill out a wish list for warm clothing requests for children and senior citizens.  Sponsoring families, businesses and religious organizations fulfill these requests.

  • The donated items are delivered to a central location by the sponsors.  Volunteers assemble each bag, ensuring each is complete. Recipients pick-up their completed holiday “baskets” on their assigned pick up date in early December.

How to apply - call LISTEN at 603-448-4553 to make a Holiday Basket appointment.  Appointments will run from October 1st through November 18th.

Learn to Play Hockey

Boys and girls ages 4-8 on Saturdays and Sundays from 8:10am-9:10am.  Two sessions, October 26-December 29 and January 4 - March 1. No prior hockey experience required.  Should be able to balance on skates and move forward unassisted. For more information contact Tracy Purcell, Learn to Play Coordinator, at hha.learntoplay@gmail.com.

Girl Scout Recruitment Rally

Saturday, October 26 from 1:00 - 3:00pm at Civic Memorial Park West Lebanon, NH

Make new friends? Discover new passions? She’ll do all that and more at Girl Scouts! Whether she’s exploring nature and the outdoors, expressing herself through art or music, designing robots or board games, or helping her community through service projects, she’ll have a blast as she earns badges in just about anything that piques her interest. Get ready, because she’s going to make the world a better place—today and for the next generation! For further information, please contact GSGWM Customer Care

888-474-9686 or customercare@girlscoutsgwm.org

Norwich Bookstore Events

HOST  FAMILIES NEEDED

The New England Music Festival Association (NEMFA.ORG) organizes an annual weekend of choral, band and orchestra concerts featuring the most talented high school musicians throughout New England.  Hanover High School will be hosting the event on March 19, 20 and 21, 2020. The students attending the event stay with local families who provide accommodation, meals and transportation over the course of their stay.

We need local host families for 400+ participants from pick up at 8pm Thursday through final drop off Saturday morning.   The hosts’ responsibilities include giving two or more students a place to sleep Thursday and Friday night, a breakfast on Friday and Saturday morning, a dinner on Friday evening, and transportation at the following times (schedule is subject to change):

 

  • Attend a mandatory host family meeting at 8pm at Hanover High School, Thursday March 19th,

  • Pick up students Thursday evening at 9pm at Hanover High School (following the host family meeting); curfew 11pm,

  • Ride to Hanover High School on Friday morning to arrive by 8am,

  • Pick up students at 5:15pm on Friday evening for dinner and evening activities at host family home (pick up is Hanover High School for chorus students and Dartmouth’s Spaulding Auditorium for band/orchestra students). No evening rehearsal. Curfew 11pm.

  • Final ride to rehearsals/performances Saturday at 9am. All students will need to drop luggage at Spaulding Auditorium in Alumni Hall upstairs and then band/orchestra members will need to be dropped off at Hanover High School with their instruments and dress clothes (chorus students stay at Spaulding).  This will complete your responsibility.

 

Host volunteers must complete a Housing Form and provide names, social security numbers, birth dates and phone numbers for all adult members of the household for a background check.

If you are interested in supporting New England teen musicians in this way, please email 2020nemfahousing@gmail.com to request a Housing Form. Also, please share this request with anyone you think may be interested.

Thank you for supporting our young musicians!

Save the Date!

Lynn Lyons is hosting a six-hour parents' seminar to help families manage anxiety. More details to come soon. November 2nd, North Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA

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